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Ever wanted to play DJ on your own Spotify playlists? Now you can

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-15 23:41:46

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify Premium is testing a new Mix feature that lets you add custom transitions between playlist tracks. You can allow it to apply automatically, choose presets like Fade or Rise, or manually line up the waveforms. The new feature is rolling out now in beta, so Premium users may need to update their app to see it. You could put together the most banging Spotify playlist for your next party, but it won’t keep the music flowing like a DJ would if you

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It Looks Like China's Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-16 04:11:35

Over half a year into Donald Trump's second term, NASA still doesn't have a long-term head. That leadership vacuum comes as the space agency is staring down the barrel of some devastating cuts to its science budget, with the White House betting its future on space exploration alone. The chaos has raised serious questions about NASA's ambitious plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon for the first time in over half a century. The dates of its planned Artemis program launches keep

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Wireless Power Banks Recalled Over Fires and Explosions—Check the List ASAP

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-16 09:40:36

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Wireless power banks have been recalled for exploding and causing fires. This time, it’s the ESR HaloLock wireless power banks distributed by Waymeet in Hong Kong. The power banks were sold online at Amazon, Home Depot’s website, and Esrtech.com from September 2023 to July 2025, according to a press release from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. “The firm has received nine reports of the lithium-ion battery catching fire and exploding, result

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PlayStation Plus Subscribers Can Play Marvel's Spider-Man and More Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 08:00:05

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can, and PlayStation Plus subscribers can now become the famous web-slinger in Marvel's Spider-Man. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large and constantly expanding library of games. There are three PlayStation Plus tiers -- Essential ($10 a month), Extra ($15 a month) and Premium ($18 a month) -- and each gives subscribers access to games. However, only Extra and Premium tier subscribers can access t

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Spotify’s new track mixing tool adds DJ features to your playlists

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-16 09:32:00

Spotify is testing a new audio mixing feature that allows you to customize track transitions for your playlists. Now rolling out in beta for “eligible Premium users,” the Mix feature provides an option to automatically blend transitions between tracks, or manually adjust aspects like volume, EQ, and effect curves while looking at waveform and beat data to create unique transitions. This allows users to make songs flow into each other instead of just letting one track abruptly finish and another

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Trump Mobile’s latest ads ditch Android reality for a golden iPhone fantasy

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-16 23:29:00

Trump Mobile on X TL;DR Trump Mobile’s marketing materials now show a gold iPhone embossed with the carrier’s branding and the American flag. The device looks nothing like the T1 Phone, which the company is currently taking orders for on its website. Trump Mobile seems to have pulled a classic switcheroo, promoting a shiny iPhone in its ads instead of the Android phone it’s actually selling. Move over, reality, there’s a new “gold” standard in smartphone marketing, and all credit goes to Tru

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Aspirin Not Working for Your Headache? Experts Say These Foods Could Provide Relief

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 21:27:00

What do you do when you have a headache or migraine? Many reach for a bottle of aspirin, but that might not always provide relief. While it's not a miracle cure, the food you eat may help reduce your head pain when considered along with your hydration, exercise, sleep and stress management. "The most important thing I tell patients is that migraines are highly individualized," says Dr. Nicholas Church, a board-certified member of the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Academy of

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People Are Trying to ‘Deprogram’ Their MAGA Parents Through Book Clubs

wired.com Tess Owen 2025-11-17 00:00:00

The idea of starting a book club came to Valeen Heinle late one night in July. She was having a particularly bad argument with her Trump-supporting dad over Israel’s war in Gaza and its devastating impacts on children. "I'm begging you to just try and learn something that isn't from Facebook, Fox, or Newsmax," Valeen, a 38-year-old registered Democrat who works as a pet sitter in Denver, wrote to her dad via Instagram DM after they exchanged a series of posts about Gaza. “Read a book on the his

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Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store

news.ycombinator.com Rafal Gancarz 2025-11-13 21:27:27

Netflix replaced a CQRS implementation using Kafka and Cassandra with a new solution leveraging RAW Hollow, an in-memory object store developed internally. Revamped architecture of Tudum offers much faster content preview during the editorial process and faster page rendering for visitors. Netflix launched Tudum, its official fan website, in late 2021, to provide a destination for Netflix users interested in additional content associated with the company’s shows. The architecture of the website

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Intel shares jump as Softbank to buy $2bn stake in chip giant

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-17 02:06:02

Intel shares jump as Softbank to buy $2bn stake in chip giant The BBC has contacted the White House and Intel for comment. The potential deal , which was first reported last week, aims to help Intel build a flagship manufacturing hub in Ohio. At the time, a White House spokesman told the BBC that the reports "should be regarded as speculation" unless officially announced. The announcement came just hours after new reports that the Trump administration is in talks to take a stake of around 10%

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X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Paul 2025-11-14 15:54:54

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Email address Sign up Thank you! Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A delicate, antique Buddhist scroll crafted by Mongolian nomads has finally been unfurled after spending decades in museum storage. But the team at Germany’s Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research institute didn’t risk any damage by physically unrolling it—they peered inside using a combination of 3D X-ray tomography and AI

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How Could Frodo Be in ‘The Hunt for Gollum’?

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-17 04:00:19

This weekend, Ian McKellen had a bit of Hobbiton-disturber-of-the-peace energy about himself when he revealed at a fantasy convention in London that Frodo Baggins would appear in Andy Serkis’ upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel movie, The Hunt for Gollum. Frodo is far from the only familiar face who has been teased as making a potential appearance in the film (due out in 2027), but he is a particularly interesting one considering the chronology of events we already know from Tolkien’s books. Whe

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Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 09:23:37

DENVER (AP) — The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday. The settlement comes after Fox News Channel paid $787.5 million to settle a similar lawsuit in 2023 and Newsmax paid what court papers describe as $40 million to settle a libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, Smartmatic, which also

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What Seemed Like a Pregnancy Was Actually Something Far More Dangerous

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-17 18:10:04

A woman’s supposed pregnancy turned out to be something much stranger. In a recent report from her doctors, they detail how the woman had developed an incredibly rare form of ovarian cancer that mimicked the symptoms of pregnancy, even causing a positive pregnancy test. Doctors in India described the case of mistaken identity earlier this July in the journal Oncoscience. After first suspecting the woman had an ectopic pregnancy, the doctors instead discovered a large and rare type of tumor in h

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Tesla Optimus rival Unitree shines at the 'World Humanoid Robot Games' in China

cnbc.com Eunice Yoon 2025-11-17 23:16:19

The first "World Humanoid Robot Games" is in the books. The three-day competition hosted in Beijing wrapped on Sunday, attracting 280 teams from 16 countries, including the U.S. Teams used robots manufactured by Chinese companies such as Unitree and Booster. During the games, humanoid athletes competed in dance battles, martial arts, track and field events such as the 400-meter and 1500-meter races and long jump, and a soccer tournament. "Robots have stronger joints and core strength," said G

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China's inaugural 'Robot Olympics' delivers impressive feats and disastrous falls

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 04:14:50

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games have come to a close with some new world records, but don't expect them to beat humans in a 100-meter dash any time soon. The three-day robotics event in Beijing, China that saw humanoid robots compete in everything from boxing to cleaning concluded this weekend. According to the World Humanoid Robot Games, more than 280 teams from 16 countries, including the US, Germany, Brazil and the host country, entered their robots into the event. A majority of th

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This Bright Dot May Be an Entirely New Type of Space Object

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-18 09:15:23

At first, the dot looked like any other star. Then the astrophysicists switched to polarized light and found themselves looking at an entirely unexpected sight. “Everything else disappeared, even the bright central black hole, and only this little dot remained,” Elena Shablovinskaia, an astrophysicist at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, told Gizmodo. Shablovinskaia’s team believes they’ve discovered an entirely new kind of space ob

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Think twice about using numbers supplied by Google’s AI Overviews

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 17:39:00

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s AI Overviews have been sharing the wrong customer support numbers in some of its summaries. This has resulted in certain users contacting scammers instead of the company they were searching for. Google is reportedly aware of the issue. Most AI tools have disclaimers that some of the information they provide might not be factual. But this hasn’t stopped companies from rolling out chatbots to more apps and search engines, leading to many instance

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The Biggest Winners of China’s World Humanoid Robot Games

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-18 18:35:46

China just hosted the first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games—basically the Olympics, but for robots. The three-day event kicked off Thursday, August 14, inside Beijing’s 12,000-seat National Speed Skating Oval, a venue originally built for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Over 200 teams from 16 countries including Japan, Brazil, Germany, and the U.S., competed across 26 competitions. The contests ranged from classic track-and-field events and gymnastics to kickboxing, soccer, medicine sorting, and even

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Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths

news.ycombinator.com Feb 2025-11-19 15:47:44

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of progress. By Erik J. Larson August 2, 2025 Science & Technology Philosophy & Religion Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Robert Skidelsky . Other Press , 2024. 384 pages. BEGINNING IN THE 1960s, a generation of visionary engineers

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A short statistical reasoning test

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 14:55:55

The second – likelihoodist – is to create a profile likelihood and take the $q$ quantile. I personally find this approach more intuitive in general because it is contextually picking model parameters, rather than to directly making claims about degrees of belief: we are just trying to pick $p$ such that it captures the first 5% of the likelihood sum of our binomial model. There are at least two general – from first principles – approaches to calculate a lower bound fraction without knowing

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Scientists Pitch Bold Plan to Turn Nuclear Waste Into Nuclear Fuel

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-19 17:00:22

Nuclear fusion has seen some exciting advances, and the promise of clean, efficient energy does seem to be creeping closer to reality. But skeptics point to practical issues we may not be trying hard enough to solve—issues that will inevitably weigh down our reactors when they finally arrive. A new proposal by Terence Tarnowsky, a nuclear physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, focuses on one key part of the problem: finding a supply of tritium, a fundamental ingredient for fusion. Tarnows

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The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel

wired.com Edith González Cruz 2025-11-19 17:00:00

Esteban Amaro, director of the Quintana Roo Sargassum Monitoring Network, agrees that fuel is the best product to focus on. Processing the seaweed into other consumer products is possible, but inadvisable given that the health risks of doing so have not yet been sufficiently studied. “I believe that sargassum’s purpose is to produce energy, because when it decomposes, it releases many heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, and cadmium,” Amaro says. “Therefore it is better to produce biofuels or bi

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Ultrahuman brings advanced cycle and ovulation tracking to its smart ring

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-19 15:10:18

ZDNET's key takeaways Ultrahuman Ring Air users can get paid-for cycle tracking features. Cycle and Ovulation Pro launched on Friday. The tool enables people with irregular menstrual cycles to track their periods accurately. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Ultrahuman Ring Air users are getting new, advanced ways to track their menstrual cycle, as the smart ring and wearable health brand launched Cycle and Ovulation

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China's inaugural 'Robot Olmypics' delivers impressive feats and disastrous falls

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 16:14:50

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games have come to a close with some new world records, but don't expect them to beat humans in a 100-meter dash any time soon. The three-day robotics event in Beijing, China that saw humanoid robots compete in everything from boxing to cleaning concluded this weekend. According to the World Humanoid Robot Games, more than 280 teams from 16 countries, including the US, Germany, Brazil and the host country, entered their robots into the event. A majority of th

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Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 12:52:03

doxx 📄 Beautiful .docx viewing in your terminal — no Microsoft Word required doxx is a lightning-fast, terminal-native document viewer for Microsoft Word files. Built with Rust for performance and reliability, it brings Word documents to your command line with beautiful rendering, smart table support, and powerful export capabilities. ✨ Features Document viewing 🎨 Beautiful terminal rendering with syntax highlighting and formatting with syntax highlighting and formatting 📊 Professional tab

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New Research Finds That ChatGPT Secretly Has a Deep Anti-Human Bias

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-18 02:30:50

Do you like AI models? Well, chances are, they sure don't like you back. New research suggests that the industry's leading large language models, including those that power ChatGPT, display an alarming bias towards other AIs when they're asked to choose between human and machine-generated content. The authors of the study, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are calling this blatant favoritism "AI-AI bias" — and warn of an AI-dominated future whe

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Scientists Taught a Robot to Play the Drums and He Is Shockingly Horrible at It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-19 09:30:13

When it comes to robot musicians, talent runs the gamut about as much as it does for humans. From the bizarre double-armed machine that made a guest appearance in Sweden last fall when it played cello with the Malmo Symphony Orchestra to the poorly-disguised, tunic-wearing humanoid robot seen playing keytar at a festival in China, we've seen some incredible examples of robotic artistry recently. Fortunately, considering a recent video of a simulation showing a humanoid robot drummer, unimagina

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Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 12:08:18

This article explains how these four things fit together and shows some examples of what they are used for. Derivatives Derivatives are the most fundamental concept in calculus. If you have a function, a derivative tells you how much that function changes at each point. If we start with the function , we can calculate the derivative as . Here are those two functions graphed. One use of derivatives is for optimization – also known as finding the lowest part on a graph. If you were at and wan

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AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work

wired.com Anil Ananthaswamy 2025-11-18 18:00:00

“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, an expert on quantum optics at the University of Toronto. “They’ve thought of everything they could have, and anything new [the AI] comes up with is a demonstration that it’s something thousands of people failed to do.” Although AI has not yet led to new discoveries in physics, it’s becoming a powerful tool across the field. Along with helping researchers to design experimen

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Ever wanted to play DJ on your own Spotify playlists? Now you can

It Looks Like China's Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

Wireless Power Banks Recalled Over Fires and Explosions—Check the List ASAP

PlayStation Plus Subscribers Can Play Marvel's Spider-Man and More Now

Spotify’s new track mixing tool adds DJ features to your playlists

Trump Mobile’s latest ads ditch Android reality for a golden iPhone fantasy

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People Are Trying to ‘Deprogram’ Their MAGA Parents Through Book Clubs

Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store

Intel shares jump as Softbank to buy $2bn stake in chip giant

X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

How Could Frodo Be in ‘The Hunt for Gollum’?

Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

What Seemed Like a Pregnancy Was Actually Something Far More Dangerous

Tesla Optimus rival Unitree shines at the 'World Humanoid Robot Games' in China

China's inaugural 'Robot Olympics' delivers impressive feats and disastrous falls

This Bright Dot May Be an Entirely New Type of Space Object

Think twice about using numbers supplied by Google’s AI Overviews

The Biggest Winners of China’s World Humanoid Robot Games

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths

A short statistical reasoning test

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China's inaugural 'Robot Olmypics' delivers impressive feats and disastrous falls

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New Research Finds That ChatGPT Secretly Has a Deep Anti-Human Bias

Scientists Taught a Robot to Play the Drums and He Is Shockingly Horrible at It

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work

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