GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Zachary Crockett 2025-09-21 23:21:52

Bob Ross is not a hard man to find. Though he died in 1995, the late TV painter remains an omnipresent cultural staple. His Chia Pet perm, nap-inducing voice, and meme-worthy sayings — “Happy little trees!” — have transcended time. On YouTube, old episodes of his show, The Joy of Painting, boast ~450m views. Online, you can acquire Bob Ross paints, Bob Ross brushes, Bob Ross underwear, Bob Ross coffee mugs, Bob Ross energy drinks, Bob Ross watches, and Bob Ross toasters. But there’s one thing

Topics: art bob painting paintings ross

Shop Amazon

Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:15:42

Some strange radio signals are broadcasting out of Antarctic ice, and the researchers who found them don't know why. Using a cosmic particle detector, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania detected peculiar signals that, according to a press release, "defy the current understanding of particle physics." The particle detector that found those strange signals — which is, charmingly, suspended from a bunch of balloons — belongs to a range of instruments known as the Antarctic Impulsive Tr

Topics: anita don neutrinos particle wissel

Shop Amazon

Do reasoning AI models really ‘think’ or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-09-20 06:02:22

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Apple’s machine-learning group set off a rhetorical firestorm earlier this month with its release of “The Illusion of Thinking,” a 53-page research paper arguing that so-called large reasoning models (LRMs) or reasoning large language models (reasoning LLMs) such as OpenAI’s “o” series and Google’s Gemini-2.5 Pro and Flash Thinking don’t a

Topics: ai apple models paper reasoning

Shop Amazon

I test tablets for a living and this is the Samsung tablet I recommend the most

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-21 21:00:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE+ is a 13.1-inch tablet for $649. It's a good iPad Air alternative for Android users, with reliable performance, a larger display than the S10+, and an IP68 rating that the iPad lacks; it also includes the S Pen. The price increased by $50 for the base model compared to last year, and the tablet now has a single rear camera rather than the precious dual cameras. View now at Best Buy View now at Samsung more buying choices The Samsung Galaxy T

Topics: fe ipad s10 tab tablet

Shop Amazon

The Talented Ms. Highsmith

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 13:39:20

The Talented Ms. Highsmith I worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me. Patricia Highsmith pictured at her home in Tegna, Switzerland, in 1985. Dino Fracchia / Alamy Stock I first read Patricia Highsmith’s novels in the fall of 1994. I was twenty and living in a room in her house in Tegna, Switzerland, that was plastered with bookshelves full of her first editions, organized in chronological order. Pat was seventy-four and knew she was about to die; she had

Topics: dani did like pat told

Shop Amazon

Notes on the History of the Map Tile

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 17:14:09

Notes on the history of the map tile Web map tiles—the storing of geospatial data at different zoom levels in x/y/z indexed squares of raster (and later, vector) data for efficient storage and transmission of digital maps—are, despite their seeming simplicity, I think one of the most significant developments in geospatial software history. Tiling transformed the user experience of digital maps from one of tedious clicks-and-reloads to one of fluid, dynamic exploration. It made digital maps feel

Topics: data map maps patent prc

Shop Amazon

Companies may soon pay a fee for their rockets to share the skies with airplanes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:07:40

The Federal Aviation Administration may soon levy fees on companies seeking launch and reentry licenses, a new tack in the push to give the agency the resources it needs to keep up with the rapidly growing commercial space industry. The text of a budget reconciliation bill released by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last week calls for the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, known as AST, to begin charging licensing fees to space companies next year. The fees would phase in over eight year

Topics: budget commercial faa office space

Shop Amazon

The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon

wired.com Robin Andrews 2025-09-21 19:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into space from all over Io’s surface. “They looked amazingly beautiful,” said Bolton, who is now based a

Topics: bolton io moon ocean spacecraft

Shop Amazon

Would you switch browsers for a chatbot?

theverge.com David Pierce 2025-09-21 20:00:00

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 87, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy It’s Officially Too Hot Now Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you a much-awaited new browser, a surprise update to a great photo editor, a neat

Topics: installer paper want weather week

Shop Amazon

Is your phone provider’s autopay discount really worth it?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:00:14

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Autopay is easily one of the most convenient ways to pay your bills, especially if you’re like me and struggle to keep track of everything manually. Without autopay, it’s easy to accidentally miss a payment if you’re not careful. In the past, I’ve used autopay for nearly everything — from health and car insurance to utility bills, recurring entertainment subscriptions, and, of course, services like phone plans that offer discounts for autopay enrollment. Whil

Topics: account autopay bank charges credit

Shop Amazon

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Chu 2025-09-19 06:59:23

The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form of a mask that can be aligned and adhered to an original painting. It can also be easily removed. Kachkine says that a digital file of the mask can be stored and referred to by future conservators, to see exactly what changes were made to restore the original painting. Still, there has been no way to translate digital restorations directly onto an original work, until now. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex

Topics: digital kachkine method original painting

Shop Amazon

How Covid-19 Changed Hideo Kojima’s Vision for ‘Death Stranding 2’

wired.com Silvio Mazzitelli 2025-09-21 23:30:00

When legendary game designer Hideo Kojima announced to the world that Death Stranding 2 would soon be released, he made it known that Covid-19 had completely changed his idea for this sequel. “We released Death Stranding before the Covid-19 pandemic, when the world was moving toward isolation and division—as with Brexit. The idea behind it was ‘Let's connect. We’ll face disaster if we don’t connect.’ The theme, the story, and the gameplay of the first chapter all revolved around that idea,” Koj

Topics: death idea pandemic people stranding

Shop Amazon

These are the best iPad deals right now, just in case iPadOS 26 made you rethink things

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-21 11:57:20

A short while ago, I was browsing Apple deals on Amazon (as one does) – and something stuck out to me. High-end iPad Pros, particularly 12.9-inch models, are surprisingly cheap. I saw M1 models with 1TB and cellular for under $700. Given the recent iPadOS 26 overhaul that makes the iPad much more Mac-like, I figured these deals would be worth a share. While renewed iPad deals are the focus here because of their affordability, new iPad deals are also mentioned at the end. Renewed M1 iPad Pro de

Topics: apple deals ipad models renewed

Shop Amazon

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated "mask"

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Chu 2025-09-19 11:59:23

The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form of a mask that can be aligned and adhered to an original painting. It can also be easily removed. Kachkine says that a digital file of the mask can be stored and referred to by future conservators, to see exactly what changes were made to restore the original painting. Still, there has been no way to translate digital restorations directly onto an original work, until now. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex

Topics: digital kachkine method original painting

Shop Amazon

Tanks, guns and face-painting

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-09-21 19:36:29

Of all the jarring things I’ve witnessed on the National Mall, nothing will beat the image of the first thing I saw after I cleared security at the Army festival: a child, sitting at the controls of an M119A3 Howitzer, being instructed by a soldier on how to aim it, as his red-hatted parents took a photo with the Washington Monument in the background. The primary stated reason for the Grand Military Parade is to celebrate the US Army’s 250th birthday. The second stated reason is to use the even

Topics: army military parade tank washington

Shop Amazon

Do these nine things to protect yourself against hackers and scammers

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-21 21:39:07

Scammers are using AI tools to create increasingly convincing ways to trick victims into sending money, and to access the personal information needed to commit identity theft. Deepfakes mean they can impersonate the voice of a friend or family member, and even fake a video call with them! The result can be criminals taking out thousands of dollars worth of loans or credit card debt in your name. Fortunately there are steps you can take to protect yourself against even the most sophisticated sca

Topics: app login password passwords use

Shop Amazon

Using `make` to compile C programs

news.ycombinator.com Julia Evans 2025-09-18 02:24:48

I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make , if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has compiled or give up”. “Hope someone else has compiled it” worked pretty well when I was running Linux but since I’ve been using a Mac for the last couple of years I’ve been running into more situations where I have to

Topics: compiler install linker make paperjam

Shop Amazon

Debunking HDR [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 14:56:00

DEBUNKING "HDR" Chapter: Intro The Setup Roadmap Notes On The Recording Foundational Topics __Human Perception Of Tonality Is Relative __Understanding Display Colorspaces __Colorspaces: More Tech Details "SDR" vs "HDR" Colorspaces "SDR" <--> "HDR" Conversion Solved A Serious Man: Artful Highlights Introducing Part 2 Detriments Marketed As Benefits __Inefficiency Isn't An Advantage __"Wider Gamut" Misinformation __Patches On An Unnecessary Problem __Edge Cases Aren't The Crux __Flooding The Zone

Topics: __ colorspaces conversions hdr sdr

Shop Amazon

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2025-09-21 18:52:38

The Apple paper on limitations in the “reasoning” of Large Reasoning Models, which raised challenges for the latest scaling hypothesis, has clearly touched a nerve. Tons of media outlets covered it; huge numbers of people on social media are discussing. My own post here laying out the Apple paper in historical and scientific context was so popular that well over 150,000 people read it, biggest in this newsletter’s history. The Guardian published an adaptation of my post (“When billion-dollar AI

Topics: apple code models paper problem

Shop Amazon

Week in Review: WWDC 2025 recap

techcrunch.com Karyne Levy 2025-09-21 16:08:00

Welcome back to Week in Review! We have lots for you this week, including what came out of WWDC 2025; The Browser Company’s AI browser; OpenAI’s partnership with Mattel; and updates to your iPad. Have a great weekend! The Apple experience: We kicked the week off with WWDC 2025, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company showed off a newly designed iOS 26, new features across its products, and much more. There was considerable pressure on Apple this year to build on its promises

Topics: ai browser company google week

Shop Amazon

Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-21 17:46:54

In Brief Meta’s big investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale $200 million this year but is now having conversations with its competitors and planning to cut ties. Microsoft is also reportedly looking to pull back, and OpenAI supposedly made a similar decision months ago, although its CFO said the company will continue working with Scale as one of many vendors. Scale’s customers include self-driving car com

Topics: company customers google meta scale

Shop Amazon

The Space Station Leak Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:15:21

Space Draft Space tourism company Axiom Space has had to postpone its fourth chartered SpaceX flight to the International Space Station after NASA announced it needs more time to investigate an air leak affecting the orbital lab. For five years, NASA and its Russian counterpart Roscosmos have been hunting down leaks in the station, which has been continuously occupied for 25 years. The issue has since been traced back to the Russian segment of the ISS, specifically the Zvezda service module, a

Topics: axiom nasa space spacex station

Shop Amazon

Companies Bragging About Their AI Furious as Job Applicants Use AI During Interviews

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 20:00:23

Goldman Sachs wants those applying for jobs at the investment bank to stop relying on AI while interviewing — a glaring double standard, considering it's made massive bets of its own on the tech, launched its own AI platform and rolled out AI tools across its businesses. As Fortune reports, the bank's campus recruitment team sent out an email, warning students that "Goldman Sachs prohibits the use of any external sources, including ChatGPT or Google search engine, during the interview process."

Topics: ai applicants company job use

Shop Amazon

Got a new password manager? How to clean up the password mess you left in the cloud

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-09-21 15:30:00

koyu/Getty Images Every modern web browser has tools for tracking the passwords you use with secure online services. Those features are often turned on by default, which means you probably have a random collection of passwords saved in the cloud along with your bookmarks and settings for your default browser. Also: The best VPN services (and how to choose the right one for you) Those built-in utilities might have been good enough for an earlier era, but they aren't good enough for our complex

Topics: google password passwords saved turn

Shop Amazon

Laika’s ‘ParaNorman’ Is Coming Back to Theaters

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-21 20:25:22

If you liked ParaNorman back in the day and wished to see it on the big screen again, you’re in luck. Laika’s stop-motion horror movie is getting a one-week theatrical re-release in 2D and remastered RealD3D on October 23 internationally and October 25 in the U.S. The film’s return marks Laika’s second movie to come to back to theatres following Coraline in 2024 for its 15th birthday, and this will be part of the studio’s 20th anniversary celebration. Screenings will also come with The Thriftin

Topics: film horror laika movie paranorman

Shop Amazon

Anne Wojcicki’s nonprofit reaches deal to acquire 23andMe

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-21 17:55:39

Beleaguered genetic testing company 23andMe announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to sell itself to a nonprofit led by the company’s co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki. Following a massive cyberattack in 2023 and a related lawsuit settlement, 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March, with Wojcicki resigning in order to become an independent bidder for the company. But pharmaceutical company Regeneron was announced as the company’s acquirer with a $256 million bid. According to th

Topics: 23andme company data genetic ttam

Shop Amazon

Here's why network infrastructure is vital to maximizing your company's AI adoption

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-21 18:00:16

Weiquan Lin/Getty Images When companies begin taking the first steps toward AI adoption, one of the first pieces of advice they receive is to address the quality of their data. However, another foundational element that is often overlooked, but is just as critical to the success of AI deployment, is network infrastructure. At Cisco Live, ZDNET spoke with Anurag Dhingra, SVP and GM of the Enterprise Connectivity and Collaboration Group, to learn more about the role network infrastructure plays

Topics: agents ai companies infrastructure network

Shop Amazon

Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 01:10:38

$\begingroup$ PA is enough, because PA can encode computation. This is longer than I expected, and was made longer still by some browser crashes. But I'd been idly thinking of writing these ideas up. I hadn't for these reasons. It is a lot of work. What I have to say is obvious to logicians, and they would consider the detour into programming to only be a distraction. Computer programmers who can appreciate the programming detour, are mostly not that interested in logic. But this question hi

Topics: binary induction list pa proof

Shop Amazon

You Still Can't Use Apple Pay at Walmart but You Have Another Digital Wallet Option

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 17:02:00

If you're shopping at Walmart, your digital payments options are limited to the OnePay Wallet or Walmart Pay. Kativ/Getty Images If you're shopping in-store at Walmart, you can't use Apple Pay or Google Pay to make a purchase. But Walmart introduced a credit card that already offers its own digital wallet. OnePay, a Walmart majority-owned fintech, announced it's partnering with financial service Synchrony to introduce a Walmart-branded credit card this fall but you can use the OnePay digital w

Topics: card onepay pay wallet walmart

Shop Amazon

11 Best Planners: Weekly and Daily Notebooks and Accessories (2025)

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-09-21 19:02:00

There's nothing like the feeling of a brand-new planner. Whether it's the start of a new year or even just the month of June, we've found the best planners to deliver that satisfying rush of a fresh start and a blank page. The sensation of writing things down not only feels satisfying but helps improve retention, and paper planners give a sense of delight in a world that can feel bleak. A great planner will help you keep your life on track, but that means something different for everyone—do you

Topics: like page pages planner planners

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)

Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica

Do reasoning AI models really ‘think’ or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response

I test tablets for a living and this is the Samsung tablet I recommend the most

The Talented Ms. Highsmith

Notes on the History of the Map Tile

Companies may soon pay a fee for their rockets to share the skies with airplanes

The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon

Would you switch browsers for a chatbot?

Is your phone provider’s autopay discount really worth it?

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

How Covid-19 Changed Hideo Kojima’s Vision for ‘Death Stranding 2’

These are the best iPad deals right now, just in case iPadOS 26 made you rethink things

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated "mask"

Tanks, guns and face-painting

Do these nine things to protect yourself against hackers and scammers

Using `make` to compile C programs

Debunking HDR [video]

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short

Week in Review: WWDC 2025 recap

Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI

The Space Station Leak Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again

Companies Bragging About Their AI Furious as Job Applicants Use AI During Interviews

Got a new password manager? How to clean up the password mess you left in the cloud

Laika’s ‘ParaNorman’ Is Coming Back to Theaters

Anne Wojcicki’s nonprofit reaches deal to acquire 23andMe

Here's why network infrastructure is vital to maximizing your company's AI adoption

Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation

You Still Can't Use Apple Pay at Walmart but You Have Another Digital Wallet Option

11 Best Planners: Weekly and Daily Notebooks and Accessories (2025)

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising