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Prepare to Celebrate 60 Years of ‘Star Trek’ With Nacelle’s Nostalgic Figures

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-25 11:00:28

Star Trek turns 60 next year, and the franchise is preparing to celebrate in style, especially with a brand new show on the way in Starfleet Academy. But outside of streaming, you’ll be able to celebrate in style with Nacelle’s new line of Star Trek action figures, which will dedicate a whole wave to the original series next year—and io9 has your first up-close look at one of them. As previously (and exclusively) revealed by io9 this past Friday, the third wave of Nacelle’s Star Trek line is se

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20 years after Katrina, New Orleans remembers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-25 11:36:30

Next month marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history: Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm that made landfall on August 29, 2005. The storm itself was bad enough, but the resulting surge of water caused havoc for New Orleans in particular when the city's protective levees failed, flooding much of New Orleans and killing 1,392 people. National Geographic is marking the occasion with a new documentary series: Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time. T

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The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 14:28:49

July 27, 2025 The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade This last decade has seen an inundation of new JavaScript runtimes (and engines in equal measure), enabling us to run JavaScript in all manner of contexts with precise fitness for task. Through these, we've seen the language spread to the Cloud, the edge, Smart TVs, mobile devices, and even microcontrollers. In this article, we'll explore what's driving this diversity, and why no one runtime or engine suffices for all p

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4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 03:17:03

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees have opted to leave the space agency through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, NASA said on Saturday. The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce, and will reduce the agency from 18,000 to 14,000 employees, NASA spokesperson Cheryl Warner said in a statement shared with NPR. The total number includes the agency's loss of 500 other workers due to normal attrition, she said. During a second round of the program, which closed at midni

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How to Watch England vs. Spain From Anywhere for Free: Stream UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Final Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-25 12:00:05

It all comes down to this, as defending champions England take on 2023 World Cup winners Spain on Sunday in the Women's Euro 2025 Final at St. Jakob-Park. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. The Spaniards have lived up to their pre-tournament billing as the team to beat throughout Euro 2025, having glided through the group phase scoring 1

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Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 08:49:58

I’m continuing my work on fennel-cljlib, my port of clojure.core and some other core libraries, focusing on porting missing functions and features to it. One such feature, which I sometimes miss in Lua and Fennel, is dynamic binding. The Lua VM doesn’t provide dynamic scoping as a language feature, and Fennel itself doesn’t introduce any concepts like Clojure’s Var . However, we can still implement dynamic scoping that works similarly to Clojure and other Lisps using the debug library. Most of

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 11:01:02

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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Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 20:41:39

The BGT60TR13C is a 60 GHz radar sensor with Antennas in Package (AIP) in an L-shaped array. Its built-in Finite-State Machine (FSM) manages FMCW frequency sweeps, data acquisition, and sample storage into the internal FIFO memory, while optimized power modes and DC duty cycling minimize power consumption. The sensor is configured and controlled via a standard SPI interface, allowing for easy integration into various applications.

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How we rooted Copilot

news.ycombinator.com Vaisha Bernard 2026-01-24 23:06:09

Microsoft has silently pushed an update back in April 2025 for Copilot Enterprise, enabling a live Python sandbox running Jupyter Notebook that can execute code in the backend. Well, that sounds like a terrific idea, let’s explore it for a bit! It turns out to be easy to have it execute exactly the code we want to on the underlying system using Jupyter Notebook syntax %command . Well, it worked most of the time. It feels like telling an 8-year-old child to do something. If it’s in a good mood

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Purple Earth hypothesis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 00:43:38

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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OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

news.ycombinator.com Michael R. Clarkson Et Al. 2026-01-25 11:18:38

OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful# A textbook on functional programming and data structures in OCaml, with an emphasis on semantics and software engineering. This book is the textbook for CS 3110 Data Structures and Functional Programming at Cornell University. A past title of this book was “Functional Programming in OCaml”. Spring 2025 Edition. Videos. There are over 200 YouTube videos embedded in this book. They can be watched independently of reading the book. Start with t

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Tesla investors are growing wary of Elon Musk's futuristic promises

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2026-01-25 09:45:41

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. At Tesla , vehicle sales are slumping, profits are thinning and revenue from regulatory credit sales are poised to dry up due to Republican-led policy changes. In the past, CEO Elon Musk's futuristic promises have convinced investors to look past top and bottom line numbers. Not now. Following another fairly dismal earnings report this week, M

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Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-25 05:30:57

Defense tech company AeroVironment and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars to scout for water and possible human landing sites. The concept, dubbed "Skyfall," builds on NASA's extremely successful and revolutionary Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which became the first manmade object to achieve powered flight on another planet in 2021. It flew a whopping 72 times over three years, vastly exceeding expectations. AeroV

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Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-25 10:15:10

Image by Getty / Futurism Genetics One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are actually pretty important after all. The work, published as a study in the journal Science Advances, focuses on transposable elements, a class of DNA sequences that can "jump," via a biological copy-and-paste mechanism, to different locations in a genome. These

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Apple @ Work: Apple makes Managed Apple Account transitions easier for IT at scale

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2026-01-25 08:00:00

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China calls for the creation of a global AI organization

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-25 11:00:05

China wants to work with other countries and has laid out its plans for the global governance of artificial intelligence at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. Li Qiang, the country's premier, warned about "technological monopolies" and said that AI could become "an exclusive game for a few countries and companies." As such, he proposed the creation of a "world AI cooperation organization" during the event. Li didn't specifically mention the United States when he ta

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How We Rooted Copilot

news.ycombinator.com Vaisha Bernard 2026-01-25 11:06:09

Microsoft has silently pushed an update back in April 2025 for Copilot Enterprise, enabling a live Python sandbox running Jupyter Notebook that can execute code in the backend. Well, that sounds like a terrific idea, let’s explore it for a bit! It turns out to be easy to have it execute exactly the code we want to on the underlying system using Jupyter Notebook syntax %command . Well, it worked most of the time. It feels like telling an 8-year-old child to do something. If it’s in a good mood

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‘Tron: Ares’ Just Brought the Grid Back to San Diego Comic-Con

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-25 09:30:23

In the pantheon of cool Hall H moments at San Diego Comic-Con, the reveal that Disney was returning to the world of Tron is right near the top. Sneaking into a 2008 panel about Race to Witch Mountain, Disney randomly showed proof-of-concept footage announcing that Tron 2, later called Tron Legacy, would be coming in a few years, and the place went mad. Since that moment, Tron and Comic-Con have shared a fun history, with Legacy’s team even recording audio for the film in Hall H a few years later

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I tested Panasonic's new affordable LED TV model - here's my brutally honest buying advice

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-01-25 08:45:14

Panasonic W70B ZDNET's key takeaways The Panasonic W70B is available for $549 (65-inch) and six other screen sizes. It's an entry-level LED TV that gets the job done. Slow loading times and subpar images are discouraging. View now at Amazon It's unusual, but for this review, I tested a 50-inch version of Panasonic's 2025 W70B Fire TV. (Usually, I test 65-inch models.) At $349 for this screen size, I spent some time testing the W70B, and here's what I can tell you about it. Also: The best Sam

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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

wired.com Antonio Dini 2026-01-25 10:00:00

The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing. The good news, then, is that more than 60 mayors in Italy have decided to take the field for the cars of the future. On July 14, in the hall of the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan, Pierfrancesco Maran, a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Democratic Party, launched the Autonomous Driving: Italy in the Front Row initiative, which has backing from admini

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Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-25 17:58:37

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research efforts at the company’s new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao contributed to several of OpenAI’s largest breakthroughs, including ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the company’s first AI reasoning model, o1. “I’m excited to share that Shengjia Zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs,” Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads Friday. “Shengjia co-founded the new lab and

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Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-01-25 20:00:00

Early-stage founders just can’t get away from TAM — the concept of having a total addressable market for their startup to disrupt and conquer. But Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: Many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent. “What was the market for search before Google?” Sardana asked the audience at TechCrunch’s 2025 All Stage event in Boston, held ea

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

news.ycombinator.com Jono Alderson 2026-01-26 00:08:00

It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. The app-like fallacy “Make it feel like an app.” At some point during the scoping process, someone says the words. A CMO. A digital lead. A brand manager. And with that single phrase, the architecture is locked in: it’ll be an SPA. Probably React. Maybe Vue. Almost certainly deployed on Verce

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 26, #1498

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-25 23:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-26 05:10:31

A firmware update has killed key functionality for Echelon smart home gym equipment that isn't connected to the Internet. As explained in a Tuesday blog post by Roberto Viola, who develops the "QZ (qdomyos-zwift)" app that connects Echelon machines to third-party fitness platforms, like Peloton, Strava, and Apple HealthKit, the firmware update forces Echelon machines to connect to Echelon’s servers in order to work properly. A user online reported that as a result of updating his machine, it is

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Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-26 05:26:44

In December 2010, a study led by a NASA astrobiology fellow claimed to have found an alien-like microbe in a salty, alkaline lake in California. This extraordinary bacterium could reportedly thrive using the toxic element arsenic in place of phosphorus—otherwise thought essential for life on Earth. It even incorporated arsenic, instead of phosphorus, into the backbone of its DNA, according to the study, which was published online by the prestigious journal Science. If true, the claims were grou

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Animated Cursors

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-26 14:59:25

Tattoy now supports animated cursors. It uses the same format as Ghostty, therefore rendering the cursor using custom shaders. Here are some popular Ghostty cursors, that you can use out-of-the-box with Tattoy. Even though Tattoy supports Ghostty cursors its rendering is quite different. Ghostty renders the cursor using actual pixels whereas Tattoy renders using UTF8 text-based "pixels", namely "▀" and "▄". This means that Tattoy cursors sometimes miss out on the subtleties of Ghostty cursors,

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Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography

news.ycombinator.com Ben Brubaker 2026-01-26 23:25:23

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of cryptography. Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach to encryption that lacks this potential weak spot. The approach exploits the peculiar features of quantum physics. But unlike earlier quantum encryption schemes, which only work for a few special tasks,

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Lisp project of the day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 12:23:51

You can support this project by donating at: Or see the list of project sponsors.

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OpenAI Is Reportedly About to Release GPT-5

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-27 20:32:51

Is it *finally* happening? Save the Date OpenAI's release of GPT-5 might be right around the corner. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Verge reports that the ChatGPT maker now expects to release the highly anticipated upgrade to its large language model as soon as early August, following several recent delays — and for power users, an unbearable years-long wait. OpenAI has been dropping hints about GPT-5 since 2023, but its development has been troubled, with reports of persistent

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Prepare to Celebrate 60 Years of ‘Star Trek’ With Nacelle’s Nostalgic Figures

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Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

Apple @ Work: Apple makes Managed Apple Account transitions easier for IT at scale

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Lisp project of the day

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