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A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 17:53:41

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across rushing streams because of the robotization of an evolutionary adaptation. Rhagovelia (as opposed to other species of water striders) ha

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Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 21:48:26

Become a superconnector We spend hours on messages. Yet we often reply late, sometimes completely forget to reply. We then end up losing deals, opportunities for connection, and missing connections. It's not anybody's fault. Messaging itself has not changed a decade – it has just gotten messier. Our conversations are scattered across different social networks with distinct UI full of distractions. Finding the right thread takes minutes. The context and the small details are forgotten. M

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Physically based rendering from first principles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 21:07:22

Physically based rendering from first principles In this interactive article, we will explore the physical phenomena that create light and the fundamental laws governing its interaction with matter. We will learn how our human eyes capture light and how our brains interpret it as visual information. We will then model approximations of these physical interactions and learn how to create physically realistic renderings of various materials. Chapter 1: What is light? We are all familiar with li

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Best 6 TVs I've Tested for September 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 19:00:00

The Sony Bravia 8 II is a new flagship OLED David Katzmaier/CNET With all of the TVs available today, and all of the technical terms and jargon associated with television technology, it can be tough to figure out what's important. Here's a quick guide to help cut through the confusion. Picture quality: Broadly speaking, the type of display technology helps dictate how good a TV's picture quality is, but OLED is typically the best display technology, and this is followed by LCD (including QLED,

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This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 21:57:19

Here in the year 2025, it's not every day that a classic gaming console from the 20th century becomes playable via emulation for the first time. But that's just what happened last week with the release of Ares v146 and its first-of-its-kind support for Mega LD titles designed for the Pioneer LaserActive. Even retro console superfans would be forgiven for not knowing about the LaserActive, a pricey LaserDisc player released in 1994 alongside swappable hardware modules that could add support for

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Revolving door: Ex-senator becomes cable industry’s top lobbyist

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 22:06:24

The cable industry's top lobbying group has a new president and CEO. Cory Gardner, a Republican who spent 10 years in Congress, was announced today as the new head of NCTA-The Internet & Television Association. Gardner represented Colorado in the US senate from 2015 to 2021 and was in the US House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. He had to leave the Senate after losing a re-election bid and later became chairman of the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC devoted to "protecting and expandin

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Robotic bug literally walks on water

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 22:53:41

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across rushing streams because of the robotization of an evolutionary adaptation. Rhagovelia (as opposed to other species of water striders) ha

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Astro Teller, ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-20 21:44:48

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is about to get even more exciting. We’re thrilled to announce that Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet’s X (aka the Moonshot Factory), will take the stage at Disrupt, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. For more than a decade, Teller has guided X’s audacious mission to tackle the world’s toughest problems. Under his leadership, X has birthed game-changing projects like Waymo (self-driving cars), Wing (delivery drones), and Loon (internet-beaming bal

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OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-20 22:04:05

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest effort to build out its Applications busin

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Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-20 22:42:23

Amazon is further investing in AI-powered shopping experiences with Tuesday’s launch of Lens Live, a new AI-powered upgrade to its Amazon Lens shopping feature that allows consumers to discover new products through visual search, similar to competitors like Google Lens and Pinterest Lens. The tool will also integrate with Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, for product insights, the retailer notes. Lens Live will not replace Amazon’s existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you t

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‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Will Arrive Just in Time for Halloween

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-21 02:30:20

We knew It: Welcome to Derry was arriving in October, but now we know exactly when to start looking for red balloons in the sky and paper boats in the sewer: October 26. Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs’ expansion of Stephen King’s haunted Maine town as seen in the recent It movies announced the news today with a suitably festive social media post: Everyone’s dying to see IT. #ITWelcomeToDerry premieres October 26 on HBO Max.pic.twitter.com/9HqODk9P1Q — IT: Welcome to Derry

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Stressed Ice Generates Electricity, Researchers Find

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-21 02:50:33

Don’t mess with ice. When it’s stressed, ice can get seriously sparky. Scientists have discovered that ordinary ice—the same substance found in iced coffee or the frosty sprinkle on mountaintops—is imbued with remarkable electromechanical properties. Ice is flexoelectric, so when it’s bent, stretched, or twisted, it can generate electricity, according to a Nature Physics paper published August 27. What’s more, ice’s peculiar electric properties appear to change with temperature, leading researc

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Over 30 years later, a rare LaserDisc game console gets its first PC emulator

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 02:57:19

Here in the year 2025, it's not every day that a classic gaming console from the 20th century becomes playable via emulation for the first time. But that's just what happened last week with the release of Ares v146 and its first-of-its-kind support for Mega LD titles designed for the Pioneer LaserActive. Even retro console superfans would be forgiven for not knowing about the LaserActive, a pricey LaserDisc player released in 1994 alongside swappable hardware modules that could add support for

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Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s developers a chance to save the game — after it was already canceled

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-21 02:49:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In July, Microsoft’s sweeping layoffs hit Xbox hard, and shuttered the entire game studio that was building Perfect Dark. Officially, the game was canceled. But unofficially, reports Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s other set of

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Instagram tests Picture-in-Picture viewing for reels

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-20 23:31:11

Instagram is testing a new Picture-in-Picture feature for watching reels, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday. The feature allows users to watch reels in a small, floating window on their screen while browsing other apps to allow for multitasking. The feature was first spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu. Users who are part of the test will see a pop-up notifying them about the new feature and how to turn it on. While Picture-in-Picture is great for multitasking, it also has the

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Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Mysterious Electrical Surges on Satellites

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-21 06:40:43

In 1994, two Canadian TV satellites failed within mere hours of each other. The pair was in a geostationary orbit when a major solar storm hit, resulting in electrostatic discharges that disabled their control electronics. Anik E1 and E2 are just one example of the effects of electric charge buildup on satellites, known as spacecraft environment discharge. New findings show a direct correlation between a spacecraft’s electric discharge and peaks in the flux of electrons in space, identifying hu

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Google’s Play Games update will show people what you’re playing

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-21 10:45:49

Google is readying an update for its Play Games app that will introduce stats and milestones to your all-new profile. From September 23 (October 1 in the EU and UK), other players will be able to see which games you’ve played and for how long, as well as any achievements you’ve unlocked. Google says there will also be new "social features," but it’s not yet clear what they’ll be. It sounds a lot like Google’s take on Steam profiles (similar features are also available on PlayStation and Xbox) a

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Dolby Vision 2 comes with big upgrades - here's which TVs get them first

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-21 10:38:30

Dolby Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Dolby has announced Dolby Vision 2, a "groundbreaking" HDR format. DV2 will bring several quality upgrades and fix one big complaint. Hisense TVs will be among the first to support the new tech. The next generation of HDR is here. Dolby unveiled Dolby Vision 2, the successor to Dolby Vision HDR that debuted a little more than a decade ago, the company said Tuesday. Calling it a "groundbreaking evolution of i

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Noctua’s 3D-printed mod singlehandedly makes the Framework Desktop run quieter

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 10:26:16

Despite its lack of upgradeable system memory, Framework has tried to make its Framework Desktop a welcoming platform for upgraders and modders, releasing 3D-printable versions of a few case parts and generally sticking to standard-sized parts and standard connectors. Often, it's independent creators who are making the weirdest and most interesting mods for Framework's devices, but PC cooling company Noctua has just announced what amounts to a fairly major cooling upgrade for the Framework Desk

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A Call of Duty movie is coming

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-21 10:03:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Call of Duty is being adapted into a live action film as part of a new deal signed by Activision and Paramount. Paramount, the film studio behind Top Gun: Maverick, will “develop, produce, and distribute a live-action feature film” based on the franchise, and “both companies are committed to honoring the brand’s rich narrative and distinctive style,” the companies say in a pre

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ICE reactivates contract with spyware maker Paragon

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-21 10:11:25

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract last year with Israeli spyware maker Paragon worth $2 million. Shortly after, the Biden administration put the contract under review, issuing a “stop work order,” to determine whether the contract complied with an executive order on commercial spyware, which restricts U.S. government agencies from using spyware that could violate human rights or target Americans abroad. Almost a year later, when it looked like the contract would

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Instagram tests Picture-In-Picture viewing for reels

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-21 14:31:11

Instagram is testing a new Picture-in-Picture feature for watching reels, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday. The feature allows users to watch reels in a small, floating window on their screen while browsing other apps to allow for multitasking. The feature was first spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu. Users who are part of the test will see a pop-up notifying them about the new feature and how to turn it on. While Picture-in-Picture is great for multitasking, it also has the

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Jaguar Land Rover says cyberattack ‘severely disrupted’ production

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 18:23:11

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced that a cyberattack forced the company to shut down certain systems as part of the mitigation effort. Although the incident appears to have a significant impact on the automakers’ production and retail operations, the short statement published on the official website noted that customer data is most likely unaffected. “JLR has been impacted by a cyber incident. We took immediate action to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems,” reads the

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Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 1

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 21:50:01

TL;DR Hardware got wider, not faster. More cores, more bandwidth, huge vector units — but clocks, IPC, and latency flatlined. Old rules like “memory is faster than disk” are breaking. To go fast today, you have to play the new game. “CPUs keep getting faster every generation” Over the past 20 years or so computer hardware has evolved such that some facts we “know” about computers are wrong. Even among computer scientists, or perhaps especially among computer scientists, intuitions are off tar

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Slate Auto’s sub-$30,000 EV pickup is due next year—here’s the factory

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 18:24:34

Slate Auto provided flights from San Francisco to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and accommodation so Ars could visit the Slate factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. WARSAW, INDIANA—The Blank Slate pickup scratches a particular itch for some, fulfilling the desire for an EV powertrain without all the bells and whistles associated with a modern vehicle. Gone is the infotainment screen, the lane-keeping assistance, and, for those concerned about surveillance, a modem. Instead, it's an unpain

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We’re Stunned by Just How Powerful and Brutal ‘The Long Walk’ Is

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-21 22:00:08

The Long Walk is brutal. It’s not for the faint of heart. It can be violent, disgusting, and incredibly hard to watch. But if you do watch, you’ll be rewarded with a surprisingly beautiful, nuanced, human story. One that’s about friendship, hope, life, love, family, and everything in between. The Long Walk is a horror movie for sure, but it’s got a massive, massive heart too. Based on one of the earliest novels by a little-known author named Richard Bachman (most know him by his real name, Step

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RIP Graham Greene, ‘Dances with Wolves’ and ‘Twilight’ Actor

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-21 22:49:14

Oscar-nominated Graham Greene passed away on Monday at 73 years old. Per Greene’s agent speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, the Ontario-based actor had been battling a “lengthy illness.” Born June 22, 1952 in Ontario’s Six Nations Reserve, Greene was an executive director for the Native Theatre School program in Toronto’s Centre for Indigenous Theatre. After spending the 1970s doing professional theatre in Toronto and England, he made his TV debut in an episode of 1979’s The Great Detective. (H

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Final Fantasy Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles Director Says 'That' Boss Fight Still Wrecks Him

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 22:00:05

Last week was the first time I picked up Final Fantasy Tactics since finishing it back in 1998. One infamous boss battle scarred me so badly that I never went back -- and given its reputation among fans, I know I'm not alone. So when I had the chance to talk with Kazutoyo Maehiro, part of the original dev team and now director of the upcoming remaster, Final Fantasy Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles, I jumped at it. I needed to know why they made that one fight so brutal. My question for Maehiro: "Ba

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Porsche’s next Cayenne is fully electric—we drove the prototype

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 22:53:07

Porsche provided flights from Albany to Barcelona and accommodation so Ars could drive a prototype Cayenne Electric. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Curved displays in cars are increasingly common, adding a bit of shape to the increasing pixel overload we face behind the steering wheel. The designers of Porsche's upcoming Cayenne Electric, though, decided to do something more dramatic with the touchscreen that commands the center of the forthcoming SUV's dashboard. Its shape flows

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The ‘Final Fantasy Tactics’ Refresh Gives Its Class-War Story New Relevance

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-10-21 22:00:00

Kazutoyo Maehiro is feeling the pressure. Nearly 30 years after working on the original version of Final Fantasy Tactics—one of the role-playing series’ most adored games—he’s returned to pilot a remake of the game, switching titles from events planner to director. Besides that, little has changed, including how Maehiro himself thinks about game design. “Really, the approach that we wanted to take was modernizing [Final Fantasy Tactics],” he tells WIRED via a translator. “Players today expect a

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A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution

Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger

Physically based rendering from first principles

Best 6 TVs I've Tested for September 2025

This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC

Revolving door: Ex-senator becomes cable industry’s top lobbyist

Robotic bug literally walks on water

Astro Teller, ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October

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Over 30 years later, a rare LaserDisc game console gets its first PC emulator

Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s developers a chance to save the game — after it was already canceled

Instagram tests Picture-in-Picture viewing for reels

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Mysterious Electrical Surges on Satellites

Google’s Play Games update will show people what you’re playing

Dolby Vision 2 comes with big upgrades - here's which TVs get them first

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A Call of Duty movie is coming

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