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SpaceX Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money Every Time One of Its Starships Explodes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-09 10:45:24

Time is ticking for SpaceX's Starship. Even after nearly ten launches, the behemoth spacecraft has yet to successfully visit space and then come safely back to Earth even a single time — but NASA is nonetheless relying on it to ferry astronauts from the Moon's orbit down to the surface just over two years from now. Given Starship's track record so far — nine full-scale test flights have ended in explosions shortly after launch, explosions in space, and crashes into the ocean — it's a steep goa

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Scientists Alarmed to Discover That Earth's Continents Are Drying Out

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-09 11:30:25

New research examining over 20 years of data captured by NASA's twin climate satellites, GRACE and GRACE-FO, has revealed an "unprecedented" level of water loss among the planet's continents, creating "mega-drying" regions across the northern hemisphere. One of these mega regions spans Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and vast swaths of Asia. That should clue you in to the staggering scale of this phenomenon, which the scientists are calling terrestrial water storage (TWS) loss. Since 200

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Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-09 12:15:27

There's no need to fear, for emergency drone swarms are here. To combat school shootings, three districts in Florida are set to trial a drone response system that's designed to subdue an assailant and buy time before law enforcement can arrive at the scene, Newsweek reports. It sounds like something you'd see in a satirical ad in a "Robocop" movie, but no — it's real. The drones can spring into operation within five seconds of a silent alarm being activated, and confront the shooter within fif

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Did AYANEO just announce the first Snapdragon 8 Elite gaming handheld?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 11:57:54

TL;DR AYANEO just teased the KONKR Pocket FIT Elite, which may have a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC. It would be the first gaming handheld with that chipset, which offers far more power than anything on the market. It will start at less than $399, with a Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 variant starting at less than $329. This week has been crazy for gaming handhelds, with two new dual-screen devices dropping at exceptionally competitive prices. This morning, at a sharing session for the first device from AYANEO

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Meta is licensing Midjourney's AI image and video tech

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-09 09:00:12

Meta has signed a partnership with Midjourney, an AI service that can generate images and videos from text prompts. According to Alexandr Wang, Meta's Chief AI Officer, Meta is licensing Midjourney's "aesthetic technology" for its future models and products. "To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach. This means world-class talent, ambitious compute roadmap, and working with the best players across the industry," W

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Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-09 10:30:49

Users with Mississippi IP addresses can no longer access the Bluesky app. The decentralized social media network has explained in a post that Mississippi's new age verification law for social networks "would fundamentally change" how it operates, and it wouldn't be possible to comply with its small team and limited resources. Bluesky says that while it does follow the UK's Online Safety Act, it works very differently from Mississippi's approach to age verification. In the UK, it's only required

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Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-09 12:00:15

Waymo can now test its self-driving cars in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has announced. Local authorities have granted the company the permit needed to be able to test autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. It's the first-ever permit for the "testing deployment" of AVs the city has granted. Waymo will be able to deploy a fleet with up to eight vehicles in the city until late September 2025. For now, though, the permit only allows Waymo to test its AVs with drivers be

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Why I'm still taking this 2024 Dell laptop to the office - even though it's for gamers

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-09 08:30:26

Alienware m16 R2 ZDNET's key takeaways Alienware m16 R2 aims to be the perfect laptop for gamers and professionals alike, and it succeeds. It delivers high-level performance and a 2K display that'll make both groups smile, while giving users a way to tone down the RGB lighting via Stealth Mode. You'll need to keep that charger close by, as the M16 R2's battery doesn't last very long. $1,899.99 at Best Buy $2,099 at Amazon more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Googl

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You can't grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

news.ycombinator.com Joey Santore 2025-12-05 20:38:00

Since moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This is not just because of the high daytime heat. It's not as simple as that. Specifically, it is the high heat during the night (and those warm nights are a direct result of the humidity) that causes cool-climate and cool-season plants to eventually die here. That's a bummer for somebody who loves pla

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I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 06:32:43

I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch Polymatt decided he was going to make a 3.5” floppy disk from scratch — and actually did. I’m not sure how many of you have actually cracked one of these things open and taken a look inside, but it’s actually a little bit more complex than I expected. Recreating a shell isn’t going to be the tough part. It’s actually this: recreating the media itself with some PET film and a bunch of chemicals. These disks are incredibly thin, and the magnetic film itself is m

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RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode

news.ycombinator.com Tim Bray 2025-12-09 09:54:01

Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain Unicode characters encoded in UTF-8. There’s another question, though: “Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.” This issue keeps coming up, so Paul Hoffman and I put together an individual-submission draft to the IETF and now (where by “now” I mean “two years later”) it’s been published as RFC 9839. It explains which characters are bad, and why, th

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Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++

news.ycombinator.com Thien Tran 2025-12-09 09:29:02

In this post, I will walkthrough how I learned to implement Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++. The main objective is to learn writing attention in CUDA C++, since many features are not available in Triton, such as MXFP8 / NVFP4 MMA for sm120. I also feel this is a natural next step after learning about matmul kernels. Lastly, there are many excellent blogposts on writing fast matmul kernels, but there is none for attention. So I want to take this chance to write up something nicely. Readers

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‘Zipotle’: Chipotle Wants to Drop a Burrito on Your Head with New Drone Delivery

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-09 08:00:22

Chipotle says it’s jumping on the drone delivery bandwagon. This week, the company announced a new pilot program in Texas that will test the viability of airdropping customers’ orders into their backyards for them. A press release published Thursday makes the whole process sound quite easy as far as drone-robot hybrid delivery burritos go. Certain customers in the Rowlette suburb of Dallas will be able to download the app for Zipline, Chipotle’s new drone partner, and place their orders. Then,

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Here’s Why Crypto Set the Market on Fire Yesterday

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-12-09 09:56:24

Cryptocurrency markets skyrocketed into new territory Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled that interest rate reductions could be imminent, pushing the Dow to its first 800-point plus gain this year. That ended the Dow’s longest streak without a new high since Dec. 4, 2024, according to Dow Jones Market Data, and signaled a major surge of optimism at the prospect of some economic policy relief. Cryptos were major stars of that rally. Ethereum (ETH) climbed over 15% to reac

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Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-09 08:07:40

When Donald Trump recently claimed, during what was supposed to be a press conference about a European Union trade deal, that wind turbines were a "con job" that drive whales "loco," kill birds and even people, he wasn’t just repeating old myths. He was tapping into a global pattern of conspiracy theories around renewable energy—particularly wind farms. (Trump calls them “windmills”—a climate denier trope.) Like 19th century fears that telephones would spread diseases, wind farm conspiracy theo

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Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You

wired.com Dylan Scott 2025-12-09 08:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities. And while they bring the relief of cool air, these contraptions also create the conditions for dangerous bacteria to multiply and spread. One particularly nasty bacteria-borne illness is currently spreading in New York City using t

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25 Best Early Labor Day Sales on WIRED-Tested Gear (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-12-09 08:44:27

Labor Day is not until September 1, but retailers are already offering oodles of Labor Day deals. The unofficial end of summer, a celebration of the American worker's contribution to our national prosperity, brings with it bargains on WIRED-tested gear, including home office essentials and some of our favorite gadgets. For the next couple of weeks, we'll be cruising and perusing for the latest true discounts on the gear we recommend to our friends—and rounding them all up for you below. Check o

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9 Best Keyboards (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-12-09 09:30:00

Other Keyboards We Like Photograph: Eric Ravenscraft Logitech Pro X TKL for $200: Logitech makes great keyboards, and the G Pro X TKL is among the best gaming keyboards. It has vibrant RGB LED-backlit keys, a choice of clicky, tactile, or linear switches, and it uses Logitech's Lightspeed wireless adapter for competitive gaming-level response time. The build quality of this keyboard is slick and stylish. It's minimal and doesn't take up much space on your desk, and it has a subtle metallic rim

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Best Hair Dryer: Rigorous Testing in Real Apartments (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-12-09 11:30:00

Compare Top 7 Hair Dryers Product Weight Wattage Settings Attachments Price Dyson Supersonic Nural 1.8 pounds 1600 watts 4 heat; 3 speed Wave + curl diffuser, styling concentrator, gentle air attachment, wide tooth comb, and flyaway attachment $500 Conair SmoothWrap InfinitiPro 2.12 pounds 1,875 watts 3 heat; 2 speed Diffuser and concentrator $71 Dyson Supersonic r 0.7 pounds 1,700 watts 4 heat; 3 speed Diffuser, wide-tooth comb, professional concentrator, airflow attachment, and flyaway smooth

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Bose’s compact TV Speaker is more than $100 off right now

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-12-09 14:41:24

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you’re looking to upgrade your movie night, a soundbar is an easy way to beef up the audio. While there are some high-priced options out there, you don’t have to spend a lot to actually hear a movie’s dialog. Right now, the Bose TV Speaker is down to $163.45 (about $115 off) at Amazon, the lowest price we’ve seen yet. The Bose TV Speaker is a solid starter soundbar that can easily integrate into existing

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As a Pixel fan, here’s why I’m not going to use Google’s Pixel Journal app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 11:00:40

If you’re a Pixel fan like me, this past week was a pretty fun one. Made by Google 2025 has come and gone, and as cringe-worthy as the event itself may have been, Google still gave us plenty to talk about — including its new Pixel Journal app. Two years after Apple launched its Journal app on the iPhone, Pixel Journal is debuting on the Pixel 10 series to give Pixel owners their own out-of-the-box journaling app — and it looks good! Pixel Journal runs entirely on-device, uses AI to help you thi

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The best AirTag alternative for Samsung users is currently 30% off

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-12-09 10:00:20

Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 2 in white. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Bluetooth trackers are a handy piece of technology because they provide a cheap and easy way to locate lost items like your keys or pets that made a break for it. One of the better options out there is the Galaxy SmartTag2, which is currently on sale. On Samsung's website, the single-pack Galaxy SmartTag2 is retailing for $21, a 30% price drop. This deal applies to both the black and whit

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Worried about AI's soaring energy needs? Avoiding chatbots won't help - but 3 things could

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-12-09 12:00:00

Overearth/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways AI investment is driving up energy demands and impacting local grids. AI energy use must be considered relative to tech's energy demands overall. Businesses and individuals have several options for managing their AI footprint. AI feels inescapable. It's everywhere: Your smartphone, Google, even your work tools. AI features promise to make life easier and more productive, but what does all this new tech mean for the

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Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 04:22:33

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

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The ROI of Exercise

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 08:19:15

The ROI of exercise 22 Aug, 2025 I workout 4 days a week and I love it. It's the foundation of my morning routine, following spending 45 minutes drinking coffee on the couch and watching the sun come up with Emma. I've been doing this for a few years now and while I struggled (as everyone does) in the beginning, I can't imagine not exercising in the morning now. On the rare occasion that I do skip a workout, I feel it missing throughout the day as a lack of vitality and less mental clarity.

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LASIK Without Lasers? Scientists May Have Found a Way

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-09 12:00:39

What if you could fix your damaged eye without having to shoot a laser at it? Scientists have potentially discovered a novel method of repairing the cornea, similar to LASIK, that wouldn’t require a laser or other invasive surgical tool. Researchers at Occidental College and the University of California, Irvine, created the technique, which aims to temporarily make the cornea malleable. In experiments with rabbit eyeballs, their method appeared to work while also leaving corneal cells alive. Mo

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Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals: Up to $100 Off PCs

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-12-09 06:00:00

Lenovo is currently the biggest PC and laptop company in the world, and they just so happen to make some of our favorite laptops and PC peripherals. In fact, our list of the Best Laptops you can buy include a number of Lenovo devices that we’ve tested and fully recommend, ranging from high-end premium laptops to options for budget-minded shoppers. If you are looking to save a few bucks while shopping for a new Lenovo product, here are the Lenovo coupon codes and special offers you need to know a

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I Can’t Stop Playing Duolingo Chess

wired.com Jaclyn Greenberg 2025-12-09 12:30:00

I’m embarrassed to admit this in my mid-forties, but I’ve never understood chess well enough to play a full game. My son and daughter both learned how to play in elementary school. I was glad they had that experience. I tried to pick up the game when they did, but, as a busy mom of three little kids, I just didn’t have the time, the interest, or the stamina to really sit down and learn. Chess became more popular during the pandemic, and the boom has stuck around; according to a recent Yougov.c

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Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 10:22:33

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-12-09 10:51:27

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms. According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond it

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