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Digital Grave-Robbing: How AI Is Plundering Online Obituaries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 17:00:00

My sister had only been gone for a few hours and the AI afterlife had already devoured her. Jamie went into the hospital with stomach pain on a Friday last January. By Tuesday morning, she had passed away from an aggressive lymphoma at 36. Later that afternoon, my mom got a text about a suspicious obituary my aunt saw online. The errors jumped out immediately. Her cause of death was listed as autism. The obituary chronicled a funeral that hadn't happened yet. The loss was described as saddenin

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Best Internet Providers in Ann Arbor, Michigan

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 19:16:00

What is the best internet provider in Ann Arbor, Michigan? Looking for the fastest, most reliable internet in Ann Arbor? AT&T Fiber is CNET's pick for the best internet service provider in Ann Arbor. Being the area's only fiber provider, it delivers equal upload and download speeds -- essential for remote work and online gaming. Speeds range from 300Mbps to 5,000Mbps, for $55 to $245 monthly. But that's not all. AT&T Fiber also has the lead in customer satisfaction. The provider has the highest

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Max: The 28 Absolute Best TV Shows to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 19:30:05

Browsing Max for a new show to watch? The service that delivers HBO to the streaming masses is set to bring back the HBO Max moniker at some point this summer but it's still known as Max for now. The service is home to popular shows like The Last of Us, The White Lotus, Hacks and The Pitt. There's no shortage of exceptional fare to explore. Here are the highly rated series you shouldn't wait to watch on Max, plus this month's new releases. What's new on Max in June Note: These descriptions a

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Asus ROG Azoth X Review: A Space-Age Gaming Keyboard

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-09-05 18:00:00

A lot of mechanical keyboards struggle with aesthetics. It’s hard to get right! If the styling is overdone, you might inhibit functionality or just have too much going on visually. If you stick to the basics, you might end up with a bland keyboard. Whichever way you go, there’s still a chance you’ll get it wrong and have something that doesn’t look good. But there’s been an influx of really well-designed keyboards of late: Keychron’s K2 HE Special Edition is a great example, along with the Mcho

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Weird-shaped notebooks make me want to write again

theverge.com Andru Marino 2025-09-05 19:00:00

Andru Marino is an audio and video producer at The Verge. “I make videos on our YouTube / TikTok / Instagram channels, and have produced our podcasts like Vergecast, Decoder, and Why’d You Push That Button?” He also keeps a lot of notes, and his latest favorite places to keep them are the Triangle and Sidekick notebooks. I asked him about them. Where did you first hear about these notebooks? I don’t really remember when I first saw the Triangle Notebook. It was probably an Instagram ad. I had

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Scientists Just Found Something Unbelievably Grim About Pollution Generated by AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-05 20:00:45

Tech companies are hellbent on pushing out ever more advanced artificial intelligence models — but there appears to be a grim cost to that progress. In a new study in the science journal Frontiers in Communication, German researchers found that large language models (LLM) that provide more accurate answers use exponentially more energy — and hence produce more carbon — than their simpler and lower-performing peers. In other words, the findings are a grim sign of things to come for the environme

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The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Mike Woodward 2025-09-02 04:29:31

A spy, a scoundrel, and a scholar William Playfair was all three. He led an extraordinary life at the heart of many of the great events of the 18th and 19th centuries, mostly in morally dubious roles. Among all the intrigue, scandal, and indebtedness, he found time to invent the bar and pie charts, and make pioneering use of line charts. As we'll see, he was quite a character. Playfair the scoundrel Playfair's lifetime (1759-1823) contained some momentous events: The development of the steam

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How Borderlands 4 mixes the action up with Fadefields and The Vault | Graeme Timmins interview — The DeanBeat

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-05 13:00:00

Borderlands 4 has some clear runway now that Grand Theft Auto VI is coming next year instead of this year. The action role-playing first-person shooter looter game (now priced at $70 instead of the previously floated $80) is coming on September 12 on the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and the Windows PC. I visited 2K’s Hangar 13 studio in Novato, California, and played a couple of hours of Borderlands 4. I have been writing up my impressions this week. I also interviewed the

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Borderlands 4: Jump into the endless fight in the Vault

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-05 16:00:00

Borderlands 4 has a new challenge mode where you can battle high-level enemies in the Vault. The action role-playing first-person shooter looter game (now priced at $70 instead of the previously floated $80) is coming on September 12 on the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and the Windows PC. The Vault missions are optional content. You will need to locate the various key fragments to unlock the vaults but it isn’t required for main game progression. They do present challenges

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Which MacBook should you buy in 2025?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-05 15:16:16

MacBooks are great computers, but there’s a number of different varieties to think about. Between last gen hardware and all of the current models available now, it can feel like there’s a lot of options. Today, we’ll be breaking down which MacBook is right for you, depending on your budget and what you need it for. At the most basic level, Apple offers two MacBook models: the MacBook Air, and the MacBook Pro. Both come in smaller and larger sizes (13-inch and 15-inch for MacBook Air, 14-inch an

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Xbox's VR headset with Meta could be released sooner than we thought

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-05 14:05:12

Xbox has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a chunky console. It's recently taken on the form of an Asus gaming handheld, and it might even be packaged as a VR headset soon. According to an image leaked on X and Game Sandwich, Xbox is reportedly teaming up with Meta to release an Xbox-branded Quest 3S headset in the coming days. The rumored specs show a very similar build to the base model Quest 3S with 128GB of storage, but will reportedly be bundled with an Xbox wireless controller

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Best Internet Providers in Boise, Idaho

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 13:12:00

What is the best internet provider in Boise? Our CNET experts found that T-Mobile is the best internet provider in Boise for most households, thanks to its affordability, reliable speeds and high customer satisfaction. With limited options in the Boise area, T-Mobile stands out with competitive pricing and speeds that meet the needs of most households. Plans start at $50 per month but eligible mobile customers can get coverage for as low as $35 per month. Beyond T-Mobile, there are a few other

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New body size database for marine animals is a “library of life”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-05 13:03:52

Legend has it that physicist Ernest Rutherford once dismissed all sciences other than physics as mere "stamp collecting." (Whether he actually said it is a matter of some debate.) But we now live in the information age, and scientists have found tremendous value in amassing giant databases of information for large-scale analysis, enabling them to explore different kinds of questions. The latest addition is the Marine Organizational Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its

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You Can Now Buy a Sample of Ozzy Osbourne's DNA in Twelve Easy Payments

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-05 14:00:30

A kitschy new brand partnership between John "Ozzy" Osbourne and Liquid Death, the canned water brand, is releasing a limited run of cans of iced tea infused with DNA from the Prince of Darkness himself. Sadly, the iced tea is long gone. The cans have all been chugged and crushed by Osbourne himself, leaving "behind trace DNA from his saliva that you can now own," according to Liquid Death's website. But let's be real, you don't buy a rockstar's backwash to quench your thirst — you're buying i

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Using the Ocean to Suck Up CO2 Could Come With the Small, Unintended Side Effect of Wiping Out Marine Life

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-05 15:30:33

As global temperatures soar and emissions remain higher than ever, scientists are exploring the dramatic, planet-wide interventions we could take to stave off the climate crisis. One of the most intriguing possibilities involves using the ocean, already the world's largest carbon sink, to suck up even more of the greenhouse gas by removing some of the carbon that it already stores. Dozens of startups are already experimenting with this form of climate intervention, which is sometimes referred

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Review: Logitech Flip Folio is a fun new iPad keyboard case, if you’re the right user

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-05 12:30:00

A few weeks ago, Logitech announced an interesting new keyboard case for the iPad Air and iPad Pro – called the Logitech Flip Folio. It takes a different approach, and certainly targets a new market that hasn’t quite been thought about before. Overview First things first, this keyboard does not utilize the smart connector – unlike other Logitech keyboards for iPad. However, as you’ll soon see – that’s an essential part of the product. Unlike other iPad keyboards that force the keyboard and th

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I’m not typically an iPad fan, but the M4 iPad Pro changed my mind

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-05 14:15:44

For the longest time, I had believed that purchasing a new iPad at full price never made any sort of sense. Ultimately, you’re paying more than an equivalently spec’d MacBook, for less capability. It always felt like iPadOS was the key limiting factor for the iPad, not the hardware. However, I’ve now owned an M4 iPad Pro for nearly a year, and I can confidently say it’s changed how I feel towards iPads. And that’s before factoring in all of the great new features in iPadOS 26. What makes M4 iP

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Tesla's inaugural Robotaxi rides will have a human 'safety monitor' on board

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-05 17:13:07

A select few will soon get to experience Tesla's robotaxi service for the first time, but they won't be alone in the car. The company plans to launch its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin, Texas tomorrow, but a "Tesla Safety Monitor" will accompany the first riders, according to email invitations sent out to "Early Access Riders." It's unclear what capabilities the safety monitor will have, but they will sit in the front passenger seat of a self-driving Model Y. The email outlined

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The Art of Bijective Combinatorics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 17:59:08

- the correponding set of slides of each lecture, - a website which enable one to navigate inside the videos, in the same way you turn around the pages of a book. For example if you click on the time given just after the slide number corresponding to one of the videos, you will get, up to one second, to exact position in the video. an introduction to the video-book ABjC is given at the beginning of the video of the Epilogue (from 2' 02" to 8' 42") This video-book on bijective combinatorics is

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Feeling Off? These 7 Warning Signs Could Mean You're Iron Deficient

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 11:00:00

Feeling unusually tired, foggy or just off lately? It might not just be stress or poor sleep. Iron deficiency is one of the most common nutritional issues in the U.S. and many people don't even realize they have it. According to national health data, absolute and functional iron deficiencies affect more than one in 10 adults and the symptoms can sneak up on you. An absolute deficiency happens when your body doesn't have enough iron at all, while a functional deficiency means the iron is there b

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Methane Pollution Has Cheap, Effective Solutions That Aren’t Being Used

wired.com Umair Irfan 2025-09-05 12:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Odorless and colorless, methane is a gas that is easy to miss—but it’s one of the most important contributors to global warming. It can trap up to 84 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, though it breaks down much faster. Measured over 100 years, its warming effect is about 30 times that of an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide. That means that over the course of decades, it takes smaller a

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Less UFO, more Wall-E: You've never seen the best robot vacuum on the market

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-05 16:00:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The Matic is available for purchase at $1,095. This robot vacuum has a unique form factor and roller brush, and a debris bag that eliminates the need for a huge dock. The Matic has its drawbacks, mainly that it's too tall to clean under furniture and that it's currently only available for iOS, with an Android beta app planned for July. View now at Maticrobots Pioneer devices have the unique challenge of reinventing the wheel. They reimagine something that has become prev

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Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 10:04:56

Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD) Vertex Block Descent is a fast physics-based simulation method that is unconditionally stable, highly parallelizable, and capable of converging to the implicit Euler solution. We extend it using an augmented Lagrangian formulation to address some of its fundamental limitations. First, we introduce a mechanism to handle hard constraints with infinite stiffness without introducing numerical instabilities. Second, we substantially improve the convergence in th

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Drinks in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in other container

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 20:01:34

The aim of the ANSES study was to determine the level of microplastic contamination in drinks such as water, soda, iced tea, wine and beer; it also sought to establish the impact of their containers on this level. For most of the drinks studied, the level of microplastics was found to be higher in glass bottles than in other containers. For example, on average, in glass bottles of cola, lemonade, iced tea and beer, there were around 100 microplastic particles per litre. This number was five to 5

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The JAWS shark is public domain

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 21:28:50

As we’re all celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws, here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Due to a fluke of publishing and copyright law, the Jaws shark is public domain. It’s not the character of the shark that’s public domain – or someone would surely be making a low-budget horror prequel about how he became the Amity Island Killer. But I’m talking about the famous shark painting from the movie poster: Yep. That painting, the same one that appeared on the cover of the paperbac

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Here are the best robot vacuum deals available right now

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-06 00:00:00

We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an affordable way to experience that promised utopia right now. Today’s floor cleaners are also more advanced than ever. In addition to vacuuming, many of the best models can now mop, allowing you to tackle bot

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Tesla Just Admitted Something Wildly Embarrassing About What'll Be in the Front Seat of All Its Robotaxis

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-06 04:06:18

Tesla is poised to finally launch its long-awaited robotaxi service this weekend in Austin, Texas. But there's a huge, embarrassing catch. As Electrek reports, the self-driving cabs will have a human "safety monitor" plunked in the front passenger seat — a far cry from Elon Musk's bold promise that his automaker would be hosting unsupervised rides this summer. The hilarious admission was disclosed in the recent invitations Tesla sent out to those interested in participating in the robotaxi ser

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It's True: The Jaws Shark Is Public Domain

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 07:28:50

As we’re all celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws, here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Due to a fluke of publishing and copyright law, the Jaws shark is public domain. It’s not the character of the shark that’s public domain – or someone would surely be making a low-budget horror prequel about how he became the Amity Island Killer. But I’m talking about the famous shark painting from the movie poster: Yep. That painting, the same one that appeared on the cover of the paperbac

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Researchers Scanned the Brains of ChatGPT Users and Found Something Deeply Alarming

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-06 19:19:58

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found some startling results in the brain scans of ChatGPT users, adding to the growing body of evidence suggesting that AI is having a serious — and barely-understood — impact on its users' cognition even as it explodes in popularity worldwide. In a new paper currently awaiting peer review, researchers from the school's storied Media Lab documented the vast differences between the brain activity of

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Conspiracy Theorists Are Creating Special AIs to Agree With Their Bizarre Delusions

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-06 23:30:30

Conspiracy theorists are using AI chatbots not only to convince themselves of their harebrained beliefs, but to recruit other users on social media. As independent Australian news site Crikey reports, conspiracy theorists are having extensive conversations with AI chatbots to "prove" their beliefs. Then, they post the transcripts and videos on social media as "proof" to others. According to the outlet's fascinating reporting, there are already several bots specifically trained on harebrained c

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