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9 Best Hotel Rewards Programs for Elevating Your Next Stay

wired.com Paris Wilson 2025-12-17 09:00:00

Joining a hotel’s rewards program can feel like being admitted to an exclusive club. By frequently staying at a particular brand’s hotels, you can accrue points that are redeemable for all kinds of perks, including free or low-cost room upgrades, a meal on the house, and even a free night's stay. Choosing the best hotel rewards program for you depends on a variety of factors, most importantly, where and how often you travel. But just as crucial is your travel style: Are you content with small c

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Breathwork, Biohacking, and Cryotherapy: New Buzzwords for Modern Business Travelers

wired.com Jen Murphy 2025-12-17 09:02:59

Peptide cocktails, plasma exchange therapy, infrared sauna sessions, and methylene blue drips. These are just a few of the biohacks that keep Peter Phillips feeling invincible. For the past three years, the 53-year-old tech executive has worked with doctors at Extension Health, a longevity clinic in New York City, to craft a blueprint to help him combat the declines that come with age. “I’m on the cusp of immortality,” he says. Every six weeks, he pops into the clinic for a full body reboot tha

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Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share

news.ycombinator.com Juha-Matti Santala 2025-12-17 14:36:01

I love dotfiles. “Dotfiles” is a term that refers to configuration files used to configure software and operating systems. They are called such because often these files start with a dot. You may have seen .bashrc , .tmux.conf or .zshrc in the wild. Whenever a software doesn’t offer direct file-based configuration, I feel sad because it means I need to take extra steps to keep my configuration across different devices in sync or when setting up a new machine. I love sharing. I regularly publ

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Best Video Doorbells of 2025: Eyes on Your Front Door

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 12:26:00

The app view from a Lorex doorbell on a phone. Lorex/Amazon Does it work with smart home platforms? If so, do the smart features work well together? Nowadays a smart home device is expected to work with at least one major smart home platform. Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple HomeKit are the main ones you need to look for. Apple support is harder to find but if the rumors are right Apple is due to release its own security camera before long and support should become more common. Note t

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The Extravagant Rise of the Corporate Incentive Trip

wired.com Anna Silman 2025-12-17 14:40:00

Business travel doesn’t typically conjure up the most glamorous images: working group sessions in overlit conference rooms, awkward dinners with coworkers at unmemorable chain restaurants. But for some lucky employees, there’s a special subset of work travel that isn’t just something to look forward to but something to fight for: the corporate incentive trip. Mark, a former sales director at LinkedIn who asked to not use his real name, is a frequent flyer in the world of corporate incentive tra

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These Democrats Think the Party Needs AI to Win Elections

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-17 14:52:56

The 2024 election cycle saw artificial intelligence deployed by political campaigns for the very first time. While candidates largely avoided major mishaps, the tech was used with little guidance or restraint. Now, the National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC) is rolling out the first official playbook making the case that Democratic campaigns can use AI responsibly ahead of the midterms. In a new online training, the committee has laid out a plan for Democratic candidates to leverage AI to

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Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-12-17 14:00:00

Instagram is getting several new features that pull from competitors, and it’s updating a controversial feature that it added earlier this year. Starting today, users will have the ability to repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts. And similar to TikTok, reposts will be collected in a designated tab on your profile and sprinkled into the feeds of people who follow you. It’s a small but meaningful shift from how Instagram currently operates: until now, the most efficient way to s

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Instagram takes on Snapchat with new ‘Instagram Map’

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-17 14:00:00

Instagram is rolling out Instagram Map, a new feature that lets users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content. The Meta-owned social network is also launching reposts, and making its “Friends” tab in Reels available globally. With its new map feature, Instagram is copying yet another popular feature from Snapchat, after cloning the app’s core Stories functionality back in 2016. Instagram is coming for Snap Map’s crown, a feature that recently surp

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NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 16:23:42

The fastest, most reliable open-source trading platform Trade any asset class in one platform. Event-driven backtests on any historical data. Live trading with no code changes.

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The Tech That Keeps Planes Flying for Ultra-Long-Haul Flights

wired.com Mitch Moxley 2025-12-17 18:00:00

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the maiden flight of the Airbus A380, the double-decker, wide-body aircraft that remains the largest passenger plane ever built. At 10:30 am local time on April 27, 2005, the giant, four-engine aircraft lifted off from the airport in Blagnac, a suburb of Toulouse in southern France, and did a quick loop of the area, staying within about 100 miles of the tarmac. When it took its first commercial flight six months later, the A380—which typically seats more t

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The Internet’s Biggest Travel Nerd Shares Pointers on Points

wired.com Jaclyn Trop 2025-12-17 18:00:00

In an ever-expanding internet kingdom of travel-reward nerds, Gary Leff reigns supreme. He has penned the blog View from the Wing for 23 years while maintaining a full-time career as a chief financial officer at a university research center. But miles, points, and rewards are not merely a side hustle or a second job; they’re a lifestyle. “I couldn't tell you how long I spend on the blog, because I’m doing the things that I enjoy anyway,” says Leff. “I’m enough on the spectrum that I forget anyo

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The Download: OpenAI’s open-weight models, and the future of internet search

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-17 23:10:00

The news: OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. Unlike the models available through OpenAI’s web interface, these new open models can be freely downloaded, run, and even modified on laptops and other local devices. Why it matters: These releases re-establish OpenAI as a presence for users of open models. That’s particularly notable at a time when Meta, which had previously dominated the American open-model landscape with its Llama models, ma

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The smallest change in the latest iOS 26 beta should be a guiding principle for Apple

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-17 22:15:53

We yesterday highlighted what is quite possibly the smallest user-facing change in the latest iOS 26 beta: the ability to revert the camera app slider to its previous direction. While this is in itself a very tiny change, I do think it ought to be a guiding principle for Apple’s approach to user interfaces … To me, there are two different ways in which you can judge a user interface. The first is how intuitive it is. In other words, can you immediately see how to perform a function even if yo

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NautilusTrader: Open-Source, High-Performance Algorithmic Trading Platform

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 22:23:42

The fastest, most reliable open-source trading platform Trade any asset class in one platform. Event-driven backtests on any historical data. Live trading with no code changes.

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Best Home Security Cameras Without Subscriptions in 2025: Save on Safety

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 22:00:00

Does the camera have the ability to listen to audio and initiate a two-way conversation using the app? Does the camera have night vision that can cover the space you have in mind? Is the app easy to understand, control and use to change settings? Does the camera work with your existing home security system or your preferred voice assistant? Can video be stored without fees? Is it local storage under your control or cloud storage? Do you have to purchase your own storage device? Can you share

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Houston, you’ve got a space shuttle… only NASA won’t say which one

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-17 23:31:25

The head of NASA has decided to move one of the agency's retired space shuttles to Houston, but which one seems to still be up in the air. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), who earlier this year introduced and championed an effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston, issued a statement on Tuesday evening (August 5) applauding the decision by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy. "There is no better place for one of NASA's space shuttles to be displ

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Samsung revives the Galaxy S20 Ultra with one more update

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 08:48:38

David Imel / Android Authority TL;DR The Galaxy S20 Ultra has received a security update, a few months after Samsung officially pulled support for the device. This update only applies to the Verizon model for now, though. Samsung’s 2020 flagship launched with the promise of four major OS upgrades and five years of security updates. The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra was released back in 2020 as the company’s first Ultra phone. The phone officially became unsupported earlier this year, but Samsung

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Microsoft pays record $17 million in bounties over the last 12 months

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-18 08:18:43

Microsoft paid a record $17 million this year to 344 security researchers across 59 countries through its bug bounty program. Between July 2024 and June 2025, the researchers submitted a total of 1,469 eligible vulnerability reports, with the highest individual bounty reaching $200,000. These reports helped resolve more than 1,000 potential security vulnerabilities across various Microsoft products and platforms, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Windows, Edge, and

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Best travel VPNs 2025: Expert-tested for streaming and avoiding censorship

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-12-18 08:15:15

You don't need to leave your privacy at home when you travel. A virtual private network (VPN) can keep your data safe, mask your IP address online, and provide you with protection while you're away from home. Trusted VPNs encrypt and route your traffic through dedicated networks, and you should always consider using one when you travel to avoid cyberthreats. VPNs can also circumvent censorship blocks in the country you visit, including the UK's new age verification laws, and may help you access

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Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

wired.com Elizabeth Chappell 2025-12-18 09:11:37

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the doctor said I wouldn’t last more than three days.” These are the words of Kazumi Kuwahara, a third-generation hibakusha—a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan 80 years ago. Kuwahara, who still lives in Hiroshima, was in London on May 6 this year to give a speech at a V

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The Amaranth hardware description language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 12:49:02

The Amaranth project provides an open-source toolchain for developing hardware based on synchronous digital logic using the Python programming language. It aims to be easy to learn and use, reduce or eliminate common coding mistakes, and simplify the design of complex hardware with reusable components. The Amaranth toolchain consists of the Amaranth language, the standard library, the simulator, and the build system, covering all steps of a typical FPGA development workflow. At the same time, i

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Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second

news.ycombinator.com Rebecca Mcdonald 2025-12-18 03:47:07

Download a print-friendly version of this article. Los Alamos scientists are good at doing things that seem impossible, like taking a picture of something that happens in less than seven-millionths of a second—such as an explosion. And not just one picture, but a series of images that reveal pivotal data about the material that exploded and the physics of the explosion. This so-called dynamic imaging is essential to the Lab’s stockpile stewardship mission because it helps scientists test and un

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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 16:35:40

The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now 3 days ago Share Save Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Share Save Australian Museum Before koalas became Australia's animal ambassadors, the country tried platypus diplomacy In 1943, a camouflaged ship set off from Australia to England carrying top secret cargo - a single young platypus. Named after his would-be owner, UK prime minister Winston Churchill, the rare monotreme was an unprecedented gift from a country des

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The iOS 26 Beta Just Unveiled New Details About the Apple Watch Ultra 3

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 11:47:00

Apple may have accidentally tipped its hand with the latest iOS 26 beta: Imagery found within the build display pictures of an Apple Watch Ultra that doesn't match any existing products. The Apple Watch Ultra 3 imagery was discovered by MacRumors, and the resolution of the new Apple Watch's display doesn't match any other product. That might confirm that this model is Apple's new wearable, which is set to release this fall. An Apple representative didn't immediately respond to a request for co

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In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 14:20:30

In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was limited to minimally processed food compared to when they switched to a diet that included ultraprocessed versions of foods but was otherwise nutritionally matched. The trial, published in Nature Medicine by researchers at University College London, adds to a growing body of evidence that food processing, in addition to simple nutrition content, influences our weight and health. Ultraprocessed foods hav

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Banned Steam game VILE: Exhumed is back as a free shareware title

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-18 18:52:20

After her game was banned from sale on Steam in a baffling decision with no appeal option , solo developer Cara Cadaver has made VILE: Exhumed available as shareware under a Creative Commons license. The project can be downloaded for free, but players can opt to donate in support of the solo developer's work. Both Cara and publisher DreadXP will pay forward those donations, with 50 percent of the game's profits being given to the Toronto-based charity Red Door Family Shelter . The group aids fam

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Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-18 18:16:39

Danish jewelry giant Pandora has disclosed a data breach after its customer information was stolen in the ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Pandora is one of the largest jewellery brands in the world, with 2,700 locations and over 37,000 employees. "We are writing to inform you that your contact information was accessed by an unauthorized party through a third-party platform we use," reads a Pandora data breach notification sent to customers. "We stopped the access and have further stren

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HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 18:29:49

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency. “We reviewed the science, listened to the

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Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

news.ycombinator.com Joël Yawili 2025-12-18 23:14:49

Today we’re announcing a new way to bring your ideas to life in the Gemini app: personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration. Simply describe any story you can imagine, and Gemini generates a unique 10-page book with custom art and audio. For a truly personal touch, you can ask Gemini to draw inspiration from your own photos and files. Bring your vision to life in any style imaginable: from pixel art and comics to claymation, crochet, and even coloring books, in more

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Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 10:59:47

Perhaps a more revealing aspect of the Manifesto was the claim that: “Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, Brazil had discovered happiness.” This statement conferred a local imprimatur on a vision that applied, and perhaps still applies, in Europe and North America of far-off Brazil as a kind of natural and human paradise, a place not only abundant, tropical, and permissive, but also one where race has become unimportant — a fantasy, of course, but one worth holding on to. In the same year a

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Latest Tech News

9 Best Hotel Rewards Programs for Elevating Your Next Stay

Breathwork, Biohacking, and Cryotherapy: New Buzzwords for Modern Business Travelers

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Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

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HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

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