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TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking, plus new parental controls

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-23 20:23:47

Video streaming platform TikTok is finally introducing fact-checking, in the form of TikTok Footnotes – the equivalent to X’s Community Notes. This is initially available in the US only. The company has also announced new parental controls, aimed at giving oversight of both TikTok consumption and uploads by teens … Community Notes have played a valuable role on the social network formerly known as Twitter. Hoaxes and disinformation has been a growing problem on X, and the Community Notes featu

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Google Photos is getting a new video editor and some much-needed extras (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 04:30:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed an overhauled video editor in Google Photos. The new editor features some visual changes in line with the Material 3 Expressive style. The editor also has video flipping functionality and the ability to add music to videos. We previously discovered a redesigned image editor in Google Photos before its recent release. Google isn’t stopping here, as it’s also working on an overhauled video editor. Authority I

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Footnotes, TikTok’s crowdsourced fact-checks, launches in the US

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-24 06:00:00

TikTok on Wednesday announced the public launch of Footnotes, a crowdsourced fact-checking system similar to X and Meta’s Community Notes feature. The technology will initially roll out to U.S. users as a pilot program, allowing contributors to both write and rate Footnotes on TikTok videos. All U.S. TikTok users are able to view the notes that have been rated as helpful and submit their own ratings in return. The company first announced its plans to test Footnotes in April. At the time, it de

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Elon Musk Scoffs as Rival Waymo Plows Through Car While Driving Wrong Way Down Street

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-24 04:05:57

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to ward off critics of his approach to autonomous driving. Many years ago, the mercurial billionaire decided to rely exclusively on cameras — rather than LIDAR and radar sensors, like Tesla's competitors — for the carmaker's driver assistance software. Critics have long pointed out the limitations of such an approach, arguing that visual sensors can easily be fooled by anything from severe weather to a wall painted to look like the road beyond it. Musk is clearly

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Original Tesla Founder Is Sad That Musk Made a ‘Truck That Looks Like a Dumpster’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-24 20:10:33

Unbeknownst to much of the public, Elon Musk did not actually start Tesla. Indeed, Musk was actually the company’s 4th CEO when he initially joined the company way back in 2008. While Musk can be credited with substantially transforming the firm and its offerings, its original co-founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, launched Tesla in 2003. Musk and those original executives have had their tussles over the years. In fact, tensions between Musk and Eberhard led to a 2009 lawsuit and set

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Elon Musk Is Getting Destroyed by Yet Another Chinese Company

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 10:07:21

After delivering all but the finishing blow to Elon Musk's electric vehicle empire with cutting-edge companies like BYD and Li Auto, Chinese industrialists are now setting their sights on the South African billionaire's robotics ambitions. Earlier this week, the Hangzhou-based tech company Unitree Robotics launched what Bloomberg calls one of the world's "first humanoid robots for under $6,000," the Unitree R1, at the relatively low price of just $5,900. While that's still a major chunk of chan

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Elon Musk Is Digging Tunnels Under Nashville

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-25 10:10:47

Somehow, Elon Musk keeps convincing cities to allow him to dig under them. The latest locale to give The Boring Company the rights to displace dirt directly under their feet is Nashville, Tennessee, which announced an agreement this week to allow Musk’s firm to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect the city’s airport and convention center—an arrangement that has modestly improved traffic flow in Las Vegas while turning the city into a laughingstock of the infrastructure design community. The

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Tesla's Teasing Some Kind of Incredible Reveal, But We're Skeptical

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 15:08:43

Less than a week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned that his carmaker is in for a "few rough quarters," the company's executives are spinning up the rumor mill in an apparent effort to distract from its disastrous earnings results. As Teslarati reports, Tesla senior vice president of powertrain, Lars Moravy, revealed that the carmaker is "gearing up for a super cool demo" of the company's long-awaited next-generation Roadster. The news comes two weeks after Musk teased a "most epic demo ever by

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Brace for the Most Expensive Coffee Yet, as Trump’s Tariffs Mix With the Climate Crisis

gizmodo.com Frida Garza 2025-12-25 18:40:29

Eight years ago, when Debbie Wei Mullin founded her company Copper Cow, she wanted to bring Vietnamese coffee into the mainstream. Vietnam, the world’s second-largest exporter of coffee, is known for growing robusta beans. Earthier and more bitter than the arabica beans grown in Brazil, Colombia, and other coffee-growing regions near the Equator, robusta beans are often thought of as producing lower-quality coffee. In an effort to rebrand robusta, Mullin signed deals with coffee farming cooper

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YouTube Music joins TikTok’s Add to Music app feature in latest update

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 00:24:40

Back in 2023, TikTok partnered with small group of music streaming services to roll out a new feature for its users. Called “Add to Music app,” this feature allowed you to add songs to your favorite music streaming services. Now the platform is adding another streaming service to its list of options. YouTube Music users will now be able to save the songs they find on TikTok to the music app, according to TechCrunch . Starting today, users will find YouTube Music amongst the other streaming serv

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2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 23:30:23

The 2025 Developer Survey is the definitive report on the state of software development. In its fifteenth year, Stack Overflow received over 49,000+ responses from 177 countries across 62 questions focused on 314 different technologies, including new focus on AI agent tools, LLMs and community platforms. This annual Developer Survey provides a crucial snapshot into the needs of the global developer community, focusing on the tools and technologies they use or want to learn more about.

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Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-26 05:30:00

When Esther Hallam welcomed her daughter, Nara, into the world, she faced the challenge of searching for trustworthy brands that offered high-quality, organic infant formula in the U.S. Despite being available for nearly 160 years, the quality of infant formula options in the U.S. is still lacking, she believes. Many manufacturers opt for skim milk to cut costs, which allows them to add oils to meet nutritional requirements. Several formulas contain palm oil, soy, and corn syrup, which aren’t r

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build Tesla tunnels under Nashville

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-26 05:56:16

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging company, and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee have announced a plan to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect Nashville’s downtown and its convention center to the area’s airport. The project will be privately funded by The Boring Company “and its private partners,” according to the Governor’s press release, though those partners are not named. The Boring Company and local officials will now begin a “public process to evaluate potential routes, engage

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TikTok adds YouTube Music as an option to save songs playing in videos

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-26 10:00:00

TikTok has been making it easier for users to save the songs they hear in video clips on the platform to their choice of music streaming platform. The short video service today added YouTube Music as an option to this list. The company first introduced this feature in the U.S. and the U.K. with support for Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music in November 2023. In February 2024, it rolled out this feature to more than 160 countries across the globe. Over time, TikTok has added Deezer and Sound

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Band Appears on Stage With Poorly-Disguised Robot Playing the Keytar

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-27 00:00:05

During a Chinese music festival, a humanoid robot named "Adam" graced the stage in what was half performance art and half marketing stunt — and did so while semi-disguised in a loose-fitting hoodie that did a terrible job obscuring its mechanical legs and hands that made it very clear that it was, indeed, a robot. As spotted by New Atlas, Adam the robot was dressed in a loose grey sweatshirt with the hood up, a long face mask, and Yeezy-style sneakers — but, let's be real, no pants — as it play

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A Life-Size Naboo Starfighter Will Be Among the Highlights of George Lucas’ New Museum

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-27 10:00:33

To close out San Diego Comic-Con with a bang, George Lucas made his first appearance at the long-running pop culture fest alongside filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and award-winning Lucasfilm designer Doug Chiang. But the panel topic wasn’t a new Star Wars project; it was the importance of keeping art accessible to the public, especially during unprecedented times, at the Lucas Museum opening next year in Los Angeles. Fanboys, fret not, though—during a quick sizzle reel of featured works, eagle-ey

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Smithsonian Air and Space opens halls for “milestone” and “future” artifacts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 15:54:35

The National Air and Space Museum welcomed the public into five more of its renovated galleries on Monday, including two showcasing spaceflight artifacts. The new exhibitions shine modern light on returning displays and restore the museum's almost 50-year-old legacy of adding objects that made history but have yet to become historical. Visitors can again enter through the "Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall," which has been closed for the past three years and has on display some of the museum's m

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Tesla signs $16.5B deal with Samsung to make AI chips

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-28 20:32:25

Tesla has signed a $16.5 billion deal to get its next-generation chips from Samsung. “Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip,” Elon Musk posted on X late Sunday evening. “The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate.” Tesla’s AI6 (AKA Hardware 6) chip is the company’s bet on an all-in-one chip design that can scale from powering its driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving (Supervised) to Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots, a

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The 1970s psychology experiment behind 'Star Wars' special effects (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Jason Stoughton 2025-12-28 23:36:28

Creating realistic simulations of neighborhoods using miniatures and computer-controlled cameras was the goal of an ambitious experiment designed by two NSF-funded researchers. What they didn't know was that their lab's research would influence how special effects are made in some of the most memorable movies and TV shows in history, from the first "Star Wars" movie to "The Mandalorian." With mouths agape, movie audiences for more than 40 years have watched a certain outgunned rebel spaceship's

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Temu users face a ‘high risk’ of finding illegal products, EU says

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-29 05:30:37

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Temu users in the European Union are at “high risk” of coming across illegal products while shopping on the platform, as reported earlier by The Financial Times. Preliminary findings from the European Commission’s investigation into the platform uncovered baby toys, small electronics, and other items on Temu considered counterfeit, unsafe, or “non-c

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Samsung wins $16.5 billion deal to make Tesla's A16 chips

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 10:45:15

It will use a Texas-based factory that had struggled to line up any customers. Samsung will make Tesla's A16 chip in a deal worth 22.8 trillion won ($16.5 billion). The chip manufacturer had filed a regulatory contract with an unnamed entity, but Elon Musk announced Tesla as the other party on X (formerly Twitter). The deal will run through 2033 and utilize an upcoming plant in Taylor, Texas. Musk stated, "Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 ch

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Meta builds wristband that can control devices with a flick of the wrist

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-25 11:06:00

Forward-looking: A new chapter in human-computer interaction is unfolding at Meta, where researchers are exploring how the muscles in our arms could soon take the place of traditional keyboards, mice, and touchscreens. At their Reality Labs division, scientists have developed an experimental wristband that reads the electrical signals produced when a person intends to move their fingers. This allows users to control digital devices using only subtle hand and wrist gestures. This technology draw

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The best Switch emulator just got even better, and there’s more to come

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 18:52:43

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR Nintendo Switch emulator Eden just dropped v0.0.3 release candidate. It brings performance improvements, plus key new features to make setup easier. The growing team also teased a few upcoming features, including EmuReady integration. Nintendo Switch emulation hit some big setbacks last year with Nintendo effectively shutting down Yuzu and Ryujinx, but more recently things have really started to heat up. The Yuzu fork Eden is one of the most promising

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Multiplex: Command-Line Process Mutliplexer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 20:18:10

.__ __ .__ .__ _____ __ __| |_/ |_|__|_____ | | ____ ___ ___ / \| | \ |\ __\ \____ \| | _/ __ \\ \/ / | Y Y \ | / |_| | | | |_> > |_\ ___/ > < |__|_| /____/|____/__| |__| __/|____/\___ >__/\_ \ \/ |__| \/ \/ Multiplex is a command-line multiplexer along with a simple Python API to run multiple processes in parallel and stop them all at once, or based on some condition. Multiplex will gracefully shutdown child processes, and multiplex their output and error streams to stdout and stderr in a way

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James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Hall of Justice Murals are Filled With Deep-Cut DC History

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-12-29 12:00:21

If you saw the new Superman, chances are you caught that brief glimpse of the mural in the Hall of Justice honoring the 300 years of metahuman lore James Gunn’s new DC is founded on. While there’s been speculation about which characters were fleetingly depicted, Gunn has since shared the mural online for fans to pore over themselves and guess accordingly the who’s who of this new DCU. As these are, indeed, some deep-cut characters, we’ve analyzed the data and are at least 75% sure we’ve identif

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Cable Bacteria Are Living Batteries

news.ycombinator.com Niko Mccarty 2025-12-25 04:12:57

Under a cloudless August sky, I sailed upon an InterCity train from København station to Aarhus, an 8th-century Viking settlement that is now the second largest city in Denmark. After disembarking, I trekked toward the local university to a door marked INSTITUT FOR BIOLOGI. Upon entering, I was greeted by Ian Marshall, a lanky Australian professor with graying hair, who ushered me into his first floor laboratory. Dimly lit, the room was thick with the scent of wet earth. Large plastic buckets l

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Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 08:43:26

QuickTunes is a simple and fast Apple Music client for macOS. It aims to bring the simplicity of music players from the early 2000s like the iPod to your Mac. With QuickTunes, you can easily drill into your playlists, albums, artists, and songs, pick something, and press Play. Your browser does not support the video tag. The app is optimized to make navigating your music library a breeze with buttery smooth scrolling, keyboard navigation, and multi-touch gestures. The beautiful floating player

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Arvo Pärt at 90

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 11:03:03

In many ways Arvo Pärt and John Williams’s music couldn’t be further apart. One celebrates simplicity, purity, and draws much of its inspiration from sacred texts; the other captures strong emotions in sweeping orchestral scores. And yet the two men are today’s most performed contemporary composers. Bachtrack’s annual survey of classical music performed across the world placed Pärt second (John Williams is in the top spot) in 2023 and 2024. In 2022, Pärt was first, Williams second. This year, Pä

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Tesla investors are growing wary of Elon Musk's futuristic promises

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-12-29 09:45:41

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. At Tesla , vehicle sales are slumping, profits are thinning and revenue from regulatory credit sales are poised to dry up due to Republican-led policy changes. In the past, CEO Elon Musk's futuristic promises have convinced investors to look past top and bottom line numbers. Not now. Following another fairly dismal earnings report this week, M

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Google makes great apps, but these aren’t it if you ask me

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 09:00:23

Andy Walker / Android Authority Google is a software company and knows how to make great apps. I mean, I use apps like Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Drive on a regular basis. Then there are its AI-focused apps like NotebookLM, which is by far the most underrated app in Google’s arsenal. However, there are a few apps I think are way underdeveloped and need some serious work. They’re simply too basic for me, or lack many of the features you get with the competition. I know Google is all about simpli

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Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

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Band Appears on Stage With Poorly-Disguised Robot Playing the Keytar

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Arvo Pärt at 90

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