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Don’t look now, but Roku’s got its own streaming service

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-17 16:44:11

Adam Birney / Android Authority TL;DR Roku is launching Howdy, a $3/month streaming service. The ad-free offering debuts with content from Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, FilmRise, and Roku Originals. Viewers can stream through Roku hardware or with the company’s Android app. It’s painfully clear by now that streaming is not going to fix the ills of cable TV — and, if anything, it’s only managed to introduce new headaches. At least back in the day you could just subscribe to your local pr

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EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy

news.ycombinator.com Maxine Joselow 2025-12-17 16:29:28

The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter. The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting termination letters to the 60 nonprofit groups and state agencies that received the grants under the “Solar for All” program, with the goal of sending the letters by the end of this week, according to the two people, who spoke on the co

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‘Gags the Clown’ Leans Into an Urban Legend That Maybe Wasn’t a Legend

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-16 20:42:29

It’s been nearly a decade since an outbreak of clown sightings frightened people, first in the U.S. and then later across the globe. A clown in the right context isn’t necessarily scary, but a random clown just appearing with no obvious purpose is horror movie material. And, in fact, some of the creepy clown epidemic of 2016 can be traced back to Gags the Clown, a found-footage indie that turned some clever grassroots marketing into a stunt that went viral. Gags the Clown came out in 2018, whic

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Orcas Pretend to Drown Each Other in Rare Training Session Caught on Camera

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-17 16:10:22

Orcas are called “killer whales” (even though they’re technically dolphins) for good reason. They’re the ocean’s top predators, hunting down everything from great white sharks to blue whales—the largest animal in the world. But orcas aren’t born killers. It’s a skill they learn from their elders and, as new evidence suggests, practice on each other. Parenthood, a new five-part BBC wildlife series narrated by David Attenborough, includes the first known footage of orcas learning how to drown the

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Roku Just Launched Howdy, a $3 Ad-Free Streaming Platform

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 15:11:00

Roku introduced a new streaming service on Tuesday, priced at $3 per month, and it's completely ad-free. It's called Howdy and the platform will offer thousands of movie and TV titles from familiar entertainment brands such as Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, FilmRise, along with Roku Originals. Rolling out across the US today, the service is aimed at viewers looking for a budget-friendly option during a year when customers are seeing price hikes among the major streamers. Howdy's library wil

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“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-17 14:30:41

Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, your body turns traitor, declaring war on the very meal you just enjoyed. You begin to feel excruciating itchiness, pain, or even swelling that can escalate to the point of requiring emergency care. The culprit isn’t food poisoning—it’s the fallout from a tick bite you may have gotten months earlier and didn’t even notice. This delayed allergic reaction is called alpha-gal syndrome. While it’s commonly called the

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Fox One will cost $19.99 per month when it arrives before NFL kickoff

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-17 16:13:57

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Fox has finally revealed more information about its new streaming service that will offer access to news and sports across the media company’s channels. The service, called Fox One, will cost $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year when it launches on August 21st —

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Trump says he’ll announce semiconductor and chip tariffs

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-17 16:07:12

The semiconductor industry’s rollercoaster year continues with another major development. President Donald Trump said on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday that his administration is planning to announce tariffs on semiconductors and chips as soon as next week. However, the specifics of these tariffs remain unclear. Such tariffs could cause quite a disruption for U.S. hardware and AI companies. When the U.S. CHIPs and Science Act was signed in 2022 — providing $52 billion in subsidies to boost domes

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Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-17 21:20:21

Roku is launching an ad-free, subscription streaming service called Howdy. The service costs $2.99 per month and features a library of nearly 10,000 hours of content from its partners, including Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, and FilmRise, alongside select Roku Original titles. The company says subscribers will be able to watch titles like “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Blind Side,” “Weeds,” and “Kids in the Hall,” as well as rom-coms, medical dramas, ‘90s comedy, and the like. “Howdy is ad-fr

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SonicWall urges customers to disable SSLVPN amid reports of ransomware attacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-18 02:48:43

Enterprise security company SonicWall is urging its customers to disable a core feature of its most recent line-up of firewall devices after security researchers reported an uptick in ransomware incidents targeting SonicWall customers. In a statement this week, SonicWall said it had observed a “notable increase” of security incidents targeting its Generation 7 firewalls where customers have its VPN enabled. The company said it is “actively investigating these incidents to determine whether they

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Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash

news.ycombinator.com Stefanie Waldek 2025-12-14 21:10:28

Some areas are more prone to lightning storms than others. It's 2017, and a thunderstorm shoots off a lightning bolt. What's so special about that, you ask? Well, the bolt is an astonishing 515 miles (829 kilometers) long. Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that stretched from Texas to Missouri. It sets a new world record, besting the previous title holder — a 477-mile (768-km) bolt from 2020 — by 38 miles (61 km).

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CNET Survey: 78% of US Shoppers Are Stressing Out Over Back-to-School Tech Purchases

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 06:00:00

Back-to-school shopping is underway, and the supply list isn't like it was when I was a kid. More schools and colleges are leaning on technology for educational purposes, and some of those costs could fall on US shoppers. Big-ticket purchases, like laptops and tablets, can be a strain on your finances, especially when juggling other back-to-school items and everyday expenses. CNET's new back-to-school survey dives into just how much US shoppers are concerned about making tech purchases ahead o

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Will Samsung revive the bundled charger? We might have an answer.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 15:19:05

TL;DR Two European retailers have listed the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G and 4G models. The Galaxy A17 5G will apparently start at €230, while the 256GB 4G model could cost €309. The listings also seemingly contradict a previous leak, which pointed to a bundled charger. The Samsung Galaxy A17 5G is expected to launch in the coming months, and we’ve already seen a host of leaks for this budget Android phone. The latest retail leak has now revealed European pricing, along with some bad news on the ac

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Fitbit promised better sleep tracking with new update, but users say it got worse

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 16:54:01

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Fitbit has updated its algorithm for more accurate sleep tracking. The new algorithm now accounts for awake times better, supposedly rendering more accurate data about different phases. However, users have complained of increased sensitivity, resulting in their devices capturing shorter sleep durations than the actual time. Fitbit isn’t nearly as popular as it once was, and that is partly because Google, which completed its acquisition of the company

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Want faster charging on Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra? Prepare to be disappointed.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 17:53:47

Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra has passed by the website of China’s 3C regulatory body. The listing reveals that Samsung’s upcoming tablet will have 45W charging, in line with last year’s model. A Samsung executive previously confirmed that the Galaxy Tab S11 series was in the works. We’re expecting a launch window in line with last year’s tablets, and it looks like the Galaxy Tab S11 range is a step closer to launching. The Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra (mode

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Welcome to the IPv4 Games

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 10:31:47

Claim The Land At Your IP I claim this land for Claim! Claim Your Land Sorry! You appear to be connecting from an IPv6 address. IPv4 Games only supports IPv4 right now. (What is this?) Top Players This hour day week month all-time (Requires JavaScript to view) Loading top players... Show All Recent Successful Claims Loading recent claims... Show All /8 Block Leaders Loading segments...

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New world record Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash

news.ycombinator.com Stefanie Waldek 2025-12-15 09:10:28

Some areas are more prone to lightning storms than others. It's 2017, and a thunderstorm shoots off a lightning bolt. What's so special about that, you ask? Well, the bolt is an astonishing 515 miles (829 kilometers) long. Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that stretched from Texas to Missouri. It sets a new world record, besting the previous title holder — a 477-mile (768-km) bolt from 2020 — by 38 miles (61 km).

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How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra

wired.com Gianluca Dotti 2025-12-18 15:00:00

Quantum computing is interesting. It’s really a wonderful area for research, but my feeling is we have a long way to go. Today we have examples of quantum computers—hardware always arrives before software—but those examples are very primitive. With a digital computer, we think of doing a computation and getting an answer. The quantum computer is instead going to give us a probability distribution of where the answer is, and you’re going to make a number of, we’ll call it runs on the quantum comp

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Deal: Only have one HDMI input? Multiply it with the Anker HDMI Switch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 17:05:12

Some monitors and TVs only have a single HDMI port. This is fine if your entertainment system is simple, but if you have multiple devices, it can get really annoying to plug and unplug the HDMI port constantly. This is when something like the Anker HDMI Switch comes in handy. It can turn one HDMI input into two, and you can take it home for a mere $9.99 right now! Buy the Anker HDMI Switch for just $9.99 ($10 off) This offer is available from Amazon. It’s a “limited time deal,” meaning it shoul

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PSA: Steam will soon stop supporting macOS 11 Big Sur

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-18 16:01:44

Heads-up if your Mac is still running macOS 11 Big Sur: Valve has announced that, in a few weeks, the Steam Client will stop running on these Macs due to a Chromium compatibility limitation. Here are the details. Support will end on October 15 According to a blog post spotted by user wickedplayer494 on Reddit, the Steam Client will stop working on Macs running macOS 11 Big Sur on October 15. Here’s why, as explained by Valve: “This change is required as core features in Steam rely on an embe

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People are using ChatGPT to write their text messages - here's how you can tell

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-12-18 18:00:14

Kirill Stytsenko/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways People are using AI to write sensitive messages to loved ones. Detecting AI-generated text is becoming more difficult as chatbots evolve. Some tech leaders have promoted this use of AI in their marketing strategies. Everyone loves receiving a handwritten letter, but those take time, patience, effort, and sometimes multiple drafts to compose. Most of us at one time or another have given a Hallmark card to a loved one or friend. Not because

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EconTeen – Financial literacy lessons and tools for teens

news.ycombinator.com Mr. K 2025-12-18 15:10:51

We've reimagined financial education for the digital generation. Our comprehensive curriculum combines proven teaching methods with engaging technology to deliver real results. 💡 Interactive Learning Engaging lessons with quizzes, scenarios, and hands-on activities that make complex financial concepts easy to understand and remember. 🎓 Comprehensive Curriculum From budgeting basics to investment strategies, our 22+ lesson modules cover everything students need for lifelong financial success.

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3D Line Drawings

news.ycombinator.com Amritansh Kwatra 2025-12-18 15:16:12

This is an experiment examing how to create a 3D line drawing of a scene. In this post, I will describe how this can be done by augmenting the process of generating 3D Gaussian Splats 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering, by Kerbl et al. and leveraging a process to transform photographs into Informative Line Drawings Learning to Generate Line Drawings that Convey Geometry and Semantics, by Chan, Isola & Durand. Examples The majority of scenes shown above are generated u

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I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 22:32:25

My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on the course catalog and asking it to propose a weekly schedule. They use it to make their writing sound more “professional,” including emails to professors like me, fearing that we will judge them for informal diction or other human errors. Article continues after advertisement Like many teachers at ev

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Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-18 16:30:00

Indian startup Jeh Aerospace founders Vishal Sanghavi and Venkatesh Mudragalla have had a front row seat to the commercial aircraft sector and its growing production bottleneck. The two former Tata Group executives spent close to two decades in different positions at the company and worked on projects that included participation from global aerospace companies, including Boeing, Sikorsky, and Lockheed Martin. Now, armed with $11 million in Series A funding, the pair are working to ease global

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EconTeen – Financial Literacy Lessons and Tools for Teens

news.ycombinator.com Mr. K 2025-12-18 21:10:51

We've reimagined financial education for the digital generation. Our comprehensive curriculum combines proven teaching methods with engaging technology to deliver real results. 💡 Interactive Learning Engaging lessons with quizzes, scenarios, and hands-on activities that make complex financial concepts easy to understand and remember. 🎓 Comprehensive Curriculum From budgeting basics to investment strategies, our 22+ lesson modules cover everything students need for lifelong financial success.

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Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 18:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-19 02:14:47

Perplexity has long been accused of deliberately bypassing anti-scraping measures to retrieve web content. While the company has historically dismissed these accusations as disingenuous or misunderstandings, a new report shows that not only is the practice still happening, but it may actually be getting worse. Perplexity’s main counter-argument: semantics The issue with Perplexity’s web crawling practices first came to light in June 2024, when Wired and other media outlets accused the company

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Objects should shut up

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 16:33:49

I have a small car, and it has a dual-tank: gas and LPG, which is a great way to reduce my car-related budget, as LPG is way cheaper. Unfortunately, when the tank is starting to get depleted, the car will emit strident and loud beeps to notify me about it. And every single time time, it startles me like Hell, which isn't something I appreciate very much, especially when I'm steering a 1 ton metal box to overtake a trailer at 130km/h on the highway. To make things even double-plus-good, a full-sc

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Is It FOSS?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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Don’t look now, but Roku’s got its own streaming service

EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy

‘Gags the Clown’ Leans Into an Urban Legend That Maybe Wasn’t a Legend

Orcas Pretend to Drown Each Other in Rare Training Session Caught on Camera

Roku Just Launched Howdy, a $3 Ad-Free Streaming Platform

“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally

Fox One will cost $19.99 per month when it arrives before NFL kickoff

Trump says he’ll announce semiconductor and chip tariffs

Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service

SonicWall urges customers to disable SSLVPN amid reports of ransomware attacks

Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash

CNET Survey: 78% of US Shoppers Are Stressing Out Over Back-to-School Tech Purchases

Will Samsung revive the bundled charger? We might have an answer.

Fitbit promised better sleep tracking with new update, but users say it got worse

Want faster charging on Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra? Prepare to be disappointed.

Welcome to the IPv4 Games

New world record Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash

How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra

Deal: Only have one HDMI input? Multiply it with the Anker HDMI Switch

PSA: Steam will soon stop supporting macOS 11 Big Sur

People are using ChatGPT to write their text messages - here's how you can tell

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3D Line Drawings

I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class

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EconTeen – Financial Literacy Lessons and Tools for Teens

Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised

Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company

Objects should shut up

Is It FOSS?

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