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Zoox’s robotaxis are open for business in Las Vegas

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-09 02:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Amazon’s Zoox announced today that it’s making its robotaxis available to all customers in Las Vegas. The company says it is the first to operate with a purpose-built autonomous vehicle in public service. And the news comes a few weeks after federal regulators gave the company the green light to expand the use of its robota

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Zoox opens its Las Vegas robotaxi service to the public

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-09 02:00:00

Zoox robotaxis — custom-built all-electric and autonomous vehicles that operate without a steering wheel or pedals — can now be hailed by the public in Las Vegas. But this isn’t a commercial service just yet. For now, the Zoox robotaxi service currently offer rides for free. The Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company, which launched the free service on Wednesday, has been chugging toward this milestone for years now. The company spent six years developing its technology before unveiling its p

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RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-09 02:07:26

In the wake of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement, the AI industry is coming to terms with its training data problem. There are as many as 40 other pending cases that seek damages for unlicensed data — including one that takes Midjourney to court for creating images of Superman. Without some kind of licensing system, AI companies could face an avalanche of copyright lawsuits that some worry will set the industry back permanently. Now, a group of technologists and web publishers has

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The Download: AI’s energy future

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-09 06:10:00

In May, MIT Technology Review published an unprecedented and comprehensive look at how much energy the AI industry uses—down to a single query. Our reporters and editors traced where AI’s carbon footprint stands now, and where it’s headed, as AI barrels towards billions of daily users. We’ve just produced a short video to accompany that investigation. You can read the original full story here, and check out—and share— the full video on YouTube here. AI is changing the grid. Could it help more

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Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 06:37:04

Extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals widely implemented to “cure” delinquent CRE mortgages. The office and multifamily sectors of commercial real estate loans got further bludgeoned in August, despite large-scale extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals executed in the hopes for better times and lower interest rates and more demand so that lenders don’t end up with the property and a huge loss. The delinquency rate of office mortgages that have been securitized into commercial mortgage-b

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Do Microcurrent Devices Actually Work? Dermatologists Share Pros and Cons

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 02:30:00

If you regularly watch videos of people's morning and evening routines, you've likely seen several microcurrent devices. Said to produce collagen, sculpt the face, improve skin texture and more, these at-home devices from popular brands like NuFace, ZIIP and Therabody can cost hundreds of dollars. But do they actually work? To find out, we asked dermatologists for more information about microcurrent devices' pros and cons and how they compare to professional treatments. Do microcurrent devices

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May Mobility and Lyft's Self-Driving Partnership Hits the Road in Atlanta

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 06:00:03

Table of Contents May Mobility and Lyft's Self-Driving Partnership Hits the Road in Atlanta Lyft and May Mobility kicked off their self-driving partnership in Atlanta on Wednesday. As part of a pilot program, riders in the area can summon a vehicle equipped with May Mobility's autonomous driving technology directly through the Lyft app, "with plans to expand service hours and vehicle availability in the months ahead," the companies said in a release. Lyft customers in Atlanta could be matched

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Lyft’s first ‘robotaxis’ are live in Atlanta

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-09 06:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. For months, Lyft has watched while its rival Uber made deals with seemingly every autonomous vehicle operator under the sun. But the smaller ridehail company has been quietly building a fleet of its own, and Lyft is ready to launch its first customer-ready robotaxi pilot in Atlanta. Lyft is teaming up with May Mobility, an

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Blade’s air taxis are coming to the Uber app

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-09 06:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Last month, Joby Aviation purchased Blade Air Mobility’s helicopter taxi business for $125 million, with the goal of eventually replacing those noisy, polluting helicopters with its more quiet, battery-powered air taxis. But while it wa

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Uber will add Blade’s helicopters to its platform as early as 2026

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-09 06:00:00

Uber users living near New York City or Southern Europe may have a new travel option to pick from in 2026: helicopters. Electric air taxi startup Joby Aviation announced Wednesday that Blade Air Mobility helicopters will be on the Uber app starting “as soon as next year.” While Joby is not saying specifically where the Blade helicopters will be available to start, the company told TechCrunch they will likely pop up on the “most popular routes” like to and from airports. The news comes just one

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YouTube Music didn’t learn from Spotify’s mistake, tries to paywall lyrics

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 13:02:29

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music is experimenting with paywalling lyrics for its free users. The company is limiting the number of free lyrics views before prompting users to upgrade to a Premium account. This move is similar to what Spotify did, a change it eventually reversed after user backlash. Spotify and YouTube Music are reasonably competitive in their features, with each service having some nice extras. Spotify Connect is a lifesaver if you have multiple devices, wh

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The Pixel’s latest Android update has a hidden trick for organizing your Quick Settings

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 15:30:39

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A hidden feature in Android 16 QPR1 offers a new, faster way to reorganize your Quick Settings tiles. Instead of dragging and dropping, you can double-tap a tile to select it and then tap its new position to move it. This method is more precise and avoids the awkward scrolling and accidental drops common with the old way. Google rolled out the Android 16 QPR1 update to Pixel devices last week, bringing the company’s new Material 3 Expressive design to the

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Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-09 15:00:00

It’s been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio. Rumors have been circulating about a high-fidelity offering since as early as 2017. In 2021, Spotify claimed it was “coming later this year.” And by May of 2024 it was “almost ready.” So, when rumors started picking up again in June of this year, they were met with skepticism, especially amid announcements over the launch of features nobody was asking for, like direct messaging. Well, it’s here. For real. And there’s so

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Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-09 15:00:00

Spotify is finally launching high-quality, lossless music streaming support for premium account holders after years of waiting. The company first talked about a hi-fi tier in 2021 — which would offer CD-quality audio –but the plan faced multiple delays, partially due to licensing issues. Last year, CEO Daniel Ek said that the company was in the “early days” of launching lossless streaming support. Over the past few years, reports and code hints in the app suggested that the company was plannin

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Semantic Line Breaks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 21:14:41

Semantic Line Breaks Summary When writing text with a compatible markup language, add a line break after each substantial unit of thought. Introduction Semantic Line Breaks describe a set of conventions for using insensitive vertical whitespace to structure prose along semantic boundaries. Many lightweight markup languages, including Markdown, reStructuredText, and AsciiDoc, join consecutive lines with a space. Conventional markup languages like HTML and XML exhibit a similar behavior in pa

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Survey shows Google Home users have high hopes from Gemini

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 02:04:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Home devices are in for a significant reform. On October 1, Google will announce Gemini for smart speakers and displays and subsequently replace Google Assistant with it on these devices. And we have huge expectations from this upgrade. Gemini has big shoes to fill. Google Assistant has shouldered the load of the entire breadth of commands intended for smart speakers for nearly a decade. However, the recent decline in Google Home’s ability to understa

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This free tool installs Windows 11 on unsupported PCs - without any bloatware

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-09 16:00:16

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Flyoobe can upgrade an unsupported Windows 10 PC to Windows 11. You can install Windows 11 without the usual apps and bloatware. The tool is easy to configure and use. Looking to upgrade your Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 before the OS loses Microsoft support in October? That's a good idea. But what if your computer doesn't meet Microsoft's stringent requirements for versi

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NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 14:10:40

NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan's lakes and seas are not filled with water. Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane. On Earth, liquid water is thought to have been essential for the origin of life as we know it. Many astrobiologists have wondered whether Titan's liquids could

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The 15 Wildest, Coolest Films We Can’t Wait to See at Fantastic Fest 2025

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-09 22:30:36

The most fantastic time of year is here again. io9 is about to head down to Austin, Texas, for a week of fun, fucked-up films at Fantastic Fest, one of the coolest, most unique genre film festivals in the entire world. It’s a festival that focuses on only showing the weirdest, most out-there, totally badass films, and we’re excited to jump right in as always. What makes attending Fantastic Fest difficult, though, is that every single movie sounds awesome. It was curated that way. So how do you

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iPhone 17 Pro Max is Apple’s first $2,000 model…if you get 2TB

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-10 02:20:27

Apple’s flagship iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max are here, and the Pro Max includes a 2TB storage option for the first time ever. Before you start celebrating though, be sure to check the price tag. Highest iPhone 17 Pro Max storage tier will cost you Ahead of today’s ‘Awe dropping’ event, rumors about iPhone 17 price increases were rampant. It turns out, Apple did raise some prices, but they’re arguably not strict “increases.” For example, iPhone 17 Pro now starts at $1,099, up from $999 last yea

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Show HN: Vicinae – a native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:10:00

Vicinae (pronounced "vih-SIN-ay") is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt. It includes a set of built-in modules, and extensions can be developed quickly using fully server-side React/TypeScript — with no browser or Electron involved. Inspired by the popular Raycast launcher, Vicinae provides a mostly compatible extension API, allowing reuse of many existing Raycast extensions with minimal modification. Vicinae is designed for developers and power users

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Cities obey the laws of living things

news.ycombinator.com Elena Kazamia 2025-10-07 16:31:01

Who would disagree with Dickens that London’s green spaces are the city’s “lungs?” A city is an animal that sleeps, although some never do, like New York City or Hong Kong. All cities are creatures of a sort. Some have multiple “faces” they present to the world, most have a “beating heart” where the action unfolds, and it is a rare city that lacks a dark “underbelly.” The analogy of city as living organism is so established, in fact, that it has crossed over into the realm of scientific inquiry

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Show HN: Bottlefire – Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 18:48:25

Pricing Official images and some other popular public images on Docker Hub are available for free. To access any public or private image, please sign up and subscribe to help us cover operational costs of this service. Pro $5 / month, 20GB active images(*) included Pull any public or private image from Docker Hub and GHCR. Contact us if you need higher limits or need to use AWS ECR, GCP Artifact Registry, or other container registries. $ curl -fL -H "Authorization: Bearer bottlefire_..." -o ap

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Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Daniel 2025-10-09 23:04:49

Once a year, Unicode drops its annual update: thousands of new characters, new scripts, new symbols, and of course… new emoji. Today marks the release of Unicode 17.0, adding 4,803 characters (bringing the grand total to 159,801!). You can download Noto Emoji today and embed on your website but they’re not quite ready to keyboard smash (it will take some time before many of these reach our devices) let’s take a moment to bask in the glow of … Hairy Creature Hairy creature is one of those rare

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Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 11:10:15

We are announcing a Series C funding round of 1.7B€ at a 11.7B€ post-money valuation. This investment fuels our scientific research to keep pushing the frontier of AI to tackle the most critical and sophisticated technological challenges faced by strategic industries. The Series C funding round is led by leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer, ASML Holding NV (ASML). “ASML is proud to enter a strategic partnership with Mistral AI, and to be lead investor in this funding round. The collab

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Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:55:34

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new file creation feature for its Claude AI assistant that enables users to generate Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents directly within conversations on the web interface and in the Claude desktop app. While the feature may be handy for Claude users, the company's support documentation also warns that it "may put your data at risk" and details how the AI assistant can be manipulated to transmit user data to external servers. The fe

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Nebius stock soars nearly 50% on Microsoft AI deal

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-10 06:02:19

Nebius, which was spun out from Russian internet giant Yandex, provides graphics processing units or GPUs for training artificial intelligence models. Shares of artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nebius Group soared nearly 50% Tuesday, a day after the company disclosed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft . The Amsterdam-based firm announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth up to $19.4 billion to provide cloud computing power for AI workloads. Nebius, which w

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Wow! The Narwal Freo Z Ultra plummets to a new record-low price, saving you $700!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:49:03

Jonathan Feist / Android Authority We love the Narwal Freo Z Ultra, but can’t deny that paying the full retail price of $1,499.99 hurts the wallet. While definitely worth its price, it’s a good idea to wait for a good deal. Here’s the best one we’ve seen: the Narwal Freo Z Ultra is $700 off right now. This brings the cost down to $799.99, a new record-low price for this fantastic cleaner. Buy the Narwal Freo Z Ultra robot vacuum and mop for just $799.99 ($700 off) This offer is available from

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Microsoft reportedly plans to start using Anthropic models to power some of Office 365's Copilot features

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:20:19

Microsoft reportedly plans to begin using Anthropic's latest Claude models to power some of the Copilot features in its Office 365 apps. In a report published Tuesday, The Information said the tech giant would announce the change "in the coming weeks." Microsoft currently relies on OpenAI's tech to power the majority of AI features found inside of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. As an outsider looking in, Microsoft's embrace of Anthropic's models would appear to signal a deepening split be

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Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:11:57

X's Recommendation Algorithm X's Recommendation Algorithm is a set of services and jobs that are responsible for serving feeds of posts and other content across all X product surfaces (e.g. For You Timeline, Search, Explore, Notifications). For an introduction to how the algorithm works, please refer to our engineering blog. Architecture Product surfaces at X are built on a shared set of data, models, and software frameworks. The shared components included in this repository are listed below:

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Latest Tech News

Zoox’s robotaxis are open for business in Las Vegas

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Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

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Survey shows Google Home users have high hopes from Gemini

This free tool installs Windows 11 on unsupported PCs - without any bloatware

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Microsoft reportedly plans to start using Anthropic models to power some of Office 365's Copilot features

Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

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