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James Cameron Accused of Stealing 14-Year-Old Girl’s Face for Main Character of Billion-Dollar “Avatar” Films (futurism.com)

2026-05-07 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: james cameron, avatar, disney

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Ultrahuman Put Its Ring Pro on Kickstarter for Up to 43% Off (cnet.com)

2026-05-06 | by See Full Bio | get Ultrahuman Ring Pro → | tags: ultrahuman, ring pro, kickstarter

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This app from Harvard could reshape how identity works beyond Google Wallet (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-05 | get Harvard Digital Identity Kit → | tags: harvard, keyring, google wallet

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The Digital Industry Is Optimizing Itself Into Mediocrity. Here’s How to Keep Quality at the Center of Your Work. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-04 | by Goran Paun | tags: digital industry, performance metrics, craft culture

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Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | get Light Pollution Simulation Kit → | tags: browser, light pollution, photometric data

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Playing Esoteric Ebb is like rolling the dice with a great DM (theverge.com)

2026-05-02 | by Jay Peters | tags: disco elysium, dungeons & dragons, christoffer bodegård

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This is the critical part of work leaders keep missing (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-01 | tags: employee motivation, workplace leaders, human well-being

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Oura adds birth control support to its period tracker (theverge.com)

2026-05-01 | by Jess Weatherbed | get Oura Ring Sleep Tracker → | tags: oura, cycle insights, hormonal birth control

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New at Disneyland: Your Face, Recognized at the Gate (cnet.com)

2026-04-29 | by See Full Bio | get Disney MagicBand Plus → | tags: disneyland, facial recognition, biometric scanning

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Professional school grads from diverse classes get higher salaries (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-29 | get Diversity and Inclusion Book → | tags: diversity, supreme court, affirmative action

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LingBot-Map: Streaming 3D reconstruction with geometric context transformer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-28 | get 3D Reconstruction Drone Kit → | tags: lingbot, map, 3d reconstruction

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U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | by Ananya Bhattacharya | get World ID Privacy Badge → | tags: world, sam altman, tools for humanity

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4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | tags: voice biometrics, mercor, lapsus$

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Tinder Scanning Users’ Eyeballs to Prove They Aren’t Creeps (futurism.com)

2026-04-26 | by Frank Landymore | tags: tinder, worldcoin, biometric verification

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Privacy Advocate Accuses US Government of Investing in AI-Powered Mass Surveillance (slashdot.org)

2026-04-26 | by Posted | get Privacy Screen Protector → | tags: us government, ai surveillance, homeland security

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The memory dealer of Old Jeddah (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-24 | by Youness | tags: al-shafi’i, biometrics, ministry drones

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Closure of China’s influential journal ranking leaves academics reeling — what will take its place? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-24 | by Basu | get Academic Journal Impact Kit → | tags: cas journal ranking, chinese academy of sciences, xinrui scholar

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Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time (futurism.com)

2026-04-22 | by Joe Wilkins | get Smart Glasses with Facial Recognition → | tags: ice, facial recognition glasses, biometric data

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How does GPS work? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | by Shri Khalpada | get GPS Satellite Receiver → | tags: gps, einstein's theories, satellites

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How the Heck Does GPS Work? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | by Shri Khalpada | get GPS Satellite Receiver → | tags: gps, einstein's theories, satellites

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Evaluating large language models for accuracy incentivizes hallucinations (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-22 | by Kalai | get AI Language Model Debugger → | tags: large language models, hallucinations, open-rubric evaluations

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ICE’s Smart Glasses Are a Worst-Case Scenario (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-21 | get Smart Glasses Display → | tags: ice, smart glasses, dhs

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Homeland Security reportedly wants to develop smart glasses for ICE (engadget.com)

2026-04-21 | get Smart Glasses for ICE → | tags: homeland security, ice glasses, biometric data

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Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | get Secure Digital Identity Card → | tags: brussels, github, biometric authentication

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Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | get OpenTelemetry Collector Plugin → | tags: opentelemetry, retroactive sampling, victoriametrics

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Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder (wired.com)

2026-04-17 | by Maxwell Zeff | get AI Detection Scanner → | tags: tinder, world project, iris scanning

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Sustainability is maturing (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-16 | get Eco-Friendly Smart Plugs → | tags: sustainability, top 250 companies, geopolitical risks

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Europe’s Online Age Verification App Is Here (wired.com)

2026-04-16 | by Valentina Neri | get Online Age Verification Device → | tags: european commission, age verification app, biometric verification

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The quest to measure our relationship with nature (technologyreview.com)

2026-04-16 | by Emma Marris | get Nature Connection Journal → | tags: environmental metrics, human-nonhuman relationships, satellite imagery

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Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | get Prometheus Monitoring Tool → | tags: statsd, opentelemetry, prometheus