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10 Common Foods That Contain Microplastics and How to Avoid Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 22:32:00

Microplastics are the latest hidden hazard worry for the world -- they've even been found in chewing gum. UCLA researchers have found that every time we chew gum, microplastics are released directly into our mouths. In addition to that, a new study published in Chemistry for Life tested 10 chewing gum brands and found every single one contained microplastics. This was found to be the case with both natural and synthetic varieties. A gram of gum releases around 100 microplastics on average, with

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How to Clean a Beer Glass for Perfect Pours

wired.com Parker Hall 2025-08-26 22:06:00

These bubbles and foam are vital to a proper drinking experience for many reasons, but the primary one is that they are a huge vehicle for aroma (which is itself a huge vehicle for perceived flavor). This is also why brewers nearly always recommend drinking beer out of a glass, rather than a can or bottle: Your sense of smell is a huge part of your sense of taste, and the more you can smell your beer the better it will taste. Many folks (guilty as charged) even have specific beer glasses for spe

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4 ways the latest KDE Plasma release is better than ever - and how to try it yourself

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-27 06:09:02

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Ladies and gents of the Linux community, it is time to enjoy another point release of yet another desktop environment: KDE Plasma 6.4. A point release? I got you all excited about a point release? Hear me out. 1. HDR/EDR support One of the biggest additions to KDE Plasma 6.4 is support for Extended Dynamic Range and a new High Dynamic Range wizard. The new HDR Calibration wizard is found in System Settings > Display & Monitor and only appears if you'

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Best Internet Providers in Alaska

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-28 04:46:00

Alaska has a lot to offer, including rugged natural beauty, national parks and fresh seafood. However, its offerings are less expansive when it comes to internet service for the state's 730,000 residents. Whether it's fiber, fixed wireless, DSL or satellite, you'll have to make some compromises when picking an internet service provider in Alaska. According to our CNET experts, GCI is the top pick for most in the state -- if it's available in your area. What is the best internet provider in Alas

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AT&T customer? You might get a cut of $177 million data breach settlement

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-28 22:53:57

wdstock/Gertty Images If you're a current or former AT&T customer, a new class action settlement means you might be in line for a little cash. Earlier this year, the company confirmed two major data breaches -- one from 2019 or earlier and one from 2024. The stolen data, which ultimately ended up for sale on the dark web, included social security numbers, names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and more. Also: 184 million passwords leaked across Facebook, Goo

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The xMEMS 'fan on a chip' is ready for smart glasses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-29 14:00:32

As AI reignites Big Tech's push for smart glasses, here's a tech that could play a central role. xMEMS, which debuted a solid-state "fan on a chip" last year, has a new one for wearables. This could help future smart glasses melt your face figuratively — and not literally. Founded in 2018, xMEMS specializes in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. The California-based company started with solid-state speakers. Last year, it introduced its µCooling "fan on a chip" for phones and oth

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Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-08-29 18:00:00

Plastic has a recycling problem. Only about 9% of plastic gets recycled, and a majority of that waste comes from single use items like plastic grocery bags. It’s partly a design problem — they’re made to be discarded. But it’s also a technology problem because recycling such films isn’t easy, and the results usually aren’t great. Novoloop says it has developed a way to take those troublesome plastics and turn them into something other companies actually want to buy. The California-based startu

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Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds

news.ycombinator.com Sandee Lamotte 2025-08-30 02:08:11

Food & health Corporate news Pollution See all topics Follow Ripping the plastic wrap from the meat or prepackaged fruit and veggies you purchased at the grocery store may contaminate your food with micro- and nanoplastics, according to new research. Plastic contamination may also occur when you’re unwrapping deli meat and cheese, steeping a tea bag in hot water, or opening cartons of milk or orange juice. Glass bottles and jars with a plastic-coated metal closure may also shed microscopic bit

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This Is Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing

wired.com Carlton Reid 2025-08-30 03:00:00

It may well be able to wade through deep water, have crawl-assist mode for sketchy terrain, and even perform 360-degree swivel-on-the-spot tank turns, but sales of the seemingly much-anticipated electric Mercedes G-Class SUV have been poor. Actually, that’s an understatement. They’ve been woeful. And it’s not the only e-flop from a legacy automaker: Just last week Ferrari announced that it is delaying its second EV model (the first will arrive in October) until at least 2028 because of weak dem

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Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

news.ycombinator.com Nicola Davis 2025-08-30 06:34:04

Bacteria can be used to turn plastic waste into painkillers, researchers have found, opening up the possibility of a more sustainable process for producing the drugs. Chemists have discovered E coli can be used to create paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, from a material produced in the laboratory from plastic bottles. “People don’t realise that paracetamol comes from oil currently,” said Prof Stephen Wallace, the lead author of the research from the University of Edinburgh. “What this

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Apple read your mean tweets about Liquid Glass and Finder

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-30 10:22:30

The more things change, the more they stay the same. After unveiling some new visual elements to the next generation of its operating systems during WWDC 2025, Apple has already walked back some of the proposed design revisions. 9to5Mac noticed that the most recent developer betas included changes to the new Liquid Glass operating system appearance and to the Finder app icon. Liquid Glass was divisive from the start . The idea of layering transparency in the user interface appealed to some, whi

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Transparent Ambition

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 11:32:47

Translucent user interfaces is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Aside from movie visual effect trickery, it started out in Mac OS X's Aqua, followed by Windows Vista's Aero, followed by (then) OS X's Vibrancy, followed by Windows 10's Acrylic. Over time, more and more of the user interface has become translucent similar to foggy/privacy-preserving sheets of glass. The unstated goal has always been to "look cool". The stated goal has always been to "give more pixels to your content"

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These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch screen to work with - and they're well worth it

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-08-31 02:52:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The RayNeo Air 3S is available for $269 These XR glasses provide advanced micro-OLED screens, dual speaker chamber design, and a 201-inch screen visual experience There are no light-blocking shades or electrochromic dimming capability, and productivity support is limited to native MacOS and Windows support. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices Just about every person to whom I demonstrate XR glasses ends up buying a pair for airline travel, commuti

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Transparent Ambition: on translucent user interfaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 17:32:47

Translucent user interfaces is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Aside from movie visual effect trickery, it started out in Mac OS X's Aqua, followed by Windows Vista's Aero, followed by (then) OS X's Vibrancy, followed by Windows 10's Acrylic. Over time, more and more of the user interface has become translucent similar to foggy/privacy-preserving sheets of glass. The unstated goal has always been to "look cool". The stated goal has always been to "give more pixels to your content"

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Meet Google Martha, the company’s Android XR smart glasses prototype

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-31 18:19:57

TL;DR Google demoed its Android XR smart glasses prototype at Google I/O 2025. We now learn that this Android XR prototype is called “Google Martha.” Its companion app handles connected features like notifications, settings access, video recording from the user’s perspective, and more. After over a year of teasing with Project Astra, Google showed off its Android XR glasses on stage at Google I/O 2025. My colleague C. Scott Brown even got to try them on, and he was impressed with the demo. Si

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Your jump from Windows 10 to Linux gets easier with KDE Plasma 6.4

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-31 18:01:11

Weiquan Lin/Getty For the last few years, my favorite Linux desktop interface has been Linux Mint Cinnamon. However, that adoration doesn't mean I can't appreciate other Linux desktops. For example, when the KDE Community recently released KDE Plasma 6.4, I decided to give it a try on my openSUSE Tumbleweed machine, a Dell XPS 8300 with a 3.4GHz Intel Core i7-2600 processor, 16GB DDR3 RAM, and a 1.5TB 7200 rpm hard drive from 2011. That machine can run Windows 10 (you can forget about Windows

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Recycled Polyester Saved This American Factory. Environmentalists Hate It

wired.com Alden Wicker 2025-09-01 11:00:00

In the bottle processing plant in Reidsville, North Carolina, drifts of plastic particles, like snow banks, are piled in every nook of the machinery that chops the bottles into flake. When I ask our tour guide, a floor manager, if he worries about breathing it in, he says he doesn't. "We do a good job of cleaning it up," he says, adding that the bags of dust that are vacuumed up are sold off, and the wastewater is filtered. But I’m concerned. A 2023 study of a UK plastics recycling plant found

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Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser

news.ycombinator.com Isledecomp Isle.Pizza 2025-09-01 04:03:00

← Back Read Me Welcome to the LEGO Island web port project! This is a recreation of the classic 1997 PC game, rebuilt to run in modern web browsers using Emscripten. This incredible project stands on the shoulders of giants. It was made possible by the original decompilation project, which was then adapted into a portable version. This represents a year-long effort, involving thousands of hours of work from many awesome contributors dedicated to preserving this piece of gaming history. Our g

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You'll Be Flabbergasted to Learn Which Contains More Microplastics: Plastic Bottles or Glass Bottles

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-01 03:15:35

You'll Be Flabbergasted to Learn Which Contains More Microplastics: Plastic Bottles or Glass Bottles "We expected the opposite result." Bottom of the Bottle French government scientists have discovered something startling about the microplastic content in glass and plastic bottles. As the Agence France-Presse reports, scientists at the country's food safety regulator found that glass-bottled drinks contained about 100 microplastic particles per liter, which amounts to roughly 25 particles pe

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Load Test GlassFlow for ClickHouse: Real-Time Dedup at Scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 04:56:10

Load Test GlassFlow for ClickHouse: Real-Time Deduplication at Scale By Ashish Bagri, Co-founder & CTO of GlassFlow TL;DR We tested GlassFlow on a real-world deduplication pipeline with Kafka and ClickHouse. It handled 55,00 records/sec published by Kafka and processed 9,000+ records/sec on a MacBook Pro, with sub-0.12ms latency. No crashes, no message loss, no disordering. Even with 20M records and 12 concurrent publishers, it remained robust. Want to try it yourself? The full test setup

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Low-Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Glass

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 07:13:49

Researchers used the low-temperature additive manufacturing process to build the glass cups above. The optical behavior of the printed cups can be tailored by altering the chemical components of the inks. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) holds promise for fabricating complex glass structures that would be unattainable with traditional glass manufacturing techniques. Lincoln Laboratory’s innovative approach allows additive manufacturing of multimaterial glass items without the need for costl

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These XR glasses gave me a 220-inch screen to work with - and I can't go back

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-09-01 04:10:31

ZDNET's key takeaways The Xreal One Pro is available for $649 ($599 special pre-order price through the end of June), and the Xreal Eye accessory is priced at $99. Thanks to the X1 chip, no special software is required for advanced functionality, the FOV is the best available, the glasses are comfortable, and the display is bright and clear. The glasses are rather expensive, and two sizes for your eye width make them fit best for individuals. View now at Us.shop.xreal For the past two weeks,

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Meta's Oakley AI glasses start at $399 with 3K video recording, longer battery life, and IPX4 water resistance

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-08-31 22:36:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Something to look forward to: Weeks after updating its Ray-Ban smart glasses with real-time translation and other AI-powered features, Meta has unveiled a new pair in collaboration with Oakley, offering enhanced camera functionality and additional upgrades. Pre-orders begin on July 11, with the standard model starting at $399 and the limited-edition version available for $499. The new Oakley Meta H

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Meta's new $399 Oakley smart glasses beat the Ray-Bans in almost every way

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-01 00:00:13

Mark Zuckerberg Several months ago, reports emerged that Meta was looking to expand beyond its current smart glasses lineup into sportier versions. Now the glasses are officially here. On Friday, Meta launched limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model glasses. Staying true to the brand, the Meta version of the glasses keeps the form factor Oakley is known for, with a more flexible and rugged design that still allows athletes to take advantage of the smart glasses' capabilities, such as filming, l

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Drinks in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in other container

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 06:01:34

The aim of the ANSES study was to determine the level of microplastic contamination in drinks such as water, soda, iced tea, wine and beer; it also sought to establish the impact of their containers on this level. For most of the drinks studied, the level of microplastics was found to be higher in glass bottles than in other containers. For example, on average, in glass bottles of cola, lemonade, iced tea and beer, there were around 100 microplastic particles per litre. This number was five to 5

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Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-09-01 10:53:47

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. At this point, it’s becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity, the AI-native Google rival. None of these talks progressed to the formal offer stage for variou

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Chinese Studio Wants to Bring Back Bruce Lee With AI

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-01 22:10:34

If you’re a film lover, one of the great things about old classics is that you can always find something to appreciate when you revisit them. If you’re a studio executive, one of the great things about old classics is that you own them and can milk them for every penny their worth. At the Shanghai International Film Festival, several Chinese movie studios announced on Thursday that they would be taking their archive of martial arts classics and AI-ifying them. The government-backed “Kung Fu Mov

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Do athletes need smart glasses? Meta and Oakley think so

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-02 10:03:04

TL;DR Meta just launched the Oakley Meta HSTN, a new pair of AI-powered smart glasses for athletes. The glasses feature a 3K camera, open-ear speakers, IPX4 water resistance, and built-in Meta AI. A $499 limited edition arrives July 11, with cheaper models and broader availability to follow. Smart glasses haven’t gone mainstream yet, but Meta’s not giving up. After targeting the fashion crowd with its Ray-Ban Meta lineup, the company is trying to convince us that the eyewear is a must-have fo

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Yep, GoPro Should Be Really Worried About Meta’s New ‘Performance’ Smart Glasses

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-09-02 14:15:34

Meta’s next generation of smart glasses is here, but it’s not Ray-Ban doing the heavy lifting on design. This go-around, it’s Oakley at the center, which may seem like a strange choice at first but makes more sense once you unpack how Meta is positioning its first new pair of smart glasses since its original Ray-Ban collab. In Meta’s words, these things are all about “performance.” What does that mean, exactly? Sports, mostly. This pair focuses primarily on athletes who want to capture footage

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Meta and Oakley announce new 'perfomance AI' smart glasses for athletes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 18:03:12

Meta is expanding beyond its popular Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses with a new lineup of frames created in collaboration with Oakley. The Oakley Meta HSTN (pronounced HOW-stuhn, apparently) will be available in several variants, not unlike Meta's other smart glasses. Meta first teased that it had a new partnership on the way earlier in June, and rumors that the company was expanding beyond its current frames were reported by Bloomberg back in January. Despite rumors that the Oakley glasses would fe

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10 Common Foods That Contain Microplastics and How to Avoid Them

How to Clean a Beer Glass for Perfect Pours

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Best Internet Providers in Alaska

AT&T customer? You might get a cut of $177 million data breach settlement

The xMEMS 'fan on a chip' is ready for smart glasses

Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic

Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds

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Transparent Ambition

These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch screen to work with - and they're well worth it

Transparent Ambition: on translucent user interfaces

Meet Google Martha, the company’s Android XR smart glasses prototype

Your jump from Windows 10 to Linux gets easier with KDE Plasma 6.4

Recycled Polyester Saved This American Factory. Environmentalists Hate It

Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser

You'll Be Flabbergasted to Learn Which Contains More Microplastics: Plastic Bottles or Glass Bottles

Load Test GlassFlow for ClickHouse: Real-Time Dedup at Scale

Low-Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Glass

These XR glasses gave me a 220-inch screen to work with - and I can't go back

Meta's Oakley AI glasses start at $399 with 3K video recording, longer battery life, and IPX4 water resistance

Meta's new $399 Oakley smart glasses beat the Ray-Bans in almost every way

Drinks in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in other container

Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

Chinese Studio Wants to Bring Back Bruce Lee With AI

Do athletes need smart glasses? Meta and Oakley think so

Yep, GoPro Should Be Really Worried About Meta’s New ‘Performance’ Smart Glasses

Meta and Oakley announce new 'perfomance AI' smart glasses for athletes

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