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Corning avoids EU antitrust fine by ending exclusive deals with phone manufacturers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-20 12:30:23

Corning, the US-based glass manufacturer behind Gorilla Glass, has vowed to end its exclusive deals and other practices that the European Commission deemed to be anti-competitive in order to avoid getting fined. If you'll recall, the commission announced that it was investigating Corning last year, accusing it of squashing competition with its exclusive supply agreements, thereby driving up prices and stifling innovation. Now, the commission has accepted the commitments Corning offered and made

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After a partly successful test flight, European firm eyes space station mission

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-21 19:00:46

Last month, the parachutes on Hélène Huby's small spacecraft failed to deploy, and the vehicle and its cargo crashed into the ocean on Earth. It was both a success and a failure. The success was that after Huby founded The Exploration Company in Europe, she managed to move nimbly with the "Mission Possible" spacecraft such that it cost less than $25 million to build and reached space in less than three years. The vehicle ticked off a number of successes in spaceflight before making a controlle

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Trump's firing of Democratic FTC commissioner was unlawful, judge rules

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-22 11:00:29

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of the Democratic FTC Commissioners President Trump had fired back in March, said she looks forward to getting back to work. US District Judge Loren AliKhan has just ruled that her removal from the agency was "unlawful and without legal effect" and that she was still a "rightful member" of the commission. The judge explained that the firings violated protections that prevent a president from unilaterally removing officials at independent agencies. In her statement a

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Amazon’s AI push is undermining its sustainability goals

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-24 03:01:59

Amazon’s decarbonization goals are being undermined by its push to be a leader in generative AI. Its most recent sustainability report concedes its overall carbon emissions grew for the first time since 2022. It reported a six percent increase in its carbon footprint across 2024, laying much of the blame at the feet of its data center rollout. The reported increase is significant given Amazon’s method of reporting its own environmental impact. Critics have suggested the mega-retailer “ dramatic

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Meet the cement transport ship that makes cement ingredients while sailing

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-07-26 19:11:50

Shipping has a pollution problem, but one company has a solution that does more than just eliminate a boat’s carbon dioxide. London-based Seabound has developed a carbon capture system that transforms CO 2 from the engine into limestone, a key ingredient in cement. Fittingly, the company has installed it aboard the UBC Cork, a cement carrier currently sailing through the Mediterranean Sea. When the ship docks in Norway, the limestone created from the voyage will be offloaded and used to make m

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Iconic NASA Probe That Visited Pluto Could Go Dark Thanks to Trump Cuts

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-07-28 07:05:58

On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, revealing unprecedented close-up views of the complex icy world. The iconic mission is still returning data from the far reaches of the solar system, but a lack of funding now threatens to end the mission prematurely. As NASA celebrates the 10th anniversary of the historic Pluto flyby, the space agency is also bracing for budget cuts that threaten the historic New Horizons probe. The White House’s budget proposal, released in May

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Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 03:06:20

An international research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.), and including Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Electric, President: INOUE Osamu) have set a new world record in optical fiber communications, achieving data transmission at 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of 1,808 kilometers (roughly equivalent to the distance from Sapporo to Fukuoka, from Misso

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We saw the heart of Pluto 10 years ago—it’ll be a long wait to see the rest

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-29 20:15:02

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got a fleeting glimpse of Pluto 10 years ago, revealing a distant world with a picturesque landscape that, paradoxically, appears to be refreshing itself in the cold depths of our Solar System. The mission answered numerous questions about Pluto that have lingered since its discovery by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. As is often the case with planetary exploration, the results from New Horizons' flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, posed countless more questions.

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Musk's xAI faces European scrutiny over Grok's 'horrific' antisemitic posts

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-07-30 14:54:00

The Grok logo is being displayed on a smartphone with Xai visible in the background in this photo illustration on April 1, 2024. The European Union on Monday called in representatives from Elon Musk's xAI after the company's social network X, and chatbot Grok, generated and spread anti-semitic hate speech, including praise for Adolf Hitler, last week. A spokesperson for the European Commission told CNBC via e-mail that a technical meeting will take place on Tuesday. xAI did not immediately re

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East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming

news.ycombinator.com Samset 2025-07-30 10:30:37

RAMIP simulations and recent emissions changes in East Asia We first document the emissions perturbation applied in the RAMIP baseline and East Asia simulations21 (see “Methods”), and compare them to the actual emissions reductions from the same region since around 2010. Briefly, RAMIP isolates the climate effects of aerosol emissions in one region by comparing two sets of transient emission simulations; one following a global, high emissions pathway (SSP3-7.0, which assumes weak air quality po

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Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening

news.ycombinator.com Natalia Mesa 2025-07-28 16:45:56

A UK-based mission is aiming to settle, once and for all, whether life exists on Venus. The mission plans to send a probe to the planet in search of microbial life, not on the surface, of course, but in the Venusian clouds. Over the past half-decade, scientists have detected the presence of phosphine and ammonia—two potential signs of biological activity—in Venus’s clouds. On Earth, both gases are produced only by biological activity and industrial processes, and scientists are unsure of their

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East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration in global warming

news.ycombinator.com Samset 2025-08-01 02:30:37

RAMIP simulations and recent emissions changes in East Asia We first document the emissions perturbation applied in the RAMIP baseline and East Asia simulations21 (see “Methods”), and compare them to the actual emissions reductions from the same region since around 2010. Briefly, RAMIP isolates the climate effects of aerosol emissions in one region by comparing two sets of transient emission simulations; one following a global, high emissions pathway (SSP3-7.0, which assumes weak air quality po

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Show HN: DesignArena – crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated UI/UX

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 19:07:46

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Only on Nantucket: The Curious Case of the "Stolen" Mercedes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 18:50:30

Good questions. And as Monday came and went without any sign of the missing Mercedes, the mystery deepened, and more theories continued to pour in: had it been hotwired and moved to a chop shop? Was it used for a joy ride and ditched in some remote corner of the island? The family asked the Current to share a photo of the vehicle, and the fact that it had been reported stolen. The post set off a deluge of messages along the lines of: "Who steals a car on Nantucket? Where are they going to go?"

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A Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Actually Happening

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-08-03 19:15:31

A UK-based mission is aiming to settle, once and for all, whether life exists on Venus. The mission plans to send a probe to the planet in search of microbial life, not on the surface, of course, but in the Venusian clouds. Over the past half-decade, scientists have detected the presence of phosphine and ammonia—two potential signs of biological activity—in Venus’s clouds. On Earth, both gases are produced only by biological activity and industrial processes, and scientists are unsure of their

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Investors appear to like a company with big space manufacturing ambitions

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-04 11:43:13

After flying three missions into low-Earth orbit this year, Varda Space Industries appears to be making credible progress toward developing the nascent manufacturing-in-space industry. Investors seem to think the same, as the California-based company announced an impressive $187 million Series C round of funding on Thursday. This brings the company's total amount of money raised since its founding in 2021 to $325 million. "A decent chunk of the capital is going to go toward scaling up our prod

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NASA will lose over 2,000 senior staff due to proposed Trump budget cuts

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-05 23:01:09

NASA is set to lose at least 2,145 senior staff members as part of the Trump administration's push for budget cuts, Politico reports. The brain drain could severely impact future research and missions, and is happening not long before the organization plans to send a new crew of astronauts to the Moon in 2026. Of the over 2,000 departing staff members, nearly all of them are in senior positions, requiring specialized skills or management experience. "Those leaving include 1,818 staff serving in

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11 of the Best Peacock Shows You Can Stream Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-07 02:00:07

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement 11 of the Best Peacock Shows You Can Stream Right Now The Day of the Jackal isn't the only Peacock original you should try.

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Appeals court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-08-07 07:16:59

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. A federal appeals court just threw out a new government regulation that would have required subscription services to give consumers an easy way to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel rule was set to take effect next week, and would have required everything from

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Poll: Does your Pixel phone also miss alarms?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-07 11:35:14

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel phone users are experiencing a recurring bug in which their alarms fail to go off for an “unknown reason.” This alarm bug has been reported on Pixel phones since at least 2021, and Google has reportedly been unable to replicate or fix it. As a workaround, users can use alternative alarm apps, or even physical alarm clocks. Over the weekend, frustrated users took to Reddit to complain about their Pixel phones’ missing alarms. The screenshot shared

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US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Gedeon 2025-08-07 20:59:31

A federal rule designed to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up for them has been struck down by a US federal appeals court just days before it was scheduled to take effect. The US court of appeals for the eighth circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required companies to allow consumers to cancel subscriptions using the same method they used to sign up, after finding that the commission behind it failed to follow required procedur

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Apple hits back against 'unprecedented' €500m EU fine

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-12 03:21:02

Apple hits back against 'unprecedented' €500m EU fine 40 minutes ago Share Save Share Save Getty Images Apple is appealing against a €500m (£430m; $586m) fine handed down by EU regulators over alleged anti-competitive behaviour on its App Store. The European Commission said in April that the tech giant had breached its laws by restricting app developers in their ability to inform customers of alternative offers or marketplaces that could be found outside its own and steer them towards purchas

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Apple appeals the EU's anti-steering fine

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-12 03:00:15

Apple doesn’t want to fork over half a billion euros to the EU. The tech giant is officially appealing a €500 million ($587 million) fine brought by the European Commission in April, 9To5Mac reports. The Commission fined both Apple and Meta earlier this year for violating the Digital Markets Act through anti-competitive activities. In Apple's case, the Commission found that the company stopped developers from providing customers with information about sales and offers outside of the App Store.

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Apple appeals EU’s €500M fine over App Store payment restraints

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-12 03:47:57

In Brief Apple on Monday filed an appeal against the EU’s decision to fine the company €500 million (about $580 million) for not complying with rules that mandate companies to let developers steer users outside the App Store for making purchases, according to multiple reports. The European Commission issued the fine in April, saying that Apple failed to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules to allow developers to accept payments for their apps outside Apple’s ecosystem. Apple revise

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5th Avenue Apple Store spray-painted by climate protesters calling for boycott

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-12 12:03:56

New York’s flagship Fifth Avenue Apple Store was spray-painted by climate change protesters, calling for a boycott of the company. Three slogans were sprayed onto the glass frontage of the store, with Extinction Rebellion accusing Apple of hypocrisy on environmental issues … Three messages were sprayed onto the glass panes of the iconic storefront: (Apple logo) Boycott Dump Trump, Apple! Tim + Trump = Toxic While a group of protestors were present and chanting, all the vandalism appears to

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Drake Just Gave Bitcoin Its Biggest Pop Culture Moment Yet

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-12 01:00:47

Bitcoin just got its biggest shoutout in pop culture yet — from Drake. In a surprise drop on the night of July 4th, the hip-hop titan unleashed his latest track, “What Did I Miss.” More than just another reflective banger, the Canadian superstar’s new song injects Bitcoin, the world’s most famous cryptocurrency, directly into the mainstream cultural conversation, sixteen years after its inception. The track, which premiered during a YouTube stream titled “ICEMAN EPISODE ONE” where Drake plays

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How to Watch All the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movies

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-14 03:00:00

It's been almost 30 years since Mission: Impossible hit cinemas in 1996 as an adaptation of the 1966 television series of the same name. The Brian De Palma-directed film starring Tom Cruise was a critical success and kickstarted a franchise that remains so successful that MI movies are still being released more than two decades later. When the first movie came out, I was extremely excited to see it and borrowed the VHS tape from a neighbor. Flash-forward to 2000, and I made it my mission to see

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The EU Proposes New Rules to Govern the European Space Race

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-08-14 11:00:00

There are around 11,000 satellites orbiting Earth, and it is estimated that at least 50,000 more will be launched in the next decade. There are also exploration instruments, resupply vessels, and complexes like the International Space Station. But who regulates all this activity in space? In the absence of clear regulations, the European Union has proposed the Space Act, a set of measures that seeks to make the European space sector a cleaner, safer, and more competitive environment, both domest

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Lost in Space: A ‘Game-Changing’ Emissions Satellite Just Went Dark

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-15 03:30:03

An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos is lost in space. MethaneSAT, designed to sniff out sources of methane emissions across the globe, only survived about 15 months in Earth’s orbit before meeting its untimely end. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which launched the satellite in March 2024, announced its demise on July 1. The organization revealed that MethaneSAT suddenly went silent on June 20, and its mission operations team has been unable to re-establish contact e

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That XOR Trick (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 17:32:41

There are a whole bunch of popular interview questions that can be solved in one of two ways: Either using common data structures and algorithms in a sensible manner, or by using some properties of XOR in a seemingly hard to understand way. While it seems unreasonable to expect the XOR solutions in interviews, it is quite fun to figure out how they work. As it turns out, they are all based on the same fundamental trick, which we will derive in a bottom-up way in this post. Afterwards we will lo

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Corning avoids EU antitrust fine by ending exclusive deals with phone manufacturers

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Trump's firing of Democratic FTC commissioner was unlawful, judge rules

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