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I tried replacing Google Search with Perplexity. It didn’t go well

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-19 10:00:45

Joe Maring / Android Authority It’s no secret that Google Search is in a weird place right now. The regular search experience has seen better days, with ads and unhelpful results making the search engine feel far less helpful than it was a few years ago. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence features like AI Overviews and AI Mode aren’t where they need to be. Despite its imperfections, Google Search has remained my go-to search engine. But why should it when there are so many other options out th

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Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-03-19 09:49:09

querbeet/Getty Images "We're done with Teams!" declared Digitalisation Minister Dirk Schrödter, speaking via an open-source video platform, in his announcement that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein will phase out all Microsoft software from government workplaces. The goal is to fully transition from Microsoft programs to Linux and open-source programs within the next three months. Also: I found a Linux distro that combines the best parts of other operating systems (and it works) The dec

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Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-17 08:48:25

Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment We are sincerely grateful to Dr. Dean E. Arnold for writing specially for us this intriguing introduction to the mysterious and unique pigment known as Maya Blue. Dr. Arnold has published extensively about the Maya potters and their craft in Ticul, Yucatan from data collected during his twelve visits over a period of 43 years (1965-2008). He is currently Adjunct Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum and Professor of Anthropology Eme

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If You Have a PS5, the PlayStation DualSense Controller Costs Peanuts on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-19 10:08:58

If you own a PS5, having multiple controllers is almost a necessity as there’s nothing better than sharing your favorite PlayStation games with friends or family in the same room. While it’s always wise to have a spare controller ready for multi-player sessions or simply as a backup for you, genuine discounts on the PlayStation DualSense wireless controller are rare. Even during Black Friday, major promotions were hard to find which makes this moment the perfect opportunity to add another contr

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This is Officially the Cheapest Dyson Vacuum You Can Find, Just Like on Black Friday

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-19 11:10:23

Dyson is a brand that commands prestige in the world of home appliances, much like Apple does in consumer electronics. It’s a company that rarely offers significant discounts and keeps its reputation for quality and performance with every model, even those that have been on the market for several years. For those who don’t want to spend $1,000 or more on a brand-new Dyson, opting for a slightly older model can be a smart move especially when that model, like the Dyson V8 Plus, is available at a

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Why We Made a Guide to Winning a Fight

wired.com Katie Drummond 2026-03-19 10:00:00

I don’t think there’s anything quite so satisfying as winning a fight—especially when you land that victory with a resounding and definitive punch to your opponent’s gut. In some instances, that’s a literal victory. Just ask my third-grade playground nemesis; it’s the one and only time I ever threw that kind of breathtaking slug, and yeah, she had it coming. The WIRED Guide to Winning a Fight Illustration: Shirley Chong Right now, everyone seems ready to throw down. More than ever, it’s import

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Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-03-19 09:25:35

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. If you’ve been having flashbacks to 2007 while using your PC over the past few days, you’re not alone. Microsoft has mistakenly replaced Windows 11’s boot sound — in test versions of the OS — with the startup chime from Windows Vista. Windows testers started noticing the issue shortly after Microsoft released its latest Dev Channel build of Windows 11 on Friday afternoon. The

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Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-18 05:29:33

Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise 1 day ago Share Save Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Share Save Global Witness The Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia is sometimes referred to as the 'Amazon of the Seas' Stark images, captured from a drone by environmental campaigners and shared with the BBC, appear to show how nickel mining has stripped forests and polluted waters in one of the most biodiverse marine habitats on Earth. The Raja Ampat archipelago -

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Taiwan blacklists China's Huawei and SMIC, further aligning with U.S. trade policy

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-03-19 10:55:58

The U.S. has placed major chip export restrictions on Huawei and Chinese firms over the past few years. This has cut off companies' access to critical semiconductors. Taiwan has added China's Huawei and SMIC to its trade blacklist in a move that further aligns it with U.S. trade policy and comes amid growing tensions with Beijing. The two leading Chinese chip firms have been put on Taiwan's "Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List," along with many of their international subsidiaries. Tai

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Play Store search tab pops with color in latest Material 3 Expressive refresh

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-19 10:31:08

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Play Store is getting a taste of Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language with colorful new icons in the search tab. The new icons make search shortcuts more vibrant and easier to tell apart at a glance. The update was spotted on version 46.5.19 of the Play Store app and seems to be a server-side change. Google is rolling out a colorful and visually appealing update to the Play Store’s search tab. The tab now features colorful new icons ins

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Unprecedented optical clock network lays groundwork for redefining the second

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-16 06:03:13

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Strontium optical lattice clock at NPL. Credit: Andrew Brookes In a new study, researchers carried out the most extensive coordinated comparison of optical clocks to date by operating clocks and the links connecting them simultaneously across six countries. Spanning thousands of kilometers, the experiment represents

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Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 05:14:55

Jokes and Humour in the public Android API Previously I have covered a relatively obscure now-removed placeholder string in Android that doubles as an easter egg, the fictitious carrier by the name of El Telco Loco. But this time it is about methods and other parts of the publicly facing Android API that may generally be more humourous than they are useful. Easter eggs, jokes, whatever you want to call them, that are visible to Android app developers rather than regular users. ActivityManager.

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Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

news.ycombinator.com About The Author 2026-03-19 12:38:17

Thanks to war, geopolitics, and climate change, Europe will have more frequent and more severe internet disruptions in the very near future. Governments and businesses need to prepare for catastrophic loss of communications. Unfortunately, the necessary changes are risky and expensive, which means they won’t do it until a crisis is already here. However, small groups of volunteers with a little bit of time and money can provide crucial initial leadership to bootstrap recovery. An Internet Resil

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The Switch 2 Proves Nintendo Never Misses on Music

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-03-18 16:00:28

Nintendo is a lot of things to a lot of people for a lot of different reasons. Mario helps, and so do the host of other iconic first-party titles and the movies, toys, theme parks, and endless other IP offshoots they spawned. But beyond how Nintendo looks and plays and sells, it also has a sound, and thanks to the Switch 2, that sound is just as iconic as ever this time around. Seriously, though, listen to the Mario Kart World soundtrack right now. There’s a lot of newfangled Switch 2 music I l

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Stanford Doctors Invent Device That Appears to Be Able to Save Tons of Stroke Patients Before They Die

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-19 02:45:17

Image by Andrew Brodhead Researchers have developed a novel device that literally spins away the clots that block blood flow to the brain and cause strokes. As Stanford explains in a blurb, the novel milli-spinner device may be able to save the lives of patients who experience "ischemic stroke" from brain stem clotting. Traditional clot removal, a process known as thrombectomy, generally uses a catheter that either vacuums up the blood blockage or uses a wire mesh to ensnare it — a procedure

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The Skyscraper That Could Have Toppled over in the Wind (1995)

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Morgenstern 2026-03-19 01:40:16

Within this seemingly simple computation, however, lurks a powerful multiplier. At any given level of the building, the compression figure remains constant; the wind may blow harder, but the structure doesn’t get any heavier. Thus, immense leverage can result from higher wind forces. In the Citicorp tower, the forty-per-cent increase in tension produced by a quartering wind became a hundred-and-sixty-per-cent increase on the building’s bolts. Precisely because of that leverage, a margin of safe

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Telephone Exchanges in the UK

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 05:33:43

For more than a century the telephone exchange has formed the backbone of our telecommunications system. A vast array of more than 5,500 mostly nondescript buildings sit unnoticed on city, town or village streets, and quietly link up more than 254 million kilometres of cables and wires – keeping people in the UK connected to each other and the rest of the world. Since the first telephone exchange was established in London in 1879 with just eight subscribers, these anonymous looking buildings ha

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Delightfully irreverent Underdogs isn’t your parents’ nature docuseries

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-19 05:11:24

National Geographic/Eleanor Paish Madagascar's aye-aye: "as if fear and panic had a baby and rolled it in dog hair" Madagascar's aye-aye: "as if fear and panic had a baby and rolled it in dog hair" National Geographic/Eleanor Paish National Geographic/Simon De Glanville An emerald jewel wasp emerges from a cockroach. An emerald jewel wasp emerges from a cockroach. National Geographic/Simon De Glanville National Geographic/Tom Walker A pack of African hunting dogs is no match for the honey badger

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Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-03-19 05:14:24

In Brief Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls. Bloomberg reports that Taiwan’s International Trade Administration placed the two companies and their subsidiaries on an updated list of entities designated as strategic high-tech commodities. That means Taiwanese businesses will need government approval before they can ship anything to either company. As a result, Huawei and SMIC will lose acces

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Jensen Huang hits back at Anthropic CEO's warning that AI will eliminate half of white-collar jobs

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-03-19 05:51:00

What just happened? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's recent warning that AI could wipe out about half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next five years has been disputed by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang. It's not the first time the two companies have clashed, and Anthropic has hit back with claims that Huang is putting words into Amodei's mouth. Amodei made his ominous prediction about AI's impact on entry-level, white-collar jobs in May, warning that the eradication of these positions will le

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Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-19 06:15:42

Some strange radio signals are broadcasting out of Antarctic ice, and the researchers who found them don't know why. Using a cosmic particle detector, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania detected peculiar signals that, according to a press release, "defy the current understanding of particle physics." The particle detector that found those strange signals — which is, charmingly, suspended from a bunch of balloons — belongs to a range of instruments known as the Antarctic Impulsive Tr

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Sailor Snaps Photo of Black Iceberg With Dark Veins

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-19 07:00:30

"He is almost... in a diamond shape." Black Ice There's a huge black iceberg floating off the frigid coast of Northeastern Canada — and a photo of the strange structure is making waves online. As fisherman Hallur Antoniussen explained in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the bizarre berg he photographed when on an expedition 100 miles off the coast of Newfoundland appeared to be about three times larger than the others surrounding it. Shot from about 3.75 miles away wi

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These are the subscriptions I actually don’t mind paying for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-19 04:00:58

Andy Walker / Android Authority No one likes paying for something more than once, but subscriptions have become an annoying yet necessary part of life. Some are hard to justify, but others add value to my life. Whether they provide consumable content, weather information, or critical navigation data, these are the subscriptions I don’t mind paying for: How many subscription services and apps are you currently paying for? 281 votes None. 14 % 1-4. 60 % 5-9. 20 % 10 or more. 5 % FlightRadar24

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I tested this affordable Garmin sports watch, and it shouldn't be this good for the price

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2026-03-19 04:00:24

ZDNET's key takeaways The Garmin Forerunner 165 is typically available for $249, with the Music model priced at $299. The watch is small and lightweight, has a vibrant AMOLED display, 19 hours of GPS battery life, and features extensive support for running. I just wish there were more sports modes. $199.99 at Garmin $191.99 at Amazon $199.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices For a limited time, Amazon has discounted the Garmin Forerunner 165 down to just $191 ($59 off), making the already af

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Nvidia CEO criticizes Anthropic boss over his statements on AI

news.ycombinator.com Jowi Morales 2026-03-19 06:03:24

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang criticized Anthropic head Dario Amodei over his recent claims that 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs could be wiped out by artificial intelligence, causing unemployment to jump to 20% within the next five years. Huang disagreed with Amodei’s predictions when he was asked about it during VivaTech in Paris, where he said that he “pretty much disagree[s] with almost everything” the Anthropic CEO said, according to Fortune. “One, he believes that AI is so scary that o

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Journalists Wary of Travelling to US Due to Palantir Surveillance

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 06:22:35

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Best Internet Providers in Austin, Texas

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 02:42:00

What is the best internet provider in Austin? CNET ranks Spectrum as the best internet service provider in Austin for its wide coverage, no data caps and no contracts. That said, Spectrum isn't available everywhere. If you fall outside Spectrum's coverage area, T-Mobile Home Internet and Google Fiber are two strong alternatives. For budget-conscious households, Astound Broadband offers a standout deal with its 300Mbps plan for just $30 a month, with no contracts or equipment fees. And if speed

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Best Internet Providers in Charlotte, North Carolina

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 04:36:00

What is the best internet provider in Charlotte? Budget and speed are important factors in your search for a new internet service provider but availability can be just as crucial. Thankfully, Charlotte has plentiful coverage from a variety of providers, from fiber to cable to wireless. AT&T Fiber is CNET's pick for the best internet provider in Charlotte, North Carolina. You get a decent variety of plans that start at just $55 a month and go up to $245 per month for the 5-gig plan. However, AT

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Companies may soon pay a fee for their rockets to share the skies with airplanes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-19 02:07:40

The Federal Aviation Administration may soon levy fees on companies seeking launch and reentry licenses, a new tack in the push to give the agency the resources it needs to keep up with the rapidly growing commercial space industry. The text of a budget reconciliation bill released by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last week calls for the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, known as AST, to begin charging licensing fees to space companies next year. The fees would phase in over eight year

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No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm

theverge.com Verge Staff 2026-03-18 15:16:16

As President Donald Trump kicked off a birthday military parade on the streets of Washington, DC, what’s estimated as roughly 2,000 events were held across the US and beyond — protesting Trump and Elon Musk’s evisceration of government services, an unprecedented crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and countless other actions from the administration in its first five months. Held under the title “No Kings” (with, as you’ll see, one conspicuous exception), they’re the latest in

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I tried replacing Google Search with Perplexity. It didn’t go well

Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why

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Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s

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The Switch 2 Proves Nintendo Never Misses on Music

Stanford Doctors Invent Device That Appears to Be Able to Save Tons of Stroke Patients Before They Die

The Skyscraper That Could Have Toppled over in the Wind (1995)

Telephone Exchanges in the UK

Delightfully irreverent Underdogs isn’t your parents’ nature docuseries

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