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StubHub CEO says recent change to all-in ticket prices will dent revenue

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-23 16:51:50

StubHub CEO Eric Baker said Wednesday that recently introduced federal regulations around transparent ticket pricing will cause a "one-time" hit to its financial results. Revenue is expected to dip year over year as consumers digest the new rules, Baker told CNBC, which require online ticket sellers to prominently show the total cost upfront. "We've seen this in states like New York that have done it. You have a drop off and it hits about 10%. ... Then it's just back to normal," Baker said in

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Alibaba's New AI Chip: Key Specifications Comparable to H20

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 10:45:44

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Slow social media

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 02:57:58

Slow social media 16 Sep, 2025 People often assume that I hate social media. And they'd be forgiven for believing that, since I am overtly critical of current social media platforms and the effects they have on individuals and society; and deleted all of my social media accounts back in 2019. However, the underlying concept of social media is something I resonate with: Stay connected with the people you care about. It's just that the current form of social media is bastardised, and not socia

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Inside Trumpworld’s Reality Distortion Field

wired.com Jake Lahut 2025-10-23 16:04:52

Before a suspect was even in custody, Trumpworld was on a wartime footing. Charlie Kirk had been fatally shot. Graphic video of the assassination hit terminal velocity online. Several sources of mine were close friends of Kirk, and when I spoke to them last week, it was clear this incident had changed the level of aggression with which they were willing to pursue a crackdown on their boss’s perceived enemies. “I think we want to confront violent left wing rhetoric. We want PEACE, and unity,” o

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This midrange Sony home theater beats the pricey flagship for me - here's why

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-23 20:23:00

Sony Bravia Theater System 6 ZDNET's key takeaways The Bravia Theater System 6 consists of a center channel soundbar, two rear speakers, and an external subwoofer for $800. It offers great sound, in-app Bravia audio features, and a simple user experience. Without Wi-Fi connectivity, many wireless streaming options are unavailable, but the movie and TV watching experience remains unchanged $798 at Walmart $768 at B&H Photo-Video $798 at Crutchfield more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a

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Zuckerberg Gets a Personal Political Piggy Bank With Meta Super Pac

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-23 19:35:48

Mark Zuckerberg, man of the (digital) people, demigod of the Metaverse, founder of the almighty Meta, is looking to get just a little bit more politically involved over the next few election cycles, a new report shows. The Verge has revealed that, in an exceedingly unusual move, Zuck has created his own personal super PAC, dubbed the Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across California, or META. In the near term, the org plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on political advertising while a

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Americans Want More Control Over the AI in Their Lives, Pew Survey Finds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 20:00:05

Artificial intelligence is everywhere now, powering song recommendations on Spotify, filling inboxes with AI-written emails, and showing up in classrooms and workplaces around the world. You may not feel like you get much say in where and how AI shows up in your life. You're not the only one. That's the takeaway from a Pew Research Center report published Wednesday, which finds that six out of 10 Americans (61%) want more control over how AI is used in their lives. More than half (57%) say they

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XeroxNostalgia.com

news.ycombinator.com J May 2025-10-22 03:40:51

Xerox is the company that brought the first plain paper copier to the world. The process for making copies on plain paper, was first called Electro-photography, but was later changed to Xerography. This website aims to preserve the rich history of Xerox, highlighting both the company and the early machines it produced. We invite you to explore this showcase, which features the legacy of Xerox's early copiers and duplicators, along with the story of Xerox and its pioneering role in xerography.

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OpenAI releases first-of-kind study revealing how people are using ChatGPT for everyday tasks

cnbc.com Dylan Butts Shreya Ghosal 2025-10-24 11:56:34

Illustration of the ChatGPT App on the iOS App Store displayed on a phone screen. Despite rapid adoption of large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, few comprehensive studies have delved into exactly how the technology is being used in everyday life — that is, until now. On Tuesday, researchers, including those from OpenAI, released a first-of-its-kind study that examines who was using ChatGPT and for what purposes based on internal messages sent to ChatGPT on consumer plans. Amongst the

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The best (and weirdest) things people actually use Samsung’s S Pen for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 13:00:43

Ryan Haines / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. There are a lot of reasons to like Samsung phones, and for many people, one of the biggest reasons is the almighty S Pen. The S Pen has been a staple of Samsung phones (and tablets) for years. Having a stylus built into your phone that you can use for drawing, signing documents, more precise navig

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10 open-source apps I recommend every Windows user try - for free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-24 12:00:00

LibreOffice / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If Windows is your OS of choice, consider these open-source apps. There are tons of open-source apps for just about any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows. I've been using open-source software for a very long time. In fact, the last time I didn't use open-source software, Bill Clinton was president of the US. Open-source software is available for nearl

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Algebraic Types are not Scary

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 12:14:38

Algebraic Types are not Scary, Actually Posted on 2025-08-30 You may have heard the term algebraic types before, which initially sounds like an advanced concept, that only someone with a PhD in programming languages can understand. Quite the contrary, algebraic types is a very simple and helpful concept about programming in general. Anyone who knows basic algebra could understand what algebraic types are. In this article I aim to provide an explanation of algebraic types for the working progra

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Alibaba's New AI Chip Unveiled: Key Specifications Comparable to H20

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 11:45:44

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Sept. 17

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 06:21:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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'M3GAN 2.0' Is Coming to Streaming. Here's When to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 13:00:07

If you missed M3GAN 2.0 when it hit theaters earlier this year (or you want to relive the glory of the sequel), you're in luck. Everyone's favorite A.I. murder companion is coming to streaming -- including the Unrated version. Buckle up. M3GAN 2.0 brings the robot diva back to action as she faces off against a new threat. The result is a sequel that ups the kills and leans into the action, while still serving plenty of attitude. This time, though, instead of posing a danger to Cady (Violet McG

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OpenAI's Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin Line

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-10-23 22:53:52

OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user’s parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user's parents are un

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This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics

wired.com Sandro Iannaccone 2025-10-24 12:30:00

Located 700 meters underground near the city of Jiangmen in southern China, a giant sphere—35 meters in diameter and filled with more than 20,000 tons of liquid—has just started a mission that will last for decades. This is Juno, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, a new, large-scale experiment studying some of the most mysterious and elusive particles known to science. Neutrinos are the most abundant particles in the universe with mass. They are fundamental particles, meaning they d

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ChatGPT will verify your age soon, in attempt to protect teen users

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-24 02:15:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI will add age verification to ChatGPT. Teens will have more safety measures, compromising some freedom. Adults will retain the ability to use the chatbot as they want. Chatbot users are increasingly confiding in tools like ChatGPT for sensitive or personal matters, including mental health issues. The consequences can be devastating: A teen boy took his own life after spending hour

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This smartphone telescope brought tears to my eyes with stunning photos - how it works

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-10-24 14:30:25

Vaonis Hestia ZDNET's key takeaways The Vaonis Hestia is a smartphone telescope device that retails for $300. The Hestia does well at capturing detailed photos of planets and the stars, and an intuitive app helps guide you. It is an expensive device that takes some getting used to, and the better smartphone camera you have, the better quality photos you will get. $299 at B&H Photo-Video Amidst all the doomscrolling, TV binging, and overworking, we've forgotten to look up at the sky every once

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Worldwide AI spending could hit $1.5 trillion by the end of 2025

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-24 14:30:33

Getty Images/BlackJack3D Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Global AI spending has been on an upward trajectory. These expenditures will top $2 trillion in 2026. GenAI smartphones, AI-optimized servers lead spending. The AI boom has triggered widespread interest in AI adoption to optimize business processes and individual workflows. This demand has also been a catalyst for large-scale investments in AI infrastructure to support those goals, and a ne

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Should we drain the Everglades?

news.ycombinator.com Rabbit Cavern 2025-10-24 02:33:35

Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida, has an average depth of only nine feet (2.7 meters). Oh, and it has 30,000 alligators, but try not to think about that. Dough4872 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons I can’t explain why this bothers me so much, but something about it being so big and yet so shallow just creeps me out. I find it unsettling, okay? Mentally, it makes me feel like noodles, if that makes sense. It’s the eighth-largest (freshwater) lake in the country but I’ve swam i

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Mixed Excitation Linear Predictive (MELP) Vocoders

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 12:41:45

This web site teaches the creation and operation of the MELP and MELPe vocoders, summarizes their most updated information, and provides useful resources and solutions related to MELP (MIL_STD-3005), and the later enhanced version known as MELPe (STANAG-4591) vocoders. Introduction to MELP and MELPe Vocoder Mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP) is a United States Department of Defense (US DoD) speech coding standard used mainly in military applications and satellite communications, secure

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Apple made a strap, now Google has a rope to dangle your Pixel from your wrist

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 15:27:50

Google TL;DR The Google Rope Wristlet is a $7 polyester rope with a company logo that lets you dangle your Pixel from your wrist. You can actually use it with any phone, not just Pixels. The wristlet is available in three different dual-tone color options: Blue/Purple, Black/Gray, and Green/Yellow. Google has launched a new accessory targeted at Pixel phone users, and coincidentally, it comes right after Apple launched a similar one for iPhones. The new $7 Google Rope Wristlet is meant to at

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Slow Social Media

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 13:57:58

Slow social media 16 Sep, 2025 People often assume that I hate social media. And they'd be forgiven for believing that, since I am overtly critical of current social media platforms and the effects they have on individuals and society; and deleted all of my social media accounts back in 2019. However, the underlying concept of social media is something I resonate with: Stay connected with the people you care about. It's just that the current form of social media is bastardised, and not socia

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Do You Really Need a New Apple Watch if You Already Have One?

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-24 12:00:45

Reviews for the Apple Watch SE 3, Series 11, and Ultra 3 came out today. I’m in the process of reviewing them. I only have two wrists, and there are three Apple Watches to review—so yeah. Besides, I need to collect more health data before I feel comfortable giving my definitive take. If you’re reading reviews and asking yourself whether or not you should get any of the new models when they become available this Friday, Sept. 19, maybe I can help you make a decision. As I said in my hands-on wit

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Google pokes a banana-shaped hole in Musk’s claims of Apple’s bias towards OpenAI

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-24 15:15:08

A few weeks ago, a frustrated Elon Musk sued Apple, claiming that the company’s pro-OpenAI bias made it impossible for other AI companies to rise to the top of the App Store. This week, Google Gemini became the latest app to contradict his claims. When Musk first suggested that Apple’s ties to OpenAI were unfairly impacting App Store rankings, xAI had just made Grok 4 free for all users, and had just made a splash with the release of controversial AI companions. Despite an App Store ranking bu

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LimeWire (Which Still Exists) Buys Fyre Festival (Which Never Did) on eBay

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-24 18:15:34

Mix two internet touchstones together and what do you get? We’re going to find out. LimeWire, the peer-to-peer file-sharing network, announced that it won the rights to the Fyre Festival brand in an auction. The company indicated it has no plans to use the branding for a music festival, but rather bought up the name and likeness mostly for the memes. LimeWire said in a press release that it plans to “unveil a reimagined vision for Fyre — one that expands beyond the digital realm and taps into r

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OpenAI Wants You to Prove You’re Not a Child

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-24 21:45:36

If you are filled with too much childlike wonder, you might get relegated to a more kid-friendly version of ChatGPT. OpenAI announced Tuesday that it plans to implement a new age verification system that will help filter underage users into a new chatbot experience that is more age-appropriate. The change comes as the company faces increased scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators over how underage users interact with its chatbot. To determine a user’s age, OpenAI will use an age prediction syst

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OpenAI Rolls Out Teen Safety Features Amid Growing Scrutiny

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-10-24 23:53:52

OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user’s parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user's parents are un

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US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push

wired.com Natasha Bernal 2025-10-25 00:30:00

Microsoft and Nvidia have unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion dollars into the UK economy, in a move that will bolster the building of more data centers as well as research and development into artificial intelligence. The investment comes as US President Donald Trump travels to Britain, where he is expected to announce a US-UK tech deal alongside UK prime minister Keir Starmer. As part of the agreement, Microsoft has committed to invest $30 billion in AI infrastructure over the next fo

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StubHub CEO says recent change to all-in ticket prices will dent revenue

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This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics

ChatGPT will verify your age soon, in attempt to protect teen users

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Should we drain the Everglades?

Mixed Excitation Linear Predictive (MELP) Vocoders

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