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This VFX Breakdown for ‘Andor’ Season 2 Showcases the Power of Practical Locations

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-28 15:15:12

Viewing this reel of Scanline VFX‘s work on Andor season 2’s most iconic sets makes us want to watch the show all over again. The digital effects breakdown from the post-production house showcases that VFX and practical effects orchestrated in balance are what made Tony Gilroy’s take on the Star Wars universe so cinematic. The reel displays the exceptional work that went into making places like Coruscant, Mina Rau, and Yavin look so richly alive. Through the use of real locations, environments,

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Best Electric Toothbrushes You Can Buy in 2025 — Tested by Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-28 12:50:00

CNET/Caroline Igo The electric toothbrushes in this section weren't my favorites, but they have some qualities worth mentioning. One of these might be the right choice for you, so we felt it was worthwhile to include them. Oral-B iO2 Since I love the Oral-B iO Series 5 so much (it’s been my main toothbrush for over two years now), I was sent the new Oral-B iO2 electric toothbrush to test. It has the same brushing power and feel as the Series 5. It has three cleaning modes, a pressure sensor a

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Netflix Jumped In on the Shark Week Action in July, Landing Two New Hits

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-28 14:00:03

Every week, Netflix unveils its Top 10 lists for the week before, ranking TV shows and movies by viewership. One of this week's most-streamed movies is Shark Whisperer, a documentary about marine conservationist Ocean Ramsey (her given name), who regularly swims with sharks and encourages others to do so to educate people. That film, along with another new shark-related title, the reality competition series All the Sharks (currently trending at No. 2 in Kids TV on the platform), arrived in the p

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Prime Day Deal: These Bluetooth Headphones Have Great Style, Unbelievable Battery and They've Never Been Cheaper

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-28 22:10:00

Amazon Prime Day sale: Marshall's Major V headphones are worth it even at full price, but right now they're at an all-time low price of $100 -- or around 38% off -- during Prime Day. I might not be a true battle-tested headphone expert like CNET's David Carnoy, but I still love headphones and I'm confident in what I like about them. My most recent pickup, the Marshall Major V on-ear bluetooth headphones, quickly became a pair that I adore. What is Marshall? Marshall is a British audio hardwar

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Former Intel CEO launches a benchmark to measure AI alignment

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-29 00:35:49

In Brief After former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger capped off a 40+ year career at the semiconductor giant in December, many wondered where would Gelsinger go next. On Thursday, the former Intel CEO revealed one piece of his next chapter: trying to ensure AI models support a flourishing humanity. In partnership with a “faith tech” company he first invested in roughly 10 years ago called Gloo, Gelsinger launched a new benchmark — Flourishing AI, or FAI — to test how well AI models align with certain

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Prime Day Deal: These Bluetooth Headphones Have Great Style and Unbelievable Battery, and They've Never Been Cheaper

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 04:10:00

Amazon Prime Day sale: Marshall's Major V headphones are worth it even at full price, but right now they're at an all-time low price of $100 -- or around 38% off -- during Prime Day. I might not be a true battle-tested headphone expert like CNET's David Carnoy, but I still love headphones and I'm confident in what I like about them. My most recent pickup, the Marshall Major V on-ear bluetooth headphones, quickly became a pair that I adore. What is Marshall? Marshall is a British audio hardwar

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Krafton slams ex-Subnautica 2 execs and claims it’ll give developers their ‘promised’ reward

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2026-01-29 05:09:22

To Our 12 Million Fellow Subnauts, — Inevitable Leadership Change Driven by Project Abandonment–Despite Holding 90% of Earnout for Themselves First and foremost, we sincerely thank you for your continued support, passion, and unwavering dedication to Subnautica. We wish to provide clarity on the recent leadership changes at Unknown Worlds, a creative studio under KRAFTON. Background of Leadership Change KRAFTON deeply values Subnautica’s unique creativity and immersive world-building. To pro

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Travel Mugs, Nonstick Pans and More Items That Don't Belong in the Dishwasher

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 08:54:00

Whether you're learning the ropes of a brand-new dishwasher or you've been hands-free dishwashing for years, it's tempting to load it up and let it rip. It's summer -- you've got better things to do than babysit a sink full of dirty silverware. But before you start stacking every spatula and chef's knife onto the racks, take a beat. Your dishwasher's high heat and aggressive cycles can do more harm than good to certain kitchen tools. Warping, rusting, cracking and dulling are all fair game -- e

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Life after two-stroke: Rotax electrifies its bike and kart powertrains

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-29 10:38:45

Rotax provided flights from San Francisco to Salz, Austria, and accommodation so Ars could visit its factory and ride some of its products. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. "There was always a passion about motorbikes. But it's not only passion, it also needs to be a sustainable business model," Mario Gebetshuber, BRP-Rotax vice president of global sourcing and operations powertrain, told Ars Technica during a tour of the company's museum of motors over the decades. Gebetshuber says

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Bitcoin sets another record above $113,000 as investors jump into risk assets, liquidate shorts

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-01-29 15:32:05

Bitcoin climbed to new all-time high on Thursday, building on its previous record reached just a day earlier, as investors jumped into risk assets and liquidated short positions. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by more than 2% at $113,766.74. Earlier, it rose as high as $113,863.18. Over the past 24 hours, $318 million in short liquidations across centralized exchanges, according to CoinGlass. When traders use leverage to short bitcoin and the cryptocurrency's price ri

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State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings

news.ycombinator.com Clément Gorin 2026-01-26 00:44:18

We would like to thank Dionissi Aliprantis, Laure Athias, Sascha Becker, Karol Borowiecki, Nicolas Baumard, Davide Cantoni, Don Davis, Shari Eli, Oliver Falck, Oded Galor, Ed Glaeser, Claudia Goldin, Erik Hornung, Robert Johannes, Hubertus Kohle, Ruru Hoong, Michael Hutter, Bob Margo, Stelios Michalopoulos, Petra Moser, Nathan Nunn, Ömer Özak, Dominic Rohner, Stefanie Schneider, Munir Squires, Marco Tabellini, Mathias Thoenig, Daniel Trefler, Matt Turner, Hans-Joachim Voth, Fabian Waldinger, and

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Samsung Plans to Launch a Trifold Phone This Year, Says Executive

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 18:27:00

While Samsung has been showing off mobile display concepts with three screens at trade events like CES for several years, it looks like it's finally bringing one to market. The new phone model failed to debut at Samsung's Unpacked event this week in New York. But in a press conference following the launch of its latest foldable phones, Roh Tae-moon, the acting head of Samsung Electronics' Device Experience Division reportedly confirmed that the company plans to launch a trifold phone by the end

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Netgear’s Excellent Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Is on Sale for Prime Day

wired.com Simon Hill 2026-01-29 10:54:09

The Prime Day deals keep raining down, but a discount on Netgear’s Orbi 770 Series stands out in the deluge, especially considering that it's WIRED's favorite Wi-Fi 7 mesh system for most people. Easy to set up and use, and boasting stable and speedy performance, not to mention expansive coverage, the Orbi 770 Series is a banging mesh. On the prowl for more tasty discounts? You owe it to yourself to check out our roundup of the Absolute Best Prime Day Deals, covering all categories (including m

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Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 N looks like a fake-shifting, drift-happy good time

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-01-29 20:38:48

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. Hyundai just unveiled its second-ever performance EV, the Ioniq 6 N, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England. The new variant carries over a lot of what made the Ioniq 5 N so appealing, while adding a little more range and a little more giddyap. But more importantly is a suite of features designed to mimi

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Show HN: CXXStateTree – A modern C++ library for hierarchical state machines

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 22:06:46

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Disney and ITV partner up to show each other’s shows on their streaming services

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-30 05:01:09

Disney and the British free-to-air broadcaster ITV have launched a new partnership that will allow them to show each other’s shows in an effort to reach new audiences. ITV viewers will be able to watch shows including Only Murders in the Building, Andor, and The Bear – which lives on Disney+ in the UK – while Disney will take advantage of ITV’s various dramas and reality TV offerings. Mr Bates vs The Post Office, ITV’s BAFTA award-winning four-part dramatization of the British Post Office scand

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Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?

news.ycombinator.com Simon Edwardsson 2026-01-30 02:35:21

Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes? Sort of... July 10, 2025 TL;DR Gemini 2.5 Pro is a decent object detector, matching Yolo V3 from 2018 on MS-COCO val. Multimodal Large Language Models keep getting better, but are they ready to dethrone CNNs in computer vision tasks like object detection? The allure of skipping dataset collection, annotation, and training is too enticing not to waste a few evenings testing. I decided to write a small benchmark and check Gemini 2.5 on MS-COCO, focusing on

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I replaced my solar panels with wind power generators at home - here's my verdict after 6 months

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-01-30 15:20:00

ZDNET's key takeaways A Shine Turbine kit, which includes a turbine, stand, guy lines, and pegs, costs $399, while the Essentials Kit, which adds a few more bits such as a wind speed meter, costs $488 -- though both are on sale right now The kit includes everything you need to turn wind into electrical energy, and the turbine features a 12,000 mAh battery There are limitations, which include the weight of the kit and the limited power it generates, 40 Watts. View now at Shineturbine The Shine

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How to prove false statements: Practical attacks on Fiat-Shamir

news.ycombinator.com Erica Klarreich 2026-01-30 10:48:09

Randomness is a source of power. From the coin toss that decides which team gets the ball to the random keys that secure online interactions, randomness lets us make choices that are fair and impossible to predict. But in many computing applications, suitable randomness can be hard to generate. So instead, programmers often rely on things called hash functions, which swirl data around and extract some small portion in a way that looks random. For decades, many computer scientists have presumed

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This Fact About Netflix's 'Poop Cruise' Still Haunts Me

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-30 14:00:00

It's not often a popular film on a streaming platform is heavily peppered with the phrase "it was raining sewage," but that's one of the joys-slash-horrors of Netflix's Trainwreck: Poop Cruise documentary. The movie is part of the platform's Trainwreck franchise, which focuses on real-life media sensations, news stories and controversial public figures, and for two weeks running, the flick has been in Netflix's Top 10, debuting at No. 2 (yes, No. 2) in its first week before sliding down to No. 6

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This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2026-01-31 04:00:00

To be clear, the researchers behind LightShed aren’t trying to steal artists’ work. They just don’t want people to get a false sense of security. “You will not be sure if companies have methods to delete these poisons but will never tell you,” says Hanna Foerster, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and the lead author of a paper on the work. And if they do, it may be too late to fix the problem. AI models work, in part, by implicitly creating boundaries between what they perceive as d

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Computer Scientists Figure Out How to Prove Lies

news.ycombinator.com Erica Klarreich 2026-01-31 04:48:09

Randomness is a source of power. From the coin toss that decides which team gets the ball to the random keys that secure online interactions, randomness lets us make choices that are fair and impossible to predict. But in many computing applications, suitable randomness can be hard to generate. So instead, programmers often rely on things called hash functions, which swirl data around and extract some small portion in a way that looks random. For decades, many computer scientists have presumed

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Netgear's Excellent Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Is on Sale for Prime Day

wired.com Simon Hill 2026-01-31 04:54:09

The Prime Day deals keep raining down, but a discount on Netgear’s Orbi 770 Series stands out in the deluge, especially considering it's WIRED's favorite Wi-Fi 7 mesh system for most people. Easy to set up and use, boasting stable and speedy performance, not to mention expansive coverage, the Orbi 770 Series is a banging mesh. On the prowl for more tasty discounts? You owe it to yourself to check out our roundup of the Absolute Best Prime Day Deals, covering all categories (including more route

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These are the T-Mobile plans eligible for the free DashPass perk (Updated: T-Mobile confirmation)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-31 08:22:21

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is offering subscribers on select postpaid plans a free one-year DoorDash DashPass subscription via the T-Life app. There’s conflicting information about eligible plans between public FAQs and customer service. We’ve got a confirmation from T-Mobile about which plans are eligible for the DashPass perk. Update, July 10, 2025 (03:22 AM ET): A T-Mobile spokesperson has confirmed to us that the list of plans mentioned on the FAQ page is accurate, and

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Show HN: Virby, a vfkit-based Linux builder for Nix-Darwin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-26 23:57:15

Virby - Linux Builder for Nix-darwin Virby is a module for nix-darwin that configures a lightweight, vfkit-based linux VM as a remote build machine for nix, allowing linux packages to be built on macOS. This project is modeled after nix-rosetta-builder, which provides a similar service, using lima to manage the VM. Some parts of the code in this repository are directly borrowed and adapted from that project. Quick Start Add to your flake and enable: # flake.nix { inputs . virby = { url = "gi

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Bitcoin Hits $112K, but Something Feels Off

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-31 09:07:02

Bitcoin is on the move again. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value surged past a symbolic milestone on Wednesday, reaching a record-breaking $112,055 on the Coinbase exchange around 3:55 p.m. ET. That’s the highest price ever recorded for Bitcoin on Coinbase, surpassing the previous high of $111,891 set in May. With this latest surge, Bitcoin is up nearly 20% since the start of the year. The sudden move stunned traders and rekindled hopes among Bitcoin’s faithful. For weeks, pric

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Bitcoin Hits $112K But Something Feels Off

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-31 15:07:02

Bitcoin is on the move again. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value surged past a symbolic milestone on Wednesday, reaching a record-breaking $112,055 on the Coinbase exchange around 3:55 p.m. ET. That’s the highest price ever recorded for Bitcoin on Coinbase, surpassing the previous high of $111,891 set in May. With this latest surge, Bitcoin is up nearly 20% since the start of the year. The sudden move stunned traders and rekindled hopes among Bitcoin’s faithful. For weeks, pric

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Prime Day Deals: These Stylish Bluetooth Headphones Impressed Me With Their Crazy Battery Life, and They've Never Been Cheaper

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-31 18:04:00

Amazon Prime Day sale: Marshall's Major V headphones are worth it even at full price, but they're a steal right now at $100 -- or around 38% off -- during Prime Day. I might not be a true battle-tested headphone expert like CNET's own David Carnoy, but I still love headphones and I'm confident in what I like about them. My most recent pickup, the Marshall Major V on-ear bluetooth headphones, quickly became a pair that I adore. What is Marshall? Marshall is a British audio hardware company tha

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Tesla on "Lane Assistance" Mode Gets Horrifically Impaled on Guardrail

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-01 00:37:13

While Tesla's so-called "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" features have generated more than their share of controversy, one of the company's other assisted driving modes is now in the spotlight after a nail-biting crash in California. As SFGate reports, a young Tesla driver walked away with minor injuries after his Model Y careened off the I-5 interstate and crashed directly into a guardrail in the wee hours of morning, becoming impaled all the way through. According to California Highway Pa

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Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 22:04:14

Today in Tedium: It’s easy to forget now, but desktop publishing was an immensely innovative thing when it emerged within the computing industry in the early ’80s. While at its heart a mishmash of hardware and software cleverly combined for a single goal, it was an empire builder, one that helped create new businesses and improve the status and positioning of existing ones. And with the decline of print as a medium, it can feel kind of old hat, but lots of stuff still gets typeset every single d

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This VFX Breakdown for ‘Andor’ Season 2 Showcases the Power of Practical Locations

Best Electric Toothbrushes You Can Buy in 2025 — Tested by Experts

Netflix Jumped In on the Shark Week Action in July, Landing Two New Hits

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Former Intel CEO launches a benchmark to measure AI alignment

Prime Day Deal: These Bluetooth Headphones Have Great Style and Unbelievable Battery, and They've Never Been Cheaper

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Life after two-stroke: Rotax electrifies its bike and kart powertrains

Bitcoin sets another record above $113,000 as investors jump into risk assets, liquidate shorts

State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings

Samsung Plans to Launch a Trifold Phone This Year, Says Executive

Netgear’s Excellent Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Is on Sale for Prime Day

Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 N looks like a fake-shifting, drift-happy good time

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Disney and ITV partner up to show each other’s shows on their streaming services

Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?

I replaced my solar panels with wind power generators at home - here's my verdict after 6 months

How to prove false statements: Practical attacks on Fiat-Shamir

This Fact About Netflix's 'Poop Cruise' Still Haunts Me

This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art

Computer Scientists Figure Out How to Prove Lies

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These are the T-Mobile plans eligible for the free DashPass perk (Updated: T-Mobile confirmation)

Show HN: Virby, a vfkit-based Linux builder for Nix-Darwin

Bitcoin Hits $112K, but Something Feels Off

Bitcoin Hits $112K But Something Feels Off

Prime Day Deals: These Stylish Bluetooth Headphones Impressed Me With Their Crazy Battery Life, and They've Never Been Cheaper

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Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022)

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