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My favorite bone-conduction headphones have a 12-hour battery life and are perfect for running

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-27 06:53:59

ZDNET's key takeaways The new Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 are the follow-up to the widely popular bone conduction headphones used by dedicated athletes, like marathoners and triathletes They're now available for $180. The OpenRun Pro 2 are as comfortable as ever, with a longer battery life than their predecessor. The volume of the headphones could be louder, and the microphone produces a warbled sound View now at Amazon I'm not running a marathon this fall, but if I were, I'd want the latest Shokz O

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Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-24 02:06:20

An international research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.), and including Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Electric, President: INOUE Osamu) have set a new world record in optical fiber communications, achieving data transmission at 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of 1,808 kilometers (roughly equivalent to the distance from Sapporo to Fukuoka, from Misso

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Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 05:46:41

Shoggoth Mini July 14, 2025 Over the past year, robotics has been catching up with the LLM era. Pi’s π0.5 can clean unseen homes. Tesla’s Optimus can follow natural language cooking instructions. These systems are extremely impressive, but they feel stuck in a utilitarian mindset of robotic appliances. For these future robots to live with us, they must be expressive. Expressiveness communicates internal state such as intent, attention, and confidence. Beyond its functional utility as a communic

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Subscriptions Could Be Killing Your Budget. Here's How I Saved $400 in 15 Minutes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-27 05:50:00

Rocket Money saved me $400 on unwanted subscriptions. It even canceled them for me. Getty Images/Rocket Money/Amy Kim/CNET The last thing anyone wants to do in this economy is lose money. But you may be bleeding cash without even realizing it. A recent CNET study found that the average US consumer spends around $200 a year on subscriptions they aren't using. I've done it myself. It's all too easy to sign up for a free trial or service and forget about it. Subscription companies are happy to ta

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Venture gets a rare Native American-led fund in Betsy Fore’s Velveteen Ventures

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-01-27 06:00:00

When Betsy Fore was five, her grandmother got her a gift she has never forgotten: A Velveteen Rabbit from Goodwill that Fore believed, with enough love, could spring alive. Decades later, that rabbit has lent its name to Fore’s venture firm, Velveteen Ventures, which came to life on Tuesday. “I realized after building companies for nearly two decades that I could make the greatest ripple in this one precious life by being on the other side of the table,” she told TechCrunch. Her companies inclu

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Shaping the future with adaptive production

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2026-01-27 11:32:33

As efforts to revive and modernize local manufacturing accelerate in regions around the world, including North America and Europe, adaptive production could help manufacturers overcome some of their biggest obstacles—firstly, attracting and retaining talent. Nearly 60% of manufacturers cited this as their top challenge in a 2024 US-based survey. Highly automated, technology-led adaptive production methods hold new promise for attracting talent to roles that are safer, less repetitive, and better

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Deals: MacBook Air $180 off, M4/Pro MacBook Pro $300+ off, Beats Solo Buds $50, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2026-01-27 11:45:12

Today’s best deals are kicking off with as much as $180 in savings on select M4 MacBook Air configurations joined by ongoing $150 price drops on the rest starting from $849. We also spotted some M4/Pro MacBook deals with 1TB 14-inch configs at $200 off and some of the higher-end models at over $310 off. Circling back around to some return Prime Day deals, we also have Twelve South’s wonderful 15W HiRise 3-in-1 Deluxe MagSafe stand back at the $75 all-time low as well as a nearly 40% price drop o

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Building community and clean air solutions

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2026-01-27 16:00:00

Darren Riley: Hi. Thanks for having me. Megan: Thank you ever so much for being with us. To get us started, let's just talk a bit about JustAir. How did the idea for the company come about, and what does your company do as well? Darren: Yeah, absolutely. The real thesis of JustAir, is really a combination of one, my personal experience but also my professional experience. On the professional side, background in software engineering, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, but I was always f

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Android’s screen magnifier can’t zoom the keyboard, but a fix is finally on the way

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-27 16:42:08

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android is updating its screen magnifier to finally allow users to zoom in on the on-screen keyboard, addressing a major accessibility limitation. A new “magnify keyboard” toggle enables the full-screen magnifier to enlarge the keyboard and navigation bar, which were previously fixed in size. Contributed by an Amazon engineer, the feature is now live in the Android Canary channel and is expected to arrive in a future update for Pixel phones. The Andro

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iPhone 17: Titanium is coming to just one model, and it’s a surprising choice

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-27 16:20:35

Two years ago, Apple launched the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max with a big emphasis on a new, titanium design. Titanium remained a differentiator for iPhone 16 Pro, too. But reporting indicates the company will ship only one iPhone 17 model with a titanium design this year, and it’s a surprising choice. iPhone 17 Air will be the only new model with titanium Last fall, as rumors about the iPhone 17 line started ramping up, one of the more curious reports had to do with design materials. The Inform

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Rivian adds Google Maps features to its navigation app

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-27 16:00:33

Rivian, the American EV manufacturer, is integrating Google Maps into its navigation app. The update should provide Rivian owners with more detailed information about their route, disruptions and places they're passing. These new features include updated traffic data and reroutes if another option turns out to be quicker along your journey. Drivers will also have access to real-time road disruption reports from the Google Maps community. Plus, places of interest should now be available right on

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You can try Linux without ditching Windows first - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-27 16:06:00

ZDNET With Windows 10 support due to end soon, many users are looking for an alternative OS, so they don't have to purchase yet another computer. One of the best options for most people is Linux. Modern Linux distributions are user-friendly, rock-solid, and free. If you have zero experience with Linux, you might think it's above your skills, so you have yet to find the courage to use it. Back in 1997, when I discovered Linux, I was clueless about how it worked. When I finally installed the ope

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My favorite indoor security camera has no subscription fees

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-27 16:39:40

ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy Security Indoor Cam S350 is available for purchase at $130. The S350 indoor camera features dual telephoto and wide-angle lenses with 360-degree motion tracking and optional local storage to avoid monthly fees. The only drawback I've found is that I wish the camera had a button to engage privacy mode manually, but you can schedule it as needed on the app. View now at Amazon It's safe to say the Eufy Security Indoor Cam S350 has become indispensable in my home. W

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Watch ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Light a Bunch of Things on Fire in This Exclusive BTS Clip

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-27 16:00:42

Here’s an exclusive, fun look behind the scenes of Dean DeBlois’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon, showcasing the stuntwork and visual artistry that went into bringing a beloved animated franchise into the real world. io9 presents a clip from How to Train Your Dragon‘s home release that takes us to Viking training camp. Watch as stars including Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us) get the hang of dragon riding on their mechanical bull-like dragon stand-ins. There’

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Rivian taps Google to bring custom maps into its EVs and app

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-01-27 16:30:24

For 18 months, Rivian and Google engineers worked together. Today, they’re showing off their work. Rivian is pushing out a software update that will bring a unique version of Google Maps into its EVs. It’s the latest step in Rivian’s continued effort to distinguish its vehicles with software — an effort that has helped it strike up a joint venture with one of the world’s biggest automakers, Volkswagen. This isn’t a typical the Google Maps integration and it’s unlike the tech company’s other co

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Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-27 21:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday. The deal tackles a key challenge for AI companies: providing educational acces

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Rivian supercharges its navigation experience with some of Google Maps’ best features

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-27 22:00:03

Rivian TL;DR Rivian is rolling out a new navigation experience powered by Google Maps. It brings improved routing and arrival estimates, real-time traffic updates, satellite imagery, and enhanced search capabilities to all Rivian models. It also includes EV-specific features, like range on arrival, charging stops and preferences, and charging scores. Rivian is giving its navigation experience, both in its vehicles and the Rivian mobile app, a much-needed upgrade. The company has teamed up wi

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Five EU countries to test age-check app under new child safety rules

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-27 21:42:44

France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece are preparing to test a new age verification system as part of the EU’s push to regulate how children access online content. Here are the details. The pilot program, announced by the European Commission on Monday (via Reuters), is built on the same technical standards as the upcoming European Digital Identity Wallet, which is set to launch across the EU next year. The move comes alongside new EU guidelines aimed at helping platforms comply with the Dig

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US probes imports on drones and a raw material used in chips and solar panels

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-27 21:15:46

The Department of Commerce has opened national security investigations into imports of drones and polysilicon , a raw material used in chips and solar panels. Among other things, officials are looking into "predatory trade practices" and the capacity of other countries to "weaponize their control over supplies" of drones, drone parts and polysilicon, as well as derivatives of each. The DoC commenced the investigations on July 1, but has only just disclosed them publicly. The probes could lead t

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6 reasons why I've stuck with Ubuntu-based Linux distros for the last 20 years

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-27 21:39:25

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET It was October 2004, and I'd been using Red Hat Linux (way before it became Fedora) for years. I was fairly certain that would be my distribution until the world ended. I'd become comfortable with Red Hat. Sure, it had its quirks and was sometimes a bit more difficult than it needed to be (remember, it was over 20 years ago), but it was stable and I'd grown to know it well. But then a new distribution arrived on the scene... Ubuntu. Oddly enough, the

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Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

news.ycombinator.com Paul Melman 2026-01-26 18:28:36

Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure. Selection criteria for a position of authority are one example of such a metric. When selection criteria are opaque, it is difficult for them to become a target, preserving their utility as measures. For governance positions however, it

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Mark Zuckerberg Interview Derailed After His Audio Doesn’t Work

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-27 21:10:13

The debut episode of The Information’s video podcast suffered a serious setback this week after an interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to be paused because the podcasters couldn’t get the interviewee’s audio to work. The Information, which routinely publishes scoops involving the tech industry, launched TITV this week—an Amazon-sponsored live video program that the outlet describes as “first in tech news and analysis from the people that break and shape the story.” A key part of the fi

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Nearly Half of Americans Budget Based on Vibes. Should You?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-27 21:00:00

Your feelings about the economy can help you set a smarter money strategy. Massonstock/Getty Images Potential romantic partners. Your next vacation spot. Whether you should leave a party early. A vibe check can help you evaluate lots of things, including your money strategy. A June study by Intuit Credit Karma found that 44% of Americans surveyed have done "vibe-based budgeting." Gen Zers and millennials, in particular, are adjusting their spending and savings habits according to how they feel

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Beware! Research shows Gmail’s AI email summaries can be hacked

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-28 02:32:50

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A researcher recently demonstrated a Gemini flaw that could be exploited to inject malicious instructions while using Gmail’s email summary feature. These instructions were hidden in plain text under the body of the email. Google responded to the research, stating that it had updated its models to identify such prompt engineering measures and block phishing links. Big tech companies have been billing AI as the ubiquitous tool that frees us from munda

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The best student discounts we found for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-28 02:01:27

You’re probably using Adobe products if you’re studying anything related to digital art or design. Adobe Creative Cloud is the industry standard in this space but the entire suite of programs is quite expensive at $70 per month. Thankfully, Adobe has education pricing for students that drops the entire creative suite to $30 per month for the first year. That includes the big programs like Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC along with Lightroom CC, Premiere Pro CC, Adobe XD and more. After your fir

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Cache Benchmarks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-23 20:15:31

Cache Benchmarks These benchmarks measure thoughput, latency, and CPU cycles for Memcache, Redis, Valkey, Dragonfly, and Garnet. Persistance is turned off for all caches, no disk operations. All connections are local, UNIX named pipes. The hardware is an AWS c8g.8xlarge (32 core non-NUMA ARM64). The benchmarking tool is memtier_benchmark. Includes pipelining for 1, 10, 25, and 50. Each benchmark has 31 runs. About 15K total runs. The median of the 31 is used for graphing. Latency is mea

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Win, lose, or draw: trends in English football match results

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-23 12:23:55

Is the game getting more exciting? Football (soccer) fans like to see exciting matches. Draws are boring but wins or losses are interesting; fans want to see teams give their all on the pitch. Which begs the question, is the game getting more or less thrilling over time? One way to answer this question is to look at fraction of matches in a league that end in a draw. The most boring extreme is every game is a draw (draw fraction = 1). The most engaging extreme is that every game ends in a win/l

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Google’s Discover feed may be getting an AI feature no one asked for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-28 10:49:42

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing AI summaries for articles in the Discover feed. Like AI overviews in Google Search, Discover feed summaries combine information from multiple sources instead of just referencing one. Google is also testing a new button to bookmark articles that can be revisited later. Of late, Google has been experimenting with multiple ways to make its AI applications more visible, especially to users who have steered clear of Gemini so far. After rolli

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I treated myself to this $129 pen, and it spoiled every other writing device for me

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-28 09:15:12

ZDNET's key takeaways The Ridge Bolt Pen's starting price of $59 is less than when I bought it, but it's still a fantastic gift for the writer in your life. It features a grippy design that makes handling a breeze, and the ink moves smoothly across paper. Of course, the one and only caveat with the pen is its price, but I've found it to be well worth it. View now at Amazon Various configurations of the Ridge Bolt Pen are on sale right now, including the 24K Gold finish, which sells for $89 (d

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You can try Linux without abandoning Windows through dual-booting - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-28 12:16:00

ZDNET With Windows 10 support due to end soon, many users are looking for an alternative OS, so they don't have to purchase yet another computer. One of the best options for most people is Linux. Modern Linux distributions are user-friendly, rock-solid, and free. If you have zero experience with Linux, you might think it's above your skills, so you have yet to find the courage to use it. Back in 1997, when I discovered Linux, I was clueless about how it worked. When I finally installed the ope

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My favorite bone-conduction headphones have a 12-hour battery life and are perfect for running

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Building community and clean air solutions

Android’s screen magnifier can’t zoom the keyboard, but a fix is finally on the way

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You can try Linux without ditching Windows first - here's how

My favorite indoor security camera has no subscription fees

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Rivian taps Google to bring custom maps into its EVs and app

Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID

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Five EU countries to test age-check app under new child safety rules

US probes imports on drones and a raw material used in chips and solar panels

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Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

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Google’s Discover feed may be getting an AI feature no one asked for

I treated myself to this $129 pen, and it spoiled every other writing device for me

You can try Linux without abandoning Windows through dual-booting - here's how

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