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The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 is on sale for only $40

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-17 03:30:51

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Even though the Switch 2 basically just came out, we're already starting to see discounts on some of its accessories. One of the more charming peripherals, the HORI Piranha Plant camera, is on sale right now for only $40. That's $20 off and a record-low price. It's a good deal for anyo

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Apple reportedly has a 'stripped-down' AI chatbot to compete with ChatGPT in the works

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-17 08:43:45

Apple has fallen far behind in the competitive market of AI-powered chatbots, but it may have a plan for an in-house option that aligns with the company's "not first, but best" philosophy. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple created a team called "Answers, Knowledge and Information" earlier this year that's tasked with developing a "stripped-down rival to ChatGPT." Forming this team represents a major change in direction from Apple's earlier stance on artificial intelligence when the co

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Too Hot Inside? These Houseplants Actually Help Beat the Heat

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 02:00:10

Looking for a smarter way to beat the summer heat without blasting your air conditioner all day? You might want to take a closer look at the houseplants sitting quietly on your windowsill. According to experts, certain indoor plants don't just brighten up a room, they can literally lower the temperature in your home. And yes, science backs it up. Thanks to a natural process called transpiration, some houseplants release moisture into the air, creating a cooling effect that can help your space f

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These Expert-Approved Feeder Hacks Turned My Yard Into a Bird Hotel

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 04:00:00

You don't need to hike into the wilderness to feel closer to nature. Sometimes, all it takes is a simple bird feeder and putting it in the right spot. Whether you're living in the suburbs or just got access to a backyard after years in the city, attracting feathered friends can bring surprising benefits for your mental health. Studies show that spending time around birds and hearing birdsong can lower stress, ease anxiety and even help with depression symptoms. But if your feeder isn't seeing m

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These are the best new MacBook deals for August: offerings as low as $599

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-16 23:00:07

In the Apple Silicon era, MacBooks have become more affordable than ever – with brand new models starting as low as $649. With looming global tariffs, these great deals could potentially be coming to an end soon – so if you’re in the market for a new MacBook for any reason, now may be one of the best ever times to purchase. Apple’s upcoming macOS 26 update is also rumored to drop support for some additional Intel Macs, so if you’d like to stay on the latest and greatest Apple software, nows a f

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Surveillance-Minded Parents Can Now Hide AirTags In Kids Shoes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-16 21:00:19

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to bring you a new development from the blossoming world of child surveillance: the sneaker brand Skechers is selling new kids shoes that come with a hidden AirTag compartment, enabling parents to quietly track their meandering progeny at all times. Readers, we're officially Skech'd out. According to the sneaker company, the tiny Apple tracking devices can be slotted into a hole in the heel of the shoes that's accessed by lifting the sole. Th

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One of the Biggest Sources of Microplastics Will Make You Mad as Hell

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:00:15

Microplastics are so pervasive that they're now found in our bloodstreams, bones, and — according to one alarming study — even our brains in enough quantities to make a plastic spoon. But where do they all come from? One of the biggest sources may surprise you: car tires. Or maybe it isn't that surprising, now that we've brought it up. Yet, the role of civilization's addiction to the automobile tends to go overlooked in these discussions in favor of more obvious forms of waste like plastic bot

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The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 00:31:58

The Challenge I was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side. Here’s one way to do it: But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble. No matter how many different moves I made, I couldn’t do it. Every time I separated two squares with the same color, two other squares of the same color would touch somewhere else. Looking for an easy answer, I went to puzzling.stackexchange.com an

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Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-16 22:00:50

We’re talking about the birds. Great tits are small, yellowish songbirds common to the woodlands of Europe. Tit pairs are known to be monogamous during breeding season, splitting up after fully raising their offspring. But new research suggests that this “tit divorce” may be the product of complex social relationships formed during and after the breeding season. Published July 30 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the paper reports that not all tit pairs separate in late summer when breedi

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How to Watch Australia vs. British & Irish Lions From Anywhere: Stream 3rd Test Rugby Union Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 17:30:00

The British and Irish Lions could claim an historic tour whitewash today as they take on Australia in the third and final Test at Accor Stadium. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. The Lions enter this final clash with an unassailable 2-0 series lead, after Ireland fullback Hugo Keenan condemned the Wallabies to an agonizing defeat in las

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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:20:11

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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Anthropic cuts off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-17 03:55:12

In Brief Anthropic has revoked OpenAI’s access to its Claude family of AI models, according to a report in Wired. Sources told Wired that OpenAI was connecting Claude to internal tools that allowed the company to compare Claude’s performance to its own models in categories like coding, writing, and safety. TechCrunch has reached out to Anthropic and OpenAI for comment. In a statement to Wired, an Anthropic spokesperson said, “OpenAI’s own technical staff were also using our coding tools ahead

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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

news.ycombinator.com David Cox 2025-12-17 00:20:42

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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This Bird ID App Has Helped Me Practice Mindfulness More Than Any Meditation App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 23:07:04

Mindfulness is grounding ourselves in the present moment, which means paying attention to our inner feelings and thoughts as well as what's going on around us. Easier said than done. Like many, I struggle to keep my mind stationed in the present and often turn to meditation apps for assistance. Yet, what has helped me practice mindfulness the most came in the form of an unexpected app -- not one for breathing exercises or mental health, but one for identifying birds. Merlin Bird ID was created

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Weather Model based on ADS-B

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 10:14:56

I recently bought an RTL-SDR dongle and an antenna to receive ADS-B messages. These are short packets of data, broadcast by every plane in the sky, to inform others of their position, heading, speed and other flight data. The transmission of these messages is mandatory for aircraft, as it prevents mid-air accidents. They are also unencrypted, which means anyone can listen to them. All you need is an antenna and a dongle to ingest the data on your PC (pictured above), which can be bought for les

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Venture firm CRV raises $750M, downsizing after returning capital to investors

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-17 06:22:03

CRV has secured $750 million toward the 55-year-old venture firm’s twentieth flagship fund, it announced on Friday. The new fund is smaller than the $1 billion early-stage fund CRV closed in the fall of 2022. At that time, the firm also announced a $500 million second Select fund, a capital pool for backing late-stage rounds of existing portfolio companies. It’s no surprise that CRV is not raising a late-stage fund as part of its new fundraise. Last year, the firm told The New York Times it wa

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Lego’s August Releases Are Going Merry

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-17 11:45:06

Lego usually has quiet months and big months in terms of releases, but by far and away the two most important times of the year for Lego—and most threatening for your wallet as a Lego fan—are the start of it in January and the height of summer in August. The latter is finally here, and Lego has a lot of options for if you want to beat the heat by staying inside and building bricks. A lot of options. With dozens upon dozens upon dozens of new sets arriving today, it’s hard to really break down

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A DH106 1A Comet has been restored at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum

news.ycombinator.com Barry Neild 2025-12-14 00:14:07

Astronomy Aviation news Air travel safety Airplane crashes See all topics Follow Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we burst through ominous clouds into bright blue skies, and

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‘Foundation’ Just Dropped a Huge, Terrifying Twist

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-17 16:45:41

Foundation is currently rolling out a third season stuffed full of dramatic resonance. We’ve always been fans of Demerzel, the ancient android played by the excellent Laura Birn, but season three has really elevated the character—even beyond that big season-two reveal that she’s been moving the chess pieces on behalf of the galaxy-ruling Empire for generations. That was a monumental bit of information. But this week’s episode, “The Stress of Her Regard,” dropped a bombshell that’s even more sta

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Bad UX

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 18:48:42

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Apple accused of inflating Self Service Repair prices to push new iPad purchases

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-18 02:24:08

Over the past few years, Apple has made some progress on self-service repairability, following years of criticism over how tightly it locks down its devices. Now, a new report questions how much Apple really is complying with right-to-repair regulations. Too expensive to be worth it In a 404 Media post out this week, independent repair professionals say Apple’s newly available iPad parts are so expensive, that they make repairs economically unviable. Their thesis is that Apple effectively wan

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The world's first passenger jet was a death trap. Now it's brought back to life

news.ycombinator.com Barry Neild 2025-12-14 12:14:07

Astronomy Aviation news Air travel safety Airplane crashes See all topics Follow Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we burst through ominous clouds into bright blue skies, and

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If you Google 'bad UX', all the results appear in Comic Sans

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 00:48:42

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At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Hartnett 2025-12-18 10:35:40

Cairo followed this advice. In the fall of 2023, her family moved to Davis, 60 miles northeast of Berkeley. There, her older brother enrolled as a freshman at UC Davis, and her parents allowed her to commute to Berkeley on Tuesdays and Thursdays. By the spring, she was going five days a week and taking several more classes. She recalls it as a time in her life when she began to feel full of possibility. “I had started making friends, and I was feeling good,” she said. After the spring semester

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Watch Our Livestream Replay: Inside Katie Drummond’s Viral Interview With Bryan Johnson

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-17 08:43:58

What does it mean to be healthy in 2025? Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who’s well known for his extreme attempts to slow the aging process, thinks he knows the answer. Does Johnson really have the healthiest body on Earth, as he claims? Will he achieve immortality through AI? Recently, WIRED global editorial director Katie Drummond visited Johnson’s home in California to sit down with him for WIRED's special Beyond Wellness edition. Watch the replay of the subscriber-onl

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Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-18 21:50:40

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, attending the annual Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 9th, 2025. Palantir has inked a contract with the U.S. Army worth up to $10 billion to meet growing warfare demands over the next decade. As part of the deal, Palantir will help the military streamline efficiencies while preparing for threats, consolidating 75 total contracts into one enterprise deal, the release states. The agreement creates a "comprehensive framework for

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Leaker shares iPhone 17 Air battery images with steel case

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-19 02:20:00

In a little over one month, Apple will unveil its ultra-thin new iPhone 17 Air model. And today, leaker Majin Bu shared a look at what’s said to be the battery component of the new device. First look at alleged iPhone 17 Air battery Today on his website, leaker Majin Bu shared several photos of what’s allegedly the actual battery of the iPhone 17 Air. The battery is housed in a steel enclosure, similar to the design used in last year’s iPhone 16 Pro. Bu says the battery capacity is approxima

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The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 drops to $40

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-19 02:50:31

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The HORI Piranha Plant camera for the Nintendo Switch 2 is on sale for just $40 , which is a discount of $20 and a record-low price. This is a great deal for those who own a Switch 2 and want to take advantage of the camera functionality in games like Mario Kart World and that recently

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This unexpected robot vacuum made me forget about my $2,000 Roborock

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-19 02:49:00

Mova P50 Pro Ultra ZDNET's key takeaways The Mova P50 Pro Ultra is available for only $799, down $200 from its regular price. This is one of the strongest robot vacuums on the market with 19,000Pa of suction, with reliable edge cleaning, mop removal, and obstacle avoidance. While its obstacle avoidance far exceeds its price point, the P50 Pro Ultra doesn't always avoid loose cables on the floor. View now at Us.mova I test a lot of robot vacuums, but there's no doubt that these devices have go

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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2025-12-19 02:24:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out,” as reported earlier by Bloomberg

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Latest Tech News

The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 is on sale for only $40

Apple reportedly has a 'stripped-down' AI chatbot to compete with ChatGPT in the works

Too Hot Inside? These Houseplants Actually Help Beat the Heat

These Expert-Approved Feeder Hacks Turned My Yard Into a Bird Hotel

These are the best new MacBook deals for August: offerings as low as $599

Surveillance-Minded Parents Can Now Hide AirTags In Kids Shoes

One of the Biggest Sources of Microplastics Will Make You Mad as Hell

The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

How to Watch Australia vs. British & Irish Lions From Anywhere: Stream 3rd Test Rugby Union Free

Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

Anthropic cuts off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

This Bird ID App Has Helped Me Practice Mindfulness More Than Any Meditation App

Weather Model based on ADS-B

Venture firm CRV raises $750M, downsizing after returning capital to investors

Lego’s August Releases Are Going Merry

A DH106 1A Comet has been restored at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum

‘Foundation’ Just Dropped a Huge, Terrifying Twist

Bad UX

Apple accused of inflating Self Service Repair prices to push new iPad purchases

The world's first passenger jet was a death trap. Now it's brought back to life

If you Google 'bad UX', all the results appear in Comic Sans

At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

Watch Our Livestream Replay: Inside Katie Drummond’s Viral Interview With Bryan Johnson

Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract

Leaker shares iPhone 17 Air battery images with steel case

The HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 drops to $40

This unexpected robot vacuum made me forget about my $2,000 Roborock

IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

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