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This is the Ultimate '90s Cyberpunk Movie (No, It's Not 'The Matrix')

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 09:30:03

The cyberpunk movement has given us some of the best science fiction movies: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and, yes, The Matrix. But there's one great tech noir flick that came out at the height of the cyberpunk craze -- and then all but disappeared. Maybe that's partly because of its title. I'd wanted to rewatch Strange Days for a long time, but I kept forgetting because, honestly, I couldn't remember what it was called. Then I finally rediscovered the sci-fi thriller on Hulu. After my most

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 21, #1524

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 10:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is really hard. It's got an extremely rare letter, and I just don't think it's a very commonly used word either. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 21, #802

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 10:00:09

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. Are the NYT Connections puzzle editors OK? There were some wacky words in today's puzzle. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the pr

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 21, #536

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 10:00:12

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Finally, a NYT Strands puzzle I can ace! If you know major superheroes, this will be a fun and easy one for you today. And the spangram makes a related and cool shape! If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you'

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Microsoft is working on a fix for PC shader stutter

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 15:36:18

Microsoft is creating a new "advanced shader delivery" feature for the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds that might make loading games faster and more stutter-free. The company teased the upcoming feature alongside the announcement of the launch date for the first Xbox-branded handhelds and the company's new compatibility system for figuring out if games will run well on handhelds. Shader stutter is a widespread issue in PC gaming that doesn't occur on consoles because of their uniform hardware. You

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Learning about GPUs through measuring memory bandwidth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 09:35:18

Learning About GPUs Through Measuring Memory Bandwidth At Traverse Research, we need to have a deep understanding of GPU performance to develop our benchmark, Evolve. Additionally, we sometimes do projects for very specific hardware where we need to know all the ins and outs of this hardware. One way we do this is by using microbenchmarks to measure specific parts of the GPU to get new insights. In this article, we will share what we learned from measuring the memory bandwidth of various GPUs.

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Introduction to Bluesky's AT Protocol

news.ycombinator.com Kuba Suder 2025-12-14 15:13:09

Some time ago I wrote a long blog post I called “Complete guide to Bluesky”, which explains how all the user-facing features of Bluesky work and various tips and tricks. This one is meant to be a bit like a developer version of that – I want to explain in hopefully understandable language what all the pieces of the network architecture are and how they all fit together. I hope this will let you understand better how Bluesky and the underlying protocol works, and how it differs from e.g. the Fedi

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The AI Battle’s Newest Warrior Strikes a Major Blow to Big Tech

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-12-14 15:37:02

The ongoing slugfest between tech players racing to get the most intuitive and powerful AI may have just gotten a brief knockout punch. The slammer that landed? A new version of DeepSeek’s increasingly impressive V3.1, which has a whopping 685-billion-parameter system and can deliver about $1.01 per complete coding task, compared to a beginning price of $70 for traditional systems. 🚨 BREAKING: DeepSeek V3.1 is Here! 🚨 The AI giant drops its latest upgrade — and it’s BIG: ⚡685B parameters 🧠L

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Oracle Will Reportedly Spend $1 Billion a Year on a Gas-Powered Data Center

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-14 15:45:36

Oracle is going all-in on its AI-focused cloud business, pouring billions into building massive new data centers. One site under construction in West Texas will reportedly cost the company around $1 billion just to keep the lights on. Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the plans, that Oracle intends to spend more than $1 billion a year to run a new West Texas megasite on gas generators rather than wait for a utility hookup. It can take years to get approval and infrastruc

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See Six Planets Line Up in the Last Planet Parade For Three Years

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 12:45:00

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, occur occasionally with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets in our solar system at once. This one features six of our closest celestial neighbors. The main event started on Tuesday and you should still be able to see them through Thursday or so. There won't be a repeat performance until October of 2028. T

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Analogue 3D gets yet another delay to later in 2025

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-12-14 15:59:26

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Things just keep going wrong for Analogue’s take on the Nintendo 64. The company announced today that the shipping date for its next console, the Analogue 3D, has been delayed until sometime in Q4 of this year. The announcement comes a little over a

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Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-14 15:29:01

In Brief U.S. border agents searched more electronic devices during a three-month period than ever before, according to new government statistics. The data shows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency tasked with immigration screening at the U.S. border, searched 14,899 devices of international travelers between April through June, a 17% rise on the previous record high recorded in early 2022. Most of these searches are “basic,” where U.S. border agents demand the password to the

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India bans real-money gaming, threatening a $23 billion industry

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-14 15:53:16

India’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed a sweeping online gaming bill that, while promoting esports and casual gaming without monetary stakes, imposes a blanket ban on real-money games — threatening to disrupt billions of dollars in investment and significantly impact the real-money gaming industry, which could see widespread shutdowns. Titled the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, the legislation aims to prohibit real-money games nationwide — whether based on s

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Pixel 10 Pro vs Galaxy S25 Ultra: I know which one I’d get

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-14 17:00:43

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is the smartphone equivalent of an all-inclusive holiday and costs about as much. Packing a massive screen, an impressive camera array, and plenty of push for even the pickiest power user, it’s not a smartphone you simply settle on. But, flagship devices only have a brief time in the sun before something new and potentially better comes along. The latest pretender is from Google and is in the form of the Pixel 10 Pro. Which would you buy: Pixel 10 Pro or Galaxy S25

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Gemini is coming to Google Home in October with both free and paid versions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 20:23:34

Gemini is launching in early access on smart displays and speakers in October, Google announced in a new blog post. Gemini for Home will replace Google Assistant on the company's smart home devices, and will apparently be available in both free and paid versions, implying Google is interested in expanding its subscription business, not unlike Amazon is with Alexa+. Google originally demoed Gemini for Home back at CES 2025. At the time, the company was primarily promising that generative AI woul

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Microsoft's AI Leader Is Begging You to Stop Treating AI Like Humans

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 18:23:00

Microsoft AI's CEO Mustafa Suleyman is clear: AI is not human and does not possess a truly human consciousness. But the warp-speed advancement of generative AI is making that harder and harder to recognize. The consequences are potentially disastrous, he wrote Tuesday in an essay on his personal blog. Suleyman's 4,600-word treatise is a timely reaction to a growing phenomenon of AI users ascribing human-like qualities of consciousness to AI tools. It's not an unreasonable reaction; it's human n

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Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 18:35:30

If you were to design the strangest diet possible, eating nothing but ants and termites would probably make the shortlist. Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly gone down this path—not once or twice, but at least a dozen times. From anteaters and aardvarks to pangolins and aardwolves, the so-called myrmecophages (animals that feed on ants and termites) have evolved similar traits: they’ve lost most or all of their teeth, grown long sticky tongues, and learn

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Using pollen to make paper, sponges, and more

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 20:13:32

At first glance, Nam-Joon Cho’s lab at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looks like your typical research facility—scientists toiling away, crowded workbenches, a hum of machinery in the background. But the orange-yellow stains on the lab coats slung on hooks hint at a less-usual subject matter under study. The powdery stain is pollen: microscopic grains containing male reproductive cells that trees, weeds, and grasses release seasonally. But Cho isn’t studying irksome effects like h

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Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

wired.com Will Knight 2025-12-14 20:00:00

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same? Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that. Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compu

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Sony is increasing the price of the PlayStation 5 as new tariffs take hold

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-14 20:02:30

Sony will raise the price of PlayStation 5 consoles, the company announced on Wednesday. These changes will be effective as of Thursday, August 21. Citing “a challenging economic environment” — which appears to reference President Trump’s tariffs on imported products — Sony is increasing console prices by about $50. In the U.S., the prices will increase to $549.99 for the PlayStation 5, $499.99 for the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, and $749.99 for the PlayStation 5 Pro. On July 31, the White H

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Labubu could make $1 billion this year

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-14 20:45:08

In Brief Labubu is a plush monster toy, but it’s also on track to be a billion-dollar business. This week, Labubu-maker Pop Mart released its financial results for the first half of 2025, giving the public more insight into just how rabid the world is for this plush monster toy. Pop Mart’s Monsters series, which includes Labubu, generated around $670 million in revenue in the first half of the year, putting it on track to earn over $1 billion by the year’s end. That’s a 688% increase year-over

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Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in U.S. as tariffs start to hit

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-15 00:00:09

PlayStation 5 game consoles will cost $50 more in the U.S. starting this week, Sony announced on Wednesday. The price for an entry-level PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will increase from $450 to $500, and a PlayStation 5 with a disc drive is going up to $550 from $500. Sony's high-end PlayStation 5 Pro will cost $750, up from $700. The PlayStation 5 was first released in 2020. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff plan announced in April went into effect earlier this month on most countries.

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AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-15 00:16:18

With AI software increasingly hogging the enterprise spotlight, companies and investors are spending like never before. In the first half of 2025, AI startups raised over $44 billion, more than all of 2024 combined. By the end of this year, a Goldman Sachs analysis estimates that total investments in AI will soar to almost $200 billion. But all that money is, to put it gently, a reckless gamble. In the US at least, investors have essentially bet the farm on the idea that AI will soon lead to ga

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The Download: churches in the age of AI, and how to run an LLM at home

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-14 18:10:00

On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors into a bustling lobby—unaware they’ve just passed through a gauntlet of biometric surveillance. High-speed cameras snap multiple face “probes” per second, before passing the results to a local neural network that distills these images into digital fingerprints. Before people find their seats, they are matched against an on-premises database—tagged with names, membership tiers, and watch-list flags—that’s

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8 reasons I’d get the Google Pixel Watch 4 over the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-14 23:00:37

The Galaxy Watch 8 hit shelves weeks ago, landing with shiny hardware and Samsung’s signature polish. Now the Pixel Watch 4 is available with an updated display, a bigger battery, and key software improvements. Here are seven reasons Google’s latest smartwatch is the one I’d actually spend my own money on. Do you prefer the Google Pixel Watch 4 or Samsung Galaxy Watch 8? 2 votes Google Pixel Watch 4 50 % Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 50 % Neither. 0 % 1. Looks can kill (my interest) I haven’t been s

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Gboard on Pixel 10 brings better voice typing and proofreading

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 00:00:50

TL;DR Google is upgrading the typing experience on Pixel 10 with new AI features. The improvements include rewriting, better proofreading, and voice typing, all enhanced by Google’s Gemini. These features are arriving first on the Pixel 10 series devices, but we hope to learn more about wider availability soon. Moving forward, AI is expected to dominate announcements for new smartphones while hardware takes the back seat. That’s what we with the launch of the Pixel 10 series, where Google sho

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Google Store is offering two free years of data for Pixel Watch 4 LTE pre-orders

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 00:50:29

TL;DR The Google Store is offering up to $350 back on pre-orders for the Pixel Watch 4 with an eligible trade-in. Those who pre-order the LTE versions can also get two free years of data. New and existing Fitbit members can get six months of the Premium subscription, but only new users will get one month of YouTube Music Premium tacked on. The big day is here, Google is launching all of its latest hardware, including the Pixel Watch 4. If you’re planning on pre-ordering the new smartwatch, th

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Apple updates macOS Sequoia to version 15.6.1

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-15 00:31:21

In addition to releasing iOS 18.6.2, Apple has updated macOS Sequoia to version 15.6.1. The release is likely just a security update as all attention shifts to macOS Tahoe 26, due out as soon as next month. Apple released macOS 15.6, which focused on another bug fix, at the end of last month. Alongside macOS 15.6.1, Apple has issued two older macOS updates: macOS 14.7.8 and macOS 13.7.8. Apple supports older macOS versions, especially with security updates, for several years. Apple will like

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Google Pixel 10 Pro XL vs. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: I tested both Android phones, and here's the winner

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-12-14 23:00:00

The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL (left) next to the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra (right). Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL is one of the hottest new Android phones right now, but how does it stack up to the current champ? Ahead of today's Made by Google event, I spent an intimate morning handling both the new Pixel model and the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra to determine which one deserves a spot in your pocket. The answer is... complicated. Also: Everything announced at Made by Google 2025: Pixel

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Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 22:23:01

Find out where you would end up if you kept going straight Historical map data from André Ourednik's Historical Basemaps project App Privacy The developer, Ben Gross, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy. Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app. Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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This is the Ultimate '90s Cyberpunk Movie (No, It's Not 'The Matrix')

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 21, #802

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Learning about GPUs through measuring memory bandwidth

Introduction to Bluesky's AT Protocol

The AI Battle’s Newest Warrior Strikes a Major Blow to Big Tech

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See Six Planets Line Up in the Last Planet Parade For Three Years

Analogue 3D gets yet another delay to later in 2025

Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows

India bans real-money gaming, threatening a $23 billion industry

Pixel 10 Pro vs Galaxy S25 Ultra: I know which one I’d get

Gemini is coming to Google Home in October with both free and paid versions

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Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back

Using pollen to make paper, sponges, and more

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Sony is increasing the price of the PlayStation 5 as new tariffs take hold

Labubu could make $1 billion this year

Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in U.S. as tariffs start to hit

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Google Store is offering two free years of data for Pixel Watch 4 LTE pre-orders

Apple updates macOS Sequoia to version 15.6.1

Google Pixel 10 Pro XL vs. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra: I tested both Android phones, and here's the winner

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