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Alibaba to launch AI-powered glasses creating a Chinese rival to Meta

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-31 05:01:28

Alibaba announced plans to release a pair of smart glasses powered by its AI models. The Quark AI Glasses are Alibaba's first foray into the smart glasses product category. Alibaba on Monday unveiled a pair of smart glasses powered by its artificial intelligence models, marking the Chinese firm's first foray into the product category. The e-commerce giant said the Quark AI Glasses will be launched in China by the end of 2025 with hardware powered by the firm's Qwen large language model and its

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I replaced my Apple Watch with the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 for a week - and didn't mind it

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-12-31 04:45:18

Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8 is available for purchase now at a starting price of $349. It's a capable smartwatch with all the usual health metrics, along with Samsung's Running Coach, bedtime guidance, and recovery insights. Some features feel more experimental than scientific, like Antioxidant Index and BMI, which failed to work several times. View now at Samsung Samsung's latest smartwatches have arrived. The Galaxy Watch 8 lineup, which includes bo

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Why does a fire truck cost $2m

news.ycombinator.com Katherine Laidlaw 2025-12-30 20:56:04

These firefighters just wanted to save lives. Private equity had other ideas This past Valentine’s Day, a firefighter behind the wheel of an enormous ladder truck felt his brakes give out. He was driving in the heart of Chicago, on a busy city street, about to lose control of a truck that was supposed to help him save people’s lives. He looked around, panicked. The 25-year-old truck — and the nightmare — picked up speed. He had three choices: drive into traffic, hit a local grammar school, or

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The video game adaptation of cult classic Toxic Crusaders cartoon finally gets a release date

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 22:30:50

The streets of Tromaville, New Jersey are calling once again as the video game adaptation of the off-the-wall cartoon series Toxic Crusaders gets a release date. Seen in an official trailer from Retroware that was shown off during San Diego Comic-Con and shared online by IGN, the Toxic Crusaders game is releasing on December 4 on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Steam. As a true callback to the quirky cartoon from the '90s, the video game is designed as a side-scrolling beat 'em up, all p

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National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 20:31:39

Many reports by pilots and aviation professionals of observations and incidents involving unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, include aviation safety factors. NARCAP documents and researches these reports and advocates for education and further research by the aviation and science community. All photographs provided by Ted Roe or NARCAP.org and are Copyrighted, all rights reserved

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 28, #308

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 21:00:06

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. I learned enough during gym-class track days to ace today's Connections: Sports Edition green category. Need an assist with the game today? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the

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AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 16:45:41

AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat Would you work 72 hour weeks? All Work, No Play Say a little prayer for AI workers in Silicon Valley. In the rush to conquer the AI sector, some startups have adopted a career schedule known as "996" — a draconian work regimen that first took hold in mainland China, according to Wired, in which employees work from 9am to 9pm, six days a week, for a total of a soul-crushing 72 hours. That's obvious

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I found cheap accessories that made my AirTags twice as useful (and secure)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-30 16:15:13

Elevation Labs accessories ZDNET's key takeaways These are tough, water- and dirt-resistant AirTag holders that will last years. They go a long way to preventing bad guys from removing your AirTags from secured items. They work on everything from suitcases, camera bags, jackets, and even your cat or dog! View now at Amazon I've mentioned more than once my undying love for Apple AirTags. These devices have made my life so much less stressful, and I have them attached to pretty much everything

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High-performance RISC-V processors: UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, SpacemIT K3

news.ycombinator.com Jean-Luc Aufranc 2025-12-25 22:58:48

Some high-performance RISC-V processors are in the pipeline for the rest of the year 2025, namely UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, and SpacemIT K3. We currently have limited information about each of those processors, but let’s see what information we can gather from the web, mostly as a result of the recent RISC-V Summit in China. UltraRISC UR-DP1000 – Octa-core 64-bit RISC-V SoC The first SoC is the UR-DP1000 octa-core from UltraRISC (the website loads slowly, and I could not find anything a

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Your iPhone's Messages App Can Do Math. Here's How

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 15:00:03

Apple will release iOS 26 this fall, and it will bring Liquid Glass and more features to your iPhone. But iOS 18 upgrades your Messages app so that it can solve tricky equations without your Calculator app, and it doesn't need Google to look up conversion rates, either. Prior to iOS 18, if you wanted to figure out how to split a bill with your texting group from afar, you'd have to use your calculator app or Spotlight and then switch back to Messages. With iOS 18 you can perform multistep calcu

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I Put 3 Popular Smart Rings to the Test. This One Improved My Wellness Habits the Most

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 17:00:00

The Oura ring was my favorite smart ring because its app was easy to understand and I liked some of the newer features from its latest software update. At the steep price of $299, this smart ring is made up of aerospace-grade titanium – one of the strongest materials on earth -- according to the site. Before I received my Oura ring, I was sent a ring sizer to figure out my ring size. Other smart rings did the same since sizing varies per brand. Once I received the Oura ring, I downloaded the Ou

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Three high-performance RISC-V processors to watch in H2 2025

news.ycombinator.com Jean-Luc Aufranc 2025-12-26 04:58:48

Some high-performance RISC-V processors are in the pipeline for the rest of the year 2025, namely UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, and SpacemIT K3. We currently have limited information about each of those processors, but let’s see what information we can gather from the web, mostly as a result of the recent RISC-V Summit in China. UltraRISC UR-DP1000 – Octa-core 64-bit RISC-V SoC The first SoC is the UR-DP1000 octa-core from UltraRISC (the website loads slowly, and I could not find anything a

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Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 17:01:02

At Linaro Connect 2025 Linaro, thanks to its work within the Qualcomm ecosystem, and TUXEDO Computers, showcased an off-the-shelf prototype ARM64 Linux laptop using the Snapdragon X Elite SoC, demonstrating progress in enabling Linux on Snapdragon devices to meet the increasing demand for ARM computing. But wait! This is just the tip of the iceberg of a long journey! Advancements in Linux Support for Snapdragon X Elite: Over the past year, substantial progress has been made in integrating Lin

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16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 02:12:35

Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII artpacks. The artform was originally intended for display on computer textmode consoles. It gained popularity in the early nineties with the rise of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). At one point artists started to group together and release their work in collections released monthly, these collection are called artpacks. Rivalry resulted in fierce competition between these artgroups which only boosted activity. ACiD and iCE are example

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Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

news.ycombinator.com Paula Span 2025-12-30 11:45:07

A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels creeping up after menopause, she said, “I didn’t want to take a chance.” A cardiologist told Ms. Hollander that based on factors like age, sex, cholesterol and blood pressure, she faced a moderate risk of a major cardiac event, like a heart attack, within the next 10 years. Doctors typically counsel such patients about the

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Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Eli Dourado 2025-12-30 14:03:26

Aviation is a poster child for economic stagnation. Yes, airline travel has gotten cheaper and safer—great. But every other aspect of aviation has struggled or even regressed. As I’ve noted many times, we had supersonic travel across the Atlantic from 1976 to 2003. Today, not even the world’s richest travelers can fly that fast. Another part of aviation that has suffered over the last half-century is general aviation, particularly its low-end segment, personal aviation, in which people fly them

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Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 18:38:27

Since the inception of solid-state drives (SSDs), there has been a choice to make—either use SSDs for vastly superior speeds, especially with non-sequential read and writes (“random I/O”), or use legacy spinning rust hard disk drives (HDDs) for cheaper storage that’s a bit slow for sequential I/O and painfully slow for random I/O. The idea of caching frequently used data on SSDs and storing the rest on HDDs is nothing new—solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) embodied this idea in hardware form, wh

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‘Alien: Earth’ Crashes Into Comic-Con With a Massive Outdoor Experience

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-30 16:15:38

The USCSS Maginot, a Weyland Yutani research vessel, crashed into the large lawn next to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. Onlookers remarked they hoped there was nothing dangerous on board, as containers had spilled all over the surrounding area. That’s both the tease for a very cool activation put together by FX for its new show, Alien: Earth, as well as the setup for Alien: Earth itself. The show, which debuts August 12, centers on a crashed ship and all the horrors that it contain

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Arvo Pärt at 90

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 17:03:03

In many ways Arvo Pärt and John Williams’s music couldn’t be further apart. One celebrates simplicity, purity, and draws much of its inspiration from sacred texts; the other captures strong emotions in sweeping orchestral scores. And yet the two men are today’s most performed contemporary composers. Bachtrack’s annual survey of classical music performed across the world placed Pärt second (John Williams is in the top spot) in 2023 and 2024. In 2022, Pärt was first, Williams second. This year, Pä

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Purple Earth hypothesis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 06:43:38

Astrobiological hypothesis regarding early photosynthetic organisms Artist's impression of Earth in the early Archean with a purplish hydrosphere and coastal regions Purple culture of Haloarchaea (left) and isolated purple and red membrane components (right) The Purple Earth Hypothesis (PEH) is an astrobiological hypothesis, first proposed by molecular biologist Shiladitya DasSarma in 2007,[1] that the earliest photosynthetic life forms of Early Earth were based on the simpler molecule retina

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Premier League Summer Series: Stream Everton vs. Bournemouth From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 12:00:09

The second edition of the Premier League Summer Series tournament kicks off in the US on Saturday as David Moyes' Everton take on Andoni Iraola's Bournemouth. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Taking place at three venues across the US, the six-match, round-robin style tournament also includes fellow EPL sides Manchester United and West Ham, an

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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 14:00:00

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning that entire job categories could be wiped out by artificial intelligence, echoing widespread concerns that the technology could have devastating effects on the human labor market. During his most recent trip to Washington, DC, Altman told Federal Reserve vice-chair for supervision Michelle Bowman that "some areas" in the job market will be "just like totally, totally gone" as they're replaced by AI agents. Altman identified customer support roles as a "category

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Inverted Indexes: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 22:53:20

Before we start with the implementation, let's talk about why would you actually need an inverted index in a real life. Why would anyone need inverted index at all Imagine you need to create a system that would quickly look up a document, given several words from it - something like a wiki search. Simplest option I can think of would be to scan through each document, marking ones that have all the necessary words. That might work at first, but such solution wouldn't scale,

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Upsides and Downsides

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 14:23:09

Every startup founder knows about Geoffrey Moore's concept of "crossing the chasm"–that you have to change your marketing and sales approach as you gain marketshare fit a more conservative buyer. But most fail to internalize what crossing the chasm means when it comes to their product. I recently stumbled upon Adam Mastroanni's post on strong-link problems, and realized that it's the perfect framework for thinking about this shift. In essence, Adam says there are two types of problems: strong-

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The ‘Alien: Earth’ Premiere Just Blew Away Hall H at Comic-Con

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-30 14:00:18

Anyone who has been to a movie recently knows that keeping people quiet to watch something together can be a struggle. Now make that number almost 7,000 people, and what happens is pure captivation as the crowd in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con were wowed by the first episode of Alien: Earth, which comes to FX on August 12. The episode starts in a very familiar way for Alien fans before doing a complete 180 into something totally different. Almost instantly, it’s clear that creator Noah Hawley b

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Non-Hormonal Male Birth Control Pill Passes Key Test

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-30 15:00:47

For many couples, the numerous options for birth control still come with plenty of hassles. But scientists are working on an alternative approach that might be more appealing for some: a non-hormonal male birth control pill with possibly very few side effects. The drug is codenamed YCT-529, and it’s being developed by the company YourChoice Therapeutics, in conjunction with researchers from the University of Minnesota and others. In early human trial results published this week, YCT-529 appeare

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Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of Defense

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:00:21

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use China-based engineering teams to support the Defense Department’s cloud computing systems, following ProPublica’s investigation of the practice, which cybersecurity experts said could expose the government to hacking and espionage. But it turns out the Pentagon was not the only part of the government facing such a threat. For years, Microsoft has also used its global workforce, including China-based personnel, to maintain the cloud syst

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Razer Pro Click V2 Vertical Review: A Hybrid Gaming Mouse

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-12-30 14:00:00

Switching to a vertical mouse is a hard sell. Having to change how you use a mouse completely can be an intimidating task, especially with how unnatural the new hand position feels at first—you’re going entirely against the muscle memory you’ve spent years building up. One of the largest challenges to the switch is the initial loss of pointer accuracy. If you’re in an office setting, you may find yourself wandering around a bit or struggling to move your new mouse as quickly as you did before.

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Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 21:54:11

Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer Jul 22 2025 You’re probably reading this because you’re using Pydantic yourself. Maybe you’re building a FastAPI application and hit a point where it started getting too big to manage, and you realized you need better separation of concerns. Perhaps you’ve started adopting a clean architecture or onion architecture kind of layering to keep business logic separate from application logic, aiming for better maintainability and testability. But Pydantic is st

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Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:36:27

Look, we know there are other tools out there. But we built this one because we needed it ourselves. Here's what makes our image to drawio converter different. It Actually Understands Diagrams Here's the thing - most tools just see shapes and lines. Our image to drawio converter sees diagrams. Feed it a whiteboard photo, and it knows that wobbly rectangle is meant to be a process box. Give it a screenshot, and it figures out which arrows connect to which shapes. We spent months training it on r

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Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

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Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

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Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer

Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing

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