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The 15+ best tech stocking stuffers perfect for holiday gifting (all under $75)

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-10-19 09:00:33

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Gear for Good: 20 Eco-Friendly Items That Score a Win for the Planet—and for You

wired.com Chris Haslam 2025-10-19 08:30:00

When you buy something new—a new piece of apparel, some home decor, a set of speakers for your desk—you're making several decisions at once about what your needs are and how the purchase is going to meet them. One thing that you're hopefully thinking about more these days is what your purchase is doing to meet the needs of the environment—or more accurately, how it's already affecting it. Every consumer good has already amassed a carbon footprint just by being available to buy, racking up ecolo

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The Prehistory of Computing, Part II

news.ycombinator.com Oran Looney 2025-10-15 15:24:30

The Prehistory of Computing, Part II In part I of this two-part series we covered lookup tables and simple devices with at most a handful of moving parts. This time we’ll pick up in the 17th centuries, when computing devices started to became far more complex and the groundwork for later theoretical work began to be laid. Pascal We enter the era of mechanical calculators in 1642 when Pascal invented a machine, charmingly called the pascaline, which could perform addition and subtraction: The

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How to Watch the Orionids Meteor Shower

wired.com Gretchen Rundorff 2025-10-19 09:00:00

If you want to get into stargazing in 2025, there’s no better place to start than viewing a meteor shower. Meteor showers, or shooting stars, happen when Earth’s orbital path crosses a path of debris left by a comet and that material burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere. Watching a meteor shower is one of the most accessible ways to engage with the night sky. The next showers of the year are the Southern Delta Aquariids—which peak for about a week at the end of July—and the Perseids—which will pe

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The Garmin Fenix E watch has a $300 discount for a limited time - and other models are on sale, too

zdnet.com Monica Bell 2025-10-19 12:05:12

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Why I recommend this older OnePlus tablet over competing models - especially at this price

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-19 12:33:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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The OnePlus Pad 2 remains one of the best Android tablets out there -- and it's on sale

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-19 20:43:40

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-19 20:17:48

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents. When making the search about President Trump, AI Over

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Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-19 17:56:59

Periodic Labs came out of stealth on Tuesday with a war chest of $300 million as a seed round, backed by a tech industry who’s who: Andreessen Horowitz, DST, Nvidia, Accel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos. Periodic Labs was founded by Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Liam Fedus. Cubuk led the materials and chemistry team at Google Brain and DeepMind, where one of his projects was, for instance, an AI tool called GNoME. That tool discovered over 2 million new crystals in 2023, materials th

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Conway's pinwheel tiling

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 17:19:25

John Conway discovered a right triangle that can be partitioned into five similar triangles. The sides are in proportion 1 : 2 : √5. You can make a larger similar triangle by making the entire triangle the central (green) triangle of a new triangle. Here’s the same image with the small triangles filled in as in the original. Repeating this process creates an aperiodic tiling of the plane. The tiling was discovered by Conway, but Charles Radin was the first to describe it in a publication [1]

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Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human

news.ycombinator.com Richard Gaines 2025-10-20 04:23:34

At the Wikimedia Foundation, we believe that access to knowledge is a human right. Our mission is to ensure everyone, everywhere can access and share reliable information freely and openly on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Access to free and open knowledge, supported by the fundamental right to freedom of expression, empowers people to exercise many other rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the rights to education, artistic expression, economic advan

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OpenAI's New Social Media App Will Be All AI Videos, Thanks to New Sora 2 Model

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 03:44:46

OpenAI wants our social media feeds to feature even more AI. Its AI video generator Sora is getting its own social media app, powered by a newly updated version of its AI video model called Sora 2, the company announced Tuesday via livestream. The app will be a kind of social media platform, where you can follow your friends and share content. However, all of that content will be generated by AI. "It's not posted by bots, it's posted by humans, but it's all AI-generated," OpenAI's Thomas Dimson

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Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-20 04:56:54

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has blocked an effort to pass legislation that would have extended data privacy protections for federal lawmakers and public officials to everyone in the United States. On Monday night, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) asked the U.S. Senate for unanimous consent from fellow senators to pass his legislation, S.2850. Wyden’s bill, if passed, would have taken bipartisan-passed provisions designed to protect government officials, lawmakers, and their families from having their personal in

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Conway's Pinwheel Tiling

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 03:19:25

John Conway discovered a right triangle that can be partitioned into five similar triangles. The sides are in proportion 1 : 2 : √5. You can make a larger similar triangle by making the entire triangle the central (green) triangle of a new triangle. Here’s the same image with the small triangles filled in as in the original. Repeating this process creates an aperiodic tiling of the plane. The tiling was discovered by Conway, but Charles Radin was the first to describe it in a publication [1]

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OpenAI's Video Generator Gets New Social Media App With Sora 2

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 07:16:25

OpenAI wants our social media feeds to feature even more AI. Its AI video generator Sora is getting its own social media app, powered by a newly updated version of its AI video model called Sora 2, the company announced Tuesday via livestream. The app will be a kind of social media platform, where you can follow your friends and share content. However, all of that content will be generated by AI. "It's not posted by bots, it's posted by humans, but it's all AI-generated," OpenAI's Thomas Dimson

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Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-20 08:56:59

Periodic Labs came out of stealth on Tuesday with a war chest of $300 million as a seed round, backed by a tech industry’s who’s who: Andreessen Horowitz, DST, Nvidia, Accel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos. Period Labs was founded by Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Liam Fedus. Cubuk led the materials and chemistry team at Google Brain and DeepMind, where one of his projects was, for instance, an AI tool called GNoME. That tool discovered over 2 million new crystals in 2023, materials th

Topics: ai labs materials new tech

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AOL Pulls the Plug on Dial-Up Internet Today, 34 Years After Its Launch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 11:37:00

Like TV screen static, a VHS tape rewinding, or a butter churn, the grating sound of AOL dial-up Internet will also soon be a thing of the past. As the company announced in August on its support website, "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued." As of Sept. 30, the site notes, "this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued." That's not good news for th

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Nvidia's market cap tops $4.5 trillion after string of AI infrastructure deals

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-20 16:43:47

Nvidia shares reached a fresh record on Tuesday, climbing almost 3% and lifting the chipmaker's market cap past $4.5 trillion. The stock is now up about 39% for the year, and continues to attract investors as Nvidia steps up its pace of deal-making, cementing its position at the center of the artificial intelligence boom. OpenAI said last week that Nvidia would take an equity stake worth up to $100 billion in the AI startup, and would build hundreds of billions of dollars worth of data centers

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My favorite Apple Watch Ultra 3 feature is one I hope to never use

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-20 16:36:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 15:46:37

Why I no longer recommend Julia For many years I used the Julia programming language for transforming, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data, doing statistics, and performing simulations. I published a handful of open-source packages for things like signed distance fields, nearest-neighbor search, and Turing patterns (among others), made visual explanations of Julia concepts like broadcasting and arrays, and used Julia to make the generative art on my business cards. I stopped using Julia

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Want to make your own widgets? Nothing Phones now let you do just that.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-20 18:30:42

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing has just announced Essential, which is a suite of AI tools. The first tools as part of Essential are Essential Apps and Playground. Essential Apps are effectively user-created mini-apps or widgets, while Playground is the platform used to create them. Nothing currently offers its Essential Space feature for smart organization and productivity functionality. Now, the company has announced Essential, which is effectively an umbrella term for its AI

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Show HN: I'm 17, built a face-verified social network to fight fake accounts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 20:06:33

WhiteLotus – A Social App for Real People Only No bots. No fake profiles. Just authentic connections. It’s a new kind of social platform built around one core idea: ✅ Real people only. We use AI-powered face verification to block bots, fake accounts, and identity theft. Every user is verified, and we strictly enforce 1 account per person. --- 🔑 Core Features: 📸 Face-verified signups only — no bots, no spam 💬 1-on-1 private chats — only with approved friends 🖼 Photo-based p

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Why I no longer recommend Julia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 20:46:37

Why I no longer recommend Julia For many years I used the Julia programming language for transforming, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data, doing statistics, and performing simulations. I published a handful of open-source packages for things like signed distance fields, nearest-neighbor search, and Turing patterns (among others), made visual explanations of Julia concepts like broadcasting and arrays, and used Julia to make the generative art on my business cards. I stopped using Julia

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Beats just gave an old favorite a huge makeover - and a new Powerbeats name

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-21 00:00:33

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Is the “million-year-old” skull from China a Denisovan or something else?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 00:14:52

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely related to Denisovans. The fossil skull, dubbed Yunxian 2, is one of three unearthed from a terrace alongside the Han River, in central China, in a layer of river sediment somewhere between 600,000 and 1 million years old. Archaeologists originally identified them as Homo erectus, but Hanjiang Normal University paleoanthropologist Xiaobo Feng and his colleagues’ recent digita

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Imgur pulls out of UK after data regulator warns of fines

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-10-21 00:58:28

Imgur, one of the web’s most popular image sharing and hosting platforms, has shut off access to its site to users in the United Kingdom, following a notice of a fine by the country’s data protection watchdog. According to reports on social media, users attempting to load Imgur from the U.K. are met with an error message that says: “Content not available in your region.” The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in March had launched an investigation into various social media platforms, incl

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These brain-reading headphones track mental burnout - and warn you before exhaustion hits

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-21 04:00:44

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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The ABS programming language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 20:53:25

A familiar syntax ABS should look familiar to most of us, as its elements are borrowed from popular programming languages such as Ruby, Python or JavaScript:

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Burnout and Elon Musk’s politics spark exodus from senior xAI, Tesla staff

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 04:21:13

Elon Musk’s business empire has been hit by a wave of senior departures over the past year, as the billionaire’s relentless demands and political activism accelerate turnover among his top ranks. Key members of Tesla’s US sales team, battery and power-train operations, public affairs arm, and its chief information officer have all recently departed, as well as core members of the Optimus robot and AI teams on which Musk has bet the future of the company. Churn has been even more rapid at xAI,

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Why I use this $100 Android tablet more than my iPad Pro - and don't regret it

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-21 08:47:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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The 15+ best tech stocking stuffers perfect for holiday gifting (all under $75)

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The Garmin Fenix E watch has a $300 discount for a limited time - and other models are on sale, too

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Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans

Conway's Pinwheel Tiling

OpenAI's Video Generator Gets New Social Media App With Sora 2

Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

AOL Pulls the Plug on Dial-Up Internet Today, 34 Years After Its Launch

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Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)

Want to make your own widgets? Nothing Phones now let you do just that.

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Beats just gave an old favorite a huge makeover - and a new Powerbeats name

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These brain-reading headphones track mental burnout - and warn you before exhaustion hits

The ABS programming language

Burnout and Elon Musk’s politics spark exodus from senior xAI, Tesla staff

Why I use this $100 Android tablet more than my iPad Pro - and don't regret it

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