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The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: benefits, benefits retiring, climate

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The Hacker's Renaissance (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: hacker, inside, manifesto

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Will price hikes force Apple to stop dragging its feet on certain product upgrades? (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: apple, ipad, ipad air

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Wolfbox MF60 Compressed Air Duster is nearly 40% off in a limited-time deal — powerful rechargeable device's propulsion fan runs at up to 110,000 RPM (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: air duster, deals, dust

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How to hide and unhide an app on your iPhone or iPad (and why you may want to) (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ben Stegner | tags: apps, face, face id

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YouTuber Spends Two Years Making Alcohol From Thin Air, Doesn’t Even Get Wasted (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: air doesn, alcohol, alcohol air

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AI’s Scariest Week Yet (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: ai data, center, center wires

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‘What About Garmin?’ I Tested the Company’s Answer to Whoop (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: band, band offers, cirqa

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USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: newspaper, palantir, publisher

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Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: card, drive, firmware

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How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jonathan Vanian | tags: anthropic, irregular, meta

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Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: flash, increases, industry

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Jeff Bezos Harshly Criticized for $200 Million Pledge to Protect the World’s Most Endangered Species (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: amazon, bezos, billionaire

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iOS 27: The easiest beta to forget about (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: beta, course, phone

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Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use? (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: access, carplay, connection

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Utm Team | tags: build, calls, directx

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Nancy Guthrie: A Case of Bad Calls and Bad Luck (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-08 | tags: airfares, benefits, benefits small

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Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Dell Cameron | tags: nexar, openai, security

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Apple's rumored "Ultra" lineup would include a foldable iPhone, camera AirPods, and a touchscreen MacBook (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: airpods, apple, cameras

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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: advance, advance directed, affected

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Hairmax LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex Review: Putting Down New Roots (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Kat Merck | tags: follicles, hair, hair follicles

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Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jessica Lyons | tags: facilities, iran, nakasone

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‘SaaSpocalypse’ debate intensifies as software stocks swing wildly (cnbc.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jordan Novet | tags: airtable, atlassian, software

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New AirPods could launch next month, and one feature sounds very exciting (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: airpods, airpods cameras, apple

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The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: aircraft, concorde, dhananjay

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Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: agent, agents, single

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Sadie Sink Can Finally Talk About Her ‘Spider-Man’ Role—And Her MCU Future (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: brand, brand new, confirms

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Chesky says Airbnb will spend ‘a lot more’ on AI as earnings beat and stock surges 15% (cnbc.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mackenzie Sigalos | tags: airbnb, chesky, chesky said

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Don’t miss your chance to pick up the AirPods Max 2 at $100 off (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: airpods, airpods max, amazon

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Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | tags: fairground, produced, programming