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The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety

news.ycombinator.com Abhughes Does A Little Bit Of Everything At Cbc News In Toronto. She Has A Bachelor S Degree In Journalism Toronto Metropolitan University. You Can Reach Her At Abby.Hughes Cbc.Ca. 2026-02-06 00:20:55

When Aret Oymakas started selling diamonds years ago, engagement ring shoppers came in looking for one thing for their brides-to-be: a real, mined diamond. "It was just a diamond," said Oymakas, owner of Livia Diamonds in Toronto. "And you got what you were able to get … in terms of design and budget." These days, not so much. Lab-grown diamonds have become massively popular in recent years, giving the traditional, mined version a run for its money. Oymakas says natural diamonds made up 100

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Arvo Pärt at 90

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 11:03:03

In many ways Arvo Pärt and John Williams’s music couldn’t be further apart. One celebrates simplicity, purity, and draws much of its inspiration from sacred texts; the other captures strong emotions in sweeping orchestral scores. And yet the two men are today’s most performed contemporary composers. Bachtrack’s annual survey of classical music performed across the world placed Pärt second (John Williams is in the top spot) in 2023 and 2024. In 2022, Pärt was first, Williams second. This year, Pä

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The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language

news.ycombinator.com Alasdair Armstrong 2026-02-06 09:59:00

Implicit parameters are always integers, and they must appear first before any other parameters in the function type signature. The first argument can then just be omitted when calling the function, like so: Functions may also have implicit parameters, e.g. we can implement a zero extension function that implicitly picks up its result length from the calling context as follows: Sail will also ensure that the output of our function has precisely the length bits('n * 'm) for all possible inputs

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Tesla investors are growing wary of Elon Musk's futuristic promises

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2026-02-06 09:45:41

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. At Tesla , vehicle sales are slumping, profits are thinning and revenue from regulatory credit sales are poised to dry up due to Republican-led policy changes. In the past, CEO Elon Musk's futuristic promises have convinced investors to look past top and bottom line numbers. Not now. Following another fairly dismal earnings report this week, M

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Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-06 05:30:57

Defense tech company AeroVironment and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars to scout for water and possible human landing sites. The concept, dubbed "Skyfall," builds on NASA's extremely successful and revolutionary Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which became the first manmade object to achieve powered flight on another planet in 2021. It flew a whopping 72 times over three years, vastly exceeding expectations. AeroV

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If you have 90 minutes to spare, play the cyberpunk horror game s.p.l.i.t

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-06 06:00:33

s.p.l.i.t is the most badass typing game I’ve ever played. It’s actually more of a hacking simulator, cyberpunk thriller and puzzle experience than a typing game, but its core loop is bookended by sequences of high-intensity letter pecking with gruesome consequences — think Mavis Beacon as designed by Ted Kaczynski — and the final scenes have a way of searing themselves into your psyche. Not to mention, the whole thing takes place on a keyboard, no mouse or gamepad. So I guess it’s technically o

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Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others

news.ycombinator.com Ledford 2026-02-06 11:19:11

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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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2026-02-02 11:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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Floods and Other Disasters Kill More People at Night, but Not for the Reasons You Think

gizmodo.com Kate Yoder 2026-02-06 06:00:19

It was 4 a.m. on July 4 at Camp La Junta in Kerr County when Kolton Taylor woke up to the sound of screaming. The 12-year-old boy stepped out of bed and straight into knee-deep floodwaters from the nearby Guadalupe River. Before long, the water had already risen to his waist. In the darkness, he managed to feel for his tennis shoes floating nearby, put them on, and escape to the safety of the hillside. All 400 people at the all-boys camp survived, even as they watched one of their cabins float a

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Inside the struggle to create a cozy Lord of the Rings game

theverge.com Jackson Ryan 2026-02-06 06:00:00

When new employees start at Weta Workshop, they’re herded into a meeting room with a long, unassuming conference table. On the walls, behind panes of glass and in between statues, swords, and masks, are five Oscars. Four of them were awarded to the studio for its efforts on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films. New hires are offered a chance to hold one of those Oscars, but there’s a catch: handling the golden statuette marks you with a curse, preventing you from ever winning one yourself

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Tesla vet says that ‘reviewing real products’ — not mockups — is the key to staying innovative

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-02-06 09:00:00

GM’s EVs have been on a roll lately. After selling just the Chevy Bolt for years, a wave of new models — now up to 17 fully electrified vehicles — has pushed the automaker into second place in the U.S. behind Tesla. How did it get there? With a little help from a Tesla veteran. GM board member Jon McNeil was president of Tesla during the development and introduction of the Model 3, a crucial period of the company’s growth. One of the things he credits for Tesla’s success is how Elon Musk ran p

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Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-02-06 11:40:01

In Brief Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images. That number includes 13,000 selfies and photo IDs submitted for account verification, as well as 59,000 images from posts, comments, and direct messages, the company said. Tea also said that no emails or phone numbers were exposed, and that only users who signed up before February 2024 were affec

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Samsung DeX is taking a step back with One UI 8, and I don’t like it (yet)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-06 09:30:42

Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority Samsung DeX has been around for eight years, and for many, it’s become a core part of the Samsung experience. DeX gives us the ability to turn our Samsung phones and tablets into ultra-portable laptop replacements, provided all you need is Android apps and a browser. While DeX has gained plenty of features since its introduction, it’s still fundamentally the same as it was in 2017. That’s changing with One UI 8, though, as Samsung has rebuilt DeX upon Android

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The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2026-02-02 17:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-02 20:22:05

This is the second year I brought my Dad (a now-retired radio engineer and co-host of Geerling Engineering) to Open Sauce, a Bay Area maker faire-like event, dreamed up by William Osman and featuring hundreds of exhibits ranging from mad science, to vintage electronics, to games, to world-record-breaking Rubik's Cube solvers: Sprawling over the grounds of the San Mateo County Event Center, I met people of all ages who were building all sorts of zany contraptions. Sometimes practical, sometimes

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PSA: New Samsung foldables and Galaxy Watch 8 series still come with a gift card!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-06 06:22:34

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority All of these offers are available from Amazon. As such, all the freebies are Amazon gift cards (or Amazon credits, in the case of the Galaxy Watch 8). The deals are available for all available color versions. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Z Flip 7 FE The main difference now, compared to when the pre-order deals were available, is that you no longer get the storage upgrade for free. Additionally, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 gift card has been reduced

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Samsung on Apple’s upcoming foldable and AI assistants beyond Gemini with Galaxy S26 [Video]

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2026-02-06 10:11:58

In a new interview, Samsung’s Won-Joon Choi has commented on how Samsung will stay ahead when Apple releases its first foldable, as well as discussing… Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 are big improvements in the face of stiff competition from China, but they also come as the first foldable from Apple is on the horizon. In a new interview with Bloomberg, Samsung’s mobile President Won-Joon Choi was asked how Samsung will “keep its edge” following Apple’s debut, saying (edited for clarity):

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Headphone deals: Great prices from Samsung, Apple, and Marshall

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-06 20:17:06

Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Samsung offer is available from Woot, while the other sales come from Amazon. There are some price differences, depending on which color versions you want. We’ll go into more detail in each section below. Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro Situational awareness, and utility lights Compared to the nearly identical Buds3, the Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro offer better sound quality, thanks to 2-way speakers, and enhanced

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Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-02-06 20:00:00

Early-stage founders just can’t get away from TAM — the concept of having a total addressable market for their startup to disrupt and conquer. But Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: Many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent. “What was the market for search before Google?” Sardana asked the audience at TechCrunch’s 2025 All Stage event in Boston, held ea

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Phishing Email Alert

computer.org Jennifer Salazar 2026-02-07 00:33:17

We are aware of recent phishing emails impersonating Hironori Washizaki from a Gmail address. These messages are fraudulent and were not sent by the IEEE Computer Society. No internal systems have been breached. If you receive such an email, please delete it and do not respond. For questions or to report similar messages, contact [email protected]. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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Intel drops 8% as chipmaker's foundry business axes projects, struggles to find customers

cnbc.com Kif Leswing Samantha Subin 2026-02-07 05:01:09

Intel 's stock dropped more than 8% after the chipmaker said it would slash foundry costs in its latest attempt to turn around its struggling business. Concerns about where that leaves Intel's chip manufacturing business overshadowed a better-than-expected earnings report late Thursday. Intel beat on revenue and issued a sales forecast for the third quarter that also topped estimates. The company reported adjusted earnings of 10 cents per share, topping the average analyst estimate of a penny,

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Blender confirms iPad Pro app with full touch and Pencil support

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-07 05:00:04

Blender, the widely used open-source 3D creation software, is getting a tablet-first redesign, starting with full support for the iPad Pro. Here’s what to expect. In a detailed post at the Blender Developer Blog, Head of Product Dalai Felinto says that while tablets have been around for a while, “only recently, thanks to increased processing power, have they started to serve as primary computing devices.” He says Blender’s tablet push will include “Android and other graphic tablets in the futu

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Back-to-School Sales Tax Holidays 2025: Tennessee's Tax-Free Weekend Kicks Off Today, and 9 More Start Next Week

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-07 09:00:06

State sales tax holidays usually run for one weekend, though some states offer longer exemptions. Zooey Liao/CNET Back-to-school shopping season is in full swing, and if you're feeling the strain on your wallet, timing your purchases with a sales tax holiday can help you snag some extra savings. These tax-free shopping events typically center on back-to-school items, offering discounts on clothing, school supplies, laptops and athletic gear. This year, 17 states are participating in a tax-fre

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CNET Survey: 64% of People Still Don't Want a Foldable Smartphone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-07 09:06:00

Foldables have been a staple of the smartphone release cycle for years now, with products from companies like Samsung, Motorola and Google. Despite the refreshingly unique form factor in a sea of mobile uniformity, the vast majority of consumers still aren't sold. According to a CNET survey, 64% of respondents say they aren't willing or interested in buying a foldable smartphone in the next year, while just 13% say they are. An additional 20% aren't sure if they want a foldable and only 3% say

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Inside Tesla's new retro-futuristic Supercharger diner

cnbc.com Andrew Evers 2026-02-07 15:13:09

Tesla has opened the doors to its first diner Supercharger station in Los Angeles. CEO Elon Musk first teased the concept of building a drive-in themed charging station in 2018. On Monday, that vision was finally realized. Tesla describes the two-story restaurant, constructed of a steel exterior inspired by the Cybertruck, as retro-futuristic. It features 80 charging stalls and two 66-foot megascreens playing a rotation of short films, feature-length movies and Tesla videos. The diner operates

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Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with stock more than doubling in 2025

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-02-07 15:31:45

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, speaks on a panel titled Power, Purpose, and the New American Century at the Hill and Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Palantir has hit another major milestone in its meteoric stock rise. It's now one of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies. The provider of software and data analytics technology to defense agencies saw its stock rise about 3% on Friday to another record, lifting the company's market cap to $375 billio

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Samsung has its eye on Perplexity and OpenAI as it plans to expand beyond Gemini

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-07 15:22:18

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is reportedly looking to expand its AI offerings. The company is said to be in talks with multiple vendors, including OpenAI and Perplexity. The aim is to give Galaxy S26 users more choice over what AI model they use. Samsung has long been partnering with Google to bring Gemini to its Galaxy phones. While this partnership has served Samsung well, a new report suggests the company doesn’t want to be tied to only one outside AI model. The firm is s

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Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 02:44:47

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech 4 days ago Share Save Sam Gruet Technology Reporter Reporting from Vancouver Share Save Getty Images Digital trucking apps look to minimise trucks without cargo When Jared first started out in trucking more than two decades ago, he didn't anticipate he'd be on tour with a country music star, hauling guitars, amps, and other pieces of on-stage equipment. "It just happened, right place, right time," the Canadian driver, who prefers not to use his sur

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Facebook ranks worst for online harassment, according to a global activist survey

theverge.com Justine Calma 2026-02-07 15:40:23

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Activists around the world are calling attention to harassment they’ve faced on Meta’s platforms. More than 90 percent of land and environmental defenders surveyed by Global Witness, a nonprofit organization that also tracks the murders of environmental advocates, reported exp

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I spent a week with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, and it's an even bigger leap than expected

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-02-07 20:12:58

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 has officially launched with a starting price of $1,099 With a bigger cover screen, thinner form factor, and improved battery life, it is Samsung's best take yet on the foldable To better compete in the foldable market, it could use a better camera system and faster charging. View now at Samsung The Galaxy Z Flip lineup has been the most popular of Samsung's foldable devices, and its appeal is clear -- who can't benefit

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The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety

Arvo Pärt at 90

The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language

Tesla investors are growing wary of Elon Musk's futuristic promises

Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

If you have 90 minutes to spare, play the cyberpunk horror game s.p.l.i.t

Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

Floods and Other Disasters Kill More People at Night, but Not for the Reasons You Think

Inside the struggle to create a cozy Lord of the Rings game

Tesla vet says that ‘reviewing real products’ — not mockups — is the key to staying innovative

Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images

Samsung DeX is taking a step back with One UI 8, and I don’t like it (yet)

The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

PSA: New Samsung foldables and Galaxy Watch 8 series still come with a gift card!

Samsung on Apple’s upcoming foldable and AI assistants beyond Gemini with Galaxy S26 [Video]

Headphone deals: Great prices from Samsung, Apple, and Marshall

Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

Phishing Email Alert

Intel drops 8% as chipmaker's foundry business axes projects, struggles to find customers

Blender confirms iPad Pro app with full touch and Pencil support

Back-to-School Sales Tax Holidays 2025: Tennessee's Tax-Free Weekend Kicks Off Today, and 9 More Start Next Week

CNET Survey: 64% of People Still Don't Want a Foldable Smartphone

Inside Tesla's new retro-futuristic Supercharger diner

Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with stock more than doubling in 2025

Samsung has its eye on Perplexity and OpenAI as it plans to expand beyond Gemini

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech

Facebook ranks worst for online harassment, according to a global activist survey

I spent a week with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, and it's an even bigger leap than expected

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