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Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-17 06:56:29

Waymo has been cleared to serve its first airpot in California: San Jose Mineta International. The company announced Thursday that it will start testing its robotaxis there in the coming months, and that it plans to start offering commercial rides by the end of the year. The company has spent years working toward serving airports in its home state. Waymo was going back-and-forth with officials at San Francisco’s airport back in 2023 but was rebuffed. Earlier this year, though, Waymo was granted

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Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-17 10:04:03

Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 46 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Team Cherry The biggest video game online stores crashed on Thursday as they struggled to deal with high demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong - one of the most-anticipated games of the year. Thousands of users reported they were unable to buy the game on PC store Steam after its release at 15:00 BST, with errors persisting until around 17:30. Social media us

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Lawmakers Panic As They Realize China May Beat the US to the Moon

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-17 07:11:16

During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing this week, experts warned that the United States is at risk of China beating it to the Moon as NASA's Artemis program continues to lag behind. Earlier this month, China's lunar exploration program tested its "Lanyue" lunar lander at a facility outside of Beijing, declaring that it's hoping to land the first Chinese astronauts on the Moon before the end of the decade. That's well within the margin of error of NASA's first crewed landing attempt, Artemis

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Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-17 09:02:33

With artificial intelligence integrating — or infiltrating — into every corner of our lives, some less-than-ethical mental health professionals have begun using it in secret, causing major trust issues for the vulnerable clients who pay them for their sensitivity and confidentiality. As MIT Technology Review reports, therapists have used OpenAI's ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) for everything from email and message responses to, in one particularly egregious case, suggesting ques

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Threads posts now support 'text attachments' up to 10,000 characters

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 10:00:00

That was fast. A week after a new feature for sharing long-form text was spotted in the Threads app, Meta is making the experiment official. Threads users will now be able to append text snippets of up to 10,000 characters to their posts in a feature Meta says is meant to support journalists and creators on the platform. As Engadget detailed last week, the feature is fairly basic for now. Selecting "text attachment" from the post composer opens up a simple text editor that has some formatting o

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Google's Circle to Search can now translate text as you scroll

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 10:15:55

Google's Circle to Search tool just got a bit more useful, as it can now continuously translate text while scrolling . Until now, people had to restart the process every time the content on the screen changed. The update ensures the translation feature will keep on ticking along. Google says this is great for getting "more context for social posts from creators who speak a different language" or when browsing "menus when you’re booking restaurant reservations while traveling abroad." Just tap t

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This Amazon Lens upgrade lets you scan a product IRL and find it online in one click

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-17 10:26:11

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Lens Live scans products for real-time shopping suggestions. Amazon's AI assistant can answer questions, offer details. The feature is currently available to some US users on iOS. Have you ever seen an item in a brick-and-mortar store and figured you could get it for a better price on Amazon, but couldn't string together the right keywords to find it online? Amazon Lens was designed to

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Perplexity's $200 AI browser is free for students now - with more discounts to keep using it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-17 10:27:43

SOPA Images/Contributor/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Perplexity is offering students one free month of Perplexity Pro. The company is positioning Comet as "study buddy, and tutor." AI is rapidly becoming a fixture in the classroom. Like it or not, artificial intelligence is becoming a fixture in the classroom. This is being pushed along at a brisk pace by tech companies eager to get their products into the hands

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You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-17 10:00:00

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is adding a new feature to let you add a bunch of extra text to Threads posts — no screenshots of text blocks required. Starting today, Meta is rolling out a tool that lets you attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving you a way to build upon the 500-characte

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Broadcom earnings primer: AI chip demand and growth are key

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-17 14:39:01

Broadcom is scheduled to report earnings for its fiscal third quarter after the close of regular trading on Thursday. Here's what analysts are expecting, according to a consensus from LSEG. Earnings per share: $1.65 $1.65 Revenue: $15.83 billion Broadcom, which develops custom chips for Google and other huge cloud companies and also makes networking gear needed to tie thousands of artificial intelligence chips together, is expected to report revenue growth of 21% from $13.07 billion a year a

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Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

news.ycombinator.com Darius Snieckus Rory White 2025-10-17 13:51:26

Pichai added that he knew the “road ahead would not be easy,” but Google “aimed to prove that a carbon-free future is both possible and achievable fast enough to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.” “Today, I’m proud to announce that we intend to be the first major company to operate carbon free — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,” he said, in a video announcement . Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020

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Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 14:27:41

Hi HN! – We’re Pranjali, Dhruv and Harsha, building Slashy ( https://www.slashy.ai ). We’re building a general agent that connects to apps and can read data across them and perform actions via custom tools, semantic search, and personalized memory. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeApHMHhccA While working on a previous startup, we realized we were spending more time doing busywork in apps than actually building product. We lost hundreds of hours scraping LinkedIn profiles, updati

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‘Talamasca: The Secret Order’ Promises Vampire Intrigue Galore in New Trailer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-17 14:45:26

While Interview With the Vampire fans will have to wait until 2026 to pick back up with that series—retitled The Vampire Lestat for its rock n’ roll-infused third season—Anne Rice’s world expands in just a few weeks with Talamasca: The Secret Order. AMC has just shared a full trailer after that teaser in July, and it teases supernatural secrets, psychic menace, and danger-filled dark rooms. Talamasca runs just six episodes, but AMC is calling it a “first season,” so make of that what you will.

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Eufy’s Got a Little Stair-Climbing Mech Suit for Its Robot Vacuums

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-17 14:58:08

Robot vacuums that can climb stairs are now officially a thing if IFA 2025 is any indication. At the Berlin tech show, Eufy announced the MarsWalker, a dang stair-climbing mech suit that your robot vacuum can wear. And Eufy plans to release it in the spring of next year, with pricing to be announced later. Robot vacuum owners have been waiting years for a couple of things: a robot that actually does what you want with no compromises (we’re not there yet) and the ability for them to actually get

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I Tried It: Dyson's Newest Stick Vac Empties So Neatly, I Could Do It in Bed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 14:01:00

Dyson is one of the best-known cordless vacuum manufacturers, and its V-series vacuums are flagship models that usually earn top marks in our testing. With strong suction and innovations including dust detection, the best Dyson vacuums can usually be counted on to bring something new to the table. I got to go hands-on with the Dyson V16 Piston Animal (there’s also a Submarine variant), the company’s newest cordless vacuum that’s expected to launch in the US in 2026. It offers the top-of-class c

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‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-10-17 14:10:13

After six years of waiting, Team Cherry’s long awaited Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, launched globally today at 10 am eastern. Unfortunately, fans may have to wait a little longer to play the action-adventure game. Online retailers such as the Xbox and PlayStation stores, Steam, and Nintendo eShop, are rife with loading screens and error messages as people rush to buy it. On Steam, players trying to add the game to their cart or complete their purchase are being met with the same message: an

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Darth Vader’s lightsaber is up for auction

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-17 14:11:45

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. Darth Vader’s lightsaber is about to become someone’s prized possession. It’s up for auction alongside a bunch of other iconic movie props, as spotted earlier by The New York Times. The auction is hosted by the memorabilia company Propstore, and it estimates tha

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The Download: unnerving AI avatars, and Trump’s climate gift to China

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-17 15:10:00

—Rhiannon Williams Earlier this summer, I visited the AI company Synthesia to give it what it needed to create a hyperrealistic AI-generated avatar of me. The company’s avatars are a decent barometer of just how dizzying progress has been in AI over the past few years, so I was curious just how accurately its latest AI model, introduced last month, could replicate me. I found my avatar as unnerving as it is technically impressive. It’s slick enough to pass as a high-definition recording of a

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Causes Server Chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 17:39:38

A little game by the name of Hollow Knight: Silksong just released, and it has thrown platforms into chaos. As you can see from images captured by the Eurogamer team, the likes of Steam was brought to a grinding halt as many flocked to get their hands on the highly-anticipated sequel. Meanwhile, several of us have been unable to add the game to our carts across Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. The PS store, for example, is stuck on Wishlisted at the time of writing. In the words of our Connor: "

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Want to Try Tesla's Robotaxis? Testing Is Now Open to All, Alongside Dedicated App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 18:08:00

After a couple of months of testing its Robotaxi service with invited members, Tesla is beginning to open the doors to its Robotaxi program. The electric car maker's newly launched iOS app is now live, signaling the start of a wider public beta -- though it's not quite a free-for-all just yet. You'll still need to join a waitlist, but the service is now open beyond the Tesla-focused influencers who were previously invited. This move is Tesla's biggest yet in its driverless mission, and it comes

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-17 18:02:14

An influx of players excited for this morning's launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong are encountering widespread errors purchasing and downloading the game from Steam this morning. Ars Technica writers have encountered errors getting store pages to load, adding the game to an online shopping cart, and checking out once the game is part of the cart. That aligns with widespread social media complaints and data from DownDetector, which saw a sudden spike of over 11,000 reports of problems with Steam

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It’s Possible to Remove the Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water. Will It Happen?

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-10-17 18:05:14

A new study finds that technologies installed to remove forever chemicals from drinking water are also doing double-duty by removing harmful other materials—including some substances that have been linked to certain types of cancer. The study, published Thursday in the journal ACS ES&T Water, comes as the Trump administration is overhauling a rule mandating that water systems take action to clean up forever chemicals in drinking water. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), colloquially r

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The story behind YouTube’s NFL livestream

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-10-17 18:30:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This year, football season kicks off with a twist: Following tonight’s season opener, YouTube will stream the NFL’s first Friday game of the season — a face-off between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs broadcast live from São Paulo, Brazil — for free to a global audience this Friday. It’s the first time YouTube has hosted such a high-caliber US sports event in front of the paywall, and th

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Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-17 22:44:29

Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat 19 minutes ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology reporter Share Save PA Dr Jean Innes (left) pictured with Foreign Secretary David Lammy (centre) and his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot at a meeting in London The chief executive of the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) has resigned following staff unrest and a warning the charity was at risk of collapse. Dr Jean Innes said she was stepping down from the

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Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops 7% on disappointing guidance

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-17 22:49:51

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped 8%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 28%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for the first t

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China's Electric Car Industry Is in Deep Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-17 21:14:50

China's electric vehicle industry is, by most accounts, experiencing unprecedented boom times: the cars are cheaper, consumers more primed to purchase them, and there are lots of viable options outside of Tesla. Unfortunately, that competition comes with a price — or rather, with a price war. As the New York Times reports, rabid competition among about 50 of the country's top EV automakers has led to repeated price-slashing in a manic hunt for new buyers. As those manufacturers race to the bott

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I tested the Abxylute One Pro, and it nails game streaming (with a catch)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 22:23:54

Abxylute One Pro If you want to stream games without tinkering with settings or dealing with Android jank, the Abxylute One Pro is a great pick. But if you want a little more, you can get better performance for the price. If you had asked me six years ago, I would have told you that game streaming was the future of gaming. Now that Stadia is dead and Xbox Cloud Gaming hasn’t made any significant improvements in years, the world seems to have shifted focus to gaming handhelds. But there’s a uni

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Pixel phones could soon let you set up unique vibrations for each contact (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 22:53:10

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR We spotted Google Contacts code that hints at contact-specific vibration patterns for Pixel phones. Apple and Samsung already allow you to assign specific haptics to your contacts. If it rolls out, the feature would tell you who’s calling even when your Pixel is in silent mode. Pixel phones already let you set custom ringtones for individual contacts, but Google could be preparing to take things further. Code hidden in the latest version of the Google

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Takeout Containers Should Never Go in the Microwave. This Is Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 21:32:00

When hunger and laziness coincide, reheating last night's leftovers in the microwave seems like a great idea. But if you reheat them in the plastic container they came in, you put yourself at risk for ingesting microplastics and harmful chemicals. You may be wondering, "Is plastic contamination as dangerous as experts say?" Unfortunately, all signs point to yes. Study after study has shown that the resulting chemical exposure of microplastics could pose significant health risks and they have be

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How Often Should You Vacuum to Get Rid of Microplastics and Other Particulates? (2025)

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-10-17 22:04:00

Global Earth Day published studies that found pets and babies are especially at risk for microplastic exposure from household dust. Both household members stay low to the ground—closer to dust, microplastics, and particulates that are invisible to the naked eye on carpets and floors—and put everything in their mouths, making it easier for them to ingest microplastic dust that could be on those objects. While that household dust could be anywhere in your home, carpet turns out to have its own is

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Latest Tech News

Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch

Lawmakers Panic As They Realize China May Beat the US to the Moon

Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI

Threads posts now support 'text attachments' up to 10,000 characters

Google's Circle to Search can now translate text as you scroll

This Amazon Lens upgrade lets you scan a product IRL and find it online in one click

Perplexity's $200 AI browser is free for students now - with more discounts to keep using it

You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts

Broadcom earnings primer: AI chip demand and growth are key

Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks

‘Talamasca: The Secret Order’ Promises Vampire Intrigue Galore in New Trailer

Eufy’s Got a Little Stair-Climbing Mech Suit for Its Robot Vacuums

I Tried It: Dyson's Newest Stick Vac Empties So Neatly, I Could Do It in Bed

‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

Darth Vader’s lightsaber is up for auction

The Download: unnerving AI avatars, and Trump’s climate gift to China

Hollow Knight: Silksong Causes Server Chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

Want to Try Tesla's Robotaxis? Testing Is Now Open to All, Alongside Dedicated App

Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

It’s Possible to Remove the Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water. Will It Happen?

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Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat

Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops 7% on disappointing guidance

China's Electric Car Industry Is in Deep Trouble

I tested the Abxylute One Pro, and it nails game streaming (with a catch)

Pixel phones could soon let you set up unique vibrations for each contact (APK teardown)

Takeout Containers Should Never Go in the Microwave. This Is Why

How Often Should You Vacuum to Get Rid of Microplastics and Other Particulates? (2025)

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