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Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Hartnett 2026-01-02 20:42:25

A teenager from Texas has taken quantum computing down a notch. In a paper posted online earlier this month, 18-year-old Ewin Tang proved that ordinary computers can solve an important computing problem with performance potentially comparable to that of a quantum computer. In its most practical form, the “recommendation problem” relates to how services like Amazon and Netflix determine which products you might like to try. Computer scientists had considered it to be one of the best examples of

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1Password subscriptions are half off for the back to school season

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-03 00:08:17

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 . That brings the price of the Individual plan down to $18 for a year. 1Password is running a notable back-to-school sale in the middle of July, but the deals more than make up for the chronological discrepancy. Many subscription plans are half off until September 12. This includes the

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There is no memory safety without thread safety

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 00:35:39

There is no memory safety without thread safety Memory safety is all the rage these days. But what does the term even mean? That turns out to be harder to nail down than you may think. Typically, people use this term to refer to languages that make sure that there are no use-after-free or out-of-bounds memory accesses in the program. This is then often seen as distinct from other notions of safety such as thread safety, which refers to programs that do not have certain kinds of concurrency bugs

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Must-Have Summer Essentials for Parents, as Recommended by the Mom of a 2-Year-Old

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 04:00:00

If you’re an active parent who easily gets cabin fever, a jogging stroller is a great way to get out of the house with your toddler. The Guava Roam Stroller is a jogging stroller on the smaller side, and according to the website, it’s 50% smaller than other jogging strollers. It folds up easily, so it works if you have limited space in your home. I’ve been using this stroller for part of the summer and love how it’s made it easier for me to go out for a run while also bringing my toddler along w

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Humans Counted 8,600 Earthquakes in Yellowstone. AI Says We’re Not Even Close

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-03 10:25:37

Before the advent of artificial intelligence, experts often detected earthquakes by analyzing seismic data by hand. Unsurprisingly, this approach takes a long time, is cost-intensive, and usually identifies fewer earthquakes. Machine learning has now changed virtually everything. Using artificial intelligence, researchers have retroactively identified and assigned magnitudes to ten times as many seismic events in historical earthquake data from the Yellowstone caldera from 2008 to 2022 as had b

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What role should oil and gas companies play in climate tech?

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2026-01-04 00:00:00

Standing on top of a drilling rig in the backyard of Nabors’s headquarters, I couldn’t stop thinking about the role oil and gas companies are playing in the energy transition. This industry has resources and energy expertise—but also a vested interest in fossil fuels. Can it really be part of addressing climate change? The relationship between Quaise and Nabors is one that we see increasingly often in climate tech—a startup partnering up with an established company in a similar field. (Another

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This is my favorite camera phone of the year, and I wish I could tell you to buy it, but I can’t

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-04 02:15:17

Odd camera designs are all the rage right now, and the latest HUAWEI flagship is jumping right into this trend. The Pura 80 Ultra is the Chinese company’s latest effort, and once again, it doesn’t disappoint when it comes to the photographic experience… but it comes with a familiar set of caveats for anyone keeping up with HUAWEI’s situation. I recently took the phone on a trip to Dubai and took a whole bunch of samples to test it out, and I think it’s my favorite camera phone of 2025. Because

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Adorable Triassic Reptile Used its Freaky Back Fin to Communicate

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-04 00:00:01

Technological advancements have brought us many things. For paleontologists, it’s introduced the ability to probe softer material—skin, feathers, scales, and hair—found on fossilized creatures. And that’s resulting in some strange new findings about long-extinct animals, showing us that they’re even weirder than we imagined. A paper published today in Nature offers a re-analysis of a fossilized Mirasaura grauvogeli, a 247-million-year-old reptile whose defining feature is a feather-like structu

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Nvidia supplier SK Hynix second-quarter profit and revenue hit record highs, topping estimates

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-04 05:42:19

The SK Hynix Inc. logo is displayed on a glass door at the company's office in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. SK Hynix aims to select a U.S. site for its advanced chip packaging plant and break ground there around the first quarter of next year. South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted record operating profit and revenue in the second quarter on sustained demand for its high bandwidth memory technology used in generative AI chipsets. Here are SK Hynix's second-quarter results c

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Tesla reports sales miss as auto revenue drops for second straight quarter

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2026-01-04 20:50:59

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. Tesla's slump this year is partly due to a backlash against the company in the U.S. and Europe, after CEO Elon Musk spent heavily to help reelect President Donald Trump , endorsed Germany's extreme anti-immigrant AfD party, and then led the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency. At DOGE, Musk helped to slash the federal workforce

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Tesla profits pulled down by falling EV sales and regulatory credits

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-01-04 20:48:04

Falling EV sales combined with a lower average selling price, less revenue from regulatory credits, and a decline in solar and energy storage revenue took a toll on Tesla’s bottom line during the second quarter of 2025. And a 17% growth in revenue in its services business, which includes cash generated from its Supercharging network, wasn’t enough to close the gap. The company reported Wednesday revenue of $22.5 billion, a 12% decline from the same period last year. The company’s second quarter

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Alphabet to report Q2 earnings after the bell

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-01-05 15:00:01

Alphabet is set to report its second-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday. Here's what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting: Revenue: $93.94 billion $93.94 billion Earnings per share: $2.18 Wall Street is also watching these numbers in the report: YouTube advertising revenue : $9.56 billion, according to StreetAccount : $9.56 billion, according to StreetAccount Google Cloud revenue: $13.11 billion, according to StreetAccount $13.11 billion, according to StreetAccount Traffic acquisi

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Anker Nebula X1 projector review: The king of outdoor movies, if you can afford it

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-05 15:15:19

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 . My dream projector delivers the brightest and sharpest image. But it also has to be easy to move around and set up anywhere — especially outdoors. Anker’s Nebula X1 long-throw projector promises all of that with a three-laser engine that beams out a category-leading 3,500 ANSI lumens a

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A Murderer Is Among Us in Square Enix's Killer Inn

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-06 05:00:52

Announced during this year's Summer Game Fest, Square Enix's next game is a little different from its RPG hits. Killer Inn is an upcoming murder mystery that pits 24 players against each other in a game of deception. I went hands-on with the title for a couple of hours before the launch of its closed beta, which is releasing Friday. Square Enix The game is very reminiscent of the breakout pandemic hit Among Us, with players performing mundane tasks as they try to avoid getting murdered. Two te

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Project Lyra – Exploring Interstellar Objects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 18:31:47

Project Lyra develops concepts for reaching interstellar objects such as 1I / 'Oumuamua and 2I / Borisov with a spacecraft, based on near-term technologies. But what is an interstellar object? Laser sail spacecraft arriving at 'Oumuamua, the interstellar asteroid (Credit: Maciej Rebisz) What is 1I/'Oumuamua and what is an Interstellar Object? On October 19th 2017, the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala discovered a fast-moving object near the Earth, initially named A/2

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AI groups spend to replace low-cost 'data labellers' with high-paid experts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 08:02:03

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AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers

news.ycombinator.com Stan Lo 2026-01-06 17:39:13

For a decade (2014-2024), I was a Ruby-only developer. I worked across the Ruby ecosystem—from Rails development to Ruby’s core tooling like IRB, RDoc, and the debug gem. But while I moved around the stack, I stayed within Ruby’s boundaries. Ruby wasn’t just my primary language; it was essentially my only language. That changed in 2025. This year, I’ve contributed to Sorbet (C++), worked on RBS’s parser (C), and am now diving into ZJIT (Rust). A combination of factors enabled this shift—someth

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Texas Instruments' stock falls on weak forecast

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2026-01-07 10:01:09

Texas Instruments reported second-quarter results on Tuesday that beat analyst expectations for revenue and earnings. but the stock fell in extended trading due to a third-quarter forecast that missed estimates. Here's how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share : $1.41, vs. $1.35 estimated : $1.41, vs. $1.35 estimated Revenue: $4.45 billion, vs. $4.36 billion estimated Texas Instruments said it expects current quarter earnings between $1.36 and $1.60 per share,

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Open-source MCPEval makes protocol-level agent testing plug-and-play

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-01-07 10:17:18

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Enterprises are beginning to adopt the Model Context Protocol (MCP) primarily to facilitate the identification and guidance of agent tool use. However, researchers from Salesforce discovered another way to utilize MCP technology, this time to aid in evaluating AI agents themselves. The researchers unveiled MCPEval, a new method and open-so

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LSM-2: Learning from incomplete wearable sensor data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 06:27:44

Training and evaluation We leverage a dataset with 40 million hours of wearable data sampled from over 60,000 participants during the period from March to May 2024. The dataset was thoroughly anonymized or de-identified to ensure that participant information was removed and privacy was maintained. Subjects wore a variety of Fitbit and Google Pixel smartwatches and trackers and consented for their data to be used for research and development of new health and wellness products and services. The

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Wall Street is upbeat on tech megacaps, but big questions loom on AI spending, China, Trump tariffs

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-07 18:55:48

In this article AAPL AMZN MSFT META TSLA GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc.; from left, Lauren Sanchez; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc.; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc.; and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. Julia Demaree Nikhinson | Bloomberg | Getty Images As Alphabet and Tesla get set to kick off the te

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Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 18:23:14

Earthquakes are a constant threat to communities around the globe. While we’ve gotten good at knowing where they’re likely to strike, we still face devastating consequences when they do. What if we could give people a few precious seconds of warning before the shaking starts? Those seconds can be enough time to get off a ladder, move away from dangerous objects and take cover. For years, that’s been the goal of earthquake early warning (EEW) systems. But the expensive seismic networks on which t

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Towards A Unified Quantum Platform

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-07 22:25:03

Since its conception in the 1980s, quantum computing (QC) has presented academia and industry with numerous challenges as the technology has scaled. While QC systems have grown exponentially, with qubit numbers per system increasing from single digits to more than a thousand, a byproduct of this growth is a fragmented software and hardware ecosystem that makes further progress more difficult. Researchers have recently addressed this issue by creating a unified software and hardware platform to s

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Clout wars: Jensen Huang eclipses Elon Musk and Tim Cook in Washington

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-07 15:01:40

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House during an event on "Investing in America" on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images The China-U.S. trade war in the first Donald Trump administration saw Apple CEO Tim Cook go on a charm offensive with the president while maintaining strong relations with Beijing. Apple avoided U.S. tariffs and continued to grow in China, while Cook earned the reputation as a sk

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This AI-driven robotic cleaner revitalized my pool after a messy storm

zdnet.com Jason Perlow 2026-01-08 03:10:00

Beatbot Aquasense Pro Cordless Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner ZDNET's key takeaways The Beatbot Aquasense Pro is a robotic pool cleaner designed for comprehensive maintenance and heavy-duty cleanups. It features a 5-in-1 cleaning system that uses AI to optimize cleaning paths with up to 9.5 hours of operation. However, it weighs 24 pounds, has limited 2.4GHz Wi-Fi connectivity, and is pricey. View now at Amazon Living in Florida means that hurricane season is part of life. With our latest run-in

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This Ai-driven robotic cleaner revitalized my pool after a messy storm

zdnet.com Jason Perlow 2026-01-08 15:10:19

Beatbot Aquasense Pro Cordless Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner ZDNET's key takeaways The Beatbot Aquasense Pro is a robotic pool cleaner designed for comprehensive maintenance and heavy-duty cleanups. It features a 5-in-1 cleaning system that uses AI to optimize cleaning paths with up to 9.5 hours of operation. However, it weighs 24 pounds, has limited 2.4GHz Wi-Fi connectivity, and is pricey. View now at Amazon Living in Florida means that hurricane season is part of life. With our latest run-in

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How Virtual Design Can Change the Future of Research and Development

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-08 18:00:40

Integrating physical and virtual testing environments into research and development (R&D) is rapidly moving from a cutting-edge concept to standard practice across many industries. Organizations that take this approach gain a variety of benefits that improve efficiency. Among the advantages is the ability to minimize prototype builds, optimize test cell usage, and enable faster design iterations through digital twin technology and data feedback loops between physical testing and engineering mode

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The Download: how to melt rocks, and what you need to know about AI

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-01-08 17:10:00

Geothermal startup Quaise certainly has an unconventional approach when it comes to destroying rocks: it uses a new form of drilling technology to melt holes through them. The company hopes it’s the key to unlocking geothermal energy and making it feasible anywhere. Quaise’s technology could theoretically be used to tap into the Earth’s heat from anywhere on the globe. But some experts caution that reinventing drilling won’t be as simple, or as fast, as Quaise’s leadership hopes. Read the ful

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This startup wants to use beams of energy to drill geothermal wells

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2026-01-09 16:00:00

This rock-melting drilling technology from the geothermal startup Quaise is certainly unconventional. The company hopes it’s the key to unlocking geothermal energy and making it feasible anywhere. Geothermal power tends to work best in those parts of the world that have the right geology and heat close to the surface. Iceland and the western US, for example, are hot spots for this always-available renewable energy source because they have all the necessary ingredients. But by digging deep enoug

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How earthquake alerts work on Android - and how to make sure they're enabled on your phone

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2026-01-09 17:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET The next time you get an alert on your Android phone, it might just be life‑saving information. Google researchers report that since rolling out the Android Earthquake Alerts System in 2021, it has detected and issued warnings for over 2,000 earthquakes, delivering anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds of advance notice before the strongest shaking arrives. In total, about 790 million alerts have been sent to phones worldwide. Also: Storms and bad weather? How to prep yo

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