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Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why. (technologyreview.com)

2026-06-26 | by Jessica Hamzelou | tags: heat waves, cognitive testing, firefighters

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Strange Side Effect Found Among Ozempic Users—and It Has to Do With Smell and Taste (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-25 | tags: ozempic, glp-1, smell

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Figma now has AI motion graphics and shader tools (theverge.com)

2026-06-24 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: figma, webgpu, shader effects

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Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-22 | tags: mamenchisaurus, wollaton hall, jarrod davis

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Brian Johnson, Special Effects Artist Behind 'Space: 1999,' Dies At 86 (slashdot.org)

2026-06-18 | get Space: 1999 DVD Collection → | tags: space 1999, brian johnson, special effects

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Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-17 | get Google Nest Audio → | tags: google home speaker, nest audio, google assistant

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SpaceX IPO today: How volatile trading could impact your 401k retirement account—and why investors are worried (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-12 | get SpaceX Official Merchandise → | tags: broader, effects, investors

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The co-creator of Scavengers Reign is working on a new show for Netflix (engadget.com)

2026-06-03 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: scavengers reign, green street pictures, dealies

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Ableton is letting musicians build browser-style extensions for Live (theverge.com)

2026-06-02 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Ableton Live Extension Kit → | tags: ableton, max for live, extensions sdk

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Backrooms is a reminder that the internet is the future of cinema (engadget.com)

2026-05-30 | by Devindra Hardawar | get Backrooms Puzzle Game → | tags: backrooms, adobe after effects, kane parsons

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“Better” Isn’t Always Enough. Why Smart Leaders Use This Hidden Curve to Decide Who Wins (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-27 | by Neel Somani | get Leadership Strategy Board Game → | tags: natural gas, incumbents, substitution curve

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Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-26 | get Algebraic Effects Programming Book → | tags: react, algebraic effects, ocaml

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Perseverance checks in from Mars with a selfie, the mounting pollution from satellite launches, and more science stories (engadget.com)

2026-05-16 | by Cheyenne Macdonald | get Mars Rover Model Kit → | tags: perseverance, mars, nasa

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Teenage Engineering’s KO Sidekick is a mixer with fun performance effects (theverge.com)

2026-05-08 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Teenage Engineering KO Sidekick → | tags: teenage engineering, ko sidekick, ko-ii

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Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get Idempotent API Testing Tool → | tags: idempotency-key, payments, concurrency control

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Electrocaloric effects across room temperature in multilayer capacitors (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Guo | get Electrocaloric Cooling Device → | tags: multilayer capacitors, electrocaloric effects, pst–15pmw

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Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get Coffee Health Tracker Notebook → | tags: coffee, nr4a1, texas a&m

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Delivering an immune therapy into tumours instead of intravenously reduces adverse effects (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-29 | get Oncolytic Virus Therapy Kit → | tags: immune therapy, tumours, adverse effects

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One of the Best Moments of ‘Maul: Shadow Lord’ Included a Sneaky Practical Effect (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-28 | get Maul Shadow Lord Collectible Figure → | tags: maul, shadow lord, practical effects

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The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | by Luis Prada | tags: lanmaoa asiatica, yunnan province, vice

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Author Correction: A µ-opioid receptor superagonist analgesic with minimal adverse effects (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-24 | by Gomez | tags: µ-opioid receptor, analgesic, creative commons

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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-19 | by Jess Weatherbed | get Adobe Creative Cloud Subscription → | tags: adobe, after effects, maxon

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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)

2026-04-17 | by Jess Weatherbed | get Adobe Creative Cloud Subscription → | tags: adobe, after effects, maxon

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Godzilla goes to New York in 'Minus Zero' teaser trailer (engadget.com)

2026-04-15 | get Godzilla Action Figure → | tags: godzilla, toho, imax

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The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | get Caffeine Half-Life Monitor → | tags: caffeine, half-life, consumption

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Google Photos is bringing back a fan-favorite video editing tool it lost months ago (androidauthority.com)

2026-04-08 | get Google Photos Video Editor → | tags: google photos, effects feature, android authority

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VFX HQ: Visual Effects Headquarters (2000) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-08 | get Visual Effects Software Suite → | tags: visual effects, vfx, vfxhq

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Memento turns 25 (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-06 | get Memento Blu-ray Collection → | tags: memento, christopher nolan, anterograde amnesia

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Snapchat’s new ‘AI Clips’ Lens format turns photos into five-second videos (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-24 | by Aisha Malik | get Snapchat AI Lens Kit → | tags: snapchat, ai clips, lens studio

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Look at This Treasure Trove of Unseen Photos From the Filming of ‘Return of the Jedi’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-19 | get Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Blu-ray → | tags: star wars, return of the jedi, stuart ziff