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There's a Giant Problem With SpaceX's Starlink Satellites

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 14:27:06

Astronomers' attempts to peer into the earliest reaches of the universe could be threatened by thousands of SpaceX Starlink satellites leaking radio emissions that ruin observations made with highly sensitive telescopes. As New Scientist reports, a team of researchers led by Curtin University radio astronomy professor Steven Tingay tracked the signals of almost 2,000 Starlink satellites, with the help of a prototype telescope from the Square Kilometre Array, which is currently under constructio

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Google services are experiencing a major disruption right now (Update: Mostly fixed)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 15:29:48

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google reports a disruption impacting Gmail and many other Workspace services. Problems were first noticed a little over an hour ago, just before 11a PT. Companies beyond Google also appear to be dealing with some connectivity issues of their own. Update, June 12, 2025 (03:34 PM ET): Literally just one minute after publishing our report, Google has updated its status dashboard to share that the problems are more or less fixed. The company says that e

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PSA: Widespread internet outage affects Spotify, Google, Discord, AWS, Cloudflare, more

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-21 15:06:57

If you’re having trouble accessing multiple major services today, you’re definitely not alone. Reports from users, and confirmed by data from Downdetector, indicate a widespread internet outage is currently impacting a wide range of popular platforms and infrastructure providers. Among the affected services: Spotify Google services (including Google Cloud, Meet, Drive, and Nest) Discord CharacterAI Amazon Web Services (AWS) Snapchat Cloudflare Pokemon TCG Live FuboTV Etsy Downdetecto

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Google services are experiencing a partial outage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 15:48:45

Users have also reported issues with Spotify, Discord, Snapchat and more. Update: At about 2:30PM ET, Google posted that "All product impacts except Google Meet have recovered. Google engineers continue to work on full mitigation." However, reports of issues have remained high for some other platforms. Original story: Google reported disruptions to several of its services today. According to the company's app status page, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs,

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A massive Google Cloud outage messed up Google Home, Spotify, and other services

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-09-21 15:55:09

Our engineers have identified the root cause and have applied appropriate mitigations. While our engineers have confirmed that the underlying dependency is recovered in all locations except us-central1, we are aware that customers are still experiencing varying degrees of impact on individual google cloud products. All the respective engineering teams are actively engaged and working on service recovery. We do not have an ETA for full service recovery. We will provide an update by Thursday, 2

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Hotel management platform Canary nabs $80M Series D from BPC, YC, Insight Partners

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-21 14:30:00

Canary, the hotel guest management platform, announced Thursday the raise of an $80 million Series D in a round led by Brighton Park Capital. Harman Singh Narula and childhood friend SJ Sawhney launched the company in 2018 to help hotels digitize and automate guest interactions. The company has raised nearly $180 million in funding to date. “Running a hotel is increasingly complex,” Singh Narula told TechCrunch. “Guest expectations are constantly evolving, and staffing shortages continue to st

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At Least One ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Star Won’t Be Back for the Spinoff

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-21 19:15:34

With The Handmaid’s Tale wrapping up after six seasons, fans are now looking forward to sequel series The Testaments. It will have a new cast aside from Ann Dowd’s returning Aunt Lydia, but the creative forces behind both shows teased earlier this week that some other familiar faces could return. One that will not, however: Samira Wiley’s Moira. This comes from the actress herself, who admitted in a new interview that she’s quite ready to move on. “I wish I could tease and say ‘maybe,’ but that

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Change These 7 Nintendo Switch 2 Settings Before You Play Another Game

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 18:55:24

Fans are questioning why the brightness looks off on the Nintendo Switch 2 and getting frustrated with the functions of the A and B buttons. Fortunately, these are easily tweaked in the Settings menu, but they're not easily found. Since the Switch 2 has been out for only a week, a lot of people are still exploring all that it can do while enjoying their new portable gaming machine. It's understandable to just rip the package open and start playing, but to get the most out of the Switch successor

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The Best Budgeting Apps to Help You Take Control of Your Finances

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 19:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If monitoring your financial situation gives you anxiety, you're not alone. A recent survey from Secure Data Recovery found that 70% of Americans who track their spending feel anxious about it, as do 64% of those who track their savings. One way to reduce this anxiety is to let a budgeting app do the tedious work for you. Budget

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AI Overviews hallucinates that Airbus, not Boeing, involved in fatal Air India crash

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:25:24

When major events occur, most people rush to Google to find information. Increasingly, the first thing they see is an AI Overview, a feature that already has a reputation for making glaring mistakes. In the wake of a tragic plane crash in India, Google's AI search results are spreading misinformation claiming the incident involved an Airbus plane—it was actually a Boeing 787. Travelers are more attuned to the airliner models these days after a spate of crashes involving Boeing's 737 lineup seve

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Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs — today it IPO’d at $14.5B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-21 18:23:17

One of the year’s most anticipated IPOs took place on Thursday when neobank Chime raised $864 million in its IPO, pricing its shares at $27, which is above its previously announced range of $24 to $26. That gave it a starting market cap of about $9.8 billion. While some would point out that this is far below its last private valuation of $25 billion, according to PitchBook’s estimates, shares opened at $42, putting it at $14.5 by midday in heavy trading, according to Yahoo Finance. The hungry

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Hotel management platform Canary nabs $80M Series D from YC, Insight Partners

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-21 19:30:00

Canary, the hotel guest management platform, announced Thursday the raise of an $80 million Series D in a round led by Brighton Park Capital. Harman Singh Narula and childhood friend SJ Sawhney launched the company in 2018 to help hotels digitize and automate guest interactions. The company has raised nearly $180 million in funding to date. “Running a hotel is increasingly complex,” Singh Narula told TechCrunch. “Guest expectations are constantly evolving, and staffing shortages continue to st

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will end with a truncated fifth season

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:10:54

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will only visit around 26 strange new worlds before shuttling into that cancellation sunset. The show will end with a truncated fifth season of six episodes, according to reporting by Deadline . This news is relatively surprising, given that Strange New Worlds seems like the most popular and successful show of the modern era. However, not a single newer Trek series has made it past five seasons, so maybe that's just the way things go now. It's worth remembering tha

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China's digging out of a crisis, but America's luck is wearing thin – Ken Rogoff

news.ycombinator.com Dwarkesh Patel 2025-09-21 22:59:24

Ken Rogoff is the former chief economist of the IMF, a professor of Economics at Harvard, and author of the newly released Our Dollar, Your Problem and This Time is Different. On this episode, Ken predicts that, within the next decade, the US will have a debt-induced inflation crisis, but not a Japan-type financial crisis (the latter is much worse, and can make a country poorer for generations). Ken also explains how China is trapped: in order to solve their current problems, they keep leaning

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Becoming an AI-Native Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 20:55:11

Posted on June 10, 2025 I’m confident I’m not alone in saying I’ve spent a lot of time over the past couple of years thinking about AI as an engineer / developer and what it means for our field and for our careers. For a long time, software engineering felt like a safe bet. After all, how could we be automated away when we’re the ones writing the automation? Or so we thought. Like many, I’ve run the full gamut of emotions on the topic: excitement, uncertainty, fear, frustration, more excitemen

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Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:01:11

About Roame Our mission is to make travel perfect. Roame is a flight search engine using credit card points and miles. More than $69 billion worth of points issued every year. We empower over 1 million travelers to maximize the value of their points and miles. We are backed by top investors including Y Combinator, Goodwater, Accel’s starters fund, and angel investors including the leading figure within points. The Role We are hiring for a Lead Full Stack Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced,

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Google’s excellent TV Streamer (4K) is on sale just in time for Father’s Day

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-21 23:49:12

I love finding deals on devices that pull double duty, as it feels like it’s stretching my dollar even further. That’s why Google’s discounted TV Streamer (4K) caught my attention this week. It’s not just a powerful streaming device but also a great smart home hub — one you can currently grab from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Google for around $84 ($16 off), which is just $5 shy of its lowest price to date. Google’s latest set-top box is a clear upgrade over the company’s prior streaming dong

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Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs. Today it IPO’d at $14.5B.

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-21 23:23:17

One of the year’s most anticipated IPOs took place on Thursday when neobank Chime raised $864 million in its IPO, pricing its shares at $27, above its previously announced range of $24 to $26. That gave it a starting market cap of about $9.8 billion. While some would point out that this is far below its last private valuation of $25 billion, according to PitchBook’s estimates, shares opened at $42, putting it at $14.5 by midday in heavy trading, according to Yahoo Finance. The hungry response

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iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 02:04:59

QEMU README QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulat

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One Survivor Walks Away From Air India Plane Crash That Killed 241: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-22 03:35:39

A London-bound plane carrying 242 people crashed in Ahmedabad, India, shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Air India flight 171 crashed into B.J. Medical College, where early reports suggest dozens more have been killed on the ground, according to the New Indian Express. There was one survivor from the plane, according to the BBC. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh survived the crash, according to the Hindustan Times and the BBC, which cites Ahmedabad’s police chief GS Malik as a source. The man, a 40-year-ol

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Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey says the defense tech company will 'definitely' go public

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-20 14:02:19

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries will go public, founder and CEO Palmer Luckey said Tuesday. "We are definitely going to be a publicly traded company," he told CNBC's "Closing Bell: Overtime." "We are running this company to be the shape of a publicly traded company." He added that there isn't "really a path" for a company like Anduril to win significant trillion-dollar defense contracts without going public. Luckey did not detail an IPO timeline. Since its founding, Anduril has risen

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Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-22 06:01:41

A Boeing Dreamliner 787 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood with 242 people aboard mere moments after taking off from Ahmedabad in western India, exploding in an immense fireball. The cause of the immensely tragic loss of life remains unknown. As CNBC reports, it could take months to find out. The top-selling wide-body aircraft was delivered to Air India in 2014. According to a tweet by FlightRadar, the Boeing jet ascended to roughly 200 feet before plummeting back down at a "vertica

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Out of Words is an emotional co-op adventure illustrated with beautiful stop-motion animation

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-22 07:00:00

The two main characters of Out of Words are young teens who are falling in love in a coming of age story. But then disaster strikes as they lose their mouths. They try to talk, but can’t anymore. Their mouths are sewn shut. And so begins Out of Words, a co-op platformer adventure. Of all the games that I saw at the Summer Game Fest, this one was the best. The goal of the game is to find the lost voices of the puppet-animated characters. But unfortunately, we’ll have to wait for a while. It’s c

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Anker MagGo Foldable 3-in-1 Charger Is Now at All-Time Low on Amazon, Limited Stock Going Fast

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-22 07:40:14

Charging your phone and all the other tech items you use on a daily basis can be one of the clunkiest parts of your day. You’re typically having to juggle cables, trying to find the right port in the dark, or dealing with a charger that mysteriously stops working mid-charge. And it’s super annoying. No one wants to put themselves through all that just to juice their phone back up to a full charge. And no one should have to. Not when multitasking chargers like this one are on offer. See at Amazo

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Samsung Ads expands its GameBreaks with 4 new titles

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-22 10:00:00

Samsung Ads, the advanced advertising arm of Samsung Electronics, today announced a major expansion of its award-winning GameBreaks portfolio, adding four new interactive titles. Ripplash, the next new GameBreak, is now available for advertisers and builds on the momentum of The Six, the franchise’s inaugural game, which will expand to audiences in the United Kingdom for the first time later this year. Built natively for Samsung Smart TVs, GameBreaks is altering the utility of ad time by trans

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How brands can pursue the $11B in-game ad opportunity | Orange 142

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-22 10:00:00

In-game advertising is an $11 billion market, and Orange 142 has released a guide to help marketers unlock the opportunity. Orange 142 released a new best practices guide focused on in-game advertising. The guide is designed to help marketers unlock the full potential of gaming as a marketing channel, connecting with audiences in immersive environments without disrupting the player experience. Gaming platforms are one of the most engaged digital channels globally, with more than 3.2 billion pe

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The best Samsung phones of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-09-22 11:54:00

Samsung is heading into the summer with some serious momentum, with several flagship Android phones already under its belt in 2025, including the highly capable Galaxy S25 Ultra and ultra-thin Galaxy S25 Edge. The new devices round out the brand's versatile portfolio, from the productivity-focused Galaxy Z Fold 6 to the budget-friendly Galaxy A36 5G. Whether you're looking for cutting-edge camera features, all-day battery life, or a foldable screen that doubles as a tablet, there's a Samsung pho

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500 6-Core Is Now Near-Free With 54% Off, Currently One of Amazon’s Best-Selling Processors

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-22 11:40:19

If you’ve been toying with the idea of building a new PC or upgrading an older system, you’re in luck. You may have already noticed this, but prices on components like processors and GPUs have been steadily falling, and now’s the time to buy. Not sure where to start or what to buy first? We’ve got you covered, especially thanks to this deal that Amazon has offered up that can sweeten your gaming setup significantly, even if you’re more of an internet browser than a gamer. See at Amazon Head on

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Researchers teach robot to play badminton using Nvidia RTX machine learning

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-22 16:14:00

Why it matters: Ever since Boston Dynamics first showcased its famous legged robots in 2013, numerous organizations have introduced machines that autonomously perform various professional and recreational activities. The latest research utilizes badminton to develop a robot's agility and coordination, which could help advance training methods and maneuverability. Scientists at ETH Zürich recently published a study and video (below) explaining how they trained a quadrupedal robot to play badmint

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Anzu advances in-game ad offerings with Amex Ventures investment

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-09-22 15:00:00

Advertising solutions company Anzu announced today that it has received a new investment from Amex Ventures. The undisclosed amount will accelerate Anzu’s mission to provide intrinsic in-game advertising to premium companies. Amex Ventures joins Anzu’s existing investors, a list that includes PayPal Ventures, WPP, Emmis Corporation, and NBCUniversal, among others. According to Anzu, this investment will help to build out its solutions, scaling intrinsic ads in games while also providing measur

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Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs — today it IPO’d at $14.5B

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