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Seriously, Acer's new 16-inch featherweight laptop makes the MacBook Air seem heavy

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-23 22:45:00

Acer Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Acer announced a slew of new laptops at IFA in Berlin, but the Swift Air 16 is one of the most exciting. The 16-inch laptop has a starting weight of 2.18 pounds - one of the lightest on the market. There are some trade-offs with getting a 16-inch laptop down to this size, specifically with battery life. Acer announced a new 16-inch featherweight laptop at IFA in Berlin yesterday, weighing just 2.18 pounds for

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Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 18:39:38

A little game by the name of Hollow Knight: Silksong just released, and it has thrown platforms into chaos. As you can see from images captured by the Eurogamer team, the likes of Steam was brought to a grinding halt as many flocked to get their hands on the highly-anticipated sequel. Meanwhile, several of us have been unable to add the game to our carts across Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. The PS store, for example, is stuck on Wishlisted at the time of writing. In the words of our Connor: "

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Could We Probe an Interstellar Object Before It Zips Out of the Solar System?

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-23 22:35:42

In June, a mysterious object was spotted hurtling through the inner solar system on a hyperbolic path. It was later confirmed as an interstellar object, the third such entity from outside our solar system to be seen in the night skies. The rare discovery has prompted a scientific scramble to understand the object and its origins, including potential probes to study it up close. Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) put together a mission study that outlines how a spacecraft coul

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'The Thursday Murder Club' Has a Few Obvious Easter Eggs, and a Couple Hidden Ones, Too

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 22:00:03

Each week, Netflix drops a list of the top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week ending Aug. 31, the new crime caper The Thursday Murder Club was the No. 2 film on the platform. The film is a who's who of British talent, starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie as a quartet of sleuths living together in a retirement home called Coopers Chase. Their pastime is researching cold murder cases, and when one of the owners of their (gorgeous, castle-

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Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-23 22:47:28

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink’s attempt to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis, citing pending applications by another person for the same trademarks. Neuralink, the brain implant company co-founded by Elon Musk, filed to trademark the names in March. But in letters sent to Neuralink in August, the trademark office is refusing to allow the applications to move forward. It says Wesley Berry, a computer scientist and co-founder of tech star

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Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-23 22:56:29

Waymo has been cleared to serve its first airpot in California: San Jose Mineta International. The company announced Thursday that it will start testing its robotaxis there in the coming months, and that it plans to start offering commercial rides by the end of the year. The company has spent years working toward serving airports in its home state. Waymo was going back-and-forth with officials at San Francisco’s airport back in 2023 but was rebuffed. Earlier this year, though, Waymo was granted

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Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-24 01:02:33

With artificial intelligence integrating — or infiltrating — into every corner of our lives, some less-than-ethical mental health professionals have begun using it in secret, causing major trust issues for the vulnerable clients who pay them for their sensitivity and confidentiality. As MIT Technology Review reports, therapists have used OpenAI's ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) for everything from email and message responses to, in one particularly egregious case, suggesting ques

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Apple’s Wallet app just made it easier to ‘pay later’ for purchases

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-24 02:45:05

Ever since Apple Pay Later was abruptly discontinued last year, Apple has been steadily adding third-party ‘pay later’ services as alternatives. And now thanks to an Apple Wallet update, those options are easier to find and use than ever before. Apple Wallet now has a ‘Pay Later Options’ menu with streamlined setup Before today Apple Pay already included support for using third-party ‘pay later’ services such as Klarna and Affirm. But the way that’s historically worked has been pretty hidden a

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Google's Circle to Search can now translate text as you scroll

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 02:15:55

Google's Circle to Search tool just got a bit more useful, as it can now continuously translate text while scrolling . Until now, people had to restart the process every time the content on the screen changed. The update ensures the translation feature will keep on ticking along. Google says this is great for getting "more context for social posts from creators who speak a different language" or when browsing "menus when you’re booking restaurant reservations while traveling abroad." Just tap t

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The first TVs with Gemini built in arrive later this month

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 02:50:29

TCL has announced the QM9K, its latest flagship QD mini LED television series. The QM9Ks will be the first panels in the industry to feature Gemini on Google TV, a new feature that we first learned about at the start of this year. TCL/Google Using the standard "Hey Google" voice prompt, viewers will be able to find a movie or TV show, ask questions using natural language about any topic and even control smart home products that are synced through Google Home. Google TV on the QM9K also support

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Perplexity's $200 AI browser is free for students now - with more discounts to keep using it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-24 02:27:43

SOPA Images/Contributor/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Perplexity is offering students one free month of Perplexity Pro. The company is positioning Comet as "study buddy, and tutor." AI is rapidly becoming a fixture in the classroom. Like it or not, artificial intelligence is becoming a fixture in the classroom. This is being pushed along at a brisk pace by tech companies eager to get their products into the hands

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Anker's coin-size AI recorder can transcribe and summarize your meetings - in one click

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-24 02:55:24

Anker Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Anker's new AI voice recorder is about the size of a quarter. The device can summarize and transcribe meetings automatically. It will cost $100 plus an optional monthly subscription. Anker wants to make recording your meetings simpler than ever. The company announced its newest device today, the Soundcore Work. A small AI-powered voice recorder that's designed to be worn at meetings, the device can summarize a

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We built an interpreter for Swift (a compiled language)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 01:39:03

Bitrig dynamically generates and runs Swift apps on your phone. Normally this would require compiling and signing with Xcode, and you can’t do that on an iPhone. To make it possible to instantly run your app, we built a Swift interpreter. But it’s an unusual interpreter, since it interprets from Swift… to Swift. One of the top questions we’ve gotten is how it’s implemented, so we wanted to share how it works. To make this more accessible and interesting, we simplified some of the more esoteric

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Age Simulation Suit

news.ycombinator.com Wolfgang Moll 2025-10-24 01:41:24

GERonTologic simulator GERT The age simulation suit GERT offers the opportunity to experience the impairments of older persons even for younger people. The age-related impairments are: ■ opacity of the eye lens ■ narrowing of the visual field ■ high-frequency hearing loss ■ head mobility restrictions ■ joint stiffness ■ loss of strength ■ reduced grip ability ■ reduced coordination skills GERT for only 1390,‑ / £ 1250,- complete as pictured, plus shipping and VAT if applicable N

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A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 01:45:39

Last week, I was talking to a PM who'd in the recent months shipped their AI agent. The metrics looked great: 89% accuracy, sub-second respond times, positive user feedback in surveys. But users were abandoning the agent after their first real problem, like a user with both a billing dispute and a locked account. "Our agent could handle routine requests perfectly, but when faced with complex issues, users would try once, get frustrated, and immediately ask for a human." This pattern is observe

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Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Engineers, AES, and Senior PMM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 02:01:21

Why you should join Artie We are building Artie, a real-time data streaming solution focused on databases and data warehouses. Typical ETL solutions leverage batched processes or schedulers (DAGs, Airflow), which cannot achieve real time data syncs. We leverage change data capture (CDC) and stream processing to perform data transfers in a more efficient way, which enables sub-minute latency.

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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-23 21:12:31

Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and CEO of Atlassian, speaks at the National Electrical Vehicle Summit in Canberra, Australia, on Aug. 19, 2022. Cannon-Brookes is urging Australia to show more ambition on climate action, even as the new government legislates plans to strengthen the country's carbon emissions cuts. Atlassian said it has agreed to acquire The Browser Co., a startup that offers a web browser with artificial intelligence features, for $610 million in cash. The companies aim to clo

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Oh, Biscuits! ‘Bluey’ Movie to Hit Cinemas August 2027

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-23 23:32:49

Parents, start those timers and mark those calendars: The Bluey Movie has a release date. It’s August 6, 2027. A mere 701 days away. We first heard that a feature-length film based on the incredibly popular Australian kids TV series was in development in 2024, and it will feature the titular blue heeler dog, Bluey, and her parents, Chili and Bandit, and little sister Bingo. Series creator Joe Brumm will write, direct, and executive produce the film, and the show’s voice actors Melanie Zanetti

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‘Strange New Worlds’ Has Terminal Prequel Brain

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-24 02:30:20

Strange New Worlds has been having a rough go of it this season. From tonal misfires to episodes that have swung for gimmicks over engaging with the material questions they raise, the show has traded depth for breadth in terms of the sheer variety of spaces it explores. But one thing has become clear over the course of the season that becomes crystal in its penultimate episode: the only time the show is willing to knuckle down and really focus is when it wants to ride on the coattails of the Tre

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DeepSeek Is Working on an AI Agent: Will It Be Better Than ChatGPT?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 01:38:49

China-based DeepSeek is working on developing a new agentic generative AI model, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. Agentic AI is the latest wave of AI technology. AI agents are a kind of digital assistant; they can complete tasks without a lot of human oversight. AI agents can do anything from coding to ordering you a pizza, as my colleague Imad Khan recently tested. Details about the specifics of the DeepSeek agent model are still fuzzy. An August update to DeepSeek's V3 model was

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Commercials Are Coming to NFL RedZone This Season... Sigh

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 02:31:55

The game of football is perfectly suited for television. Like most sports, football provides a natural break at the end of each quarter or half of play, as well as after a team scores, where the TV broadcast can cut to a commercial. Unlike other sports, a change in possession in football requires a full replacement of every player on the field, giving broadcasters additional opportunities for ad breaks as players run off and on the field. Football fans know this much before sitting down to watc

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Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-24 02:00:00

After recently being spotted testing a way to share longer text, Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is now officially rolling out the feature that allows users to attach up to 10,000 characters of text to their post. The addition has been designed with the needs of creators in mind, as it supports linking out to content outside of Threads, like newsletters, blogs, podcasts, and more. Before this update, Threads supported 500 characters — which is already far more than the 280 characters offered to X

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Musk will not attend Trump tech CEO dinner at White House

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-24 06:59:56

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, arrives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for an inaugural event in the White House's renovated Rose Garden on Thursday. Invitees include Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, according to a list conf

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The brightest Google TV projector so far just debuted at IFA 2025

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 06:00:19

XGIMI TL;DR XGIMI has unveiled the Horizon 20 Series with Google TV at IFA 2025. The new projector lineup includes the Horizon 20, 20 Pro, and flagship 20 Max with 5,700 ISO lumens. Pre-orders open on September 5 in the US and UK, with shipping beginning in October. XGIMI is turning up the brightness in home entertainment. This afternoon at IFA 2025, the company introduced the Horizon 20 Series, its most luminous projectors yet, featuring Google TV. With this launch, XGIMI sets its sights sq

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Your old Google phone may be getting this Pixel 9 livestreaming feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 06:48:59

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel’s Connected Cameras feature is appearing on older models, such as the Pixel 6a, 7, and 8 Pro. Google’s support page still lists the Pixel 9 series as the only officially supported hosts. The tool lets you use another Pixel or GoPro as a remote camera for livestreams in apps like YouTube and TikTok. Google’s Connected Cameras feature is handy for turning another Pixel phone or GoPro into a remote camera for livestreams. It was initially billed as

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If you’re upgrading wireless router, look for this brand new standard

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-24 06:00:00

If you’re planning to replace your wireless router with a new one and you have a smart home, there’s a new certification you’re going to want … When your home Wi-Fi router is more than a few years old, one of the best moves you can make when it comes to improving your connection and improving the reliability of your smart home products is to upgrade to a more modern model. For smart homes, you’ll want to check your planned purchase comes with a brand new certification: Wi-Fi for Matter. That’s

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Google Photos gets Veo 3 integration, bringing in even more AI tools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 06:00:42

The video-generation model Veo 3 has come to Google Photos, bringing even more AI tomfoolery to the platform. This allows users to do all sorts of wacky things. First and foremost, the pre-existing photo to video feature has been significantly improved. Google says that it can now be used to turn "still images into even higher-quality clips." There's also a tool called Remix that transforms photos into various styles, like anime drawings, comic book illustrations, 3D animations and more. This i

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New TP-Link zero-day surfaces as CISA warns other flaws are exploited

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-24 06:21:19

TP-Link has confirmed the existence of an unpatched zero-day vulnerability impacting multiple router models, as CISA warns that other router flaws have been exploited in attacks. The zero-day vulnerability was discovered by independent threat researcher Mehrun (ByteRay), who noted that he first reported it to TP-Link on May 11, 2024. The Chinese networking equipment giant confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is currently investigating the exploitability and exposure of the flaw. Though a pat

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Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 12:08:52

Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles Version 1.0 - 2014-02-24 - cleanup, add metapuzzle and solving tools sections Version 0.9 - 2014-02-18 0. About This Document This document is advice for writing puzzles. It is specifically geared toward the MIT Mystery Hunt, though the techniques and ideas will likely be useful in other puzzle-writing. The target audience is those who have participated in one or a few puzzle hunts, but not written a substantial number of puzzles before. I will

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Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

news.ycombinator.com Darius Snieckus Rory White 2025-10-24 05:51:26

Pichai added that he knew the “road ahead would not be easy,” but Google “aimed to prove that a carbon-free future is both possible and achievable fast enough to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.” “Today, I’m proud to announce that we intend to be the first major company to operate carbon free — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,” he said, in a video announcement . Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020

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Latest Tech News

Seriously, Acer's new 16-inch featherweight laptop makes the MacBook Air seem heavy

Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

Could We Probe an Interstellar Object Before It Zips Out of the Solar System?

'The Thursday Murder Club' Has a Few Obvious Easter Eggs, and a Couple Hidden Ones, Too

Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues

Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI

Apple’s Wallet app just made it easier to ‘pay later’ for purchases

Google's Circle to Search can now translate text as you scroll

The first TVs with Gemini built in arrive later this month

Perplexity's $200 AI browser is free for students now - with more discounts to keep using it

Anker's coin-size AI recorder can transcribe and summarize your meetings - in one click

We built an interpreter for Swift (a compiled language)

Age Simulation Suit

A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Engineers, AES, and Senior PMM

Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

Oh, Biscuits! ‘Bluey’ Movie to Hit Cinemas August 2027

‘Strange New Worlds’ Has Terminal Prequel Brain

DeepSeek Is Working on an AI Agent: Will It Be Better Than ChatGPT?

Commercials Are Coming to NFL RedZone This Season... Sigh

Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links

Musk will not attend Trump tech CEO dinner at White House

The brightest Google TV projector so far just debuted at IFA 2025

Your old Google phone may be getting this Pixel 9 livestreaming feature

If you’re upgrading wireless router, look for this brand new standard

Google Photos gets Veo 3 integration, bringing in even more AI tools

New TP-Link zero-day surfaces as CISA warns other flaws are exploited

Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles

Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

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