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Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Mulholland 2025-12-18 04:29:55

With 20,000 new units on the market, prices are down about 3.7 percent. New apartment buildings under construction in on Holly Street in Denver’s North Park Hill neighborhood, June 20, 2024. Apartment rents in the Denver metro continue to slide. The average rent in the area fell 3.7 percent in the second quarter compared to the prior year, according to a new report from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. Rents started falling at the end of last year, the association’s data show. The

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Apple to announce Q3 2025 earnings today, here’s how to listen in live

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-19 09:35:41

Apple is set to release its Q3 2025 earnings results later today, followed by a conference call set to start at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET. Here’s how you can listen in live. Trade tensions to play a major role in today’s results Right after the market closes later today, Apple is set to report its Q3 2025 earnings, offering a clearer picture of how its many businesses did between April and June, as well as how ongoing trade tensions with key supplier countries like China and India have impac

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Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 04:39:52

The SUMO User Conference , held every year in Berlin since 2013, is a must-attend event for anyone involved with SUMO. It gathers international participants from the industry, research and public institutions - to present (among others) projects, studies and advancements all around traffic, simulation and SUMO. The conference is a great place to learn about new features, network with fellow enthusiasts, ask the developers, have fruitful discussions, exchange ideas and even start collaborations!

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Sumo – Simulation of Urban MObility

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 16:39:52

The SUMO User Conference , held every year in Berlin since 2013, is a must-attend event for anyone involved with SUMO. It gathers international participants from the industry, research and public institutions - to present (among others) projects, studies and advancements all around traffic, simulation and SUMO. The conference is a great place to learn about new features, network with fellow enthusiasts, ask the developers, have fruitful discussions, exchange ideas and even start collaborations!

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What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-20 03:44:30

What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems 4 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save BBC The other day, while I was doing some household chores, I handed my youngest child his dad's iPad to keep him entertained. But after a while I suddenly felt uneasy: I wasn't keeping a close eye on how long he had spent using it or what he was looking at. So I told him it was time to stop. A full-blown tantrum erupted. He kicked, he yelled, he

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Skechers releases kid shoes with a hidden AirTag compartment

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 09:10:41

Skechers just released a helicopter parent's dream shoe. Find My Skechers is a new line of children's shoes that encourages parents to hide an Apple AirTag under the heel. If tracking them on Snapchat wasn't enough and tracking their smartwatch didn't quite cut it, now you can hide an AirTag on their person. Remember running around the neighborhood with your friends and being told to be home for dinner? Or perhaps biking to and from school? You were figuring out how to navigate the world on you

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Dropbox is pulling the plug on its password manager

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 09:47:20

Dropbox is saying goodbye to its password manager after five years of service. This leaves current customers in a lurch, as the company has also announced that users only have a few months to extract all of their data. This discontinuation will happen in phases, but October 28 is the day Dropbox Passwords will be entirely shuttered. On August 28, the platform will become view-only in both the mobile app and browser extension. The autofill functionality also deactivates on that date. On Septemb

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Flickering lights could help fight misinformation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 23:58:29

A group of Cornell computer scientists has unveiled what they believe could be a new tool in the fight against AI‑generated video, deepfakes and doctored clips. The watermarking technique, called “noise‑coded illumination,” hides verification data in light itself to help investigators spot doctored videos. The approach, devised by Peter Michael, Zekun Hao, Serge Belongie and assistant professor Abe Davis, was published in the June 27 issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics and will be presented b

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A Rare Flu Complication Is Killing More U.S. Children

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-21 23:00:04

A rare, life-threatening complication caused by the flu seems to be surging among kids. Research out today finds that dozens of children developed influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE) over the past two years, a third of whom died as a result. Researchers at Stanford Medicine led the study, published Thursday in JAMA. Collecting reports from other doctors and hospitals across the country, they identified 41 cases of ANE since 2023, along with 11 deaths. The researchers arg

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Inside the LG G5’s shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout

theverge.com Nilay Patel 2025-12-22 04:08:13

The 2025 TV Shootout went down over the weekend, and the results are shocking: yes, the Sony Bravia 8 II won the overall competition and my personal award for silliest name, but the LG G5 came in last place by a huge margin. I was one of the judges, and I think I have a sense of what’s going on. If you’re not familiar, the TV Shootout is an annual event hosted by Value Electronics, a boutique and high-end home theater store started by Robert and Wendy Zohn in 1998. They’ve been holding the even

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US fertility rate fell to a record low in 2024, mirroring a global trend

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-22 23:19:00

In a nutshell: The CDC released data this month that shows the US fertility rate fell to an all-time low in 2024, but the number of babies that were born last year increased YoY. It means that while there were more births overall, a smaller percentage of women of childbearing age are having children. There were 3.6 million babies born in the US in 2024, up 1% compared to the previous year, according to the CDC's data. But the general fertility rate – the number of live births per 1,000 women of

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YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-23 00:24:49

YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban YouTube - owned by Google - had argued it shouldn't be blocked for children as the platform "offers benefit and value to younger Australians": "It's not social media," it said in statement on Wednesday. Under the ban, teenagers will still be able to view YouTube videos but will not be permitted to have an account, which is required for uploading content or interacting on the platform. The video sharing site was set to be excluded fro

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Pixel 10 leak hints it’s getting the magnetic Qi2 charging you’ve been waiting for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-23 14:57:09

TL;DR A leak has provided new renders and details about the Pixel 10 series and some of its accessories. One of the renders shows a caseless Pixel 10 with a Qi2 charger attached. This would suggest that the Pixel 10 series will have magnets built in. With all of the Pixel 10 leaks that have surfaced in the last couple of weeks, you would think that there wouldn’t be anything left to spoil. But it turns out that belief was wrong. Another leak has popped up, and it appears to support the existe

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Positron believes it has found the secret to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips — here’s how it could benefit enterprises

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-23 16:45:40

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 As demand for large-scale AI deployment skyrockets, the lesser-known, private chip startup Positron is positioning itself as a direct challenger to market leader Nvidia by offering dedicated, energy-efficient, memory-optimized inference chips aimed at relieving the industry’s mounting cost, power, and availability bottlenecks. “A key diffe

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PayPal to let US merchants accept over 100 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-24 09:36:00

In context: Thanks to strong support from the Trump administration, cryptocurrencies are gaining significant momentum in the financial market. PayPal is closely watching this growing interest in crypto and will soon roll out a game-changing update for the entire online marketplace. Over the next few weeks, PayPal will roll out a new "Pay with Crypto" option. The feature will reportedly allow businesses worldwide to accept more than 100 cryptocurrencies at checkout, though international buyers m

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Microsoft is revamping Windows 11’s Task Manager so its numbers make more sense

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 14:18:03

Microsoft devotes most of its time and energy these days to promoting new AI- and Copilot-related features for Windows 11, but the company's Windows Insider builds are still full of small tweaks and changes aimed at improving longstanding Windows features for people who just want to use their PC the way they always have. New updates that began rolling out to testers in the Windows Insider program yesterday include a couple of small but meaningful changes for Windows power users. First, Microsof

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What was the first ransomware attack to demand payment in Bitcoin?

techspot.com Unknown 2025-12-26 21:50:00

Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: CryptoLocker (2013) When Verizon bought AOL in 2015, how many people were still paying for dial-up Internet? In the world of cybersecurity, ransomware is a well-known menace, but its evolution into the era of cryptocurrencies marked a major turning point. The first ransomware attack to demand payment specifically in Bitcoin was CryptoLocker, which emerged in September 2013. CryptoLocker was a g

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Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children

news.ycombinator.com Shane O'Sullivan 2025-12-27 08:21:13

I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages – my daughters were 3 and 5 when I started, and are 7 and 9 now, so I’ve seen how they use it almost daily at various ages. I’ve learned a few things about designing for their usability and how it differs from some more common patterns found in adult focused applications. Topics Covered Minimize Text Use If you want ki

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France's warship builder Naval Group investigates 1TB data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-27 14:31:55

France's state-owned defense firm Naval Group is investigating a cyberattack after 1TB of allegedly stolen data was leaked on a hacking forum. The company characterized this as a "destabilization attempt" and a "reputational attack," to which it has responded by filing a complaint to protect its client's data. Meanwhile, Naval Group is investigating with the assistance of external experts to determine if the leaked data originated from them. Despite the gravity of the claims, the company main

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Why this SSD docking station is one of the best investments I've made for my PC

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-27 18:03:00

Sabrent USB SSD Docking Station ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $72. This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair. The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn't get in the way of performance. View now at Amazon At Amazon, the Sabrent USB SSD docking station is currently on sale for $72, a savings of $18. It seems I'm always running out of room on my iMac drives. Why

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Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 03:00:45

Agrawal was in the room, too. "I was on the crew that needed to count the pieces," he told Ars. "I didn’t know the significance of what was happening until after many years, but the Chinese had clearly changed the nature of the space environment." The 2007 anti-satellite test also clearly changed the trajectory of Agrawal's career. We present part of our discussion with Agrawal below, and we'll share the rest of the conversation tomorrow. The text has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity

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Fourble turns lists of MP3 files hosted anywhere into podcasts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 05:58:35

Browse by category This functionality is currently under construction, but you can now also (to some extent) browse the archives by category.

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Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others

news.ycombinator.com Ledford 2025-12-28 05:19:11

Ageing of many tissues accelerates around age 50, according to an analysis of tissues in people ranging from teenagers to individuals in their sixties.Credit: Karen Haibara/AFP/Getty It is a warning that middle-aged people have long offered the young: ageing is not a smooth process. Now, an exhaustive analysis of how proteins change over time in different organs backs up that idea, finding that people experience an inflection point at around 50 years old, after which ageing seems to accelerate.

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12 of the Best Peacock Shows You Can Stream Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 17:06:37

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement 12 of the Best Peacock Shows You Can Stream Right Now Love Island USA and the Chicago franchise aren't the only reasons to have Peacock.

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The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 08:14:51

Preamble As it turns out, font rendering is a highly controversial topic. If you don’t see anything wrong with Linux font rendering, please disregard this as a shitpost. Thanks. I spent the first 25 years of my life on Windows and therefore I am biased towards Windows font rendering with ClearType. I also agree with research which suggests that this rendering approach makes reading easier on the eyes. There are also some facts you can’t argue with, such as non-linear rendering without anti-ali

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Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 06:38:16

Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 was not what it was in the mid-90s or in 2000. In 1980, good programmers spent a lot of time thinking, and then produced spare code that they thought should work. Code ran close to the metal, even Scheme — it was understandable all the way down. Like a resistor, where you could read the bands and know

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Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 12:38:16

Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 was not what it was in the mid-90s or in 2000. In 1980, good programmers spent a lot of time thinking, and then produced spare code that they thought should work. Code ran close to the metal, even Scheme — it was understandable all the way down. Like a resistor, where you could read the bands and know

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The sad state of font rendering on Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 14:14:51

Preamble As it turns out, font rendering is a highly controversial topic. If you don’t see anything wrong with Linux font rendering, please disregard this as a shitpost. Thanks. I spent the first 25 years of my life on Windows and therefore I am biased towards Windows font rendering with ClearType. I also agree with research which suggests that this rendering approach makes reading easier on the eyes. There are also some facts you can’t argue with, such as non-linear rendering without anti-ali

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Google invests in carbon dioxide battery for renewable energy storage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 04:00:45

Google has announced that it has signed a global commercial partnership with Milan-based startup Energy Dome and has also invested in its long duration energy storage (LDES) tech for renewable energy. The deal, its first investment in LDES tech, entails using Energy Dome's carbon dioxide battery for the grids that power Google’s operations around the world. Batteries are used to keep excess energy generated by renewable sources, such as solar and wind, during peak production and when demand is l

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Around 6,000 websites to start checking ages in UK, Ofcom says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-31 00:30:21

Around 6,000 websites to start checking ages in UK, Ofcom says 31 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon & Andrew Rogers BBC News Share Save Getty Images Around 6,000 sites allowing porn in the UK will start checking if users are over 18 from Friday, according to the media regulator Ofcom. Dame Melanie Dawes, its chief executive, told the BBC "we are starting to see not just words but action from the technology industry" to improve child safety online. She told BBC Radio Four's Today programme th

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Latest Tech News

Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market

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Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility

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Dropbox is pulling the plug on its password manager

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Positron believes it has found the secret to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips — here’s how it could benefit enterprises

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Around 6,000 websites to start checking ages in UK, Ofcom says

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