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Riot is shutting down studio behind its Minecraft-like game

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-03-05 17:25:46

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Riot Games is closing the studio behind Hytale, its Minecraft-like game that has been in development for nearly a decade. Hypixel Studios, which Riot acquired in 2020 for an undisclosed sum, is shutting down “over the next few months,” according to Hypixel CEO Aaron “Noxy” Donaghey. “After years of pushing forward, adapting, and exploring every possible path, it became clear w

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Trump's Attack May Instead Spur Iran to Speedrun a Nuclear Weapon It Wasn't Building Previously

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-05 08:26:50

Trump's Attack May Instead Spur Iran to Speedrun a Nuclear Weapon It Wasn't Building Previously An extremely ironic outcome. Bomb Squad President Donald Trump is trying to derail Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions by bombing its known nuclear research facilities — but it turns out that's easier said than done. US officials have trumpeted that the recent strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment sites, but satellite images have cast doubt on that claim. And in any case, Trump's bombing camp

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Minimal Boolean Formulas (2011)

news.ycombinator.com Russ Cox 2026-03-01 09:53:25

Minimal Boolean Formulas Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. 28. That's the minimum number of AND or OR operators you need in order to write any Boolean function of five variables. Alex Healy and I computed that in April 2010. Until then, I believe no one had ever known that little fact. This post describes how we computed it and how we almost got scooped by Knuth's Volume 4A which considers the problem for AND, OR, and XOR. A Naive Brute Force Approach Any Boolean function of two variables ca

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The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 – By Bradford Morgan White

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2026-03-02 11:06:18

In 1919, a small leather company was founded in Fort Worth by David Lewis Tandy and Norton Hinckley. The Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company specialized in leather show laces, shoe soles, leather and rubber heels, and other shoe-findings. Tandy focused on sales and marketing while Hinckley managed the internal business operations and inventory. The company did well, bought a larger location in 1923 and expanded to Beaumont in 1927. The company scaled back during the Depression, but they survived. Ch

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How Prehistoric Mammoth Tusks Could Help Bust Modern-Day Ivory Smugglers

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-03-05 17:00:57

Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not. Because the two are hard to tell apart, illegal traders are slipping under the radar by mixing elephant ivory with legally traded mammoth ivory. A new forensic tool, however, might soon put an end to this nefarious trick. Wildlife forensic scientists in China suggest that authorities can differen

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Should You Buy an Induction or Electric Stove? Here’s How to Make the Right Choice

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-05 20:10:00

Even if you enjoy cooking, waiting for a pot of water to boil is probably one of the things you'd rather not have to deal with. And yes, the more you watch it, the slower it boils -- that's just science. But did you know that some ways of heating a pot are quicker than others? They can be better for other reasons, too. Using an electric stove can take longer than you'd like, making a gas range the preferred choice -- not to mention they usually heat your pots and pans more evenly, too. And with

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‘Not a wearable’, court documents detail OpenAI’s plans for its AI hardware project with Jony Ive

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-05 20:27:12

As OpenAI fights a trademark lawsuit over its now-scrubbed “io” brand, new public court filings are giving us the most detailed glimpse yet into what Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s hardware team have been up to behind the scenes. ‘Not an in-ear device, nor a wearable device’ As reported by The Verge and Bloomberg yesterday, the legal battle stems from a case brought by iyO, a Google-backed startup that argues the “io” branding from OpenAI’s newly formed io Products, Inc., is too close for comfort.

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OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable

theverge.com Alex Heath 2026-03-05 21:01:54

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. Thanks to a related trademark lawsuit, we know what OpenAI and Jony Ive’s first AI device won’t be. In court filings submitted this month, leaders from io — the consumer hardware team OpenAI recently acquired from Jony Ive’s design studio for $6.5 billion — testified that the first device they plan to release won’t be an “in-ear device” or a “wearable.” They also say the AI device

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Samsung confirms Unpacked for early July

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2026-03-05 23:00:00

is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Samsung’s summer Unpacked is officially on, starting at 10AM ET on Wednesday, July 9th. The invitation features a jazzy little bop and the words “Ultra Unfolds,” so I think it’s safe to assume we’re getting that foldable Ultra phone the company previously hinted at. The event is set to take place in Brooklyn, but you can watch

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Court filings reveal OpenAI and io’s early work on an AI device

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-05 23:44:38

Legal filings submitted earlier this month from lawyers representing OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io reveal new details about the companies’ efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. The filings are part of a trademark dispute lawsuit filed this month by iyO, a Google-backed hardware startup developing custom-molded earpieces that connect to other devices. Over the weekend, OpenAI pulled promotional materials related to its $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s io startup in order to comply

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Show HN: Pickaxe – A TypeScript library for building AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-02 06:07:51

Pickaxe: A Typescript library for building AI agents that scale Pickaxe is a simple Typescript library for building AI agents that are fault-tolerant and scalable. It handles the complexities of durable execution, queueing and scheduling, allowing you to focus on writing core business logic. It is not a framework. Everything in Pickaxe is just a function that you have written, which makes it easy to integrate with your existing codebase and business logic. You can build agents that call tools,

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Trump Snubbed Jared Isaacman as NASA Chief, but the Private Astronaut Isn’t Done With Space

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-03-06 02:24:41

Although Jared Isaacman is out of the running for the position of NASA administrator, the space enthusiast is still very much interested in staying in the game. In a recent appearance, Isaacman revealed he would still like to pursue launching robotic missions to space. This weekend, Isaacman received the National Space Society’s Wernher von Braun Award for the privately funded Polaris Dawn mission that he led in September 2024. After his speech, Isaacman spoke of plans he would have executed as

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Unreal Engine 5.6 outperforms 5.4 with up to 30% faster frame rates and improved lighting

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2026-03-06 09:04:00

Bottom line: Epic's latest version of Unreal Engine is making waves with substantial performance improvements and visual enhancements that address long-standing engine issues. Direct comparisons against Unreal Engine 5.4 show at least a 30-percent increase in performance, especially in CPU-limited scenarios. The findings come from tests by the YouTube channel MxBenchmarkPC (above), which put the Paris tech demo by Scans Factory (below) through its paces. Running on a system equipped with an RTX

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Mario Kart 64 races onto PC with unofficial port, no emulation necessary

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-03-06 09:47:00

The big picture: Emulating the Nintendo 64 has always been a contentious topic. The release of UltraHLE was a landmark moment, offering a way to run commercial N64 games at playable frame rates on Windows 9x when the console was barely three years old. Today, the situation has improved dramatically, with more accurate emulation options and alternative ways to faithfully recreate Nintendo's gameplay magic on the PC. The Harbour Masters collective has once again achieved the impossible. The team

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Still upset about last summer’s Spotify price bump? These lawmakers are on the case

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-06 09:27:56

Tech Team / Android Authority TL;DR Last year Spotify introduced audiobook access and raised pricing for Premium plans. While there was still a music-only Basic option, these senators don’t think consumers were made adequately aware. They also accuse Spotify of orchestrating the whole change to lower its payouts to musicians. Streaming services raising their prices is just as inevitable as death and taxes, and year after year, we slowly end up paying more and more for that access. While we m

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Media Matters is suing the FTC to block investigation into X advertiser boycott

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-06 08:45:15

Media Matters for America has sued the US Federal Trade Commission, claiming that the agency is unfairly targeting it in retaliation for past criticisms of the social media platform X in violation of the organization's First Amendment rights. It's the latest move in the ongoing hostilities between the nonprofit media watchdog and X owner Elon Musk. "The Federal Trade Commission seeks to punish Media Matters for its journalism and speech in exposing matters of substantial public concern—includin

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I ported pigz from Unix to Windows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-02 08:47:53

I just finished porting pigz from Unix to Windows (you can download pre-compiled binaries ). This article describes how I did it. Pigz was clearly written with Unix in mind, with no thought given to cross-platform portability. Thankfully, it’s a relatively simple, command-line program that sticks to using standard C library. Porting pthreads Pigz uses pthreads for threading. Porting pthreads code to Windows would be a nightmare. Lucky me: someone already did all the hard work and implemented

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‘Elio’ Has a Bizarre Post-Credits Scene That’s Not About ‘Elio’ at All

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-03-06 09:25:56

If you forgot to stick around for the post-credits scenes tacked onto the end of Elio, this past weekend’s Pixar release teased two things. And if you haven’t seen it—what are you doing here? Kidding, we welcome the curious as we break down the unexpected scenes between the potential Elio spin-off Easter egg and a glimpse of Hoppers, Pixar’s next original concept film. First, we see Elio and his new friend, Bryce, reconnect with Glordon using their prototypical intergalactic radio, leaving thin

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A solid-state battery breakthrough may be taking shape in Maryland

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-06 14:18:00

Forward-looking: In a quiet corner of Beltsville, Maryland, a new chapter in battery technology is unfolding. Ion Storage Systems, a company that began as a university research project, has emerged as a leading contender in the race to commercialize solid-state batteries – a technology long promised but rarely delivered at scale. After a recent visit to the company's Maryland facility, The Wall Street Journal concluded that Ion Storage Systems stands out as a company with a real chance of achie

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Trump Media Has a Bold Plan to Regain Confidence

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-03-06 14:56:45

Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social, announced an ambitious new financial strategy on Monday: it’s going to spend up to $400 million to buy its own stock. In a press release, CEO Devin Nunes framed the move as a resounding “vote of confidence in our Company, our stock, and our strategic plans.” With approximately $3 billion in cash on its balance sheet, Nunes argued, the company has the flexibility to take actions that “support strong shareholder returns.” But in

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 24, #744

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-06 14:00:03

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. That purple category name is a mouthful, even though you might be able to group the four words of that category together without really understanding it. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 24, #274

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-06 14:00:05

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is a mix today. The blue category could be tough, as those teams aren't super well-known. And if you watch a lot of TV sports programming, you might figure out the purple category. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of bet

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Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space

wired.com Sarah Sinclair 2026-03-06 14:16:15

Having dedicated much of his working life to studying the cannabis plant, Radišič believes it is uniquely qualified for space agriculture. It grows fast, adapts well, and has been an agricultural crop for thousands of years. According to Radišič, if at some point we want to grow life on Mars, this makes it an ideal candidate. “Sooner or later, we will have lunar bases, and cannabis, with its versatility, is the ideal plant to supply those projects,” he tells WIRED. “It can be a source of food, p

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Next-gen Xbox and PlayStation 6 expected in 2027, powered by AMD's UDNA graphics

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-03-06 18:26:00

Something to look forward to: If rumors prove accurate, Sony and Microsoft may once again align on GPU architecture for their next-generation consoles, this time leveraging AMD's upcoming UDNA graphics platform. The expected performance gains in ray tracing and AI upscaling suggest a significant shift that could outpace current PC GPUs on a per-compute-unit basis. With both companies also exploring handheld form factors and staggered launch timelines, these developments offer an early look at th

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iOS 26 beta 2 adds new Apple Music widget for your Home Screen

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-06 17:27:36

Apple just released iOS 26 beta 2, bringing additional refinements and changes to the forthcoming software update. Among various design enhancements and tweaks, beta 2 adds a new Apple Music widget for Live Radio, the third new widget so far in iOS 26. Live Radio is the third new Apple Music widget in iOS 26 iOS 26 is turning out to be a packed release for Apple Music users. The Music app is getting a great new AutoMix feature, pinned music, playlist folder creation, and a lot more. Apple al

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Riot Games shuts down Hypixel Studios and ends development of Hytale

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-06 18:04:35

It was set to be a cool riff on Minecraft with more combat and RPG mechanics. Here's a bit of sad news for gamers. Hypixel Studios is shutting down and ending development of Hytale. The game looked pretty nifty, combining action-RPG mechanics with Minecraft. Riot Games purchased the developer back in 2020, though it has been working on Hytale a lot longer than that . Development is ending immediately and the company will be shutting down "over the next few months." Hypixel CEO Aaron "Noxy" Don

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory shares first images from planned decade-long survey of the sky

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-06 18:25:57

The National Science Foundation just shared the first images captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a sample of the footage it'll capture as part of a planned decade-long survey that's starting later in 2025. The project, dubbed the "Legacy Survey of Time and Space" is predicted to lead to the discovery of "millions of new asteroids within the first two years" the survey is running. In just a 10 hour period, the National Science Foundation says that the Rubin Observatory "discovered 2,104 n

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Which Death Stranding 2 Edition Should You Buy?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-06 18:05:00

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will launch on June 26 exclusively for the PlayStation 5, but those who buy a special edition of the game will be able to access it early. The question is, with three special editions available, which version should you get? Death Stranding 2 is the sequel to legendary developer Hideo Kojima's 2019 game, and it improves on every aspect of the original, making it a game that anyone who is remotely interested in it should play. The edition you should purchase will

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Before becoming the iconic star of Super Mario Bros., what was Mario originally named?

techspot.com Unknown 2026-03-06 23:03:00

Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: Jumpman Mario was created by Shigeru Miyamoto in the early 1980s while he was developing Donkey Kong, Nintendo's breakout arcade hit. Interestingly, Donkey Kong was originally conceived as a game based on the Popeye comic strip, with Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto filling the roles. When Nintendo couldn't secure the rights in time, Miyamoto pivoted and created new characters, giving birth to what w

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iOS 26 beta 2 adds brand new iPhone ringtone, listen here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-06 23:54:15

Apple released iOS 26 beta 2 today, and the latest version of the forthcoming iPhone software update adds a brand new ringtone. Here’s what it sounds like. New iOS 26 ringtone available as alternative to default in beta 2 iOS 26 beta testing is in full swing. Two weeks after the first beta shipped, Apple has just released iOS 26 beta 2. As happens every summer, Apple has continued adding new features to its software during the beta cycle. So far iOS 26 beta 2 has included various design revi

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