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You may soon be able to watch Instagram Reels in picture-in-picture mode

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-20 20:42:25

In a new test, Meta is letting select users keep watching Instagram Reels as a floating window on their devices even after they close the app. Here’s what it looks like. As spotted by Radu Onescu on Threads, Instagram is prompting select users to “Try Picture in Picture” with a pop-up when they swipe through posts made on Reels: The pop-up reads: “Try picture in picture Turn this on to continue watching reels in a floating window on your device after you’ve left Instagram. Manage your picture

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Pearl – An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter in Gleam

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 06:30:43

Pearl An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter for Gleam! Pearl is a lexer and syntax highlighter for Erlang, written in Gleam. The lexer is based on glexer and just , allowing you to convert Erlang source code into tokens. There is also an API which allows you to highlight Erlang code using ansi colours, html or a custom format. Heavily inspired by contour . gleam add pearl@2 import pearl pub fn main ( ) { let code = " -module(hello). -export([hello_world/0]). hello_world() -> io:fwrite( \" H

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OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 20:36:26

Daily squirts of a safe, over-the-counter allergy nasal spray may prevent COVID-19 infections from taking hold, according to results published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine. In a mid-staged trial, the spray appeared to reduce infections by promising 67 percent, though a larger trial will need to confirm that robust efficacy. The trial was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 trial conducted by researchers at Germany's Saarland University between March 2023 and July 2024. T

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Amazon’s Lens Live AI shops for anything you can see

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-21 00:01:13

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon will now let you shop for products by pointing your camera at them. On Thursday, the company announced Lens Live, a new feature that uses your camera to scan things in the environment around you, while surfacing matching product listings. This feature, w

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Short Stories From the ‘Chainsaw Man’ Creator Are Becoming a Prime Video Anime

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-21 04:00:14

Just when you thought anticipation for the theatrical debut of MAPPA’s Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc and a film compilation of its first season was at its maximum, the Tatsuki Fujimoto train continues to show no signs of slowing down. Soon, more of the acclaimed manga creator’s early short stories will join the likes of his emotional gut-punch of a film, Look Back, in a new anime anthology series coming to Prime Video this November. Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26, produced by Flagship Line, will a

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 3 #549

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 04:00:03

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a crazy tough one. I understand the theme, and I even cook and bake, but there's a term among the answers that I had to look up. (Here it is if you want a spoiler.) If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Stra

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 3, #815

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 04:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle started out with a tease. WED, NES and DAY were three of the clues. But no, we're not assembling days of the week, here -- that would be way too easy. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, li

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A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 03:53:41

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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OpenAI starts building out its app team

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-21 02:02:08

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffl

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 07:48:26

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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iNaturalist keeps full species classification models private

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 08:32:46

computervision We're doing some computer vision stuff at iNat. models iNaturalist makes a subset of its machine learning models publicly available while keeping full species classification models private due to intellectual property considerations and organizational policy. We provide “small” models trained on approximately 500 taxa, including taxonomy files and a geographic model, which are suitable for on-device testing and other applications. Additionally, researchers have independently de

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

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 07:57:19

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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Robotic bug literally walks on water

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 08:53:41

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 2025-10-21 07:44:48

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 2025-10-21 08:04:05

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 2025-10-21 08:42:23

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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Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels

news.ycombinator.com Samuel Hughes 2025-10-21 05:44:14

Toronto has one of the world’s great commercial downtowns. Two metro lines, eight suburban heavy railways, an extensive bus system, a highway, and North America’s greatest surviving tram network all converge on a tiny area by the shores of Lake Ontario. Hundreds of thousands of commuters pour into the downtown every day, filling the great towers that line its nineteenth-century streets. As with many downtowns, this causes congestion. Streets and pavements are thronged at peak times. Bicycles, p

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The Winklevoss Twins Are Eyeing $2.22 Billion Crypto IPO

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-21 12:30:35

The Winklevoss twins are aiming for a $2.22 billion IPO for their cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, the company announced in a press release on Tuesday. Crypto is having a moment thanks to the Trump administration’s lax regulatory policies. Meanwhile, the IPO market is heating up again with splashy debuts from other tech stocks like Chime and Figma. The two factors combined make for a particularly profitable environment for crypto-related stocks and IPOs. When it debuts, Gemini will become the t

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

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 12:57:19

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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OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-21 12:02:08

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffl

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Instagram tests Picture-in-Picture viewing for reels

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-21 09:31:11

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 16:40:43

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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Why you should delete your browser extensions right now - or do this to stay safe

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-21 20:03:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Malicious browser extensions are a widespread problem. Even vetted extensions can be dangerous. Here's what you should do to avoid issues. Koi Security investigated a single malicious extension used as a color picker and found it had infected 2.3 million users on Chrome and Edge. Cybernews reported in 2024 that more than 350 million people downloaded insecure browsers during a two-year

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Static sites enable a good time travel experience

news.ycombinator.com Juha-Matti Santala 2025-10-21 19:25:44

Varun wrote about gamifying blogging and personal website maintenance which reminded me of the time when I awarded myself some badges for blogging. I mentioned this to Varun who asked if I had any screenshots of what it looked like on my website. My initial answer was “no”, then I looked at Wayback Machine but there were not pictures of the badges. Then, a bit later it hit me. I don’t need any archived screenshots: my website is built with Eleventy and it's static so I can check out a git comm

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WinToUSB lets you install and run Windows on an external hard drive or USB flash drive

techspot.com Unknown 2025-10-20 01:07:00

WinToUSB is a lightweight, user-friendly tool that enables you to create and run bootable Windows installations on USB drives or external hard drives. It provides a convenient solution for portable Windows systems or emergency recovery tools. WinToUSB (also called Windows To USB) is a free Windows To Go (WTG) creator that lets you install and run a fully functional version of Windows on an external hard drive, USB flash drive, or Thunderbolt drive. It is simple and efficient – just three steps

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Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs move robotics into the physical AI era

techspot.com Bob O'Donnell 2025-10-21 01:32:00

Editor's take: As exciting as generative AI may be, there is another AI-powered technology on the near-term horizon that could prove even more impactful: robotics, or as Nvidia's Jensen Huang and others have begun calling it, physical AI. The concept of physical AI is that many of the same algorithmic principles used to create large language models for text-based interactions can be applied to learning and replicating physical movements in the real world. Nvidia has offered robotics-focused har

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Dwayne Johnson Is Ready to Be More Than His Blockbusters

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-22 00:00:02

Dwayne Johnson has become one of the biggest actors in Hollywood, headlining a plethora of blockbuster movies. Some have been good, most have been passable, although things really hit the fan with Black Adam collapsing under Johnson’s and Warner Bros.’ feet. No matter! Johnson is back and stepping it up: His latest film The Smashing Machine is getting so much buzz that its giving Johnson the room to start to rewriting his own cinematic history. In a recent press conference for the film at the V

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Instagram tests Picture-In-Picture viewing for reels

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-22 00:31:11

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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Pennsylvania AG Office says ransomware attack behind recent outage

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-22 03:20:01

The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General announced that a ransomware attack is behind the ongoing two-week service outage. In an official statement, Attorney General David W. Sunday Jr. said that the office refused to pay the attackers. “The interruption was caused by an outsider encrypting files in an effort to force the office to make a payment to restore operations. No payment has been made,” explained AG Sunday. “An active investigation is ongoing with other agencies, which limits

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The best web hosting services of 2025: Expert tested and recommended

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-22 04:23:00

GoDaddy has offered as wide an array of services as possible for individuals and small businesses needing an internet presence. Why we like it: It's widely known as a brand and many customers enjoy the service. GoDaddy is a great option if you prefer to stick with a well-known web hosting provider, or you're looking to open an e-commerce store. It's also recently introduced AI-based services to help you find the right domain name and to assist you with branding. The comprehensive domain name s

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You may soon be able to watch Instagram Reels in picture-in-picture mode

Pearl – An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter in Gleam

OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial

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iNaturalist keeps full species classification models private

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

Robotic bug literally walks on water

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

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

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

Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels

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

OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion

Instagram tests Picture-in-Picture viewing for reels

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Dwayne Johnson Is Ready to Be More Than His Blockbusters

Instagram tests Picture-In-Picture viewing for reels

Pennsylvania AG Office says ransomware attack behind recent outage

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