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Amazon to invest £40 billion in the UK over next three years

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-08 20:19:10

LONDON — Amazon will invest £40 billion ($54 billion) in the U.K. over the next three years, the e-commerce titan announced Tuesday. The company said it plans to spend the money on building four new fulfillment centers — large warehouses where it prepares orders for delivery — as well as upgrades and expansions to its existing operations buildings across the country. The announcement was cheered by the British government, which has been courting investments from major tech players of late as i

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Google could face changes to search in the UK as regulators crack down

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-08 21:35:00

Google could face changes to its online search services in the U.K. after regulators raised concerns over the tech giant's dominance. The Competition and Markets Authority on Tuesday said it is consulting on a proposal to give Google "strategic market status," a designation under new competition rules for tech firms that hold entrenched power in a certain market. The watchdog was granted expanded competition and merger control powers this year as the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers

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Uber, Waymo robotaxi service opens to passengers in Atlanta

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-09-08 22:00:01

Uber and Alphabet's Waymo are now offering robotaxi rides to the public in Atlanta, as the companies continue expansion of their partnership. The Waymo robotaxis available through the Uber app will cover approximately 65 square miles around Atlanta, but will not yet travel on highways or to the airport. The vehicles feature Waymo's driverless technology, known as the Waymo Driver, integrated into battery electric Jaguar I-PACE SUVs. The companies said in September that they would be jointly br

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Did you know your Samsung phone has a secret Wi-Fi menu? Here’s how to enable it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-08 21:00:14

Joe Maring / Android Authority If you have a Samsung phone, there’s a good chance you chose it over competing Android handsets because of the sheer number of settings Samsung lets you play with. Whether it’s having a half-dozen ways to take a screenshot or creating a powerful automation system with Samsung Routines, there’s no shortage of ways to get the most out of a Samsung Galaxy phone. While Samsung makes some of these things readily available and easy to find, other software features are

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Waymo and Uber launch robotaxi service in Atlanta

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-08 22:00:56

Uber and Waymo's robotaxi services are officially available in Atlanta. Now, Uber users who request an UberX, Comfort or Comfort Electric could have Waymo's all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicle pull up for the same cost. Notably, customers will receive a notification ahead of time and can opt-out of having a self-driving vehicle. At the same time, anyone who wants the experience can increase their chances by updating their ride preferences. "Atlantans are now able to experience the same safety, c

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Why you should always put your phone face down on a table (hint: it's not just about being polite)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-08 19:30:13

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET A friend of mine recently told me, "I always keep my phone on silent mode… which doesn't matter because I compulsively look at it every three minutes anyway." He's not the only one. From becoming a text addict to having full-blown smartphone dependency, the urge to look at and interact with our "flat things" has been deeply ingrained into our collective behavior for some time now. Also: Best early Prime Day deals 2025: 30+ sales on tech products live now Monitoring your p

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Show HN: Weather Watching

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 03:25:48

Where is the camera? I won't tell you. But it's somewhere in Manhattan, below 14th Street. Thanks to Brian for technical pointers, and James for the idea to do clothes in addition to umbrellas!

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Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds

news.ycombinator.com Sandee Lamotte 2025-09-08 21:08:11

Food & health Corporate news Pollution See all topics Follow Ripping the plastic wrap from the meat or prepackaged fruit and veggies you purchased at the grocery store may contaminate your food with micro- and nanoplastics, according to new research. Plastic contamination may also occur when you’re unwrapping deli meat and cheese, steeping a tea bag in hot water, or opening cartons of milk or orange juice. Glass bottles and jars with a plastic-coated metal closure may also shed microscopic bit

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Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-08 22:00:47

Last week, I attended a film festival dedicated to shorts made using generative AI. Dubbed AIFF 2025, it was an event precariously balancing between two different worlds. The festival was hosted by Runway, a company that produces models and tools for generating images and videos. In panels and press briefings, a curated list of industry professionals made the case for Hollywood to embrace AI tools. In private meetings with industry professionals, I gained a strong sense that there is already a

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Uber and Waymo’s commercial robotaxi service is open for business in Atlanta

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-09-08 22:00:00

Waymo robotaxis can now be hailed in Atlanta via Uber. The two companies, which already offer the “Waymo on Uber” service in Austin, said on Tuesday the commercial service will initially cover about 65 square miles in Atlanta. The launch, if successful, is poised to propel the businesses of both companies. Uber, which has locked in partnerships with 18 autonomous vehicles companies, said it has an annual run-rate of 1.5 million mobility and delivery AV trips on its network. Meanwhile, Waymo sai

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Trump's Attack May Instead Spur Iran to Speedrun a Nuclear Weapon It Wasn't Building Previously

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-08 12:26:50

Trump's Attack May Instead Spur Iran to Speedrun a Nuclear Weapon It Wasn't Building Previously An extremely ironic outcome. Bomb Squad President Donald Trump is trying to derail Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions by bombing its known nuclear research facilities — but it turns out that's easier said than done. US officials have trumpeted that the recent strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment sites, but satellite images have cast doubt on that claim. And in any case, Trump's bombing camp

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I changed 7 Samsung phone settings to instantly improve the battery life

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-09-08 23:45:10

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Samsung's Galaxy smartphones are some of the best Android phones available today, thanks to their responsive and feature-rich software. But most Samsung phones -- especially the flagships like the Galaxy S25 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Z Flip 6 -- come with over-the-top features that you might not use daily. If your new Galaxy phone isn't lasting an entire day on a single charge, there are ways to make the most of what you have without hindering the user experience. Also: The

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Is this Nvidia GPU-powered robot vacuum legit? Here are the results after a week of cleaning

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-08 23:55:12

ZDNET's key takeaways The Matic is available for purchase at $1,095. This robot vacuum has a unique form factor and roller brush, and a debris bag that eliminates the need for a huge dock. The Matic has its drawbacks, mainly that it's too tall to clean under furniture and that it's currently only available for iOS, with an Android beta app planned for July. View now at Maticrobots Pioneer devices have the unique challenge of reinventing the wheel. They reimagine something that has become prev

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Minimal Boolean Formulas (2011)

news.ycombinator.com Russ Cox 2025-09-05 05:53:25

Minimal Boolean Formulas Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. 28. That's the minimum number of AND or OR operators you need in order to write any Boolean function of five variables. Alex Healy and I computed that in April 2010. Until then, I believe no one had ever known that little fact. This post describes how we computed it and how we almost got scooped by Knuth's Volume 4A which considers the problem for AND, OR, and XOR. A Naive Brute Force Approach Any Boolean function of two variables ca

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Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell

news.ycombinator.com Agnishom Chattopadhyay 2025-09-08 23:29:08

June 24, 2025 · Agnishom Chattopadhyay [Thanks to James Haydon for his suggestions on improving the post and the code quality] On LinkedIn, you can play a variant of the N-Queens problem. A community version of the game (rather, puzzle) can be found here. Recently, we saw it solved using SAT solvers, using SMT Solvers, using APL and MiniZinc. Today, I will try solving it using Haskell, a slightly more conventional language. The Puzzle You are given a N-colored square-shaped board of size N.

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How Prehistoric Mammoth Tusks Could Help Bust Modern-Day Ivory Smugglers

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-08 20:00:57

Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not. Because the two are hard to tell apart, illegal traders are slipping under the radar by mixing elephant ivory with legally traded mammoth ivory. A new forensic tool, however, might soon put an end to this nefarious trick. Wildlife forensic scientists in China suggest that authorities can differen

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Should You Buy an Induction or Electric Stove? Here’s How to Make the Right Choice

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 22:10:00

Even if you enjoy cooking, waiting for a pot of water to boil is probably one of the things you'd rather not have to deal with. And yes, the more you watch it, the slower it boils -- that's just science. But did you know that some ways of heating a pot are quicker than others? They can be better for other reasons, too. Using an electric stove can take longer than you'd like, making a gas range the preferred choice -- not to mention they usually heat your pots and pans more evenly, too. And with

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Tesla robotaxi incidents caught on camera in Austin draw regulators' attention

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-09-09 01:40:53

A Tesla robotaxi drives on the street along South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, on June 22, 2025 Tesla was contacted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday after videos posted on social media showed the company's robotaxis driving in a chaotic manner on public roads in Austin, Texas. Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker debuted autonomous trips in Austin on Sunday, opening the service to a limited number of riders by invitation only. In the videos shared widely onli

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Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

news.ycombinator.com Nicola Davis 2025-09-09 01:34:04

Bacteria can be used to turn plastic waste into painkillers, researchers have found, opening up the possibility of a more sustainable process for producing the drugs. Chemists have discovered E coli can be used to create paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, from a material produced in the laboratory from plastic bottles. “People don’t realise that paracetamol comes from oil currently,” said Prof Stephen Wallace, the lead author of the research from the University of Edinburgh. “What this

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Samsung confirms Unpacked for early July

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-09-09 01:00:00

is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Samsung’s summer Unpacked is officially on, starting at 10AM ET on Wednesday, July 9th. The invitation features a jazzy little bop and the words “Ultra Unfolds,” so I think it’s safe to assume we’re getting that foldable Ultra phone the company previously hinted at. The event is set to take place in Brooklyn, but you can watch

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Introducing our esteemed 2024 TCMC Impact Award Recipient

computer.org Ilse Paredes 2025-09-09 04:20:37

The IEEE Technical Community on Multimedia Computing (TCMC) is dedicated to advancing research and practice in systems that synchronize and process diverse media types—including audio, video, text, and animation—for the effective communication of information. TCMC serves as a key platform for the multimedia computing community, promoting innovation, offering technical guidance on emerging challenges, and supporting professionals through mentorship, recognition, and community engagement. TCMC of

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Show HN: Pickaxe – A TypeScript library for building AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 23:07:51

Pickaxe: A Typescript library for building AI agents that scale Pickaxe is a simple Typescript library for building AI agents that are fault-tolerant and scalable. It handles the complexities of durable execution, queueing and scheduling, allowing you to focus on writing core business logic. It is not a framework. Everything in Pickaxe is just a function that you have written, which makes it easy to integrate with your existing codebase and business logic. You can build agents that call tools,

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We’re Entering a Golden Age of Marvel Fighting Game Figures

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-09 05:20:13

A few weeks ago, Hasbro revealed it was cooking up a massive tribute to the legacy of Capcom’s Marvel fighting games, from Children of the Atom all the way through to the legendary Marvel vs. Capcom franchise, with a series of Marvel Legends figures replicating aesthetics and matchups from across some of the most iconic fighting games ever made. But would it be a fighting game without a shock new challenger entering the ring? Last night Bandai confirmed that it would be kicking off its own “Gam

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Still upset about last summer’s Spotify price bump? These lawmakers are on the case

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-09 09:27:56

Tech Team / Android Authority TL;DR Last year Spotify introduced audiobook access and raised pricing for Premium plans. While there was still a music-only Basic option, these senators don’t think consumers were made adequately aware. They also accuse Spotify of orchestrating the whole change to lower its payouts to musicians. Streaming services raising their prices is just as inevitable as death and taxes, and year after year, we slowly end up paying more and more for that access. While we m

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Apple looked at Mira Murati’s AI startup after OpenAI exit, and it won’t stop there

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-09 09:52:26

Following a report last week about Apple holding internal talks over a potential Perplexity acquisition, Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter revealed that Apple also explored a possible deal with another notable name in the AI space: Mira Murati. Here’s what went down. Murati, best known as OpenAI’s former Chief Technology Officer, left the company last year following the boardroom chaos that briefly saw CEO Sam Altman ousted. In fact, as detailed in the book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, Op

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I ported pigz from Unix to Windows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 00:47:53

I just finished porting pigz from Unix to Windows (you can download pre-compiled binaries ). This article describes how I did it. Pigz was clearly written with Unix in mind, with no thought given to cross-platform portability. Thankfully, it’s a relatively simple, command-line program that sticks to using standard C library. Porting pthreads Pigz uses pthreads for threading. Porting pthreads code to Windows would be a nightmare. Lucky me: someone already did all the hard work and implemented

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Goldman Sachs Makes a Huge AI Bet

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-09 09:45:56

Goldman Sachs has just launched its generative AI assistant across the entire firm, making it available to all employees in what the bank calls a major milestone in its technology strategy. The move follows more than a year of internal development and testing that involved over 10,000 employees piloting the tool. The GS AI Assistant is a conversational AI interface that allows employees to safely interact with large language models like GPT and Gemini, firewalled within Goldman’s own secure com

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Trump’s FTC will approve an ad merger — with a gift to Elon Musk’s X

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-09-09 08:48:09

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The all-Republican Federal Trade Commission agreed to approve a $13.5 billion ad merger if it includes a ban on steering ad dollars away from platforms or publishers based on “political or ideological viewpoints.” The order, which was reported by The New York Times earlier this mon

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Tesla stock pops 8% as Musk touts 'successful' robotaxi Austin launch

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-09 13:00:47

A Tesla Inc. robotaxi on Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, on June 22, 2025. Tesla 's Model Y robotaxi finally hit the road this weekend, sending shares of the electric vehicle maker up 8% on Monday. The EV giant debuted autonomous rides in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, opening the service to a limited number of riders by invitation only. Those invited included longtime Tesla fans, promoters and shareholders, many of whom generate income from posting Tesla- and Musk-related social media content on

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Fire TV Stick HD Is Out of Stock, but 4K Model Has Hit a New All-Time Low Price

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-09 13:55:39

Amazon Fire TV Sticks are phenomenally popular for a very good reason: they can revolutionize any TV into a smart TV on the spot. With three main models—the Fire TV Stick HD, Fire TV Stick 4K, and Fire TV Stick 4K Max—there is something to suit all. Currently, the HD and 4K Max models are sold out but the top-selling Fire TV Stick 4K is available at its all-time lowest price: It is currently priced at only $24, a reduction from a list price of $50, which is a 50% discount. That’s the lowest pri

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Amazon to invest £40 billion in the UK over next three years

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