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Waymo has set its robotaxi sights on NYC

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-03-17 12:59:04

Waymo said Wednesday it has applied for a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City, the Alphabet company’s first step in a sticky regulatory process to bring its robotaxis to U.S.’s largest city. Waymo applied for a permit with the New York City Department of Transportation to operate its self-driving Jaguar I-Pace vehicles with a human safety operator behind the wheel in Manhattan. New York’s autonomous vehicle demonstration or testing permit requires a human driver to be able t

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Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-03-17 17:21:25

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Amazon -owned autonomous vehicle startup Zoox on Wednesday opened a sprawling new manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, paving the way for more robotaxi production as it plans a commercial rollout of its fleet later this year. The company will use the site in Hayward, California, to increase its robotaxi fleet significantly. The facility is currently producing one robotaxi per

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Companies That Replaced With Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:10:39

According to tech billionaire and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 2025 was supposed to be the year "when AI agents will work." Despite widespread hype, so-called "AI agents" — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it. Still, that didn't stop business executives from swarming to the software like flies to roadside carrion, gutting entire dep

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"Mansplaining Audacity": President of Signal Watches in Bemusement as Random Man Explains Her Company's AI Strategy to Her

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:30:23

The act of mansplaining is alive and well on social media. Since what feels like the dawn of time, overconfident men have condescendingly explained how things work, even when they're woefully wrong and unqualified. Look no further than a baffling exchange on Bluesky after Meredith Whittaker, the president of encrypted chat platform Signal and chief advisor to the AI Now Institute, promised "no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does." It was a striking comm

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Samsung’s Android XR headset may be ready for launch sooner than you’d think

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:29:28

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR A new report claims Samsung will hold a launch event for its XR headset on September 29, 2025. The headset will be released in South Korea on October 13, with global availability coming later. Project Moohan will be compatible with most Android smartphone and tablet apps to pad out the amount of available content. Samsung has been fairly quiet about Project Moohan since its unveiling back in January. The Android XR headset has been shown off a couple of

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Deals: 24GB M4 MacBook Air $200 off all-time low, most affordable M4 MacBook Pro $200 off, AirPods, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2026-03-17 17:42:56

While we have some hangover offers on iPads and AirPods, today’s best deals are all about the Mac. The Mac mini deals roll on at up to $150 off, but today we are focused on a new all-time low hitting the 24GB 15-inch M4 MacBook Air at $200 off and a series of MacBook Pro offers. Amazon has now dropped the most affordable M4 MacBook Pro down to $1,399, or $200 off the list price, to join some ongoing offers on higher-end configurations. All of that and more awaits below in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch

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Framework Laptop 12 review: Doing the right thing comes at a cost

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:00:14

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Earlier this year, Framework announced it was making a smaller, 12-inch laptop and a beefy desktop to go alongside its 13- and 16-inch notebooks. A few months later, and the former has arrived, putting the same modular, repairable laptop into a slightly smaller body. Unlike its bigger

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Google is adding the Veo 3 video generator to YouTube to slopify Shorts

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:53:39

Google will integrate the Veo 3 video generation tool into YouTube Shorts later this summer. This was revealed by YouTube CEO Neal Mohan at a keynote during the Cannes Lions film festival that was transcribed by The Hollywood Reporter . This means that creators will be able to whip up endless clips via prompts, as Mohan said "the possibilities with AI are limitless." He went on to opine that "anyone with a story to share can turn their dream into a career" and "anyone with a voice can bring peo

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Microsoft 365 to block file access via legacy auth protocols by default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:14:28

Microsoft has announced that it will start updating security defaults for all Microsoft 365 tenants in July to block access to SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office files via legacy authentication protocols. These changes will also address application access permissions that can expose organizations to unnecessary security risks. The rollout is set to begin in mid-July 2025, with an estimated completion date by August 2025. Microsoft will enable them by default for all Microsoft 365 tenants, across

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Save up to $210 on the WD Elements external HDD at B&H Photo

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2026-03-17 17:30:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Grab the Victus 15L gaming desktop for just $600 at HP

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2026-03-17 17:55:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Think of a Number

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Xenaproject 2026-03-14 14:34:44

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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Show HN: I built a tensor library from scratch in C++/CUDA

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:20:05

DSC About DSC is a PyTorch-compatible tensor library and inference framework for machine learning models. It features a C-compatible low-level API that is wrapped in a modern Python API very similar to NumPy / PyTorch but with some nice usability improvements. Some key features of DSC include: Intuitive API : DSC Python API closely resembles NumPy / PyTorch. Built-in neural networks support : DSC comes with nn.Module built-in. Porting a model from PyTorch to DSC is trivial (check out the ex

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This USB-C Car Charger From Anker Is Going for Peanuts, Not Sure It’ll Get Any Cheaper Than This

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2026-03-17 17:10:31

If your phone battery always seems to dip into the red while you’re behind the wheel, you’re not alone. It’s a problem tons of people deal with. It doesn’t matter if you’re commuting to work, driving across town for errands, or heading out on a road trip, having a solid car charger is more important than ever. And if your current charger is slow, unreliable, or just not cutting it, this one might be the solution you’ve been looking for. See at Amazon You can head to Amazon to get the Anker USB

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Rated Five Stars by 5,000 Reviews, These Anker Noise Cancelling Earbuds Are Now Just $28

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-17 17:25:13

There are occasions when it just isn’t worth it to invest $200 or $300 in premium earbuds like AirPods Pro. Anker is a brand that specializes in making affordable and reliable electronic accessories, from chargers to earbuds, and their Soundcore brand is one that delivers quality audio products with consistently high reviews. The Soundcore P30i noise-cancelling earbuds are one example with features and performance on a level with far more expensive models. Even at their standard price, the earb

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Best Buy Has HP’s 14″ 2-in-1 Laptop for Almost 50% Off to Compete With Amazon’s Early Prime Day Deal

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-03-17 17:40:00

Why choose between a laptop or a tablet when you can get one device that can be both? Best Buy has the Lenovo Envy 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop at a pretty sizable discount. Normally priced at $800, but for a limited time you can get it for $380 off. That brings it down to just $420—a discount of about 48%. The HP Envy laptop supports Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution in it’s 14-inch touchscreen. The bezel is super thin allowing the active area of the laptop to reach the very edge. It’s running on an

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Zoox's New Manufacturing Facility Can Pump Out 10K Robotaxis a Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 17:00:02

Table of Contents Zoox's New Manufacturing Facility Can Pump Out 10K Robotaxis a Year As it gears up for its commercial launch, self-driving company Zoox on Wednesday shared that it's opened a 220,000-square-foot serial production facility for its purpose-built robotaxis. Located in Hayward, California, it's deemed to be the first-ever such facility in the US and will allow for the assembly of around 10,000 robotaxis a year. "The number of Zoox robotaxis we produce will grow and scale to match

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Klarna Enters the Suddenly Bustling MVNO Space With Mobile Phone Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 17:02:00

Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later financial services company, is introducing a mobile phone plan the company says it will promote to its 25 million US customers. Klarna is partnering with Gigs, a San Francisco company that provides MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) services, allowing companies to create their own wireless brands. MVNOs seem suddenly popular: in the last week, the Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile with its own gold phone on the way and the popular SmartLess podca

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Trump suggests he needs China to sign off on TikTok sale, delays deal again

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:28:59

The White House confirmed that Donald Trump has extended the deadline for a TikTok sale for a third time, Reuters reported Wednesday. Now, China-based ByteDance has 90 days to divest its US assets or potentially be forced to shut down US operations. Trump's announcement came one day before the June 19 deadline he established through his last extension. That extension was necessary after Vice President JD Vance failed to make a "high-level" deal expected in April, which Politico branded a "make

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Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran’s Financial System

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2026-03-17 15:40:12

The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in history, twice disabling thousands of gas station payment systems across Iran and once even setting a steel mill in the country on fire. Now, in the midst of a new war unfolding between the two countries, they appear to be bent on burning Iran's financial system. Predatory Sparrow, which often goes by its Farsi name, Gonjeshke Darande, in an effort to appear as a

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US Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

wired.com Emily Mullin 2026-03-17 17:37:23

The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday upheld the state of Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. In a 6–3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, the justices found that Tennessee’s law is not unconstitutional. The central issue of the case was whether Tennessee’s ban violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which states that the government cannot discriminate against individuals based on their race, gender, or other characteristics. The rulin

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Some Animal Crossing Lego sets are cheaper than ever

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2026-03-17 17:52:56

I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten back into Animal Crossing: New Horizons in a pretty big way since the Switch 2 arrived. I’ve started a new island (the game loads faster and runs better on that console), and I’ve been doing house chores to the relaxing music. The natural progression of my invigorated fandom will likely lead me to buy Lego’s Animal Crossing-themed sets — and what great timing, as some of them are discounted . You can build some of the most iconic landmarks from your islan

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YouTube launches new Shopping product stickers for Shorts

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-03-17 17:19:39

YouTube is updating the Shopping experience for Shorts, the company announced on Wednesday. The platform is launching new Shopping product stickers to make it easy for viewers to know that the products being used in the Short are shoppable. The new stickers could be a way for creators to increase their earnings. During its testing last month, YouTube found that Shorts with Shopping product stickers saw over 40% more clicks on products than Shorts with the Shopping button, it said. Previously,

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Tubi now features content from popular YouTube channels like Mythical Kitchen and more

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2026-03-17 17:52:30

In a bid to broaden its content library and attract a younger demographic, Fox-owned streaming service Tubi announced on Wednesday a new program that brings content from well-known YouTubers. The new Creators program features over 500 videos of episodic content from six YouTubers, including Rhett and Link’s company, Mythical Entertainment, among others. By partnering with creators who already have a loyal following, Tubi aims to attract fans of their content and enhance Tubi’s appeal in an inc

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Pro-Israel hackers destroy $90 million in Iran crypto exchange breach, analytics firm says

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-03-17 20:55:24

Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex, was hacked for more than $90 million Wednesday, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The funds were drained from platform wallets into addresses bearing anti-government messages explicitly referencing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, pointing to a politically motivated cyberattack, Elliptic said. Pro-Israel hacking group Gonjeshke Darande, or "Predatory Sparrow," claimed responsibility for the attack and said it wou

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Check your bank account — you may have some surprise money from the 2021 T-Mobile data breach

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-17 20:03:25

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Kroll is distributing payments as part of a $350M settlement for T-Mobile’s 2021 data breach, which affected over 76 million US users. Most users are getting either $56.54 or $226.19, but we’ve spotted reports for receipts going up to $375. Those eligible for over $600 are allegedly being asked to fill out a W-9. Only those who filed valid claims in 2022/2023 will receive their share of the settlement. If you’re a T-Mobile customer and you just received m

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The first Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 handheld is here, complete with a shocking 10,000mAh battery

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-17 20:21:56

AYANEO TL;DR The AYANEO Pocket S2 is the first device with a Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 chipset. The standard model has a 8,000mAh battery, with the Pro model upping that to 10,000mAh. It’s available for pre-order now, with shipping expected to start at the end of July. AYANEO is the most boutique brand when it comes to Android gaming handhelds, and its latest release doesn’t pull any punches. The AYANEO Pocket S2 is now available on Indiegogo, and it sports the latest chipset, an upgraded design,

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macOS Tahoe’s new Spotlight clipboard manager leaves plenty of room for powerful third-party apps

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-17 20:28:47

The new Spotlight is easily my favorite macOS announcement from WWDC25. It may even be my favorite update across all of Apple’s platforms this year. Still, I don’t plan on abandoning my current clipboard manager. Here’s why. The addition of a native clipboard history tool to macOS feels like one of those small but meaningful quality-of-life upgrades we’ve been waiting forever to get. That said… I’m not switching. Don’t get me wrong: I love that Apple is acknowledging clipboard history as a po

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Garmin’s new sleep tracker offers a week of battery life

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 20:23:50

Sleep tracking is nothing new in Garmin’s fitness watches, but the company’s latest wearable is a dedicated smart sleep band. The Index Sleep Monitor offers week-long battery life with continuous pulse ox tracking for monitoring your blood oxygen saturation while you sleep. Garmin’s tracker is worn on the upper arm — which should hopefully make it more comfortable — where it tracks a variety of metrics: skin temperature; light, deep and REM sleep stages; and variations in your heart rate and br

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Prime Day deals include three months of Audible for only $3

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 20:37:34

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The bumper 2025 edition of Amazon's Prime Day is fast approaching and the deals are starting to emerge. While we've seen this offer pop up several times in the past, it's one that's always worth highlighting. New Audible subscribers can get three months of access to the Premium Plus pl

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Waymo has set its robotaxi sights on NYC

Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

Companies That Replaced With Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

"Mansplaining Audacity": President of Signal Watches in Bemusement as Random Man Explains Her Company's AI Strategy to Her

Samsung’s Android XR headset may be ready for launch sooner than you’d think

Deals: 24GB M4 MacBook Air $200 off all-time low, most affordable M4 MacBook Pro $200 off, AirPods, more

Framework Laptop 12 review: Doing the right thing comes at a cost

Google is adding the Veo 3 video generator to YouTube to slopify Shorts

Microsoft 365 to block file access via legacy auth protocols by default

Save up to $210 on the WD Elements external HDD at B&H Photo

Grab the Victus 15L gaming desktop for just $600 at HP

Think of a Number

Show HN: I built a tensor library from scratch in C++/CUDA

This USB-C Car Charger From Anker Is Going for Peanuts, Not Sure It’ll Get Any Cheaper Than This

Rated Five Stars by 5,000 Reviews, These Anker Noise Cancelling Earbuds Are Now Just $28

Best Buy Has HP’s 14″ 2-in-1 Laptop for Almost 50% Off to Compete With Amazon’s Early Prime Day Deal

Zoox's New Manufacturing Facility Can Pump Out 10K Robotaxis a Year

Klarna Enters the Suddenly Bustling MVNO Space With Mobile Phone Service

Trump suggests he needs China to sign off on TikTok sale, delays deal again

Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran’s Financial System

US Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

Some Animal Crossing Lego sets are cheaper than ever

YouTube launches new Shopping product stickers for Shorts

Tubi now features content from popular YouTube channels like Mythical Kitchen and more

Pro-Israel hackers destroy $90 million in Iran crypto exchange breach, analytics firm says

Check your bank account — you may have some surprise money from the 2021 T-Mobile data breach

The first Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 handheld is here, complete with a shocking 10,000mAh battery

macOS Tahoe’s new Spotlight clipboard manager leaves plenty of room for powerful third-party apps

Garmin’s new sleep tracker offers a week of battery life

Prime Day deals include three months of Audible for only $3

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