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Apple Sports app adds live tennis scores and a redesigned home screen

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-03 00:36:50

The Apple Sports app, launched last year, is introducing tennis coverage ahead of Wimbledon, along with a redesigned home screen experience, Apple announced on Wednesday. Users will now be able to access live tennis scores for Grand Slam and 1000-level tournaments and can track every point across all men’s and women’s singles matches. Fans can also stay updated on a player’s progress throughout tournaments and get results from every match from the first round through the finals. Apple says the

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The Secret Reason So Many College Students Are Relying on AI Is Incredibly Sad

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-03 08:46:45

According to a new study, a staggering majority of American college students are using artificial intelligence in their studies — and the reason why is a pathos-laden dispatch from an education system in crisis. In a new study in the journal Tech Trends, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte found not only that most students are now using AI to assist in their schoolwork, but also that many prefer the technology for a tragic reason: because it doesn't judge them like a

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The probability of a hash collision (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 13:34:16

The probability of a hash collision Tags: probability A hash function takes arbitrarily complex input - a word, a website, an image, a human being - and maps it to a single number. This is useful for various computer science stuffs, such as data storage and cryptography. For example, let's say you want to store a book in one of N N N boxes. If you put the book in a random box, it's quite likely that you'll forget which box you picked, especially as N N N gets bigger. What you can do instead i

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The Probability of a Hash Collision

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 18:34:16

The probability of a hash collision Tags: probability A hash function takes arbitrarily complex input - a word, a website, an image, a human being - and maps it to a single number. This is useful for various computer science stuffs, such as data storage and cryptography. For example, let's say you want to store a book in one of N N N boxes. If you put the book in a random box, it's quite likely that you'll forget which box you picked, especially as N N N gets bigger. What you can do instead i

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Apple tells students ‘how to convince your parents to get you a Mac’ [Update: Removed]

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-08 03:40:00

Update, June 21: Apple has removed the video from YouTube. It’s not clear why. Original article, published June 20, below. Apple kicked off its annual Back to School promotion earlier this week, offering free AirPods and other accessories with the purchase of a new Mac or iPad. Now, as Back to School season ramps up, Apple has shared a humorous new video telling college students “how to convince your parents to get you a Mac.” The seven-minute video was posted to Apple’s YouTube channel toda

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Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 00:08:57

To produce microphotographs en masse, Dagron used a long wooden box that contained, at one end, a glass negative of the image to be reduced. At the other end was the reducing camera with up to twenty-five small lenses and the sensitized plate. When the end with the negative was held to a light source, the image was projected into the lenses and onto the sensitized glass plate to create multiple positive transparencies, each measuring about two millimeters square. Dagron employed the Taupenot dry

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How AI Is Helping Students Find the Right College

wired.com Jaclyn Greenberg 2025-10-09 16:30:00

After Julia Dixon graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014, her family and friends asked for her help with the college application process. Dixon was happy to share her recently earned expertise about the world of higher education but soon realized how many parents and students in her community needed help and how hard it was for them to access that support. The ratio of college counselors to students in the US, according to the American School Counselor Association, is one for every 3

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Apple tells students ‘how to convince your parents to get you a Mac’ [Video]

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-10 00:19:05

Apple kicked off its annual Back to School promotion earlier this week, offering free AirPods and other accessories with the purchase of a new Mac or iPad. Now, as Back to School season ramps up, Apple has shared a humorous new video telling college students “how to convince your parents to get you a Mac.” The seven-minute video was posted to Apple’s YouTube channel today. It features incoming college students practicing how to pitch their parents on getting them a Mac instead of a PC for coll

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How AI Is Helping Kids Find the Right College

wired.com Jaclyn Greenberg 2025-10-10 12:30:00

After Julia Dixon graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014, her family and friends asked for her help with the college application process. Dixon was happy to share her recently earned expertise about the world of higher education but soon realized how many parents and students in her community needed help and how hard it was for them to access that support. The ratio of college counselors to students in the US, according to the American School Counselor Association, is one for every 3

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The Hewlett-Packard Archive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 17:01:50

HP Archive’s Purpose This site is dedicated to collectors and “curators” of vintage Hewlett-Packard equipment, catalogs, HP Journals and other periodicals. We are web-publishing some of the oldest HP literature to serve as a complete on-line reference source. Even though many of these early publications are very rare, this website will make them available to HP fans! Right now, you will find catalogs, price lists, parts lists, advertising items, and with the help of volunteers like yourself, we

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CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry Step by Step Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 18:42:50

In the fast-paced world of CI/CD, understanding the performance and behaviour of your pipelines is crucial. GitHub Actions has become a popular choice for automating builds and deployments, but anyone who's debugged a flaky workflow or long-running job knows how challenging it can be to get visibility into what's happening under the hood. We usually rely on build logs, timing data, or guesswork when something goes wrong. Wouldn't it be nice to trace a pipeline run step-by-step, or have metrics o

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College Dropout Entrepreneur Boasts That Peter Thiel's Book Is "Probably the Best Book I've Read, and I've Only Read a Few Pages"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-19 10:45:16

Ever since college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak began pedaling the romantic tale of founding Apple in Jobs' parents' Los Altos garage, college-age tech bros have longed to follow in their footsteps. But there's just one tiny thorn: the "founder's story" of late-night struggles and coffee-fueled breadboarding is mostly a capitalist fairy tale. Still, it's a mythos tech billionaire overlord Peter Thiel is all too eager to stoke. His empire is built on image — even the stereotypical "evil

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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 04:30:23

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HP’s 2025 New 14″ Laptop at Over 70% Off Makes It Almost Free, With MS Office and Windows 11 Pro Included

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-10-21 12:10:58

Schools is out but the next semester will be here before you know it. Is you college student equipped to take on all their classes? Make sure they are kitted with the right laptop to get all their class work and homework done reliably without any technical issues. Amazon is making that easy as they’ve knocked more than half the price off this HP portable student and business laptop. It includes Microsoft Office and also thrown into the bundle is a license for Windows 11 Pro. It’s down from $1,30

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Hershey’s Kisses will feature 151 original Pokémon chocolates

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-10-23 22:00:00

Get ready, Trainers! The Hershey’s Kisses brand and The Pokémon Company International are introducing special-edition Hershey’s Kisses wrapped in collectible Pokémon foils. With 151 unique foil designs inspired by the original Kanto region Pokémon, every unwrapping is a chance to discover, trade and collect them all. From Pikachu to Mew, each Hershey’s Kisses chocolate is wrapped like a Poké Ball unveiling the classic, melt-in-your-mouth milk chocolate that fans have loved for generations. It’s

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Jewel Burks Solomon’s Collab Capital has closed a new $75M fund

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-10-24 01:30:00

Collab Capital announced today the close of a $75 million Fund II. Jewel Burks Solomon, who rose to prominence in Silicon Valley during her years running Google for Startups US, has just closed her second fund for her VC firm Collab Capital. Fund II is $75 million and includes heavyweight limited partners like Apple, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and The Leon Levine Foundation. Solomon co-founded the firm alongside Barry Givens in 2020 with an inaugural $50 million Fund I and invested in 38

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Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-08 22:22:59

These digitized collections are accessible for purposes of education and research. Due to the nature of archival collections, archivists at the Caltech Archives and Special Collections are not always able to identify copyright and rights of privacy, publicity, or trademark. We are eager to hear from any rights holders, so that we may obtain accurate information. Upon request, we’ll remove material from public view while we address a rights issue.

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Apple Sports app adds live tennis scores and a redesigned home screen

The Secret Reason So Many College Students Are Relying on AI Is Incredibly Sad

The probability of a hash collision (2022)

The Probability of a Hash Collision

Apple tells students ‘how to convince your parents to get you a Mac’ [Update: Removed]

Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

How AI Is Helping Students Find the Right College

Apple tells students ‘how to convince your parents to get you a Mac’ [Video]

How AI Is Helping Kids Find the Right College

The Hewlett-Packard Archive

CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry Step by Step Guide

College Dropout Entrepreneur Boasts That Peter Thiel's Book Is "Probably the Best Book I've Read, and I've Only Read a Few Pages"

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HP’s 2025 New 14″ Laptop at Over 70% Off Makes It Almost Free, With MS Office and Windows 11 Pro Included

Hershey’s Kisses will feature 151 original Pokémon chocolates

Jewel Burks Solomon’s Collab Capital has closed a new $75M fund

Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)

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