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Uber has Atlanta’s autonomous ride-hailing and delivery market on lock

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-31 13:10:26

Uber Eats customers in Atlanta can now opt in to have their food delivered via sidewalk delivery robots, following partner Serve Robotics’s launch on Thursday. The move comes just two days after Uber and Waymo launched a commercial robotaxi service in the city. Serve, which spun out of Uber in 2021 before braving the public markets last year, is one of 18 autonomous vehicle companies that Uber has partnered with to get a first-mover advantage on the consumer-facing side of autonomy. The ride-ha

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The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-09-01 09:10:00

When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic letters actually do. Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts what effects small changes in DNA will have on an array of molecular processes, such as whether a gene’s activity will go up or down. It’s just the sort of ques

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Venice Braces for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Wedding

wired.com Elena Capilupi 2025-09-02 03:29:15

The lavish wedding between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez is scheduled for June 26-28 in Venice, Italy. For months, however, protests against the event have taken place in the city, intensifying in recent days with the “No Space for Bezos” campaign—which refers to his aerospace investments—over the social and environmental impacts of the wedding, which will occupy much of the historic lagoon center that's already under pressure from high tourist flow. What We Know Abou

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Air quality tests around xAI’s Memphis data center raise questions

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-02 17:42:42

Elon Musk’s xAI is the subject of scrutiny in Memphis, where natural gas turbines powering its Colossus data center have raised alarm among residents concerned about air pollution. On Tuesday, the City of Memphis released the results of initial air quality testing performed by a third party, saying that levels of the 10 pollutants tested were not dangerous. But the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), which is threatening to sue xAI on behalf of the NAACP, said that the tests omitted a key

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The Debrief: Power and energy

technologyreview.com Mat Honan 2025-09-04 00:00:00

Yet in many ways right now the US seems to be forgetting those lessons. It is moving backward in terms of its clean-energy strategy, especially when it comes to powering the grid, in ways that will affect the nation for decades to come—even as China and others are surging forward. And that retreat is taking place just as electricity demand and usage are growing again after being flat for nearly two decades. That growth, according to the US Energy Information Administration, is “coming from the

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Thoughts on Asunción, Paraguay

news.ycombinator.com Rasheed Griffith 2025-09-02 03:45:07

Almost two years ago I recorded a podcast with Tomás Mandl on his book Modern Paraguay: Uncovering South America's Best Kept Secret. If you have been following me since then you might already know that Friedrich Nietzsche’s sister moved to Paraguay with her husband to start a new German Colony to advance Nazi ambitions of Aryan supremacy. Perhaps, you already know that Alfredo Stroessner, the military dictator of Paraguay for 35 years (the longest Western Hemisphere Cold War dictator apart from

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New York City's Power Is Going Down Amid Brutal Heatwave

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-05 09:09:13

"Like an air fryer, it's going to be hot." America Unplugged While a gigantic heat dome parks itself like an unwelcome guest over a major swath of the United States, residents of the ultra-dense metropolis of New York City are the perfect example of a country so cooked by climate change that it's overwhelming existing infrastructure. More than 3,000 people were without power for a second day in a row in parts of Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island, according to local broadcaster PIX 11. Con Ed

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New York’s getting a new nuclear power plant

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-09-07 05:45:24

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans today to develop a new nuclear power plant, the first to be built in the state in decades. It’s the latest signal that nuclear energy could see a comeback in the US thanks to wide-ranging support from some strange bedfellows: the

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Best Internet Providers in New York, New York

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 17:00:00

If you’re living in the city that never sleeps, you’ll need an internet connection that's both fast and reliable. New York has several internet service providers, but not all are worth your money. What is the best internet provider in New York? After hours of research and testing, Verizon Fios is CNET's recommendation for the best internet service provider for most New Yorkers thanks to its fast, symmetrical fiber-optic speeds and competitive pricing. New York City also boasts a variety of oth

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How to store Go pointers from assembly

news.ycombinator.com Francesco Mazzoli 2025-09-07 23:40:24

2025-06-23 How to store Go pointers from assembly The standard Go toolchain comes with an assembler out of the box. Said assembler is highly idiosyncratic, using syntax inherited from Plan 9 and choosing its own names for platform-specific instructions and registers. But it’s great to have it readily available. More mundanely, Go comes with a garbage collector. This post explains how to make these two components play nice, if we want to manipulate Go pointers from our assembly. Preamble: Go’s

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Oxford City Council suffers breach exposing two decades of data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-08 08:17:28

Oxford City Council warns it suffered a data breach where attackers accessed personally identifiable information from legacy systems. The incident has also caused an ICT service disruption, as announced on the website, and although most of the impacted systems have been brought back online, the remaining backlogs may continue to cause delays. Oxford City Council is the local government authority responsible for managing critical public services, such as housing, planning, waste collection, env

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-06 23:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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A '70s performance artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-07 19:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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He '70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to 'Garbage Men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-08 05:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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Munich from a Hamburger's perspective

news.ycombinator.com Mert Bulan 2025-09-07 19:55:25

Over the long weekend, thanks to Whit Monday being a public holiday in Germany, I decided to visit a friend who lives in Munich. I spent about three and a half days there and thought it would be a good idea to share my thoughts. I saw a lot during my stay, and since I live in Hamburg, I naturally started comparing the two cities. There are quite a few differences. Before I go into the details, I should mention that I’ve been living in Hamburg for seven years, and this was my first time in Bavar

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Inside the US power struggle over coal

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-09-13 01:00:00

But the Trump administration wants to keep coal power alive, and the US Department of Energy recently ordered some plants to stay open past their scheduled closures. Here’s why there’s a power struggle over coal. Coal used to be king in the US, but the country has dramatically reduced its dependence on the fuel over the past two decades. It accounted for about 20% of the electricity generated in 2024, down from roughly half in 2000. While the demise of coal has been great for US emissions, the

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Palantir’s CEO Throws Money Behind Andrew Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Race

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-13 17:50:53

Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of creepy defense contractor Palantir, has taken a side in New York’s closely watched mayoral race. Karp, who once bragged that his company kills people, recently gave a large sum of money to a Super PAC that is supporting the campaign of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is currently running against Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old assemblyman for the city’s 36th district in Queens. The race between the two candidates has become a referendum on New York’s

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Waymo will start testing its autonomous cars in New York again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-13 21:05:30

Waymo's autonomous cars are heading back to New York City in July, the company announced today. Cars will be manually driven for now, not unlike the mapping tests Waymo ran in 2021, but the company says it ultimately wants to bring the same autonomous ride-hailing service it offers in San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles to NYC. New York state law currently doesn't allow for the operation of a vehicle without a human driver, an obvious obstacle for a company like Waymo. As a bridge to offerin

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Spatializing 6k years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000

news.ycombinator.com Reba 2025-09-10 08:53:25

Transcription Chandler’s book includes population data from 2250 BC to AD 1975 in various charts and tables. The book contains 656 9×5.5 inch pages and is divided into multiple sections, including Sources and Methods, Continental Tables and Maps (highlighting locations of major cities as illustrated in Fig. 4), Data Sheets for Ancient Cities (the main tables of the book shown in Fig. 1), Tables of the World’s Largest Cities, and Whereabouts of Unfamiliar Cities. Each page in the Data Sheets for

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Waymo cars are coming to New York, but with a driver behind the wheel

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-09-14 09:59:02

Residents of New York City will soon start seeing Waymo cars cruising the avenues. But at least for now, a human will be in the driver's seat. Alphabet 's self-driving car unit announced on Wednesday that it plans to drive vehicles manually in New York, marking the first step toward potentially cracking the largest U.S. city. Waymo said it applied for a permit with the New York City Department of Transportation to operate autonomously with a trained specialist behind the wheel in Manhattan. "W

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Waymo’s robotaxis are coming back to New York City

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-14 09:00:00

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. Waymo announced today that it intends to launch a fully autonomous robotaxi service in New York City — but first it needs to change state law to permit its vehicles to operate with safety drivers behind the wheel. The Alphabet-owned company said it has applied for a permit from the city’s Department of Transportation to te

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Munich from a Hamburger's Perspective

news.ycombinator.com Mert Bulan 2025-09-12 04:55:25

Over the long weekend, thanks to Whit Monday being a public holiday in Germany, I decided to visit a friend who lives in Munich. I spent about three and a half days there and thought it would be a good idea to share my thoughts. I saw a lot during my stay, and since I live in Hamburg, I naturally started comparing the two cities. There are quite a few differences. Before I go into the details, I should mention that I’ve been living in Hamburg for seven years, and this was my first time in Bavar

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Scientists achieve 1,000-fold increase in solar electricity using ultra-thin layers

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-16 17:03:00

Forward-looking: A team of German researchers from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg has unveiled a significant advancement in solar energy technology, revealing a method to dramatically increase the amount of electricity certain materials can generate when exposed to light. Their approach involves stacking ultra-thin layers of different crystals in a precise sequence, resulting in a solar absorber that far outperforms traditional materials. At the core of this discovery, published in S

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What does it mean for an algorithm to be “fair”?

technologyreview.com Eileen Guo 2025-09-17 15:49:25

Van der Vliet and other welfare advocates I met on my trip, like representatives from the Amsterdam Welfare Union, described what they see as a number of challenges faced by the city’s some 35,000 benefits recipients: the indignities of having to constantly re-prove the need for benefits, the increases in cost of living that benefits payments do not reflect, and the general feeling of distrust between recipients and the government. City welfare officials themselves recognize the flaws of the sy

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The magic of through running

news.ycombinator.com Benedict Springbett 2025-09-17 15:57:46

This is the lead story of the new issue of Works in Progress, Issue 19. Read the full issue, including stories on how to redraw cities and the secret history of inflation targeting, on our website. In the nineteenth century, the societies of Europe and North America were profoundly transformed by the vast railway networks they built. When these railway networks entered cities, however, they faced a crucial problem: they had to stop. Rather than carrying on through the city, it was common for th

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Finland warms up the world's largest sand battery, the economics look appealing

news.ycombinator.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-17 19:03:51

It doesn’t look like much, but Finland recently flipped the switch on the world’s largest sand-based battery. Yes, sand. A sand battery is a type of thermal energy storage system that uses sand or crushed rock to store heat. Electricity — typically from renewable sources — is used to heat the sand. That stored heat can later be used for various ends, including to warm buildings. The economics are compelling, and it’s hard to get any cheaper than the crushed soapstone now housed inside an insu

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Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-18 05:54:29

It doesn’t look like much, but Finland recently flipped the switch on the world’s largest sand-based battery. Yes, sand. A sand battery is a type of thermal energy storage system that uses sand or crushed rock to store heat. Electricity — typically from renewable sources — is used to heat the sand. That stored heat can later be used for various ends, including to warm buildings. The economics are compelling, and it’s hard to get any cheaper than the crushed soapstone now housed inside an insu

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How the first electric grid was built

news.ycombinator.com Alex Chalmers 2025-09-19 04:34:03

The Linear No Threshold model says that there is no safe level of radiation exposure. There is overwhelming evidence it is false, yet it inspires the ALARA principle, which makes nuclear power unaffordable worldwide. Read the lead article from Issue 19 of Works in Progress. We’re hosting a Stripe Press pop-up coffee shop and bookstore on Saturday, June 28, in Washington, DC. RSVP here if you can make it. In 1883, Sir Coutts Lindsay, owner of the Grosvenor Art Gallery in Bond Street, decided th

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We investigated Amsterdam's attempt to build a 'fair' fraud detection model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 10:54:57

METHODOLOGY How we investigated Amsterdam’s attempt to build a ‘fair’ fraud detection model For the past four years, Lighthouse has investigated welfare fraud detection algorithms deployed in five European countries. Our investigations have found evidence that these systems discriminated against vulnerable groups with oftentimes steep consequences for people’s lives. Governments and companies deploying these systems often show little regard for the biases they perpetrate against vulnerable gro

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Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI

technologyreview.com Eileen Guo 2025-09-23 23:00:00

Finding a better way Every time an Amsterdam resident applies for benefits, a caseworker reviews the application for irregularities. If an application looks suspicious, it can be sent to the city’s investigations department—which could lead to a rejection, a request to correct paperwork errors, or a recommendation that the candidate receive less money. Investigations can also happen later, once benefits have been dispersed; the outcome may force recipients to pay back funds, and even push some

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Spatializing 6k years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000

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