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Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013)

Last year I created a demo showing how CSS 3D transforms could be used to create 3D environments. The demo was a technical showcase of what could be achieved with CSS at the time but I wanted to see how far I could push things, so over the past few months I’ve been working on a new version with more complex models, realistic lighting, shadows and collision detection. This post documents how I did it and the techniques I used. View the demo Creating 3D objects The geometry of a 3D object is st

Tour Championship 2025: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

The 30 top ranked golfers battle it out in Atlanta this weekend for the pivotal Tour Championship, with Scottie Scheffler aiming to become the first player to defend their FedEx Cup crown. Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. Scheffler heads to East Lake Golf Club after a dramatic victory at the BMW PGA Championship last weeken

Enterprise Claude gets admin, compliance tools—just not unlimited usage

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A few weeks after announcing rate limits for Claude and the popular Claude Code, Anthropic will offer Claude Enterprise and Teams customers upgrades to access more usage and Claude Code in a single subscription. The upgrades will also include more admin controls and a new Compliance API that will give enterprises “access to usage data and

Gemini Live is becoming a more helpful digital assistant that responds naturally

TL;DR Google is enhancing Gemini Live with visual overlays that highlight objects in your camera feed and a new audio model for more expressive conversations. The visual overlay feature helps you identify items or get advice by placing a white-bordered rectangle around objects in your camera’s view. The new native audio model is designed for more responsive and expressive conversations. At last year’s Made by Google event, Google unveiled Gemini Live, a feature designed for more natural, hand

Ricoh Announces Updated Version of My Favorite Travel Camera

With pocket camera popularity on the rise, Ricoh has announced the GR IV, an updated version of its excellent, diminutive (and quite old) GR III. It's a fixed-lens camera that can easily fit in a pocket, but inside is a big APS-C image sensor -- far larger than what you can get in a phone. Larger image sensors typically mean better image quality compared to smaller sensors. I really liked the GR III and picked it as the best point-and-shoot camera for travel. The images it captured were better,

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Masimo sues US Customs over Apple Watch blood oxygen workaround

Last week, when Apple announced the release of a “redesigned Blood Oxygen feature” to the Apple Watch, many figured Masimo (who had been suing Apple over patents related to the feature), would look for a way to fight back. Today, the company did just that and filed a new lawsuit. But this time, it’s against the US Customs and Border Protection. Here’s why. A bit of background When Apple released the Blood Oxygen feature on the Apple Watch, medical device maker Masimo sued over alleged patent i

Sequoia backs Zed

Nathan Sobo August 20th, 2025 Today we're announcing our $32M Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from our existing investors, bringing our total funding to over $42M. For the past four years, we've been building the world's fastest IDE, but that's just the foundation for what comes next. Our ultimate vision is a new way to collaborate on software, where conversations about code remain connected to the code itself, instead of being tied to aging snapshots or scattered across dif

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change

When Hurricane Helene ravaged western North Carolina in September 2024, one of its many victims was a manufacturing plant that made intravenous fluids. The sterile IV solutions produced in the plant are essential supplies for hospitals and other medical facilities, which use them in various treatments, from rehydration to drug delivery and kidney dialysis. And the plant damaged by Helene—Baxter International's North Cove manufacturing facility in Marion—didn't just make some of the US supply; it

Google’s Gemini Live AI assistant will show you what it’s talking about

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. Google is bringing a bundle of new features to Gemini Live, its AI assistant that you can have real-time conversations with. Next week, Gemini Live will be able to highlight things directly on your screen while sharing your camera, making it easier for the AI as

Space is open for business with Even Rogers and Max Haot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

The next era of the space economy isn’t just about rockets and satellites — it’s about infrastructure, autonomy, and entirely new models for building and defending off-Earth assets. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October 27–29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, the Space Stage is where this shift gets real. If you’re ready to explore how next-gen tech meets the cosmos, grab your ticket before prices rise on September 1 and save your seat at the Space Stage. Building the new backbone of space I

They Might Be Making the Perfect ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Game

For as long as Star Trek: Voyager has been around, there has been much debate about if Captain Janeway made the right decisions navigating her crew’s journey home across years of travel from an unexplored corner of the galaxy with little to no support from Starfleet. Should she have killed Tuvix to save the lives of two crewmembers? Should she have been hyperevolved into an amphibian and had sex with one of her senior, also-currently-a-hyperevolved-amphibian officers? Should she have deleted tha

Google's Smart Home Devices Are Finally Getting Gemini's AI Skills

Gemini for Home will replace Google Assistant in the company's line of smart displays and speakers, a step up in capabilities for its smart home devices. The announcement was made on Wednesday to coincide with its Made By Google event in New York. Gemini for Home will use AI models tuned for home tasks and work with any member of the household, including guests, according to a company press release. It'll activate with the same "hey Google" phrase, but Gemini for Home can better understand cont

This is the Ultimate '90s Cyberpunk Movie (No, It's Not 'The Matrix')

The cyberpunk movement has given us some of the best science fiction movies: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and, yes, The Matrix. But there's one great tech noir flick that came out at the height of the cyberpunk craze -- and then all but disappeared. Maybe that's partly because of its title. I'd wanted to rewatch Strange Days for a long time, but I kept forgetting because, honestly, I couldn't remember what it was called. Then I finally rediscovered the sci-fi thriller on Hulu. After my most

Google says the quiet part out loud: IP68 protection doesn’t last

Designed to comply with dust and water protection rating IP68 under IEC standard 60529 when each device leaves the factory but the device is not water or dust proof. The accessories are not water or dust resistant. Water resistance and dust resistance are not permanent conditions and will diminish or be lost over time due to normal wear and tear, device repair, disassembly or damage. Phone is not drop/tumble proof and dropping your device may result in loss of water/dust resistance. Damage from

Lock screen widgets are finally live on Pixel phones in Android 16 QPR2

TL;DR The first beta of Android 16 QPR2 finally brings lock screen widget support to Pixel phones, a feature previously only available on tablets. Users can swipe inward from the right edge of the lock screen to access a dedicated page that can be customized to hold multiple widgets. The feature’s arrival comes amidst the Pixel 10 launch and complements its new Qi2 support to turn the phone into a mini smart display on a stand. It’s a big day for Pixel fans. On the heels of the Pixel 10 serie

Apple just dropped a security update for all its platforms

With iOS 26 coming within the next month or so, Apple doesn't have many reasons left to update iOS 18. But this is one of them. The company pushed a security update for its platforms on Wednesday. iOS 18.6.2 patches a vulnerability related to image processing. Apple's security notes say the update plugs a hole related to Image I/O. (That's a development framework for reading and writing image data.) "Processing a malicious image file may result in memory corruption," the company wrote. Apple sa

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Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards

bizcardz.ai is a website where you design business cards which are converted to KiCad PCB schematics which can be manufactured (using metals) by companies such as Elecrow and PCBWay Config In prod Groq (not Grok) is used because they are about 40% faster than openai & gemini You may choose to skip use of Groq by setting env openai_as_groq=true OpenAI - svg guidance - gpt-4o Gemini - svg ranking - gemini-2.0-flash Replicate - image generation - ideogram-v2a-turbo Groq - svg generation - ll

Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows

In Brief U.S. border agents searched more electronic devices during a three-month period than ever before, according to new government statistics. The data shows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency tasked with immigration screening at the U.S. border, searched 14,899 devices of international travelers between April through June, a 17% rise on the previous record high recorded in early 2022. Most of these searches are “basic,” where U.S. border agents demand the password to the

Gemini is coming to Google Home in October with both free and paid versions

Gemini is launching in early access on smart displays and speakers in October, Google announced in a new blog post. Gemini for Home will replace Google Assistant on the company's smart home devices, and will apparently be available in both free and paid versions, implying Google is interested in expanding its subscription business, not unlike Amazon is with Alexa+. Google originally demoed Gemini for Home back at CES 2025. At the time, the company was primarily promising that generative AI woul

Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack." Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, this security flaw is caused by an out-of-bounds write weakness discovered by Apple security researchers in the Image I/O framework, which enables applications to read and write most image file formats. An out-of-bounds write occurs when attackers successfully exploit such vulnerabilities by supplying input to a program, causing it t

Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash

Most people not deeply involved in the artificial intelligence frenzy may not have noticed, but perceptions of AI’s relentless march toward becoming more intelligent than humans, even becoming a threat to humanity, came to a screeching halt Aug. 7. That was the day when the most widely followed AI company, OpenAI, released GPT-5, an advanced product that the firm had long promised would put competitors to shame and launch a new revolution in this purportedly revolutionary technology. As it hap

Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same? Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that. Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compu

Pixel 10, new Gemini features, the Pixel Watch, and everything else announced at the Made by Google 2025 event

The Made by Google 2025 event is finally happening, notably before Apple’s hardware event is expected to take place in September. On Wednesday, the tech giant debuted its Pixel 10 series, a new foldable, the Pixel Watch 4, the second generation of the cost-friendly A-Series earbuds, generative AI capabilities with Gemini, and more. Get ready for a Gemini boost Image Credits:Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Google already dropped several AI-related updates at its developer

Gemini for Home is coming to replace Assistant — but is your smart home ready for its changes?

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini for Home begins early access this October. While it sounds like you’ll have the option to stick with Assistant for a while, Google is clear that Gemini for Home will eventually replace it. Gemini for Home is set to be available in both free and paid versions, though Google has yet to share more about its plans there. For the past couple years, Google has been working to flesh out its next-gen AI efforts, and offering us plenty of opportunitie

Did Google just give us our first glimpse of a new Nest speaker?

Google TL;DR Google is currently in the middle of launching the Pixel 10 series at its Made by Google event. During one video spot, the company quietly featured an unfamiliar-looking smart speaker. It’s possible this could represent an upcoming new Nest model. Google’s big Pixel 10 launch event is finally underway, and it is… something! The star-studded showcase is feeling more like a talk show than the sort of announcements we normally expect from Google, and the surprises are continuing wi

Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

A study looking into agentic AI browsers has found that these emerging tools are vulnerable to both new and old schemes that could make them interact with malicious pages and prompts. Agentic AI browsers can autonomously browse, shop, and manage various online tasks (like handling email, booking tickets, filing forms, or controlling accounts). Perplexity’s Comet is currently the primary example of agentic AI browsers. Microsoft Edge is also embedding agentic browsing features through a Copilot

Ordered Insertion Optimization in OrioleDB

When many sessions try to insert into the same B-tree leaf page, classic exclusive page locking serializes progress and wastes time on sleep/wake cycles. We’re introducing a batch page insertion path that lets the session holding the page lock insert for itself and its neighbors. The result: dramatically reduced lock waits, and big gains at high client counts (2X throughput boost starting from 64 clients in our benchmark). In OrioleDB beta12, inserts into a B-tree leaf are performed under an ex

Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)

Sergei is a veteran of the early days of the computing industry as it was developing in the Soviet Union. I had the pleasure of working and learning from him over the past year, and in that time I picked up more important lessons about both life and embedded programming than any amount of school could ever teach. The most striking lesson is the story of how and why, in late summer of 1986, Sergei decided to move his family out of the Soviet Union. In the 1980s, my mentor Sergei was writing soft

AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong

One of the neat things about AWS is that it’s almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is… that it’s almost twenty years old. If you’ve been using the platform for a while, it can be hard to notice the pace of change in the underlying “foundational” services. More worryingly, even if you’re not an old saw at AWS scrying, it’s still easy to stumble upon outdated blog posts that speak to the way things used to be, rather than the way they are now. I’ve gathered some of thes

No time for voicemails? This Pixel 10 feature has you covered

TL;DR Google Phone app users are getting a new feature called “Take a Message.” This feature separates missed or declined calls from spam calls. The app will provide a real-time transcription of the caller’s message and suggestions for next steps to take. Missed calls happen, whether you’re away from your phone or you didn’t hear the ring. And you’re not always in a position to listen to a voicemail. Still, you probably want to know why that person reached out. Even if you declined the call,