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Researchers Solve 35-Year-Old Fusion Mystery With Bench-Top Reactor

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-17 16:00:34

Fusion is always 10 years away, it seems. To expedite development, some scientists have turned to the prospect of cold fusion—a hypothetical technology that seeks to achieve fusion at room temperature with simpler machines. Needless to say, no one has achieved this vaunted goal, but a team of chemists believes they’re getting closer. A paper published today in Nature introduces Thunderbird: a particle accelerator roughly the size of a beer fridge. The bench-top reactor operates on plasma scienc

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Nvidia, Bill Gates-backed robotics startup Field AI hits $2 billion valuation after recent raise

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-17 21:41:59

Bill Gates-backed Robotics startup Field AI has raised $405 million in two funding rounds, with investments from Nvidia 's venture capital arm and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' family office. The funding comes during an "aha moment," founder and CEO Ali Agha told CNBC, as software and hardware reach an inflection point. "We are growing," he said. "This funding announcement is to respond to the customer demand." The latest round values the two-year-old startup at $2 billion, according to a person

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Apple TV+ reveals darker, cutthroat return of The Morning Show in new trailer

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-17 21:30:24

One of the longest running hits for Apple TV+, The Morning Show, is returning soon with season 4. And the new trailer reveals a darker turn coming for the series. The Morning Show season 4 trailer debuts ahead of September return When Apple TV+ launched in 2019, its biggest flagship series was The Morning Show, headlined by stars Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carrell. Now six years later, The Morning Show remains one of Apple’s most popular series, and its star-studded cast k

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8BitDo's charging dock for Xbox controllers costs just $20 right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 21:30:55

8BitDo is predominantly known for its excellent gamepads of all shapes and sizes , but it makes other accessories too, including a charging dock for the Xbox Wireless Controller that is currently 20 percent off. Right now you can grab the officially licensed dock for $20, down from its regular price of $25. 8BitDo’s charging dock is compatible with the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One variants of the Xbox Wireless Controller and uses magnetic contact charging to juice up your pad. It comes with a 1

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Graphene capacitors achieve rapid, high-depth modulation of terahertz waves

news.ycombinator.com University Of Cambridge 2025-11-13 04:52:54

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The demonstrated tuneable capacitance metamaterial, used as a terahertz amplitude modulator. Credit: Cavendish Laboratory Researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge have demonstrated a new way to control radiation in the terahertz range—an often-overlooked part of the electromagnetic spectrum—w

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'Peacemaker' Season 2: When to Watch the Return of James Gunn's DCU Series

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 16:00:04

Peacemaker is back for season 2, and it only took three and a half years to get here. John Cena once again suits up as the titular hero who is struggling to squash his toxic past while looking for where he may actually fit in the DCU superhero sphere. But for those who remember The Suicide Squad, the man in the odd helmet (whose civilian name is Chris Smith), made an unsavory choice -- and it's still haunting him to this day. It makes you wonder: If a pocket dimension existed in your closet, wo

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Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-11-17 21:19:54

Three parents—Reni Cao, Xiao Zhang, and Susan Rosenthal—were worried about their children’s screen time, so they left their tech jobs to create a product that encourages children to engage with the real world while also helping them learn a new language. Their move has paid off, as the company recently raised $4.8 million in funding. The newly launched gadget is called Dex and resembles a high-tech magnifying glass with a camera lens on one side and a touchscreen on the other. When kids use the

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This Anker 3-in-1 wireless charging station is down to a record-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 02:05:37

Anker makes some of our favorite charging gear, and now you can save on a bunch of wireless power accessories from the brand. Whether you're going back to school soon or want a new charging station that can power up a few devices at once, there are discounts here worth considering. One of the best is this 3-in-1 MagSafe charging station, on sale for a record low price of $63. The Qi2-certified charger wirelessly charges your compatible iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods on one compact and convenie

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The Best Cold-Plunge Pools in 2025—I Spent Months Testing to Find the Best

wired.com Emily Peck 2025-11-18 02:00:00

There was a time when a relaxing, hot bubble bath was all I needed to unwind, but these days my ice bath has taken precedence. And trust me, nobody is more surprised about this than I am. Like countless wellness trends before it, cold-plunge pools, ice baths, and cold-water therapy have been fueled by social media and celebrities, with Harry Styles, Lady Gaga, and David Beckham all advocates. Just as massage guns made the transition from elite recovery tools to workout essentials, cold-water th

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GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Rails engineers passionate about education

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 06:00:09

Position Closed Sorry, this position is no longer accepting candidates.

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11 Years Later, Elon Musk Is Floating the Flying Car Scam Again

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-18 06:55:26

“Maybe we’ll make a flying car, just for fun,” Elon Musk told the Independent back in 2014. The news outlet insisted at the time that Musk wasn’t joking and that he should be taken seriously, given his success with other companies like PayPal. At the time, the Tesla CEO was worth a measly $8.4 billion according to Forbes, a fraction of the $413 billion he currently holds on paper. But when a billionaire CEO says he’s going to do something, you’re supposed to hear him out. “We could definitely

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Samsung reveals top apps downloaded by US Galaxy users this summer

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 15:38:41

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has revealed a ranked list of the top apps Galaxy users downloaded from the Galaxy Store this summer. The company will release similar lists going forward to showcase the Galaxy Store’s most downloaded apps. Samsung TV Plus took the top spot in the rankings this summer, followed by a mix of streaming services, mobile games, and productivity apps. For the first time ever, Samsung has released a ranking of the most downloaded apps from the Galaxy

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YouTube Music could soon let you comment on playlists, here’s what we know (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 17:09:23

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is working on bringing comments to YouTube Music playlists. YouTube Music already allows comments on audio, video, and podcast content. If it succeeds, YouTube might also bring comments to video playlists on the main app. Two years ago, Google rolled out YouTube’s most hotly debated feature to YouTube Music. The comments section, which is both a treasure chest of insights and a bottomless pit of bullying remarks, is currently available for audio,

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Two Verizon plans are getting some upgrades at no extra cost

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-18 17:11:39

Two of Verizon’s mobile plans are getting some upgrades at no additional cost. The improvements are being made to the Simple Mobile and Total Wireless plans. All five of the Simple Mobile tiers are being upgraded, while the same is true of the top two Total Wireless levels … All of the upgrades relate to international calling and data usage whilst travelling abroad. CNET has the details. Simple Mobile The $25 Unlimited plan includes 15GB of high-speed data (up from 3GB) and unlimited calling

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The End of Handwriting

news.ycombinator.com Angela Watercutter 2025-11-16 06:37:25

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on a drawing board. As a kid, I worked to mimic her print as well as her incredibly ornate cursive. I don’t practice those skills nearly enough as an adult, though: As a reporter, speed trum

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Signs Your Gut Is Struggling and Needs Help, According to a Microbiome Expert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 15:10:02

Imagine "little pets living inside your intestinal tract." That's how Cleveland Clinic microbiome expert Gail Cresci describes the trillions of microbes in your gut. Those microbes not only impact your gut health and break down food but also affect your overall well-being, as they support your immunity, regulate inflammation in the body, and even produce vital compounds like vitamins and hormones. Knowing how crucial your gut health is to your overall health, it's important to pay attention whe

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Verizon-powered prepaid brands just got a lot more travel-friendly

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 16:00:32

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Verizon-powered prepaid providers, Simple Mobile and Total Wireless, are introducing several travel-friendly perks across their plans. The updated plans offer new international calling, texting, and roaming benefits, and in some cases, bundled streaming services. Verizon will soon power new global connectivity options for prepaid customers of Simple Mobile and Total Wireless. Starting August 28, the two no-contract prepaid providers under Verizon’s Va

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Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 15:27:29

1. Introduction Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8) on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt all connections on TCP port 443. This incident caused massive disruption of the Internet connections between China and the rest of the world (source1 and source2). This report documents our measurements and analysis of this temporary, widespread blocking event. Our primar

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Type-machine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 15:59:27

Using Template Haskell to derive the structure of records and simulate structural subtyping Type-machine Code available on GitHub, package available on Hackage. Introduction In Haskell, we usually model data using algebraic data types, like this: 1 data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a Here we defined a Maybe type, which has two constructors, Nothing and Just . The Just constructor has one argument, while Nothing as none. It is common to consider these constructors’ arguments as fields, which c

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We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism

news.ycombinator.com Jack Meserve 2025-11-18 18:25:53

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters by Christine Webb • Avery • 2025 • 336 pages • $32 Suppose that you are walking at night, and you see someone on your side of the street coming toward you, about to pass you. Is his face angry, or is he just thinking seriously about something? Your answer to that question may well depend on the faces that you are used to seeing. If you tend to encounter a lot of very angry faces, your threshold for considering a face “angry”

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Deel scores a lawsuit win, but not against Rippling

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-18 20:47:51

A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed against embattled HR and payroll provider Deel. And while Deel described this as a “Rippling-aligned” and “Rippling-supported” lawsuit, this is not the infamous lawsuit filed by its rival earlier this year that involved an alleged corporate spy. Rippling CEO Parker Conrad even went so far as to say “This litigation has nothing to do with Rippling, we are not a party to it, did not fund it,” in a tweet. (Rippling representatives declined furth

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LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-19 02:12:37

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study from Arizona State University researchers suggests that the celebrated “Chain-of-Thought” (CoT) reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be more of a “brittle mirage” than genuine intelligence. The research builds on a growing body of work questioning the depth of LLM reasoning, but it takes a unique “data distribution” len

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Black Myth: Zhong Kui is the next title from Game Science Studio

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:15:37

Game Science Studio isn't resting on its laurels after the success of Black Myth: Wukong. The developer teased a follow-up project as the closer to Gamescom's Opening Night Live showcase with a brief but beautifully detailed glimpse at Black Myth: Zhong Kui. There's no date attached to the cinematic teaser, and that's because the game is still very much a work in progress. According to the FAQ entry about a possible release window, the team says "Well, to be honest—even Yocar himself has absolu

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The forgotten meaning of "jerk"

news.ycombinator.com David Marjanović 2025-11-19 02:11:29

by Ben Lindbergh at the Ringer asks “When did jerk stop meaning ‘stupid’?” He starts with the Steve Martin movie The Jerk, saying of its protagonist: Navin is oblivious, not obnoxious. He’s ignorant, not intolerant. He’s naive, not intentionally cruel. He’s a bumpkin, a rube, and a moron, maybe, but a jerk? For the most part, no, I wouldn’t say so. There he is, of course, using the current sense of jerk: “There’s definitely been a semantic shift in ‘jerk’ over the years,” says linguist, lexi

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Sling's New $20 'Select' Package Gives You 11 Channels

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 00:41:00

There's a new $20 skinny bundle on the scene, and you probably want to know what the low-priced live TV package gets you. Sling introduced a fresh package called Sling Select on Tuesday, joining its prior offerings of Sling Orange, Sling Blue and Sling Orange & Blue plans. Select's selection is a pared-down version of Blue (plus some outliers not found in Blue or Orange), and its price reflects that. Select includes Fox News, FS1, FX, National Geographic, NFL Network, Lifetime Movie Network, Ga

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Grammarly Pushes Beyond Proofreading With AI-Powered Writing Guidance

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 00:45:04

Grammarly is expanding beyond its grammar-checking roots. The company has announced the launch of several specialized AI "agents" and a new writing tool called Grammarly Docs, designed to help students and professionals with everything from drafting essays to polishing workplace emails. It's another example of generative AI expanding beyond general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini into more specialized domains. Other examples of gen AI in educational circles include Google's NotebookLM

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Qwen-Image Edit gives Photoshop a run for its money with AI-powered text-to-image edits that work in seconds

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-19 05:27:37

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Adobe Photoshop is among the most recognizable pieces of software ever created, used by more than 90% of the world’s creative professionals, according to Photutorial. So the fact that a new open source AI model — Qwen-Image Edit, released yesterday by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Qwen Team of AI researchers — is now able to accomplis

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Meta Rolls Out AI Translations for Facebook and Instagram User-Generated Content

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 05:35:00

Meta's AI team just rolled out new translation tools to Facebook and Instagram, allowing user-generated content to be converted into other languages on the fly. These new tools, which were announced at Meta Connect in 2024, are intended to help bridge the gap between people who speak different languages so that videos and reels can be understood by more audiences internationally. Currently, the one-click translations effectively translate English reels into Spanish (or vice versa). Though othe

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Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live: Black Myth Wukong Sequel, Resident Evil 9 and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 05:38:00

Europe's major gaming event of the year, Gamescom 2025, has kicked off in Cologne, Germany, with Opening Night Live, an extensive trailer showcase giving early looks at the biggest games coming later this year and into 2026. Last year's Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live had a ton of reveals, including Mafia: The Old Country and trailers for then-upcoming games like Marvel Rivals, Dune Awakening and more. This year's showcase had some big reveals and some tantalizingly short teases -- like around

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5 reasons why GPT-5 is actually better than some of the older GPT models

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-17 18:00:08

Joe Maring / Android Authority Recently, OpenAI has come under fire for GPT-5’s rocky launch. Many users have called it a step backward, citing a lack of personality and other tweaks that turned people off — sentiments echoed in our own GPT-5 review. Still, GPT-5 does improve on at least some of the previous legacy models. Before we dive in, it’s important to note that GPT-5 really does have less personality. It’s curt and to the point in nearly every interaction. This makes it much less usefu

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Researchers Solve 35-Year-Old Fusion Mystery With Bench-Top Reactor

Nvidia, Bill Gates-backed robotics startup Field AI hits $2 billion valuation after recent raise

Apple TV+ reveals darker, cutthroat return of The Morning Show in new trailer

8BitDo's charging dock for Xbox controllers costs just $20 right now

Graphene capacitors achieve rapid, high-depth modulation of terahertz waves

'Peacemaker' Season 2: When to Watch the Return of James Gunn's DCU Series

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This Anker 3-in-1 wireless charging station is down to a record-low price

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11 Years Later, Elon Musk Is Floating the Flying Car Scam Again

Samsung reveals top apps downloaded by US Galaxy users this summer

YouTube Music could soon let you comment on playlists, here’s what we know (APK teardown)

Two Verizon plans are getting some upgrades at no extra cost

The End of Handwriting

Signs Your Gut Is Struggling and Needs Help, According to a Microbiome Expert

Verizon-powered prepaid brands just got a lot more travel-friendly

Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

Type-machine

We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism

Deel scores a lawsuit win, but not against Rippling

LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

Black Myth: Zhong Kui is the next title from Game Science Studio

The forgotten meaning of "jerk"

Sling's New $20 'Select' Package Gives You 11 Channels

Grammarly Pushes Beyond Proofreading With AI-Powered Writing Guidance

Qwen-Image Edit gives Photoshop a run for its money with AI-powered text-to-image edits that work in seconds

Meta Rolls Out AI Translations for Facebook and Instagram User-Generated Content

Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live: Black Myth Wukong Sequel, Resident Evil 9 and More

5 reasons why GPT-5 is actually better than some of the older GPT models

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