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Canada drops Big Tech tax to appease Trump

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-29 20:17:08

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. Canada has scrapped its tax targeting Big Tech companies in the US after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade talks in response to the fee. On Sunday, the Canadian government announced that it will no longer implement the Digital Services Tax as it works to reach a trade deal with the US by July 21st. The Digital Services Tax would’ve

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Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-29 20:47:13

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says in a Decoder episode published today. The company announced the plan to move over the more than half a billion blogs on Tumblr last year, saying that the change would “make it easier to share our work across platforms.” But Mullenweg says on Decoder th

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Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-29 20:00:00

The company behind Cursor, the viral AI coding editor, launched a web app on Monday that allows users to manage a network of coding agents directly from their browser. The launch marks Cursor’s next big step beyond its integrated development environment (IDE), the core product developers use to access its tools. While Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, initially offered only this AI-powered IDE, the company has made a concerted effort to put its products in more places, and develop more agen

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Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-30 00:44:36

Oracle CEO Safra Catz speaks at the FII PRIORITY Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, on Feb. 20, 2025. Oracle shares jumped more than 5% after a recent filing showed a cloud deal that would add over $30 billion annually. CEO Safra Catz is slated to share the deal news at a company meeting Monday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The revenues are expected to start hitting in the 2028 fiscal year. "Oracle is off to a strong start in FY26," Catz is expected to say,

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The Project Hail Mary trailer looks like The Martian all over again (in a great way)

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-30 00:21:19

Andy Weir's sci-fi books are practically built to be turned into movies, especially in the hands of great writers and directors. That's what happened with The Martian, which was a delightfully nerdy self-published novel that was transformed into a thrilling film adaptation — thanks to Drew Goddard's script and Ridley Scott's bold direction. And I have a feeling the same will be true for the latest Weir adaptation, Project Hail Mary, judging from the first trailer released today. It's got everyt

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TCL 5.1 Channel Soundbar Is Now 3x Cheaper Than JBL’s, Best Buy Has This 5-Star Deal for a Limited Time

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-08-30 00:10:58

There’s nothing like great sound to take movie nights, sports games, and even casual TV watching to the next level. Sure, your TV’s built-in speakers can do the job. “A” job, even. But you’re not going to get much out of your audio from movies and TV shows without a soundbar that can really help to project the sound. In fact, a good soundbar can completely transform the experience, especially if you’re still relying on your TV’s built-in speakers. If you’ve been holding off on upgrading, now mig

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Spotify Discover Weekly gets personal update, letting you offer it guidance

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-30 04:41:20

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist has been around for a full decade now, aiming to introduce you to singers and bands you don’t know but may like, with particular emphasis on emerging artists. It’s been great for me, but if it isn’t quite hitting the spot, you can now help it do better … Discover Weekly is an algorithmic playlists that looks at your existing favorite artists, finds other subscribers with the same tastes, and shows you what else they are listening to. It’s been a highly–succes

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Spotify adds genre controls to Discover Weekly

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-30 04:35:31

Spotify's Discover Weekly is celebrating 10 years of being a very ok feature. To celebrate the milestone, Spotify is giving Discover Weekly a full refresh, letting you choose between up to five genres for the playlist. The option will appear at the top of your playlist and provide songs based on your listening history. The 30-track playlist will update accordingly. There are also visual changes, with Spotify stating, "the playlist's vibrant new design reflects its ever-evolving nature and the d

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“I Am Groot” Translates to “This Dancing Groot LEGO Set Hits All-Time Low” While Stock Lasts on Amazon

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-30 04:40:51

Who doesn’t love Lego? Appealing to folks of all ages, Lego makes for wonderful gifts or collectors items. I find myself just really enjoying the process of it all. Popping on a podcast or some music while I just tune out and build. You take each piece of the instructions one step at a time while you can see your progress moving along in real time. It’s pretty mindful and therapeutic as you put this cool thing together in front of you while your mind wanders and your real-life stressors momentar

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Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors

wired.com Will Knight 2025-08-30 04:00:00

Microsoft has taken “a genuine step towards medical superintelligence,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the company’s artificial intelligence arm. The tech giant says its powerful new AI tool can diagnose disease four times more accurately and at significantly less cost than a panel of human physicians. The experiment tested whether the tool could correctly diagnose a patient with an ailment, mimicking work typically done by a human doctor. The Microsoft team used 304 case studies sourced from t

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The best tablets for students in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-08-30 08:33:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Are software professionals truly an endangered species? It's complicated

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-08-30 08:56:33

islander11/Getty Images Industry eyebrows were raised recently at New York Federal Reserve Bank data showing software engineering graduates face higher unemployment rates than art history majors. The unemployment rates for computer engineering and computer science were 7.5% and 6.7% respectively. By contrast, the unemployment rates for art history and social services majors were 3% and 1.7% respectively. Also: The best AI for coding in 2025 (including a new winner - and what not to use) In a

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Show HN: I built a daily sunlight tracker

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 19:28:36

With so much time spent indoors and away from natural cycle of light and dark, our bodies are left struggling to function. Our app helps you reconnect. It supports your circadian rhythm to unlock the energy, focus, and sleep your body was built for.

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This Newly Released Mini PC (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) Is Almost Free Compared to a Mac Mini for Early Prime Day

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-30 08:40:39

You don’t need to let your desktop take up your entire, well, desktop! Save some crucial space buy downsizing to a small but powerful mini PC. The ACEMAGIC Mini PC is perfect for school, business, or personal use and is right now heavily discounted at Amazon. Normally, it goes for $319 but for a limited time you can scoop one up for $189. That’s a savings of 41% equating to $130. But don’t stop there. Redeem the coupon code ACEYJD5Y and receive an additional 6% off at checkout. See at Amazon D

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One of the best Android smartwatches I've tested is not a Google or Samsung

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-08-30 14:00:13

ZDNET's key takeaways The Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5 Enduro is available in Obsidian black for $349 (but on sale for $160 at the time of writing). This Google Wear OS smartwatch offers long battery life, dual-display technology, and a sapphire glass display. The watch currently runs Wear OS 3.5 and is available in one larger size. $157.5 at Amazon For the past couple of years, I've been switching between various Google and Samsung Galaxy Watch models to pair with my Android, as Google's Wear OS is

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How to set up Alexa to receive notifications on Prime Day deals you want

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-30 15:07:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Ward Agius 2025-08-30 05:23:09

Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm. An alarming number of people across Africa may be taking cancer drugs that don't contain the vital ingredients needed to contain or reduce their disease. It's a concerning finding with roots in a complex problem: how to regulate a range of therapeutics across the continent. A US and pan-African research group publ

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Event – Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 21:19:19

Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher This package offers a high-performance, in-process event dispatcher for Go, ideal for decoupling modules and enabling asynchronous event handling. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous processing, focusing on speed and simplicity. High Performance: Processes millions of events per second, about 4x to 10x faster than channels. Processes millions of events per second, about than channels. Generic: Works with any type implementing the Event interface

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Spotify Is Giving You More Control Over Your Discover Weekly Playlist

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-30 16:00:02

Spotify — a CNET Editor's Choice award-winning service — offers Premium subscribers ($12 a month) a huge catalog filled with millions of songs to enjoy at home, on the go and everywhere in between. The streaming app is an easy way to find new musicians thanks to the Discover Weekly playlist. On Monday, Spotify announced it is revamping the Discover Weekly playlist on the mobile app, giving subscribers more control over what genres of music they will discover. Read more: Best Music Streaming Ser

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25 of the Best TV Shows on Disney Plus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-30 16:00:06

Disney Plus has become a force to be reckoned with in the streaming TV realm. Like Netflix before it, the Disney-owned content platform has become a utility within my household. Simply put, it's an entertainment necessity and one of the best streaming platforms today. If you've been sleeping on Disney Plus, now's the time to wake up. The Mouse House's streamer has been around for a bit over a decade, but its library is so stacked, it feels like it's been around for way longer. Where else can yo

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Spotify will let users personalize the genre of Discover Weekly playlists

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-08-30 16:00:00

Spotify is adding new personalization features to Discover Weekly, the popular and influential playlist streamed by millions of users. The regularly updated playlist will now have buttons for genres like pop, R&B, and funk at the top, allowing users to tell Spotify what they want more of. The Discover Weekly playlist is one of the more noteworthy things Spotify has introduced: the company says songs on the playlist have been streamed more than 100 billion times. The weekly mixtape — generated v

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Spotify revamps its Discover Weekly playlist after 10 years

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-30 16:00:00

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist, which shares new listening recommendations every Monday, is getting an update. Ten years after the debut of Discover Weekly (yes, we feel old, too), Spotify Premium users will see new controls at the top of the playlist, which allow them to push their recommendations toward certain genres. So, if you mostly listen to 80s rock, but you’re starting to develop a soft spot for K-pop, you can select different genre filters to push the algorithmic curation in the r

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I never thought I'd praise a kickstand power bank - until I tried this one

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-30 18:00:14

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Ward Agius 2025-08-30 10:23:09

Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm. An alarming number of people across Africa may be taking cancer drugs that don't contain the vital ingredients needed to contain or reduce their disease. It's a concerning finding with roots in a complex problem: how to regulate a range of therapeutics across the continent. A US and pan-African research group publ

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ICE test train reaches speeds of up to 405.0 km/h

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 09:43:08

DB und Siemens Mobility haben bei Testfahrten einen neuen Geschwindigkeitsrekord für die Strecke Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle erreicht • Fahrten liefern wichtige Erkenntnisse für die Sanierung von Schnellfahrstrecken sowie die technische Weiterentwicklung von Hochgeschwindigkeitszügen Die Deutsche Bahn (DB) und Siemens Mobility haben mit einem ICE-Testzug auf der Schnellfahrstrecke Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle eine Geschwindigkeit von 405,0 km/h erreicht. Fahrten mit Geschwindigkeiten über 300 km/h sind sehr s

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Continuous Glucose Monitoring

news.ycombinator.com Adam Langley 2025-08-30 13:09:30

Continuous glucose monitoring has been a thing for a while. It's a probe that sits just inside your body and measures blood glucose levels frequently. Obviously this is most useful for type 1 diabetics, who need to regulate their blood glucose manually. (At this point, I would be amiss not to give a nod to the book Systems Medicine, which I think most readers would find fascinating. I can't judge whether it's correct or not, but it is a delightful exploration of a bunch of maladies from the per

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Microsoft's custom AI chip hits delays, giving Nvidia more runway

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-08-30 12:24:00

Microsoft's push into custom artificial intelligence hardware has hit a serious snag. Its next-generation Maia chip, code-named Braga, won't enter mass production until 2026 – at least six months behind schedule. The Information reports that the delay raises fresh doubts about Microsoft's ability to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market and underscores the steep technical and organizational hurdles of building competitive silicon. Microsoft launched its chip program to reduce its h

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Nvidia insiders dump more than $1 billion in stock, according to report

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-30 10:07:32

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote, part of the 9th edition of the VivaTech technology startup and innovation fair, held at the Dôme de Paris in the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Insiders at artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia have dumped more than $1 billion in stock over the last year, according to a report from the Financial Times. About $500 million worth of sales occurred over the last month as the market

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Melania Trump's Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-30 08:45:26

Let's get one thing straight: it's hard to be married to the president. From coming up with epoch-defining slogans like "Be Best" to decking the White House halls with bizarre Christmas decor, it's a tougher gig than most of us can imagine. Our current first lady, Melania Trump, is well aware of the challenge after her previous four-year stint in the White House. Notoriously private — or perhaps just too busy to make public appearances — the first lady's life has been shrouded in mystery. Howe

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Kuo: Apple working on 7 head-mounted products, roadmap starts in 2025

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-30 14:26:04

In a blog post today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo detailed his updated roadmap forecast for Apple’s headset and smart glasses markets. According to him, the company has at least seven head-worn devices in development across two product families, one coming in 2025. According to Kuo: Apple views head-mounted devices as the next major trend in consumer electronics. The company currently has at least seven projects in development, comprising three Vision series products and four smart glasses variants.

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