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Intel swipes Qualcomm veteran of 25 years to lead client computing — Alex Katouzian jumps ship to oversee consumer CPUs and physical AI (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-04 | by Etiido Uko | get Intel Core i7 Processor → | tags: intel, qualcomm, physical ai

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GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-04 | get eBay Seller Protection Kit → | tags: gamestop, ebay, ryan cohen

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Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | by Matt Adams | get Mercedes-Benz Touch Control Knob → | tags: mercedes-benz, glc, mbux hyperscreen

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What if Dark Matter Doesn’t Actually Exist? (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-03 | get Dark Matter Science Book → | tags: dark matter, cosmology, physics

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We tested supercharging the RTX 5090 in PhysX games using an RTX 5060 as a secondary GPU — SLI may be dead, but how much can dual GPUs boost performance in classic PhysX titles? (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-02 | by Dan Mateescu | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 → | tags: nvidia, physx, rtx 5090

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A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | by Creator Of Easel | tags: easel, multiplayer games, physics engine

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A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | by Creator Of Easel | tags: easel, physics engine, multiplayer

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Why the Next Big Tech Companies Will Look Like Commodity Traders (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-01 | by Anthony Milewski | get Commodity Trading Software → | tags: commodity tokenization, supply chains, physical assets

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Traditional forecasting still beats AI for the most extreme weather (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-01 | get NOAA Weather Radio → | tags: weather forecasting, physics-based models, extreme weather

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Researchers Just Opened a Literal Explosions Lab in Texas (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-29 | get Science Lab Safety Kit → | tags: explosions lab, texas, scientific inquiries

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The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-29 | by Alexander Lerchner | get AI Consciousness Simulation Kit → | tags: ai consciousness, computational functionalism, symbolic computation

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Can AI outperform doctors? Experts weigh the pros and cons (cnbc.com)

2026-04-28 | by Lucy Handley | get AI Medical Diagnostic Tool → | tags: insilico medicine, ai drug discovery, cnbc converge live

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Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe (futurism.com)

2026-04-28 | by Victor Tangermann | get Quantum Physics Book → | tags: quantum physics, false vacuum, physical review letters

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National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-27 | get Science Board Membership Kit → | tags: national science foundation, keivan stassun, trump administration

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We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | get Google Pixel 8 → | tags: big g, gravitational constant, nist

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AI Is Changing the Way We Predict the Weather. It’s More Perilous Than We Think (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-27 | get Weather Forecasting AI Tool → | tags: weather forecasting, physical models, climate change

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Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | by Sam Jarman | get IceCube Neutrino Observatory → | tags: antarctic ice, askaryan radio array, cosmic rays

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Physicist Proposes Dark Matter Is Made of Black Holes That Survived Dead Universes (futurism.com)

2026-04-26 | by Frank Landymore | get Mini Black Hole Model Kit → | tags: dark matter, primordial black holes, big bounce

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Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | by Sam Jarman | get Atomic Clock Kit → | tags: superradiant laser, atomic clock, physical review letters

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We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G" (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-23 | get Google Pixel 8 → | tags: big g, gravitational constant, nist

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Physicist Bends Light With Gravity to Make New Mobile Sensing Device (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-23 | get Gravitational Lens Smartphone Kit → | tags: gravity mapping, submarine navigation, ground-penetrating sensors

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Physicists think they've solved the muon mystery (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-22 | get Muon Detection Kit → | tags: muon, standard model, particle physics

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The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | by Benjamin Breen | get Data Visualization Art Book → | tags: harvard, william james, william morris hunt

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A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | get 3D Body Scanner Kit → | tags: body measurement prediction, bartol regression, anny model

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FBI Looks Into Dead or Missing Scientists Tied To Sensitive US Research (slashdot.org)

2026-04-22 | get Secure Data Storage Device → | tags: fbi, mit, department of energy

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Physicists Now Understand Why a Weird Quantum Gas Refuses to Heat Up (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-21 | get Quantum Gas Cooling Kit → | tags: quantum gas, physicists, heat

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A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-21 | by Natalie Wolchover | get Biology Textbook or Science Kit → | tags: flagellar motor, bacteria, biophysics

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How big is Big <i>G</i>? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-21 | by Gibney | get Gravitational Measurement Kit → | tags: big g, nist, codata

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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Predicts Humankind Won't Survive Another 50 Years (slashdot.org)

2026-04-19 | by Posted | get Survival Solar Power Kit → | tags: nobel prize, physicist, humankind

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Magnetic muon measurements and gene-therapy advances win US$3-million Breakthrough prizes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-18 | by Merali | get Breakthrough Prize Trophy → | tags: muon, fermilab, cern