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Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-11 08:14:19

In Brief Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program Monday. CEO Stephen Gillett announced the “difficult decision” to wind down the program in a staff memo, according to Business Insider. “Over the years, Verily has built a legacy in developing world-class, innovative medical devices,” Gillett wrote, noting that the “path forward requires difficult decisions” as Verily refocuses on AI and data infrastructure. The move continues Alphabet’s agg

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Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-11 09:08:13

Assort Health, a startup that uses AI to automate patient communication for specialty healthcare practices, has raised about $50 million in a Series B round at a valuation of $750 million, according to three sources familiar with the deal. The latest round, which comes just four months after the company raised its $22 million Series A, was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, these people said. The company’s AI voice agents are designed to take over high-volume, repetitive tasks like scheduling,

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SpaceX notches major wins during tenth Starship test

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-11 09:25:37

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off on its tenth test flight Tuesday evening, hitting two long sought milestones and putting an end to a string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle lifted off from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility and recently incorporated city, at 7:30 pm ET after two scrubs earlier in this week. The rocket ascended on 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines before separating around three minutes after liftoff. On descent, the Super Heavy booster tested out a new maneuver: int

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Eyecam

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 20:12:31

More info about the project, or request for more media? Contact me at [email protected] . You can download the HD pictures ( mirror ) and the HD video (without captions: link ). Interested in building one ? Eyecam is Open-Source ! What is Eyecam? Eye contact. Human eyes are crucial for communication. Through the look, we can perceive happiness, anger, boredom or fatigue. The eyes move around when someone is curious and took straight to maintain focus. We are familiar with these interact

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‘Hazbin Hotel’ Plans to Raise Sing-Along Hell at a Movie Theater Near You

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-11 12:22:38

Check into Hazbin Hotel for a special sing-along screening on October 1. A24 and Prime Video get in on the streaming-goes-to-the-movies trend with their own musical series, Hazbin Hotel, which will invite their faithful fans to join in on a helluva time at the cinema. Beginning Tuesday, September 2, tickets will be available for special screenings across the country of the show’s first four episodes from season one. Featuring songs performed by stars, including Erika Henningsen as Charlie Morni

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Get Ready, Apple's iPhone 17 Event Confirmed for Sept. 9

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-11 11:00:00

Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for its annual fall iPhone launch event, which is slated for Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. PT. The company is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 lineup, which could include a slimmer version of the phone. It could also debut the Apple Watch Series 11 and the AirPods Pro 3. The invite for the fall event shows the title, "Awe dropping," with a glowing Apple logo that seems to reference Siri's colorful glow. The keynote will be held at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. CNET

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OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 11:08:38

OpenAI published a blog post on Tuesday titled "Helping people when they need it most" that addresses how its ChatGPT AI assistant handles mental health crises, following what the company calls "recent heartbreaking cases of people using ChatGPT in the midst of acute crises." The post arrives after The New York Times reported on a lawsuit filed by Matt and Maria Raine, whose 16-year-old son Adam died by suicide in April after extensive interactions with ChatGPT, which Ars covered extensively in

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Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-11 17:22:13

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 Anthropic has begun testing a Chrome browser extension that allows its Claude AI assistant to take control of users’ web browsers, marking the company’s entry into an increasingly crowded and potentially risky arena where artificial intelligence systems can directly manipulate computer interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI company announc

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Analyst warns of ‘tempered’ iPhone 17 Air response, but maintains Apple’s stock rating

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-11 17:25:45

In a new investor note, Bank of America Research analyst Wamsi Mohani offered his market outlook ahead of the upcoming September 9 event, where the iPhone 17 lineup will be announced. Here’s what he said. In his note, issued before today’s event confirmation, Mohani echoed a sentiment often raised by Apple watchers on the upcoming lineup: “Some media reports and tech websites are highlighting Tues Sep 9th as a potential launch date for iPhone 17 (not official yet), with pre-orders starting Fri

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SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 11:07:38

spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP spaCy is a library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python and Cython. It's built on the very latest research, and was designed from day one to be used in real products. spaCy comes with pretrained pipelines and currently supports tokenization and training for 70+ languages. It features state-of-the-art speed and neural network models for tagging, parsing, named entity recognition, text classification and more, multi-task learning with pretrained trans

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Cascata delle Marmore

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 18:24:02

Waterfall in Umbria, Italy and tallest man-made waterfall in the world The Cascata delle Marmore (Italian: [kaˈskaːta delle ˈmarmore]) or Marmore Falls is a tiered, man-made waterfall in Italy, created by the Romans in 271 BC. At 165m (541 feet) tall, it is the largest man-made waterfall in the world.[1] It is located 7.7 km from Terni, in the region of Umbria.[2] History [ edit ] In ancient times, the Velino River fed a wetland in the Rieti Valley. In 271 BC, in order to reclaim the land (an

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The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don’t Know Why Either)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-11 17:20:38

Remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin’s price soared and companies started promising to add everything to the blockchain? It was an embarrassing era, since blockchain technology has very few practical purposes that can’t be solved by a regular, old-school database. But it sounds like the White House just got the memo and wants to usher in the world of 2017 again. President Donald Trump held a televised “cabinet meeting ” at the White House on Tuesday that clocked in at over 3 hours and 15 minutes.

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Anthropic Will Settle Lawsuit With Authors Over Pirated AI Training Materials

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-11 16:27:00

Anthropic agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of authors alleging that the AI company illegally pirated their copyrighted books to use in training its AI models. The parties in the lawsuit filed a motion indicating the agreement with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. We don't yet know the terms of the settlement. Justin Nelson, lawyer for the authors, told CNET via email that more information will be announced soon. "This historic settlement will benefit all class member

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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 17:26:03

Authors are celebrating a "historic" settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic's AI training data. On Tuesday, US District Judge William Alsup confirmed that Anthropic and the authors "believe they have a settlement in principle" and will file a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement by September 5. The settlement announcement comes after Alsup certified what AI industry advocates criticized as the largest copyright class action of all time. Alt

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SpaceX Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified to Launch Starship After Long String of Super Expensive Explosions

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-11 21:46:44

For years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been stridently glib when his rockets explode during tests, quipping that the blasts were "just a scratch," a "minor setback," or a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." He's still deploying these jokey ripostes, but there's reason to believe the walls may be starting to close in for SpaceX's efforts on Starship, as more and more of the ultra-expensive spacecraft fail in spectacular public view. The issue is that he's bet the future of the company on the massive

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Recent books from the MIT community

technologyreview.com Mit Alumni News Staff 2025-12-11 22:00:00

Data, Systems, and Society: Harness AI for Societal Good By Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $27.99 So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs —and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease By Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $35 Perspectives in Antenna Technology: Recent Advances and Systems Applications By

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‘Bubbles’ turn air into drinkable water

technologyreview.com Jennifer Chu 2025-12-11 22:00:00

COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS In the researchers’ prototype device, a half-square-meter panel of the hydrogel is enclosed in a glass chamber coated with a cooling polymer film. When the vapor captured by the textured material evaporates, the bubbles shrink down in an origami-like transformation. The vapor then condenses on the glass, where it can flow out through a tube. The system runs entirely on its own, unlike other designs that require batteries, solar panels, or electricity from the grid.

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Fix damaged art in hours with AI

technologyreview.com Jennifer Chu 2025-12-11 22:00:00

In his study, Alex Kachkine, SM ’23, presents a new method he’s developed that involves printing the restoration on a very thin polymer film that can be carefully aligned with a painting and adhered to it or easily removed. As a demonstration, he used the method to repair a highly damaged 15th-century oil painting he owned. First he used traditional techniques to clean the painting and remove any past restoration efforts. Then he scanned the painting, including the many regions where paint had f

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Infinite Threads

technologyreview.com Sarah Foote 2025-12-11 22:00:00

Textiles account for 5% of landfill space—and clothing made with polyester can take up to 200 years to decompose. Massachusetts tackled the problem by banning disposal of clothing and fabrics in 2022. And Infinite Threads, a spinoff of the Undergraduate Association Sustainability Committee, is addressing it by collecting lightly used clothing from the MIT community and selling it for $2 to $6 per item at popup sales held several times each semester. “Our goal is simple: We want to keep clothing

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Reimagining sound and space

technologyreview.com Mackenzie White 2025-12-11 22:00:00

“It would be very difficult to teach biology or engineering in a studio designed for dance or music,” Jay Scheib, section head for Music and Theater Arts, told MIT News shortly before the building officially opened. “The same goes for teaching music in a mathematics or chemistry classroom. In the past, we’ve done it, but it did limit us.” He said the new space would allow MIT musicians to hear their music as it was intended to be heard and “provide an opportunity to convene people to inhabit the

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A new challenger is coming for Meta’s smart glasses throne

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 22:22:08

TL;DR Rokid has announced the launch of a Kickstarter for its new AI/AR glasses. The glasses feature a dual-eye screen that acts as a heads-up display for directions, real-time translation, and more. They are set to ship in November for $599. When you think of smart glasses, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Meta. The social media giant’s Ray-Ban smart glasses hold a tight grip on the market. However, a new challenger may loosen that grip with the launch of its new product. Don’

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Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 22:23:48

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Strings in the latest Gmail update hint at some new Google Chat features in testing. Notification summaries in Gmail might work independently of Android 16’s system-wide version, bringing the feature to more devices. Gmail may also offer auto-generated conversation summaries and finally notify you when someone reacts to your Chat messages. Little by little, Gmail is slowly turning into more of a one-stop hub than an inbox. Google has been weaving Chat i

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Apple Invites adds a helpful new iPhone feature

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-11 22:38:06

Apple Invites arrived at the start of the year and has seen a number of improvements since. The latest is a helpful new feature that iPhone users should appreciate. Starting with Apple Invites version 1.4, users can add a countdown widget to any Home Screen. The new widget will work with any upcoming event in the app on iPhone. This is the first widget made for the app. Previous Apple Invites app updates brought support for adding links to invitations, additional background options, and more.

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Anthropic reaches a settlement over authors' class-action piracy lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-11 22:03:38

Anthropic has settled a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of authors for an undisclosed sum. The move means the company will avoid a potentially more costly ruling if the case regarding its use of copyright materials to train artificial intelligence tools had moved forward. In June, Judge William Alsup handed down a mixed result in the case, ruling that Anthropic's move to train LLMs on copyrighted materials constituted fair use. However the company's illegal and unpaid acquisition of tho

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The iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event is on September 9: Here's what to expect from Apple

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-11 22:41:57

We're now just two weeks away from the Apple iPhone 17 event. Themed "Awe dropping" this year, it'll be livestreamed on YouTube at 1PM ET from Cupertino. We'll also have Engadget staff reporting and liveblogging from the event. This year is shaking up to be a departure from recent events, with the strong possibility of an all-new superthin iPhone expected to join the company's lineup. Also on tap could be new Apple Watch models — including the first truly new Ultra model in two years — and (mayb

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Silk Typhoon hackers hijack network captive portals in diplomat attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-11 22:33:59

State-sponsored hackers linked to the Silk Typhoon activity cluster targeted diplomats by hijacking web traffic to redirect to a malware-serving website. The hackers used an advanced adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) technique to hijack the captive portal of the network and send the target to the first-stage malware. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracks the threat actor as UNC6384 and, based on tooling, targeting, and infrastructure, believes it is associated with the Chinese threat act

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1.1M insurance customers were exposed in a data breach - here's what to know

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-11 22:48:43

JuSun/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Farmers Insurance suffered a major data breach. More than 1 million customers were affected. Affected customers are receiving free credit monitoring. If you're a Farmers Insurance customer, you're going to want to pay attention -- and probably keep an eye on all of your important accounts. According to a notice on the Farmers website, about 1.1 million customers had sensi

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Cascata Delle Marmore

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 00:24:02

Waterfall in Umbria, Italy and tallest man-made waterfall in the world The Cascata delle Marmore (Italian: [kaˈskaːta delle ˈmarmore]) or Marmore Falls is a tiered, man-made waterfall in Italy, created by the Romans in 271 BC. At 165m (541 feet) tall, it is the largest man-made waterfall in the world.[1] It is located 7.7 km from Terni, in the region of Umbria.[2] History [ edit ] In ancient times, the Velino River fed a wetland in the Rieti Valley. In 271 BC, in order to reclaim the land (an

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LiteLLM (YC W23) is hiring a back end engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 22:00:46

TLDR LiteLLM is an open-source LLM Gateway with 27K+ stars on GitHub and trusted by companies like NASA, Rocket Money, Samsara, Lemonade, and Adobe. We’re rapidly expanding and seeking a founding full-stack engineer to help scale the platform. We’re based in San Francisco. What is LiteLLM LiteLLM provides an open source Python SDK and Python FastAPI Server that allows calling 100+ LLM APIs (Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic) in the OpenAI format We have raised a $1.6M seed

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Amazon’s New ‘Wicked of Oz’ Reimagining Sounds Like a Disaster Waiting to Happen

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-11 22:45:08

Wicked was fun, and Wicked: For Good is a movie we’re looking forward to seeing later this year. But the adjacent Wizard of Oz hype that began with the Las Vegas Sphere‘s worrisomely AI-injected extravaganza has taken another odd turn: Dorothy, a new Amazon series in development, with Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton among its executive producers, that will interpret L. Frank Baum’s story in a whole new way. As Deadline reports, this new take on The Wizard of Oz is “a contemporary, music-infused

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Latest Tech News

Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI

Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls, sources say

SpaceX notches major wins during tenth Starship test

Eyecam

‘Hazbin Hotel’ Plans to Raise Sing-Along Hell at a Movie Theater Near You

Get Ready, Apple's iPhone 17 Event Confirmed for Sept. 9

OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

Analyst warns of ‘tempered’ iPhone 17 Air response, but maintains Apple’s stock rating

SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

Cascata delle Marmore

The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don’t Know Why Either)

Anthropic Will Settle Lawsuit With Authors Over Pirated AI Training Materials

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

SpaceX Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified to Launch Starship After Long String of Super Expensive Explosions

Recent books from the MIT community

‘Bubbles’ turn air into drinkable water

Fix damaged art in hours with AI

Infinite Threads

Reimagining sound and space

A new challenger is coming for Meta’s smart glasses throne

Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (APK teardown)

Apple Invites adds a helpful new iPhone feature

Anthropic reaches a settlement over authors' class-action piracy lawsuit

The iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event is on September 9: Here's what to expect from Apple

Silk Typhoon hackers hijack network captive portals in diplomat attacks

1.1M insurance customers were exposed in a data breach - here's what to know

Cascata Delle Marmore

LiteLLM (YC W23) is hiring a back end engineer

Amazon’s New ‘Wicked of Oz’ Reimagining Sounds Like a Disaster Waiting to Happen

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