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Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-11 17:20:08

Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library for the modern space industry Note: Lox is under active development and does not yet have a stable release. The API of all crates is subject to significant change. Features Lox exposes a comprehensive astrodynamics API at varying levels of granularity. The high-level interface offered by lox-space is designed specifically for mission planning and analysis, while crates like lox-time , lox-earth and lox-orbits provide tools

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The Price of the Brand-New 2025 Lenovo IdeaPad 1 Laptop Just Fell Off a Cliff at Amazon, Over 50% Off

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-06-11 17:35:36

Just when we thought Amazon saved its massive laptop sales on older models, this limited-time deal just dropped in from out of nowhere. The 2025 model Lenovo IdeaPad 1 Student Laptop has been available on Amazon for just over 5 weeks, yet right now it’s 53% off. This is the maxed-out model, with 32GB of DDR4 RAM and a full terabyte of storage, which normally sells for $799. This stunner of a deal brings that price down to just $379. See at Amazon The Lenovo IdeaPad 1 is, as the name suggests,

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The Odds of a City-Killing Asteroid Hitting Earth Keep Rising

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-06-11 17:00:00

An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking planet Earth less than eight years from now continue to increase. Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies estimated a 1.9 percent chance of an impact with Earth in 2032. NASA’s most recent estimate has the likelihood of a strike increasing to 3.2 percent. Now that’s not particularly high, but it’s also not zero. Ars

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Jeep’s parent company announces ‘hands free, eyes off’ driving feature

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-06-11 17:43:29

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, announced its first “hands free, eyes off” partial autonomous driving feature. The company is pitching this new feature, which is called STLA AutoDrive, as for drivers who want to reclaim “valuable time” while stuck in stop-and-go traffic. But that said, Stellantis is

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UK healthcare giant HCRG confirms hack after ransomware gang claims theft of sensitive data

techcrunch.com Carly Page 2025-06-11 17:02:57

U.K. healthcare giant HCRG Care Group has confirmed it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident after a ransomware gang claimed to have breached the company’s systems to steal troves of sensitive data. HCRG Care Group is one of the largest independent providers of community health and care services in the United Kingdom. The organization, previously known as Virgin Care and now owned by Twenty20 Capita, partners with National Health Service trusts and local authorities around the U.K. to delive

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Twitch caps streamers’ storage at 100 hours of highlights and uploads

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-06-11 17:08:58

Twitch on Wednesday announced it will begin limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads, and will delete content if a channel exceeds the limit. The company said it’s introducing the change because highlights haven’t been effective in driving discovery or engagement, and because storage is costly. The storage cap goes into effect on April 19. The change applies to highlights, which are snippets edited from a channel’s past broadcasts, as well as other uploaded content. Clips and

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Apple resists UK regulator demands to open up iOS browsers, citing security risks

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-06-11 21:08:00

Recap: After Apple began allowing alternate iOS browser engines in compliance with new European regulations, the United Kingdom began arranging the framework for similar action, much to the Cupertino giant's chagrin. A proposed stipulation regarding updates to Apple's WebKit engine is particularly noteworthy. Apple continues to fight the UK Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) efforts to regulate the iOS web browser market. The iPhone maker responded to the agency's proposed remedies with

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Microsoft Majorana 1 chip promises real quantum computing within years, not decades

techspot.com Zo Ahmed 2025-06-11 21:41:00

Forward-looking: Microsoft has unveiled a new quantum chip called "Majorana 1" that claims will make scaled, real-world quantum computing a reality in just years rather than decades. It's palm-sized and has a delightfully retro look yet Microsoft claims it will eventually pack more theoretical computing power than all the world's current classical computers combined. The Majorana 1 comes after nearly two decades of research. The big claims come thanks to Microsoft's unique approach to the quant

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Europe risks becoming a 'museum' if it doesn't innovate in AI and deregulate, Swedish PM warns

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-06-11 17:55:26

STOCKHOLM — Europe is at risk of becoming a "museum" if it doesn't soften strict curbs on artificial intelligence technologies and deregulate, Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Thursday. "I think we really need to step up in Europe ... the American economy, Chinese economy have been growing far faster compared to the European economies over the last 20 years," the premier told attendees of the Techarena event in Stockholm. "If we don't change that, Europe will actually become some k

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A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-11 21:13:53

Introduction This python script implements the xkcd password spec. Install This package requires the pip Python package manager for installation. pip installation instructions. Then: pip install xkpa Usage % xkpa -h usage: xkpa.py [-h] [-n] [-d DICT_PATH] [-x] [-i] [-s SEPARATOR] [-l LENGTH] [-c COUNT] [-v] [w] Generate an xkcd style password. positional arguments: w The number of words in the password. Defaults to 4. optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -n Disab

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Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-11 12:11:25

User : Please provide a detailed description of the video, focusing on the main subject and the actions taking place as well as predict what is going to happen next. Magma : The video takes place in a convenience store, focusing on the checkout counter. It begins with a view of the counter displaying a sign that reads 'PICK 5 FOR $8.00' along with images of various snacks. The counter is filled with various items, including snacks and a payment terminal. An employee, wearing a black shirt with

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It’s Raining SpaceX Debris in Poland

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-06-11 21:40:40

If you happened to be awake and looking at the sky at around 3:30 am in Northern Europe on Wednesday, you got quite the show. It was around that time that a Space X Falcon 9 rocket was making an uncontrolled reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, with the fiery debris spotted in the sky by residents in Denmark, Sweden, and England, per the BBC. But it was Poland that got to see the aftermath up close and personal, as what is believed to be parts of the rocket crash-landed across the country. Jasn

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Play Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader Now and More Games Soon on Xbox Game Pass

cnet.com Zachary Mcauliffe 2025-06-11 19:00:03

Xbox Game Pass subscribers can now expand the Imperium of Mankind in the grimdark universe of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. And if you've got the need for speed, you can race to the checkered flag in the Formula One Championship in F1 24. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate -- a CNET Editors' Choice award pick -- offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Series S, Xbox One, PC and mobile device for $20 a month. A subscription provides access to a large library of games, with new titles

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Volvo’s ES90 sedan will be built with a Nvidia supercomputer

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-06-11 15:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Volvo’s next electric vehicle, the ES90 midsized luxury sedan, sounds like its got some serious computing chops. The new EV will come with a dual Nvidia Drive AGX Orin configuration, making it the “most powerful car Volvo ever created in terms of core computing capacity,” the company claims today. The new supercomputer is

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This smart thermostat compay is considering charging users for its app

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-06-11 21:56:01

In a first for a smart thermostat company, Tado is exploring charging its customers £1 / €1 a month just to control their devices from its app. Multiple users have reported that Tado, manufacturers of smart thermostats, radiator valves, and heat pump controllers for Europe and the UK, sent a message through their app alerting them to the impending charge. The Verge reached out to Tado to confirm this, but the company declined to comment. According to a post on the Tado community forum earlier t

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Tether backs stablecoin liquidity provider Mansa in $10M seed round

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-06-11 16:00:00

As payment companies increasingly explore stablecoins for cross-border payments and real-time settlement, some startups are tapping into the zeitgeist by providing liquidity via a revolving line of credit in stablecoins. One of them is Dubai-based Mansa, whose offering allows payments companies, mainly in Africa to date, to settle transactions and fund customer accounts instantly. The startup has raised $10 million in seed funding including both equity and debt. Stablecoin provider Tether led t

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Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-06-11 21:14:42

Amazon will discontinue its app store for Android on August 20 this year. The company sent a notice to developers indicating that they will no longer be able to submit new apps to the store. The company said on a support page that it will also discontinue its Coins digital currency, which could be used to purchase games and apps on the app store. “Starting August 20, 2025, you will no longer have access to the Amazon Appstore on your Android device. We will also be discontinuing the Amazon Co

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What’s your reaction to the iPhone 16e? [Poll]

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-06-11 11:09:29

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Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust

news.ycombinator.com Patra Et Al. 2025-06-11 14:53:28

Using scented products indoors changes the chemistry of the air, producing as much air pollution as car exhaust does outside, according to a new study. Researchers say that breathing in these nanosized particles could have serious health implications. When you hear or see the words ‘air pollution,’ you most likely think of things like factories and car exhaust. That’s pollution that is out there – outside your house. But have you thought about how you’re contributing to air pollution inside of

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AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-06-11 15:41:15

Codeium, an AI-powered coding startup, is raising a new round of funding at a $2.85 billion valuation, including fresh capital, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. The round is being led by returning investor Kleiner Perkins, the people said. The new round comes just six months after Silicon Valley-based Codeium announced that it had closed a $150 million Series C at a $1.25 billion post-money valuation led by General Catalyst with participation of Kleiner Perkins and Greenoak

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Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-06-11 19:01:00

Microsoft on Wednesday announced Majorana 1, its first quantum computing chip. The achievement comes after the company spent nearly two decades of research in the field, but Microsoft claims that building Majorana 1 required that it create an entirely new state of matter, which it is referring to as a topological state. Microsoft's quantum chip employs eight topological qubits using indium arsenide, which is a semiconductor, and aluminum, which is a superconductor. "The difficulty of developi

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Killer Asteroid Could Be Headed for Some of the World's Most Populous Cities

futurism.com Unknown 2025-06-11 17:25:49

According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 3.1 percent chance of colliding with our planet on December 22, 2032. That makes it the highest-threat asteroid ever detected, as Euronews reports. As of late January, the probability was sitting at just 1.3 percent, which then rose to 2.1 percent last week before rising yet again. Worse yet, the space agency suggests the asteroid could hit densely populated areas of our planet — if it were to make an impact just un

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The ThinkPad I recommend for hybrid workers in 2025 isn't the newest model - and it's 50% off

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-06-11 19:28:00

Cesar Cadenas/ZDNET What's the deal? Lenovo has slashed the price of its 12th-Gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon by nearly 50%. The model housing an Intel Core Ultra 5 135U processor is on sale at a discounted $1,377, while the Intel Core Ultra 7 165U configuration sits at almost $1,920. ZDNET's key takeaways After making calculated adjustments to last year's model, Lenovo's 12th-Gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon It sports an 8MP webcam that allows for 4K video, a stunning 2.8K display, and a slightly redesigned

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Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries

news.ycombinator.com Geoffrey Copin 2025-06-11 18:32:18

In the previous posts, we've explored the SQLite file format and built a simple SQL parser. It's time to put these pieces together and implement a query evaluator! In this post, we'll lay the groundwork for evaluating SQL queries and build a query evaluator that can handle basic SELECT statements. While our initial implementation won't support filtering, sorting, grouping, or joins yet, it will give us the foundation to add these features in future posts. As usual, the complete source code for

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Trump’s Pick for NASA Chief Hints at Expected Shift Toward Mars

gizmodo.com Adam Kovac 2025-06-11 18:25:06

If Jared Isaacman becomes NASA’s administrator, as he’s likely to do, the agency will prioritize Mars over the Moon under the Trump administration, judging by some of his first public comments on the matter. Jared Isaacman has been active on social media since Trump named him as his choice to become the U.S. space agency’s next administrator, which he did in early December. But the astronaut mostly stuck to posting about flying planes, his payments company Shift4, and retweeting images of space

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Asteroid's Chances of Smacking Earth Increase. Here's What to Know

cnet.com Amanda Kooser 2025-06-11 15:10:00

It's not great news, but don't panic: Astronomers spotted an asteroid that has a roughly 3.1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Space agencies are monitoring the newly discovered asteroid and still learning more about its size and path, so don't mark your calendar for doomsday just yet. Although the odds of the asteroid hitting Earth have increased recently, that number is not set in stone. There's still a lot to learn about the space rock. Designated 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first

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These Are 27 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Won't Disappoint

cnet.com Abrar Al-Heeti 2025-06-11 16:57:19

Netflix has become a reliable platform for dating shows with a twist, like Love Is Blind, the one where you have to get engaged immediately, or Too Hot To Handle, the one where everyone has to be celibate. On the Japanese series Is She The Wolf? the big twist is more along the lines of The Traitors or The Mole: Planted among all of the legitimate contestants searching for love is a decoy. In the very first episode, you learn that one woman brought on the show is not allowed to fall in love, and

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These Are the SpaceX Engineers Already Working Inside the FAA

wired.com Vittoria Elliott 2025-06-11 17:50:14

Engineers who work for Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been brought on as senior advisers to the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), sources tell WIRED. On Sunday, Sean Duffy, secretary of the Department of Transportation, which oversees the FAA, announced in a post on X that SpaceX engineers would be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia to take what he positioned as a tour. “The safety of air travel is a nonpartisan matter,” Musk replied. “S

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Here are the best iPad deals right now

theverge.com Quentyn Kennemer 2025-06-11 17:54:31

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are attainable outside those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s often something to be saved, particularly on the more affordable iPads. The most recent iPad Pro and iPad Air are also regularly discounted, and you can even save a bit on Apple’s new iPad Mini. It’s difficult to know where exactly you can find the most notable i

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After raising $1 billion, fintech Varo closes another $29 million, replaces founder CEO

techcrunch.com Mary Ann Azevedo 2025-06-11 18:59:53

Fintech Varo has been hoping to raise a $55 million Series G round but has, so far, closed on $29 million to date, according to a recent SEC filing. Varo declined to comment on this new round but the fintech has raised just over $1 billion in funding since its 2015 inception, according to PitchBook. It wouldn’t be the first time its fundraising didn’t go as hoped for. In 2023, Varo raised a $50 million equity round at a lower valuation ($1.85 billion post-money) than its massive and, it said,

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Latest Tech News

Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library

The Price of the Brand-New 2025 Lenovo IdeaPad 1 Laptop Just Fell Off a Cliff at Amazon, Over 50% Off

The Odds of a City-Killing Asteroid Hitting Earth Keep Rising

Jeep’s parent company announces ‘hands free, eyes off’ driving feature

UK healthcare giant HCRG confirms hack after ransomware gang claims theft of sensitive data

Twitch caps streamers’ storage at 100 hours of highlights and uploads

Apple resists UK regulator demands to open up iOS browsers, citing security risks

Microsoft Majorana 1 chip promises real quantum computing within years, not decades

Europe risks becoming a 'museum' if it doesn't innovate in AI and deregulate, Swedish PM warns

A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec

Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents

It’s Raining SpaceX Debris in Poland

Play Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader Now and More Games Soon on Xbox Game Pass

Volvo’s ES90 sedan will be built with a Nvidia supercomputer

This smart thermostat compay is considering charging users for its app

Tether backs stablecoin liquidity provider Mansa in $10M seed round

Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android

What’s your reaction to the iPhone 16e? [Poll]

Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust

AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say

Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip

Killer Asteroid Could Be Headed for Some of the World's Most Populous Cities

The ThinkPad I recommend for hybrid workers in 2025 isn't the newest model - and it's 50% off

Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries

Trump’s Pick for NASA Chief Hints at Expected Shift Toward Mars

Asteroid's Chances of Smacking Earth Increase. Here's What to Know

These Are 27 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Won't Disappoint

These Are the SpaceX Engineers Already Working Inside the FAA

Here are the best iPad deals right now

After raising $1 billion, fintech Varo closes another $29 million, replaces founder CEO

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