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Sutton SignWriting is a writing system for sign languages

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 05:54:40

SignWriting was invented in 1974 by Valerie Sutton , a ballet dancer who eight years earlier had developed a dance notation named Sutton DanceWriting . [8] The current standardized form of SignWriting is known as the International Sign Writing Alphabet (ISWA). [9] The SignWriting system is visually iconic: its symbols depict the hands, face, and body of a signer. And unlike most writing systems, which are written linearly, the symbols of SignWriting are written two-dimensionally, to represent t

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Chinese startup Manus challenges ChatGPT in data visualization: which should enterprises use?

venturebeat.com Ujas Patel 2025-07-25 20:38:23

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 The promise sounds almost too good to be true: drop a messy comma separated values (CSV) file into an AI agent, wait two minutes, and get back a polished, interactive chart ready for your next board presentation. But that’s exactly what Chinese startup Manus.im is delivering with its latest data visualization feature, launched this month.

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Samsung’s next foldable might drop a premium material but regain a fan-favorite feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-25 20:01:29

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is considering switching from titanium to carbon fiber in the Galaxy Z Fold 8 due to supply chain concerns. Using carbon fiber could also enable the return of S Pen support, which isn’t as compatible with titanium. Samsung is working on thinner stylus technology but hasn’t confirmed whether the S Pen will return next year. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 hasn’t even shipped yet, but Samsung already appears to be rethinking some key design elements for its 20

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OpenAI wins gold at prestigious math competition - why that matters more than you think

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-07-25 16:34:00

OpenAI OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in the race to build AI models that can reason their way through complex math problems. On Saturday, the company announced that one of its models achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Math Olympiad (IMO), widely regarded as the most prestigious and difficult math competition in the world. Critically, the winning model wasn't designed specifically to solve IMO problems, in the way that earlier systems like DeepMind's AlphaGo -- wh

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Google and OpenAI Chatbots Claim Gold at International Math Olympiad

gizmodo.com Win Mcnamee 2025-07-25 20:30:37

Artificial intelligence models developed by Google’s DeepMind team and OpenAI have a new accolade they can add to their list of achievements: they have defeated some high schoolers in math. Both companies have claimed to achieve a gold medal at this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one of the toughest competitions for high school students looking to prove their mathematical prowess. The Olympiad invites top students from across the world to participate in an exam that requires

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EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-07-25 20:26:48

Employees of the crucial scientific research arm of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been left with more questions than answers as the agency moves to officially wind down the office following months of back-and-forth. On Friday evening, the EPA issued a press release announcing a reduction in force at the Office of Research and Development (ORD), citing the move as part of a larger effort to save a purported $748.8 million. On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in

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Citizen will share crime videos with the NYPD

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-07-25 20:55:12

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. Mayor Eric Adams announced over the weekend that New York City will send users real-time public safety alerts based on their specific location through the crime-tracking app Citizen. The city also announced that public safety agencies, like the New York City Police Department, Fire Department, and Emergency Management, will have access to a portal t

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YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2025-07-26 00:37:23

Google announced Monday the removal of nearly 11,000 YouTube channels and other accounts tied to state-linked propaganda campaigns from China, Russia and more in the second quarter. The takedown included more than 7,700 YouTube channels linked to China. These campaigns primarily shared content in Chinese and English that promoted the People's Republic of China, supported President Xi Jinping and commented on U.S. foreign affairs. Over 2,000 removed channels were linked to Russia. The content

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OpenAI is getting closer with the UK government

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-25 22:31:33

The UK government has announced a new strategic partnership with OpenAI that could lead the company to "expand AI security research collaborations, explore investing in UK AI infrastructure like data centers, and find new ways for taxpayer funded services" to use AI. The move follows the introduction of the AI Action Plan in January, which fast-tracks the construction of data centers in certain regions of the UK. In the (entirely voluntary) partnership agreement — technically a Memorandum of Un

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Africa's gigantic $80B dam could transform entire continent

news.ycombinator.com Rafaela Fabris 2025-07-26 00:17:08

At a cost of $80 billion, the Grand Inga Dam will be the world's largest hydroelectric plant, capable of generating 40.000 megawatts and bringing electricity to millions, the megaproject will change economies and connect all of Africa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is about to embark on one of the largest and most ambitious infrastructure projects ever seen. The construction of the $80 billion Grand Inga Dam promises to transform not only the country’s energy sector, but also the f

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Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say

news.ycombinator.com Ellen Nakashima 2025-07-25 01:58:06

Hackers exploited a major security flaw in widely used Microsoft server software to launch a global attack on government agencies and businesses in the past few days, breaching U.S. federal and state agencies, universities, energy companies and an Asian telecommunications company, according to state officials and private researchers. The U.S. government and partners in Canada and Australia are investigating the compromise of SharePoint servers, which provide a platform for sharing and managing d

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OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-25 20:02:04

On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), matching a standard that fewer than 9 percent of human contestants reach each year. The announcement came despite an embargo request from IMO organizers asking AI companies to wait until July 28 to share their results. The experimental model reportedly tackled the contest's six proof-based probl

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Google gets ahead of the leaks and reveals the Pixel 10 early

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-26 00:25:14

Google has an event next month to officially launch the Pixel 10 series, but the leaks have been coming fast and furious beforehand. There won't be much left to learn on August 20, particularly now that Google has revealed the phone. Over on the Google Store, there's a video revealing the Pixel 10's design, and it looks just a little familiar. The video (which you can also see below) isn't very long, but it offers an unobscured look at the phone's physical design. The 13-second clip opens with

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Grok’s AI companions drove downloads, but its latest model is the one making money

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-25 19:20:29

Grok’s raunchy, unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and often NSFW responses, but it’s Grok 4, xAI’s latest model, that’s been driving the app’s revenue of late. Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok 4 late on July 9, and by Friday, July 11, Grok’s gross revenue on iOS had jumped a whopping 325% to $419,000, up from $99,000 the day before the Grok 4 launch, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures. Image Credits:Appfigures Grok continued to pull in higher-than-usu

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I replaced my work PC with this Dell laptop, and it was one of my best decisions

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-07-26 04:00:49

Alienware 18 Area-51 Laptop ZDNET's key takeaways The Alienware 18 Area-51 retails for $3,199. It is a gaming laptop that delivers an unbelievable performance thanks to its powerful hardware and equally powerful cooling system. Traveling with the computer will prove difficult because of its weight; you'll also have to pay quite a bit for the system. View now at Dell View now at Best Buy more buying choices Alienware 18 Area-51 is a very fitting name for this computer because it is out of this

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Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 02:16:41

At Morphik, we build RAG tools to provide developers accurate search over complex documents. In this article, we explain why we operate over "images" of pages instead of doing OCR/ parsing. If you’ve ever tried to extract information from a complex PDF: one with charts, diagrams, and tables mixed with text, you know the pain. That invoice with a nested table showing quarterly breakdowns? The research paper whose intricate figures actually contain the key findings? The technical manual where the

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AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 01:48:28

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The Best Co-op Games to Play With Your Friends Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 03:30:00

Playing video games with friends is intrinsic to gaming. It should be no surprise that games like Split Fiction and It Takes Two from Hazelight Studios, which focus on cooperative play, were critical successes. Despite how gaming has changed over the years, one thing remains the same -- people love playing games together. Some of my best memories are of marathon gaming sessions with friends, squished together on a couch or logging in online from different spots. Whether you're looking for a sp

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Hackers exploiting SharePoint zero-day seen targeting government agencies

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-07-26 04:42:36

The hackers behind the initial wave of attacks exploiting a zero-day in Microsoft SharePoint servers have so far primarily targeted government organizations, according to researchers as well as news reports. Over the weekend U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA published an alert, warning that hackers were exploiting a previously unknown bug — known as a “zero-day” — in Microsoft’s enterprise data management product SharePoint. While it’s still early to draw definitive conclusions, it appears that th

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MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 08:31:20

Readers may have noticed a famous and distinguished name in computer architecture in the news recently: GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS to Accelerate AI and Compute Capabilities July 8, 2025 GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS, a leading supplier of AI and processor IP. “MIPS brings a strong heritage of delivering efficient, scalable compute IP tailored for performance-critical applications, which strategically aligns with the evolving deman

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What Will Become of the CIA?

news.ycombinator.com Keith Gessen 2025-07-26 08:16:07

In December, 1988, as the Soviet Union was beginning to come apart, Senator Bill Bradley, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, convened a closed-door hearing with several of the C.I.A.’s top Soviet experts. These were analysts, not operatives. They did not run spies or weapons, or shoot poisoned darts at people; mostly, they sat at their desks at Langley, reading Pravda or studying photographs of Soviet military parades. The hearing found them in a melancholy mood, pondering

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Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 07:59:00

Hey all, Ernie here with a bigger refresh than usual. In honor of the Game Genie’s 35th anniversary this month, here’s a deeply rewritten version of a 2015 Tedium piece on the device. Nearly every section has been completely rebuilt wholesale. Something happened very recently that makes this classic device relevant to the current moment. Can you guess what it is? Today in Tedium: July 1990, a full 35 years ago, was supposed to be the coming-out party for one of the best accessories ever created

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Google Store starts teasing Pixel 10 series: T-minus one month to launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-26 12:13:58

TL;DR Google has scheduled its next Made by Google hardware event for August 20. The company is expected to introduce the Pixel 10 series, Pixel Watch 4, and maybe even some new Pixel Buds. With one month to go until showtime, the Google Store has started promoting the upcoming Pixel 10. We’re just one month away from August 20, when Google intends to introduce its latest hardware lineup at the company’s Made by Google event. That’s looking like it’s going to involve a nice assortment of devi

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I tested this 9-in-1 off-grid portable power station that claims a 17-year lifespan - here's my verdict

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-07-26 12:13:37

'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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Netflix just revealed AI-generated footage in a popular show for the first time - did you spot it?

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-07-26 12:15:41

Netflix Without realizing it, you may have already seen Netflix's first foray into AI-generated content. In its latest company earnings call, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos revealed that AI created part of a scene of a building collapsing in the new Netflix series The Eternaut, a post-apocalyptic drama about an alien invasion in Argentina. Also: I spoke with an AI version of myself, thanks to Hume's free tool - how to try it Sarandos framed the usage of generative AI tools as "an incredible opp

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Comparison of MGR, SunView, OpenWindows and X11R6 (2022)

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-07-26 11:09:01

My general vintage computing projects, mostly microcomputers, 6502, PalmOS, 68K/Power Mac and Unix workstations, but that's not all you'll see. While over the decades I've written for publications likeand, these articles are all original and just for you. My promise: No AI-generated article text, ever. All em-dashes are intentional and inserted by hand. Be kind, REWIND and PLAY.Old VCR is advertisement- and donation-funded, and what I get goes to maintaining the hardware here at Floodgap. I don'

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OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-07-26 12:05:42

OpenAI’s incoming CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, sent her first note to staff on Monday, telling employees the tools they’re developing “will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history.” “If we get this right, AI can give everyone more power than ever,” Simo wrote, striking a hyper-optimistic tone, according to a copy of the memo viewed by WIRED. “But I also realize those opportunities won’t magically appear on their own.” Simo previously worked as the CEO

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OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-07-26 12:36:37

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. OpenAI’s ChatGPT sees more than 2.5 billion requests daily, with 330 million from users based in the US, according to data obtained by Axios. The data suggests that ChatGPT users send over 912.5 billion requests to the AI chatbot each year. Although ChatGPT still has a way to go to catch up to Google’s 5 trillion annual searches, its rapid growth s

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PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app – and it’s completely free

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-26 16:00:40

We don’t talk enough about the amount of paperwork we come across every day. From essential bank documents, work contracts, tax notices, and bills to invoices, application forms, IDs, letters, and more, keeping everything organized can be a chore. And even more so if there’s a mix of physical and digital paperwork to deal with. Scanning your documents and organizing them digitally is a smart idea. But while there are plenty of scanner apps, any features you might need beyond basic scanning are

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This transforming, dual-screened Android console is the most interesting handheld I’ve ever tested

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-26 16:37:20

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority It isn’t often that something entirely new crops up in the gaming space. Nintendo is the only player still innovating when it comes to handhelds, but even then the evolution from the Wii U in 2012 to the Nintendo Switch 2 released just a few months ago feels far more iterative than say, the leap from the Game Boy to the Nintendo DS. Then there’s the ONEXSUGAR SUGAR 1. With two screens, folding controllers, and more power than nearly any other Android gaming h

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Sutton SignWriting is a writing system for sign languages

Chinese startup Manus challenges ChatGPT in data visualization: which should enterprises use?

Samsung’s next foldable might drop a premium material but regain a fan-favorite feature

OpenAI wins gold at prestigious math competition - why that matters more than you think

Google and OpenAI Chatbots Claim Gold at International Math Olympiad

EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office

Citizen will share crime videos with the NYPD

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Africa's gigantic $80B dam could transform entire continent

Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say

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Google gets ahead of the leaks and reveals the Pixel 10 early

Grok’s AI companions drove downloads, but its latest model is the one making money

I replaced my work PC with this Dell laptop, and it was one of my best decisions

Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks

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What Will Become of the CIA?

Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed

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I tested this 9-in-1 off-grid portable power station that claims a 17-year lifespan - here's my verdict

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OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff

OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day

PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app – and it’s completely free

This transforming, dual-screened Android console is the most interesting handheld I’ve ever tested

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