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California Nominates Steve Jobs for Its American Innovation $1 Coin

news.ycombinator.com State Of California 2025-06-21 22:48:05

This week, Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) Director Dee Dee Myers presented the state’s nomination of Jobs and his legacy to the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC), which will take design recommendations to the Treasury Secretary for final approval. This project is led and facilitated by the U.S. Mint. California’s coin will be produced and made available in 2026. Steve Jobs’ legacy of innovation Jobs’ legacy spans industries and products: Jobs was the c

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DOGE Staffer Known as ‘Big Balls’ Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-06-21 17:05:17

Look, sure it’s not ideal that decisions that the federal government is being gutted agency by agency, stripped of purpose, funding, and staffing by Elon Musk and a team of 20-something-year-old edgelords who were sourced from a network of tech bro crypto-fascists and boost the messaging of white nationalists in their free time, but at least none of them are directly related to anyone deeply involved in the intelligence apparatus of a foreign adversary. Now, let me take a big sip of water and ch

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Daredevil‘s Cast on Expanding the Netflix Show and Picking Back Up With Their Characters

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-06-21 18:20:51

“It’s almost 10 years ago that we started this journey,” Charlie Cox points out in one of two short videos Marvel just shared ahead of Daredevil: Born Again‘s arrival on Disney+. That sounds completely incorrect until you fact-check its star and realize that yes, Daredevil premiered on Netflix in April 2015. The confusing passage of time is a conundrum best tackled by certain other Marvel heroes; meanwhile, Daredevil‘s cast and crew are more than ready to get back into some street-level action

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Jurassic World and Shrek Lands Headline Universal Kids Resort in Texas

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-06-21 20:35:06

In a big turn of events Universal Studios is opening up a kid-centric theme park in Texas that will have major animated franchise appeal, with Shrek, Jurassic World, and SpongeBob just a few of brands in store for the new family-friendly destination. This news coming out right after Universal shared more details about its year-round haunt in Las Vegas has us thinking the theme park wars with Disney have begun in earnest. This weekend, pop culture fans looking for ways to help rebuilding efforts

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2 Best Self-Cleaning Water Bottles in 2025

cnet.com Amanda Capritto 2025-06-21 15:00:00

The CrazyCap bottle has two water purification modes: normal mode and "crazy mode." According to CrazyCap, normal mode kills up to 99.99% of contaminants and is suitable for "low to medium contamination," such as from public water fountains and tap faucets. Crazy mode, on the other hand, kills up to 99.9996% of contaminants and is suitable for "medium to high contamination," such as from lakes and rivers. The normal purification cycle takes 60 seconds and the crazy purification cycle takes two a

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Best Earbuds and Headphones for Working Out in 2025

cnet.com David Carnoy 2025-06-21 15:57:00

Soundcore by Anker Sport X10: The Soundcore Sport X10 have an interesting design with rotating swiveling ear hooks that flip up when you're using them and flip down when you want to set them in their charging case, which has a smaller footprint than a lot of buds with ear hooks. As long as you get a tight seal, they sound good, with powerful, punchy bass and good detail. They also have active noise canceling, which is effective though not as good as Sony's or Bose's noise canceling. They're also

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Best Internet Providers in North Carolina

cnet.com Stephen J. Bronner 2025-06-21 16:00:00

CNET’s broadband experts are here to help you find the right internet provider and plan for your needs. We've done the work, and whether you want the fastest speeds or the most budget-friendly option, we've found something for everyone. After reviewing the available providers, our experts selected Spectrum as the best internet service provider in North Carolina for its fast speeds, widespread availability and reasonable pricing. The cable giant services a lot of addresses in the state, but if yo

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What's Behind OpenAI's Recent Growth Spurt to 400M Weekly Users?

cnet.com Omar Gallaga 2025-06-21 17:59:00

ChatGPT maker OpenAI says more than 400 million people a week are now actively using its artificial intelligence tools, a jump from the 300 million it reported this past December. OpenAI touted the figure this week, also telling media outlets that it's doubled its number of paid enterprise users to 2 million since September, and that its developer traffic has also doubled in the last six months. The news may surprise people who expected the rise of China's DeepSeek AI model to disrupt the grow

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Best Tested Portable Air Conditioners for 2025

cnet.com Gianmarco Chumbe 2025-06-21 21:01:00

Having central air is nice, but not every living space comes with that luxury. Sure, you could install something like a window air unit, but that can be a hassle, and you need to make sure your windows are suited for the job. Thankfully, there are also portable air conditioner units. With one of these, you can get your desired temperature without having to install a permanent unit, and they can be much more affordable than central air. You can move them around the house if needed, too. Along wit

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RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-21 16:11:40

Just days after anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the country's top health official, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already pulled back some of its efforts to protect Americans with safe, lifesaving vaccines. The agency has indefinitely postponed a public meeting of its vaccine advisory committee and killed a campaign promoting seasonal flu shots. Last weekend, a Washington Post columnist noted on Bluesky that the CDC's effective "Wild to Mild" seasonal flu

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Elon Musk to “fix” Community Notes after they contradict Trump

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-21 17:22:01

Elon Musk apparently no longer believes that crowdsourcing fact-checking through Community Notes can never be manipulated and is, thus, the best way to correct bad posts on his social media platform X. Community Notes are supposed to be added to posts to limit misinformation spread after a broad consensus is reached among X users with diverse viewpoints on what corrections are needed. But Musk now claims a "fix" is needed to prevent supposedly outside influencers from allegedly gaming the syste

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DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-06-21 09:30:00

This month, Andrew Bernier, a US Army Corps of Engineers researcher and a union leader, says that he has received a barrage of menacing messages from the same anonymous email account. Unfolding like short chapters in a dystopian novel, they have spoken of the genius of Elon Musk, referenced the power of the billionaire’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and foretold the downfall of “corrupt” union bosses. But the most eerie thing about the emails, which Bernier says began a

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The best robot vacuums

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-06-21 20:32:14

Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well without complaining (much). As prices have dropped, these busy little bots have become less of a luxury and more of a necessity. They can reach places most standup vacs never see (under beds and sofas) and, thanks to better batteries and robot brains, they rarely get tired of cleaning. I’ve been testing robot vacuums for seven years and have run over 60 robot vacuums all over my house. These are my top picks if you’re looking

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Reddit has recovered from another outage

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-06-21 22:14:37

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Following some apparent outages on Thursday, Reddit dealt with more issues Friday evening that lasted for around two hours. Initially, when I logged in on my desktop browser during Friday’s outage, Reddit wouldn’t load at all — I would just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loaded, though it seemed to load slower than usual. I was also able to load the si

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Nvidia confirms ‘rare’ RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti manufacturing issue

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-06-21 22:00:36

It’s true : Nvidia has just confirmed it shipped some RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and even some RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, as TechPowerUp originally reported — and that you’ll be able to get a replacement if your card was affected. We have identified a rare issue affecting less than 0.5% (half a percent) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs which have one fewer ROP than specified. The average graphical performance impact is 4%, with no impact on AI and Compute w

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Scientists spent 10 years on a superbug mystery - Google's AI solved it in 48 hours

techspot.com Shawn Knight 2025-06-21 16:22:00

What just happened? Researchers at Imperial College London say an artificial intelligence-based science tool created by Google needed just 48 hours to solve a problem that took them roughly a decade to answer and verify on their own. The tool in question is called "co-scientist" and the problem they presented it with was straightforward enough: why are some superbugs resistant to antibiotics? Professor José R Penadés told the BBC that Google's tool reached the same hypothesis that his team had

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All upcoming iPhone 17 models expected to feature new in-house Wi-Fi chip

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-06-21 17:06:00

The big picture: Apple debuted the iPhone 16e earlier this week, featuring the company's first in-house 5G modem. Cupertino won't likely use it in the upcoming iPhone 17 lineup, but the company reportedly has a new in-house Wi-Fi chip planned for its next-gen flagship. Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple has developed an in-house Wi-Fi chipset to debut in the iPhone 17. He also confirmed that the recently unveiled C1 5G modem, featured in the iPhone 16e, won't appear in the iPhone 17 fl

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Amazon pulls the plug on its Android app store after 14 years

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-06-21 17:48:00

Everything Flows: Amazon spent over a decade pursuing a foothold in the app store business. Now, the company has announced that it is shuttering its Android app store, with no guarantees that previously purchased apps will continue working. However, users can migrate their owned apps to Amazon devices such as the Kindle. Amazon is warning users about the impending shutdown of its official "Appstore" for Android devices. Customers will lose access to the Amazon Appstore on their Android smartpho

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HP forced customers to wait 15 minutes for tech support - on purpose - backpedaled after backlash

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-06-21 18:24:00

Facepalm: In what might be one of the biggest gaffs of the year, HP is trying to dislodge its foot from its mouth after getting caught intentionally forcing customers to wait for 15 minutes on technical support calls. Even HP's customer service staff criticized the bafflingly dumb move. The Register reports that HP intentionally forced customers to wait 15 minutes when trying to reach tech support. The "minimum" wait time idea mentioned in an internal memo that The Register obtained was floated

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How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI

cnbc.com Jasmine Wu Deirdre Bosa 2025-06-21 11:00:01

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek roiled markets in January, setting off a massive tech and semiconductor selloff after unveiling AI models that it said were cheaper and more efficient than American ones. But the underlying fears and breakthroughs that sparked the selling go much deeper than one AI startup. Silicon Valley is now reckoning with a technique in AI development called distillation, one that could upend the AI leaderboard. Distillation is a process of extracting knowledge

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Shares of Hims & Hers tumble 26% after FDA says semaglutide is no longer in shortage

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-06-21 17:02:43

Shares of Hims & Hers Health closed down around 26% on Friday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the shortage of semaglutide injection products has been resolved. Semaglutide is the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk's blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy and diabetes treatment Ozempic. Those medications are part of a class of drugs called GLP-1s, and demand for the treatments has exploded in recent years. As a result, digital health companies such as Hims & Hers have been

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Tesla recalls more than 375,000 vehicles in U.S. due to failing power-assisted steering systems

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-06-21 16:16:23

Tesla models Y and 3 are displayed at a Tesla dealership in Corte Madera, California, on Dec. 20, 2024. Tesla is voluntarily recalling 376,241vehicles in the U.S. to correct an issue with failing power-assisted steering systems, according to records posted to the website of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In a safety recall report posted on the NHTSA website, Tesla said the recall includes Model 3 and Model Y vehicles that were manufactured for sale in the U.S. from Fe

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Hackers steal $1.5 billion from exchange Bybit in biggest-ever crypto heist

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-06-21 18:31:25

Ben Zhou, chief executive officer of ByBit, during the Token2049 conference in Singapore, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Bybit, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has been hacked to the tune of $1.5 billion in digital assets, in what's estimated to be the largest crypto heist in history. The attack compromised Bybit's cold wallet, an offline storage system designed for security. The stolen funds, primarily in ether , were quickly transferred across multiple wallets and liquidated through various p

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Anne Wojcicki has a new offer to take 23andMe private, this time for $74.7 million

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-06-21 18:43:50

23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and New Mountain Capital have submitted a proposal to take the embattled genetic testing company private, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Wojcicki and New Mountain have offered to acquire all of 23andMe's outstanding shares in cash for $2.53 per share, or an equity value of approximately $74.7 million. The company's stock closed at $2.42 on Friday with a market cap of about $65 million. The offer comes after a turbulent y

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This Muscle-Powered Robot Might Be the Creepiest Thing We've Ever Seen

futurism.com Unknown 2025-06-21 15:07:33

Forget valleys; we're now entering veritable Grand Canyons of uncanniness. Behold the robot known as "Protoclone," built by Clone Robotics. It's supposedly the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. But it's mostly just got people extremely creeped out. In a promotional video shared on X this Wednesday, the startup — of which little is known — makes every effort possible to subvert the industry's favored image of robots as servile little helpers there for the good of humankind. Nope.

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Large Law Firm Sends Panicked Email as It Realizes Its Attorneys Have Been Using AI to Prepare Court Documents

futurism.com Unknown 2025-06-21 17:20:32

The law firm Morgan & Morgan has rushed out a stern email to its attorneys after two of them were caught citing fake court cases invented by an AI model, Reuters reports. Sent earlier this month to all of its over 1,000 lawyers, the email warns at length about the tech's proclivity for hallucinating. But the pros of the tech, apparently, still outweigh the cons; rather than banning AI usage — something that plenty of organizations have done — Morgan & Morgan leadership take the middle road and

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Write Warz developers on how creative writing makes a hilarious party game

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-06-21 19:14:57

Write Warz is the recently launched debut title of Boltz Entertainment, a co-op party game that turns the act of storytelling into strategic (and often funny) warfare against your opponents. Building on the tradition of Jackbox-style titles like Quiplash or RiffTrax, Write Warz instead offers a longer-form avenue of storytelling between friends, as up to 6 players can join together to build the narrative. The game launches on Steam in early access on March 6, with horror and pirate-based themes.

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New York City bets on T-Mobile for faster 5G and better public safety, AT&T responds

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-21 16:05:14

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR New York City has selected T-Mobile as the municipal entity single carrier for municipal operations and public safety communications. The deal gives first responders priority access to T-Mobile’s 5G network with faster speeds, lower congestion, and new tech. City employees and their families will get exclusive perks on T-Mobile plans, like special discounts and free in-flight Wi-Fi. New York City has chosen T-Mobile as its municipal entity single car

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Would you buy a scented mouse? ASUS thinks you’ll love this unique, bizarre accessory

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-21 16:29:47

TL;DR ASUS is launching its Fragrance Mouse, which uses aromatic oils to give it a fresh scent. A refillable, washable oil reservoir lets you customize and change fragrances. It’s otherwise a standard wireless mouse, offering Bluetooth and 2.4GHz connectivity, and up to 2400 DPI. Do we ask too much from our technology? We want products that aren’t just fast and feature-rich, but also priced affordably. They should be beautiful with inspiring designs, but also robust enough to withstand the ri

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Google Contacts app looks a little different now, here’s what changed

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-21 17:06:33

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Google has rolled out a few changes to the Contacts app. There’s now a card that says how many contacts are in your Google Account and a “last sync” status. A “Google Contacts sync settings” option takes you to a page where you can turn off/on syncing. Google has released an update to the Contacts app for Android that makes a few small, but notable changes. Your current backup and sync status are now more prominent, and there’s a new way to access the

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