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Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air

theverge.com Jacob Kastrenakes 2025-09-18 19:46:51

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Disney gave in to threats from FCC chairman and occasional speech regulator Brendan Carr this evening, announcing that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be pulled off the air “indefinitely.” Carr was unhappy that Kimmel characterized the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk as “anything other than” a member of the “MAGA g

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LimeWire (Which Still Exists) Buys Fyre Festival (Which Never Did) on eBay

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-21 05:15:34

Mix two internet touchstones together and what do you get? We’re going to find out. LimeWire, the peer-to-peer file-sharing network, announced that it won the rights to the Fyre Festival brand in an auction. The company indicated it has no plans to use the branding for a music festival, but rather bought up the name and likeness mostly for the memes. LimeWire said in a press release that it plans to “unveil a reimagined vision for Fyre — one that expands beyond the digital realm and taps into r

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Verizon to offer $20 broadband in California to obtain merger approval

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:19:27

Verizon agreed to offer $20-per-month broadband service to people with low incomes in California in exchange for a merger approval. In a bid to complete its $9.6 billion purchase of Frontier Communications, Verizon committed to offering $20 fiber-to-the-home service with symmetrical speeds of 300Mbps. Verizon also committed to offering a $20 fixed wireless service with download speeds of 100Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps. Verizon would be required to offer the plans for at least 10 years, ac

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Is Waking Up to Pee Ruining Your Sleep? Here's the Fix

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 15:00:05

We've all been there: You wake up from a deep sleep with that unmistakable urge to use the bathroom. You might try to fight it and fall back asleep, but that feeling just won't go away. When this starts happening multiple times a night, it does more than just annoy you -- it can seriously disrupt your sleep quality and leave you feeling exhausted the next day. If you're tired of these middle-of-the-night bathroom trips, the good news is you don't just have to live with it. There are several sim

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5 Best VPN Services (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Jacob Roach 2025-09-22 15:00:00

Other VPNs We’ve Tested Private Internet Access (PIA) has a long history in the VPN space, and it's maintained a track record of defending user privacy—even in the face of actual criminal activity. In 2016, a criminal complaint was filed in Florida against Preston Alexander McWaters for threats made online. McWaters was eventually convicted and sentenced to 42 months in prison. Investigators traced the online threats back to PIA's servers and subpoenaed the company. As the complaint reads, “A s

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Windows 11 lets you run a network speed test right from the taskbar now - how to try it

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-24 15:26:11

Microsoft Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Windows 11 is testing a network speed test that you run from the taskbar. The speed test icon takes you to the Bing website. For now, you need a Windows 11 Insider build to use the feature. Running a network speed test is a helpful way to determine if you're getting the speed promised by your internet provider. Normally, you have to trigger such a test from a third-party web page like Ookla's Speedest or

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Ookla launches Wi-Fi Speedtest Certified program to help prove network quality

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-09-25 16:10:00

Ookla Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Ookla, a top internet speed test service, now offers venue Wi-Fi certifications. The certification service is still rolling out. Once in place, you should look for hotels and business locations with Speedtest Certified ratings. You might pick your hotel for its location or price, but one of the things I consider is whether its Wi-Fi is fast and reliable. I make my living working online. If I can't count on a

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The SSD version of LaCie’s iconic Rugged drive gets a speed boost

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-25 13:30:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Neil Poulton succeeded in elevating the design of external drives two decades ago with the introduction of LaCie’s Rugged line, which features a bright orange bumper to protect data from drops. Today, Seagate announced an updated version of the LaCie Rugged M

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Decentralized YouTube alternative adds livestream scheduling in new release

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 13:27:34

PeerTube is a decentralized alternative to YouTube that doesn't believe in harvesting user data and pushing people into echo chambers via a proprietary algorithm. Built on open standards and federation, it lets communities host and share video without depending on a central server. Earlier this year, the project asked for donations to improve its mobile app and help them reach certain funding goals. The developers made it clear that improving the mobile experience was a key priority, and commun

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CorentinJ: Real-Time Voice Cloning (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 07:23:03

Real-Time Voice Cloning This repository is an implementation of Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis (SV2TTS) with a vocoder that works in real-time. This was my master's thesis. SV2TTS is a deep learning framework in three stages. In the first stage, one creates a digital representation of a voice from a few seconds of audio. In the second and third stages, this representation is used as reference to generate speech given arbitrary text. Video

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My Experience Testing Under-Desk Treadmills, as Both a Fitness Expert and Busy Mom

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-27 07:00:00

As a mom, I'm always multitasking and thinking about what I need to do next. This also includes when I'm going to schedule in my workouts. While I typically prefer walking and running outdoors for cardio, this can be difficult when temperatures are low or the weather isn't ideal. I decided to check out under-desk treadmills, as CNET's resident fitness expert and treadmill tester, to see if they would help me keep up with my step count while indoors. I received samples from Egofit and Costway to

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How to Test Your Home Internet Speed and What to Do With the Results

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 10:00:00

Are you getting the internet speed you’re paying for? Should you blame a slow connection on your Wi-Fi router or internet provider? Can your internet handle things like online gaming or livestreaming? The answers to all of these questions can be found by running a simple internet speed test. There are several websites you can use to check your speed for free, and they'll all give you the same key metrics about your home internet connection. I usually say the best internet connection is the one

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Speed Brain: Helping web pages load faster (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 19:16:10

18 min read Each time a user visits your web page, they are initiating a race to receive content as quickly as possible. Performance is a critical factor that influences how visitors interact with your site. Some might think that moving content across the globe introduces significant latency, but for a while, network transmission speeds have approached their theoretical limits . To put this into perspective, data on Cloudflare can traverse the 11,000 kilometer round trip between New York and Lo

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Starlink Halves the Cost of Its Dish for New Sign-Ups

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 14:00:00

For households in rural areas or regions where traditional ISPs still fall short, Starlink has become a lifeline for fast, reliable internet. The satellite service has opened up access in places that once had few options, and now it's rolling out one of its most affordable offers yet for new customers. Right now, the Starlink standard kit is marked down to $175, which is a 50% cut from its usual $349 price. Unlike past promotions that were limited to certain areas, this discount is available na

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How to watch Flame Fatales 2025 speedrunning event

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 14:05:15

Games Done Quick’s all-women and femmes speedrunning event Flame Fatales kicks off on September 7 and goes until September 14. You can watch the marathon on the GDQ Twitch channel starting at 11:30AM ET. This is a week-long event, so the official schedule is packed with cool games. All told, there will be more than 50 speedruns . These will include recent hits like Blue Prince and Hades 2, in addition to classics like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. There's also going to be a one-handed

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ExpressVPN Review 2025: The Best VPN Keeps Pushing the Industry Forward

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 22:00:00

9.0 / 10 SCORE ExpressVPN Buy at ExpressVPN Price $13 per month, $100 for the first 15 months (then $117 per year) or $140 for the first 28 months (then $150 per year) Latest Tests No DNS leaks detected, 18% speed loss in 2025 tests Network 3,000 plus servers in 105 countries Jurisdiction British Virgin Islands Score Breakdown Usability 10 /10 Value 7 /10 Speed 9 /10 Privacy 10 /10 Features 9 /10 Pros Cutting-edge privacy and security Excellent for streaming Easy to use across platforms Stro

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Keep Waking Up to Pee? Here Are 5 Ways to Prevent Middle-of-the-Night Bathroom Trips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 21:30:03

There's nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night and realizing that you have to pee. Perhaps you try to close your eyes again and ignore the sensation, but it persists. What's even more annoying is having this happen multiple times a night, affecting your sleep quality and how tired you feel the next day. Fortunately, there are things you can do to prevent these unwanted bathroom trips. But if these strategies don't work and you continue to wake up multiple times to pee, we also

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The best VPN service for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 23:04:45

As frustrating as it is that governments and businesses are running roughshod over our online freedoms, at least we have plenty of good VPNs to choose from to keep us protected online. There are so many fast, intelligently designed, full-featured and affordable services on the market that the biggest problem is picking one. For any use case, you can bet at least two providers will be neck-and-neck for first place. On the other hand, the VPN world is still the Wild West in some ways. It's easy

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VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 04:44:01

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz.

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Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:44:01

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz.

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Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect

news.ycombinator.com Nikolaos Papadopoulos 2025-10-16 18:47:21

In this post, I’ll walk you through how to create a custom shader in Three.js that simulates the look of a foil sticker, complete with angle-dependent iridescence and sparkling metallic flakes. The goal is to capture that premium, holographic effect you see on collectible stickers, trading cards, and high-end packaging, but to render it in real time directly in the browser. Iridescence If you’ve ever tilted a holographic sticker or watched sunlight catch on a soap bubble, you’ve seen iridescen

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Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking

news.ycombinator.com Dan Motzenbecker 2025-10-16 11:48:53

Below is some code describing whatʼs happening on this site right now. Anyone on this page will connect directly to others in real-time, syncing mouse movement and clicks. (Try it, I dare you). Trystero can connect peers via 🌊 BitTorrent, 🐦 Nostr, 📡 MQTT, 🪐 IPFS, ⚡️ Supabase, and 🔥 Firebase. Right now youʼre the only person with the page open, but you can cheat and just open this URL in another tab to see what itʼs like with others. Hereʼs how you use it. Join a room with an app ID and a ro

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Uncertain<T>

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 20:22:54

You know what’s wrong with people? They’re too sure of themselves. Better to be wrong and own it than be right with caveats. Hard to build a personal brand out of nuance these days. People are attracted to confidence — however misplaced. But can you blame them? (People, that is) Working in software, the most annoying part of reaching Senior level is having to say “it depends” all the time. Much more fun getting to say “let’s ship it and iterate” as Staff or “that won’t scale” as a Principal.

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An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 22:00:57

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle actions that produce it. A patient has to physically attempt to speak to make these implants work, which is tiresome for severely paralyzed people. To go around it, researchers at the Stanford University built a BCI that could decode inner speech—the kind we engage in silent reading and use for al

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Best Hair Dryer: Rigorous Testing in Real Apartments (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-10-29 01:30:00

Compare Top 7 Hair Dryers Product Weight Wattage Settings Attachments Price Dyson Supersonic Nural 1.8 pounds 1600 watts 4 heat; 3 speed Wave + curl diffuser, styling concentrator, gentle air attachment, wide tooth comb, and flyaway attachment $500 Conair SmoothWrap InfinitiPro 2.12 pounds 1,875 watts 3 heat; 2 speed Diffuser and concentrator $71 Dyson Supersonic r 0.7 pounds 1,700 watts 4 heat; 3 speed Diffuser, wide-tooth comb, professional concentrator, airflow attachment, and flyaway smooth

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Stop Letting Pee Runs Control Your Nights -- Here's How to Fight Back

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 10:00:10

Few things interrupt your sleep more than having to crawl out of a warm bed to use the bathroom. That quick trip can be enough to break up your rest, and once you're awake, falling back asleep isn't always easy. At the same time, you don't want to lie there feeling uncomfortable either. When it happens several times a night, the effects can build up fast. Interrupted sleep often leaves you groggy the next morning and can make it harder to get through the day. If you find yourself waking up to

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Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors

news.ycombinator.com Andrew P. Collins 2025-11-06 17:55:29

Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Email address Sign Up Thank you! Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. Escort Radar, one of the big brands in the radar detection biz, has been under some scrutiny this year as customers and reviewers reported suboptimal performance on the $800 Redline 360c—Escort’s flagship. Today, it’s dropping a big firmware update to address those complaints. I’ve now had the chance to test this new firmware and speak with somebody at

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Starlink Deal Makes Satellite Dish 50% Cheaper for New Customers. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 11:45:02

Starlink's satellite-based internet service has been a popular solution for people outside of traditional ISPs' service areas, and it just got a lot easier to give Starlink a try -- it's now featuring its lowest monthly prices ever and cutting the cost of the necessary equipment in half. You can now purchase the Starlink standard kit for $175, down from its usual $349 price tag. Unlike previous deals, this one is available to new customers anywhere in the country. Most Starlink deals in the pas

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A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

news.ycombinator.com Conroy 2025-11-10 04:32:21

A brain scan (artificially coloured) produced by magnetic resonance imaging. Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo Library A brain implant can decode a person’s internal chatter — but the device works only if the user thinks of a preset password1. The mind-reading device, or brain–computer interface (BCI), accurately deciphered up to 74% of imagined sentences. The system began decoding users’ internal speech — the silent dialogue in people’s minds — only when they thought of a specific keyword. This

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Tired of Those Constant Nighttime Pee Runs? Treat the Tinkles With These Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 11:00:12

Few things ruin a good night's rest like having to get out of a warm, comfortable bed to use the bathroom. That quick trip can be enough to break up iyour sleep, and once it happens, falling back asleep is not always easy. But at the same time, you don't want to stay uncomfortable while trying to drift off. So what do you do? When it happens more than once in a single night, the impact can be even worse. Interrupted sleep leaves you groggy the next morning and can make it harder to get through

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Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air

LimeWire (Which Still Exists) Buys Fyre Festival (Which Never Did) on eBay

Verizon to offer $20 broadband in California to obtain merger approval

Is Waking Up to Pee Ruining Your Sleep? Here's the Fix

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Windows 11 lets you run a network speed test right from the taskbar now - how to try it

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Decentralized YouTube alternative adds livestream scheduling in new release

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How to Test Your Home Internet Speed and What to Do With the Results

Speed Brain: Helping web pages load faster (2024)

Starlink Halves the Cost of Its Dish for New Sign-Ups

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ExpressVPN Review 2025: The Best VPN Keeps Pushing the Industry Forward

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VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

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An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

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Tired of Those Constant Nighttime Pee Runs? Treat the Tinkles With These Tips

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