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60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details

Six decades have now passed since some of the most iconic Project Gemini spaceflights. The 60th anniversary of Gemini 4, when Ed White conducted the first US spacewalk, came in June. The next mission, Gemini 5, ended just two weeks ago, in 1965. These missions are now forgotten by most Americans, as most of the people alive during that time are now deceased. However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying

The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance”

In May, President Donald Trump signed four executive orders to facilitate the construction of nuclear reactors and the development of nuclear energy technology; the orders aim to cut red tape, ease approval processes, and reshape the role of the main regulatory agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC. These moves, the administration said, were part of an effort to achieve American independence from foreign power providers by way of a “nuclear energy renaissance.” Self-reliance isn’t t

Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s foremost authority on the topic. But only some types of carbon removal are actually effective—and these are largely not the kind that major companies are investing in. A new report from the NewClimate Institute, a European think

What Are Ebike ‘Classes’ and What Do They Mean?

Over the past few years, electric bikes have skyrocketed in popularity (conscious decision not to use the word exploded there), with some estimates saying that ebike sales in the US grew tenfold over the last decade. Whether you are in the market for your first ebike or are borrowing one from your local lending library, you might be wondering what an ebike’s class denotes. There are three designations of ebikes in America—Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3—that are defined by a small handful of char

How a 2020 Rolex Collection Changed the Face of Watch Design

As the company that either invented or popularized the dive watch, the GMT watch, the first water-resistant watch, the first automatic watches, and much more besides, you could hardly downplay Rolex’s influence on watchmaking history. But while its iconic sports watches, like the Submariner, Daytona and GMT-Master are endlessly imitated, Rolex is not seen as a trendsetter, preferring to ignore passing horological fashions. It does its own thing, iterating carefully and minimally on its age-old t

Exit 8’s director was inspired by watching people play the game

Few video game adaptations understand their source material quite like the Exit 8 film. It takes the rules and structure of the game — which strands players inside of a looping hallway in a Tokyo subway station — and then builds on them with actual characters and a story. And according to director Genki Kawamura, one of the reasons that the movie feels so fresh could be because of how he approached it. “I wasn’t necessarily thinking about a film adaptation of a video game,” he tells The Verge. “

Adult Swim’s new stop-motion series is a celebration of Latin American culture

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Imagine if George Cukor’s The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series was directed by Pedro Almodóvar and its characters were brought to life with stop-motion animation instead of being portrayed by Hollywood heavyweig

Time is running out to get half off a year of Paramount Plus

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Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown

President Donald Trump made countering immigration one of his flagship issues during last year’s presidential campaign, promising an unprecedented number of deportations. In his first eight months in office, that promise turned into around 350,000 deportations, a figure that includes deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (around 200,000), Customs and Border Protection (more than 132,000), and almost 18,000 self-deportations, according to CNN. ICE has taken center stage in Trump’s

xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team

In Brief Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI laid off 500 team members on Friday night, according to internal messages viewed by Business Insider. These emails reportedly announce an immediate “strategic pivot,” with the company deciding to “accelerate the expansion and prioritization of our specialist AI tutors, while scaling back our focus on general AI tutor roles.” “As part of this shift in focus, we no longer need most generalist AI tutor positions and your employment with xAI will conclude,” xAI

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Chinese EV players take fight to legacy European automakers on their home turf

Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng speaks to reporters at the electric carmaker's stand at the IAA auto show in Munich, Germany on September 8, 2025. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Germany this week played host to one of the world's biggest auto shows — but in the heartland of Europe's auto industry, it was buzzy Chinese electric car companies looking to outshine some of the region's biggest brands on their home turf. The IAA Mobility conference in Munich was packed full of companies with huge stands showing off thei

I unified convolution and attention into a single framework

The operational primitives of deep learning, primarily matrix multiplication and convolution, exist as a fragmented landscape of highly specialized tools. This paper introduces the Generalized Windowed Operation (GWO), a theoretical framework that unifies these operations by decomposing them into three orthogonal components: Path, defining operational locality; Shape, defining geometric structure and underlying symmetry assumptions; and Weight, defining feature importance. We elevate this f

Close the loop: analytics that teach your chatbot to fix itself

Many chatbots stall for the same reason. Unanswered questions build up and nothing changes. Teams ship a release and move on. Users try again and give up. The way out is simple. Treat every miss as a signal. Capture it in a standard way. Decide whether it was noise or a real gap. Turn real gaps into small updates in guardrails or knowledge. Run that loop every week. Measure how fast it moves. Results improve without bigger models. Start with lean instrumentation Analytics only works if the tra

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion

Credits James O’Sullivan lectures in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where his work explores the intersection of technology and culture. At first glance, the feed looks familiar, a seamless carousel of “For You” updates gliding beneath your thumb. But déjà‑vu sets in as 10 posts from 10 different accounts carry the same stock portrait and the same breathless promise — “click here for free pics” or “here is the one productivity hack you need in 2025.” Swi

Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler (1)

More than three years in the making, with a concerted effort starting last year, my CPU-time profiler landed in Java with OpenJDK 25. It’s an experimental new profiler/method sampler that helps you find performance issues in your code, having distinct advantages over the current sampler. This is what this week’s and next week’s blog posts are all about. This week, I will cover why we need a new profiler and what information it provides; next week, I’ll cover the technical internals that go beyon

Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths

Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths The readymade pocket computer is replacing custom DSP. by Adam Douglas | 4,5 / 5,0 | 4,5 / 5,0 | Approximate reading time: 5 Minutes Raspberry Pi Synthesizers · Source: Korg, Raspberry Pi Previous Next ADVERTISEMENT The Raspberry Pi microcomputer is finding its way into more and more synthesizers. Do your synths have a slice of it inside? Read on to find out. ADVERTISEMENT Raspberry Pi Digital synthesizers are essentially compu

Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)

I like CPU architectures, especially weird, interesting and unusual ones. For example, the Intel iAPX 432 is still something I would love to play around with. Recently, I realized that a working CPU can be made with just a simple Move instruction. For this to work, everything needs to be memory mapped. The ALU, program counter, everything. Of course, this idea is nothing new and this idea is called the Transport Triggered Architecture. I decided to have a look into this, how it works and make a

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AI Coding

In my old age I’ve mostly given up trying to convince anyone of anything. Most people do not care to find the truth, they care about what pumps their bags. Some people go as far as to believe that perception is reality and that truth is a construction. I hope there’s a special place in hell for those people. It’s why the world wasted $10B+ on self driving car companies that obviously made no sense. There’s a much bigger market for truths that pump bags vs truths that don’t. So here’s your new

The 15 Most Dangerous Foods Hiding in Your Fridge That Could Make You Sick

About one in six Americans deals with a foodborne illness every year, which amounts to 48 million cases. And according to personal injury law firm Wagner Reese, there are certain foods that could be in your fridge right now that are more likely to cause food poisoning than others. Using Google search volume and TikTok trend growth, Wagner Reese assigned each food a weighted score based on a concern level of high, medium or mild. With this data, the firm found that the following 15 foods are the

Apple's High Blood Pressure Alerts: When and Where They'll Be Available

At its big iPhone event on Tuesday, Apple announced that it will soon launch hypertension notifications, joining similar alerts like those for sleep apnea, heart health and noise. However, these notifications for high blood pressure won't just be available on the new Apple Watch Series 11 or Ultra 3. Read on to find out if and when your Apple Watch will receive hypertension notifications. We also discuss how the feature works and what it means. Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and l

All the 'Awe Dropping' Announcements You Missed at Apple's Event

Each September, Apple's product release playbook dials up the unveiling of the company's newest line of iPhones, along with a variety of complementary gadgets. On Tuesday, the company took the wraps off the iPhone 17 in all its variations, most notably the new skinny iPhone Air, along with new Apple Watches -- Series 11 and Ultra 3 -- and an upgrade to its 2-year-old AirPods Pro 2 earbuds. Along with the hardware, Apple is rolling out the new versions of the devices' respective operating system

This Wearable Isn't Telepathic, but It Knows What You Want to Say

Telepathy is, until proven otherwise, still science fiction. But a new wearable announced this week aims to bring the world closer to silent communication, though it's more about using brain signals than the X-Men superpower. Alterego, developed by the MIT Media Lab, is a peripheral neural interface that allows us to converse with machines, artificial intelligence assistants and humans, without using our voice or externally observable movements. We first saw the Alterego as a prototype in 2018

The Free Ride for EVs in the Carpool Lane Is Coming to an End

A rough year for electric vehicle adoption just got a little rougher for owners in some parts of the US. Starting next month, EVs will no longer be able to ride in the fast lane in California, after the US federal government and Congress failed to reauthorize a popular program that has given hybrid and electric vehicles access to state carpool lanes—and worked to promote the sale of electrics for more than 25 years. Under the program, California drivers with qualifying electric, plug-in hybrid,

Gear News of the Week: Google’s Next-Gen Nest Cams Are Coming, and Sony Debuts a New Xperia Phone

Google has accidentally leaked its new Nest security cameras and video doorbell line. Setup options appeared in the Google Home app for wired versions of the Nest Cam Indoor (3rd gen), Nest Cam Outdoor (2nd gen), and Nest Doorbell (3rd gen), as reported by Android Authority. The options now appear to have been removed, but an eagle-eyed Redditor also found the new products locked up at Home Depot, ready to go on sale. Google has already confirmed that it plans to unveil new information about th

How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Parallelize Development

In my last post I talked about how I spent a week heads down using AI to work on a greenfield engineering metrics tool. As I built it, I’d often navigate the web app and spot things that needed to be fleshed out. Sometimes it was a small typo; other times it was a bigger feature that was still TODO. At one point I had Claude Code redesign the homepage to make it more lively. In doing so, it added some new functionality that didn’t fully exist yet: A “View All Insights” link that would show you

New record-low price: Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is already $140 off!

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic launched this July, and we’ve already seen some nice deals on it, but none of them are this good. This new record-low price decreases the cost to just $359.99, saving you a nice $140. Buy the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic in White for just $359.99 ($140 off) This offer is available from Woot, an Amazon-owned deals website. It comes with a full-year manufacturer’s warranty, so you won’t have to worry. The only caveat is that

Kefir: Solo-developed full C17/C23 compiler with extensive validation

To whom it may concern, Today I release Kefir — an independent C17/C23 compiler. Solo-built. Extensively validated, for x86_64 & System-V ABI. With SSA-based optimization pipeline, DWARF-5 support and position-independent code generation. What? Implements the C17/C23 standard. Plus certain GNU C extensions. For Linux (glibc & musl), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD. Extensive and transparent validation suite. Compiles and runs well-known open source projects — GNU core- and binutils, Curl, Git, Ngi

OCI Registry Explorer

Registry Explorer This beautiful tool allows you to explore the contents of a registry interactively. You can even drill down into layers to explore an image's filesystem. Enter a public image, e.g. "ubuntu:latest" : Enter a public repository, e.g. "ubuntu" : Interesting examples FAQ How does this work? This service lives on Cloud Run and uses google/go-containerregistry for registry interactions. Isn't this expensive to run? Not really! Ingress is cheap, Cloud Run is cheap, and GCS is

Automate compile_flags for C/C++ projects on the Zig build system

When using Zig’s build system for C/C++ projects, editors struggle to find include paths and provide proper code intelligence. compile_flagz solves this by automatically generating compile_flags.txt from your build.zig configuration. The Problem Recently I’ve been working on ROLLER, a decompilation project for the 1995 game, Fatal Racing (or Whiplash in NA). The game (known internally as Roller), is an early 3D game written in C with a bespoke engine. It also happens to be one of my favourite