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Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 11:49:34

New findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that the Earth’s continents have experienced unprecedented freshwater loss since 2002, driven by climate change, unsustainable groundwater use and extreme droughts. The study, led by Arizona State University and published today in Science Advances, highlights the emergence of four continental-scale “mega-drying” regions, all located in the Northern Hemisphere, and warns of severe consequences for water security, agricu

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HBO Max Lost Two More Cartoon Network Classics This Week

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-25 12:15:31

The current regime at Warner Bros. Discovery—soon to separate into Warner Bros. and Discovery in the near future—has never really liked its animated history. After licensing out old Cartoon Network hits and their sequel shows to different platforms, the company still have a few more shows to kick out of HBO Max. In this case, it’s Courage the Cowardly Dog and What’s New, Scooby-Doo that are now no longer on the service. Per Deadline, the two youth-aimed horror shows left the service on July 31

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SAP is acquiring SmartRecruiters

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-25 09:12:51

In Brief SAP announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to acquire recruiting software company SmartRecruiters. In a press release, the European software giant said that SmartRecruiters “powerful, user-friendly interfaces and seamless workflows” will complement SAP’s existing HR tools. Muhammad Alam, the SAP executive board member who leads product and engineering, said in a statement that with this acquisition, “Customers will be able to manage the entire candidate lifecycle — from so

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Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-25 14:29:14

The outcry after a recent marketplace crackdown on games with adult content, seemingly due to pressure from payment processors, prompted Mastercard to release a brief statement Friday pushing back against recent headlines. “Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media reports and allegations,” the company said, adding, “At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard

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Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-25 14:49:00

In Brief Apple has formed a new team to build a ChatGPT-like app, according to according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This team — reportedly called Answers, Knowledge, and Information — is working to build an “answer engine” that can respond to questions using information from across the web. This could be a standalone app or provide search capabilities in Siri, Safari, and other Apple products. Gurman also notes that Apple is advertising for jobs with this team, specifically looking for appli

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Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-25 09:12:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust WTF?! A new twist on package-related scams is drawing concern from federal authorities, as the FBI warns Americans to be vigilant when receiving unexpected parcels containing QR codes. According to a recent alert, criminals have begun exploiting the ubiquity of QR codes as a tool for financial fraud and identity theft. The scheme unfolds when an individual receives a package that's addressed to the

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Figma CEO's path from college dropout and Thiel fellow to tech billionaire

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-25 09:00:01

In this article FIG Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, signs the guestbook on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg may be the most famous college-dropout-turned-tech-billionaire. Dylan Field is the latest, after his design startup Figma soared in its stock market debut this week. The two entrepreneurs have something else in common: close ties to Pete

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This is the Google Maps feature I really want to see

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 09:00:23

Andy Walker / Android Authority Thanks to my extremely poor sense of direction, Google Maps is an essential travel app for me — for both short trips to different parts of the city, as well as longer routes that I have no chance of memorizing. I’ve come to love the traffic estimates, alternate route options, and the ability to avoid tolls. But there’s a feature that I think Google Maps sorely needs: warning users of dangerous routes with high crime, with alternative routes suggested. Do you tr

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Apple's MacBook Air M4 drops to a record-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 10:00:38

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 . If you've put off getting a new MacBook then today is your lucky day. Right now, the 2025 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air M4 are available on Amazon for record-low prices. The 13-inch model is our pick for best MacBook to buy this year. You can pick up the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 for $799,

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How to get another 15GB of Gmail storage for free (and without losing old files)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-25 08:00:13

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Every new Google email account comes with 15GB of free storage -- a solid offer at no cost. However, that space can fill up fast, especially since it also covers files in Google Drive and Google Photos. If your inbox is cluttered with unread newsletters and sneaky spam, there's a way to clean house without losing important messages. With the right approach, you can preserve what matters while giving yourself a fresh start. Also: Gmail is making it a whole lot easi

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The Ski Rental Problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 02:34:47

Ski Rental Problem The ski rental problem is a classic example problem in online algorithms. It feels like a small but interesting problem that can be explained relatively easily while some clever tricks can be applied to it. In this article, I took these lecture notes by Debmalya Panigrahi and Hangjie Ji and tried to rewrite them in a way that is easier to understand (at least for me). Formulation You are going skiing in the mountains but you are unsure about the weather reports and don't k

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How To Make (almost) Anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 08:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

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Imaging reveals intricate tattoos of 2,500-year-old Siberian ice mummy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 20:29:40

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals 4 days ago Share Save Georgina Rannard Science correspondent Share Save G Caspari and M Vavulin Scans of the ice mummy's skin revealed details of animals and birds on her arms and hands High-resolution imaging of tattoos found on a 2,500 year old Siberian "ice mummy" have revealed decorations that a modern tattooist would find challenging to produce, according to researchers. The intricate tattoos of leopards, a stag,

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The Best Foods to Put On Your Plate if You Have a Headache

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 08:03:03

If taking an aspirin or simply lying down isn't cutting it when you have a headache, you may want to consider what's on your plate for relief. While no food will cure headaches or migraines, certain foods may help -- in addition to hydration, exercise, sleep and stress management. "The most important thing I tell patients is that migraines are highly individualized," says Dr. Nicholas Church, a board-certified member of the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Ph

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Unitree Just Launched Its Most Affordable Humanoid Robot Yet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 09:00:12

Watch this: Unitree R1: The Cheapest Humanoid Robot Yet? 03:16 A new humanoid robot just dropped, and it's being advertised at the most affordable price I've ever seen for a humanoid robot of its size. Unitree's R1 humanoid robot starts at just $5,900. That's more than $10,000 less than the company's G1 humanoid, which starts at $16,000. While that's quite a low price in the humanoid robot market, where top-of-the-line models can cost more than $100K, it's essential to understand that Unitree'

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These Are the Photoshop AI Tools Worth Using: How I Use AI to Edit My Photos

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 09:00:14

You don't need to be a Photoshop expert to give its new generative AI a test drive. Adobe has added a number of AI features to its premiere photo editor over the past few years, and if you use Photoshop regularly, you've probably seen these pop up on your task bars. I spend a lot of time reviewing AI image generators and other AI creative software, so I had to put the original photo editor's AI to the test. AI might not be right for every project, especially for professional creators who regula

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Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time

wired.com Leila Sloman 2025-12-25 08:00:00

Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, but also taps into questions about the irreversible nature of time. “It’s a beautiful work,” said Gregory Falkovich, a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. “A tour de force.” Under the Mesoscope Consider a gas whose particles are very spread out. There are many ways a physicist might model it. At a microscopic level, the gas is composed of individual

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Self-Employed, Self-Exhausted

news.ycombinator.com Suleika Jaouad 2025-12-25 11:14:39

For most of my adult life, I’ve worked like I’m running out of time. Maybe because I am. (Aren’t we all?) The leukemia diagnosis and relapses certainly intensified the urgency I feel around work, but the truth is my sense of self-worth was tethered to my output long before that. I used to think that once I made it—got the book deal, built a steady-enough stream of freelance work, stashed away some savings to weather a health crisis or creative drought—I’d finally feel free to slow down when I w

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‘Batman’ and ‘Casper’ Are Coming Back to Theaters

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-24 18:15:48

This fall, the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy is coming back to theaters, and they won’t be alone. In the weeks and months ahead, fellow re-releases will include Tim Burton’s Batman duology and 1995’s Casper. In the former’s case, both 1989’s Batman and 1992’s Batman Returns will be a special, one-night event on August 25. Over 160 Dolby Cinema at AMC Theaters locations will play the two movies, and it looks like AMC’s putting enough enough distance between them for you to watch them in one go. A

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Tourist Spots ‘Extinct’ Jellyfish Not Seen in 50 Years

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-25 12:00:56

Jellyfish enthusiasts rejoice: Depastrum cyathiforme—a wrinkled, barrel-shaped jelly with tiny tentacles for hair—may not actually be extinct, despite being MIA for nearly 50 years. We can thank tourist Neil Roberts, who accidentally came across the jelly while on holiday in South Uist in Scotland. This particular stalked jellyfish was much-beloved during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, appearing in exquisite detail in illustrations by famous naturalists. Historical records suggested the jell

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How to Clean Your Mattress (2025)

wired.com Julia Forbes 2025-12-25 12:09:00

It’s important to know how to clean your mattress. Not just for day-to-day cleanliness and hygiene, but let’s say you’re dealing with an emergency—a “my mattress is ruined" situation where you have the frantic energy of an emergency clean-up crew. Is a trip to the dump inevitable? Not necessarily. Before you think, “I’m so clean, this would never happen to me!” I’m telling you, it can. I've seen a lot over the course of my career as a professional mattress tester and certified sleep coach. If y

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These are the best new MacBook deals for August: offerings as low as $599

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-25 05:00:07

In the Apple Silicon era, MacBooks have become more affordable than ever – with brand new models starting as low as $649. With looming global tariffs, these great deals could potentially be coming to an end soon – so if you’re in the market for a new MacBook for any reason, now may be one of the best ever times to purchase. Apple’s upcoming macOS 26 update is also rumored to drop support for some additional Intel Macs, so if you’d like to stay on the latest and greatest Apple software, nows a f

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Super-resolution of Sentinel-2 images (10M –> 5M)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 21:43:26

Sentinel-2 Super-Resolution GUI A simple, user-friendly desktop application to increase the resolution of Sentinel-2 satellite images. This tool takes the standard 10-meter Blue, Green, Red, and Near-Infrared (NIR) bands and uses a pre-trained AI model to create a higher-resolution, 2x upscaled image. It's designed for users who want to easily enhance their satellite imagery without complex command-line tools. TL;DR (For the Impatient) Install stuff: pip install pyqt5 torch safetensors raste

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Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 08:59:41

Fermat's Last Theorem An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. Information about the project The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. Until September 2029 it is being funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the EPSRC. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend many many thanks to both of these institutions for their ongoing support of this nonstandard research. General

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Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny

news.ycombinator.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-25 03:39:42

A surprising figure is celebrating Figma’s successful IPO: Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission. In a Friday afternoon post on X, Khan linked to an article about Figma’s impressive first day of trading and argued the IPO is “a great reminder that letting startups grow into independently successful businesses, rather than be bought up by existing giants, can generate enormous value.” Khan was alluding to a $20 billion deal for Adobe to acquire Figma that fell through back in

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Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 10:09:40

Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp. Pre-built images Demo releases are available through GitHub. These releases are designed to be run in VirtualBox, though QEMU is also supported. 2GB of RAM, a virtio-net NIC and an Intel HDA audio controller are recommended. x86-64 images are published. AArch64 has been made to work on some hardware. But to set expectations: making Mezzano run on any given piece of hardware or emulator is still typically a project that requires the user to

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A dive into open chat protocols

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 16:00:54

A dive into open chat protocols I’m between projects right now, so as is my idiom I’m going to take some random topic that has caught me on a manic swing in my little bipolar life, and dive deeper into it for a few days. One of the low-key topics in the back of my mind is that “the world needs an open chat protocol that doesn’t suck”, and something made me start thinking seriously about XMPP again for the first time in a decade. I used XMPP myself a fair amount in its little Golden Age of the e

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The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 21:49:35

The Big Oops in Type Systems: This Problem Extends to FP as Well Building on Casey Muratori's critique (youtube) of "compile time hierarchies that match the domain model," this problem extends beyond OOP to encompass a broader pattern in static type systems, particularly functional programming approaches that attempt to "make illegal states unrepresentable." Type systems are often ranked in a "correctness hierarchy", with Idris/Haskell at the top, Java/C# in the middle, Python/JavaScript at th

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Best Home Security Systems in 2025: Safeguard Your Home With These Top Options

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 05:59:00

SimpliSafe home security systems can be easily tailored to your needs. Just add or subtract hardware and equipment as you please. CNET When choosing a home security system for your home, you may be tempted to start by deciding between a DIY setup or professionally installed systems with monitoring services. Remember to make your decision after considering the equipment, installation, monitoring options and other features you want. Here are some bits of information to keep in mind about these pa

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Best Stores for Buying MP3 and Digital Music You Can Keep Forever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 06:32:00

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. With streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, accessing your favorite albums and songs is affordable and easy. But there's a few drawbacks: the rights holders can remove your favorite tracks at any moment, plus it doesn't help to finance anyone but the labels and the really big artists. However, there are a number of ways

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Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise

HBO Max Lost Two More Cartoon Network Classics This Week

SAP is acquiring SmartRecruiters

Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story

Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

Figma CEO's path from college dropout and Thiel fellow to tech billionaire

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Apple's MacBook Air M4 drops to a record-low price

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Imaging reveals intricate tattoos of 2,500-year-old Siberian ice mummy

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Unitree Just Launched Its Most Affordable Humanoid Robot Yet

These Are the Photoshop AI Tools Worth Using: How I Use AI to Edit My Photos

Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time

Self-Employed, Self-Exhausted

‘Batman’ and ‘Casper’ Are Coming Back to Theaters

Tourist Spots ‘Extinct’ Jellyfish Not Seen in 50 Years

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A dive into open chat protocols

The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well

Best Home Security Systems in 2025: Safeguard Your Home With These Top Options

Best Stores for Buying MP3 and Digital Music You Can Keep Forever

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