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Puerto Rico’s power struggles

technologyreview.com Alexander C. Kaufman 2025-09-12 07:00:00

The plant, owned by the utility giant AES, has long plagued this part of Puerto Rico with air and water pollution. During Hurricane Maria in 2017, powerful winds and rain swept the unsecured pile—towering more than 12 stories high—out into the ocean and the surrounding area. Though the company had moved millions of tons of ash around Puerto Rico to be used in construction and landfill, much of it had stayed in Guayama, according to a 2018 investigation by the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo,

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Brad Pitt and Tim Cook surprise fans at Apple Fifth Avenue ahead of ‘F1 The Movie’ release

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-12 07:58:51

Apple fans visiting the company’s iconic Fifth Avenue store in New York were treated to an unexpected moment this week: following a panel on Apple TV+ hit series Severance, Apple CEO Tim Cook and actor Brad Pitt took the stage to promote the upcoming Apple Original Film F1 The Movie. Their appearance followed an earlier panel at the store, with cast members from Severance joined a conversation moderated by Entertainment Tonight’s Nischelle Turner. Actors Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Britt Low

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Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone

news.ycombinator.com Mark Price 2025-09-12 05:22:33

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and humanely killed 20 tons of the snakes since 2013, including a record 6,300 pounds of

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‘Predator 2’ Walked So the New Films Could Run

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-13 01:45:20

After 'Predator: Killer of Killers,' we decided to give the Danny Glover 1990 sequel a spin and were pleasantly surprised. Predator 2 is a very weird movie. As a concept, you totally understand why it exists. It’s a 1990 sequel to the 1987 hit starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, taking the titular character into a completely new location and pitting him against a new high-profile, macho movie star. Schwarzenegger was in the jungles of Central America, and Danny Glover is in the concrete jungles of

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With 12,000 Five-Star Reviews, the Samsung 990 Pro Internal SSD Reaches a Two-Year Price Low on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-13 03:38:14

When the Samsung 990 Pro SSD first came out a few years back, its starting point was around $300 for the 2TB model, an enormous cost for everyone except the most dedicated users. Fast forward to today, and this top-end drive has seen its cost decline continually but never quite to the level it is at now. Amazon is currently offering the 2TB version for just $149, which makes a two-year low even beating out previous Black Friday and Prime Day deals. See at Amazon Ultra Fast SSD This SSD is bui

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Amazon Kuiper second satellite launch postponed by ULA due to rocket booster issue

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-13 07:53:26

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is shown on its launch pad carrying Amazon's Project Kuiper internet network satellites as the vehicle is prepared for launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 28, 2025. United Launch Alliance on Monday was forced to delay the second flight carrying a batch of Amazon 's Project Kuiper internet satellites because of a problem with the rocket booster. With roughly 30 minutes left in the countdown, ULA announc

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Samsung details all the new health features you’ll get with One UI 8 Watch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-13 07:02:19

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR One UI 8 Watch will introduce several new features. These new features include Bedtime Guidance, Vascular Load, Running Coach, and Antioxidant Index. A limited number of users will have access to these features through a beta program. One UI 8 Watch isn’t out yet, but Samsung is providing some details on features we can expect to see. Some users will even get to try these features early, as they’ll be included in a beta program. In a new blog post, S

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I changed these 6 TV settings to instantly make the system feel like new again

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-13 15:07:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Is your smart TV slow to respond or stuttering during scenes? You're not alone -- many people experience laggy performance and choppy playback. The good news? A few simple fixes can get things running smoothly again. Also: Don't cancel Netflix yet: I used these secret codes to unlock the full catalog of shows Modern TVs have plenty of features and apps (and services that run in the background) that can slow them down over time. Fortunately, some simple actions can rectify your

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Waymo limits service ahead of today’s ‘No Kings’ protests

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-11 16:54:03

In Brief Alphabet-owned robotaxi company Waymo is limiting service due to Saturday’s scheduled nationwide “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump and his policies. A Waymo spokesperson confirmed the changes to Wired on Friday. Service is reportedly affected in San Francisco, Austin, Atlanta, and Phoenix and is entirely suspended in Los Angeles. It’s not clear how long the limited service will last. As part of protests last weekend in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s i

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Doctors Find They Can Detect Cancer in Blood Years Before Diagnosis

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-13 18:15:53

Image by Getty / Futurism Cancer Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered that cancer can be detected in the bloodstream a full three years before it's spotted by doctors for an official diagnosis. As detailed in a partially government-funded study published in the journal Cancer Discovery last month, the team found that genetic material being shed by cancer tumors can show up in the bloodstream far earlier than previously thought, paving the way for promising new cancer screeni

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AMD unveils 2nm Epyc Venice with 256 cores for next-gen AI and cloud workloads

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-13 22:31:00

What just happened? AMD is preparing to shake up the data center landscape with its forthcoming Epyc Venice processor, a chip that promises to set new standards for performance and scalability in server computing. Announced at the company's recent Advancing AI event, the Venice CPU is built on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture and is slated for release in 2026, targeting the ever-increasing demands of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and high-performance analytics. Venice makes

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AMD unveils Epyc Venice with 256 cores and 2nm process for next-gen AI and cloud workloads

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-14 03:31:00

What just happened? AMD is preparing to shake up the data center landscape with its forthcoming Epyc Venice processor, a chip that promises to set new standards for performance and scalability in server computing. Announced at the company's recent Advancing AI event, the Venice CPU is built on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture and is slated for release in 2026, targeting the ever-increasing demands of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and high-performance analytics. Venice makes

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Trying out Nvidia’s RTX 50 Series GPU on a Falcon Northwest gaming PC | review

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-14 07:30:00

Kelt Reeves has been creating custom gaming PCs since 1992. Before he got out of college, Reeves started Falcon Northwest in Medford, Oregon, and it’s cranking out gaming PCs with the polish of a small company. I have interviewed Reeves over the years and used a number of his machines. I saw him again on a sad occasion at the memorial service for Gordon Mah Ung, one of the original and finest gaming hardware reviewers. I tried out a Falcon Northwest machine back in 2019, and I used the Falcon

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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2025-09-14 15:00:00

The Trump administration has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to carry out sweeping raids, deporting thousands of immigrants, often without due process. It has targeted left-leaning foreign students and entire universities, canceling visas and threatening to withhold federal funding. United States Supreme Court appointments from the previous Trump administration have resulted in decisions that enabled roughly half of US states to severely restrict or ban abortions. And Trump’s

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Aspora gets $50M from Sequoia to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-14 10:00:00

India has been one of the top recipients of remittances in the world for more than a decade. Inward remittances jumped from $55.6 billion in 2010-11 to $118.7 billion in 2023-24, according to data from the country’s central bank. The bank projects that figure will reach $160 billion in 2029. This means there is an increasing market for digitalized banking experiences for non-resident Indians(NRIs), ranging from remittances to investing in different assets back home. Aspora (formerly Vance) is

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Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise

news.ycombinator.com Mirza 2025-09-12 20:22:06

Benchmark corpus To compile our benchmark corpus, we utilized a broad list of sources (Methods), ranging from completely novel, manually crafted questions over university exams to semi-automatically generated questions based on curated subsets of data in chemical databases. For quality assurance, all questions have been reviewed by at least two scientists in addition to the original curator and automated checks. Importantly, our large pool of questions encompasses a wide range of topics and que

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DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 08:40:40

In a series of recent tests in New Mexico, the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away. Over the course of the test campaign, more than a megajoule of energy was transferred. Previously, the greatest reported distance records for an appreciable amount of optical power (>1 microwat

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Aspora gets $50M from Sequioa to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-14 15:00:00

India has been one of the top recipients of remittances in the world for more than a decade. Inward remittances jumped from $55.6 billion in 2010-11 to $118.7 billion in 2023-24, according to data from the country’s central bank. The bank projects that figure will reach $160 billion in 2029. This means there is an increasing market for digitalized banking experiences for non-resident Indians(NRIs), ranging from remittances to investing in different assets back home. Aspora (formerly Vance) is

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Finally, a Windows laptop I wouldn't mind putting my MacBook Air away for

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-14 07:00:19

ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus Zenbook A14 with 16GB of memory is on sale at Best Buy for $749. Asus' new ultraportable is a fantastic balance of innovation and value with a brilliant OLED display, competitive hardware, and a satisfying physical form. While its use case is clearly defined, the laptop has its limits when it comes to high-end performance. View now at Best Buy When Asus officially announced the Zenbook A14 at CES this year, I wasn't the only one to be low-key enamored with it. I

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How multiplication is defined in Peano arithmetic

news.ycombinator.com Mathematical Association Of America 2025-09-13 08:36:18

Mathematician Keith Devlin is the Executive Director of the Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute ( H-STAR ) at Stanford University and The Math Guy on NPR's Weekend Edition

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AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'

news.ycombinator.com Ryan Smith 2025-09-14 02:51:11

Only have a minute? Here are our key takeaways. 🚀 New MI355X GPU: 2x AI FLOPs, more HBM, 40% better tokens/$ than NVIDIA. 🧠 Software Wins: ROCm 7 with big performance boosts and day-0 support. 🖧 Rack-Scale Wins: New turnkey solutions using AMD CPU + GPU + Network. 📈 Roadmap Wins: Next-Gen in 2026 with 4x performance, HBM4 and scale. 🌱 Efficiency Wins: Roadmap to 20× rack-scale energy efficiency by 2030. Thanks for reading More Than Moore! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share

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Dave Bautista’s Next Franchise Play? Becoming a ‘Cat Assassin’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-14 05:50:22

After hanging up his daggers as Drax the Destroyer and getting got as Glossu Rabban in Dune: Part Two, Dave Bautista is stepping into video games and animation with a new franchise by the name of Cat Assassin. The wrestler-actor and his production company Dogbone Entertainment will bring to life a new idea from Steve Lerner, who wrote 2022’s feline adventure game Stray. This would-be franchise will comprise a stealth-action video game—influenced by titles such as Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell

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iOS 26 is official, Liquid Glass redesign, and our full WWDC 2025 reactions

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-14 09:07:14

Benjamin and Chance are back with another bumper WWDC installment, featuring our thoughts on everything Apple announced during its 2025 keynote. From new features in iOS 26 to the sweeping redesign of Liquid Glass, we give our first reactions of all the changes in the new operating systems. And in Happy Hour Plus, Chance talks more about his experience on the ground at Apple Park. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Hosts Chance Miller Benjamin Mayo Subscribe, Rate, and Review 9to5Mac Happy Hou

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Boston Dynamics robots dance to ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ for ‘America’s Got Talent’ audition

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-09-15 15:36:44

A dance crew of four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on “America’s Got Talent” to perform a synchronized routine to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Their performance was impressive enough to earn four “yes” votes from the judges — but one of the five robots experienced some stage fright, perhaps, and shut down in the middle of the routine. But the show must go on, so nevertheless, the four other robots persisted. “Can I be honest with you?” judge Simon Cowell asked at the conclusion o

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Amazon Offers WD_Black SSD at Its Lowest Price While Clearing Out Remaining Best-Seller Stock

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-15 19:40:37

If you’ve been building out a new gaming PC, storage capacity is going to be of high concern. It’s something most of us would be very happy of which to have no upper limit. Unfortunately, that will not ever be the case in our lifetime. Though you can boost your storage quite a bit without breaking the bank. Amazon has the WD_Black SN7100 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD for up to 30% off. That brings the price down to as low as just $54. See at Amazon Breaking down the exact discounts, you’ll find the

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OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language.

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 23:20:38

Let’s talk about what this means! OxCaml’s extensions are meant to make OCaml a great language for performance engineering. Performance engineering requires control, and we want that control to be: Safe. Safety is a critical feature for making programmers more productive, and for shipping correct code. Languages that are pervasively unsafe are too hard to use correctly. Convenient. We want to provide control without bewildering programmers, or drowning them in endless annotations. To achieve

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Trump’s protest threats raise surveillance alarms around his military parade

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-09-16 17:50:24

President Donald Trump’s warning that protesters of Saturday’s US military parade in Washington, DC, will be met with “very heavy force” threatens to chill speech and underscores the need for protesters to take precautions around digital surveillance, privacy advocates tell The Verge. In remarks from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump did not distinguish between peaceful and non-peaceful protesters. “For those people who want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force,” Trump said.

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After a series of tumors, woman’s odd-looking tongue explains everything

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-17 03:39:39

Breast cancer. Colon cancer. An enlarged thyroid gland. A family history of tumors and cancers as well. It wasn't until the woman developed an annoying case of dry mouth that doctors put it all together. By then, she was in her 60s. According to a new case study in JAMA Dermatology, the woman presented to a dermatology clinic in Spain after three months of oral unpleasantness. They noted the cancers in her medical history. When she opened wide, doctors immediately saw the problem: Her tongue wa

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TensorWave deploys AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs in its cloud platform

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-17 15:30:00

TensorWave, a leader in AMD-powered AI infrastructure solutions, today announced the deployment of AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs in its high-performance cloud platform. As one of the first cloud providers to bring the AMD Instinct MI355X to market, TensorWave enables customers to unlock next-level performance for the most demanding AI workloads—all with unmatched white-glove onboarding and support. The new AMD Instinct MI355X GPU is built on the 4th Gen AMD CDNA architecture and features 288GB of H

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AMD CTO: power constraints, not compute, will shape tomorrow's supercomputers

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-17 23:04:00

In a nutshell: In his keynote at ISC 2025, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster emphasized that the next wave of supercomputers will demand breakthroughs in efficiency, reliability, and adaptability, not just raw performance. He noted that industry leaders are now grappling with the realities of explosive growth and the increasingly complex challenges it brings. Papermaster began by highlighting the continued surge in demand for high-performance computing, driven primarily by artificial intelligence. He po

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Latest Tech News

Puerto Rico’s power struggles

Brad Pitt and Tim Cook surprise fans at Apple Fifth Avenue ahead of ‘F1 The Movie’ release

Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone

‘Predator 2’ Walked So the New Films Could Run

With 12,000 Five-Star Reviews, the Samsung 990 Pro Internal SSD Reaches a Two-Year Price Low on Amazon

Amazon Kuiper second satellite launch postponed by ULA due to rocket booster issue

Samsung details all the new health features you’ll get with One UI 8 Watch

I changed these 6 TV settings to instantly make the system feel like new again

Waymo limits service ahead of today’s ‘No Kings’ protests

Doctors Find They Can Detect Cancer in Blood Years Before Diagnosis

AMD unveils 2nm Epyc Venice with 256 cores for next-gen AI and cloud workloads

AMD unveils Epyc Venice with 256 cores and 2nm process for next-gen AI and cloud workloads

Trying out Nvidia’s RTX 50 Series GPU on a Falcon Northwest gaming PC | review

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Aspora gets $50M from Sequoia to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora

Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise

DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming

Aspora gets $50M from Sequioa to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora

Finally, a Windows laptop I wouldn't mind putting my MacBook Air away for

How multiplication is defined in Peano arithmetic

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Dave Bautista’s Next Franchise Play? Becoming a ‘Cat Assassin’

iOS 26 is official, Liquid Glass redesign, and our full WWDC 2025 reactions

Boston Dynamics robots dance to ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ for ‘America’s Got Talent’ audition

Amazon Offers WD_Black SSD at Its Lowest Price While Clearing Out Remaining Best-Seller Stock

OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language.

Trump’s protest threats raise surveillance alarms around his military parade

After a series of tumors, woman’s odd-looking tongue explains everything

TensorWave deploys AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs in its cloud platform

AMD CTO: power constraints, not compute, will shape tomorrow's supercomputers

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