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The best laptops of 2025: I've tested dozens of laptops and these are the best ones

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-02-19 09:00:20

Laptops come in a variety of different form factors these days, with manufacturers playing into the different categories to develop an intended use case. For example, lightweight laptops are made to be carried around, and trade in some raw power for portability. 2-in-1 laptops come with touchscreens that allow for use as a tablet. The best form factor for you reflects how you think you'll use the device. Lightweight/ultraportable laptops Made for students, hybrid workers, and anyone who needs

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news.ycombinator.com Hamel Husain 2026-02-16 12:48:16

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Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

news.ycombinator.com Pedro Tavares 2026-02-16 11:43:57

For years, I’ve felt that writing lines of code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication. All of this wrapped inside the labyrinth of tickets, planning meetings, and agile rituals. These processes, meant to drive quality, often slow us down more than the act of writing code itself because they require t

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Microsoft Is Firing About 9,000 People Because Business Is Great

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-18 20:54:49

Microsoft is laying off thousands of employees, even as its profits and stock price hit historic highs. For many worried about the future of work in the age of artificial intelligence, the message is chilling: performance and profitability are no longer protections against the axe. The software giant, which is playing a central role in the generative AI boom, confirmed to Gizmodo on Wednesday that it is undergoing another major round of layoffs. While Microsoft did not provide an exact figure,

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Best Family Phone Plans for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 09:39:00

If you compare the specifics of T-Mobile's Essentials and Essentials Saver plans, you might think the company forgot to update one or the other -- they're Essential-ly the same. With both, you get 50GB of fast Premium 5G data (depending on the network capabilities in your area), which drops to 3G speeds of still-unlimited data after that allotment is used up. You can use your phone as a mobile hotspot with unlimited data, but only at 3G speeds and restricted to paltry 2G speeds when you're in Ca

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Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-02-19 06:30:41

• Leverage a copywriting Gem to create posts and content tailored to your target audience, pre-loaded into the Gem. • Create a Gem that helps with sales interactions that is grounded on information for a specific company, prospect, or industry. • Leverage an “assistant gem” tailored to your job role to help provide more relevant summaries for you and content for internal communications. • Leverage a Gem designed to help pressure test content from a certain persona (e.x C-Suite or CEO) to help

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Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video generation model globally

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-02-19 08:56:48

In Brief Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries. Video generation via the new model is available only to paying subscribers of Google’s AI Pro plan, and is capped at 3 videos per day. Veo 3, which Google showed off in May, lets users to generate videos up to 8 seconds long using text prompts. Google’s Josh Woodward has said that the company is working on adding image-to-video generation capabilities to Gemi

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AI voice startup ElevenLabs pushes global expansion as it gears up for an IPO

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-02-19 08:16:14

Founded in 2022, ElevenLabs is an AI voice generation startup based in London. It competes with the likes of Speechmatics and Hume AI. LONDON — ElevenLabs, a London-based startup that specializes in generating synthetic voices through artificial intelligence, has revealed plans to be IPO-ready within five years. The company told CNBC it is targeting major global expansion as it prepares for an initial public offering. "We expect to build more hubs in Europe, Asia and South America, and just k

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Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app

news.ycombinator.com See Full Bio 2026-02-16 10:31:32

Starting this month, you'll no longer be able to use Microsoft Authenticator's autofill password function, a move the company is making to transition from passwords to passkeys. Last month, Microsoft stopped letting you save new passwords in the app. Next month is the biggest change, all your saved passwords will no longer be in the Authenticator app. You'll have to use passkeys instead -- such as a PIN, fingerprint or facial recognition. Attila Tomaschek, CNET's software senior writer and dig

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Physicists start to pin down how stars forge heavy atoms

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Ahart 2026-02-18 22:18:32

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) may not glitter quite like the night sky, plunked as it is between Michigan State University’s chemistry department and the performing arts center. Inside, though, the lab is teeming with substances that are otherwise found only in stars. Here, atomic nuclei accelerate to half the speed of light, smash into a target and shatter into smithereens. The collisions create some of the same rare, unstable isotopes that arise inside stars and which, through a

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Serenading Cells with Audible Sound Alters Gene Activity

news.ycombinator.com Simon Makin 2026-02-16 00:04:53

The cells in your ears aren’t the only ones listening: recent research suggests that crucial cells throughout the body may respond to audible sound. Experiments described in Communications Biology revealed more than 100 genes whose activity changed in response to these acoustic waves, pointing to possible medical applications. Extensive earlier research has shown that ultrasound—sound at frequencies higher than humans can hear—can affect biology in numerous ways; the new study expands this conc

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Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

news.ycombinator.com May 2026-02-16 04:51:38

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

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Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 09:00:33

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Scary Survey Results: Teen Drivers Are Often Looking at Their Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 06:01:03

A new study reveals that teen drivers in the US are spending more than one-fifth of their driving time distracted by their phones, with many glances lasting long enough to significantly raise the risk of a crash. Published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention and released on Thursday, the research found that, on average, teens reported looking at their phones during 21.1% of every driving trip. More than a quarter of those distractions lasted two seconds or longer, which is an amount of time

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French B2B neobank Qonto reaches 600,000 customers, files for banking license

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2026-02-19 06:00:00

“Is Qonto a real bank?” is one of the top suggested questions in Google searches about the French fintech startup. The answer is no, but it could change: Qonto has filed for a banking license in France, CEO Alexandre Prot revealed. Qonto, which targets European freelancers and SMBs, currently operates with a payment institution license it obtained in 2018, and which already enabled it to introduce a form of buy now, pay later (BNPL). But a credit institution license would let it offer broader l

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U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China amid trade truce

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-02-19 11:58:53

The U.S. government has rescinded its export restrictions on chip-design software to China, semiconductor software companies Synopsys and Cadence announced Thursday. "Synopsys is working to restore access to the recently restricted products in China," the California-based software maker said in a statement. Its rival, Cadence, confirmed with CNBC that the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security, which falls under the Department of Commerce, had reversed the export restrictions. "We are in the pr

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Your Roku has secret menus and screens - here's how to unlock them

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2026-02-19 10:00:17

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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What to build instead of AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Hugo Bowne-Anderson 2026-02-19 08:02:43

Paul: Today, the scene is owned by Hugo, a brilliant mind who advises and teaches teams building LLM-powered systems, including engineers from Netflix, Meta, and the U.S. Air Force. He runs a course on the LLM software development lifecycle, focusing on everything from retrieval and evaluation to agent design, and all the intermediate steps in between. Enough talking, I’ll let him dig into today’s controversial topic: “Stop building AI agents”. ↓🎙️ P.S. I agree with him. 🤫 Hugo: I've taught

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Microsoft Will Delete Your Passwords in One Month

news.ycombinator.com See Full Bio 2026-02-16 16:31:32

Starting this month, you'll no longer be able to use Microsoft Authenticator's autofill password function, a move the company is making to transition from passwords to passkeys. Last month, Microsoft stopped letting you save new passwords in the app. Next month is the biggest change, all your saved passwords will no longer be in the Authenticator app. You'll have to use passkeys instead -- such as a PIN, fingerprint or facial recognition. Attila Tomaschek, CNET's software senior writer and dig

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More Efficient Thermoelectric Cooling

news.ycombinator.com May 2026-02-16 10:51:38

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

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Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

news.ycombinator.com Morez Jacobs 2026-02-19 08:24:46

Provenance and ethics The human remains were excavated from the Nuwayrat necropolis near Beni Hasan, Egypt. They were donated between 1902 and 1904 by the Egyptian Antiquities Service to the members of the Beni Hasan excavation committee and subsequently donated to the Institute of Archaeology, University of Liverpool and exported under the John Garstang export permit. The human remains were then donated to the World Museum (previously the Liverpool City Museum) in 1950. Sampling permit was gra

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Microsoft Just Fired About 9,000 People While Making Billions

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-19 08:54:49

Microsoft is laying off thousands of employees, even as its profits and stock price hit historic highs. For many worried about the future of work in the age of artificial intelligence, the message is chilling: performance and profitability are no longer protections against the axe. The software giant, which is playing a central role in the generative AI boom, confirmed to Gizmodo on Wednesday that it is undergoing another major round of layoffs. While Microsoft did not provide an exact figure,

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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Issues? It Might Just Be Your HDMI Cable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 08:17:37

As the Switch 2 continues to sell in the millions for Nintendo, it shouldn't be a surprise that there'd be some issues with the console. It appears, however, that one problem Switch 2 owners are facing is actually just a matter of using the wrong cable. Reddit users have posted about their Joy-Cons disconnecting when they're playing on their Switch 2 while it's docked, an issue spotted earlier by IGN. It does appear that, luckily, the issue can be resolved by using the included HDMI cable for t

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From Le Mans to Driven—where does F1: The Movie rank?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-18 23:08:25

It may not have escaped your attention that there's a new film about motorsport called F1: The Movie. It's a return-to-racing story with elements you'll have seen before, just maybe with other sports. A driver has been looking to slay his personal demons. There's a wise veteran, an impatient rookie, and an underdog team with its back to the wall. Except this time, the backdrop is the multicolored circus of Formula 1, seen close up at 200 mph. Backed by Apple and made by people responsible for h

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That XOR Trick (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 20:32:41

There are a whole bunch of popular interview questions that can be solved in one of two ways: Either using common data structures and algorithms in a sensible manner, or by using some properties of XOR in a seemingly hard to understand way. While it seems unreasonable to expect the XOR solutions in interviews, it is quite fun to figure out how they work. As it turns out, they are all based on the same fundamental trick, which we will derive in a bottom-up way in this post. Afterwards we will lo

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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 11:42:53

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Subscribe From World War II until 2024, the US stood unchallenged as the scientific leader of the free world. Across practically every discipline — physics, materials science, astronomy, chemistry, biology, medicine, geology, etc. — American scientific missions and initiatives, often in collaboration with European, Canadian, Asian, and many other global partners, b

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Microsoft's 'Blue Screen of Death' Dies After 40 Years: Meet Its Replacement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 10:58:33

Like Pudding Pops and Benetton sweaters, another 1980s icon is gone. After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" is going away. A black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit without the sad face. The blue screen of death has been around since Windows 1.0 came out in 1985. Named for its bright blue color, it's a critical error screen that pops up on computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system when the

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OpenAI condemns Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-02-19 12:43:27

OpenAI wants to make clear that Robinhood’s sale of “OpenAI tokens” will not give everyday consumers equity — or stock — in OpenAI, the company said in a post from its official newsroom account on X. OpenAI says it does not endorse Robinhood’s effort, nor was it involved in facilitating the token sale. “These ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity,” said OpenAI’s newsroom account. “We did not partner with Robinhood, were not involved in this, and do not endorse it. Any transfer of OpenAI equity

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Capital One builds agentic AI to supercharge auto sales

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-02-18 15:26:12

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Inspiration can come from different places, even for architecting and designing agentic systems. At VB Transform, Capital One explained how it built its agentic platform for its auto business. Milind Naphade, SVP of Technology and Head of AI Foundations at Capital One, said during VB Transform that the company wanted its agents to function

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Two years in, Apple is now officially on Threads

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-19 17:07:49

It took a minute, but Apple has at last activated its official Threads account. And thanks to its massive Instagram presence, it instantly picked up nearly 5 million followers. Today’s move comes well after several Apple-related accounts joined Instagram’s alternative to X right out of the gate. Apple Music, Apple News, Apple Books, Shazam, and Beats by Dre were among the first to show up shortly after Threads launched in mid-2023, but the main @apple account remained absent until now. Instant

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Latest Tech News

The best laptops of 2025: I've tested dozens of laptops and these are the best ones

About AI Evals

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

Microsoft Is Firing About 9,000 People Because Business Is Great

Best Family Phone Plans for 2025

Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail

Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video generation model globally

AI voice startup ElevenLabs pushes global expansion as it gears up for an IPO

Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app

Physicists start to pin down how stars forge heavy atoms

Serenading Cells with Audible Sound Alters Gene Activity

Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]

Scary Survey Results: Teen Drivers Are Often Looking at Their Phones

French B2B neobank Qonto reaches 600,000 customers, files for banking license

U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China amid trade truce

Your Roku has secret menus and screens - here's how to unlock them

What to build instead of AI agents

Microsoft Will Delete Your Passwords in One Month

More Efficient Thermoelectric Cooling

Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

Microsoft Just Fired About 9,000 People While Making Billions

Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Issues? It Might Just Be Your HDMI Cable

From Le Mans to Driven—where does F1: The Movie rank?

That XOR Trick (2020)

American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

Microsoft's 'Blue Screen of Death' Dies After 40 Years: Meet Its Replacement

OpenAI condemns Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens’

Capital One builds agentic AI to supercharge auto sales

Two years in, Apple is now officially on Threads

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