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RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-12-26 06:57:47

Shunsaku Tamiya, former president and chairman of Tamiya, Inc., passed away on July 18. His death was announced on July 21, with funeral services attended by close family and friends. Mr Tamiya led the transformation of Tamiya into a world-renowned manufacturer of high-precision plastic model kits, radio control vehicles, and motorized Mini 4WD racers. He joined the company founded by his father originally as a transport firm, and switched to supplying lumber after the war. That brought about

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 30, #780

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 06:00:00

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Oh man, today's NYT Connections puzzle is a true brain-buster. The blue and purple categories are tough, but I found the green group to be tough as well. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wo

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 30, #310

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 06:00:10

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. The purple category for Connections: Sports Edition was extra sneaky today. The theme went right over my head, but made sense once it was revealed. Read on for hints and the answers if you run into problems like I did. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super

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Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2025-12-26 09:36:56

Cumbersome and explosive In the early days of IVF, embryos earmarked for storage were slow-frozen. This technique involves gradually lowering the temperature of the embryos. But because slow freezing can cause harmful ice crystals to form, clinics switched in the 2000s to a technique called vitrification, in which the embryos are placed in thin plastic tubes called straws and lowered into tanks of liquid nitrogen. This rapidly freezes the embryos and converts them into a glass-like state. The

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This handy Linux tool snitches on sneaky apps - here's why and how it's helpful

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-26 12:35:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET OpenSnitch is a Linux port of the popular MacOS app Little Snitch. This app is essentially an application firewall that tracks network requests from apps, so you can create rules to block or allow those requests. Why is that important? Also: 7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro Say, for example, that you've installed a Linux app that shouldn't require internet access (those do still exist). You're using tha

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How Does Lightning Start? New Research Provides a Groundbreaking Theory

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-26 15:35:00

Lightning has long terrified and fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike. For something so relatively common, the precise atmospheric events that give rise to a lightning strike have been shrouded in mystery, but new research is offering some tantalizing clues. A team of engineers and meteorologists believe they’ve cracked the curious case of how lightning forms in the cloudtops, and their solution comes from an increasingly influential contender for cracking climate mysteries: mathemati

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Sony’s DualSense Edge is $30 off for a limited time

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-12-26 17:12:39

If you spend a lot of time gaming on the PlayStation 5, you may want a controller that can offer more customization than the standard DualSense. The pro-style DualSense Edge is worth considering, especially now since it’s currently down to $170 ($29.99 off) on the PlayStation website with the code EVO2025 through August 4th. The same code can be used on a variety of PS5 accessories, including the Pulse Elite wireless headphones. Sony DualSense Edge $ 170 $ 200 15 % off $ 170 Sony’s pro-style co

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ChatGPT's Study Mode will guide students to an answer stey by step

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-26 22:06:14

OpenAI is rolling out a new Study Mode the company says is designed to give students a better understanding of complex topics. Like Claude's Learning Mode , which Anthropic introduced in April, Study Mode will see ChatGPT adopt a Socratic approach to conversations. Rather than answer a question outright, the chatbot will attempt to guide the user to their own solution, starting with questions that allow the system to calibrate its responses to their objective and understanding. Conversations the

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Show HN: Monchromate – the best greyscale browser extension

news.ycombinator.com Monochromate Team 2025-12-26 22:32:42

Powerful tools designed to enhance your digital well-being, reduce doomscrolling, and boost productivity through smart greyscale filtering. Smart Scheduler Automatically enable greyscale mode during specific hours. Perfect for reducing evening screen time, maintaining focus during work hours, or preventing late-night doomscrolling. Customizable Intensity Fine-tune the greyscale intensity from 0-100% to find your perfect balance. Research shows greyscale mode reduces screen time by making websi

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ChatGPT Study Mode Aims to Circumvent the Brain Atrophy Problem With AI in Education

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 21:00:03

ChatGPT Study Mode is a new function within the artificial intelligence chatbot that aims to give students a more natural learning experience rather than simply answering questions for them, the company announced Tuesday. Whereas typing in a question or topic into ChatGPT returns a textbook-style summary, Study Mode works with students, step by step, to help them come to the correct answer on their own. Students can chat with ChatGPT to gain better clarification on things they don't understand,

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Our favorite work mouse, the MX Master 3S hits record low at $79

techspot.com Our Editors Hand-Pick Related Products Using A Variety Of Criteria 2025-12-27 03:10:00

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Love your new Galaxy Watch 8? Here’s one setting you need to fix immediately

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 17:00:26

Joe Maring / Android Authority Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 series officially hit store shelves last Friday, and from what we’ve seen so far, Samsung’s newest wearables are likely among the best Wear OS watches you can buy this year. I’ve been wearing the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic for the last few days, and while I’m nowhere near ready to review it, my first impressions have been positive. I’ve long been a fan of Samsung smartwatches, particularly those with rotating bezels. As such, going ba

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Scientists Unveil the Shocking Truth Behind Lightning’s Mysterious Birth

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-27 03:35:00

Lightning has long terrified and fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike. For something so relatively common, the precise atmospheric events that give rise to a lightning strike have been shrouded in mystery, but new research is offering some tantalizing clues. A team of engineers and meteorologists believe they’ve cracked the curious case of how lightning forms in the cloudtops, and their solution comes from an increasingly influential contender for cracking climate mysteries: mathemati

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YouTube will identify and restrict minors’ accounts with AI

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-27 03:48:50

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. YouTube will soon begin using AI-powered age estimation technology to figure out which users are under the age of 18. Starting August 13th, YouTube will detect underage users in the US based on their activity and the age of their account, allowing the platform to automatically apply restrictions. These accounts will get the same protections YouTube

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Google is bringing image and PDF uploads to AI Mode

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 08:31:27

Google is updating AI Mode on desktop this week with the ability to process images, so you can ask it detailed questions about the pictures like you already can on mobile. In the coming weeks, the company is also adding support for PDF uploads on desktop, which could help you digest lengthy course or work materials. You can ask AI Mode to summarize the documents for you and ask follow-up questions that it will then answer by cross-referencing the materials you uploaded with information available

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Brace for the Most Expensive Coffee Yet, as Trump’s Tariffs Mix With the Climate Crisis

gizmodo.com Frida Garza 2025-12-27 06:40:29

Eight years ago, when Debbie Wei Mullin founded her company Copper Cow, she wanted to bring Vietnamese coffee into the mainstream. Vietnam, the world’s second-largest exporter of coffee, is known for growing robusta beans. Earthier and more bitter than the arabica beans grown in Brazil, Colombia, and other coffee-growing regions near the Equator, robusta beans are often thought of as producing lower-quality coffee. In an effort to rebrand robusta, Mullin signed deals with coffee farming cooper

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Pokemon Legends: Z-A Gives Us First Look at Mega Dragonite, Wild Mega Evolutions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 06:00:03

Pokemon Legends: Z-A is bringing back mega evolutions, the battle gimmick that first appeared in the X and Y games, but is also bringing us new twists, including brand-new mega evolutions. A recent Pokemon Presents video walked us through a few different features of the game, including the new and returning mechanics from the series' last romp through Lumiose City. Mega evolution, which allows you to temporarily evolve certain Pokemon if they're equipped with a corresponding stone, is coming ba

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The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-12-27 08:52:21

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and uncertainty that the pandemic caused. A new scientific study, published this month in Nature Communications, has revealed that the pandemic may have accelerated brain aging in people even if they were never infected with the coronavirus. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK analyzed brain im

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This vertical mouse includes a volume knob with playback controls

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-27 08:17:41

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. There are plenty of wireless keyboards that incorporate an easy access volume knob, but Seenda’s MOU-302 is one of the first wireless mice to include the convenience. Featuring an ergonomic vertical design with its primary buttons and scroll wheel tilted 57 degrees, the mouse includes dedicated buttons for navigating forwards and back in a browse

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge US defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-27 03:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrios Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position as an engineering manager at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote

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Google ‘Magic Cue’ AI will read your screen to provide helpful suggestions

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 12:19:47

Google TL;DR New code in an Android Canary build corroborates previous leaks of a new on-device AI assistant, likely called Magic Cue. The assistant will proactively suggest info and actions relevant to what you’re doing on screen. Google is expected to debut the feature on the Pixel 10 series next month. The Google Pixel 10 series is launching in a little over three weeks, but as usual, a lot of information has already leaked about it. We previously reported on one of its biggest new featur

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iOS 26 solves a pesky CarPlay annoyance

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-12-27 12:34:11

iOS 26 brings major changes to CarPlay, including a new Liquid Glass design and support for widgets. There’s also a small change that addresses a years-long feature request for many CarPlay users: the ability to disable CarPlay screenshots. For years, you’ve been able to take a screenshot of your CarPlay display by simply taking a screenshot on your iPhone. This feature can also be quite frustrating when your iPhone is connected to CarPlay and you only want to take a screenshot of your iPhone’

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Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 12:15:24

✨ Xorq is an opinionated framework for cataloging, sharing, and shipping multi-engine compute as diffable artifacts for your data in flight. ✨ Xorq helps teams build declarative, reusable ML pipelines across Python and SQL engines like DuckDB, Snowflake, and DataFusion. It offers: 🧠 Multi-engine, declarative expressions using pandas-style syntax and Ibis. using pandas-style syntax and Ibis. 📦 Expression Format for Python in YAML, enabling repeatable compute. for Python in YAML, enabling repe

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This Linux app alerts you when an app tries to connect to the internet - and why that matters

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-27 17:06:36

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET OpenSnitch is a Linux port of the popular MacOS app Little Snitch. This app is essentially an application firewall that tracks network requests from apps, so you can create rules to block or allow those requests. Why is that important? Also: 7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro Say, for example, that you've installed a Linux app that shouldn't require internet access (those do still exist). You're using tha

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Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Looks Absolutely Stunning

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-27 17:10:33

When Guillermo del Toro finally got the chance to make his dream project, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, you just knew it was going to be beautiful. Del Toro’s films are known for a lot of things, and sumptuous production design and costumes are right near the top of the list. So, it almost goes without saying that a group of new images from the film are stunning, but these almost go beyond that. First revealed in an article by Vanity Fair and then released by Netflix, 10 new ima

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Golden Dome may not be the golden ticket Silicon Valley is hoping for

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-27 17:00:00

Golden Dome, the Trump administration’s gambit to build a next-generation missile defense system, has startups and longstanding defense contractors preparing to duke it out for a piece of a $151 billion multi-year contract. The process to qualify for the $151 billion contract vehicle, essentially an umbrella program, is stacked against most startups – not because of their tech. Instead, smaller companies may be thwarted by a multi-layered, expensive bureaucratic process used to ensure a company

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FBI seizes $2.4M in Bitcoin from new Chaos ransomware operation

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-27 22:52:41

FBI Dallas has seized approximately 20 Bitcoins from a cryptocurrency address belonging to a Chaos ransomware member that is linked to cyberattacks and extortion payments from Texas companies. The crypto was seized on April 15, 2025, and was traced to an affiliate named "Hors," who is suspected of launching the attacks against the companies. "The seized funds were traced to a cryptocurrency address allegedly associated with a member of the Chaos ransomware group, known as 'Hors,' who has been

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Optimi-Zi(n)g Sudoku-Solving

news.ycombinator.com Olivier'S Log 2025-12-24 11:47:35

Optimi-Zi(n)g Sudoku-Solving 26 July 2025 , in Olivier's log One of the first program that I wrote in Zig (in September 2023) was a Sudoku-Solver, implementing the dancing-links (DLX) algorithm. I decided to revisit this program recently to experiment with benchmarking and try to increase its speed. Dancing-Links (DLX) algorithm applied to sudoku The Dancing-Links algorithm is an efficient backtracking algorithm to solve "exact-cover" problems, by using a matrix of 0 and 1s. Dancing Links o

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Josh Hawley Wants to Send Out Rebate Checks So Americans Can ‘Benefit’ From Trump’s Tariffs

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-27 22:05:54

President Trump’s tariffs have generated around 20 billion dollars in revenue for the U.S. government, although it’s worth noting that a vast majority of this wealth has been derived from import duties on American businesses. In other words, Americans are paying the federal government (many critics have noted that tariffs are just taxes by another name) for the pleasure of doing business with foreign exporters. For the fiscally confused, the New York Times recently wrote an explainer on tariffs

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-28 03:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrious Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote islands, along with a pi

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RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession

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