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Tesla Is Giving Up on Solar Roof Tiles as Elon Musk Leans Into Fossil Fuels (futurism.com)

2026-08-22 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: tesla, solar roof, elon musk

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Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students (futurism.com)

2026-08-22 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: electric shock gloves, omaha police, special education

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Remotely unlocking electric scooters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | by Henri Emategui | tags: electric scooters, qr code, electricscootercompany

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Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | by Henri Emategui | tags: electric scooters, qr code, electricscootercompany

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Tesla’s solar roof is dead — here’s what went wrong (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-21 | by Tim De Chant | tags: tesla, solar roof, solar panels

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Scientists Planted Telecom Cables to Find ‘Thunderquakes.’ Here’s What Happened (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: telecom cables, thunderquakes, scientists

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Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: electron, swift, screencapturekit

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Tesla recalls 3 million cars as part of China-wide push to stop hidden door handles (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-21 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: tesla, china, electronic latches

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LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher throughput (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-21 | by Anton Shilov | tags: lg electronics, tsmc, coos

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Cop Used Electrocution Gloves to Subdue High School Student in Special Education Program (futurism.com)

2026-08-21 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: g.l.o.v.e, omaha police, electric-shock gloves

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As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: meta, ai glasses, def con

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Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims (techspot.com)

2026-08-21 | by Zo Ahmed | tags: cxmt, samsung electronics, dram

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Samsung plans up to $80 billion in shareholder returns after SK Hynix buyback (cnbc.com)

2026-08-21 | by Jenny Lee | tags: samsung electronics, sk hynix, memory chips

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Tesla sunsets its Solar Roof tiles (theverge.com)

2026-08-21 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: tesla, solar roof, electrek

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How landscape gardening is being electrified (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-20 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: whisper aero, agza, electric landscaping

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These Transistors Engineered With Bacteria Are Literally Alive, if a Little Slow (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: transistors, bacteria, bioelectronics

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FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies (slashdot.org)

2026-08-20 | tags: fcc, gigabit speed, telecommunications

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The Genesis GV90 blows the bloody doors off what’s possible in EV design (theverge.com)

2026-08-20 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | tags: genesis gv90, hyundai, coach-style doors

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Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-20 | by Jowi Morales | tags: university of michigan, los alamos national laboratory, hyperscale data center

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Just Fucking Use Neovim (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: neovim, vim, language server protocol

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A MAGA County’s Top Election Official Wants to Hire Election Denial Superstar Tina Peters (wired.com)

2026-08-20 | by David Gilbert | tags: election security, tina peters, shasta county

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This Electric Shock Glove Was Invented for Police in the 1930s to ‘Incite Fear’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: electric shock glove, police, 1930s

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The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | by View More Posts | tags: css, class prefix selector, html

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FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: fcc, gigabit speed, broadband deployment

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Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | by Bob D'Angelo | tags: flock cameras, polk county, haines city police

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The largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricity (techspot.com)

2026-08-19 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: heart aerospace, x1 demonstrator, hybrid-electric aircraft

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Healthtech firm CareCloud data breach impacts 3.7 million patients (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: carecloud, aws, healthcare

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New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: casio, f-b100w, f-91w

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CareCloud confirms 3.7M patients had their medical records stolen in data breach (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-19 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: carecloud, amazon web services, health data breach

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Tesla Robotaxi With No Driver Spotted Smashing Through Traffic Barriers (futurism.com)

2026-08-19 | by Frank Landymore | tags: tesla, robotaxi, self-driving cars