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From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-10-31 08:39:43

New York City students are one week into the statewide phone ban. Gothamist reporters checked in with teens across the district to see how they are adapting. Here's how they are handling their disconnected days. Lower-tech life Polaroids, walkie-talkies and decks of cards: New York City teens said these are some of the hot items circulating in schools now that the statewide smartphone ban is in effect. Alia Soliman, a senior at Bronx Science, said cards “are making a big comeback.” She said kids

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Study Directly Links Emissions from Fossil Fuel Producers to Devastating Heatwaves

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-31 16:14:12

A new study directly links hundreds of major heatwaves since 2000 to the emissions from fossil fuel and cement producers. Among its fundings, the researchers conclude that as many as a quarter of all heatwaves since the start of this century would have been “virtually impossible” without emissions from any of the world’s 14 largest fossil fuel and cement producers. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, shows that greenhouse gas emissions from 180 of the world’s biggest cement, o

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Teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-11-01 04:39:43

New York City students are one week into the statewide phone ban. Gothamist reporters checked in with teens across the district to see how they are adapting. Here's how they are handling their disconnected days. Lower-tech life Polaroids, walkie-talkies and decks of cards: New York City teens said these are some of the hot items circulating in schools now that the statewide smartphone ban is in effect. Alia Soliman, a senior at Bronx Science, said cards “are making a big comeback.” She said k

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These Climate Hacks to Save the Poles Could Totally Backfire

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-07 03:00:23

Last year, the United Nations predicted that Earth’s average temperature could rise more than 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) by 2100 if we don’t reduce global emissions. That level of warming would cause catastrophic, irreversible damage to ecosystems, underscoring the urgent need to slow the pace of climate change. Still, the amount of greenhouse gases humans pump into the atmosphere continues to rise. Without sufficient progress on the emissions front, some scientists have suggest

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Joe Rogan Misinterprets Important Scientific Study So Badly That Its Author Steps in to Correct Him

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-08 17:56:38

Never one to properly interpret anything scientific, uber-popular podcaster Joe Rogan has become entranced by a study that affirms his climate skepticism. Now, as The Guardian reports, one of the study's authors is setting the record straight and pointing out that Rogan is not only drawing the exact opposite conclusion from the study, but that he's spewing misinformation to a vast audience using his incorrect takeaways. Over two years, scientists from the University of Arizona, Tucson and Smit

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Climate Experts Roast Joe Rogan After He Misinterprets Simple Graph to Claim Earth Is Cooling

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-10 14:27:47

Podcaster and former UFC commentator Joe Rogan isn’t exactly known for his scientific expertise, but Rogan’s recent claim that the Earth is cooling—ignoring decades of empirical evidence for global warming—is so egregious that climate experts are straight up roasting him for it. In several recent episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan has used a temperature graph in a Washington Post article in order to claim that global temperatures are actually plummeting. The graph in question comes fro

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This Extremely Slim Phone Is Hitting Apple and Samsung Where It Hurts

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-11 18:00:04

You have to travel across the world to find just how Americans are devoid of choice for interesting phones. At IFA 2025, I went hands-on with Tecno’s Slim phone—or at least I tried to hold onto its incredibly thin frame. It’s an apt name for such an irregular phone, one that has me asking whether Samsung and—potentially—Apple need to rethink what people really want from frisbee-light phones. China-based Tecno has a penchant for weird mobile devices. The company recently revealed a Phantom Ultim

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TED leader’s $300M ‘valley of death’ fund might be just what later-stage climate tech needs

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-13 04:42:26

Like many startups, climate tech companies often face a “valley of death” that lies between early stage funding and growth capital that helps proven technologies reach commercial scale. But because climate tech startups are often hardware focused — physical problems tend to require physical solutions, after all — this valley of death tends to be a lot wider. Financing a first-of-a-kind power plant or factory can cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, a new fund hopes to bridge this

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Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

news.ycombinator.com Darius Snieckus Rory White 2025-11-13 22:51:26

Pichai added that he knew the “road ahead would not be easy,” but Google “aimed to prove that a carbon-free future is both possible and achievable fast enough to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.” “Today, I’m proud to announce that we intend to be the first major company to operate carbon free — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,” he said, in a video announcement . Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020

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“Mockery of science”: Climate scientists tear into new US climate report

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 09:14:42

More than 85 climate scientists declared the Department of Energy’s new climate report unfit for policymaking in a comprehensive review released Tuesday. The DOE’s report cherry-picked evidence, lacked peer-reviewed studies to support its questioning of the detrimental effects of climate change in the US and is “fundamentally incorrect,” the authors concluded. Scientists have accurately modeled and predicted the volume and impact of excess CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere since the 1970s, when Exx

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This ultraportable Lenovo is one of my favorite laptops for remote work - here's why

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-17 21:00:18

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is currently available for $1,299 on Best Buy. It combines an impressive 3K OLED display with a solid battery life -- two things that historically don't go together That said, certain apps' lack of optimization for Windows on ARM might limit some users, like content creators. View now at Best Buy Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Amongst its generation of Copilott+ PCs, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x feels like on

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The Tragic End of Natalia Nagovitsyna's Ordeal on Pobeda Peak

news.ycombinator.com Kris Annapurna 2025-11-16 08:52:54

Although the fate of Russian climber Natalia Nagovitsyna, stranded at 7,150m on Kyrgyzstan’s Pobeda Peak since August 12, has been obvious for several days, the last wisps of hope ended today. A few hours ago, a military drone captured thermal imaging footage of Nagovitsyna’s tent on Pobeda Peak. The images, published on the official website of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (GKNB), revealed no signs of life in her tent. After more than two weeks, Kyrgyz authorities hav

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Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 23:00:52

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Since 2022, Republican lawmakers in Congress and state attorneys general have sent letters to major banks, pension funds, asset managers, accounting firms, companies, nonprofits, and business alliances, putting them on notice for potential antitrust violations and seeking information as part of the Republican pu

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Why this midrange Lenovo laptop is the one I recommend to most people

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-23 03:30:18

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i 15-inch ZDNET's key takeaways The IdeaPad Slim 3i is on sale at Costco for $669. It's an affordable 15-inch laptop with a full-size keyboard and nice selection of ports. The battery isn't spectacular, and its display is lackluster. View now at Costco Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 3i is an affordable, versatile laptop with a competent set of hardware for students or professionals. It's got a full-size keyboard (something tha

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Antarctica Is Unraveling

gizmodo.com Matt Simon 2025-11-25 04:10:15

Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll find not a simple cap of frozen water, but an extraordinarily complex interplay between the ocean, sea ice, and ice sheets and shelves. That relationship is in serious peril. A new paper in the journal Nature catalogs how several “abrupt changes,” like the precipitous loss of sea ice over the last dec

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I've tested dozens of Lenovo laptops: Why this IdeaPad is my sleeper pick for most users

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-25 21:30:17

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i 15-inch ZDNET's key takeaways The IdeaPad Slim 3i is on sale at Costco for $669. It's an affordable 15-inch laptop with a full-size keyboard and nice selection of ports. The battery isn't spectacular, and its display is lackluster. View now at Costco Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 3i is an affordable, versatile laptop with a competent set of hardware for students or professionals. It's got a full-size keyboard (something tha

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Performance Speed Limits (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Travis Downs 2025-11-22 00:06:10

How fast can it go? Sometimes you just want to know how fast your code can go, without benchmarking it. Sometimes you have benchmarked it and want to know how close you are to the maximum speed. Often you just need to know what the current limiting factor is, to guide your optimization decisions. Well this post is about that determining that speed limit. It’s not a comprehensive performance evaluation methodology, but for many small pieces of code it will work very well. Table of Contents Th

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Why I recommend this $700 Lenovo laptop to both college students and working professionals

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-26 23:09:27

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i 15-inch ZDNET's key takeaways The IdeaPad Slim 3i is on sale at Costco for $669. It's an affordable 15-inch laptop with a full-size keyboard and nice selection of ports. The battery isn't spectacular, and its display is lackluster. View now at Costco Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 3i is an affordable, versatile laptop with a competent set of hardware for students or professionals. It's got a full-size keyboard (something tha

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This Qi2 battery pack from Anker just made wireless charging essential for me

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-11-27 04:16:00

Anker Nano Power Bank MagGo Slim ZDNET's key takeaways The Anker Nano Power Bank MagGo Slim battery pack is a sleek Qi2 MagSafe charging option that costs $55. It features a 5K capacity battery, a slim profile, and comes in 4 colors. It's a bit pricier than direct competitors, and it won't be for those who want a larger battery. View now at Anker View now at Amazon more buying choices I just returned from over a week of PTO, and one little product spent nearly as much time with me on my trip

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Japanese town proposes two-hour daily limit on smartphones

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-28 21:27:00

Japanese town proposes two-hour daily limit on smartphones There will be no penalties for breaking the rule, which will be passed in October if approved by lawmakers. Toyoake's mayor said the proposal - which only applies outside of work and study - would not be strictly enforced, but rather was meant to "encourage" residents to better manage their screen time. The proposal, believed to be the first of its kind in Japan, is currently being debated by lawmakers after being submitted by Toyoake

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Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 06:44:12

Today we released a new CDL report: “Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States,” a deep look into litigation efforts against offshore wind in the Northeast. The production of wind energy is crucial for meeting science-based climate goals, particularly in the New England region. But in addition to the looming risk of the federal government withdrawing funds, this endeavor towards non-reliance on fossil fuels is being

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Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and Their Lawyers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 12:44:12

Today we released a new CDL report: “Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States,” a deep look into litigation efforts against offshore wind in the Northeast. The production of wind energy is crucial for meeting science-based climate goals, particularly in the New England region. But in addition to the looming risk of the federal government withdrawing funds, this endeavor towards non-reliance on fossil fuels is being

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German court rules Apple cannot call its smartwatch 'carbon neutral'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 12:15:37

Apple has made some pretty big environmental claims over the years, and one of the more eyebrow-raising ones was that select models of its Apple Watch Series 9 were "carbon neutral." The statement drew some flack from climate experts in 2023, and now a regional court in Frankfurt, Germany has deemed the claim to be unfounded and a violation of competition laws. If the decision stands, Apple may need to revise its language for the smartwatch. The German court took issue with Apple's planting of

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You have just two more days to get a year of US Mobile unlimited for less than $200

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 03:44:46

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR US Mobile is marking its one-year “Super Carrier” milestone with limited-time promotions ending September 28. Unlimited Premium costs $299 per year ($24.90/m) or $35 per month with uncapped data and 20GB international roaming, while Unlimited Starter costs $199 per year.Pixel 10 phones are discounted with annual Unlimited plans: Pixel 10 from $499, Pixel 10 Pro from $669, and Pixel 10 Pro XL from $789. If you’ve been thinking about giving a new phone

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Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Maev Kennedy 2025-12-05 12:31:34

At least 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician Pythagoras looked at a right angled triangle and worked out that the square of the longest side is always equal to the sum of the squares of the other two, an unknown Babylonian genius took a clay tablet and a reed pen and marked out not just the same theorem, but a series of trigonometry tables which scientists claim are more accurate than any available today. The 3,700-year-old broken clay tablet survives in the collections of Columbia Unive

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Scientists Alarmed to Discover That Earth's Continents Are Drying Out

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-06 11:30:25

New research examining over 20 years of data captured by NASA's twin climate satellites, GRACE and GRACE-FO, has revealed an "unprecedented" level of water loss among the planet's continents, creating "mega-drying" regions across the northern hemisphere. One of these mega regions spans Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and vast swaths of Asia. That should clue you in to the staggering scale of this phenomenon, which the scientists are calling terrestrial water storage (TWS) loss. Since 200

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If You've Breathed Wildfire Smoke, Scientists Just Found Something Horrifying

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-08 06:15:41

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Have you gone outside recently and smelled an acrid odor, perhaps accompanied by a hellish orange sky? Check the news, and you were likely downwind of massive wildfires like those in the Canadian province of Manitoba or the Florida Everglades— an increasingly regular event as millions of people find themselves in the path of noxious smoke, sometimes from a country away. Wildfires are becoming more common than ever amid the ravages of climate change — and thos

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GPT-5 usage limitations: what are they, how does this compare to GPT-4 family?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 09:00:51

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority GPT-5 arrived a few weeks ago, though its rollout hasn’t been entirely smooth. While the model shows plenty of promise, its debut also meant the abrupt removal of every other GPT model from ChatGPT’s user-facing UI. Since then, some old models have returned, and there have been a few other changes to the way the system works. Furthermore, many of the initial GPT-5 usage limits have been temporarily enhanced since launch. Let’s dive in and take a closer look

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Trump’s Stance on Science Is Starting to Look Uncomfortably Soviet

gizmodo.com Lois Parshley 2025-12-11 02:35:00

In the fall of 1925, agronomist Trofim Lysenko arrived on the dusty plains of what is now Azerbaijan, hoping to keep cows from starving to death over the winter. The young scientist, who learned to read as a teenager during the Russian Revolution, dismissed the rapidly advancing field of genetics. He believed nature could be bent to human will. Lysenko denounced the idea that genes pass traits down as a “degradation of bourgeois culture,” and couldn’t understand why cows bred to produce more mi

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Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 11:08:30

Using Common Lisp from inside the Browser Tagged as lisp, webassembly Table of Contents Web Embeddable Common Lisp is a project that brings Common Lisp and the Web Browser environments together. In this post I'll outline the current progress of the project and provide some technical details, including current caveats and future plans. It is important to note that this is not a release and none of the described APIs and functionalities is considered to be stable. Things are still changing and

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From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

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The Tragic End of Natalia Nagovitsyna's Ordeal on Pobeda Peak

Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG

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I've tested dozens of Lenovo laptops: Why this IdeaPad is my sleeper pick for most users

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Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers

Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and Their Lawyers

German court rules Apple cannot call its smartwatch 'carbon neutral'

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Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)

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If You've Breathed Wildfire Smoke, Scientists Just Found Something Horrifying

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