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Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 12:52:33

A baffled bride has solved the mystery of the awkward-looking stranger who crashed her wedding four years ago. Michelle Wylie and her husband, John, registered the presence of their unidentifiable guest only as they looked through photographs of their wedding in the days after the happy occasion. Who was the tall man in a dark suit, distinguished by the look of quiet mortification on his face? But their family and friends could offer no explanation, nor could hotel staff at the Carlton hotel i

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‘Someone must know this guy’: four-year wedding crasher mystery solved

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 17:52:33

A baffled bride has solved the mystery of the awkward-looking stranger who crashed her wedding four years ago. Michelle Wylie and her husband, John, registered the presence of their unidentifiable guest only as they looked through photographs of their wedding in the days after the happy occasion. Who was the tall man in a dark suit, distinguished by the look of quiet mortification on his face? But their family and friends could offer no explanation, nor could hotel staff at the Carlton hotel i

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Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery

news.ycombinator.com Meghie Rodrigues 2025-10-11 07:56:37

A new, promising technique has the potential to replace laser surgeries in ophthalmologists’ offices in the future, for a fraction of the cost. Called electromechanical reshaping (EMR), the technique offers a gentler approach to correcting the cornea than Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK), today’s gold standard for treating vision issues including nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. The eye develops these and other conditions when the cornea’s curvature is off—too stee

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Electromechanical Reshaping Offers Safer Eye Surgery

news.ycombinator.com Meghie Rodrigues 2025-10-12 13:56:37

A new, promising technique has the potential to replace laser surgeries in ophthalmologists’ offices in the future, for a fraction of the cost. Called electromechanical reshaping (EMR), the technique offers a gentler approach to correcting the cornea than Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK), today’s gold standard for treating vision issues including nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. The eye develops these and other conditions when the cornea’s curvature is off—too stee

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How to Back Up Your Android Phone (2025)

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-10-19 13:30:00

Your phone is the guardian of your digital life. It has that video of your child’s first words, the heart-warming message from your significant other that never fails to cheer you up, and the latest save from your favorite mobile game. You have invested time in getting it just the way you want, and there are irreplaceable memories onboard. Spending a couple of minutes backing up is a small price to pay to ensure you don’t lose it all. Here, I'll show you how to back up your Android phone in a f

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The Boring Company is finally testing Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ in its Las Vegas tunnels

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-25 11:40:38

In Brief Elon Musk’s The Boring Company is finally testing Full Self-Driving (Supervised), the advanced driver assistance system created by Tesla, in the tunnels that connect Las Vegas’ Convention Center to a few nearby hotels, according to Fortune. Steve Hill, the CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, told the outlet that The Boring Company has been doing tests of the software for a few months now in Tesla vehicles with only safety drivers onboard. But any widespread use of

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The new Return to Silent Hill trailer gives us our first look at Pyramid Head

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 23:22:34

Nearly three years on from its original announcement, Return to Silent Hill finally has a proper trailer. It’s only 40 seconds long, but in that time we get a healthy supply of foggy and eerily empty street shots, terrifying monsters and a very brief glimpse of the iconic Pyramid Head. It looks like a Silent Hill movie alright. Return to Silent Hill is based on the 2001 survival horror classic Silent Hill 2, which got the remake treatment last year and remains one of the genre’s most important

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Cryptomixer founders pled guilty to laundering money for cybercriminals

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-01 03:45:45

The founders of the Samourai Wallet (Samourai) cryptocurrency mixer have pleaded guilty to laundering over $200 million for criminals. Samourai CEO Keonne Rodriguez and CTO William Lonergan Hill admitted to their involvement in the Samourai money laundering operation, pleading guilty to conspiracy for operating a money transmitting business that handled criminal proceeds, and are now facing a maximum sentence of five years in prison. As part of their plea agreements, Rodriguez and Hill have a

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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 22:35:40

The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now 3 days ago Share Save Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Share Save Australian Museum Before koalas became Australia's animal ambassadors, the country tried platypus diplomacy In 1943, a camouflaged ship set off from Australia to England carrying top secret cargo - a single young platypus. Named after his would-be owner, UK prime minister Winston Churchill, the rare monotreme was an unprecedented gift from a country des

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ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models

news.ycombinator.com Avram Piltch 2025-12-09 10:40:11

Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation. If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up

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ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it

news.ycombinator.com Avram Piltch 2025-12-09 16:40:11

Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation. If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up

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Chillin' by the Fire is a relaxing, co-op campfire sim that's out today on Nintendo Switch 2

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 10:00:09

Thursday's Nintendo Direct showcased some interesting games, but none seemed more relaxing than one called Chillin' by the Fire. This is a campfire sim from Oink Games in which you'll build and grow a fire. You'll split and stack firewood, dry out wet logs before adding them to your blaze and fan the flames by blowing on 'em. It's important not to have too little or too much wood in a fire at any given time, and you might have to deal with elemental factors like low temperatures on a snowy mount

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As Waymo Debuts in Philadelphia, It May Want to Look Into the Time Furious Locals Tore Apart an Adorable Robot

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-26 15:09:51

The City of Brotherly Love is known for lots of things: cheesesteaks, the Liberty Bell, Paddy's Pub, and residents who don't take kindly to outsiders messing around in their business. Way back in 2015, Philadelphians' territorial nature briefly became national news when hitchBOT — a child-size hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers and had already traversed several entire countries with their help — arrived in Philadelphia and quickly got decapitated by furious locals. The

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There's Gold in the Hills

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow 2026-02-25 15:33:21

Josh Jackson | Longreads | June 12, 2025 | 5,262 words (19 minutes) “There’s Gold in the Hills” is an adapted excerpt from the book The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California’s Public Lands by Josh Jackson, published by Heyday and on sale June 24, 2025. The BLM—short for the Bureau of Land Management—was established in 1946, when the Department of the Interior merged the General Land Office with the Grazing Service. Today, the BLM is one of four federal agencies that manage public land acros

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Return to Silent Hill is coming to theaters next January

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-08 13:34:09

The third Silent Hill movie is still heading to theaters. According to Deadline, Return to Silent Hill will premiere on January 23, 2026. The film is directed by Christophe Gans, who also helmed the original 2006 adaptation. Return to Silent Hill is based on the 2001 game Silent Hill 2. (Bloober Team's 2024 remake was one of our favorite games of the year.) The movie adaptation stars Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson. Akira Yamaoka, the game franchise's original composer, handles the scor

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Konami's Original Silent Hill Getting Official Remake Treatment by Blooper Team

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-16 12:46:00

An official remake of the original 1999 Silent Hill video game is currently being developed by the same team behind the successful Silent Hill 2 remake last year. The title was announced as being in development at the very end of Thursday's Press Start game showcase, which showed off several upcoming games from Konami, including Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and more. Though the original Silent Hill has seen adaptations in the form of 2009's Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and the 2006 fi

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Konami and Bloober Team are remaking the original Silent Hill

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 13:06:29

A remake of the original Silent Hill is in development, it was revealed during Konami's Press Start stream on Thursday. An image announcing that another Silent Hill game from developer Bloober Team was in the works appeared during the stream. It was accompanied by music from the first game in the series. The official Japanese Silent Hill account on X later clarified that Bloober is modernizing the original 1999 entry. Back in February, it emerged that Bloober is making a new title based on Kona

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Konami is remaking the original Silent Hill

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-03-17 13:00:51

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Get ready for more Silent Hill. As part of its Press Start online presentation on Thursday, Konami announced that it’s remaking the original Silent Hill in partnership with Bloober Team, the studio that developed last year’s well-received Silent Hill 2 remake. Konami didn’t share any more details beyond that the game is in development; the presentation didn’t include any foota

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Watch Konami's Press Start Metal Gear and Silent Hill stream at 9AM ET

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-18 13:00:11

In case all the content from Summer Game Fest wasn't enough, Konami has you covered. Today at 9AM ET the developer will stream Konami Press Start, a new showcase featuring updates (and hopefully new gameplay) for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and Silent Hill f, among other titles. It will stream on Konami’s YouTube channel and is expected to run 37 minutes. On top of news about the aforementioned two games, Konami has promised more — perhaps news around the Gradius Origins collection comi

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Latest Tech News

Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved

‘Someone must know this guy’: four-year wedding crasher mystery solved

Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery

Electromechanical Reshaping Offers Safer Eye Surgery

How to Back Up Your Android Phone (2025)

The Boring Company is finally testing Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ in its Las Vegas tunnels

The new Return to Silent Hill trailer gives us our first look at Pyramid Head

Cryptomixer founders pled guilty to laundering money for cybercriminals

The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved

ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models

ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it

Chillin' by the Fire is a relaxing, co-op campfire sim that's out today on Nintendo Switch 2

As Waymo Debuts in Philadelphia, It May Want to Look Into the Time Furious Locals Tore Apart an Adorable Robot

There's Gold in the Hills

Return to Silent Hill is coming to theaters next January

Konami's Original Silent Hill Getting Official Remake Treatment by Blooper Team

Konami and Bloober Team are remaking the original Silent Hill

Konami is remaking the original Silent Hill

Watch Konami's Press Start Metal Gear and Silent Hill stream at 9AM ET

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