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A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Hayden, a small town in the mountains of northwest Colorado, is searching for ways to diversify its economy, much like other energy communities across the Mountain West. For decades, a coal-fired power plant, now scheduled to shut down in the coming years, served as a reliable source of tax revenue, jobs, and e

Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

Fermat’s Last Theorem An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. Information about the project The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. It is funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend many many thanks to both of these institutions for their ongoing support of this nonstand

Google announces Tensor G5: What’s new with the Pixel 10 processor?

Google has just announced the Pixel 10 series, and all four phones are powered by the Tensor G5 processor. Tensor chips have traditionally enabled a variety of great Pixel-only features, but have also lagged behind rivals when it comes to peak horsepower and efficiency. Nevertheless, the Tensor G5 is a landmark processor for the company as it’s the first Tensor chip made by TSMC instead of long-time partner Samsung. So what do we know about this silicon? A cooler, more frugal Pixel chip (in th

Amazon may abandon its Fire tablet software

Amazon could finally be ditching its proprietary software on Fire tablets, according to a report by Reuters . The company is reportedly prepping a higher-end tablet that'll run on Android. This device could come next year and will reportedly cost around $400. Amazon's Fire tablet software is itself a heavily modified version of Android, but the upcoming tablet will reportedly use the actual OS. This is great news for those who want easy integration with other Android devices. It's also great n

IBM and NASA made an open-source AI model for predicting solar weather

Last year, the most powerful geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth. It produced stunning aurora displays in parts of the US that are normally too far south to see them. Normally, such storms are a headache for energy providers. In 1989, for example, the Canadian province of Québec suffered a nine-hour blackout following a series of plasma ejections from the Sun. This time around, power companies were better prepared, and in the US and Canada, there weren't significant service disruptions. The

Samsung reveals top apps downloaded by US Galaxy users this summer

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has revealed a ranked list of the top apps Galaxy users downloaded from the Galaxy Store this summer. The company will release similar lists going forward to showcase the Galaxy Store’s most downloaded apps. Samsung TV Plus took the top spot in the rankings this summer, followed by a mix of streaming services, mobile games, and productivity apps. For the first time ever, Samsung has released a ranking of the most downloaded apps from the Galaxy

Researchers Find Strange Link Between Marathon Running and Cancer

Some of the most physically fit people in the world may have a unique health risk. New research uncovers a possible link between marathon running and colorectal cancer. Oncologists at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Virginia conducted the study, which examined the colons of relatively young people who had run several long-distance races. They found these runners had a much higher rate of having potentially dangerous adenomas (a type of polyp) than would be expected for their age. Though the

PSA: One of the biggest Google Play Store alternatives is shutting down on Android tomorrow

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Amazon is shutting down its Appstore on Android tomorrow, August 20, 2025. Today is the day to make any changes to your subscriptions via the Amazon Appstore. You can spend your remaining Amazon Coin balance, or it will be refunded to you once the store shuts down. Amazon will shut down its Appstore on Android tomorrow. The Google Play Store alternative will cease to operate on Android devices starting August 20, 2025, and all the apps that you may hav

Pixel 10 Pro XL benchmark leaks are making people mad

TL;DR A Redditor has posted images showing benchmark scores for an apparent Pixel 10 Pro XL versus the Pixel 9 Pro XL. The scores suggest that the Tensor G5 CPU won’t catch up to Snapdragon 8 Elite phones. One result also strongly suggests that the Pixel 10 series could have an inferior GPU to last year’s Pixels. Google will reveal its Pixel 10 phones tomorrow (August 20), and we expect all of them to be powered by the Tensor G5 processor. This is a landmark chip for the company, as it’s the

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XenoRAT malware campaign hits multiple embassies in South Korea

A state-sponsored espionage campaign is targeting foreign embassies in South Korea to deploy XenoRAT malware from malicious GitHub repositories. According to Trellix researchers, the campaign has been running since March and is ongoing, having launched at least 19 spearphishing attacks against high-value targets. Although infrastructure and techniques match the pllaybook of North Korean actor Kimsuky (APT43), there are signs that better match China-based operatives, the researchers say. Multi

I tested Soundcore's new sleep earbuds. Here's who I'd recommend them to (and who I wouldn't)

Soundcore Sleep A30 Earbuds ZDNET's key takeaways The Soundcore Sleep A30 are now available for $230 The earbuds are comfortable with helpful sleep features Their active noise cancellation falls flat. View now at Soundcore Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I care a lot about my sleep, to the point where I watch what I eat before bed, exercise regularly, and stick to a regular sleep schedule. Every factor within my cont

Premier League Soccer: Livestream Nottingham Forest vs. Brentford From Anywhere

Two sides that enjoyed somewhat unexpected top-10 finishes last season go head-to-head on Sunday as Nottingham Forest hosts Brentford in the English Premier League. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Forest were last season's surprise package, booking a long-overdue return to European football by finishing in seventh. While Nuno Espir

Climate Change Has Driven the Amazon Rainforest to the Edge of a "Tipping Point"

Climate Change Has Driven the Amazon Rainforest to the Edge of a "Tipping Point" It's at risk of turning into a "savanna-like environment." Dried Up Husk The famously verdant Amazon rainforest is in danger of transforming into a dry savannah as various environmental indicators, such as deforestation and climate change, are pushing the ecosystem to a dangerous tipping point, according to new research. In a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, as spotted by Live Science

Kindle might have another competitor headed to shelves

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Bookshop.org, an online bookstore, was launched in January 2020 to help independent bookstores survive Amazon. Now the company may be introducing its first physical e-reader, presenting a direct competitor to the Amazon Kindle. There is currently a blank landing page for an e-reader visible on the Bookshop.org site. In a compelling new development for e-book readers, Bookshop.org, known for championing independent bookstores, might soon bring a fresh

The Original History Behind the Mandalorians’ Wars Against the Jedi

The world of Mandalore has a long and complicated history in Star Wars, and perhaps even more complicated than the story of its peoples’ wars among themselves are their wars united against a common foe: the Galactic Republic, and the Jedi Order that served it. But outside of allusions and artwork, the story of what defined these conflicts has gone largely untouched in contemporary Star Wars continuity, as the focus returned to Mandalore’s restoration in the post-Imperial era. In the former canon

Porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Server Board with AMD Turin CPU to Coreboot

Introduction This blog post describes the progress of the first phase of enabling AMD Turin support in coreboot and porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 board. The project is funded by NLnet Foundation. The project was inspired by AMD’s efforts to bring open-source firmware for their most recent CPUs. Couple months ago AMD published their CPU initialization code for AMD Turin server processor family on GitHub. The OpenSIL is a new initiative to unify the silicon initialization for AMD platform across mul

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Are sleep earbuds legit? My buying advice after testing in a busy NYC apartment

Soundcore Sleep A30 Earbuds ZDNET's key takeaways The Soundcore Sleep A30 will be available for $230 starting August 18th, 2025. The earbuds are comfortable with helpful sleep features. Their active noise cancellation falls flat. View now at Soundcore Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I care a lot about my sleep, to the point where I watch what I eat before bed, exercise regularly, and stick to a regular sleep schedule

Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere

Most people would recognize the device in the image above, although they probably wouldn't know it by its formal name: the Crookes radiometer. As its name implies, placing the radiometer in light produces a measurable change: the blades start spinning. Unfortunately, many people misunderstand the physics of its operation (which we'll return to shortly). The actual forces that drive the blades to spin, called photophoresis, can act on a variety of structures as long as they're placed in a suffic

Elon Musk’s gangster tech regulation comes for Apple

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Elon Musk is calling in another return on his investment in American politics: he’s threatening Apple with a lawsuit because neither X nor xAI’s Grok have been recommended on the iOS App Store. How serious this threat is — well, that’s hard to say, as it was posted between Grok-generated waifus. “Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to

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The AI Industry Just Got Some Horrible News

For years now, big tech and its financial backers have been blowing past the warning signs that human-level AI — the theoretical technology with hundreds of billions of dollars riding on it — could turn out to be a pipe-dream, at best. Now, however, Wall Street appears to be yanking its money out of one of the largest datacenter providers in the game, possibly an early indicator that reality could be finally catching up to the massively hype-dependent AI industry. On Tuesday, datacenter and te

Funky new wallpaper to welcome the latest Apple Store

Apple has today previewed its latest retail store ahead of its opening on Saturday. As usual, the company has created a funky new wallpaper to celebrate the opening, and made it available for download. The store design mirrors what we have seen in other recent mall openings: a curved frontage with lots of glass, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior … Qianhai Yifang City Apple store The latest store is in Shenzhen, which is coincidentally home to a lot of Apple suppliers. Apple

Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs

YAMS - Yet Another Memory System Persistent memory for LLMs and applications. Content-addressed storage with deduplication, semantic search, and full-text indexing. My prompt for CLI usage is PROMPT.md and PROMPT-eng.md for programming. Features Content-Addressed Storage - SHA-256 based, ensures data integrity - SHA-256 based, ensures data integrity Deduplication - Block-level with Rabin fingerprinting - Block-level with Rabin fingerprinting Compression - Zstandard and LZMA with intelligen

Deal: The Jackery Explorer 300 Power Station is portable, powerful, and at an all-time low price

Getting the right power station can get tricky, with too many options crowding the current market. If you want a battery that is actually portable, the Jackery Explorer 300 Portable Power Station is a great option, and it is currently discounted by $90, bringing the price down to an all-time low of $169. Buy the Jackery Explorer 300 Portable Power Station for just $169 ($90 off) This offer is available from Amazon. It’s labeled as a “limited time deal,” which means the sale should end relativel

Print, a one-line BASIC program

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter 10 PRINT is a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program, published in November 2012. We’ve updated this page in late 2022:Book purchases support the nonprofit organizations The Electronic Literature Organization (to which all royalties are being donated) and The MIT Press , the book's publisher. This book

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CoreWeave tanks 20% after posting wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

CoreWeave stock slumps 20% on wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

Here's the final design of the Pebble Time 2 e-paper smartwatch

Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky and his new company, Core Designs, have been beavering away on new e-paper smartwatches and the team has just revealed the final design of the higher-end model. The Pebble Time 2 has a 1.5-inch, 64-color e-paper screen, with a touchscreen, metal frame, heart-rate monitor and (it's claimed) up to 30 days of battery life. The frame is a bit more curved than on pre-production versions of the Pebble Time 2. The top and bottom buttons on the right side are now angled r

CoreWeave stock slumps 18% on wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

CoreWeave 's stock dropped 18% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term re

Scientists Unveil Wild New Way to Explore the Edge of Space

Scientists often refer to the mesosphere as the “ignorosphere”—a region that’s too high for planes or weather balloons to explore, yet too low for satellites to probe. Despite our technological advances, we’ve yet to find a decent way to monitor this large stretch of air, which lies about 37 miles (60 kilometers) above the surface. But engineers are inching towards a solution—one inspired by a toy-like invention from the 19th century. A Nature paper published today presents a proof-of-concept f

Pebble’s smartwatch is back: Pebble Time 2 specs revealed

Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, on Wednesday showed off the new designs for the upcoming watch, now known as the Pebble Time 2. Although the company originally branded its new watches as the Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 when it first announced its plans to return to the market in March, Migicovsky says the company has since been able to regain the Pebble trademark. That means the new watches will instead be called the Pebble 2 Duo and the Pebble Time 2. Migicovsk