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Scientist Watching to See If Mysterious Object Visiting Our Solar System Releases Any Probes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 04:09:20

Ever since a mysterious interstellar object, since dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted screaming into our solar system this year, famed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been raising the possibility that the interstellar interloper is an "extraterrestrial artifact" that was sent to us by an intelligent alien race. Researchers have broadly come to the consensus that 3I/ATLAS is a comet. Most recently, observations by the Gemini South telescope in Chile confirmed that its tail is growing longer,

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Amazon's Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launch

cnbc.com Salvador Rodriguez Annie Palmer 2025-10-06 09:47:06

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Five years after its splashy $1.3 billion acquisition of Zoox, Amazon has officially entered the U.S. robotaxi race, which to date has been dominated by Alphabet's Waymo. Zoox's first public launch kicks off Wednesday on the Las Vegas strip. The company is offering free rides from a few select locations, with plans to expand more broadly across the city in the coming months. Riders will eventually have to pay, but Zoox said it

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Zoox Launches Its Robotaxi Service in Las Vegas. Here's How to Hitch a Ride

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 09:00:05

Table of Contents Zoox Launches Its Robotaxi Service in Las Vegas. Here's How to Hitch a Ride Zoox on Wednesday launched its robotaxi service for members of the general public, starting in Las Vegas. Anyone can now download the Zoox app for iOS or Android and hail a ride aboard what the company calls its "purpose-built robotaxis" -- meaning there's no driver's seat, steering wheel or pedals. The boxy vehicles will drive on and around the Las Vegas Strip, and rides will initially be free. "Ride

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Zoox opens its Las Vegas robotaxi service to the public

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-06 09:00:00

Zoox robotaxis — custom-built all-electric and autonomous vehicles that operate without a steering wheel or pedals — can now be hailed by the public in Las Vegas. But this isn’t a commercial service just yet. For now, the Zoox robotaxi service currently offer rides for free. The Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company, which launched the free service on Wednesday, has been chugging toward this milestone for years now. The company spent six years developing its technology before unveiling its p

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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-07 09:45:42

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. Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement has been put on pause after the federal judge overseeing the class action case raised concerns about the terms of the agreement. During a hearing this week, Judge William Alsup rejected the settlement over concerns

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iPhone 17 Pro reintroduces a glass cutout for 5G mmWave antenna on U.S. models

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-07 13:00:51

Apple introduced its iPhone 17 lineup today, and the new iPhone 17 Pro models include an interesting new design quirk that the company just got rid of with the iPhone 16 lineup: a glass cutout for 5G mmWave passthrough. This time though, it’s on the top of the phone. Ever since iPhone 12, Apple has included 5G mmWave support on the iPhones in the US, with the exception of iPhone 16e and the new iPhone Air. On iPhone 12 through 15, there was a glass cutout on the right side of the phone for thi

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Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 01:46:53

The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors.” Judge William Alsup at the hearing said the motion to approve the deal was denied without prejudice, but in a minute order after the hearing said approval is postponed pending submission of further clarifying information. During the first hearing since the deal was announced on Sept. 5, Alsup s

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iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and Apple’s other OS updates launch September 15

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 21:22:04

CUPERTINO, Calif.—If you’re buying one of the new iPhones or the other hardware that Apple announced today, your new devices will ship with Apple’s latest operating system updates already installed. But if you’re not looking to spend a bunch of money on Apple’s latest and greatest, the new updates will land on Apple’s other supported devices on September 15. Apple is shifting to a year-based numbering system starting this year, wiping away the previous grab bag of all-over-the-place version num

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Apple’s macOS Tahoe 26 update releases September 15th

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-10-07 21:17:29

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple’s big, Liquid Glass-ified update for macOS is coming out of beta and finally launching September 15th. First announced at WWDC 2025 and put through the usual rounds of developer and public betas, macOS Tahoe is coming to all users with compati

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Apple announces new entry-level $249 Apple Watch SE 3 with always-on display

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-10-08 01:24:41

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple has a refreshed entry-level smartwatch for 2025, the new Apple Watch SE 3. Announced at its “awe dropping” event alongside new iPhones, the SE 3 has a faster S10 processor, longer battery life, stronger front glass, and (finally) an always-on

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These 8 Common Foods Contain Microplastics. Here's How to Avoid Them in Your Diet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 08:19:00

Microplastics are found everywhere from kitchen tools to food storage. As a result, you're probably ingesting thousands of tiny plastic particles without even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb as high as 120,000. These microscopic fragments can come from packaging, processing and even additives in the food supply c

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I tried smart glasses with a built-in display, and they beat my Meta Ray-Bans in key ways

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-10-08 12:59:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Rokid Glasses are launching through Kickstarter, with a retail price of $599. They feature built-in displays that project textual information, such as a teleprompter, AI responses, and more. The 12MP camera sensor leaves something to be desired, and a stable internet connection is required for most functions to work. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's quote about b

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These 8 Common Foods Contain Microplastics. Here's How to Avoid Them in Your Diet.

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 13:19:00

Microplastics are found everywhere from kitchen tools to food storage. As a result, you're probably ingesting thousands of tiny plastic particles without even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb as high as 120,000. These microscopic fragments can come from packaging, processing and even additives in the food supply c

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New Beats earbuds leak hours before Apple’s big event

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-09 06:00:20

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple teased the upcoming Powerbeats Fit last month, and now renders and specifications for the sporty wireless earbuds have appeared online that give us a closer look at what to expect. According to trusted leaker Evan Blass, the new Beats earbuds will be available in four colorways — orange, gray, black, and pink — and provide up to 30 hours of battery life, or “7 hours per bud on one charge” without poppi

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Judge rejects Anthropic's record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement for AI copyright lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 08:35:12

Judge William Alsup has rejected the record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic has agreed to for a piracy lawsuit filed by writers. According to Bloomberg Law, the federal judge is concerned that the class lawyers struck a deal that will be forced "down the throat of authors." Alsup reportedly felt misled by the deal and said it was "nowhere close to complete." In his order, he said he was "disappointed that counsel have left important questions to be answered in the future," including t

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NotebookLM Can Now Make Flashcards and Quizzes to Help You Study

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 04:13:52

If it wasn't obvious that NotebookLM is shaping up to be the ultimate AI tool for school, it should be now. And Google has more to share for the fall season. On Monday, Google announced its latest NotebookLM features, including the option to generate flashcards, quizzes, new reports and more. Brand-new audio formats for the popular Audio Overviews feature were also released just last week. What sets NotebookLM apart from other AI tools is that it will only rely on the source material you provi

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The 9 coolest gadgets I saw at IFA Berlin 2025 (including picks you can actually buy)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-09 09:43:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. IFA is Europe's largest consumer electronics show, and this year was no different. IFA 2025 featured some of the most eye-catching innovations ever, so much so that it's hard to narrow down the list of amazing products. However, at a time when the tech world is saturated with artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, I found it refreshing that the best products I've seen don't hinge on AI. As I walked through the halls of Mes

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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 07:32:49

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG Apple introduced the Liquid Glass effect during WWDC 2025 in June—a stunning UI effect that makes interface elements appear to be made of curved, refractive glass. This article is a hands‑on exploration of how to recreate a similar effect on the web using CSS, SVG displacement maps, and physics-based refraction calculations. Instead of chasing pixel‑perfect parity, we’ll approximate Liquid Glass, recreating the core refraction and a spec

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Bob Stein and Voyager (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-10-09 02:32:42

Voyager tends to be overlooked in almost every survey because we didn’t really fit into anybody’s category. Librarians didn’t really pay much attention. The computer world never cared. Hollywood never really cared. We touched all these industries, but because we weren’t central to any of them and didn’t really ally with any of them in particular, we were in fact always an outlier. — Bob Stein In 1945, Vannevar Bush, an advisor to the American government on the subjects of engineering and techno

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Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Changing Shape, New Image Shows

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-10 00:15:47

"Even the most fleeting visitors can leave a lasting impact." Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object screaming into our solar system from far beyond. While there's a broad consensus among experts that the object is a comet, observations by four NASA telescopes have defied expectations, showing that it bears a much higher proportion of carbon dioxide gas than expected. Now, as the BBC reports, new observations by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro P

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Scientists Turned Plastic Trash Into a Material That Eats Carbon

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-10 13:45:58

Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year. The vast majority of these materials end up in landfills, but what if we could repurpose some of that waste to remove planet-warming emissions from the atmosphere? A team of researchers in Denmark has discovered a way to do just that. In a new study, published September 5 in the journal Science Advances, they transformed decomposed #1 plastic—also known as PET (polyethy

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We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Étienne Fortier-Dubois 2025-10-07 06:18:27

“Στόλος Ρωμαίων πυρπολῶν τὸν τῶν ἐναντίων στόλον,” i.e. “the fleet of the Romans setting ablaze the fleet of the enemies.” i.e. the Byzantines using their Greek Fire weapon. From the Codex Skylitzes Matritensis (12th century) A common trope in the land of fantasy fiction and games is that of lost technology. The hero stumbles upon some ancient ruins, and then finds an ancient weapon, or an ancient vehicle, or an ancient intelligent robot, that helps him in his quest. Nobody alive could possibly

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The 7 coolest gadgets I saw at IFA Berlin 2025 (including picks you can actually buy)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-11 11:00:18

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. IFA is Europe's largest consumer electronics show, and this year was no different. IFA 2025 featured some of the most eye-catching innovations ever, so much so that it's hard to narrow down the list of amazing products. However, at a time when the tech world is saturated with artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, I found it refreshing that the best products I've seen don't hinge on AI. As I walked through the halls of Mes

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My favorite Garmin smartwatch feature just came to Amazfit - and now I'm torn

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-11 13:00:23

Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro is available for $400 The watch sports a LED flashlight, is available in two sizes, has a speaker and microphone for call and assistant support, and three weeks of battery life There is no support for subscription music services, wearable payment systems, and limited third party apps. View now at Us.amazfit Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you've read any of my Garmin reviews over the past couple of yea

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Samsung just quietly teased its Galaxy Glasses - and almost no one noticed

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-11 09:46:00

Samsung's Jay Kim at its live streamed Galaxy Event on Sept. 4, 2025. Samsung | screenshot by Jason Hiner/ZDNET It's well known that Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm are joining forces to release wearable devices powered by Android XR. After all, the three companies have been talking about it for two and a half years and they've made it clear that Project Moohan -- their XR headset to compete with Apple Vision Pro -- will launch before the end of 2025. But there's another product that they've bee

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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2025-10-11 05:50:30

Sim Wong Hoo was born on the 28th of April in 1955, the tenth child in a family of twelve children (five brothers, seven sisters). His family were Singaporean Hoklo with ancestry in the southernmost area of Fujian, China, and they spoke Hokkien. He grew up in a kampung called End of Coconut Hill in Bukit Panjang, and his father, Sim Chye Thiam, was a factory worker while his mother, Tan Siok Kee, raised chickens, ducks, pigs, and rabbits, and grew fruits and herbs. The young Sim had chores aroun

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Meta wears Prada? Why its next-gen AR glasses may be even more fashionable than Ray-Bans

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-11 08:46:00

Prada's Linea Rossa glasses are an example of frames that could potentially fiit a lot of technology. Prada | Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways We expect the 3.0 version of Meta's audio-only Ray-Ban smart glasses at Meta Connect in September with several upgrades. Meta executives have teased that multiple wearables are coming this fall. There are reports that Meta will also launch a new line of AR smart glasses that have a display

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Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 09:31:38

With just the right amount of everything, Pico is a great starting point for a clean and lightweight design system. Class-light and Semantic Thriving on simplicity, Pico directly styles your HTML tags, using fewer than 10 .classes overall. It also comes with a class-less version for wild HTML purists. Discover the class-less version Great Styles with Just CSS No extra baggage needed. Pico works seamlessly without dependencies, package managers, external files, or JavaScript, achieving elegant

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The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 04:38:30

The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework Benefits for LWN subscribers The primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! The Microdot web framework is quite small, as its name would imply; it supports both standard CPython and MicroPython, so it can be used on systems ranging from internet-of-things (IoT) devices all the way

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Lab Mice Exposed to Microplastics Show Signs of Dementia

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-11 05:00:16

Image by Getty / Futurism Neuroscience/Brain Science Should you be worried that your brain probably contains enough plastic to fashion a disposable spoon? Yes, new research suggests: you should. In a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Communications, researchers found that mice which were regularly exposed to microplastics in their diet developed symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, in less than a single month. The mice were genetically mo

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These 8 Common Foods Contain Microplastics. Here's How to Avoid Them in Your Diet

I tried smart glasses with a built-in display, and they beat my Meta Ray-Bans in key ways

These 8 Common Foods Contain Microplastics. Here's How to Avoid Them in Your Diet.

New Beats earbuds leak hours before Apple’s big event

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We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)

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My favorite Garmin smartwatch feature just came to Amazfit - and now I'm torn

Samsung just quietly teased its Galaxy Glasses - and almost no one noticed

Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

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Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML

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Lab Mice Exposed to Microplastics Show Signs of Dementia

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