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US cities pay too much for buses

news.ycombinator.com David Zipper 2025-10-01 23:57:17

In 2023, two transit agencies went shopping for new buses. Denver’s Regional Transportation District (RTD) and the Cincinnati area’s Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) both bought 40-foot, diesel-powered vehicles from the same manufacturer. Although the vehicles were similar, their prices were not: RTD’s 10 buses cost $432,028 each, while SORTA’s 17 cost a whopping $939,388 a pop. That same year, Singapore’s Land Transport Authority also bought buses. Their order called for 240 f

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Fiji’s ants might be the canary in the coal mine for the insect apocalypse

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-03 08:15:11

In late 2017, a study by Krefeld Entomological Society looked at protected areas across Germany and discovered that two-thirds of the insect populations living in there had vanished over the last 25 years. The results spurred the media to declare we’re living through an “insect apocalypse,” but the reasons behind their absence were unclear. Now, a joint team of Japanese and Australian scientists have completed a new, multi-year study designed to get us some answers. Insect microcosm “In our wo

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Trump is pushing leucovorin as a treatment for autism. What is it?

technologyreview.com Cassandra Willyard 2025-10-04 16:56:32

That meant that more people met the criteria for an autism diagnosis. Lerner points out that there is also far more awareness of the condition today than there was several decades ago. “There’s autism representation in the media,” he says. “There are plenty of famous people in the news and finance and in business and in Hollywood who are publicly, openly autistic.” Is Tylenol a contributor to autism? Some studies have found an association between the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy and autis

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Trump is pushing leucovorin as a new treatment for autism. What is it?

technologyreview.com Cassandra Willyard 2025-10-07 14:56:32

That meant that more people met the criteria for an autism diagnosis. Lerner points out that there is also far more awareness of the condition today than there was several decades ago. “There’s autism representation in the media,” he says. “There are plenty of famous people in the news and finance and in business and in Hollywood who are publicly, openly autistic.” Is Tylenol a contributor to autism? Some studies have found an association between the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy and autis

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Three highlights from Apple’s recent workshop on natural language processing

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-08 11:51:17

A few months ago, Apple hosted a two-day event that featured talks and publications on the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP). Today, the company published a post with multiple highlights, and all the studies presented. Here’s the roundup. The Workshop on Natural Language and Interactive Systems 2025 took place on May 15-16, and the talks and publications focused on three key research areas related to NLP: Spoken Language Interactive Systems LLM Training and Alignment L

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US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-11-01 03:50:17

The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. That new amount, created with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act this summer, adds on to $30.8 billion a year in preexisting subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. The report finds that the amount of public money the US will now spend on dom

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Michael Caine May Come Out of Retirement for ‘The Last Witch Hunter 2’

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-02 12:15:10

Only for his bestie Vin Diesel will the legendary Michael Caine grace the silver screen again. The 92-year-old actor announced he was retiring a few years ago, but you can’t keep the endeared genre king out of the game for too long. Caine was last seen in The Great Escaper back in 2023. However, with The Last Witch Hunter sequel in the works, Variety reports that Lionsgate has approached the actor to reprise his role as Father Dolan. The production company is pushing the development of the Vin

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The tech antitrust renaissance may already be over

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-11-08 06:01:19

Around six years ago, a new rallying cry rippled through Washington: “Break Up Big Tech.” It was a slogan emblazoned on campaign posters, uttered at congressional hearings, and beginning, it seemed, to echo through the halls of the nation’s antitrust enforcers. Momentum in the legislatures eventually petered out, but the enforcers at the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission remained more active than ever. President Joe Biden never took the kind of hard posture on Big Tech that politi

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Google won’t have to sell Chrome, judge rules

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-13 03:20:00

Google has avoided the worst-case scenario in the pivotal search antitrust case brought by the US Department of Justice. DC District Court Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google doesn't have to give up the Chrome browser to mitigate its illegal monopoly in online search. The court will only require a handful of modest behavioral remedies, forcing Google to release some search data to competitors and limit its ability to make exclusive distribution deals. More than a year ago, the Department of

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US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-11-13 08:19:57

On August 5th, 2024, Judge Amit Mehta ruled in the case of United States of America v. Google, saying, “...the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” Nearly a year later, the judge has followed that up with a ruling on remedies for Google’s search monopoly. While lawyers for the Department of Justice had argued that Google should be broken up and forced to split off products

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What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

wired.com Jess Thomson 2025-11-26 09:00:00

Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses have been strategically laid out in rows, naked as the day they were born, and left to the mercy of the elements until all that’s left of them are bones. It sounds like a scene out of a horror film, but these places are real. They’re called taphonomic research facilities, or sometimes “body farms”—sites where forensic scientists study how the human body decomposes. (Don’t worry,

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Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections

news.ycombinator.com Laura Kelley 2025-11-29 10:19:21

A new study led by researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that although many technologies claim to clean indoor air and prevent the spread of viruses like COVID-19 and the flu, most have not been tested on people and their potential risks are not yet fully understood. Published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the research

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Most Air Purifiers Haven’t Been Tested on Humans. That’s a Problem

gizmodo.com Amiran Baduashvili 2025-12-01 02:50:51

Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people—and very few studies evaluate their potentially harmful effects. That’s the upshot of a detailed review of nearly 700 studies that we co-authored in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Many respiratory viruses, such as covid-19 and influenza, can spread through indoor air. Technologies such as HEPA filters, ultraviolet light, and special ventilation designs—collectively kno

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Guillermo del Toro Explains Why His Frankenstein’s Monster Looks So Unique

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-07 02:00:57

Clearly, we’re all very, very excited about Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which is coming to theaters on October 17 before arriving on Netflix on November 7. That’s because it’s del Toro, one of our most beloved filmmakers; his cast is incredible; and there has rarely been a better pairing of filmmaker and subject matter. One other thing has us hyped up too, and that’s Frankenstein’s monster. Del Toro loves a monster and, in a new interview, he talks about how he approached his monster diff

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Three highlights from Apple’s two-day event on privacy and AI

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-13 11:37:01

A few months ago, Apple hosted the Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, which featured presentations and discussions on privacy, security, and other key areas in responsible machine learning development. Now, it has made the presentations public. Here are three highlights. As it did recently with the presentations from the 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Machine Learning, Apple published a post in its Machine Learning Research blog with a few videos and a long list of studies and pa

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In 'Alien: Earth', the Future Is a Corporate Hellscape

wired.com Adam Morgan 2025-12-27 20:47:04

Seventeen years ago, Noah Hawley became a father during the Great Recession. If you look at everything he’s written since having children—including the TV series Fargo and Legion—Hawley says it all revolves around the same question every parent faces: “How are we supposed to raise these people in the world that we're living in?” Hawley’s new series, Alien: Earth, which premieres August 12 on Hulu and FX, explores this question even more directly than his previous work. Set two years before the

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‘Dune 3’ Will Feature the Return of Smooth Faced Jason Momoa

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-15 09:45:25

As shooting gets underway on Dune: Part 3, the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah, returning cast member Jason Momoa is prepping to come back, but not exactly as who you’d think he’d be… or looking the way you’d expect. An Instagram post shows Momoa shaving to mark his return to the Dune franchise, a journey he began six years ago. It’s a stunt to celebrate the anniversary, which began at the same time as his collaboration with environmentally friendly aluminum water bottle purveyors Ma

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Doctors Are Warning That Ozempic’s Severe Side Effects May Outweigh Its Benefits

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-20 15:00:41

Image by Roberto Pfeil / picture alliance via Getty / Futurism Rx/Medicines As weight loss jabs like Ozempic and Wegovy become ever more popular, doctors are growing increasingly concerned about their gnarly side effects. As Germany's Deutsche Welle notes, people who take glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist/receptors, the class of drugs that the popular shots fall under, have reported everything from stomach issues and vision changes to erectile dysfunction and even suicide. Though clinic

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Inertial forces (indirect terms) in problems with a central body

news.ycombinator.com Aurélien Crida 2026-02-26 06:12:01

Gravitational systems in astrophysics often comprise a body – the primary – that far outweights the others, and which is taken as the centre of the reference frame. A fictitious acceleration, also known as the indirect term, must therefore be added to all other bodies in the system to compensate for the absence of motion of the primary. In this Research Note, we first stress that there is not one indirect term but as many indirect terms as there are bodies in the system that exert a gravitationa

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Show HN: I built a daily sunlight tracker

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 09:28:36

With so much time spent indoors and away from natural cycle of light and dark, our bodies are left struggling to function. Our app helps you reconnect. It supports your circadian rhythm to unlock the energy, focus, and sleep your body was built for.

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‘Fast & Furious 11’ Racing to April 2027 Release

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-03-18 03:25:23

We now have a release window for Fast & Furious 11: April 2027. Series lead and executive producer Vin Diesel revealed the target date during his apperance at FuelFest on Saturday, where he also revealed three things about the film. First, it’s heading back to Los Angeles, the location of the original film, and focusing on the street racing and car culture that drove the early Fast movies. In the past, Diesel’s indicated his desire to step away from the spy adventures that drove later installme

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Is being bilingual good for your brain?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-17 12:50:19

R eams of papers have been published on the cognitive advantages of multilingualism. Beyond the conversational doors it can open, multilingualism is supposed to improve “executive function”, a loose concept that includes the ability to ignore distractions, plan complex tasks and update beliefs as new information arrives. Most striking, numerous studies have even shown that bilinguals undergo a later onset of dementia, perhaps of around four years, on average. But some of these studies have faile

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Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

news.ycombinator.com Scott Alexander 2026-03-17 20:13:00

The Story So Far The mid-20th century was the golden age of nurture. Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the spirit of the ‘60s convinced most experts that parents, peers, and propaganda were the most important causes of adult personality. Starting in the 1970s, the pendulum swung the other way. Twin studies shocked the world by demonstrating that most behavioral traits - including socially relevant traits like IQ - were substantially genetic. Typical estimates for adult IQ found it was about 60%

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Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-28 23:04:56

Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD) Vertex Block Descent is a fast physics-based simulation method that is unconditionally stable, highly parallelizable, and capable of converging to the implicit Euler solution. We extend it using an augmented Lagrangian formulation to address some of its fundamental limitations. First, we introduce a mechanism to handle hard constraints with infinite stiffness without introducing numerical instabilities. Second, we substantially improve the convergence in th

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Karma Strikes Back in the New ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Trailer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-04-06 13:15:40

It’s been 28 years since that vengeful hook-handed killer targeted Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.), and their friends—but 29 since the hit-and-run that set their misery in motion. In the new I Know What You Did Last Summer, a direct sequel to 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (the one set in the Bahamas), Julie and Ray are back, though the focus is clearly on the next generation of good-looking kids who haven’t yet learned the importance of taking responsibility

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Latest Tech News

US cities pay too much for buses

Fiji’s ants might be the canary in the coal mine for the insect apocalypse

Trump is pushing leucovorin as a treatment for autism. What is it?

Trump is pushing leucovorin as a new treatment for autism. What is it?

Three highlights from Apple’s recent workshop on natural language processing

US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill

Michael Caine May Come Out of Retirement for ‘The Last Witch Hunter 2’

The tech antitrust renaissance may already be over

Google won’t have to sell Chrome, judge rules

US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown

What It's Like to Work at a Body Farm

Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections

Most Air Purifiers Haven’t Been Tested on Humans. That’s a Problem

Guillermo del Toro Explains Why His Frankenstein’s Monster Looks So Unique

Three highlights from Apple’s two-day event on privacy and AI

In 'Alien: Earth', the Future Is a Corporate Hellscape

‘Dune 3’ Will Feature the Return of Smooth Faced Jason Momoa

Doctors Are Warning That Ozempic’s Severe Side Effects May Outweigh Its Benefits

Inertial forces (indirect terms) in problems with a central body

Show HN: I built a daily sunlight tracker

‘Fast & Furious 11’ Racing to April 2027 Release

Is being bilingual good for your brain?

Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD)

Karma Strikes Back in the New ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Trailer

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