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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 17:17:45

I have been aware of tarsnap for a long time, but only recently did I actually get around to using it for anything, as a result of my big personal digital resiliency audit for 2025. For those of you not in the know, tarsnap is “online backups for the truly paranoid”, and tarsnap the command-line program is the client-side tool you invoke to actually zip up and push your archives into the vault. Its creator, Dr. Colin Percival, is a really smart and interesting dude for a whole bunch of reasons.

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NASA Found Signs of Ancient Alien Life on Mars. Here's How Excited You Should Be

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 00:51:00

NASA released a significant update from the Perseverance Mars rover on Wednesday, focusing on a particularly juicy tidbit for those watching from home: A small rock sample called Sapphire Canyon showed signs of potential biosignatures, or ancient alien life that may have once grown on Mars. That's possible because of the unique location where Perseverance located the sample in July 2024. It came from a rock named Cheyava Falls. This particular rock is in Jezero Crater, home to an ancient dry ri

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NASA Says Its Mars Rover Has Detected Possible Signs of Life on the Red Planet

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 04:04:22

NASA has announced that its Perseverance Mars rover spotted "potential biosignatures" in an ancient dry riverbed last year. Samples collected from a rock dubbed "Cheyava Falls" contain a structure that hints at the possibility of having a biological origin, according to the space agency, but more research needs to be completed to draw any conclusions about the presence of life on the Red Planet. "The identification of a potential biosignature on the Red Planet is a groundbreaking discovery, an

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Experimental Cream Could Make ‘Permanent’ Scars a Thing of the Past

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-06 09:00:17

Cool guys may have scars, but plenty of people would relish the opportunity to get rid of their own. In new research out this week, an experimental drug has shown promise at being able to clear up lingering scar tissue. Scientists in Australia conducted the study, a phase I trial of a tropical cream developed by the company Syntara. People applying the cream experienced no major side effects, they found, and the drug appeared to trigger changes in the skin within older, or mature, scars. Though

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SpaceX Targets an Orbital Starship Flight with a Next-Gen Vehicle in 2026

wired.com Stephen Clark 2025-10-06 09:30:00

It has been two weeks since SpaceX’s last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society’s Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX’s launch pad in Starbase, Te

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NASA's Perseverance rover finds potential signs of ancient life on Mars

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 13:34:57

NASA just announced that its Perseverance rover recently found some promising signs of ancient life on Mars. The rover obtained a sample of rock formed billions of years ago from sediment and there are biomarkers indicating the potential presence of microbes once upon a time. Basically, the rocks contain minerals that typically form as a result of a chemical reaction between mud and organic matter. That doesn't necessarily mean that Mars once had life, as the minerals can form due to nonbiologi

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Starship to Deliver 100 Tons to Orbit by 2026, Musk Claims

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-06 17:05:41

Starship finally broke a losing streak of back-to-back flops, acing its 10th suborbital flight last month. Following the rocket’s success, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is now confident that the massive vehicle will begin flying payloads to space in 2026. During an interview with the All-In Podcast, Musk explained how an upgraded version of Starship will reach orbit by next year and demonstrate full reusability of the Super Heavy booster and its upper stage. “Unless we have some very major s

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Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-06 21:28:49

Earlier this week, Ars spent some time driving the new Nissan Leaf. We have to wait until Friday to tell you how that car drives, but among the changes from the previous generation are door handles that retract flush with the bodywork, for the front doors at least. Car designers love them for not ruining the lines of the door with the necessities of real life, but is the benefit from drag reduction worth the safety risk? That question is in even sharper relief this morning. Bloomberg's Dana Hul

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Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 21:08:14

With the number of passenger vehicles rising across Europe, cities are grappling with air pollution, traffic accidents, and the loss of public space. In Spain, the city of Pontevedra has managed to overcome these challenges, surpassing national air quality standards and creating safer streets. The key, according to the Galician municipality’s mayor, is an urban model that prioritises residents over cars – without imposing an outright ban on private vehicles. It is a bright summer evening in Pon

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The 55 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-10-07 12:00:00

Disney+, if you didn’t know, isn’t just for kids. With its ownership of the Lucasfilm brand and the Marvel titles, the streaming service offers plenty of grown-up content in its bid to compete with Netflix and Amazon—and we’re not just talking movies. Since launching the service, Disney has used the name recognition of Star Wars and Marvel to launch scores of TV shows, from The Mandalorian to Loki. In the list below, we’ve collected the ones we think are the best to watch, from those franchises

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SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 17:43:02

It has been two weeks since SpaceX's last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society's Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX's launch pad in Starbase, Te

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The Next ‘Star Wars’ VR Game Has a New Trailer and Release Date

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-09 01:00:37

It’s time to collect and play with Star Wars toys like never before. ILM and Lucasfilm just announced that Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playset will be released on October 7 exclusively for Meta Quest 3 and 3S. It’s a part narrative adventure, part racing playset VR experience that gives you a chance to live a brand new Star Wars story and also race pods like you would in your backyard. Don’t quite get what that means? Here’s the brand-new, full trailer, which makes it much clear

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A Star Wars AR Game Got Me Playing With Virtual Action Figures Like I Was 6 Years Old

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 01:00:08

It took less than a minute after donning a Meta Quest 3 headset before I was reliving some of my best memories from childhood in augmented reality, sitting on the floor with my digital Star Wars action figures creating fantastical scenes from a galaxy far, far away. Last week, I visited Meta's Los Angeles offices a mile from the city's sunny beaches to try out an upcoming game, Star Wars: Beyond Victory, due out October 7 only for the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S headsets. The game is develop

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Chinese auto giant GAC targets 17-fold boost to European sales by 2027

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-10 02:48:33

The Aion V is one of the cars GAC is launching in Europe as it looks to expand its presence in the region. The Aion V is on display at the company's stand at the IAA Mobility auto show in Munich, Germany on September 9, 2025. Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) aims to increase its European electric car sales 17-fold over the next two years, becoming the latest Chinese player to take on the region's traditional automakers through aggressive expansion. The entrance of the Chinese state-owned carma

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Nova Launcher’s death is sad, but let’s face it — it’s been dead for a while

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 00:00:23

Andy Walker / Android Authority There’s no shortage of Android launchers for those seeking something beyond the default experience. I’ve tried many in my time, but one firmly stands out for Android enthusiasts: Nova Launcher. I used it for years, through various Android versions and on multiple smartphones. It was revolutionary and opened up a world of customization on Android for thousands of others, including me. But over the weekend, Nova’s founder, Kevin Barry, announced that the app is no

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13 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream This Week

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 20:21:29

Peacock recently rolled out a price increase, but the streamer's reliably entertaining lineup of NBC and Bravo favorites could mean you're keeping it around. If you aren't dropping it, the platform's original series are also worth checking out. Peacock has highly rated options such as the 2024 Eddie Redmayne assassin series, The Day of the Jackal, and the new The Office spinoff, The Paper. If you're poking around for something to watch, you can't go wrong with these 13 standout shows. Peacock n

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Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

news.ycombinator.com Patrick George 2025-10-11 21:20:06

Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world’s best-selling car, many companies make great EVs now. Some of them have the Model Y beat in certain areas, but for the price, the Tesla is still the total package. Now, imagine how good Teslas could be if Musk apparently wasn’t so bor

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Cillian Murphy Is Flattered Everyone Thought He Would Play an Emaciated Zombie in ’28 Years Later’

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-11 21:48:49

As soon as the teaser trailer for 28 Years Later dropped, pretty much everyone and their mom assumed the skinny zombie seen struggling through flowers looked uncannily like Cillian Murphy’s Jim, the franchise’s original main character from director Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s 2002 28 Days Later. The internet sleuths swiftly discovered the likeness was pure serendipity, but the Oscar-winning actor now says he was touched that fans had assumed the emaciated undead wanderer was him. In an inter

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How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Ritchie 2025-10-12 10:26:43

How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950. A century ago, these were the cars on Britain’s roads. Forget driving lessons or tests; to get behind the wheel legally, all you needed was a paper license, which cost the equivalent of around 25 pence today. Cars had no seatbelts and, of course, no airbags. There were no mirrors to let you see traffic behind. There were no flashing indicators, so your signal to turn left or right

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How to make metals from Martian dirt

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 04:09:45

27 August 2025 3 min read Key points Swinburne and CSIRO researchers are investigating ways to produce native metals using materials found on Mars. Martian settlements will require large amounts of metal that are difficult to ship from Earth. The team have successfully produced iron using regolith simulant that mimics what is available on the Red Planet. The idea of building settlements on Mars is a popular goal of billionaires, space agencies and interplanetary enthusiasts. But constructio

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I witnessed Eufy's stair-climbing robot at IFA 2025 - and it's likely the next big thing for vacuums

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-10 23:00:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. From pet robots to way more robot mowers than the world needs, IFA features some of the coolest tech we'll see all year. Companies use the event to showcase new products and the latest innovations they're working on, and Anker delivered some exciting updates. Also: The coolest gadgets I've seen at IFA 2025 (including ones you can actually buy) Marswalker: A stair-climbing robot Maria Diaz/ZDNET Part of the appeal of e

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Four Telescopes Confirm There's Something Deeply Strange About the Mysterious Object Headed Into the Solar System

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 05:00:23

By definition, scientists don't know what to expect as they inspect the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, since it's only the third object detected from beyond the solar system in human history. But the surprises just keep coming. The mysterious entity, which was first spotted hurtling towards the Sun from far beyond in early July, has fascinated researchers ever since. As Science Alert points out, a quartet of powerful telescopes — NASA's Hubble, SPHEREx, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TES

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A New Graphic Novel Will Chronicle How ‘Star Wars’ Got Made

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-12 01:15:26

For anyone who wants to read about the history of the original Star Wars, a new graphic novel is coming. That would be Lucas Wars, the newly translated version of a story originally published in 2023 by French journalist Laurent Hopman and illustrator Renaud Roche. The graphic novel tells of George Lucas’ decade-long journey to get the classic sci-fi film made, starting from him surviving a car accident to his journey through film school and clashes with 20th Century Fox. In an email to the Hol

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The Robot Vacuum’s Next Humble Trick: Climbing Stairs

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-12 02:30:34

Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a reality, sort of. That’s courtesy of a little baby trend at IFA 2025 of robot vacuums slipping into something more climbable—a little caddy that carries them upstairs when it’s time to move floors, then waits to carry them back down when they’re done. The first one we encountered was the Eufy MarsWalker. Then, it turned out that Dreame had one, too, using almost the exact same approach, only it’s weirdly much scarier-looking. Both have a s

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Scientists Intrigued by Non-Human Skull Embedded in Cave Wall

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 00:00:12

Scientists believe they're close to solving an ancient mystery involving a strange hominin skull, neither Neanderthal nor human, that was found fused to a cave wall — with a stalagmite sticking out of the top, to complete the eerie scene — in Macedonia, Greece. In a new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution, researchers from France's Institut de Paléontologie Humaine (or Human Paleontology Institute in English) claim they've been able to place an age on the "Petralona cranium," whic

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I compared my Sonos Arc Ultra with an unlikely soundbar rival, and it went down to the wire

zdnet.com Christian De Looper 2025-10-12 00:00:18

Jada Jones/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you have $1,000 to spend on a soundbar, there are compelling options to choose from. Since its late 2024 release, the Sonos Arc Ultra has been at the top of the heap in this price range, but there are new competitors that give Sonos a run for its money. The Marshall Heston 120, for example, offers a unique design, cool features, and comes at the exact same price as the Sonos Arc Ultra. Also: 5 ways to instantly boost yo

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I got to see Eufy's stair climbing robot at IFA (and more new Anker products)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-12 21:32:47

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. From pet robots to way more robot mowers than the world needs, IFA features some of the coolest tech we'll see all year. Companies use the event to showcase new products and the latest innovations they're working on, and Anker delivered some exciting updates. Also: The coolest gadgets I've seen at IFA 2025 (including ones you can actually buy) Marswalker: A stair-climbing robot Maria Diaz/ZDNET Part of the appeal of e

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This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 20:32:00

The Anker Nebula Mars 3 Air is currently available for $470 on Amazon, which is 22% off its regular price of $599.99. The price is likely to go back up soon, so this might be your last chance to grab this portable projector at a discount. CNET's key takeaways Anker's Nebula Mars 3 Air is a compact portable projector that costs $599 (but is currently on sale for $470 Despite its size, it delivers a bright picture and loud audio for a portable projector. It can even double as a Bluetooth speake

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13 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream This Weekend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 00:19:09

Peacock costs more after a summer price hike but the streamer's reliably entertaining lineup of NBC and Bravo favorites could mean you're keeping it around. If you aren't dropping it, the platform's original series are also worth checking out. Peacock has highly rated options such as the 2024 Eddie Redmayne assassin series, The Day of the Jackal, and the new The Office spinoff, The Paper. If you're poking around for something to watch, you can't go wrong with these 13 standout shows. Peacock no

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New Study Upends Origin Theory of Mysterious Interstellar Object

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-13 09:45:48

Ever since interstellar object 3I/ATLAS streaked into our solar system, astronomers have been scrambling to understand how this likely comet got here—and more importantly, perhaps, where it came from. As only the third interstellar object ever discovered, 3I/ATLAS offers a rare chance to study remnants of solar systems beyond our own, briefly bringing the distant galaxy within reach. But before we get into the new study, imagine the Milky Way as a kind of celestial sandwich: Inside is a thin d

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Tarsnap is cozy

NASA Found Signs of Ancient Alien Life on Mars. Here's How Excited You Should Be

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A Star Wars AR Game Got Me Playing With Virtual Action Figures Like I Was 6 Years Old

Chinese auto giant GAC targets 17-fold boost to European sales by 2027

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I witnessed Eufy's stair-climbing robot at IFA 2025 - and it's likely the next big thing for vacuums

Four Telescopes Confirm There's Something Deeply Strange About the Mysterious Object Headed Into the Solar System

A New Graphic Novel Will Chronicle How ‘Star Wars’ Got Made

The Robot Vacuum’s Next Humble Trick: Climbing Stairs

Scientists Intrigued by Non-Human Skull Embedded in Cave Wall

I compared my Sonos Arc Ultra with an unlikely soundbar rival, and it went down to the wire

I got to see Eufy's stair climbing robot at IFA (and more new Anker products)

This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

13 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream This Weekend

New Study Upends Origin Theory of Mysterious Interstellar Object

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