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Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 23:30:52

"Dataflow variables are spectacularly expressive in concurrent programming" Henri E. Bal , Jennifer G. Steiner , Andrew S. Tanenbaum Nextflow is a workflow system for creating scalable, portable, and reproducible workflows. It is based on the dataflow programming model, which greatly simplifies the writing of parallel and distributed pipelines, allowing you to focus on the flow of data and computation. Nextflow can deploy workflows on a variety of execution platforms, including your local mach

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Apple’s machine learning framework is getting support for NVIDIA’s CUDA platform

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-29 23:22:22

Apple’s MLX machine learning framework, originally designed for Apple Silicon, is getting a CUDA backend, which is a pretty big deal. Here’s why. The work is being led by developer @zcbenz on GitHub (via AppleInsider), who started prototyping CUDA support a few months ago. Since then, he split the project into smaller pieces, and gradually merged them into Apple’s MLX’s main branch. The backend is still a work in progress, but several core operations, like matrix multiplication, softmax, reduc

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Claude for Financial Services

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 07:03:50

Today, we're introducing a comprehensive solution for financial analysis that transforms how finance professionals analyze markets, conduct research, and make investment decisions with Claude. The Financial Analysis Solution unifies your financial data—from market feeds to internal data stored in platforms like Databricks and Snowflake—into a single interface. Access your critical data sources with direct hyperlinks to source materials for instant verification, all in one platform with expanded

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Data Centers Are 'AI Factories.' Google and Meta Are Spending Big Bucks to Build Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 07:19:20

Tech giants Google and Meta have a lot riding on the growth and success of AI, and to support those efforts, they're also committing significant sums of money to build the data centers they're going to need to run that power-hungry technology. On Tuesday, Google announced that it plans to invest $25 billion in data centers and other AI infrastructure tied to the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electric grid in the US. The PJM Interconnection reaches across 13 states in the eastern half of the

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 16, #766

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 10:00:06

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. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features one of those classic purple categories, where you wonder if anyone out there really solved it without first solving the other three and letting the purple answers fall in. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers.

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 16 #500

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 10:00:06

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one -- it reminds me of all the techie items that were recently being touted everywhere on Prime Day. (No, this is not an ad for Amazon.) Once you get the puzzle theme, the words are pretty easy -- except for one that stumped me. If you nee

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 16, #296

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 10:00:08

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 touches on a world-famous race that's going on right now. I thought the purple group was unusually easy today, but read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb

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Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-30 11:44:05

The drives are based on Seagate's Mosaic 3+ platform, which "incorporates Seagate’s unique implementation of HAMR to deliver mass-capacity storage at unprecedented areal densities of 3TB per disk and beyond." Seagate's press release is focused mostly on the large drives' suitability for AI-related data storage—"AI" is mentioned in the body text 21 times, and it's not a long release. But obviously, they'll be useful for any kind of storage where you need as many TB as possible to fit into as sma

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The Skylight Calendar is perfect for busy families, and easy enough for kids to use

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-07-30 15:52:20

ZDNET's key takeaways The 15-inch Skylight Calendar is a smart display for $320, with a 10-inch version available for $160. It's a touchscreen calendar designed with busy lifestyles in mind that allows for shared use within a household or team. Though it's proven indispensable for my family, I wish the chores, not just the events, were visible in the calendar view, and the 15-inch version is expensive at $320. $319.99 at Amazon Getting organized is a never-ending battle for me. As a self-proc

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I replaced my Apple Watch with the Oura Ring 4 for sleep tracking (and it did some things better)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-07-30 19:46:01

ZDNET's key takeaways The Oura Ring 4 is Oura's latest generation smart ring, with a starting price of $350 The ring emphasizes a comfortable build with flatter and smarter sensors, more sizes, upgraded software, and an alleged eight-day battery life. The eight-day battery life is actually more like five and a half days. $395.01 at Amazon $399 at Best Buy more buying choices While Oura was quiet these past few years, in between the release of its Ring 3 in 2021 and the development of its Ring

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Hierarchical Modeling (H-Nets)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 19:35:15

The best AI architectures in use today treat all inputs equally. They process each input with the same amount of compute, without explicitly grouping related inputs into higher level concepts. While these architectures have achieved impressive results across domains, this lack of hierarchy has some fundamental limitations. Models have difficulty learning from high resolution, raw data, requiring inputs to be pre-processed into meaningful tokens for strong performance. The use of hand-crafted p

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The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

wired.com Dhruv Mehrotra 2025-07-30 19:40:27

Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and a

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Adidas now offers a laced version of its 3D-printed shoes

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-07-30 19:44:22

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Adidas has released a new variant of its 3D-printed Climacool shoes with laces so you can adjust their fit and potentially tone down how tightly they hug your feet. Featuring a breathable lattice structure created through an additive printing process, the shoes have previously only been available as slip-ons in a single off-white colorway, but no

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9to5Mac Daily: July 15, 2025 – Apple leadership, Mac growth

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-07-30 23:51:55

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 1Password: For a limited time, get $20 off the easiest way to stay secure online with 1Password—featuring a new passkey feature that lets you go passwordless on compatible apps and sites. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe

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Windows KB5064489 emergency update fixes Azure VM launch issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-30 23:47:07

Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a bug that prevents Azure virtual machines from launching when the Trusted Launch setting is disabled and Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) is enabled. The bug impacted Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2 and was introduced during the July Patch Tuesday security updates. "This update addresses an issue that prevented some virtual machines (VMs) from starting when Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) was enabled," explains Microsoft. "It a

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Meta announces new data centers, gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 23:31:56

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans on investing "hundreds of billions of dollars" to power AI. Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg . CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating "superintelligence." The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple dom

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The FDA Approved a New Natural Food Dye. Here's How to Avoid the Artificial Ones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 23:00:00

The US Food and Drug Administration has put a spotlight on food dyes this year. In January, the administration banned Red No. 3 and then approved three natural food dyes in May. Now, on top of the FDA and Department of Health and Human Services asking food companies to stop using petroleum-based synthetic dyes entirely, the FDA wants brands to speed up the removal of Red No. 3 before the proposed 2027 deadline. To help this along, the administration just green-lit a new natural blue food dye, ga

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Lucid Motors will roll out hands-free highway driving this month

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-07-31 07:34:00

Lucid Motors is set to roll out a software update on July 30 that will enable hands-free highway driving on its Air sedans, a major step forward for the company’s advanced driver assistance system. The rollout will put Lucid Motors on a short list of companies that have made hands-free driving possible in the United States. Ford has a system called BlueCruise, General Motors has Super Cruise, and Mercedes-Benz has Drive Pilot, although it’s not as widely available. In the right conditions and i

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Shaping the future with adaptive production

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-07-31 11:32:33

As efforts to revive and modernize local manufacturing accelerate in regions around the world, including North America and Europe, adaptive production could help manufacturers overcome some of their biggest obstacles—firstly, attracting and retaining talent. Nearly 60% of manufacturers cited this as their top challenge in a 2024 US-based survey. Highly automated, technology-led adaptive production methods hold new promise for attracting talent to roles that are safer, less repetitive, and better

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Deals: MacBook Air $180 off, M4/Pro MacBook Pro $300+ off, Beats Solo Buds $50, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-07-31 11:45:12

Today’s best deals are kicking off with as much as $180 in savings on select M4 MacBook Air configurations joined by ongoing $150 price drops on the rest starting from $849. We also spotted some M4/Pro MacBook deals with 1TB 14-inch configs at $200 off and some of the higher-end models at over $310 off. Circling back around to some return Prime Day deals, we also have Twelve South’s wonderful 15W HiRise 3-in-1 Deluxe MagSafe stand back at the $75 all-time low as well as a nearly 40% price drop o

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Want to keep using Microsoft 365 in Windows 10 after October? You can - with caveats

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-07-31 11:21:49

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Microsoft is due to cut off support for Windows 10 in October. That means no more security patches, bug fixes, or technical help for the OS (unless you pay for extended security updates or can make the free options work for you). But what does that entail for Microsoft 365? In a recent online support article, Microsoft revealed the status of its popular office suite once Windows 10 becomes persona non grata. First off, Microsoft would rather all Microsoft 365 users

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Can Apple Actually Make a Foldable iPhone With a ‘Crease-Free’ Display?

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-07-31 11:21:22

Samsung has set the bar high for foldables with its latest Galaxy Z Fold 7. The book-style foldable really is jaw-dropping. Apple’s answer to it with a foldable iPhone needs to be even better. But how? Apple supply chain snoop Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone could come with a “crease-free display”… made by Samsung. Yes, really. You see, as thin, light, and sleek as the Z Fold 7 is, the crease running down the 8-inch folding screen is still visible. Samsung says the display

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Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-07-31 14:56:06

CoreWeave Inc. signage in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, May 9, 2025. Coreweave stock climbed more than 9% on Tuesday after the company announced a $6 billion artificial intelligence data center project in Pennsylvania. The commitment includes an initial 100 megawatt data center built in Lancaster, a city about 70 miles west of Philadelphia. The data center will be able to expand to 300 MW. "The demand for high-performance AI compute is relentless," said CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrat

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Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-07-31 15:30:00

Joseph Rutakanga spent eight years looking for tools to help companies gather consumer insight data. Eventually, he decided to just build them. Now his startup, called Rwazi, has raised a $12 million Series A led by Bonfire Ventures to help companies with market intelligence and consumer insights. He founded the company in 2021 with co-founder Eric Sewankambo. “There was an abundance of consumer and market-level data for places like the U.S., UK, and a few parts of Western Europe, maybe some t

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Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-07-31 19:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday. The deal tackles a key challenge for AI companies: providing educational acces

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Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 17:38:18

Ever wanted to text your foreign partner or chat with international friends but felt held back by missing vocabulary? Don't let language barriers stop you from connecting. No sign-ups, no subscriptions. Just open the app and start learning. Perfect for spontaneous moments when you need to express something important. Every correction is saved. Review your mistakes, practice pronunciation, and track your progress as you naturally improve. Hear how every correction should sound with high-qualit

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‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Reveals Galactus’ Big Goal

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-07-31 19:00:46

Noah Hawley teases a plethora of new creatures coming to Alien: Earth. Mark Frost weighs in on the potential future of Twin Peaks after David Lynch’s passing. Plus, Jennifer Love Hewitt wants you to stick around after the credits for I Know What You Did Last Summer. Spoilers now! SuperUnknown Deadline reports Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone, The Black Phone 2) is attached to star in SuperUnknown, “a supernatural coming-of-age thriller” from directors Chris and Nick Riedell. The story is said

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ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-07-31 19:24:51

Open source database management system Postgres is nearly 40 years old, but has recently started seeing explosive demand due to being very well-suited for AI applications. Despite this rise in popularity, search and analytics functionality remain limited. ParadeDB is changing that. ParadeDB is an open source Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics directly in Postgres without users needing to transfer data to a separate source. The platform integrates with other data

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You may be able to buy Apple products without paying state sales tax

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-01 08:06:49

If you live in one of nine eligible states, you can buy a range of Apple products without paying state sales tax. The sales tax holidays take place annually, with varying dates and product eligibility, but in almost all cases you get only a few days to act … Sales tax holidays are brief periods in which states let companies sell products without adding sales tax to the total. Local sales taxes may still apply. In most cases, the ability to take advantage of them for Apple purchases is constra

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Samsung reportedly gearing up to produce foldable iPhone displays

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-01 08:22:23

Following a recent Digitimes report that Apple’s foldable iPhone has reached the initial P1 prototyping stage, two new reports now claim that Samsung Display is preparing to begin panel production by the end of this year, including Ming-Chi Kuo. Yet another claim that the foldable iPhone is on track for a 2026 release According to the report by Korea JoongAng Daily (via MacMagazine), Samsung Display is aiming to kick off mass production of foldable OLED panels for Apple in Q4: “Samsung Displa

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Adidas now offers a laced version of its 3D-printed shoes

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Meta announces new data centers, gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

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