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Astronomers Capture First-Ever Image of Star That Exploded Twice

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-13 14:30:48

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but they've never seen visual evidence of this happening. That just changed. Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have taken the first-ever image of a star that died in a stellar "double-detonation," leaving behind a spectacular supernova remnant. Their findings, published as a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, deepen our understanding of the stellar evolu

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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 15:21:51

I'm in the process of rebuilding my homelab from the ground up, moving from a 24U full-size 4-post rack to a mini rack. One of the most difficult devices to downsize (especially economically) is a NAS. But as my needs have changed, I'm bucking the trend of all datahoarders and I need less storage than the 120 TB (80 TB usable) I currently have. It turns out, when you stop running an entire YouTube channel in your home (I'm in a studio now), you don't need more than a few terabytes, so my new c

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Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine Returns to Its Black Friday Price for Amazon’s Independence Day Deal

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-08-13 19:40:10

Every other adult is also at the point where coffee is the brightest light in your morning routine, right? Look, coffee just helps grease the wheels and makes sure you can focus up a little bit and push through the dust of every morning. It’s also pretty expensive if you’re buying one every day, so why not just invest in a good coffee machine and learn to do it all yourself? It’s one heck of a selling point! See at Amazon If you’re up to the task, then today could be your lucky day, because Am

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Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 10:52:03

Satellite data processing algorithms developed by ICM-CSIC have played a crucial role in detecting this significant shift in the Southern Hemisphere, which could accelerate the effects of climate change. Thanks to data obtained from Earth observation satellites, an international team of scientists has detected an unprecedented phenomenon for the first time: a reversal in the ocean circulation of the Southern Ocean. The study, led by the National Oceanographic Center (NOC, United Kingdom), was r

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Microsoft is closing the studio developing the Perfect Dark reboot and cancelling the game

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-17 19:22:57

The Initiative, the Xbox studio developing a modern reimagining of Perfect Dark, is being shut down, and development of the game is ending. As first reported by Windows Central, the studio's closure is part of major cuts Microsoft is making across its business, affecting around four percent of the company's global workforce. Based on a memo from Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty obtained by Windows Central, which Microsoft has confirmed is genuine, the decision to close The Initiative was born

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I Like Microsoft's 13-Inch Surface Laptop, but the Larger Model Is the One to Get

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-17 19:24:05

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 8.0 / 10 SCORE Microsoft Surface Laptop (13-inch) $1,000 at Microsoft Pros Beautiful, durable and compact design Outstanding battery life Better-than-expected audio output Cons 13-inch, 3:2 display can feel cramped Laptop is harder to open than it should be Lacks Thunderbolt 4 or USB4 connectivity The reason to choose Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Lapto

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The smart cooler that stopped me from toting ice again just hit an all-time low price

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-18 07:13:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is available for $1,349 but currently on sale. This cooler works as a portable mini-fridge, with dual-zone cooling and the capacity to freeze or refrigerate. The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is bulky and heavy, and it only comes with one battery so you have to purchase the second to reach the full 3.2 day capacity. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 58L electric cooler is typically $1,100, but it

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The Palette of the Medieval North

news.ycombinator.com Winther 2025-08-17 04:37:09

The selection of fragments contained many of those pigments already noted in the extensive analytical work conducted elsewhere in Europe7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14, such as azurite, red lead, vermilion, orpiment, and copper-based greens. Even though these fragment pages might appear rather simple in terms of their colour scheme, the analysis has shown a greater variation and complexity than first meets the eye. This observation will be further elaborated below where findings are listed by colour. A sum

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Nothing Just Killed Its Phone's Flashy Glyph Interface. I Think the Replacement Is Better

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 02:30:02

Nothing just announced its long-awaited "first true flagship," the Nothing Phone 3, and killed off one of its most popular and unique phone features in the process. The flashing lights that crisscrossed the back of its previous phones, known as the Glyph Interface, is gone. In its place is something new -- a round black and white screen on the rear of the phone, adjacent to the cameras, which Nothing is calling the Glyph Matrix. With an interface of monochrome dots, the Matrix can show a range

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From selfie mirror to Magic 8 Ball, here’s what you can do with the Nothing Phone 3’s Glyph Matrix

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-20 07:30:26

TL;DR The Nothing Phone 3 replaces Nothing’s signature Glyph Interface LED lights with a monochrome micro-LED display called Glyph Matrix. Glyph Matrix supports customizable notifications, app interactions, games, camera countdowns, and live indicators. The device features a dedicated Glyph Button to control these functions. There’s also a red indicator on the back that lights up when video recording. After weeks of teasing and hyping, Nothing has just launched the Nothing Phone 3. Not only

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PlanetScale for Postgres

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 05:08:29

Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres By Sam Lambert | July 1, 2025 Today we are announcing the private preview of PlanetScale for Postgres: the world’s fastest Postgres hosting platform. You can request access to PlanetScale for Postgres by visiting this link. We are already hosting customers' production workloads with incredible results. Convex, the complete backend solution for app developers, is migrating their reactive database infrastructure to PlanetScale for Postgres. Read more about t

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Nothing launches its most expensive flagship yet, Phone (3)

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-20 07:30:00

Nothing on Tuesday launched its newest flagship phone after a two-year gap. At an event in London, the company unveiled the Phone (3), which starts at $799 and aims to take on bigwigs like Samsung and Apple with its differentiated design and features targeting tech enthusiasts. Since releasing Phone (1) in 2022, the GV-backed startup has relied on a transparent design to make its phone stand out from others. The Phone (3) follows that same design language, but it introduces a stranger camera a

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7 Best Streaming Devices for TVs (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Parker Hall 2025-08-21 11:34:00

Roku is our favorite streaming OS because it has just about every streaming app there is, and the setup is hassle-free. You don't have to be technologically savvy to figure it out. Roku also isn't made by one of the major tech companies. Even though it has moved to include home security in its lineup, the company survives on how well its streaming device platform performs. Chromecast used to eschew an interface altogether, but more recent versions have Google TV built in. Though casting is no l

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This $649 Windows laptop competes with my MacBook Air (and does a few things better)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-21 13:20:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus Zenbook A14 with 16GB of memory is on sale at Best Buy for $649 - the lowest price we've seen yet. It's a fantastic balance of innovation and value with a brilliant OLED display, competitive hardware, and a satisfying physical form. While its use case is clearly defined, the laptop has its limits when it comes to high-end performance. View now at Best Buy When Asus officially announced the Zenbook A14 at CES this year, I wasn't the only one to be low-key enamore

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Steam can now show you how much frame generation changes your games

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-21 15:35:06

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Valve has added a new performance monitor to Steam that can help you understand why a game may or may not be running smoothly. Not only does it break out a game’s overall frame rate, it can tell you how many of those frames were generated by techniques like Nvidia’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR, according to a post. The change is included as part of an update to the Steam Client that’s

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Meta, TikTok can’t toss wrongful death suit from mom of “subway surfing” teen

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-22 09:53:53

Section 230 has so far failed to shield Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance from a lawsuit raised by a mother who alleged that her son's wrongful death followed a flood of "subway surfing" videos platforms intentionally targeted to teens in New York. In a decision Monday, New York State Supreme Court Judge Paul Goetz largely denied social media companies' motions to dismiss claims they argued should be barred under Section 230 and the First Amendment. Goetz said that the mother, Norma Nazario, had

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I'm never toting ice after testing a smart cooler (and it just hit an all-time low price)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-23 03:43:22

ZDNET's key takeaways The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is available for $1,349 but currently on sale. This cooler works as a portable mini-fridge, with dual-zone cooling and the capacity to freeze or refrigerate. The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is bulky and heavy, and it only comes with one battery so you have to purchase the second to reach the full 3.2 day capacity. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 58L electric cooler is typically $1,100, but it

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Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB vs. 16GB Tested Across PCIe 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0

techspot.com Steven Walton 2025-08-23 10:36:00

Recently we examined how PCI Express bandwidth influences the performance of the 8 GB Radeon RX 9060 XT when local video memory (VRAM) is exceeded. The entire purpose of that testing was to push past the VRAM limit, which, unfortunately for 8 GB graphics cards, is a relatively easy task in 2025. This can happen even when using settings that would otherwise be highly playable, as demonstrated by the 16 GB model. This is an interesting test for several reasons, the most notable being that PCIe ba

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Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB vs. 16GB Tested Across PCIe 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0

techspot.com Steven Walton 2025-08-23 10:41:00

Recently we examined how PCI Express bandwidth influences the performance of the 8 GB Radeon RX 9060 XT when local video memory (VRAM) is exceeded. The entire purpose of that testing was to push past the VRAM limit, which, unfortunately for 8 GB graphics cards, is a relatively easy task in 2025. This can happen even when using settings that would otherwise be highly playable, as demonstrated by the 16 GB model. This is an interesting test for several reasons, the most notable being that PCIe ba

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Robotic sucker can adapt to surroundings like an actual octopus

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-23 07:00:02

Some of the most ingenious tech has been inspired by nature. From color-changing materials that function like cephalopod skin to a tiny biomimetic robot that looks and moves like an actual cockroach, the extraordinary adaptations of some organisms have upgraded our technological capabilities. Now the octopus is lending an arm—or a sucker. Octopus tentacles have remarkably strong suckers with an adhesion power that could be an asset to soft robots that need to pick things up and hold onto them.

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Here’s why M4 MacBook Pro is one of the best upgrades you can make right now

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-08-23 23:57:45

Last October, Apple announced the M4 MacBook Pro. On the surface, it looks like yet another MacBook Pro spec bump. However, there are a number of key features that make it worth upgrading to, even if you already have an older 14″ MacBook Pro. Why M4? There’s recently been a pretty big flip in MacBook Pro pricing, which gradually took place over the past year or so: First, Apple introduced a new entry-level MacBook Pro at $1599 in 2023 with baseline M3 Then, it upped the base memory to 16GB a

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Why ‘Superman’ Has So Many Superheroes in It

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-23 23:00:55

Even before seeing it, it’s clear there are many, many things that set James Gunn’s Superman apart from other versions of the character. One is that, though this is very much a Superman movie, Superman interacts with a bunch of other superheroes. There’s the Guy Gardner Green Lantern, Mister Terrific, Hawkgirl, and more. It was an interesting choice for Gunn to make, especially since this is our first real glimpse at the larger DC Universe he’s helping to create. So we asked him about it. Speak

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Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 03:50:10

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are likelihood-based models for continuous inputs. They have demonstrated promising results on both density estimation and generative modeling tasks, but have received relatively little attention in recent years. In this work, we demonstrate that NFs are more powerful than previously believed. We present TarFlow: a simple and scalable architecture that enables highly performant NF models. TarFlow can be thought of as a Transformer-based variant of Masked Autoregressive Fl

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Acer Swift Go 16 (2025) Review: Affordable OLED Laptop Without Massive Compromises

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-24 22:00:05

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 8.3 / 10 SCORE Acer Swift Go 16 (2025) $1,150 at Acer Pros Gorgeous OLED display Excellent productivity performance Fairly well priced for what's on offer Cons Disappointing battery life Bizarre, narrow number pad Pricing inconsistencies Acer's latest iteration of the Swift Go 16 line spans a wide gamut of roles and prices. It's designed to fill out a

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Show HN: A Python Language Server, Mypy-compatible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 11:33:25

In 2012, I created Jedi—a Python auto-completion library that eventually reached millions of users and billions of downloads. But as the ecosystem evolved, one limitation became clear: speed. Jedi’s architecture couldn’t deliver the performance needed for large-scale projects. In 2020, I started over—with everything I’d learned—building ZubanLS from the ground up in Rust. After five years of full-time work, ZubanLS is now the first truly fast Python language server. ZubanLS is built for profes

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The viral wireless audio dongle for in-flight entertainment is better than ever

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-08-25 17:00:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The AirFly Pro 2 allows users to listen wirelessly to traditionally wired-only systems like in-flight entertainment systems. You can use your favorite headphones with the AirFly Pro 2 and enable their special audio features like noise cancellation and spatial audio. If you don't fly regularly or don't need a Bluetooth dongle in your everyday life, the $60 price tag may be a big ask. View now at Twelve South View now at Amazon View now at Verizon more buying choices Flyin

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Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images

news.ycombinator.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-22 13:19:47

Today, most generative image models basically fall into two main categories: diffusion models, like Stable Diffusion, or autoregressive models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4o. But Apple just released two papers that show how there might be room for a third, forgotten technique: Normalizing Flows. And with a dash of Transformers on top, they might be more capable than previously thought. First things first: What are Normalizing Flows? Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a type of AI model that works by learning

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This Cheap Surfshark VPN + Antivirus Bundle Feels Illegal (But It’s Not)

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-26 07:30:01

The new Surfshark bundle practically pays for itself. Who needs a free VPN when you can enjoy virus protection and online privacy for pennies? If you act fast, Surfshark can be yours at a ridiculously low price. When things look too good to be true, something’s always off. Not today. Explore the Surfshark bundle, save big, and enjoy your summer vacation free of viruses, prying eyes, and other online nasties for a pocket change! Grab Surfshark At 85% Off Here Surfshark 2-in-1 Bundle Explained

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13-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop review: A slightly worse version of a year-old PC

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-26 23:27:34

Microsoft's new 13-inch Surface Laptop is an odd one. It's inarguably a step down in every respect from last year's 13.8-inch Surface Laptop. But it's also too good (and too expensive) to be considered a replacement for the Surface Laptop Go, the company's perennially overpriced and underspecced entry-level laptop. It's cheaper than last year's Surfaces, but mostly because Microsoft gave those devices a de facto price hike by killing the entry-level configurations of those PCs. We're left with

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Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-28 23:39:19

Ubuntu users could see up to a 20-percent boost in graphics performance on Intel-based systems under a change that will turn off security mitigations for blunting a class of attacks known as Spectre. Spectre, you may recall, first came to public notice in 2018. Spectre attacks are based on the observation that performance enhancements built into modern CPUs open a side channel that can leak secrets a CPU is processing. The performance enhancement, known as speculative execution, predicts future

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