GoKawiil - Tech News

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Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Blagovest Petrov | tags: bor, firewalld, thunderbird

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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers a Field of Honeycomb Textures (slashdot.org)

2026-08-01 | by Posted | tags: curiosity rover, mars, polygonal fractures

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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor (futurism.com)

2026-08-01 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: taylor farms, cyclospora, prison labor

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A Rare and Deadly Tick Virus With No Cure Has Taken Hold in New York (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: bourbon virus, stony brook, new york

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61-Year-Old Japanese Man Arrested After Decade of Rocking Too Hard (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: japanese man, rock music, police arrest

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A Simple Answer to AI Job Loss: Tax Capital, Not Labor (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-31 | tags: u.s. policy, tax capital, labor

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Tecno's new concept may be the first truly bezel-less smartphone (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mat Smith | tags: tecno, bezel-less smartphone, ifa 2026

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Scientists Find Evidence of Lost Amazonian Civilization That May Have Been Home to Millions (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: amazon, airborne laser scans, ancient structures

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CodePen 2.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: codepen, javascript, npm

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Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Matt Von Hippel | tags: muon g–2, brookhaven national laboratory, fermilab

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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Carolina Parada | tags: gemini robotics, whole-body control, multimodal understanding

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Meta’s Case for Its AI Spending Keeps Getting Weaker (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-30 | tags: meta, investor, borrowing

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Daily briefing: ‘Raygun’ AI can shrink or supersize proteins (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-30 | by Smith | tags: raygun, spin qubits, hrl laboratories

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How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-30 | by Crowell | tags: international criminal court, human rights abuses, amnesty international

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Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots? (slashdot.org)

2026-07-30 | tags: unitree, roborock, agility robotics

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Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows (slashdot.org)

2026-07-29 | tags: radv, valve, collabora

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Florida’s Surgeon General Blames a Debunked Abortion Vaccine Claim to Explain Measles Surge (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: florida, joel ladapo, mmr vaccine

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Almost all future robot vacuums were just banned by the US government (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: robot vacuums, roomba, roborock

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The US government's robot ban also includes vacuums (engadget.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: fcc, robot vacuums, anker

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Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: quantum dots, ibm, hrl laboratories

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Visa Is Cutting 2,600 Jobs — AI Is Only Part of the Reason: ‘We Must Continue Evolving How We Work’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-29 | by Jonathan Small | tags: visa, stablecoins, cross-border payments

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Underdog ‘spin qubits’ leap forward in race to a useful quantum computer (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Garisto | tags: spin qubits, hrl laboratories, quantum computer

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Electric dipoles go sideways in thin ferroelectric film (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Gradauskaite | tags: ferroelectric, elzbieta gradauskaite, thales

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How mosquitoes are conquering the world — in four charts (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Lenharo | tags: aedes albopictus, mosquito-borne diseases, who

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Laboratoria’s Mariana Costa Empowers Women in Tech (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-07-28 | by Willie D. Jones | tags: laboratoria, mariana costa, ieee

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As SpaceX Sheds a Tesla’s Worth of Value, Elon Musk Is Trying to Sell Investors on Another Company (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: spacex, tesla, elon musk

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Entangled dual-site migration via boracycle rearrangement (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Zhu | tags: boracycle, borinane rearrangement, dual-site migration

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Interview with Boris Cherny [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: boris cherny, interview, video

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Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: foodborne illnesses, cyclospora, taylor farms

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The Artist Who Colored Ghibli (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | by Animation Obsessive Staff | tags: studio ghibli, michiyo yasuda, kazuo oga