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Canada drops Big Tech tax to appease Trump

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-21 11:17:08

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. Canada has scrapped its tax targeting Big Tech companies in the US after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade talks in response to the fee. On Sunday, the Canadian government announced that it will no longer implement the Digital Services Tax as it works to reach a trade deal with the US by July 21st. The Digital Services Tax would’ve

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Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Ian Chant 2026-02-22 08:48:12

How do you see ships without a pricey radar system? The question has troubled seaports around the world as they work to improve security. Without radar installations, it can be hard for port employees to detect small ships like those employed by pirates or by the terrorists who attacked the USS Cole in 2000. A team of researchers in Germany can now offer security teams a new option, though: putting existing cellular towers to work as quick and dirty radar systems. Developed at the Fraunhofer In

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Gradient Descent Visualiser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 23:10:49

👋 Hey there! Let's play with gradient descent. This mini-app acts as an interactive supplement to Teach LA's curriculum on linear regression and gradient descent. Not sure what's going on? Check out the lesson notebook and the corresponding slides.

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2025 ARRL Field Day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 00:04:04

ARRL Field Day is a radio communications event that brings together amateur radio operators (also called “hams”) within your community. The theme for 2025 Field Day is “Radio Connects” – highlighting the many ways that wireless technology connects people across distances near and far. The event is part picnic, campout, practice for emergencies, informal contest, and most of all, fun! ARRL Field Day is the most popular ham radio activity held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend i

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JavaScript Trademark Update

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 23:52:00

On June 18, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision. That claim alleged Oracle knowingly misled the USPTO in its 2019 renewal by submitting a screenshot of the Node.js website to show use of the “JavaScript” trademark. As the creator of Node.js, I find that especially offensive. Node.js was never an Oracle product or brand. Oracle didn’t create it, didn’t run it, and wasn’t authorized to use it to prop up its trademark

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Tired of Prime Video Ads? How to Ditch Them for Good

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 23:00:05

Amazon rolled out advertisements in Prime Video content for customers in the US in January 2024. Since then, it has reportedly increased the ad load. If you're reading this, you might be missing the commercial-free days of yore. Whether you're accessing Prime Video through an Amazon Prime membership ($15 a month or $139 a year) or a $9-a-month standalone Prime Video membership, you can remove ads on movies and TV shows for an extra $3 a month. Amazon notes if you pay for no commercials, "some c

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Trump ends trade talks with Canada over a digital services tax

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-23 02:23:22

President Donald Trump said the US is ending trade talks with Canada, effective immediately, over a tax on digital services that will impact American tech companies. He also pledged to announce further tariffs on Canada within the next week, adding in a Truth Social post that "they will be paying to do business with the United States of America." Canada's digital services tax (DST) is set to take effect on June 30, though it will be applied retroactively. According to The New York Times , US co

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Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-24 16:06:28

Abstract Starcloud have claimed that a single 100-ton Starship launch could suffice to create a 40 MW space data centre (SDC) for $8.2 M. My analysis finds that this is infeasible in a single launch but requires a total of upto 22 launches. The SDC’s solar arrays require 4 launches determined by examining existing solar arrays on the ISS. Similarly, the ISS’s radiator benchmarks indicate that 13 launches would be needed for the SDC’s thermal management system. The server racks would require an

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A Wild New Take on ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Is Coming, and No One Has Any Idea What It Is

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-25 02:30:56

For the past few months, Phans (The Phantom of the Opera fans) have been following mysterious messages and clue drops around New York City for something called Masquerade. Talk online abounded about the roses left in Times Square or the red envelope letters signed by “the Opera Ghost” for the faithful, as a viral campaign teased that something was coming in the realm of immersive theater. As a big Phan and immersive theater nerd, I’ve waited from the far wings on the West Coast with major FOMO f

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Starcloud says 1 launch, $8M but ISS tech says 17 launches, $850M+

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-25 16:06:28

Abstract Starcloud have claimed that a single 100-ton Starship launch could suffice to create a 40 MW space data centre (SDC) for $8.2 M. My analysis finds that this is infeasible in a single launch but requires a total of upto 22 launches. The SDC’s solar arrays require 4 launches determined by examining existing solar arrays on the ISS. Similarly, the ISS’s radiator benchmarks indicate that 13 launches would be needed for the SDC’s thermal management system. The server racks would require an

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New Images Show Andromeda Galaxy as You’ve Never Seen It Before

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-02-25 21:15:07

Andromeda lies 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy similar to our own that has allowed scientists to better understand our galactic home. A new composite image reveals our closest galactic neighbor in five different wavelengths of light, combined together to create a stunningly detailed view of Andromeda. Telescopes capture images in different wavelengths by observing a specific part of the electromagnetic spectrum, from low-frequency radio waves to extremely high-f

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Best Internet Providers in Colorado

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-27 00:46:00

CNET recommends Xfinity as the best overall internet provider in Colorado. It offers a wide range of plans, solid reliability and broad coverage across the state, making it a dependable choice for most households. Prices start at $55 a month and go up to $85 for the 1,300Mbps or 2,100 plan, depending on your location. During a recent visit to Denver, I experienced some serious internet envy. Coming from New Mexico, where internet options are limited, Denver felt like a broadband dream. I stayed

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Ancient X11 scaling technology

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-02 16:58:32

People keep telling me that X11 doesn’t support DPI scaling, or fractional scaling, or multiple monitors, or something. There’s nothing you can do to make it work. I find this surprising. Why doesn’t it work? I figure the best way to find out is try the impossible and see how far we get. I’m just going to draw a two inch circle on the screen. This screen, that screen, any screen, the circle should always be two inches. Perhaps not the most exciting task, but I figure it’s isomorphic to any othe

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NASA Satellite That’s Been Dead for 57 Years Sends Mysterious Signal to Earth

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-03-04 02:05:27

A little over a year ago, scientists in Australia picked up a brief burst of electromagnetic radiation. The pulse was so strong that it eclipsed all other signals coming from the sky, but its origins were unknown. After digging through the data, the team discovered that the source wasn’t a distant celestial object but rather a zombie satellite left to orbit Earth with no purpose. NASA’s Relay-2 launched on January 21, 1964, two years after its predecessor, Relay-1, was sent to orbit. The pair w

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Tired of Prime Video Ads? You Can Ditch Them for an Extra Cost

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-03 23:57:39

Amazon rolled out advertisements in Prime Video content for customers in the US in January 2024. Since then, it has reportedly increased the ad load. If you're reading this, you might be missing the commercial-free days of yore. Whether you're accessing Prime Video through an Amazon Prime membership ($15 a month or $139 a year) or a $9-a-month standalone Prime Video membership, you can remove ads on movies and TV shows for an extra $3 a month. Amazon notes that "some content will continue to in

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The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 – By Bradford Morgan White

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2026-03-01 23:06:18

In 1919, a small leather company was founded in Fort Worth by David Lewis Tandy and Norton Hinckley. The Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company specialized in leather show laces, shoe soles, leather and rubber heels, and other shoe-findings. Tandy focused on sales and marketing while Hinckley managed the internal business operations and inventory. The company did well, bought a larger location in 1923 and expanded to Beaumont in 1927. The company scaled back during the Depression, but they survived. Ch

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How many PhDs does world need? Doctoral graduates outnumber academia jobs

news.ycombinator.com Kwon 2026-03-05 11:08:11

More than 600,000 students were enrolled in PhD programmes in China in 2023.Credit: ChinaImages/Sipa USA via Alamy The number of doctoral graduates globally has been growing steadily over the past few decades. And in countries such as China and India, those numbers are exploding. Conventionally, the doctorate was a stepping stone to a lifelong career in academia. But today, the number of PhD graduates vastly exceeds the number of job openings at universities and research institutions. Research

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Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space

wired.com Sarah Sinclair 2026-03-06 02:16:15

Having dedicated much of his working life to studying the cannabis plant, Radišič believes it is uniquely qualified for space agriculture. It grows fast, adapts well, and has been an agricultural crop for thousands of years. According to Radišič, if at some point we want to grow life on Mars, this makes it an ideal candidate. “Sooner or later, we will have lunar bases, and cannabis, with its versatility, is the ideal plant to supply those projects,” he tells WIRED. “It can be a source of food, p

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The Tandy Corporation

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2026-03-04 22:52:23

In 1919, a small leather company was founded in Fort Worth by David Lewis Tandy and Norton Hinckley. The Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company specialized in leather show laces, shoe soles, leather and rubber heels, and other shoe-findings. Tandy focused on sales and marketing while Hinckley managed the internal business operations and inventory. The company did well, bought a larger location in 1923 and expanded to Beaumont in 1927. The company scaled back during the Depression, but they survived. Ch

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Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Lets Out Epic Blast of Energy

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-07 16:30:37

NASA's experimental Relay 2 satellite had been dead in the sky since 1967 — until last summer, when it emitted a super-short and very powerful burst of energy out of nowhere. In an interview with New Scientist, one of the researchers from Australia's Curtin University who discovered the strange pulse coming off the dead communications satellite described his shock at finding the nearby source of that nanosecond-long energy blast. Curtin astronomer Clancy James and his team had been using the A

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$33.28/mo for a MacBook? Meet the MacBook Upgrade Program

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2026-03-07 21:46:50

With Apple’s latest MacBooks pushing performance further than ever, buyers are moving away from the old-school, pay-upfront model. And one company is quietly reshaping how Mac users get their next device. For years, Apple fans had two options: pay thousands of dollars upfront or finance through a 12-month plan (often with limited availability). But now there’s a third option that’s gaining traction: Upgraded, a MacBook subscription service built to make getting a new MacBook as easy and afforda

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Best Internet Providers in Colorado Springs, Colorado

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-10 02:32:00

What is the best internet provider in Colorado Springs? Xfinity is the best internet service provider in Colorado Springs, thanks to its broad coverage throughout the area, high download speeds and low prices. If Xfinity isn't available at your address, Quantum Fiber, T-Mobile and Rise Broadband are all worth considering. Plus, Xfinity offers a decent variety of plans that range from $55 to $85 a month. If you're after speed, Xfinity's Gigabit Extra plan is one of the fastest -- and widely ava

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‘The Phantom of the Paradise’ Might Find New Life as a Stage Play

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-03-10 22:00:08

The Phantom of the Paradise, the vastly underrated horror-tinged rock opera from the minds of Brian De Palma (Carrie) and Paul Williams (The Muppet Movie), might be getting a new musical adaptation. Movie Maker reports that Williams and Sam Pressman, whose father Ed Pressman produced the 1974 cult film, are currently developing it as a stage production. “I’m excited about having a chance to deliver what fans have been suggesting for years… POTP as a stage musical,” Williams said in a statement

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Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55-Year Radio Career

news.ycombinator.com Foo Conner 2026-03-12 13:27:39

Radio personality Barret “Dr. Demento” Hansen announced his retirement this week, ending a 55-year career devoted to comedy and novelty music when his show concludes in October. Hansen, 84, revealed the decision during his weekly program, saying the current episode would be his final regular show. The announcement comes as the program approaches its 55th anniversary this fall. The Dr. Demento Show will continue with retrospective episodes through October, culminating in a final broadcast featu

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Think of a Number

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Xenaproject 2026-03-10 20:34:44

My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to the stories. This kind of irresponsible hype-generation drives me nuts (although it also drives up stock prices so I can see why the tech bros are motivated to do it). Sure AI can have a good crack at undergraduate mathematics right now, and sure that’s pretty amazing. But our universi

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Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C2h-N6

news.ycombinator.com Qian 2026-03-12 08:36:56

As AgN 3 is an excellent reagent for the synthesis of polyazides35 and halogen azides both in the gas phase36 and in solution37,38, we suggest that the reaction of AgN 3 with XN 3 (X = halogen) is a viable route to N 6 (Fig. 1b). The reactions were conducted in either a quartz tube or a U-trap by flowing gaseous Cl 2 through solid AgN 3 under reduced pressure at room temperature (see the ‘Synthesis details’ section in Methods and Supplementary Fig. 1). Apart from the known bands of ClN 3 (ref. 3

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Meta is reportedly building AI smart glasses with Prada, too

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-15 15:38:07

In Brief Meta is working on a pair of AI smart glasses with the Italian high fashion brand, Prada, according to a report from CNBC on Tuesday. It’s unclear at this time when Meta’s Prada smart glasses will be publicly announced. The reported Prada collaboration signifies that Meta aims to bring its AI smart glasses technology to more fashion companies outside of its relationship with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica. Until now, Meta has collaborated closely with EssilorLuxottica and its numerous

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Meta to release smart glasses with Oakley and Prada, extending Luxottica partnership

cnbc.com Salvador Rodriguez Jonathan Vanian 2026-03-15 18:12:24

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries on Orion AR glasses at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo Meta and EssilorLuxottica plan to release versions of their AI-powered smart glasses under the Oakley and Prada brands, CNBC has learned. The addition of Prada and Oakley underscore the breakout success Meta had with its second-generation Ray-Ban glasses released in partnership with Luxottica in 2023. The

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What Type of Mattress Is Right for You? (2025)

wired.com Julia Forbes 2026-03-16 14:37:00

If you're looking to buy a mattress, I don't need to tell you the research process is complex. To assist with that, we have a whole guide that lays out (no pun intended … OK, partially intended) where to begin. But for now, I’m going to walk through the various types of mattress materials. My hope is that by the time you finish reading this, you’ll have a better idea of what kind of mattress you’re looking for, which will make your final decision that much easier. To put your mind at ease, let

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Scientists in Antarctica Detect Deep-Earth Signals That Defy Known Physics

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-03-18 10:35:49

A balloon-borne experiment over Antarctica, designed to detect cosmic radio waves, has instead picked up bizarre signals that appear to be coming from deep within the ice. These signals challenge our current understanding of particle physics, scientists say. The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment consists of radio antennas flown on NASA balloons 19 to 24 miles (30 to 39 kilometers) over the surface of Antarctica. In recent years, the detector has recorded radio pulses that

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Canada drops Big Tech tax to appease Trump

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The Tandy Corporation

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