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Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-20 19:16:33

Moviemaking icon Mel Brooks and Amazon MGM Studios have published a teaser trailer to announce that Spaceballs 2 is moving full steam ahead with plans to premiere in 2027 – and it sounds like Rick Moranis is coming back as Dark Helmet, too. A trailer for the sequel to the classic '80s sci-fi Star Wars parody arrived today. Although it mostly comes with a special message from Brooks himself and a familiar text crawl that pokes fun at the long, long list of sequels that have come to theaters in t

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GCP Outage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-20 19:11:07

This page provides status information on the services that are part of Google Cloud. Check back here to view the current status of the services listed below. If you are experiencing an issue not listed here, please contact Support . Learn more about what's posted on the dashboard in this FAQ . For additional information on these services, please visit https://cloud.google.com/

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Engineer creates first custom motherboard for 1990s PlayStation console

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-20 19:51:04

Last week, electronics engineer Lorentio Brodesco announced the completion of a mock-up for nsOne, reportedly the first custom PlayStation 1 motherboard created outside of Sony in the console's 30-year history. The fully functional board accepts original PlayStation 1 chips and fits directly into the original console case, marking a milestone in reverse-engineering for the classic console released in 1994. Brodesco's motherboard isn't an emulator or FPGA-based re-creation—it's a genuine circuit

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My favorite MagSafe wallet stand is the ideal iPhone companion, and it just got cheaper

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2026-04-20 23:23:39

ZDNET's key takeaways ESR's Aura Halo-Lock MagSafe wallet and stand combine style and function at a fair price point. The $40 MagSafe wallet stores up to five cards, doubles as a phone stand, includes an ID window, and comes in five colorways. If you're after smaller capacity wallets or more premium materials, you're better off with other MagSafe cardholders. $23.99 at Amazon The ESR Aura MagSafe wallet and stand is on sale in select colors for $19 at Amazon now. When I'm not doubled down co

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“Two years of work in two months”: States cope with Trump broadband overhaul

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-20 23:43:46

The Trump administration has upended plans that state governments made to distribute $42 billion in federal broadband funding, forcing state officials to scrap much of the preparation work they did over the previous couple of years. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick essentially put the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program on hold earlier this year and last week announced details of a rules overhaul that requires states to change how they distribute money to Internet servic

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Instagram grid customization is coming next week

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-04-20 22:00:00

Instagram is making it easier for users to express themselves through music, reels, and says it’s “exploring” ways to support posts that can appear on your profile without being pushed to followers’ feeds. A feature rolling out today allows users to automatically share the name and artist of the Spotify song they’re currently listening to in their Instagram Notes — the temporary status updates that appear above profile pictures in Instagram DMs. Meta spokesperson Christine Pai confirmed that st

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Instagram will soon let you re-arrange your grid

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-21 03:00:11

You don't have to make a huge effort planning Instagram posts anymore so that your profile takes on a certain aesthetic or so that your grid reads or looks a certain way. Instagram will soon (and finally) let you re-order the posts already on your grid. Alessandro Paluzzi, who reverse engineered apps and posted upcoming features online, found an "edit grid" option within Instagram way back in 2022. Instagram didn't say when exactly the feature will be available, but when you do get the edit grid

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The First ‘Spaceballs 2’ Teaser Confirms a Crucial Returning Star

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-04-21 03:50:34

Mel Brooks is really taking this Spaceballs thing seriously. In the original film, one of his characters, Yogurt, was a parody of Yoda, the Star Wars Jedi Master who lived to be almost 1,000. Well, now we know Brooks has been going all in on character preparation and, at the age of 99, will officially reprise Yogurt for the long-awaited sequel, set for release 40 years after the original. Here’s a hilarious teaser making it all official. I told you we’d be back pic.twitter.com/RnoklPqBX6 — Mel

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Instagram will finally let you rearrange your grid

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-04-21 03:00:00

Instagram announced on Thursday that it will finally allow users to rearrange their grid, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without having the content appear in users’ feeds. The social network is also launching the ability to stream songs from Spotify directly to your Instagram Notes, along with a new initiative to support emerging creators. Instagram says the ability to rearrange grids has been one of its most high-requested features. With this update, users will

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Finally, a portable laser projector with a battery-powered tripod (and it's on sale)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-04-21 07:48:25

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Xgimi, the brand behind the much-lauded Horizon S Max, just released two portable projectors -- the MoGo 4, and the higher-end MoGo 4 Laser -- and they're a big level-up for the category. The new pair of projectors are expressly portable, connect to a stand for built-in charging, and look more like Bluetooth speakers. Also: Finally, a portable 4K projector worthy of replacing my TV - and it supports Dolby Vision We recently went hands-on with the MoGo 4 devices (which are phys

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Will End With a Fifth and Final Season

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-04-21 07:00:24

The adventures of the Enterprise are coming to an end once more. With just over a month to go to the broadcast of its third season, Paramount has confirmed that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will end with its fifth season. The newly-confirmed fifth season will run for six episodes, down from Strange New Worlds‘ typical 10-episode seasons. No expected release window for the final season was confirmed, however the show’s fourth season, already announced back in April 2024, is currently in product

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PlayStation handheld leak suggests PS5 game support via low-power mode, upscaling, and extra cache

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-04-21 15:16:00

Rumor mill: Trusted leakers previously reported that Sony is preparing a handheld counterpart to the PlayStation 6 that doesn't rely solely on streaming. The rumors have sparked speculation about how a portable device will run modern, high-end games, as new information sheds light on prospective hardware specifications. Prominent tipster KeplerL2 recently provided new details regarding Sony's plans for a handheld console. Although the device would be far weaker than a PlayStation 5, the company

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Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2026-04-21 15:00:42

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Tubi’s next move to expand its streaming catalog sounds like a win for the indie movie set. Today, Tubi (which is owned by Fox) announced that it is partnering with Kickstarter to distribute a number of films funded on the crowdfunding platform. Beginning this fall, more than 20 movies “that uniquely resonate with Tubi fandoms” will

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How AI sales startup Landbase nabbed Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures to lead its $30M Series A

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-04-21 19:45:00

When Daniel Saks was working as a co-CEO of the previous startup he co-founded, AppDirect, billionaire Michael Dell sent him a LinkedIn message asking for a meeting. Dell famously likes to cold-contact founders of startups he finds interesting. “I thought it was fake,” Saks tells TechCrunch. But he replied anyway. “So I’m getting ready for this call, thinking there’s no way it’s Michael Dell. And I’m almost kind of laughing about it. It actually was Michael.” That interaction taught him a less

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Apple's Liquid Glass is Windows Vista done well

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-20 11:19:54

It's hard to look at Apple's new "Liquid Glass" aesthetic and not think about Windows Vista, Microsoft's much-maligned OS which also touted transparencies and glass-like effects as a bold new vision for computing. You can see the similarities between Apple's UI and Vista's "Windows Aero" design language everywhere, from the glassified app icons in iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 which look a lot like VIsta's glossy icons, to the transparent backgrounds used in drop down menus, which hearken back to VI

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Amazon Shows No Mercy for LEGO, Star Wars R2-D2 Set Crashes to a Record Low Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-04-22 04:10:05

Star Wars and Harry Potter are the most popular LEGO licenses – be it for kids or adults worldwide. Among the iconic Star Wars sets, the R2-D2 building toy consistently ranks as a top seller. This collection has received an amazing 4.9 out of 5 stars from Amazon reviewers based on over a thousand reviews, with thousands of them being sold last month alone. You now have a great opportunity to own this collection at its lowest price ever on Amazon – even lower than the prices during the Black Fri

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ChatGPT outage: OpenAI reports 'elevated error rates' for several hours

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-04-21 04:20:14

ChatGPT was down for some users on Tuesday, with nearly 2,000 outage reports on Downdetector, a site that logs user reports of internet issues. OpenAI said there was a full recovery in the API at 3:24 p.m. EDT but the status still showed a "degraded performance." "We are monitoring and working towards a full recovery of ChatGPT," the status update said. The artificial intelligence chatbot gave some users a "Too many concurrent requests" message, or would not answer questions. The OpenAI stat

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360-degree camera maker Insta360 goes public in China

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-04-21 17:30:00

Insta360, a maker of 360-degree cameras and action cameras, went public in in an initial public offering in China. It’s a company for the age of vloggers. The company started in 2015 with the mission of helping people better capture and share their lives. It expanded worldwide and it is the No. 1 market leader in the U.S. in 360-degree cameras. On the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Insta360 went public at 182 yuan per share, or $25.32 a share. That set the company’s total value at 70 billion yuan, o

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IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028

technologyreview.com Sophia Chen 2026-04-20 18:00:00

IBM intends Starling to be able to perform computational tasks beyond the capability of classical computers. Starling will have 200 logical qubits, which will be constructed using the company’s chips. It should be able to perform 100 million logical operations consecutively with accuracy; existing quantum computers can do so for only a few thousand. The system will demonstrate error correction at a much larger scale than anything done before, claims Gambetta. Previous error correction demonstra

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The Download: IBM’s quantum computer, and cuts to military AI testing

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-04-20 21:10:00

The news: IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing machines by 2028. It hopes to make the computer available to users via the cloud by 2029. What is it? The proposed machine, named Starling, will consist of a network of modules, each of which contains a set of chips, housed within a new data center in Poughkeepsie, New York. Why it matters: IBM claims Starling will be a leap forward in qua

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Threads is getting native DMs as Meta reverses course

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-04-21 03:40:10

It took long enough, but Meta has finally admitted what Threads users have been saying from day one: the platform needs its own direct messaging system. Not something tied to Instagram, not a redirect, just DMs, right where the conversations are happening. And now, that’s exactly what they’re finally getting. Starting this week (via The Verge), Threads is testing a native DM inbox in three countries: Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina. The rollout is limited for now, but according to Mark Zuck

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iOS 26 will bridge the gap with digital IDs in Apple Wallet thanks to this new addition

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-04-21 09:12:39

Yesterday at WWDC25, Apple announced a new addition to the Wallet app that’ll certainly bridge the gap when it comes to digital ID adoption in the United States: support for passports. Apple announced Drivers Licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet back with iOS 15 in 2021, but since then, it’s only rolled out to a handful of US states. Apple currently supports 9 US states plus Puerto Rico, and will soon add 3 more. Still, 12 is far short of all 50 US states. Soon, however, Apple will introduce suppo

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Threads is finally getting its own DM inbox

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-21 00:00:01

Nearly two years after launching Threads, Meta is finally giving in to users on one of the most requested features for the service: direct messaging. The company is beginning to test a dedicated inbox for Threads, beginning with Hong Kong, Argentina and Thailand, Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a post on Threads. Threads has had some messaging capabilities since last year, but the feature only allows users to send Threads posts to friends via their Instagram DMs. This is more than a little clunky a

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Pixelsnap, Google's belated answer to MagSafe, could arrive alongside the Pixel 10

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-22 03:45:27

Android phones that support Qi2 wireless chargers that are magnetically secured in place might finally be hitting the market. Android Authority reports that Google plans to add Qi2 charging with the upcoming Google Pixel 10. The Qi2 standard was announced at CES in 2023, and was developed with substantial contributions from Apple. The new design iterated on the Qi standard by adding magnets that would help ensure a perfect alignment, among other improvements. That magnetic alignment tech was bui

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Lifetime Subscription to Babbel for 71% Off and an Extra Discount Gets You Mind-Expanding Language Lessons Forever

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2026-04-22 05:40:15

It’s natural to be envious of people who can casually move from language to language, in conversation or as they’re reading. It’s definitely not easy, but learning a new language is well worth the effort, especially when you have lifetime access to 14 languages when you buy a subscription to Babbel at StackSocial for 71% off. See at StackSocial Babbel is the world’s top-selling language instruction app, and this is a buy-once-own-forever deal rather than a recurring yearly or monthly bill for

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What It Took to Build the Death Star

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-04-22 05:47:17

The ultimate manifestation of the Empire’s overwhelming belief in strength through fear, the Death Star is everything insidious and evil about the Imperial engine in Star Wars—as well as its inevitable downfall. But while the story of stopping the Death Star is well trod at this point, the story of just how it was built in the first place is much more complicated. It’s not just complex because the Death Star’s construction took place over the course of decades, but because of that time frame, t

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FCC threat to revoke EchoStar spectrum licenses draws widespread backlash

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-21 04:03:18

The Federal Communications Commission is facing widespread criticism after threatening to revoke EchoStar licenses for spectrum bands that rival firms, including SpaceX, want to take over. Opposition to license revocations came from conservatives, telecom consumer advocates, and some industry groups. The Free State Foundation, a free-market group that has generally supported Republican priorities at the FCC, filed comments saying that "arbitrary" decisions would create instability in the market

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She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-21 19:00:09

Bridgit Mendler was not in Hollywood anymore. Instead, she found herself in rural North Dakota, where the stars sparkled overhead rather than on the silver screen. And she was freezing. When her team tumbled out of their rental cars after midnight, temperatures had already plummeted into the 40s. Howling winds carried their breath away before it could fog the air. So it was with no small sense of urgency that the group scrambled to assemble a jury-rigged antenna to talk to a spacecraft that wou

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A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers

wired.com Molly Taft 2026-04-21 02:56:09

A 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation included in President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has brushed up against a mounting battle over the growth of data centers. On Thursday, Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, posted on X that the megabill’s 10-year block on states regulating artificial intelligence could “make it easier for corporations to get zoning variances, so massive AI data centers could be built in close proximity to residential areas.” Massie, who

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Best Internet Providers in North Carolina

cnet.com Stephen J. Bronner 2025-12-23 11:00:00

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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Latest Tech News

Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet

GCP Outage

Engineer creates first custom motherboard for 1990s PlayStation console

My favorite MagSafe wallet stand is the ideal iPhone companion, and it just got cheaper

“Two years of work in two months”: States cope with Trump broadband overhaul

Instagram grid customization is coming next week

Instagram will soon let you re-arrange your grid

The First ‘Spaceballs 2’ Teaser Confirms a Crucial Returning Star

Instagram will finally let you rearrange your grid

Finally, a portable laser projector with a battery-powered tripod (and it's on sale)

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Will End With a Fifth and Final Season

PlayStation handheld leak suggests PS5 game support via low-power mode, upscaling, and extra cache

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi

How AI sales startup Landbase nabbed Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures to lead its $30M Series A

Apple's Liquid Glass is Windows Vista done well

Amazon Shows No Mercy for LEGO, Star Wars R2-D2 Set Crashes to a Record Low Before Prime Day

ChatGPT outage: OpenAI reports 'elevated error rates' for several hours

360-degree camera maker Insta360 goes public in China

IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028

The Download: IBM’s quantum computer, and cuts to military AI testing

Threads is getting native DMs as Meta reverses course

iOS 26 will bridge the gap with digital IDs in Apple Wallet thanks to this new addition

Threads is finally getting its own DM inbox

Pixelsnap, Google's belated answer to MagSafe, could arrive alongside the Pixel 10

Lifetime Subscription to Babbel for 71% Off and an Extra Discount Gets You Mind-Expanding Language Lessons Forever

What It Took to Build the Death Star

FCC threat to revoke EchoStar spectrum licenses draws widespread backlash

She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world

A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers

Best Internet Providers in North Carolina

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