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150 Million Americans Under Life-Threatening Heat Dome This Week

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-02 07:15:52

More than 150 million Americans from Texas to Maine are under extreme heat advisories as dangerously high temperatures bake the nation. Meteorologists warn that this heat dome could expand to affect an additional 20 million people by mid-week. In more than three dozen states from the Plains to New England, daytime temperatures could reach and exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) through at least Tuesday, AccuWeather reports. In an advisory issued Monday, June 23, the National Weat

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Hot Summer Savings Move: Open a CD While Interest Rates Are High

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 19:00:00

Smart savers know that CDs can pay big. Kristina Kokhanova/Getty Images My savings account has been sorely disappointing me lately. No matter how many times I check my balance, it feels like opening the fridge for the fifth time, hoping something new will appear. Fortunately, the solution is simple: I just need to shop around. With the Federal Reserve holding interest rates steady at this week's meeting, annual percentage yields on certificates of deposit should remain high for a while. That m

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Snap is acquiring Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-05 03:00:46

Snap has acquired Saturn , a calendar app for high school and college students. The company didn't disclose the terms of the deal but said that close to 30 of Saturn's full-time employees will be joining Snap as part of the acquisition. It's not clear what exactly Snap has planned for Saturn, but the company confirmed to Engadget that the calendar app will continue to operate as a standalone service. It also suggested that the acquisition could help Snap bring calendar-focused features into Sna

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Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 09:00:18

Founding Backend Engineer Mission QFEX is building a team of founding engineers who can design, code and own systems that will soon process billions of dollars in trading volume every single day. This is an incredible opportunity to work alongside a very well-backed team of builders from some of the biggest financial companies in the world (Citadel, Kraken, Tower Research Capital) and change the course of financial history. What You’ll Do Reliability & performance Design fault-tolerant, low

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College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 18:20:32

The Pitch Deck. The deck is often the introduction of a venture capitalist to a company, sent after a warm intro. For the athlete, the pitch deck consists of video and some metrics, posted on Twitter (the LinkedIn of college baseball). In both cases, the best story is (naturally) being told: they aren’t dishonest, but they also aren’t going to emphasize flaws or risks. In my experience, pitch decks are important, but not as important as the underlying business; similarly, terrific video of a bul

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College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 23:20:32

The Pitch Deck. The deck is often the introduction of a venture capitalist to a company, sent after a warm intro. For the athlete, the pitch deck consists of video and some metrics, posted on Twitter (the LinkedIn of college baseball). In both cases, the best story is (naturally) being told: they aren’t dishonest, but they also aren’t going to emphasize flaws or risks. In my experience, pitch decks are important, but not as important as the underlying business; similarly, terrific video of a bul

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Qfex (YC X25) – Founding Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 05:00:18

Founding Backend Engineer Mission QFEX is building a team of founding engineers who can design, code and own systems that will soon process billions of dollars in trading volume every single day. This is an incredible opportunity to work alongside a very well-backed team of builders from some of the biggest financial companies in the world (Citadel, Kraken, Tower Research Capital) and change the course of financial history. What You’ll Do Reliability & performance Design fault-tolerant, low

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The Fed's on Pause, but You Shouldn't Be. Here Are 4 Smart Financial Moves to Make Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 21:30:00

Make the most of your money while rate cuts are on hold. Maria Forbes/Getty Images Despite mounting pressure to lower interest rates, the Fed chose to keep rates where they are at this week's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting. With interest rate cuts on hold so far this year, policymakers have more time to assess how the economy responds to tariffs, layoffs and geopolitical conflict. "More of the same" doesn't mean status quo for your finances. The Fed's decisions (including its forecasts)

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The Fed's on Pause, but You Shouldn't Be. 4 Smart Financial Moves to Make Today

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

Make the most of your money while rate cuts are on hold. Maria Forbes/Getty Images Despite mounting pressure to lower interest rates, the Fed chose to keep rates where they are at this week's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting. With interest rate cuts on hold so far this year, policymakers have more time to assess how the economy responds to tariffs, layoffs and geopolitical conflict. "More of the same" doesn't mean status quo for your finances. The Fed's decisions (including its forecasts)

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What the Fed's Pause on Rate Cuts Means for Savings Account, CD Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 07:15:00

Now's the time to take advantage of APYs as high as 5%. Skyhobo/Getty Images Federal Reserve policymakers voted to hold interest rates steady today, pausing rates for the fourth time this year. In its postmeeting statement, the Fed summarized its findings by noting slightly elevated inflation and a low unemployment rate, though the economic outlook remains uncertain. The latest decision means that households, which have been facing budget strains and increased living expenses, will continue to

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4 Smart Money Moves You Must Make Before Wednesday

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 23:00:00

Make the most of the Fed's upcoming decision by taking these steps ASAP. Maria Forbes/Getty Images The Federal Reserve is under pressure to lower interest rates, but that's not going to happen at this week's meeting. With inflation still high and a global trade war raging, experts predict the Fed will pause rates for the fourth time this year at its Federal Open Market Committee meeting on June 17 to 18. That may not sound exciting, but it has a real effect on your wallet. The central bank's a

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Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-14 23:39:03

Anne Wojcicki has been declared the winner of a bankruptcy auction for 23andMe, the genetics testing start-up she founded, prevailing over a rival bid from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. TTAM Research Institute, a non-profit public benefit company also founded by Wojcicki, won the auction with a $305 million bid for the 23andMe assets, which will not come with any company liabilities attached. 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March after rejecting several go-private offers from Wojcicki in recent y

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Reinventing circuit breakers with supercritical CO2

news.ycombinator.com Emily Waltz 2025-09-15 05:01:38

Researchers this month will begin testing a high-voltage circuit breaker that can quench an arc and clear a fault with supercritical carbon dioxide fluid. The first-of-its-kind device could replace conventional high-voltage breakers, which use the potent greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride, or SF 6. Such equipment is scattered widely throughout power grids as a way to stop the flow of electrical current in an emergency. “SF 6 is a fantastic insulator, but it’s very bad for the environment—probab

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Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-13 17:23:55

Lisp-Stat is conceptually similar to R and will be familiar to most people from that ecosystem. It is suitable for both exploratory data analysis as well as front-line production deployments. Common Lisp is currently used at Google in several high-availability, high-volume transactional systems. Why Lisp? We had a few requirements when evaluating options. Specifically the system had to: Work well in the kind of exploratory environment conducive to analytics and AI Be robust enough to work in

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A shortage of high-voltage power cables could stall the clean energy transition

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-15 00:27:00

In a nutshell: As nations set ever more ambitious targets for renewable energy and electrification, the humble high-voltage cable has emerged as a linchpin – and a potential chokepoint – in the race to decarbonize the global economy. A Bloomberg interview with Claes Westerlind, CEO of NKT, a leading cable manufacturer based in Denmark, explains why. A global surge in demand for high-voltage electricity cables is threatening to stall the clean energy revolution, as the world's ability to build n

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It’s Not Free Yet, but This 15″ HP Laptop (Core i3, 2TB SSD, 64GB RAM) Is $2,300 Off on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-15 03:32:33

When it comes to laptops, there’s a model for every type of user – students, professionals and everyone in between. At the moment, Amazon is putting on an amazing sale on a model that meets all requirements: HP 15.6-inch touchscreen laptop (Intel Core i3, 2TB SSD, 64GB RAM) which is currently available at an all-time low price: This powerhouse of a machine (suited for any type of user) which normally costs $2,769, is now available for just $769 which is a 72% discount. This is one of our favorit

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Wizards of the Coast and Giant Skull: ‘Gamers are telling us what they have always told us’ | The DeanBeat

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-16 07:00:00

Ten days, ago, Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast announced an exclusive publishing agreement with Giant Skull, the game studio started by Star Wars Jedi: Survivor game leader Stig Asmussen. They announced that Asmussen’s studio is working on a new single-player action adventure title set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. I had a chance to talk with the company leaders about the deal. At the Summer Game Fest Play Days, I sat down with John Hight, President of Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gami

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It’s Not Free Yet, but This 15″ HP Laptop (Core i7, 2TB SSD, 64GB RAM) Is $2,600 Off on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-19 11:40:33

When it comes to laptops, there’s a model for every type of user – students, professionals, creative souls, and everyone in between. At the moment, Amazon is putting on an amazing sale on a model that meets all requirements: HP 15.6-inch touchscreen laptop (Intel Core i7, 2TB SSD, 64GB RAM) which is currently available at an all-time low price: This powerhouse of a machine (suited for any type of user) which normally costs $3,599, is now available for just $999 which is a 72% discount. This is

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Tech pioneer who accelerated internet speeds receives prestigious IEEE Medal

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-06-04 14:26:00

"Today, I don't know anybody who can say they know what artificial intelligence is going to bring us in five years, let alone one year or two years," says Henry Samueli, a pioneer in digital modem technology and recipient of the IEEE's 2025 Medal of Honor. Tiernan Ray/ZDNET In the early days of the consumer internet, most access was via a dial-up modem, a device hooked up to a phone line that transmitted requests for web pages via squeaks and squawks like someone yelling into the line. Also: M

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Twitch streamers' uploads and highlights can no longer exceed 100 hours

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-04 10:30:18

Twitch is putting a cap on how much storage a streamer can take up for their uploads and highlight videos. The streaming service has announced that starting on April 19, all uploads and highlights will count towards a new 100-hour storage limit for each streamer, whether the videos are published or not. To note, the cap doesn't apply to past broadcasts, which are previous livestreams saved to a streamer's account for on-demand viewing, or clips, which are minute-long segments that can be shared

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Twitch Announces New Storage Limits, Threatening Gamer Archives

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-06-04 15:50:08

The Internet is forever…until it isn’t. On Wednesday, Twitch announced that it will implement new limits on archived video Highlights and Uploads that users can store on their account. The new rules, set to take effect on April 19, 2025, will set a 100-hour storage limit on saved videos. Any account with more than 100 hours of content will need to manually remove highlights and uploads—including unpublished content that is saved to the channel but not publicly accessible—or be subject to an aut

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Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-04 13:00:16

Popular Amazon-owned game streaming platform Twitch announced Wednesday that it will be imposing a 100-hour limit on the archived video highlights users can preserve permanently on the site. And while Twitch says that only 0.5 percent of users will be affected by these new limits, gamers are warning that the move threatens to eradicate large swaths of recent gaming history from the Internet. Highlights, in Twitch's own words, are a way for Twitch streamers to "show off your best moments to new

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Twitch caps streamers’ storage at 100 hours of highlights and uploads

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-06-04 15:08:58

Twitch on Wednesday announced it will begin limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads, and will delete content if a channel exceeds the limit. The company said it’s introducing the change because highlights haven’t been effective in driving discovery or engagement, and because storage is costly. The storage cap goes into effect on April 19. The change applies to highlights, which are snippets edited from a channel’s past broadcasts, as well as other uploaded content. Clips and

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Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-06-04 17:28:00

Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. On Wednesday, the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for highlights and uploads starting on April 19th, warning that users will have their content automatically deleted until it falls below the limit. Twitch says it’s doing this because “Highlights haven’t been very effective in driving discovery or engagement,” and it isn’t worth the cost of storing thousands o

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Latest Tech News

150 Million Americans Under Life-Threatening Heat Dome This Week

Hot Summer Savings Move: Open a CD While Interest Rates Are High

Snap is acquiring Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools

Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe

College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe

Qfex (YC X25) – Founding Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

The Fed's on Pause, but You Shouldn't Be. Here Are 4 Smart Financial Moves to Make Today

The Fed's on Pause, but You Shouldn't Be. 4 Smart Financial Moves to Make Today

What the Fed's Pause on Rate Cuts Means for Savings Account, CD Rates

4 Smart Money Moves You Must Make Before Wednesday

Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction

Reinventing circuit breakers with supercritical CO2

Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing

A shortage of high-voltage power cables could stall the clean energy transition

It’s Not Free Yet, but This 15″ HP Laptop (Core i3, 2TB SSD, 64GB RAM) Is $2,300 Off on Amazon

Wizards of the Coast and Giant Skull: ‘Gamers are telling us what they have always told us’ | The DeanBeat

It’s Not Free Yet, but This 15″ HP Laptop (Core i7, 2TB SSD, 64GB RAM) Is $2,600 Off on Amazon

Tech pioneer who accelerated internet speeds receives prestigious IEEE Medal

Twitch streamers' uploads and highlights can no longer exceed 100 hours

Twitch Announces New Storage Limits, Threatening Gamer Archives

Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history

Twitch caps streamers’ storage at 100 hours of highlights and uploads

Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads

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