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Why Ancestry Is the Best DNA Test Kit in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 11:40:00

When we first wrote this article, it compared 23andMe and Ancestry. Since then, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, a subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial struggles. As a result, we removed it from this comparison and now outline why AncestryDNA is the best at-home DNA kit for learning more about your heritage, ancestry and even your medical predispositions. If you've used 23andMe, here is how you can delete your account and data. You can also read mor

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Google Gemini Is Finally Conquering Nest Devices -- Will It Fix Voice Assistant Woes?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 12:00:00

After months of teasers and brief betas, Google has made it official: Gemini AI is replacing Google Assistant on all Nest and Google Home-related devices this year, officially called Gemini for Home. This version of Gemini starts rolling out in October with the same familiar "Hey Google" phrase but a whole new approach to voice commands. It's not only the death knell for Google Assistant in basically everything (I'm going to have to delete Assistant from the rest of my guides), but also a chanc

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Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters while protesting Israel contracts

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-15 12:33:08

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A Microsoft employee has been arrested as part of protests at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington this week. On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft’s headquarters to protest against the compan

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Nvidia is latest investor to back AV startup Nuro in $203M funding round

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-11-15 17:30:00

Nvidia is among a group of new investors to back Nuro — which develops self-driving software for delivery and ride-hailing services — in a funding round that has reached $203 million. The Silicon Valley startup announced Thursday that several investors, including existing backer Baillie Gifford, added another $97 million to its Series E round. New investors include Icehouse Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Nvidia, and Pledge Ventures. Uber, which last month said it would make a “multi-hundred-millio

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On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

technologyreview.com Charlie Metcalfe 2025-11-16 02:00:00

Supported by Kutkov’s technical expertise and Stepanets’s organizational prowess, Kovalskyy’s warehouse became the major repair hub (though other volunteers also make repairs elsewhere). Over time, Kovalskyy—who co-owned a regional internet service provider before the war—and his crew have learned to perform adjustments to Starlink terminals, especially to adapt them for battlefield conditions. For example, they modified them to receive charge at the right voltage directly from vehicles, years b

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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-11-16 03:00:00

And looking into the future, emissions from plastics are only set to grow. Another estimate, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, projects that emissions from plastics could swell from about 2 billion metric tons to 4 billion metric tons by 2060. This chart is what really strikes me and makes the conclusion of the plastic treaty talks such a disappointment. Recycling is a great tool, and new methods could make it possible to recycle more plastics and make it easier

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Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 17:17:01

In his article Why I chose OCaml as my primary language, my friend Xavier Van de Woestyne presents, in the section Dependency injection and inversion, two approaches to implementing dependency injection: one using user-defined effects and one using modules as first-class values. Even though I’m quite convinced that both approaches are legit, I find them sometimes a bit overkill and showing fairly obvious pitfalls when applied to real software. The goal of this article is therefore to briefly hig

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D4d4

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 14:42:32

A co-worker of mine was looking at some disassembled ARM code the other day, and discovered something weird. Lots of d4d4 instructions, scattered about. LLVM’s objdump says this is a relative branch to -0x58 . The weird part is that they were always unreachable. Experiments¶ Here’s an example in a minimal reproducer I wrote: 00020100 < one >: 20100: 4770 bx lr 20102: d4d4 bmi 0x200ae <__dso_handle+0x100ae> @ imm = #-0x58 That bx lr right before the d4d4 branches to the link register. In other w

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Trippy Image From Deep Space Shows Earth and Moon From 180 Million Miles Away

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-16 03:00:34

The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the probe looked back at its home planet and captured a rare view of Earth, accompanied by its Moon, as a mere speck engulfed by the dark void of space. NASA’s Psyche mission launched on October 13, 2023, and is assigned to explore a distant target in the main asteroid belt that’s believed to be the exposed core of a protoplanet. Before it reaches its destination, the imaging te

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SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-16 04:30:20

STARBASE, Texas—I first visited SpaceX's launch site in South Texas a decade ago. Driving down the pocked and barren two-lane road to its sandy terminus, I found only rolling dunes, a large mound of dirt, and a few satellite dishes that talked to Dragon spacecraft as they flew overhead. A few years later, in mid-2019, the company had moved some of that dirt and built a small launch pad. A handful of SpaceX engineers working there at the time shared some office space nearby in a tech hub buildin

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A Brompton Reborn: How to Future-Proof a Decades-Old Foldable Bike

wired.com Chris Haslam 2025-11-16 04:00:00

Good design involves technical ability, industrial know-how, creativity, innovation, adaptability, and a generous helping of luck to pull the strands together. Getting it right the first time almost never happens. Converse came close with the Chuck Taylor All-Star, of course, first launched in 1922 and barely altered since. Then there’s the Sharpie marker pen, which hasn’t changed since 1964. In London, in 1975, a Cambridge engineering graduate, Andrew Ritchie, came up with a ludicrous concept

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Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-11-16 04:33:10

The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI—after the protagonist of the “Monkey King” legend in Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong—the chatbot was introduced on the space station in mid-July, and has already completed its first mission: supporting three taikonauts during a spacewalk. Information about Wukong AI remains limited. Chinese authorities have said that they developed it from a domestic open-sour

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Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-16 05:07:11

Orange Belgium, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Orange Group, disclosed on Wednesday that attackers who breached its systems in July have stolen the data of approximately 850,000 customers. Orange Belgium provides fixed and mobile connectivity services to over 3 million customers in Belgium and Luxembourg, employs 1,500 staff, and claims to operate the largest 4G/5G network in the country. Last year, the company reported total service revenues of €1.34 billion. When BleepingComputer r

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The Illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity

news.ycombinator.com Stefano Marinelli 2025-11-12 16:27:57

Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity From the BSD Cafe to illumos Cafe The idea for this new project was born from the success of the BSD Cafe, an initiative I introduced to the world in July 2023, which received an incredibly positive response. Far more than I ever anticipated. The BSD community already had its well-established hubs: in the Fediverse, places like bsd.network, exquisite.social, and others were already thriving, not to mention all the forums, chann

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Python f-string cheat sheets (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 03:08:08

Python f-string cheat sheets See fstring.help for more examples and for a more detailed discussion of this syntax see this string formatting article. All numbers The below examples assume the following variables: >>> number = 4125.6 >>> percent = 0.3738 Example Output Replacement Field Fill Width Grouping Precision Type '4125.60' {number:.2f} .2 f '4,125.60' {number:,.2f} , .2 f '04125.60' {number:08.2f} 0 8 .2 f ' 4125.60' {number: 8.2f} 8 .2 f '4.1e+03' {number:.2g} .2 g '4125.6' {number:

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Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 03:06:05

I don’t think we have any actually good programming languages, and I don’t think I’m alone in believing this. Programming is hard, and language design is harder. We’re still learning. But I think they’re all failing us in a shockingly fundamental way. The root of the trouble is a distinction I’d like to draw between data and objects. Let me know if you think there are better terms to use. Programming languages give us tools to represent things. Sometimes these things are values: the integer 1.

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Aug. 21

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 02:43:37

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Humans intervened every 9 minutes in AAA test of driver assists

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-16 02:00:34

Advanced driver assistance systems—also known as ADAS—come in a few variations. Blind spot monitoring, collision warnings, and emergency braking act like a second pair of eyes and ears, monitoring the car's environment to warn the driver, or possibly intervene, if a crash looks imminent. Other systems are better thought of as convenience features—things like adaptive cruise control and lane keeping, which relieve some of the burden of driving. Among the newer of these is the traffic jam assist.

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Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in US as tariff fears persist

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-16 04:45:10

Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in US as tariff fears persist The price hikes come after US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on most of America's trading partners, including Japan, which has led to fears of rising costs. All three PlayStation 5 consoles will see a similar price increase. The most expensive Pro version now has a recommended retail price of $749.99. Like many global businesses, the firm faces a "challenging economic environment", Isabelle Tomatis, Sony Interactive Entert

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Microsoft's gutting of discounts for some clients likely baked into guidance, analyst says

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-16 04:18:04

Microsoft said last week that it plans to stop providing discounts on enterprise purchases of its Microsoft 365 productivity software subscriptions and other cloud applications. Since the announcement, analysts have published estimates on how much more customers will end up paying. But for investors trying to figure out what it all means to Microsoft's financials, analysts at UBS said the change is already factored into guidance. "In our view, it is safe to assume that the impact of the pricin

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Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza and JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 04:38:04

Monday, August 18, 2025 There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a normal way. They're not uniform at all. The toppings are random, but not the way I want. The colloquial understanding of "random" is kind of the Platonic ideal of a pizza: slightly chaotic but things are more or less spread out over the whole piece in a regular way. If you take a slice you'll get more of less the same amount of pepperoni as any other slice. And every bite

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Tour Championship 2025: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 03:00:03

The 30 top ranked golfers battle it out in Atlanta this weekend for the pivotal Tour Championship, with Scottie Scheffler aiming to become the first player to defend their FedEx Cup crown. Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. Scheffler heads to East Lake Golf Club after a dramatic victory at the BMW PGA Championship last weeken

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Guillermo del Toro Explains Why His Frankenstein’s Monster Looks So Unique

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-16 08:00:57

Clearly, we’re all very, very excited about Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which is coming to theaters on October 17 before arriving on Netflix on November 7. That’s because it’s del Toro, one of our most beloved filmmakers; his cast is incredible; and there has rarely been a better pairing of filmmaker and subject matter. One other thing has us hyped up too, and that’s Frankenstein’s monster. Del Toro loves a monster and, in a new interview, he talks about how he approached his monster diff

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The Cybertruck Is Such a Mess That Insurance Companies Are Refusing to Even Cover It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-16 12:19:57

The Cybertruck Is Such a Mess That Insurance Companies Are Refusing to Even Cover It Not even insurance companies want anything to do with it. Truck Putz Tesla's Cybertruck is turning out to be a full-blown disaster. Sales are circling the drain, with the Elon Musk-led automaker selling a mere 4,306 Cybertrucks in the second quarter of 2025, a stunning 50.8 percent drop over the same period last year. Resale values are cratering as well, with the value of a used Cybertruck plummeting by mor

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9to5Mac Daily: August 20, 2025 – iPhone 17 cases, Apple Watch with Touch ID?

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-11-16 12:14:49

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 Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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Sequoia backs Zed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 06:13:16

Nathan Sobo August 20th, 2025 Today we're announcing our $32M Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from our existing investors, bringing our total funding to over $42M. For the past four years, we've been building the world's fastest IDE, but that's just the foundation for what comes next. Our ultimate vision is a new way to collaborate on software, where conversations about code remain connected to the code itself, instead of being tied to aging snapshots or scattered across dif

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Introduction to AT Protocol

news.ycombinator.com Kuba Suder 2025-11-16 15:13:09

Some time ago I wrote a long blog post I called “Complete guide to Bluesky”, which explains how all the user-facing features of Bluesky work and various tips and tricks. This one is meant to be a bit like a developer version of that – I want to explain in hopefully understandable language what all the pieces of the network architecture are and how they all fit together. I hope this will let you understand better how Bluesky and the underlying protocol works, and how it differs from e.g. the Fedi

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How to Track Hurricane Erin: See Which States Are Currently at Risk

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 15:48:00

As Hurricane Erin heads north up the East Coast this Wednesday, residents are paying close attention to see where the storm will land and which cities may be in danger. As we write this on Wednesday afternoon, Erin is now a 110-mph Category 2 hurricane, but that can change quickly. Read more: Beyond Boarding Up: How to Prep Your Smart Home Security for a Hurricane The latest projections show the storm aiming for Boston, but veering back out into the Atlantic before causing too much damage. How

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America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-16 17:32:35

When Hurricane Helene ravaged western North Carolina in September 2024, one of its many victims was a manufacturing plant that made intravenous fluids. The sterile IV solutions produced in the plant are essential supplies for hospitals and other medical facilities, which use them in various treatments, from rehydration to drug delivery and kidney dialysis. And the plant damaged by Helene—Baxter International's North Cove manufacturing facility in Marion—didn't just make some of the US supply; it

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21 Best Early Labor Day Sales on WIRED-Tested Gear (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-11-16 17:07:07

Labor Day is not until September 1, but retailers are already offering oodles of Labor Day deals. The unofficial end of summer, a celebration of the American worker's contribution to our national prosperity, brings with it bargains on WIRED-tested gear, including home office essentials and some of our favorite gadgets. For the next couple of weeks, we'll be cruising and perusing for the latest true discounts on the gear we recommend to our friends—and rounding them all up for you below. Check o

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Latest Tech News

Why Ancestry Is the Best DNA Test Kit in 2025

Google Gemini Is Finally Conquering Nest Devices -- Will It Fix Voice Assistant Woes?

Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters while protesting Israel contracts

Nvidia is latest investor to back AV startup Nuro in $203M funding round

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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem

Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects

D4d4

Trippy Image From Deep Space Shows Earth and Moon From 180 Million Miles Away

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A Brompton Reborn: How to Future-Proof a Decades-Old Foldable Bike

Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station

Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers

The Illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity

Python f-string cheat sheets (2022)

Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Aug. 21

Humans intervened every 9 minutes in AAA test of driver assists

Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in US as tariff fears persist

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Tour Championship 2025: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

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Sequoia backs Zed

Introduction to AT Protocol

How to Track Hurricane Erin: See Which States Are Currently at Risk

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change

21 Best Early Labor Day Sales on WIRED-Tested Gear (2025)

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