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Numeral raises $35M to automate sales tax with AI

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-09-19 17:30:00

Sam Ross, the co-founder and CEO of Numeral, came up with the idea for his sales tax compliance startup while traveling the world after having worked as a product manager at Airbnb. “This was early 2018, where you didn’t have remote work like you do today,” he told TechCrunch in an interview. Direct-to-consumer businesses were a big trend then, so he supported his travel dreams by running several self-funded e-commerce brands from the road. He operated an online jewelry store and still maintain

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Biotech Startup Claims It’s Getting Closer to ‘Resurrecting’ the Extinct Dodo

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-21 17:26:17

A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On Wednesday, the Dallas-based company reported that its researchers at the Avian Genetics Group have successfully grown pigeon primordial germ cells (PGCs) in the lab, a scientific first. They also bred gene-edited chickens intended to serve as potential surrogates for the dodo and other ancient bird

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Behind a Paywall: Here's a Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 00:00:04

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a sporty, streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across-clues and six down-clues -- and you can complete it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players suddenly ran int

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Dinosaurs to supercrocs: Niger's bone keepers preserve its ancient fossils

news.ycombinator.com Shola Lawal 2025-09-21 20:46:34

The Sahel country is one of the few African nations to boast rare dinosaurs, but safeguarding them is a challenge. Niamey, Niger – In a corner of the sprawling grounds of Niamey’s only museum – a unique, open-air style arrangement in Niger’s capital that doubles as a zoo – imposing fossil replicas of long-extinct animals stand in a corrugated iron stall. On a recent late Friday afternoon, the Boubou Hama National Museum was busy with scores of excited children. They shrilled, delighted by the

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Why We Spiral

news.ycombinator.com Gregory M. Walton 2025-09-27 07:46:58

Say you’re a senior member of your team at work. You’re 12 minutes late to the weekly staff Zoom. Once you’ve “joined audio,” the first thing you hear is your old friend’s voice. “There you are! So glad you could fit us in.” You laugh and explain the disastrous traffic, difficult drop-off at your kids’ school, or whatever it was that messed up your morning. The moment passes and the conversation moves on. You turn to the job at hand, focused and ready to go. But what if you’re a junior staffer,

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Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-27 09:00:00

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days — with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone — you will never notice a difference between Spotify’s high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with wired headphones while working at your desk, or have a quality speaker from the likes of Bose that supports Spotify Connect, there actually is something to be gained here. Comparing Spotify’s no

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Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 21:36:48

When software engineer Joshua Fonseca recently connected the GameCube simulation classic Animal Crossing to a modern AI language model like the kind that powers ChatGPT, he decided to shake things up. By programming the AI to roleplay as villagers growing aware of their debt situation, and giving them a shared memory to track conversations, Fonseca orchestrated a scenario where the residents began to organize against their raccoon landlord. In Animal Crossing, Tom Nook runs the town shop and pr

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Instagram fixed an issue that caused posting multiple Stories to tank your reach

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-28 09:47:14

Instagram fixed a bug that caused the reach of some users' Stories to shrink when they posted more than one Story a day, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared on Friday. The fix addresses a common complaint shared by creators in the last year that they were disincentivized to use Stories because of how regularly using the feature impacted the number of people who actually saw their posts. "People were complaining about getting less reach with their Stories if they posted lots of Stories in the sam

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How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 08:22:38

When a legal takedown request arrives, whether it’s about copyright, censorship, privacy, or something more vague, how a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project responds can make all the difference. Handled well, a takedown request can be a manageable administrative step. Handled poorly, it can cause panic, disrupt infrastructure, or even put contributors at legal risk. As part of our legal resilience research, we spoke with a range of legal experts, software freedom advocates, and mainta

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Now Has a Paywall, but There Is a Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 16:45:03

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a sporty, streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across-clues and six down-clues -- and you can complete it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players suddenly ran int

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Now Paywalled: Here's One Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 14:00:03

The New York Times Mini Crossword is a fun and simple younger sibling to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. The Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) usually has only about six across-clues and six down-clues, and you can finish it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players were met with a paywall. Going forward, anyone who doesn't pay fo

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Spotify Lossless ‘rolling out gradually’ four years after Apple Music upgraded entire library

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-03 09:54:12

In the four years since Apple Music upgraded its entire music catalog to lossless overnight, Spotify has been just around the corner from catching up. Starting today, Spotify is taking the very first steps toward making that actually happen. Premium subscribers will receive a push notification from the Spotify app when lossless support becomes available. So what took so long? Here’s what Spotify says. “The wait is finally over; we’re so excited lossless sound is rolling out to Premium subscrib

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Lossless Audio Finally Arrives for Spotify Premium Subscribers. Here's How to Enable It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-03 16:51:50

Lossless audio, a format that Spotify says has been much-requested by subscribers over the years, is finally arriving on the streaming service. In a post, the company says that 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC audio will now be an option for premium subscribers in select markets "across nearly every song available in Spotify." Subscribers will have the option to adjust music quality as Low, Normal, High, Very High and now Lossless, with the option to see how much data each tier requires. In addition to wo

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Spotify lossless streaming is finally here and it's included with a Premium plan

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-03 21:10:09

Stop me if you've heard this one before: over a half-decade of rumors, infrequent teases and affirmations that something is on the way, only for fans to impatiently bide their time and the thing to eventually arrive with very little advance warning. No, I'm not talking about Hollow Knight: Silksong this time. Spotify is finally rolling out a lossless option that offers higher-quality music streaming. Best of all, the company is offering it to Premium members at no extra charge. You'll get a not

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Spotify's long-awaited lossless music is finally here - how to enable it today

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-03 21:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Lossless audio is coming to Spotify. Lossless audio offers a more accurate and dynamic sound. The feature is slowly rolling out to all users with a paid plan. In 2021, Spotify teased the idea of a high-fidelity tier (hi-fi tier) that would offer lossless audio quality. Unfortunately, licensing issues caused the plan to be put on the back burner. Also: This new Spotify feature almost ma

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Spotify finally rolls out Lossless audio — here’s how to turn it on

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 10:36:50

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify’s long-awaited lossless audio tier is now gradually rolling out to Premium subscribers. The feature, simply called Lossless, streams in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC. It is recommended to stream lossless music on Wi-Fi using either wired headphones or speakers on a non-Bluetooth connection. Spotify announced its “HiFi” lossless tier in February 2021, but the feature never arrived — until now. Literally years after the first announcement, Spotify is

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Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-04 10:00:00

It’s been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio. Rumors have been circulating about a high-fidelity offering since as early as 2017. In 2021, Spotify claimed it was “coming later this year.” And by May of 2024 it was “almost ready.” So, when rumors started picking up again in June of this year, they were met with skepticism, especially amid announcements over the launch of features nobody was asking for, like direct messaging. Well, it’s here. For real. And there’s so

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Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-04 10:00:00

Spotify is finally launching high-quality, lossless music streaming support for premium account holders after years of waiting. The company first talked about a hi-fi tier in 2021 — which would offer CD-quality audio –but the plan faced multiple delays, partially due to licensing issues. Last year, CEO Daniel Ek said that the company was in the “early days” of launching lossless streaming support. Over the past few years, reports and code hints in the app suggested that the company was plannin

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CNET Debates: Is Apple's New Crossbody Strap a Great Idea or a Terrible One?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 16:04:00

One thing you can be sure of during an Apple event is that it will generate immense quantities of discourse among CNET's seasoned nerds -- and no, we don't always agree with one another. Is the iPhone Air totally pointless and uncalled for, or the best design innovation since very thinly sliced bread? Both can be true, depending on whom you ask. Watch this: Everything Announced at Apple's iPhone 17 Event in 7 Minutes 07:18 Among the many announcements on Tuesday that sparked conflicting opini

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Show HN: Superagents – connect spreadsheets to any database, API or MCP server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:55:35

Yes! Sourcetable's AI makes intelligent decisions on what spreadsheet data is being referred to in the chat. This is helpful for tasks like cross-tab VLOOKUPs. If you prefer more control, you can also refer to specific tabs by name.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong's first patch should give you a chance against its early bosses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:41:25

Video game difficulty is a real balancing act. You want to be challenged and earn each new level, but when it's too hard there's more frustration than fun. Apparently, a number of players have found the new Hollow Knight: Silksong game a bit too hard, struggling to defeat some of the bosses. Now, Team Cherry, the indie studio behind the Hollow Knight series, is making things a bit easier. Team Cherry has announced Hollow Knight: Silksong's first patch, which includes a "slight difficulty reduct

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This is Apple’s new Crossbody Strap accessory for iPhone

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-05 09:04:20

Today Apple unveiled its new iPhone 17 lineup during the ‘Awe dropping’ event. Among a variety of other iPhone accessories, Apple announced the release of a brand new Crossbody Strap accessory. Crossbody Strap lets you wear your iPhone around your body Alongside its four brand new iPhone models, Apple has a larger than usual batch of new accessories coming this year. Joining the return of the MagSafe Battery pack, and new bumper case for iPhone Air, and TechWoven cases, Apple has introduced a

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US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-10-05 21:50:17

The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. That new amount, created with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act this summer, adds on to $30.8 billion a year in preexisting subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. The report finds that the amount of public money the US will now spend on dom

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Leaked images provide first real look at Apple’s upcoming crossbody strap accessory

9to5mac.com Dylan Mcdonald 2025-10-08 20:02:03

We’re just over a day from Apple’s “Awe dropping” iPhone 17 event, but that hasn’t stopped new leaks from coming in. New images from reliable leaker Sonny Dickson purportedly shows Apple’s crossbody strap accessory for the upcoming iPhone 17 line. Alongside the new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple is expected to release refreshed cases and accessories. Among these is an all-new offering from Apple, a crossbody strap for iPhone. Tonight, Sonny Dickson has shared two images showing this new accessory in a

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7 Vitamins That Could Promote Hair Growth and Give You Long Locks

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 00:25:00

When you brush or wash your hair, it's perfectly normal to lose a few strands, as people naturally lose 50 to 100 hairs per day. However, if you're dealing with something more serious, you may be one of 80 million people in the US affected by hair loss or alopecia, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Though hair loss is most commonly a hereditary condition, it can also be caused by underlying health conditions such as a vitamin deficiency. That's why it's important to ensure

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Leaked image provides first real look at Apple’s upcoming crossbody strap accessory

9to5mac.com Dylan Mcdonald 2025-10-09 01:02:03

We’re just over a day from Apple’s “Awe dropping” iPhone 17 event, but that hasn’t stopped new leaks from coming in. New images from reliable leaker Sonny Dickson purportedly shows Apple’s crossbody strap accessory for the upcoming iPhone 17 line. Alongside the new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple is expected to release refreshed cases and accessories. Among these is an all-new offering from Apple, a crossbody strap for iPhone. Tonight, Sonny Dickson has shared two images showing this new accessory in a

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Volkswagen rounds out new lineup of affordable EVs with ID. Cross concept

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-08 20:46:06

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Everyone basically agrees: if you want people to transition from polluting gas guzzlers to electric cars, you have to make them more affordable. The luxury EVs, with their big battery packs and fine leather interiors, are all well and good, but if you really want to move the needle on EV adoption, we need more entry-level o

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Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss

news.ycombinator.com Krystal Kasal 2025-10-06 06:37:54

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Modeling validation. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01747-5 Despite the modern world relying heavily on digital optical communication, there has not been a significant improvement in the minimum attenuation—a measure of the loss of optical power per kilometer traveled—of optical fibers in a

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Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data 45% faster with record low loss

news.ycombinator.com Krystal Kasal 2025-10-06 11:37:54

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Modeling validation. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01747-5 Despite the modern world relying heavily on digital optical communication, there has not been a significant improvement in the minimum attenuation—a measure of the loss of optical power per kilometer traveled—of optical fibers in a

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Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

news.ycombinator.com Ana Dodik 2025-10-05 09:09:50

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects Fig. 1. The mescher is a geometry representation that allows rendering and relighting impossible objects (left), as well as performing intrinsic geometry processing operations like heat diffusion (center) and geodesic distance queries (right). Abstract Impossible objects, geometric constructions that humans can perceive but that cannot exist in real life, have been a topic of intrigue in visual arts, perception, and graphics, yet no satisfyin

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Numeral raises $35M to automate sales tax with AI

Biotech Startup Claims It’s Getting Closer to ‘Resurrecting’ the Extinct Dodo

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Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement

Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

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Lossless Audio Finally Arrives for Spotify Premium Subscribers. Here's How to Enable It

Spotify lossless streaming is finally here and it's included with a Premium plan

Spotify's long-awaited lossless music is finally here - how to enable it today

Spotify finally rolls out Lossless audio — here’s how to turn it on

Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

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Leaked images provide first real look at Apple’s upcoming crossbody strap accessory

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Leaked image provides first real look at Apple’s upcoming crossbody strap accessory

Volkswagen rounds out new lineup of affordable EVs with ID. Cross concept

Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss

Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data 45% faster with record low loss

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

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