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80 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in August

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-16 12:00:01

If you’re looking for some new books to get you through the dog days of summer, io9’s got you covered with 80 to choose from: sci-fi epics, fantasy sagas, short-story collections, myths, legends, monsters, and so much more. August 5 Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer The Assistant to the Villain rom-com fantasy series continues following the misadventures of Evie, an office worker who falls for her boss despite his status as “the kingdom’s most terrifying villain.” (August 5)

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Twist on Famous Double-Slit Experiment Deals a Blow to Einstein’s Quantum Doubts

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-16 17:25:03

Albert Einstein famously disliked quantum theory’s understanding that physical objects, including light, exist as both a particle and a wave, and that this duality could not be simultaneously observed. But a new, simple iteration of a foundational quantum experiment offers the most conclusive, direct evidence yet that Einstein may have been wrong. In a recent paper for Physical Review Letters, MIT scientists successfully replicated the double-slit experiment on the atomic scale, allowing for an

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Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-17 03:50:40

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, attending the annual Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 9th, 2025. Palantir has inked a contract with the U.S. Army worth up to $10 billion to meet growing warfare demands over the next decade. As part of the deal, Palantir will help the military streamline efficiencies while preparing for threats, consolidating 75 total contracts into one enterprise deal, the release states. The agreement creates a "comprehensive framework for

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The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 drops to $40

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-17 08:50:31

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The HORI Piranha Plant camera for the Nintendo Switch 2 is on sale for just $40 , which is a discount of $20 and a record-low price. This is a great deal for those who own a Switch 2 and want to take advantage of the camera functionality in games like Mario Kart World and that recently

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The $299 Halo smart glasses will remember the names of people you meet

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-17 08:36:21

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Startup Brilliant Labs has announced a successor to its $349 open-source Frame smart glasses, which debuted early last year with features like AI-powered translations and the ability to identify what you were looking at. Its new $299 Halo smart glasses are priced closer to Meta’s entry-level Ray-Ban models and come with upgraded AI capabilities,

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The Apple Watch Series 11 Needs to Catch Up to the Galaxy Watch in One Key Area

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 16:00:09

I'm nearing the end of my first month with the Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic, and for the first time in nearly a decade of reviewing wearables, I'm reluctant to switch back to the Apple Watch. That hesitation comes down to one surprising new addition: Gemini on the watch. Samsung's latest watches were the first to debut with Google's Gemini AI assistant, and the experience has left a lasting impression. Gemini isn't just more conversational than previous voice assistants, it's smart

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This All-Terrain Electric Scooter Punches Above Its Budget-Friendly Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 16:00:10

Table of Contents This All-Terrain Electric Scooter Punches Above Its Budget-Friendly Price The Turboant R9 is the most powerful electric scooter in the company's current lineup. That would mean more if Turboant didn't specialize in inexpensive models best suited for casually zipping around town and last-mile commutes. On the other hand, at $550, the R9 overdelivers on features and performance with its 500-watt rear brushless motor, 10-inch knobby tubed tires and a design aimed at riders who wa

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Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-18 03:30:00

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. Palantir has become one

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“No tax on tips” is an industry plant

news.ycombinator.com Eyal Press 2025-12-17 17:47:27

In 2021, an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour and phase out the subminimum wage for tipped workers was attached to President Joe Biden’s pandemic-relief package. But the Senate parliamentarian removed the proposal from the bill, on procedural grounds. Bernie Sanders, then the Budget Committee chairman, forced a vote on the bill anyway, with the provision included. This decision sparked a furor among supposedly liberal lawmakers, according to Ari Rabin-Havt, S

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The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-18 05:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

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'Fantastic Four: First Steps': What to Know About Post-Credits Scenes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 10:00:06

Marvel's newest movie is here, and we have good and bad news. The good: You don't have to do any homework before seeing The Fantastic Four: First Steps, according to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. The bad: It's the last Marvel flick we're getting until 2026. More good: It has a super Rotten Tomatoes score. More bad: You'll miss out if you don't stick around to watch the credits. The Fantastic Four: First Steps premiered in theaters last week and kicks off Phase Six of the Marvel Cinemati

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The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-18 17:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

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Enterprises prefer Anthropic’s AI models over anyone else’s, including OpenAI’s

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-18 22:32:49

AI research lab Anthropic’s AI models are now the top choice for enterprises, surpassing OpenAI. Anthropic now holds 32% of the enterprise large language model market share by usage, according to a report from Menlo Ventures released on Thursday. OpenAI holds the second-largest market share by usage among enterprises, with 25%. The figure marks a strong reversal from even just a couple of years ago. Since 2023, OpenAI has seen its market share among enterprises decline sharply, according to th

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Brilliant Labs launches its second-generation smart glasses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 08:00:00

Brilliant Labs is the startup behind Frame, the open-source smart glasses designed for hackers and other creative types. Today, the company is launching Halo, a new pair of glasses that, predictably for the age we live in, are being sold on the back of their AI features. Halo is a wayfarer-style pair (compared to the Panto-styled Frame) and, if you’re a spectacles wearer, you’ll be able to get prescription lenses in more than 100 countries thank to a partnership with SmartBuyGlasses. Brilliant

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These ultra-thin AI glasses make the Meta Ray-Bans look outdated (with 3X the battery)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-20 08:00:00

Brilliant Labs/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Halo smart glasses might be the first true AI wearable. The agent can remember names, and even vibe code. They are available for $299 and will ship later in 2025. Smart glasses are an ideal form factor for AI assistance. They give AI access to everything you hear and see from your POV, making the handoff between you and the bot as effortless as possible. Now, the latest AI glasses from Brilliant Labs seem ready to take AI-enabled assistance to the

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You can use Claude AI's mobile app to draft emails, texts, and calendar events now - here's how

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-12-20 12:37:41

Anthropic / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Claude's mobile app now drafts emails, texts and events. You get editable templates, but you must review before sending. Integrations include Google Workplace and third-party connectors. Anthropic has made it a little easier to communicate and organize plans with other people using Claude, the AI startup's proprietary chatbot. Also: Anthropic's Claude dives into financial analysis. Here's what's new The company announced in an

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You can now swap Gemini for a new assistant on Android, but you really shouldn’t

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 20:24:16

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR You can now replace Google Assistant or Gemini on any Android device with Meta AI as the default digital assistant app. This lets you launch Meta AI directly by long-pressing the home button or swiping inwards from the corner. However, beware that you can’t use it for voice chat, which can be limiting compared to other options. Meta has been bullish on overtaking Google, OpenAI, xAI, and other tech giants as a major AI services provider. Taking advantag

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A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup

news.ycombinator.com Tereza Pultarova 2025-12-18 23:07:59

A novel quantum sensor that measures gravity changes by detecting variations in the travel time of falling atoms has been tested in a first of its kind experiment aboard an Australian naval ship. The sensor—a dual gravimeter—has been developed by Australian company Q-CTRL and could reach the market in late 2026. During the tests onboard the Royal Australian Navy’s aviation training vessel MV Sycamore, the crew was able to navigate for 144 hours without GPS access using the autonomous prototype

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Uber Eats now lets merchants message customers about their orders

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-20 23:00:00

Uber Eats announced on Wednesday that it will now allow restaurants and merchants to chat with customers to help prevent issues with orders. The app is also introducing new AI tools for merchants, and is inviting users to submit photos of their orders if the item doesn’t yet have a menu image. With the new “Live order chat” feature, merchants can message customers in real-time to do things like confirm replacements for sold-out items, clarify special requests, and check in on dietary or allergy

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Friction and Not Being Touched

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Post-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box 2025-12-20 20:18:31

The journalist Karen Hao – who published an absolutely fantastic book about OpenAI called “Empire of AI” recently – coined (as far as I know) one of the best terms for describing modern “AI” systems: Everything Machines. “AI” systems are not framed as specific tools that solve specific problems in specific ways but just as solution in itself: There is nothing “AI” cannot do, if it fails we just failed it by not prompting it right or not building large enough data centers or not waiting for anot

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I know when you're vibe coding

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 21:16:40

3 minute read I shouldn’t have to care about this. I don’t want to care about how someone’s code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied it from a forum, prompted an LLM, or ran a simulation where monkeys are given infinite time to produce the solution. I care about what gets merged into the codebase. When I click that “Approve” button, I’ve got only a few worries on my mind. Does it produce the correct outcome? Will people understand this next quarter? Will they be able to ch

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Anthropic Users Melt Down After Company Institutes New Rate Limits

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-21 02:31:42

Anthropic is changing its usage limits — and its fanbase is already pointing fingers. In a post on X, the OpenAI rival announced that it's introducing new weekly rate limits to paid subscribers after it says a small handful of users abused their privileges and, essentially, ruined it for everyone else. "Claude Code has seen unprecedented demand, especially as part of our Max plans," Anthropic explained, referencing its highest subscription tier that runs $100 to $200 per month, depending on us

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Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 15:30:48

Overview Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system. This repository contains Java-based back-end service. It supports more than 200 GPS protocols and more than 2000 models of GPS tracking devices. Traccar can be used with any major SQL database system. It also provides easy to use REST API. Other parts of Traccar solution include: There is also a set of mobile apps that you can use for tracking mobile devices: Features Some of the available features include: Real-time GPS tracking Dri

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Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 06:18:14

Crush Your new coding bestie, now available in your favourite terminal. Your tools, your code, and your workflows, wired into your LLM of choice. Features Multi-Model: choose from a wide range of LLMs or add your own via OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible APIs choose from a wide range of LLMs or add your own via OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible APIs Flexible: switch LLMs mid-session while preserving context switch LLMs mid-session while preserving context Session-Based: maintain multiple w

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The AI Hype Index: The White House’s war on “woke AI”

technologyreview.com The Editors 2025-12-22 17:37:10

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. The Trump administration recently declared war on so-called “woke AI,” issuing an executive order aimed at preventing companies whose models exhibit a liberal bias from landing federal contracts. Simultaneously, the Pentagon inked a deal with Elon Musk’s xAI just days after its chatbot, Grok, spout

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Physicists Catch ‘Ghost Particles’ Bouncing Off Matter in Record-Breaking Experiment

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-22 17:00:53

Neutrinos are everywhere. About 100 trillion neutrinos pass through our bodies every second, but they’re so weakly interacting we never notice them. It’s this spooky feature of neutrinos that earned them the nickname “ghost particles.” Antineutrinos, their antimatter counterpart, are also everywhere. Both are notoriously difficult to detect, but physicists are getting better at circumventing their ghostly tendencies, as a recent record-setting measurement demonstrates. When a low-energy neutrin

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NMDA Receptor Antagonists: Slightly More Than You Wanted to Know

news.ycombinator.com Siggi Prendergast 2025-12-22 21:55:25

Long time no post! I got hired to do some writing and editing for a nootropics startup, but i’m finally back! I’m sticking to my theme of writing about the NMDA Receptor, this time explaining why NMDAR Antagonists can anesthetize you, treat your alzheimers, or cure your depression A Brief Technical Image The process of teasing out functions of the NMDA Receptor feels a lot like progressing through this “flowchart” (I ask that you ignore the logic of the image, just scan the vibe). Using drugs

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Our $100M Series B

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 03:17:28

We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new strategic partner in USIT with participation from all existing Oxide investors. To put that number in perspective: over the nearly six year lifetime of the company, we have raised $89M; our $100M Series B more than doubles our total capital raised to date — and positions us to make Oxide the generational company that we have always aspired it to be. If this aspiration seems heady now, it seemed absolutely outlandish w

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10 ways true Linux power users get more out of the world's best OS

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-23 08:35:55

nadla/Getty Images Linux is powerful, flexible, and can do just about anything. However, to really get the most out of Linux and your computer(s), there are certain skills and habits you need to bolster; otherwise, you're not really enjoying the riches that can be mined from Linux. Also: 8 ways I quickly leveled up my Linux skills - and you can too Trust me, there are riches in that open-source operating system. So, if you want to get serious about this, read on and consider these tips as e

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Survey of 1,000 Experts Shows Quantum Physicists Still Can’t Agree on Anything

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-23 05:00:10

In July 1925—exactly a century ago—famed physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to his equally famous colleague, Wolfgang Pauli. In it, Heisenberg confesses that his “views on mechanics have become more radical with each passing day,” requesting Pauli’s prompt feedback on an attached manuscript he’s considering whether to “complete…or to burn.” That was the Umdeutung (reinterpretation) paper, which set the foundation for a more empirically verifiable version of quantum mechanics. For that r

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80 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in August

Twist on Famous Double-Slit Experiment Deals a Blow to Einstein’s Quantum Doubts

Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract

The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 drops to $40

The $299 Halo smart glasses will remember the names of people you meet

The Apple Watch Series 11 Needs to Catch Up to the Galaxy Watch in One Key Area

This All-Terrain Electric Scooter Punches Above Its Budget-Friendly Price

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The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

'Fantastic Four: First Steps': What to Know About Post-Credits Scenes

The Anti-Abundance Critique on Housing Is Dead Wrong

Enterprises prefer Anthropic’s AI models over anyone else’s, including OpenAI’s

Brilliant Labs launches its second-generation smart glasses

These ultra-thin AI glasses make the Meta Ray-Bans look outdated (with 3X the battery)

You can use Claude AI's mobile app to draft emails, texts, and calendar events now - here's how

You can now swap Gemini for a new assistant on Android, but you really shouldn’t

A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup

Uber Eats now lets merchants message customers about their orders

Friction and Not Being Touched

I know when you're vibe coding

Anthropic Users Melt Down After Company Institutes New Rate Limits

Traccar: an open source GPS tracking system

Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

The AI Hype Index: The White House’s war on “woke AI”

Physicists Catch ‘Ghost Particles’ Bouncing Off Matter in Record-Breaking Experiment

NMDA Receptor Antagonists: Slightly More Than You Wanted to Know

Our $100M Series B

10 ways true Linux power users get more out of the world's best OS

Survey of 1,000 Experts Shows Quantum Physicists Still Can’t Agree on Anything

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