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Walmart Plus membership is 50% off, and has something Amazon doesn't: the Nintendo Switch 2

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-08-14 21:38:00

With Prime Day kicking off, consumers are flocking to Amazon for all the best deals. But one of the best things about Prime Day is all the other major retailers looking to cash in on the shopping palooza, offering similar (or better) deals on top products -- and even membership opportunities. Also: The best Prime Day deals live now Right now, Walmart is discounting its Walmart+ membership program by 50% ahead of its Walmart Deals event, starting on July 7 for Walmart+ members. To sweeten the d

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Bookworms: Don't skip this Kindle Paperwhite Essentials bundle that's on sale

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-08-15 01:52:32

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Summer reading lists aren't just for high schoolers and college students. It's time to bring back the summer reading list for adults. One way to cross off books from your summer reading list, even many years out of college or high school, is to make reading as convenient as humanly possible. Also: The best Prime Day Kindle deals Sometimes that's hard to achieve, especially if you're lugging that 1,000-page Infinite Jest in a small backpack or book bag. One solution to the pro

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Waymo robotaxis are heading to Philadelphia and NYC

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-14 20:14:34

Waymo kicked off two “road trips” to Philadelphia and New York City on Monday, signaling the Alphabet-owned company’s interest in expanding into Northeastern cities. Waymo’s branded “road trips” don’t necessarily signal a commercial launch anytime soon. Waymo has announced several other road trips this year, including to Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego, and San Antonio. Typically, the trips involve sending a small fleet of human-driven vehicles equipped with Waymo’s autonomous driving sy

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This 1-Year Sam’s Club Membership (Auto-Renew) Drops to Nearly Free, a Cheap Alternative If Costco Is Too Far

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-08-15 05:25:08

Life is pretty darn expensive. In fact, it’s getting pricier by the day at the moment, at least for a lot of us, and that means that it’s really important to find ways to not only save money on luxuries that help keep us all sane, but also on daily essentials. That can be a lot harder to do though, but there are some really easy ways to get those savings going, and one of those is with a good warehouse membership. See at StackSocial Sam’s Club is a membership-only retailer that stocks a huge n

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GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in 3 US States—but Not for Ride-Hailing

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-08-11 22:28:41

Cruise robotaxis are back on the road … well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi business last year, the automaker has been quietly repurposing a few of the vehicles as it seeks to develop new driver-assistance technologies. This week, WIRED spotted a GM Bolt electric hatchback on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and later saw a similar vehicle on Interstate 880 near Oakland. In each instance, the car was being driven by a human. But it held equipment on

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This Portable Wireless CarPlay Screen Is 44% Off, Amazon Is Clearing Out Stock Once and For All

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-15 13:35:52

Prime Day is not all about upgrading your home tech, it’s the perfect time to upgrade your car in a big way too. Amazon has cut a premium portable wireless CarPlay / Android Auto car stereo to a new all-time low, dropping it by 44% to just $44 (down from $79). This is such a great deal that it’s a no-brainer to give your car’s infotainment system an upgrade, especially if your vehicle didn’t come with CarPlay or Android Auto from the factory. See at Amazon Touchscreen For $44, this 7-inch HD

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If You’re a Prime Member and Coffee Lover, the Breville Espresso Machine Is Selling for Peanuts on Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-15 17:10:23

Prime Day is now the best time of year to score big savings on high-end brands, even eclipsing Black Friday prices. From Apple computers to Samsung phones to Breville coffee makers, Amazon is slashing prices on the most popular and newest models. The Breville Barista Express Espresso machine is one such example—Amazon has cut almost all its margin on this best seller, dropping it down to an all-time low price. You can now get the Barista Express for $549, down from its usual $749 which is a mas

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Waymo starts robotaxi testing in Philadelphia and NYC

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-15 21:14:34

Waymo kicked off two “road trips” to Philadelphia and New York City on Monday, signaling the Alphabet-owned company’s interest in expanding into Northeastern cities. Waymo’s branded “road trips” don’t necessarily signal a commercial launch anytime soon. Waymo has announced several other road trips this year, including to Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego, and San Antonio. Typically, the trips involve sending a small fleet of human-driven vehicles equipped with Waymo’s autonomous driving sy

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Trump advisor Navarro rips Apple's Tim Cook, saying he's not moving production out of China fast enough

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-08-16 01:10:57

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro criticized Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday over the company's response to pressure from the Trump administration to make more of its products outside China. "Going back to the first Trump term, Tim Cook has continually asked for more time in order to move his factories out of China," Navarro said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." "I mean it's the longest-running soap opera in Silicon Valley." CNBC has reached out to Apple for comment on Nava

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US may get its own glitchy version of TikTok if Trump’s deal works out

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-16 01:35:10

Could Donald Trump possibly follow through on his campaign promise to save TikTok by finally making a deal that keeps the app operating in the US without compromising America's national security? Outlook not so good. Despite The Information reporting that a new version of TikTok is being prepped to launch in the US market this September, even Trump can't be sure the deal is imminent. "We pretty much have a deal," Trump recently told reporters on Air Force One, suggesting that he thinks he wil

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Tech Now

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-13 15:00:30

Ione Wells explores the search for Chile's stolen children, decades after they were taken during the country's military dictatorship, and asks if tech can help families find answers. More

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Trump advisor Navarro rips Apple's Tim Cook for not moving production out of China fast enough

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-08-16 09:39:29

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro chastised Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday over the company's response to pressure from the Trump administration to make more of its products outside of China. "Going back to the first Trump term, Tim Cook has continually asked for more time in order to move his factories out of China," Navarro said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." "I mean it's the longest-running soap opera in Silicon Valley." CNBC has reached out to Apple for comment on Na

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How SharkNinja took over the home, with CEO Mark Barrocas

theverge.com Nilay Patel 2025-08-16 09:00:00

It’s summertime, which means it’s time for our annual grilling episode. In years past we’ve talked to the leaders of Big Green Egg, Traeger, and Blackstone, and it’s always fascinating how those companies have all the same kinds of problems and ideas as any of the tech companies we have on the show. In fact it’s funny — in what can only be described as a perfectly Decoder situation, I really wanted to have Blackstone CEO Roger Dahle back on the show this year because his griddle company is such

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Cracking AI’s storage bottleneck and supercharging inference at the edge

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2025-08-16 12:50:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now As AI applications increasingly permeate enterprise operations, from enhancing patient care through advanced medical imaging to powering complex fraud detection models and even aiding wildlife conservation, a critical bottleneck often emerges: data storage. During VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Greg Matson, head of products and marketing, S

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Now you can just tell SmartThings how to automate your home

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-08-16 13:00:00

Ahead of Galaxy Unpacked this week, Samsung is announcing several new features coming to its smart home platform, SmartThings, including the ability to create routines using natural language. That means you’ll be able to simply tell SmartThings what you want your smart home to do, and it’ll take care of all the complicated details for you. Samsung also announced updates to its Apple Watch app, a new dark mode for the SmartThings app on iOS, and more features coming to SmartThings Find, its locat

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The Download: China’s winning at advanced manufacturing, and a potential TikTok sale

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-16 17:10:00

In 2013, a trio of academics showed convincing evidence that increased trade with China beginning in the early 2000s and the resulting flood of cheap imports had been an unmitigated disaster for many US communities, destroying their manufacturing lifeblood. The results of what they called the “China shock” were gut-wrenching: the loss of 1 million US manufacturing jobs and 2.4 million jobs in total by 2011. If in retrospect all that seems obvious, it’s only because the research by David Auto

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US government seeks tool to find ‘hidden language’ in messages on your phone

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-16 17:31:51

The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking pitches from tech companies for a forensic tool intended to find “hidden language” in messages on smartphones searched at the border … The CPB says that it expects companies to propose modified versions of software they already have working, as there isn’t time to devise something from scratch. Wired spotted the request on a government procurement website. The agency said in a federal registry listing that the tools it’s seeking

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The latest threat from the rise of Chinese manufacturing

technologyreview.com David Rotman 2025-08-17 01:00:00

If in retrospect all that seems obvious, it’s only because the research by David Autor, an MIT labor economist, and his colleagues has become an accepted, albeit often distorted, political narrative these days: China destroyed all our manufacturing jobs! Though the nuances of the research are often ignored, the results help explain at least some of today's political unrest. It’s reflected in rising calls for US protectionism, President Trump’s broad tariffs on imported goods, and nostalgia for t

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I ditched my solar panels with wind power generators at home - my verdict after 6 months

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-17 00:00:15

ZDNET's key takeaways A Shine Turbine kit, which includes a turbine, stand, guy lines, and pegs, costs $399, while the Essentials Kit, which adds a few more bits such as a wind speed meter, costs $488 -- though both are on sale right now The kit includes everything you need to turn wind into electrical energy, and the turbine features a 12,000 mAh battery There are limitations, which include the weight of the kit and the limited power it generates, 40 Watts. View now at Shineturbine The Shine

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Lost for 300 Years, Pirate-Plundered Treasure Ship Discovered off Madagascar Coast

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-08-17 01:00:04

In 1721, pirates attacked and seized a Portuguese ship carrying a massive trove of treasure en route to Lisbon. Now, researchers believe they’ve discovered its remains off the coast of Madagascar. The discovery comes from two researchers from the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation in Massachusetts, who have conducted several studies on the wreckage over the last 16 years. They say new clues have revealed the ship’s identity as the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a 700-ton warship. Their findings

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The era of full stack chip designers

news.ycombinator.com Bharath Suresh 2025-08-16 23:41:32

Disclaimer: Opinions shared in this, and all my posts are mine, and mine alone. They do not reflect the views of my employer(s), and are not investment advice. A few years back, when I was talking to a student that was interested in both the front-end and back-end stages in chip design, I made a cheeky remark that they should become a “Full Stack Chip Designer”. (I can’t remember who I was talking to, but if you are reading this, this post is dedicated to you!) It was a term I took from softwar

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Overclocking LLM Reasoning: Monitoring and Controlling LLM Thinking Path Lengths

news.ycombinator.com Roy Eisenstadt 2025-08-16 13:53:13

This work investigates how large reasoning models internally track their thinking progress and how such processes can be monitored and controlled. We focus on reasoning models that explicitly segment their computations using <think> and </think> tokens (e.g., DeepSeek-R1), allowing us to study the internal dynamics of the "thinking phase." 1. Monitoring the Thinking Phase We hypothesize that hidden states encode a token's relative position within the thinking phase. To test this, we collect hi

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I don't think AGI is right around the corner

news.ycombinator.com Dwarkesh Patel 2025-08-16 21:45:20

“Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.” - Rudiger Dornbusch I’ve had a lot of discussions on my podcast where we haggle out timelines to AGI. Some guests think it’s 20 years away - others 2 years. Here’s where my thoughts stand as of June 2025. Continual learning Sometimes people say that even if all AI progress totally stopped, the systems of today would still be far more economically transformative than the internet.

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Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

news.ycombinator.com Freya India 2025-08-16 23:16:37

Therapy-speak has taken over our language. It is ruining how we talk about romance and relationships, narrowing how we think about hurt and suffering, and now, we are losing the words for who we are. Nobody has a personality anymore. In a therapeutic culture, every personality trait becomes a problem to be solved. Anything too human—every habit, every eccentricity, every feeling too strong—has to be labelled and explained. And this inevitably expands over time, encompassing more and more of us,

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If You’re a Prime Member, This Lenovo ThinkPad Laptop (Ryzen 7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) Is 70% Off on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-16 22:25:05

Prime Day is the year’s top day for getting Amazon’s rock-bottom prices, even better than Black Friday. If electronics are what you’re looking for on your shopping list, you should shop Amazon, especially for laptops. To begin Prime Day, there’s an unbelievable deal on a Lenovo ThinkPad that sounds too good to be true: 70% off, which is more than $2,100 savings upfront on a powerful laptop. The Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 2 (Windows 11 Pro, 1TB SSD, 32GB DDR5 RAM, AMD Ryzen 7 processor) laptop is n

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Move Over Messi: China’s New Robot Soccer League Is Wild!

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-16 18:33:56

China has officially launched its first humanoid robot football league. And while the players may not breathe, they’re already learning to dribble, shoot, fall, and get back up. The RoBoLeague, which began on June 28, 2025 in Beijing, pits AI-controlled humanoid robots against each other in fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer matches. The first match featured robot teams developed by Tsinghua University and China Agricultural University. Tsinghua’s squad won the game with a final score of 5-3. The

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Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-16 22:03:55

In Brief Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback. Nikkei Asia reports that when examining English-language preprint papers available on the website arXiv, it found 17 papers that included some form of hidden AI prompt. The paper’s authors were affiliated with 14 academic institutions in eight countries, including Japan’s Waseda University and South Korea’s KAIST

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Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?

news.ycombinator.com Stiefenhofer 2025-08-16 08:19:50

arXiv Is Hiring a DevOps Engineer Work on one of the world's most important websites and make an impact on open science.

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How Stablecoins Became the Digital Gold Standard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 19:03:15

Recently, I met someone who is fluent in Chinese through Skewer Coaching. We talked about apps that are frequently used in China, and I told them about the ones I have used. Even those who don’t know much about China have probably heard of WeChat. There is even a joke that you can’t do almost anything in China without WeChat. Ordering food, calling a taxi, shopping, making payments, and even using government services can all be done within WeChat. Compared to KakaoTalk or Naver, which are common

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Hidden interface controls that affect usability

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 10:10:03

Philip Kortum In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart [1] first introduced the notion of "knowledge in the world" versus "knowledge in the head" for computer interfaces—an idea that was later formalized and popularized by Donald Norman in his seminal book The Psychology of Everyday Things. From an interface design standpoint, knowledge in the world simply means that the controls you need are visible, and the identification and operation of these controls can be done through recognition rather tha

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Walmart Plus membership is 50% off, and has something Amazon doesn't: the Nintendo Switch 2

Bookworms: Don't skip this Kindle Paperwhite Essentials bundle that's on sale

Waymo robotaxis are heading to Philadelphia and NYC

This 1-Year Sam’s Club Membership (Auto-Renew) Drops to Nearly Free, a Cheap Alternative If Costco Is Too Far

GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in 3 US States—but Not for Ride-Hailing

This Portable Wireless CarPlay Screen Is 44% Off, Amazon Is Clearing Out Stock Once and For All

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Trump advisor Navarro rips Apple's Tim Cook for not moving production out of China fast enough

How SharkNinja took over the home, with CEO Mark Barrocas

Cracking AI’s storage bottleneck and supercharging inference at the edge

Now you can just tell SmartThings how to automate your home

The Download: China’s winning at advanced manufacturing, and a potential TikTok sale

US government seeks tool to find ‘hidden language’ in messages on your phone

The latest threat from the rise of Chinese manufacturing

I ditched my solar panels with wind power generators at home - my verdict after 6 months

Lost for 300 Years, Pirate-Plundered Treasure Ship Discovered off Madagascar Coast

The era of full stack chip designers

Overclocking LLM Reasoning: Monitoring and Controlling LLM Thinking Path Lengths

I don't think AGI is right around the corner

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

If You’re a Prime Member, This Lenovo ThinkPad Laptop (Ryzen 7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) Is 70% Off on Amazon

Move Over Messi: China’s New Robot Soccer League Is Wild!

Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts

Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?

How Stablecoins Became the Digital Gold Standard

Hidden interface controls that affect usability

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