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Ford's F-150 Lightning STX replaces the XLT while boosting range and power

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 18:08:46

Ford has unveiled a new F-150 Lightning variant called the STX that brings extra range and a rugged attitude to the lineup. The model is likely a response to slipping F-150 Lightning sales and was designed based on customer feedback, the company said. It will replace the current XLT model at the same starting price. Slotting in near the bottom of the lineup after the Lightning Pro, the STX trim offers an upgrade in range and power over the XLT. The new dual motor system delivers 536 horsepower

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Changing these 10 settings on my Pixel phone gave it a nice performance boost

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-10-13 18:49:00

Even older Pixel models can get in on the optimization tweaks. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google Pixel phones are notorious for having hidden settings that can greatly enhance the user experience. The list includes options for ramping up the display refresh rate, optimizing the battery life, and gestures. I demo them on a Pixel 9a running on Android 15, but newer and older software versions should have similar capabilities. W

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64

news.ycombinator.com Frank Gasking 2025-10-13 17:01:18

DISCLAIMER: We are a non-profit digitisation project, aiming to digitally preserve software and history which would otherwise be lost for good. If for any reason there is anything that you do not wish to be on the website, please contact us for removal. Games That Weren't® is the registered trademark of Frank Gasking.

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The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-13 22:10:00

The world is full of extraordinary young people brimming with ideas for how to crack tough problems. Every year, we recognize 35 such individuals from around the world—all of whom are under the age of 35. These scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs are working to help mitigate climate change, accelerate scientific progress, and alleviate human suffering from disease. Some are launching companies while others are hard at work in academic labs. They were selected from hundreds of nominees by e

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Uber and partner Momenta will start testing robotaxis in Europe next year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 22:30:58

Uber and its new partner Momenta will start testing an autonomous ride-sharing service in Europe in 2026, Momenta announced. The service will kick off in Munich, Germany using Momenta's self-driving tech and Uber's ride-sharing platform, with the goal of future European expansion. The companies chose Munich to kick off the operation due to the city's "deep-rooted engineering heritage, top-tier automotive ecosystem and openness to innovation," Momenta said. Momenta and Uber announced a "strategi

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2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

technologyreview.com Helen Thomson 2025-10-14 06:30:00

Goenka saw a better way: Build a real-time system that could “stream” the sequencing data, analyzing it as it was being generated, like streaming a film on Netflix rather than downloading it to watch later. To do this, she designed a cloud computing architecture to pull in more processing power. Goenka’s first challenge was to increase the speed at which her team could upload the raw data for processing, by streamlining the requests between the sequencer and the cloud to avoid unnecessary “chat

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How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words

technologyreview.com Eileen Guo 2025-10-14 06:45:00

Looking ahead, an academic at a public university in Texas, where the money granted for indirect costs funds student salaries, said he plans to hire fewer students for his own lab. “It’s very sad that I cannot promise [positions] at this point because of this,” he told us, adding that the cap could also affect the competitiveness of public universities in Texas, since schools elsewhere may fund their student researchers differently. At the same time, two people with funding through the Defense

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Finally, a Windows desktop I'd recommend to both professionals and gamers (and it's fairly priced)

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-14 06:55:00

Lenovo Legion T5 gaming desktop ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Legion Tower 5 is available now for $1,880. This desktop excels at a wide range of tasks, from gaming to 3D image rendering and graphic design. However, because of the PC's squat design, some users may have difficulty finding a comfortable place for it. View now at Best Buy View now at Lenovo more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Building a gaming PC can be difficult if you're new to the hobb

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How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan 'Thejpster' Pallant 2025-10-11 14:19:54

How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs? Posted on 2025-08-20 Contents Background I was browsing /r/vintagecomputing, as you do, and I came across this post: Hi all. Back in the day I was a developer working exclusively on Solaris. About 25 years ago, for one reason and another I came into possession of about 30 assorted SPARC based workstations and a few other bits and bobs, network/SCSI cards, keyboards, mice, etc. I think there's also one UltraSPARC in there too. This stuff was well past its

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Look Out for Bugs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 10:59:45

Look Out For Bugs One of my biggest mid-career shifts in how I write code was internalizing the idea from this post: Don’t Write Bugs Historically, I approached coding with an iteration-focused mindset — you write a draft version of a program, you set up some kind of a test to verify that it does what you want it to do, and then you just quickly iterate on your draft until the result passes all the checks. This was a great approach when I was only learning to code, as it allowed me to iterate

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I Hate My AI Friend

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-10-14 06:30:00

Schiffmann seems to be doing well, compared to the last times either of us spoke to him. When he first announced the Friend, he talked about how he had come up with the idea for an AI buddy while traveling alone and yearning for companionship. Schiffmann posits himself as older now, wiser, more experienced than he was when he first debuted the Friend necklace. (He is 22.) He has grown out his hair and cultivated a beard, and he seems to have more real-life personal connections than when he first

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Ford introduces F-150 Lightning STX to replace XLT trim

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-14 06:00:00

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It hasn’t been the greatest year for the Ford F-150 Lightning, with sales so far this year down nearly 10 percent as compared to last year. In the hopes of boosting interest in the battery-powered truck, Ford today announced a new appea

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The influencer in this Vodafone ad isn’t real

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-14 06:18:45

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I opened TikTok while visiting Germany last week and stumbled across a Vodafone ad being presented by a woman who probably doesn’t exist. The ad includes several “tells” that suggest the presenter was artificially created using generative AI — the unnatural style and movement of her hair, the way her moles disappear, and the uncanny valley vibe of her facial expressions — and Vodafone confirmed my suspicions

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Samsung just quietly teased its Galaxy Glasses - and almost no one noticed

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-14 02:46:00

Samsung's Jay Kim at its live streamed Galaxy Event on Sept. 4, 2025. Samsung | screenshot by Jason Hiner/ZDNET It's well known that Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm are joining forces to release wearable devices powered by Android XR. After all, the three companies have been talking about it for two and a half years and they've made it clear that Project Moohan -- their XR headset to compete with Apple Vision Pro -- will launch before the end of 2025. But there's another product that they've bee

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AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies

news.ycombinator.com Torsten Sløk 2025-10-14 06:56:48

The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has used AI tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents or voice recognition to help produce goods or services in the past two weeks. Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employees, see chart below. This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in w

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Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 23:22:05

CONTENTS YouTube BlueSky GitHub LinkedIn Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay Posted: June 10, 2017 Introduction A group of my coworkers play board games during lunch time on Fridays and at one point invited me to play. Unfortunately all they play is a bunch of modern hipster games when I wanted to play Hungry Hungry Hippos. No one wanted to play with me so I decided to build circuitry that would take their place. Pushing the plastic lever eventually got really tiring so

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Why Is Japan Still Investing in Custom Floating Point Accelerators?

news.ycombinator.com Timothy Prickett Morgan 2025-10-11 19:27:24

It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now, we live in a world where AI servers crammed with accelerators account for half of the money spent on systems worldwide. There is no law anywhere that says that accelerator has to be a GPU, although that has been the accelerator of choice by far because GPUs are, like CPUs, general purpose processors that are explicitly designed to support vario

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Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code

news.ycombinator.com Chris Chinchilla 2025-10-11 13:33:11

Have you ever tried programming with a language that uses musical notation? What about a language that never runs programs the same way? What about a language where you write code with photographs? All exist, among many others, in the world of esoteric programming languages, and Daniel Temkin has written a forthcoming book covering 44 of them, some of which exist and are usable to some interpretation of the word “usable.” The book, Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code, is out on 23 Sep

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Show HN: C++ library for reading MacBook lid angle sensor data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 07:04:51

MacBook Lid Angle Sensor C++ Library A C++ library for reading MacBook lid angle sensor data, based on reverse engineering of HID device specifications. Features 🔍 Direct access to MacBook's built-in lid angle sensor 📏 Real-time precise angle measurements (0-360 degree range) ⚡ High-performance C++ implementation with modern C++14 standard support 🛡️ Comprehensive exception handling mechanism 🔧 Clean and easy-to-use API interface 📦 CMake build system support Device Compatibility Suppor

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Show HN: Veena Chromatic Tuner

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 07:38:34

Veena Chromatic Tuner lets you to tune in Equal Temperament/Just Intonation with oscilloscope-like stable waveform display. This powerful, versatile tuning application is designed for musicians who need precise control over their instrument tuning across multiple musical traditions (Equal Temperament, Just Intonation). It displays the pitch (frequency) and deviation in cents via a needle interface. A unique visual feature is its linear and circular waveform display of input audio: the waveform a

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Turkey vs. Spain: Livestream World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 16:45:05

European champions Spain face a tough match in Turkey on Sunday as they look to make it back-to-back wins in World Cup qualifying Group E. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. The Spaniards kicked off their campaign with a comfortable 3-0 dispatch of Bulgaria in Sofia on Thursday, thanks to first-half goals from Mikel Oyarzabal, Marc Cucure

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Best of IFA 2025 Awards: Android Authority’s top picks from the show

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 23:43:47

IFA 2025 has brought no shortage of exciting announcements, from bold new smartphones to super-bright projectors, smarter appliances, and even drones that rethink what’s possible. As always, we’ve combed through the show floor in Berlin to find the standouts that truly impressed us. From Lenovo’s OLED gaming handheld to TCL’s eye-friendly phone, Samsung’s latest Fan Edition, and some surprising innovations in audio, charging, and the smart home, here are our picks for the very Best of IFA 2025.

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Nintendo wins a $2 million lawsuit against popular Switch modding webstore

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 23:45:28

Nintendo has just won another major battle in its longstanding war against piracy. Earlier this summer, a US federal court ruled in favor of Nintendo in a lawsuit against Ryan Daly and the Modded Hardware website. The site was known for selling devices that allowed users to get around Nintendo's piracy protections, including the popular MIG Switch flashcart that lets buyers play official Nintendo games without the need for a physical cartridge. Besides requiring Daly to pay $2 million to Nintend

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iCloud Calendar abused to send phishing emails from Apple’s servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-13 23:10:29

iCloud Calendar invites are being abused to send callback phishing emails disguised as purchase notifications directly from Apple's email servers, making them more likely to bypass spam filters to land in targets' inboxes. Earlier this month, a reader shared an email with BleepingComputer that claimed to be a payment receipt for $599 charged against the recipient's PayPal account. This email included a phone number if the recipient wanted to discuss the payment or make changes to it. "Hello Cu

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‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Summons a Franchise-Best Box Office

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-14 02:15:13

After a longer-than-expected wait, the fictionalized versions of Ed and Lorraine Warren have financially gone out with a bang. Per the Hollywood Reporter, this weekend’s The Conjuring: Last Rites has made $187 million worldwide. Of that, $83 million came domestically, becoming the best launch for a Conjuring movie, the third-biggest open for a horror movie overall, and well past initial projections from Warner Bros. and box office analysts. Internationally, its $104 million take also defied exp

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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-14 03:23:23

A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated. To ill

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Human stem cells age more rapidly in space, study finds

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 01:56:51

While scientists are still working to understand the effects an extended trip to space can have on the human body, research in recent years has suggested that astronauts may experience some pretty dramatic changes on both the physiological and psychological levels. In the latest study led by a team at University of California San Diego, researchers found signs of accelerated aging in human stem cells that spent roughly a month in space. The research focused on hematopoietic stem and progenitor

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Silksong reviews drop to mostly negative for Chinese players due to confusing translations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 03:26:31

For most Hollow Knight: Silksong players, the combat is challenging and the boss fights are punishing. However, there's another layer of complexity for anyone playing the sequel in Simplified Chinese: the bizarre translations. On its Steam store page, Silksong currently sits at a "Mostly Positive" rating across reviews in all languages. Once you filter for the Simplified Chinese reviews, the Metroidvania-style game plummets to "Mostly Negative." There are plenty of complaints about Silksong bei

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I Used a $400 Smart Toaster to Make Pop-Tarts and All I Got Was a Tummy Ache

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-13 22:00:32

As much as I love my makeshift smart home, the idea of a house where everything is internet-connected sometimes borders on the absurd. In today’s age, we have smart everything: smart fridges, smart ovens, smart vacuums, smart microwaves, smart coffee makers, and, of course, the venerable smart toaster. It’s tales of this last one that I’m going to regale you with today, since I know you’re simply burning up inside (pun intended), not knowing whether you should throw your tried-and-true toasting

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Here’s How Much More AI-Skilled Workers Make

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-14 01:05:13

Employers are increasingly offering pay boosts for workers with artificial intelligence skills, even in roles beyond tech. How much more? We looked at three different studies to see just how much more artificial intelligence skills will pay. According to CNBC, roles specifying AI competencies are trending across job postings, with employers adding salary incentives for candidates who bring the right mix of AI know-how—even in traditionally non-technical roles. The emerging trend reflects the g

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Ford's F-150 Lightning STX replaces the XLT while boosting range and power

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I Used a $400 Smart Toaster to Make Pop-Tarts and All I Got Was a Tummy Ache

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