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Waymo gets green light for airport service in San Francisco

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-28 15:18:14

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Waymo is now permitted to test its robotaxi service at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), a big win for the company as it seeks to expand its service area and tackle more popular, revenue-generating destinations. After years of

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Cybersecurity provider Netskope boosts IPO range as it tests tech hotstreak

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-28 19:32:58

Sanjay Beri, chief executive officer and founder of Netskope Inc., listens during a Bloomberg West television interview in San Francisco, California. Netskope is targeting a $7.3 billion valuation in its upcoming initial public offering, after lifting its planned price range. The cybersecurity company said it plans to sell 47.8 million shares at between $17 and $19 apiece. The deal would raise as much as $908 million at the top end. That's up from a previous range of $15 to $17 a share the co

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Mophie debuts Qi2 Powerstation lineup with slim and stand options for iPhone

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-09-28 19:46:49

iPhone 17 is officially here, and Mophie is launching four new MagSafe batteries to give you more power. The lineup includes both slim and high-capacity options with and without kickstands. Not upgrading to iPhone 17? Mophie’s Qi2 Powerstation Wireless Batteries can upgrade your existing iPhone experience too. Mophie’s new lineup includes four options: Each model is Qi2-certified for 15W wireless charging that’s compatible with MagSafe. The two “Slim” models carry a 5,000mAh battery for up to

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Word numbers: Billion approaches (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 19:16:03

Word numbers, Part 1: Billion approaches ITA Software recruits computer scientists using puzzles such as the following. If the integers from 1 to 999,999,999 are written as words, sorted alphabetically, and concatenated, what is the 51 billionth letter? In a series of posts, Dylan Thurston and I will solve this problem step by step, introducing concepts such as monoids and differentiation along the way. We will use the programming language Haskell: every post will be a literate program that y

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Google is finally changing its tune about call recording on Pixel phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-28 23:43:58

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google appears to be backing down from its long-standing position against letting Pixel phones record voice calls. The company has already updated support pages, indicating that the option may exist for Pixel 6 and later models. So far we’ve only seen confirmation out of India, and it’s unclear which markets will ultimately get access. Smartphones may do a million and one different things, but at their very core, these devices are still phones. You ma

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Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 21:35:19

Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio 📻 Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum! It’s like an invisible world that always surrounds us, and allows us to do many amazing things: It’s how radio and TV are transmitted, it’s how we communicate using Wi-Fi or our phones. And there are many more things to discover there, from all over the world. In this post, I’ll show you fifty things you can find there – all you need is this simple USB dongle and an

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Culinary Pros Name the 4 Most Common Cooking Mistakes That New Chefs Make

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 23:17:00

Starting any cooking project can feel overwhelming with so many moving parts -- choosing the right ingredients, mastering prep techniques, and executing. Even experienced chefs face their share of kitchen mishaps, but that's precisely what makes cooking so rewarding. The kitchen becomes your personal testing ground where every mistake teaches something new, gradually building your confidence and expanding your culinary skills. Knowing what to watch out for from the start can dramatically impro

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Figure reaches $39B valuation in latest funding round

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-28 23:49:44

In Brief Humanoid robotics company Figure raised its largest round of funding yet, a sign of growing investor interest in robots designed to work alongside humans in warehouses, factories, and other settings. San Jose, California-based Figure announced on Tuesday that it raised a Series C funding round that values the company at $39 billion. The round, which “exceeded $1 billion,” said Figure, was led by Parkway Venture Capital with participation from Brookfield Asset Management, Nvidia, and I

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IEEE 2881: Learning Metadata Terms (LMT) Empowers Learning in the AI Age

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-29 01:00:29

Introduction Learning Metadata Terms (LMT) is a standard that connects metadata terms in practice with the purpose of solving many use cases common to e-learning. While there are other metadata standards, they have been inadequate for keeping up with machine-readable data requirements, which modern AI needs to achieve significance. While data models attempt to be free of technical bindings, there are fundamental design decisions that relate to whether data is intended to be stored in a graph da

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Welcome to the Age of Ultra-Cheap, Ad-Filled Projectors

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-29 03:15:03

With all the Roku-native TVs crowding the market, the company behind today’s popular streaming platform wants to project a new kind of cheap option for streaming. Roku partnered up with Aurzen, the makers of the $300 Z-shaped Aurzen Zip mini projector, and now they have a full $250 cinema you can set up for quick and dirty Netflix or Howdy (Roku’s $3/month ad-free streaming service) and chill sessions on your bedroom wall—as long as you’re not expecting the brightest display. Take a breath and

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How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-29 03:44:27

Authorities around the world can use your cell phone to track your location and potentially access other sensitive private information about you. One possible protection from this data collection is a burner phone. As invasive state surveillance ramps up globally—including new initiatives in the United States to monitor travelers, protesters, and vulnerable populations—privacy tools that were formerly the domain of digital hermits and people involved in organized crime are now more and more appe

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WordNumbers: Counting letters of number names, alphabetized and concatenated

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 10:16:03

Word numbers, Part 1: Billion approaches ITA Software recruits computer scientists using puzzles such as the following. If the integers from 1 to 999,999,999 are written as words, sorted alphabetically, and concatenated, what is the 51 billionth letter? In a series of posts, Dylan Thurston and I will solve this problem step by step, introducing concepts such as monoids and differentiation along the way. We will use the programming language Haskell: every post will be a literate program that y

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Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 07:35:19

Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio 📻 Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum! It’s like an invisible world that always surrounds us, and allows us to do many amazing things: It’s how radio and TV are transmitted, it’s how we communicate using Wi-Fi or our phones. And there are many more things to discover there, from all over the world. In this post, I’ll show you fifty things you can find there – all you need is this simple USB dongle and an

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Champions League Soccer: Livestream Athletic Club vs. Arsenal Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 06:45:04

San Mames Stadium plays host to an intriguing Champions League early kickoff clash between Athletic Club and Arsenal on Tuesday. It's a match that marks the first competitive meeting between these two teams. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Champions League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. The Gunners reached the semifinal stage of last year's tournament, claiming a memorable vict

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How Nissan leveraged its driver assist to cut traffic jams

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 07:17:12

Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Instead, CCM works by having a lead car, or "probe," send information to following CCM-equipped cars, which are separated by non-CCM cars between them. The information from the probe car lets the following cars keep an appropriate distance from each other—between 30 and 60 seconds—and if there's a slow down ahead, the following cars will decelerate more gently over time, preventing the kind of concertina action that triggers traffic jams when human driv

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YouTube is inching closer to becoming a shopping channel

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-29 07:30:00

YouTube announced a batch of upcoming features during its “Made on” event today, some of which are focused on giving creators new ways to make money on the platform. You can check out more information about upcoming updates for livestreaming and AI features in our other posts, but there are a few other monetization changes coming in the future that could give viewers new ways to find products online and switch up the ads you see linked out by creators.

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Tesla probed for potentially faulty door handles

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-29 07:48:43

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into claims that Tesla’s door handles become inoperable in certain situations on Model Y SUVs. The safety agency’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) revealed the probe on Tuesday, after having received nine reports from owners who were unable to get into their cars. ODI writes that the most common scenario involves parents who exit their car and cannot open the rear doors to remove their children. In four of tho

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FBI Carelessly Incinerates Large Amount of Meth, Sending Workers to Hospital

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-28 17:17:42

You work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and you're sitting on two pounds of seized methamphetamines that you need to get rid of. So what do you do? Burn it all in a pet shelter smack-dab in the middle of town, of course. It sounds beyond parody, but these are the events that played out in Billings, Montana, last Wednesday. And it did not go according to plan. As the Associated Press reports, the toxic smoke cloud from the incinerated meth — a dangerous and addictive stimulant — didn'

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DuckDB 1.4.0 LTS

news.ycombinator.com The Duckdb Team 2025-09-29 09:01:06

Announcing DuckDB 1.4.0 The DuckDB team · 7 min TL;DR: We're releasing DuckDB version 1.4.0, codenamed “Andium”. This is an LTS release with one year of community support, and it packs several new features including database encryption, the MERGE statement and Iceberg writes. We are proud to release DuckDB v1.4.0, named “Andium” after the Andean teal (Anas andium), which lives in the Andean highlands of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. In this blog post, we cover the most important updates f

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Trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-09-29 11:20:11

Reno may be “the biggest little city in the world,” but it's got some serious competition from the miniature New York City that hobbyist Joseph Macken built in his upstate New York basement over two decades. “I sat down in my basement, turned the camera on on my phone and just started talking about my first section, which was Downtown Manhattan,” the Clifton Park resident said on a recent Thursday about his viral TikToks on his roughly 50-by-30-foot scale model of the city. “It just took off.” T

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Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 11:00:05

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The company also said that it will be bringing a player-versus-player mode to iOS in the coming weeks. Duolingo announced the news Tuesday at its flagship conference Duocon, which is being held virtually on the Duolingo website. The company said a "very small percentage" of Duolingo customers had early ac

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This $30M startup built a dog crate-sized robot factory that learns by watching humans

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-29 11:00:00

While many robotics companies are building human-sized robots, or working to automate entire factories, MicroFactory is instead trying to think big by building small. San Francisco-based MicroFactory built a general-purpose, tabletop manufacturing kit that’s about the size of my Siberian Husky’s dog crate. This compact factory includes two robotic arms and can be trained by human demonstration, as well as through AI. “General purpose robots are good, but it’s not necessary [to] be humanoid,” s

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Ask HN: Generalists, when do you say "I know enough" about any particular topic?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 14:51:18

The idea is generalists know a lot about everything and when to pass it off to a subject matter expert. In 2025, with everything in tech changing by the minute, I’m realizing I need to set boundaries about how deep I go on any particular topic. But I’m unsure how. Particularly if I don’t want to get left behind as things continue to evolve. Curious how other folks approach this?

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Kayak co-founder takes on Calendly with new Supercal scheduling platform

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-29 15:00:00

Kayak co-founder Paul English is back with a new venture—this time, he’s taking on Calendly. The entrepreneur has launched Supercal, a free scheduling platform that’s designed to make booking meetings more efficient and simple. Supercal was born out of English’s personal experience with the challenges of booking meetings. As a member of eight boards of directors, English says he and others often struggled to coordinate schedules. He then set out to create an email system for booking group meeti

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This new AI voice trainer can help you learn a new language

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-29 22:00:25

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Babbel Speaks walks new speakers through language tests. The AI-powered voice trainer targets beginners. Babbel aims to go beyond language knowledge to in-practice use. While learning any aspect of a new language is hard, actually speaking it is often the most intimidating and challenging. Babbel Speak, a new AI-powered feature from language learning platform Babbel, aims to help, ta

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Why I recommend this Windows laptop to power users and professionals alike - even though it's for gamers

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-29 23:38:00

15-inch laptops occupy an interesting spot in the world of PCs: they're not as compact as 14-inch laptops, but they're not as bulky as 16-inch machines, either. Still, consumers seem to prefer the other two sizes, which is a shame because computers of this size deliver a balanced experience: a good amount of immersion without being too cumbersome. Also: Why I'm still taking this 2024 Dell laptop to the office - even though it's for gamers This is where the MSI Katana 15 HX B14W comes in. At a

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Gboard’s advanced proofreading tool sneaks onto one more Pixel phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-30 01:01:14

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard’s Writing Tools, an on-device AI feature, is reportedly being rolled out to the Pixel 8 series. A user with a Pixel 8 Pro running the latest Gboard beta release has received the feature. The feature’s expansion suggests that Google may gradually add more older devices to the list of supported phones. AI features formed some of the Pixel 10 series‘ core new highlights, one of which was Writing Tools in Gboard. Thanks to its integration into the

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IBM Technology Atlas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 01:28:42

IBM Technology Atlas We are writing the next chapter in Computing with six technology roadmaps that will bring a new era of performance and efficiency to information technology and business.

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9to5Mac Daily: September 15, 2025 – iPhone 17 demand, Siri leadership changes

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-09-29 22:40:57

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by iMazing: iMazing lets you back up, transfer, and manage your iPhone and iPad data like never before — including messages, photos, music, WhatsApp, voicemails, battery health, and more. No cloud required. Use code 9to5mac-20off to get 20% off, exclusively f

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I took a Coros smartwatch on a fly-fishing trip - and it made my Apple and Garmin look bad

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-09-29 23:23:00

Coros Nomad smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways The Coros Nomad is available now in Green, Brown, and Dark Grey for $349. It's built to withstand the elements with detailed metrics and focused journal utilities for fishing. There is no speaker to playback voice notes, no solar charging, and no LED flashlight to see in the dark. View now at Coros Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've had the opportunity to test a lot of smartwatches, but it's still tough to find one watch th

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