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Consumer-facing industries - retail, travel, hospitality, and financial services - are the fastest adopters of AI agents

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-09-19 14:50:52

imaginima/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leading companies increased AI agent adoption by 119% in the first half of 2025. Employee interactions with AI agents grew at an average monthly rate of 65%. Retail saw AI and agent actions grow at a monthly average rate of 128%. AI agent creation among first-mover companies surged 119% between January and June of 2025, with service organizations leading the adoption of agents, wi

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How Energy-Generating Sidewalks Work

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-09-19 16:00:00

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we could recapture all that freely supplied energy and convert it to usable electricity? This is a real thing. Systems have been installed in dozens of countries. Check out this video. And why stop there? You could put them in discotheques and harness that fancy footwork to power the strobe lights. Or bui

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Leatherman (vagabond)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 21:17:03

American vagabond of unknown and disputed identity The Leatherman ( c. 1839–1889) was a vagabond famous for his handmade leather suit of clothes who traveled through the northeastern United States on a regular circuit between the Connecticut River and the Hudson River from roughly 1857 to 1889. Of unknown origin, he was thought to be French-Canadian because of his fluency in the French language, his "broken English", and the French-language prayer book found on his person after his death. His i

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Classic recessive-or-dominant gene dynamics may not be so simple

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 13:52:21

In brief A new Stanford study explores how fruit fly populations maintain genetic diversity amid changing environments, which is crucial for survival against future challenges. The research provides direct evidence to support the theory of “dominance reversal” in genetics. Findings indicate that genetic variants can act as dominant or recessive based on environmental conditions – which gives the flies long-term pesticide resistance. Populations live in rapidly changing environments – droughts

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U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 20:41:50

All the critical minerals the U.S. needs annually for energy, defense and technology applications are already being mined at existing U.S. facilities, according to a new analysis published today in the journal Science. The catch? These minerals, such as cobalt, lithium, gallium and rare earth elements like neodymium and yttrium, are currently being discarded as tailings of other mineral streams like gold and zinc, said Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering at Colorado Scho

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TIC-80 – Tiny Computer

news.ycombinator.com Vadim Grigoruk 2025-09-16 12:37:41

TIC-80 tiny computer v1.1.2837 TIC-80 is a free and open source fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games. There are built-in tools for development: code, sprites, maps, sound editors and the command line, which is enough to create a mini retro game. At the exit you will get a cartridge file, which can be stored and played on the website. Also, the game can be packed into a player that works on all popular platforms and distribute as you wish. To make a retro styled game the

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FTC Sues Ticketmaster Over ‘Deceptive’ Ticket Pricing Tactics

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-20 07:26:17

The FTC and seven states have sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation for allegedly “deceptive” ticket resale tactics, according to a press release Thursday. The federal regulatory agency says that Ticketmaster is “tacitly coordinating with brokers,” allowing them to buy millions of dollars worth of tickets, just to resell them at a higher cost to the person who actually wants to attend a given concert. The FTC says Ticketmaster is also aware of ticket brokers regularly bypassing s

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The FTC sues Ticketmaster for allegedly colluding with resellers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 11:13:37

The FTC and seven states sued Ticketmaster owner Live Nation on Wednesday. The lawsuit accused the company of knowingly allowing brokers to buy tickets in bulk. Ticketmaster allegedly then let them resell the tickets at a significant markup on its own second-hand market. The FTC claims Ticketmaster was aware that resellers routinely bypassed its security measures for these purchases. The company profits three times from resales. It collects fees at the initial purchase, followed by both buyer a

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How robotic beehives use AI to protect bees from climate change

cnbc.com Diana Olick 2025-09-20 15:18:01

Bees are critical for ensuring an abundant food supply year-round, but the bee population is in big trouble. More than one-third of the crops we eat are pollinated by bees, but 40% of bee colonies are collapsing each year, California-based Beewise said. One reason is climate change – specifically, stronger hurricanes, more frequent fires and the use of more pesticides. The wooden beehive was invented around 1850 for commercial pollination, but these basic boxes are not very protective and not

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The New ‘Critical Role’ Trailer Ushers in Campaign 4

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-20 15:15:24

Change is coming to Critical Role with its fourth major campaign: a new setting, more cast members, and Dimension 20‘s Brennan Lee Mulligan at the helm make things more different than they’ve been in some time for the decade-old Actual Play series. Ahead of Campaign 4’s debut in three weeks, the first real trailer gives an idea of what to expect with this new dynamic. It largely consists of Mulligan narrating as the assembled players actually play the game—it’s Dungeons & Dragons again, the go-

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The FTC is suing Ticketmaster for illegally ‘coordinating’ with brokers

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-20 19:37:40

The latest targets in the White House’s on-again-off-again antitrust war are Ticketmaster and Live Nation, two villains that everyone appears to agree on. The Federal Trade Commission is accusing Ticketmaster (which owns Live Nation) of allowing ticket brokers to illegally exceed limits on purchases and then profiting off the inflated resale value. Customers often pay significantly more than the face value because resellers have snatched up all the tickets. And when a ticket is resold through Ti

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NASA Mission to Map Sun’s Protective Bubble Could Help Better Predict Dangerous Space Weather

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-21 03:38:43

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the other members of our planetary system would be at constant risk of threats from outer space. Our host star creates a protective bubble called the heliosphere that extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune, shielding the planets from the interstellar medium. Yet though we may owe our existence to this b

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This Apple Watch setting keeps me from annoying my partner during work sprints

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-09-21 11:19:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple Watch timer boosts productivity but annoys partners. Silent mode mutes alerts while preserving wrist haptics. Haptics keep reminders private, and household peace intact. I love me some timers. One of the secrets to how I manage my day is that I set timers for everything. I set them for appointments, sure. But I also set them to remind me when to get started on a phase of work. I set them to r

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A Cooking Instructor Reveals 5 Foods You Should Never Put in a Nonstick Pan

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 14:00:05

Nonstick cookware serves a purpose in the kitchen, but it shouldn't be your go-to pan for every task. When used incorrectly, nonstick surfaces can ruin dishes by preventing proper browning and searing of meats and vegetables. Certain foods can also compromise the coating, reducing the pan's durability and potentially contaminating your meals with flaking nonstick material. As much as we love the easy cleanup, most foods fare better in a stainless-steel, carbon-steel, or cast-iron skillet. I tur

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Eric Baker’s long, winding road to taking StubHub public

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-09-22 03:33:46

Ticket reseller StubHub went public on Wednesday. Although StubHub’s shares closed 6% below their IPO price of $23.50, valuing the company at over $7 billion, the public debut itself is a testament to the co-founder’s decades-long perseverance. StubHub CEO Eric Baker co-founded the company with Jeff Fluhr in 2000 while they were attending the Stanford Graduate School of Business. This was shortly after the dotcom bubble burst and NASDAQ crashed, but the pair didn’t give up. “Stupid competitors

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WASM 3.0 Completed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 13:16:53

Published on September 17, 2025 by Andreas Rossberg. Three years ago, version 2.0 of the Wasm standard was (essentially) finished, which brought a number of new features, such as vector instructions, bulk memory operations, multiple return values, and simple reference types. In the meantime, the Wasm W3C Community Group and Working Group have not been lazy. Today, we are happy to announce the release of Wasm 3.0 as the new “live” standard. This is a substantially larger update: several big fe

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I Can Never Forget That ‘Loonatics Unleashed’ Existed

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-22 15:40:21

Our current IP-obsessed age is doing anything possible with old properties, but that’s not as new a trend as you’d think. Such a practice was around in the early and mid-2000s, just in small droves—case in point, do you remember when the Looney Tunes were superheroes? Yes, that really happened in a show called Loonatics Unleashed. The Kids’ WB show launched on September 17, 2005, and was the franchise’s first foray into the action genre. Our premise? It’s 2722, and the Loonatics were normal peo

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Google Discover is going to start showing social media posts and YouTube Shorts

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 03:57:54

Google's Discover content feed is getting some new features . It'll soon include more than just articles from throughout the web. The company says the platform will be incorporating stuff like social media posts from platforms like Instagram and X along with YouTube Shorts. “In our research, people told us they enjoyed seeing a mix of content in Discover, including videos and social posts, in addition to articles,” the company wrote in an announcement. These changes will start showing up in the

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StubHub CEO says recent change to all-in ticket prices will dent revenue

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-23 11:51:50

StubHub CEO Eric Baker said Wednesday that recently introduced federal regulations around transparent ticket pricing will cause a "one-time" hit to its financial results. Revenue is expected to dip year over year as consumers digest the new rules, Baker told CNBC, which require online ticket sellers to prominently show the total cost upfront. "We've seen this in states like New York that have done it. You have a drop off and it hits about 10%. ... Then it's just back to normal," Baker said in

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8 Foods You Eat Daily That You Didn't Know Are Probably Filled With Microplastics

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 15:19:00

Whether it's in food storage or kitchen tools, microplastics are everywhere in our kitchens -- and, unfortunately, that includes in the food we eat. In fact, it's been estimated that Americans consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually. They come from our environment, food packaging or additives that make their way into our diets. To find out which foods are most likely to contain microplastics, and how they affect our health, we spoke with a family physician. Don't miss

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4 Things You Should Never Cook in a Nonstick Pan, According to an Expert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 16:00:00

Nonstick cookware has its place in the kitchen, but its limitations should keep it from being your everyday pan. Nonstick cookware can tank a recipe when misused, leaving meat and vegetables without a proper sear. Some foods can damage the surface of your nonstick skillet, leading to a shorter lifespan or the release of nonstick materials into your food. As much as we love the easy cleanup, most foods fare better in a stainless-steel, carbon-steel, or cast-iron skillet. I turned to an expert fo

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4 Things You Should Never Cook in a Nonstick Skillet, According to an Expert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 07:00:06

Nonstick cookware has its place in the kitchen, but its limitations should keep it from being your everyday pan. When used in the wrong situations, nonstick cookware can tank a recipe, leaving meat and vegetables without a proper sear. Some foods can damage the surface of your nonstick skillet, leading to a shorter lifespan or the release of nonstick materials into your food. As much as we love the easy cleanup, most foods fare better in a stainless-steel, carbon-steel, or cast-iron skillet. I

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Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Lectures Met With Protestors Who Seem to Think He’s the Antichrist

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-24 19:50:27

PayPal mafia OG Peter Thiel, whose data firm Palantir is currently assisting the Trump administration’s deportation machine, recently began taking time out of his day job (ghoulish billionaire defense contractor) to engage in some part-time work as a Christian evangelist spreading the word about the rise of the Antichrist. It’s been a bizarre sight, indeed, and this week, Thiel kicked things up a notch by launching the first of a four-part lecture series he’s doing about the Dark Lord. Thiel’s

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Deploying agentic AI? You'll probably do business with these 3 companies

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-09-25 01:04:58

Eoneren/E+ via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft, Nvidia, and Google top the agentic AI market. Agentic AI automates problem-solving in real time. The tech will significantly impact enterprise productivity. Research And Markets' 2025 360 Quadrant analysis aims to provide insights into the global agentic AI market. The study, published Thursday, includes the market's key players, technological advancements, product innovations

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‘Fantastic Four’ Takes Its First Steps Home Next Week

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-25 19:00:53

If you didn’t see Fantastic Four: First Steps in theaters or just want to see it again, you can on digital starting September 23. The latest Marvel Studios will arrive on all the usual platforms, followed by a physical launch on October 14. Along with the standard deleted scenes, special features include a gag reel, commentary track with director Matt Shakman and production designer Kasra Farahani, and three featurettes centering the heroes, their comic book villains, and the film’s retrofuturi

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De-risking investment in AI agents

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-09-26 08:00:00

For businesses, the potential is transformative: AI agents that can handle complex service interactions, support employees in real time, and scale seamlessly as customer demands shift. But the move from scripted, deterministic flows to non-deterministic, generative systems brings new challenges. How can you test something that doesn’t always respond the same way twice? How can you balance safety and flexibility when giving an AI system access to core infrastructure? And how can you manage cost,

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Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 19:30:47

In brief Researchers studied single-celled algae, called diatoms, from the Arctic that were previously assumed to be hibernating in the ice and found they were actually quite active. This activity, which continued when temperatures dropped to -15 C, is the coldest-ever movement recorded for a eukaryotic cell. The diatoms move through a type of gliding, which is enabled by a combination of mucus and molecular motors that are similar to systems seen in human muscles. Given how abundant these di

Topics: arctic diatoms ice lab research

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The 8 Foods You're Eating That Likely Contain Microplastics

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 15:22:04

Whether it's in food storage or kitchen tools, microplastics are everywhere in our kitchens -- and, unfortunately, that includes in the food we eat. In fact, it's been estimated that Americans consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually. They come from our environment, food packaging or additives that make their way into our diets. To find out which foods are most likely to contain microplastics, and how they affect our health, we spoke with a family physician. Don't miss

Topics: avoid food microplastics plastic water

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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions (1991)

news.ycombinator.com V. E. Mchale 2025-09-28 01:29:50

The Obsolescence of Political Definitions V. E. McHale Defense I am not qualified to translate German, much less technical philosophical texts. However, Kondylis’ insights are criminally underappreciated and of interest to many today as they grapple with the dissolution of liberalism that Kondylis predicted in 1991–1992. Hopefully, his work will be translated with due care as its centrality is appreciated. The below is from Planetarische Politik Nach Dem Kalten Krieg, pp. 91–104 The Obsoles

Topics: conservatism liberalism mass political society

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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions

news.ycombinator.com V. E. Mchale 2025-09-28 06:29:50

The Obsolescence of Political Definitions V. E. McHale Defense I am not qualified to translate German, much less technical philosophical texts. However, Kondylis’ insights are criminally underappreciated and of interest to many today as they grapple with the dissolution of liberalism that Kondylis predicted in 1991–1992. Hopefully, his work will be translated with due care as its centrality is appreciated. The below is from Planetarische Politik Nach Dem Kalten Krieg, pp. 91–104 The Obsoles

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Eric Baker’s long, winding road to taking StubHub public

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Google Discover is going to start showing social media posts and YouTube Shorts

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Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice

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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions (1991)

The Obsolescence of Political Definitions

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