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‘Andor’ Gets 14 Emmy Nominations in a Genre-Heavy Year

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-07-26 02:17:14

Television, it turns out, is geeky as hell. That seemed to be the major takeaway as the 77th annual Emmy Award nominations were announced Tuesday, with Severance leading all nominees with 27 total, HBO’s The Penguin coming in second with 24, The Last of Us in fifth with 16, and Andor coming in sixth with 14, including Outstanding Drama Series. Other genre shows, such as The Acolyte, Agatha All Along, Black Mirror, The Boys, Cobra Kai, Dune: Prophecy, House of the Dragon, Invincible, Paradise, P

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Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis

news.ycombinator.com Jgs Editor 2025-07-24 11:18:50

Bruno Luvizotto Carli Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. brunolcarli (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Competitive Pokémon battles often hinge on the initial selection of Pokémon leads. Anticipating an opponent’s lead choice offers a tactical edge, particularly in high-stakes matches. In this paper, I explore the use of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a natural language processing algorithm, applied to over 5,000 Pokémon Showdown battle logs, to predict likely lead pairs b

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Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Gabrielle Emanuel 2025-07-29 08:33:17

You'll never guess the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery toggle caption Jenna Forsyth "It's the crime of the century," says Bruce Lanphear . He's not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that an estimated 800 million children around the world are poisoned by lead – lead in their family's pots and pan, lead in their food, lead in the air. That's just about half of a

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Subnautica studio co-founder says he's suing parent company Krafton

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-29 13:34:12

The drama surrounding the significantly delayed release of Subnautica 2 continues with Charlie Cleveland, co-founder and former director of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, announcing via a post on X that he and unnamed others have filed a lawsuit against Krafton , the studio's parent company since 2021. Cleveland, along with Ted Gill and Max McGuire, were relieved of their leadership roles at Unknown Worlds last week by Krafton. Bloomberg reported that they had been effectively "pushed out." This

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Turmeric is the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Gabrielle Emanuel 2025-07-30 09:33:17

You'll never guess the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery toggle caption Jenna Forsyth "It's the crime of the century," says Bruce Lanphear . He's not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that an estimated 800 million children around the world are poisoned by lead – lead in their family's pots and pan, lead in their food, lead in the air. That's just about half of a

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Krafton slams ex-Subnautica 2 execs and claims it’ll give developers their ‘promised’ reward

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-08-01 02:09:22

To Our 12 Million Fellow Subnauts, — Inevitable Leadership Change Driven by Project Abandonment–Despite Holding 90% of Earnout for Themselves First and foremost, we sincerely thank you for your continued support, passion, and unwavering dedication to Subnautica. We wish to provide clarity on the recent leadership changes at Unknown Worlds, a creative studio under KRAFTON. Background of Leadership Change KRAFTON deeply values Subnautica’s unique creativity and immersive world-building. To pro

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5 ways to be great AI agent manager, according to business leaders

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-08-09 02:16:03

akinbostanci/Getty Microsoft recently said that maximizing AI and agents' performance involves learning about management concerns, including delegating, iterating, prompting, and refining the technology. The tech giant's research suggested that the requirement for someone to manage these teams of AIs has led to the evolution of a new role, the agent boss, who is responsible for the best performance of these fast-emerging technologies. Also: 4 questions to ask yourself before betting on AI in

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Wonder Dynamics co-founder Nikola Todorovic joins the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-14 01:10:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is back at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27–29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders to dig into what’s next in tech. And when it comes to artificial intelligence, the conversations aren’t just technical — they’re creative, cinematic, and boundary-pushing. That’s why Nikola Todorovic is headed to the AI Stage. A visual effects veteran turned AI entrepreneur, Todorovic is the co-founder of Wonder Dynamics, now an Autodesk company. Alongside actor

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Some Disposable E-Cigarettes Are More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-19 10:40:18

E-cigarettes have become increasingly popular over the last two decades, especially among young people. These sleek, deliciously flavored smoking devices are often marketed as a safer alternative to conventional cigarettes, but alarming new research challenges that assumption. In a study published June 25 in the journal ACS Central Science, researchers tested three popular disposable vape brands for hazardous metals and metalloids such as lead, chromium, antimony, and nickel. Inhaling these tox

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Trump Whines About AT&T Conference Call Glitches: ‘Totally Unable to Make Their Equipment Work Properly’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-19 14:10:01

Donald Trump is upset with his phone company. And whether he’s complaining about issues big or small, you know the president is going to whine about it online. “I’m doing a major Conference Call with Faith Leaders from all over the Country, and AT&T is totally unable to make their equipment work properly,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday afternoon. “This is the second time it’s happened. If the Boss of AT&T, whoever that may be, could get involved—It would be good. There are tens of thousand

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Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-20 22:00:15

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments If you vape — and especially if it's because you think it's a less harmful alternative to smoking — then we have some really bad news. New research from the University of California, Davis, shows that some popular disposable vapes contain levels of toxic metals so appalling that they exceed traditional cigarettes. And we don't just mean a single cig — we're talking packs of them. The work, published as a study in the journal ACS Central Science, sounds t

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The battle-tested tips CEOs swear by when change hits from every direction

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-08-27 02:04:28

StudioGraphic / Getty Images As I interview some of the brightest minds in technology, business and leadership for my weekly podcast DisrupTV, one thing became crystal clear: we're not just experiencing an AI revolution -- we're in the midst of multiple technological revolutions converging simultaneously. This combinatorial effect makes this even more game changing than the internet, because the internet was just one revolution. Also: 4 ways to turn AI into your business advantage As such, th

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A brief history of hardware epidemics

news.ycombinator.com Alan B 2025-08-26 04:18:39

Living creatures aren’t the only things to be ravaged by epidemics. Computers, even Macs, can die prematurely when there are widespread manufacturing failures. I’d like to unearth a couple of mass graves from the past that have surely contributed to landfill around the world: capacitor plague and lead-free solder, and a recent problem with butterflies. Capacitor plague 1999-2007 Capacitors or ‘caps’ have a chequered history. Acting as temporary stores of electric charge, they’re used extensive

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Why we’re focusing VB Transform on the agentic revolution – and what’s at stake for enterprise AI leaders

venturebeat.com Matt Marshall 2025-08-31 14:44:31

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Tomorrow in San Francisco, VentureBeat’s Transform 2025 kicks off. For years, this has been the leading independent gathering for enterprise technical decision-makers — the hands-on builders and architects on the front lines of applied AI. Our mission has always been to cut through the hype and focus on the most critical, execution-orient

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Optifye.ai (YC W25) is hiring a back end engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 01:00:00

Some context: Optifye is an AI performance monitoring system for factory workers backed by Y Combinator. We put cameras in factories and use computer vision to find shop-floor inefficiencies in real-time. Our clients are industry-leading manufacturers in the garments, automotive, medical, and FMCG industries across the world. We are looking to hire founding team members as we enter a high-growth phase. Must haves: - Deep GPU, CPU, and memory optimization knowledge - Experience scaling an ap

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Optifye.ai (YC W25) – Founding Back End Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 06:00:00

Some context: Optifye is an AI performance monitoring system for factory workers backed by Y Combinator. We put cameras in factories and use computer vision to find shop-floor inefficiencies in real-time. Our clients are industry-leading manufacturers in the garments, automotive, medical, and FMCG industries across the world. We are looking to hire founding team members as we enter a high-growth phase. Must haves: - Deep GPU, CPU, and memory optimization knowledge - Experience scaling an ap

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From fear to fluency: Why empathy is the missing ingredient in AI rollouts

venturebeat.com Rukmini Reddy 2025-09-01 06:05:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more While many organizations are eager to explore how AI can transform their business, its success will hinge not on tools, but on how well people embrace them. This shift requires a different kind of leadership rooted in empathy, curiosity and intentionality. Technology leaders must guide their organizations with clarity and care. People use

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RaptorCast: Designing a Messaging Layer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 03:57:44

RaptorCast: Designing a Messaging Layer ‍ In Proof of Stake blockchains, a pre-determined leader typically proposes a block of transactions at each round. The propagation of this block to all validators is one of the most challenging and time-consuming steps in the consensus protocol. In this blog post, we examine RaptorCast, a solution designed to address the following considerations: Performance - a block proposal needs to be sent quickly to the rest of the network Security - each recipien

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FDA Approves ‘Breakthough’ Drug to Prevent HIV

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-06 06:20:18

The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a preventative HIV drug widely regarded as a breakthrough. On Wednesday afternoon, the FDA approved Gilead Sciences’ lenacapavir as a more convenient form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). In clinical trials, the drug was shown to be highly effective at preventing HIV infection when taken just twice a year. At the same time, advocates are urging Gilead and U.S. officials to ensure the drug is widely accessible to the public. “PrEP is one of

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Streaming Has Overtaken Traditional TV for the First Time Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 13:35:00

Streaming became the most popular single form of TV usage years ago, but that was not its final hurdle. The juggernaut of broadcast and cable television combined meant that consumers were still using traditional TV services more than streaming overall, even if streaming was more popular than either of them individually. According to data from Nielsen, streaming just overcame this final hurdle. Nielsen says that in May, cable television accounted for 24.1% of all TV usage and broadcast TV repres

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AI is rapidly transforming customer experiences - here's 8x8's vision for the future of CX

zdnet.com Omer Minkara 2025-09-09 14:34:33

Just_Super/Getty Images Who says the contact center space is moving slowly? In early April, I attended 8X8's Analyst Summit 2025, where company leaders outlined their vision for transforming customer experience (CX) through an integrated, AI-enabled ecosystem. There was so much content about recent and upcoming trends that I needed to take some time to analyze the discussions before sharing this now long-overdue recap of the event. Also: 7 strategic insights business and IT leaders need for AI

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5 ways to lead with positivity - because no one wants a negative manager

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-09-14 06:51:20

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Becoming a successful manager is far from straightforward. Leading people requires a series of crucial characteristics, and research suggests one of the most important is positivity. A Harvard Business Review survey found that team members felt more highly respected when leaders expressed positivity during the early stages of a project. Also: 5 ways to make assertive decisions in uncertain times, according to business leaders So how can leaders develop the right

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Apply to Speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before the deadline

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-06-01 23:00:00

AI Innovators, seize your moment! Have insights that could inspire 1,200 AI founders, investors, and enthusiasts eager to advance the future of AI? Take center stage, influence the AI conversation, and exchange ideas at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. We’re gathering top AI visionaries from the startup world to lead compelling sessions and interactive roundtables. Join us in helping entrepreneurs, founders, and innovators navigate the evolving world of AI.

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Latest Tech News

‘Andor’ Gets 14 Emmy Nominations in a Genre-Heavy Year

Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis

Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)

Subnautica studio co-founder says he's suing parent company Krafton

Turmeric is the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery (2024)

Krafton slams ex-Subnautica 2 execs and claims it’ll give developers their ‘promised’ reward

5 ways to be great AI agent manager, according to business leaders

Wonder Dynamics co-founder Nikola Todorovic joins the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Some Disposable E-Cigarettes Are More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes, Study Finds

Trump Whines About AT&T Conference Call Glitches: ‘Totally Unable to Make Their Equipment Work Properly’

Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find

The battle-tested tips CEOs swear by when change hits from every direction

A brief history of hardware epidemics

Why we’re focusing VB Transform on the agentic revolution – and what’s at stake for enterprise AI leaders

Optifye.ai (YC W25) is hiring a back end engineer

Optifye.ai (YC W25) – Founding Back End Engineer

From fear to fluency: Why empathy is the missing ingredient in AI rollouts

RaptorCast: Designing a Messaging Layer

FDA Approves ‘Breakthough’ Drug to Prevent HIV

Streaming Has Overtaken Traditional TV for the First Time Ever

AI is rapidly transforming customer experiences - here's 8x8's vision for the future of CX

5 ways to lead with positivity - because no one wants a negative manager

Apply to Speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before the deadline

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