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Marshall’s new Middleton II Bluetooth speaker lasts 30 hours between charges

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-19 05:43:54

Marshall has launched its latest compact Bluetooth speaker, the Middleton II. A direct replacement for the first-generation Middleton from 2023, the new speaker promises room-filling 360-degree sound from a device that sits comfortably in the palm of your hand and won’t demand too much space in your backpack for trips. The original Middleton offered bright clear sound that belied its diminutive proportions, and with its successor Marshall says it has engineered deeper bass and "more refined per

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Tesla's Robotaxi Program Is Failing Because Elon Musk Made a Foolish Decision Years Ago

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-20 08:51:55

A shortsighted design decision that Elon Musk made more than a decade ago is once again coming back to haunt Tesla. As The Guardian reports, the company's Robotaxi rollout has been a massive bust — due, in at least in part, to Musk's long-ago bet against the light detection and ranging sensors known as lidar, which are hardware that allow cars to "sense" their surroundings far more sensitively than the visual cameras that Tesla is instead using as the inputs for itse self-driving software. Way

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A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-20 17:45:15

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists originally thought, according to a recent round of radiocarbon dating. Archaeologists unearthed the mammoth-tusk boomerang in Poland’s Oblazowa Cave in the 1990s, and they originally dated it to around 18,000 years old, which made it one of the world’s oldest intact boomerangs. But according to recent analysis by University of Bologna researcher Sahra Talamo and her colleagues,

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Trump’s Proposed Budget Threatens Key Part of Mission to Send Astronauts to Mars

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-21 13:55:50

For more than 20 years, NASA has relied on a network of spacecraft circling Mars to send data to and from the Red Planet. Without the constellation of five orbiters, the agency would not have been able to land its rovers on Mars or guide them through its terrain. Although the White House is keen on advancing human missions to the Martian surface, it also wants to get rid of that vital lifeline The Mars Relay Network is a fleet of orbiters equipped with radio systems powered by the Sun to mainta

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The second launch of New Glenn will aim for Mars

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-21 21:15:15

Blue Origin is making steady progress toward the second launch of its New Glenn rocket, which could occur sometime this fall. The company already ignited the second stage of this rocket, in a pre-launch test, in April. And two sources say the first stage for this launch is in the final stages of preparation at the company's facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Publicly, the company has said this second launch will take place no earlier than August 15. This is now off the table. One source to

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5 of my favorite tech purchases, besides my Pixel

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-22 01:00:09

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’m a Pixel fan. I’ve been using one of Google’s phones for a few years now and genuinely don’t plan on switching to another brand. It’s easily my favorite and most-used tech product, but over the years, I’ve made plenty of other tech purchases that have proven to be well worth the money. Today, I’ll walk you through a list of my top five essential devices that I own and use regularly — at least once a week. What’s interesting is that some of these were actua

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The $25k car is going extinct?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 23:59:56

View in browser Issue #353 Sunday, June 29, 2025 Why the $25,000 car is going extinct Can’t find an affordable car anywhere? You’re not the only one. BY MARK DENT In late 2021, Ford released the Maverick, a compact pickup truck. At roughly half the cost and half the weight of the popular F-150, it was meant to be an antidote for excess, and it worked. With a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $19,995 for the base level, the Maverick drew rave reviews from critics and a rush of inte

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Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-22 06:30:27

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, then threw away all those millions of pages of the original te

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The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

news.ycombinator.com Charles Rosenbauer 2025-08-22 06:07:03

Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles. This is Moore’s Law. Roughly every five years, the cost to build a factory for making such chips doubles, and the number of companies that can do it halves. 25 years ago, there were about 40 such companies and the cost to build a fab was about $2-4 billion. Today, there are either two or three such companies left (depending on your optimism toward Intel) and the cost to build a fab is in excess of $1

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Gareth Edwards Is Glad You Liked ‘Rogue One,’ Just Don’t Ask Him to Make Another ‘Star Wars’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-22 21:15:50

Gareth Edwards, who directed Godzilla (2014), The Creator, and the brand-new Jurassic World Rebirth, is always going to be asked about his time in the galaxy far, far away. That’s just the nature of Star Wars and, more specifically, Star Wars fans, most of whom look very fondly upon 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story—especially in the wake of Andor‘s two-season run on Disney+. Edwards is thrilled for all the goodwill, but that doesn’t mean he’s hoping for a return to that world. “I’m very happ

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10 Years of Pomological Watercolors

news.ycombinator.com Parker Higgins 2025-08-23 21:42:04

10 years of pomological watercolors A decade ago today I published a blog post calling for the US government to release its paintings of fruits. The Pomological Watercolor Collection, as I had recently come to know, is a beautiful and remarkable corpus of over 7,000 pictures of fruits and other biological specimens, made between the 1880s and 1940s. Through a handful of FOIA requests I’d learned that the images had been meticulously digitized and put online for purchase, but that less than 100

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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Revisit the Original ‘Gundam’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-08-25 05:10:48

Gundam has spent nearly 50 years reinventing itself across myriad side stories, new universes, and reimaginings of the story that started it all in the events of the “Universal Century” that kicked off in the original 1979 series Mobile Suit Gundam. There are so many ways to get into the franchise, newer starting points, perhaps less intimidating starting points than a 43-episode TV series. But there’s a reason the original Gundam still endures as one of the best, if not the best, entry points a

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Ancient Rocks in Canada Are Almost as Old as the Earth Itself

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-08-25 13:00:14

Due to the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates, our planet’s crust is constantly recycled, making rocks and minerals from its earliest days incredibly rare. That’s frustrating for geologists, since surface-level Hadean rocks (rocks older than 4.03 billion years) could provide significant insight into the first geological stages of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history. In a study published today in Early Earth, researchers from Canada and France suggest that the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB)—a

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Peter Thiel Says Elon Musk Doesn’t Understand His Own Robot Revolution

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-25 17:10:47

Far-right tech investor Peter Thiel sat down for an interview with the New York Times’ Ross Douthat and talked about the billionaire’s recent political escapades and the future of humanity. Thiel also discussed his thoughts on the Antichrist, a topic that the Times chose to highlight, giving the written version of the interview the salacious headline, “Peter Thiel and the Antichrist.” But it was Thiel’s thoughts on his friend Elon Musk that were arguably the most illuminating for those of us in

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Video Shows Large Crane Collapsing at Safety-Plagued SpaceX Rocket Facility

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-26 00:05:48

Elon Musk’s Texas Starbase is still reeling from its latest Starship explosion. Now, it has a crane collapse to deal with too. As eagle-eyed Starbase watchers flagged in a livestream from earlier this week, one of the cranes at the site of the explosion — which was, according to CBS News 4, powerful enough to be picked up by weather radar — collapsed in a heap in the middle of the day. "This has always been one of my biggest fears in every industry I've worked in," tweeted Zack Golden, the Spa

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Apple Podcasts picks 20 shows that ‘define this medium’ at two-decade milestone

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-26 01:06:38

Apple Podcasts is marking 20 years of podcasting today, with the first podcasts in iTunes debuting back in 2005. As part of the celebration, it’s chosen 20 shows from over the decades that “helped define this medium we know and love.” 20 podcasts selected by Apple for 20-year podcasting anniversary Apple’s editorial teams for services are no strangers to making lists of favorites from over the years. Last year, for example, Apple Music picked its top 100 albums of all time. Now it’s Apple Pod

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Mexico’s President Has Had Just About Enough of Elon’s Exploding Rockets

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-26 09:38:03

After a string of failed test flights and exploding rockets, Mexico has had enough of its neighboring SpaceX facility. Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is threatening to sue over possible contamination from SpaceX’s rocket launches that sometimes rain bits of debris across the nearby border. During a news conference on Wednesday, Sheinbaum said she was looking into filing the necessary lawsuits against SpaceX’s possible violations, The Guardian reported. “There is indeed contamination,” She

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'28 Weeks Later' Is in Netflix's Top 10 but Not in the US. Here's Where You Can Stream It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 13:00:08

Every week, Netflix unveils its Top 10 lists for the week before, ranking TV shows and movies by viewership. It seems like the whole world had been preparing for the release of the zombie horror, 28 Years Later, by watching its predecessor, 28 Weeks Later, on Netflix. Actually, when I say "the whole world," I mean places that are not the US. That's because while 28 Weeks Later ranked No. 8 in Netflix's Top 10 films for the week of June 16, its thanks to viewers in 36 other countries. The film is

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Researchers Pit Stone Age Seafaring Skills Against One of Earth’s Fiercest Currents

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-08-27 21:00:27

Archaeologists estimate that humans first arrived on the Ryukyu Islands off the southwestern coast of Japan sometime between 35,000 and 27,500 years ago. How they did so, however, remains a mystery, especially since they would have had to cross one of the planet’s strongest ocean currents. To address this enduring question, scientists decided to attempt the Paleolithic voyage themselves. Using replicas of tools that existed in the Japanese Archipelago during the Upper Paleolithic (around 50,000

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Anker’s versatile travel charger is on sale just in time for summer

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-08-27 21:16:00

If you’re planning on traveling internationally this summer, Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter is one of the most essential — and probably cheapest — items you can pack to level up your vacation game. And right now, you can buy the new adapter at Amazon as a part of a lightning deal for just $21.99 ($4 off), which is the first discount we’ve seen. You can also pick it up directly from Anker for the same price when you use coupon code WS7DV2HHCTAI at checkout. Designed with globetrotters in mind, Anke

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Was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office

news.ycombinator.com As Told To 2025-08-25 00:36:55

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Freddy Kristiansen, a 59-year-old former principal product manager at Microsoft's Denmark office who was laid off in May. Business Insider has verified Kristiansen's employment. The following has been edited for length and clarity. A couple of weeks ago, after 23 years at Microsoft, I was laid off. Yet here I am, back in the office.

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Best Binoculars (2025): Zeiss, Swarovski, Leica

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-08-28 05:39:00

Binoculars mean the difference between seeing a little gray bird and identifying a titmouse, cheering a home run and seeing the epic catch, or realizing that the 10-point buck is actually a doe standing in front of dead branches. Whether you're scouting terrain, watching birds in your backyard, stargazing, or getting season tickets at Fenway, binoculars bring the world closer. If you're looking for binoculars for bird-watching, check out our guide All the Gear You Need to Start Birding. Be sure

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52 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Will Keep You Entertained

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-28 21:00:04

When you open your Netflix app, it's easy to be overwhelmed by the number of shows to choose from. All that choice can make it hard to figure out what to stream -- we've all done the infinite scroll, spending an hour looking for something before just giving up and watching old episodes of Seinfeld. That's why we've handpicked some of the most entertaining shows on the platform, including beloved favorites like Sex and the City and Brooklyn Nine-Nine along with newer series such as Ginny & Georgi

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Zombie Dong Will Return in ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-29 09:45:00

Two topics of conversation dominated the opening weekend of Danny Boyle’s new film, 28 Years Later. One, that wild ending that introduced a seemingly out-of-place controversial new character. And two was the sheer amount, and size, of the penises seen in the film. Throughout 28 Years Later, the Rage virus-infected zombies that run around the mainland are all naked. As one would be if you’d been running around killing people as a zombie for 30 years. That means, yes, there’s lots of nudity in th

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This Star Wars Galactic Map Clears Up Confusion About a Galaxy Far, Far Away

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-29 12:49:00

Have you ever wondered about the distance between Tatooine and Naboo? How about Obi-Wan Kenobi's accumulated mileage during the Clone Wars? The good news is that the force is with you: All of your questions are answered by the new Star Wars Galactic Map. The map divvies up the Star Wars galaxy into important regions. Movie fans might be familiar with the core worlds (where Coruscant is) and the outer rim (where you can find Tatooine), but the deep core, colony worlds, inner rim, expansion regio

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I Can’t Stop Staring at This Massive ‘Star Wars’ Galaxy Map

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-08-30 09:10:44

For as many times, narratively speaking, Star Wars‘ universe can feel awfully small in much of its recent output, it’s always nice to be reminded that, actually, the scope of the galaxy far, far away is incomprehensibly vast. Especially if we can be reminded such an incredibly nerdy manner: via the medium of a massive, updated official map of that galaxy. Today the official Star Wars website, to sit alongside its own interactive timeline of the eras of Star Wars‘ past and future, released an up

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LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 Is Selling for Pennies, Amazon Already Clears Out Stock Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-30 09:25:32

Star Wars set without a doubt the most profitable and best-selling license for LEGO with beloved characters flying off store shelves almost as fast as they’re built. Beautiful LEGO Star Wars sets have a sticker price of more than $100, and it’s quite often much more than that. For fans of the galaxy far, far away who want to stay within budget, there’s a sale that’s creating a buzz: the LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 Building Set is priced at a rate that equals last year’s Black Friday and Prime Day lows

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US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 12:52:07

US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis The BBC has contacted Tesla for comment. In a statement, the NHTSA said it was "aware of the referenced incidents and is in contact with the manufacturer to gather additional information." Videos posted online seem to show instances where the vehicles, which had a safety driver in the passenger seat, drive erratically. The firm's long-awaited robotaxis - which boss Elon Musk says are central to Tesla's future - were tried out on publi

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Tesla’s robotaxi reality check

theverge.com David Pierce 2025-08-31 01:11:55

After years of grand promises about how robotaxis would change the way we buy and use our cars, Tesla finally launched its taxi service. In one small portion of one city. With only a few cars and a few riders. Plus safety monitors in the passenger seat. Caution is a good thing in this industry, but what does all this say about where Tesla’s self-driving efforts really stand? After that, The Verge’s Allison Johnson joins the show to dive deep on MVNOs. In the United States, the cell market is co

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Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 04:11:52

To update the Starship itself, rerun the above script. It will replace the current version without touching Starship's configuration. Add the init script to your shell's config file: Add the following to the end of ~/.bashrc : sh # ~/.bashrc eval "$( starship init bash)" Add the following to the end of ~/.config/fish/config.fish : sh # ~/.config/fish/config.fish starship init fish | source Add the following to the end of ~/.zshrc : sh # ~/.zshrc eval "$( starship init zsh)" Add the follo

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Marshall’s new Middleton II Bluetooth speaker lasts 30 hours between charges

Tesla's Robotaxi Program Is Failing Because Elon Musk Made a Foolish Decision Years Ago

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