GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 13:20:32

The Pitch Deck. The deck is often the introduction of a venture capitalist to a company, sent after a warm intro. For the athlete, the pitch deck consists of video and some metrics, posted on Twitter (the LinkedIn of college baseball). In both cases, the best story is (naturally) being told: they aren’t dishonest, but they also aren’t going to emphasize flaws or risks. In my experience, pitch decks are important, but not as important as the underlying business; similarly, terrific video of a bul

Topics: coaches high round term valuation

Shop Amazon

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 08:27:48

Paul was a gig worker in the San Francisco Bay Area.1 Formerly a project manager in tech until several companies in a row laid him off, he started working entirely for platforms like Lyft, Uber and TaskRabbit. He managed to eke out a living, but the jobs posed a different problem. ‘Honestly, a lot of times, I go out and the person doesn’t even know my name, even though I introduced myself as Paul,’ he told me. ‘Instead, customers just point and say: “OK, yeah, just put it over there,” and then

Topics: depersonalisation like loneliness people social

Shop Amazon

Fast Rust Builds (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 09:02:02

Fast Rust Builds It’s common knowledge that Rust code is slow to compile. But I have a strong gut feeling that most Rust code out there compiles much slower than it could. As an example, one fairly recent post says: With Rust, on the other hand, it takes between 15 and 45 minutes to run a CI pipeline, depending on your project and the power of your CI servers. This doesn’t make sense to me. rust-analyzer CI takes 8 minutes on GitHub actions. It is a fairly large and complex project with 200k

Topics: build ci code rust time

Shop Amazon

Man falls for AI chatbot he created, proposes while partner looks on in disbelief

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-10 18:15:00

WTF?! A 32-year-old man from the United States has captured national attention after proposing to an artificial intelligence companion he created and named "Sol." The story, which unfolded during a recent CBS News interview, has sparked widespread discussion about the evolving relationship between humans and AI technology. Chris Smith, the man behind the viral moment, told CBS News that he programmed "Sol" using ChatGPT, creating a flirty and engaging digital companion. According to Smith, what

Topics: ai connection said smith sol

Shop Amazon

Calorie restriction can help animals live longer. What about humans?

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2025-09-10 16:00:00

But the full picture is not so simple. Weight loss isn’t always healthy and neither is restricting your calorie intake, especially if your BMI is low to begin with. Some scientists warn that, based on evidence in animals, it could negatively impact wound healing, metabolism and bone density. This week let’s take a closer look at the benefits—and risks—of caloric restriction. Eating less can make animals live longer. This remarkable finding has been published in scientific journals for the last

Topics: animals caloric published research restriction

Shop Amazon

Finally, a $150 Android smartwatch I wouldn't mind putting away my expensive Garmin for

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-09-10 17:48:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazfit Active 2 Square is available in a premium package for $149.99 that includes leather and silicone bands The watch is small, lasts up to 10 days, incorporates high end sapphire glass and stainless steel materials, and has a brilliant large 1.75-inch AMOLED display There is limited onboard storage for maps and music while the software may also be overwhelming. View now at Amazon I recently reviewed Amazfit's Active 2 Smartwatch, and it was one of my favorite wea

Topics: active amazfit square watch zepp

Shop Amazon

He '70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to 'Garbage Men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-08 05:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

Topics: art artist city documentary just

Shop Amazon

Chimpanzees yawn when observing an Android yawn

news.ycombinator.com Joly-Mascheroni 2025-09-07 21:50:44

Participants Participants were 14 adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes spp.) aged 10 to 33 years ($\bar{X}$ = 22.57, SD = 8.06), including 10 males and 4 females (see Table 1). The chimpanzees had lived at the Fundació Mona (Spain) for between 1 and 12 years ($\bar{X}$ = 7.36, SD = 4.34), after being confiscated or rescued from the pet and entertainment industry to be permanently housed at the centre. All chimpanzees were socially housed in two stable groups within a naturalistic enclosure de

Topics: android condition mouth post yawn

Shop Amazon

Print. Fold. Share. Download WIRED's How to Win a Fight Zine Here

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-09-10 17:00:00

This week, WIRED has been helping readers (that’s you!) learn how to win a fight, from understanding the tactics of the Tesla Takedown movement to knowing how to out-troll a troll. We also put together a zine that collects some of the most helpful tidbits in a handy format you can print, fold, and share with friends and family. The zine, which you can download below, condenses crucial advice from multiple articles in a single sheet of printer paper. The adapted articles include tips from WIRED

Topics: advice articles paper wired zine

Shop Amazon

'28 Years Later' Director Danny Boyle Says Shooting on iPhones Let Him Capture 'Startling' Violence

wired.com Jake Kleinman 2025-09-10 18:00:00

In 2001, Danny Boyle had a problem. To make his new postapocalyptic horror movie, 28 Days Later, he had to capture footage of a then-unknown Cillian Murphy wandering the abandoned streets of London. Shutting down the city wasn’t an option for the low-budget production, however, and neither was re-creating it on a studio set. Instead, the 68-year-old director made a surprising choice: He filmed with lightweight, low-resolution Canon digital cameras. The technology, which was cutting-edge at the t

Topics: 28 boyle later time years

Shop Amazon

MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-10 17:20:00

Why it matters: As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common in education, law, politics, media, and other fields, many worry that reliance on the technology may reduce cognitive independence. A recent study from MIT strongly supports this concern, indicating that the use of digital tools significantly alters brain activity. The newly published paper explains that as participants in an experiment wrote a series of essays, electronic brain monitoring revealed substantially weaker conn

Topics: brain group llm participants use

Shop Amazon

I changed 6 settings on my Roku TV to instantly improve the performance

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-10 19:00:13

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Few things ruin the joy of watching a good show more than suddenly seeing that rotating asterisk symbol or swirly icon that tells you your TV is buffering. Or maybe it's stuttering, or altogether freezing. If this is happening on your Roku TV, don't give up on it just yet. Also: How to disable ACR on your TV (and why doing so makes such a big difference) Like phones and computers, Rokus have caches that accumulate temporary data, which inevitably slows them down over time. Th

Topics: button reset roku select settings

Shop Amazon

Pipelined State Machine Corruption

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 00:33:44

There are a number of network protocols that we might refer to as text protocols, where we send a line of text to the server and it sends back a response. Perhaps I should call them CRLF protocols, to distinguish from protocols where we’re blasting JSON back and forth. To speed things up, it can be tempting to have the client send multiple requests without waiting for individual responses. This is called pipelining. Support varies by protocol. NNTP requires that servers support it. HTTP 1.1 def

Topics: fd read ready server time

Shop Amazon

Hot deals: High-capacity power banks that are still portable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 17:43:12

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Technicalities Powkey Portable Power Station 200W Discounted with a $50 coupon The Powkey Portable Power Station 200W has long been a respected model in the world of battery packs. It came out at a time when this level of power was a bit unheard of in something so portable. Now it has some competitors, but it is still an excellent alternative for those who want a high-capacity battery pack that is actually portable. It measures 7.87 x 1.81 x 5.71 inches and

Topics: battery portable power station usb

Shop Amazon

Show HN: ATAC, an event verification platform evidence based

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 18:27:16

ATAC (Advanced Thread Analytics and Corroboration) Live Feed: the latest evidence submitted across all events.

Topics: advanced analytics atac corroboration events

Shop Amazon

Sunsonic 986-II – A Thai Famicom clone with keyboard and mini CRT built-in

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 16:21:40

To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.

Topics: alternatively application apps enable mastodon

Shop Amazon

FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 18:07:43

JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN AND Agreement No. NTIS-1832. Renewed and Amended April 28, 2009. Each month NTIS will select between ten and twenty non-copyrighted videotapes from available stock in its collection and ship them to PRO at its own expense. Immediately upon receipt, PRO will, at its own expense, digitize the videotape and return the videotape and a copy in digital video disk (DVD) format to NTIS. The videotape and the DVD copy are both considered to be property of the United States Gove

Topics: joint ntis party pro videotape

Shop Amazon

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 20, #270

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 20:20:01

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports jo

Topics: answers connections group sports today

Shop Amazon

The 65 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now (June 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-09-10 12:00:00

In the game known as the streaming wars, Disney+ came out swinging, bringing with it a massive library of movies and TV shows—with new ones being added all the time. Watched everything on Netflix? Disney+ has a seemingly endless selection of Marvel movies and plenty of Star Wars and Pixar fare too. Problem is, there’s so much stuff that it’s hard to know where to begin. WIRED is here to help. Below are our picks for the best films on Disney+ right now. For more viewing ideas, try our guides to

Topics: disney film movie story time

Shop Amazon

Trump EPA May Undo Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-10 21:50:07

In 2024, the Biden administration issued a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the United States due to its links to cancer. The Trump administration isn’t so sure that we need to protect people from such things. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency will delay the ban on the material and reconsider the rule entirely. Because, hey, when has a little cancer ever hurt anyone? The material at the core of this back-and-forth policymak

Topics: administration asbestos ban cancer rule

Shop Amazon

Apple wins Grand Prix at Cannes for ‘Shot on iPhone’ campaign

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-11 05:15:46

Apple’s famous “Shot on iPhone” ad series has just earned one of the advertising industry’s highest honors: the Grand Prix in the Creative Effectiveness Lions category at this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Not bad for a campaign that started a decade ago. The Creative Effectiveness Lions specifically reward campaigns that prove long-term business impact through creativity. This year marked the fourth consecutive year of growth in submissions for the category, up 6.5%

Topics: apple campaign creative iphone year

Shop Amazon

No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-11 05:51:41

News broke today of a "mother of all breaches," sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to be a compilation of previously leaked credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks. To be clear, this is not a new data breach, or a breach at all, and the websites involved were not recently compromised to steal these credentials. Instead, these stolen credentials were likely circulating for some time,

Topics: credentials data infostealer stolen threat

Shop Amazon

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 20, #740

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-11 04:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. If you're a fan of a certain form of entertainment that's also kind of a sport, the blue group in today's NYT Connections puzzle should be easy for you. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go the

Topics: answers connections group today words

Shop Amazon

Microsoft strengthens Windows 365 Cloud PCs with virtualization-based protection

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-11 09:47:00

What just happened? Cloud-based Windows installs are generally more secure than local setups, especially against physical and network attacks targeting endpoint devices. Now, Microsoft is raising the bar further by enhancing security features specifically for Windows 365 Cloud PCs. Microsoft recently announced two security-focused changes to the Windows 365 Cloud PC platform. The subscription-based service will soon disable all user-level file redirections and enable several virtualization-base

Topics: cloud microsoft redirections security windows

Shop Amazon

Trump gives TikTok another ban extension

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-09-11 05:00:00

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. For the third time, President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok to spin out from its Chinese parent company or face a US ban. As White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed in a statement Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order on Thursday extending the

Topics: deadline extensions law tiktok trump

Shop Amazon

Spotify lossless streaming edges closer with new in-app references to ’24-bit’ and FLAC

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-11 13:33:22

After years (and years, and years) of waiting and speculation, Spotify’s long-promised lossless audio feature appears to be inching closer to reality. The latest desktop app builds now show multiple references to “Lossless” streaming, giving users the loudest sign yet that higher-fidelity streaming could soon roll out. Here’s what to expect. Lossless options appear in streaming settings and Spotify Connect menus Screenshots shared earlier today by the X account @spicetifyapp, which focuses on

Topics: feature headphones lossless spotify streaming

Shop Amazon

How teachers are fighting AI cheating with handwritten work, oral tests, and AI

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-11 16:04:00

A hot potato: The fear that generative AI tools such as ChatGPT would lead to a generation of students cheating and plagiarizing work has come to pass. The situation is so bad that educators are now looking at multipe ways to stop the problem, or at least make the practice much more difficult. Ironically, one of them is to use AI. Speaking about AI-cheat students, Gary Ward, a teacher at Brookes Westshore High School in Victoria, British Columbia, told Business Insider, "Some of the ones that I

Topics: ai assignments cheating make students

Shop Amazon

Neural Texture Compression demo shows it can do wonders for VRAM usage

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-11 17:35:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In context: Modern game engines can put severe strain on today's hardware. However, Nvidia's business decisions have left many GPUs with less VRAM than they should. Fortunately, improved texture compression in games helps make the most of what's available. Neural Texture Compression (NTC) is a new technique that improves texture quality while reducing VRAM usage. It relies on a specialized neural n

Topics: cooperative intel ntc texture vectors

Shop Amazon

RIP Microsoft Passwords: Here's How to Set Up a Passkey Before the August Deadline

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-11 17:00:00

Risky password habits can have big consequences, and some companies are making it easier to stay secure online by ditching decades-old password methods and implementing passkeys instead. Microsoft intends to do the same starting in August. Whether you have an easy-to-guess password or it's leaked in a company data breach, if hackers get hold of it, it can open the door to identity theft and fraud. A recent CNET survey found that 49% of US adults have risky password habits, like using the same p

Topics: authenticator microsoft passkeys password passwords

Shop Amazon

TikTok's Clock Keeps Running: Trump Extends Sale Deadline Again

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-11 17:00:00

The clock just never seems to run out for TikTok. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order granting the wildly popular social media app another 90 days to strike a deal to sell itself to a buyer deemed fit by US officials or face a federal ban. The newest extension pushes the deadline to Sept. 17. The ban was originally set to take affect back in January, but has now been pushed back three times by Trump, who has both admitted a fondness for TikTok and repeatedly promised t

Topics: app deadline law tiktok trump

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

Fast Rust Builds (2021)

Man falls for AI chatbot he created, proposes while partner looks on in disbelief

Calorie restriction can help animals live longer. What about humans?

Finally, a $150 Android smartwatch I wouldn't mind putting away my expensive Garmin for

He '70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to 'Garbage Men'

Chimpanzees yawn when observing an Android yawn

Print. Fold. Share. Download WIRED's How to Win a Fight Zine Here

'28 Years Later' Director Danny Boyle Says Shooting on iPhones Let Him Capture 'Startling' Violence

MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity

I changed 6 settings on my Roku TV to instantly improve the performance

Pipelined State Machine Corruption

Hot deals: High-capacity power banks that are still portable

Show HN: ATAC, an event verification platform evidence based

Sunsonic 986-II – A Thai Famicom clone with keyboard and mini CRT built-in

FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 20, #270

The 65 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now (June 2025)

Trump EPA May Undo Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos

Apple wins Grand Prix at Cannes for ‘Shot on iPhone’ campaign

No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 20, #740

Microsoft strengthens Windows 365 Cloud PCs with virtualization-based protection

Trump gives TikTok another ban extension

Spotify lossless streaming edges closer with new in-app references to ’24-bit’ and FLAC

How teachers are fighting AI cheating with handwritten work, oral tests, and AI

Neural Texture Compression demo shows it can do wonders for VRAM usage

RIP Microsoft Passwords: Here's How to Set Up a Passkey Before the August Deadline

TikTok's Clock Keeps Running: Trump Extends Sale Deadline Again

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising