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How earthquake alerts work on Android - and how to make sure they're enabled on your phone

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-07-22 02:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET The next time you get an alert on your Android phone, it might just be life‑saving information. Google researchers report that since rolling out the Android Earthquake Alerts System in 2021, it has detected and issued warnings for over 2,000 earthquakes, delivering anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds of advance notice before the strongest shaking arrives. In total, about 790 million alerts have been sent to phones worldwide. Also: Storms and bad weather? How to prep yo

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How AI agents can generate $450 billion by 2028 - and what stands in the way

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-07-22 02:00:18

Philip Thurston/Getty Images Agentic AI is one of the fastest-emerging technologies in business, with the potential to generate $450 billion in economic value through revenue uplift and cost savings across surveyed countries by 2028, according to the Rise of agentic AI: How trust is the key to human-AI collaboration. The new report from Capgemini Research Institute reveals insights from a survey of 1,500 senior executives across 14 countries on the emergence of AI agents as a transformative for

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My favourite German word

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-19 07:11:14

My favourite German word¶ 30th June 2025 A documentation colleague recently challenged me with a question: Nowadays, more and more people reach for an LLM tool to provide the information they want. If human beings don’t actually read it, what is the point of writing and structuring documentation for humans? Newer generations (she said) are becoming unskilled at finding information for themselves. They seem less able to digest what they find, to apply it to their problems. But it’s not just t

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What to Expect at Pokemon Presents July 2025: DJ Pikachu and Z-A Legends

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-22 03:17:08

It's that time again, trainers: Grab your Pokedex and get ready to catch some new pocket monsters, because we're about to hear everything about the latest developments in the world of Pokemon. The Pokemon Presents July 2025 stream is the first one since Pokemon Day in February. That stream ended up being pretty massive, featuring game announcements and content updates that we heard whispers about from GameFreak's infamous 2024 data breach. Read more: The Top 25 Best Pokemon Games of All Time,

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Need a power bank? Here are two awesome Anker deals for different types of users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-22 08:30:59

Dave Carr Finding the right power bank can be challenging, with so many options in the current market. Anker is among the most recognized battery pack brands, and today we found a couple of deals on some of its hottest options. They are made with different users in mind, though. Keep reading to find out which is best for your needs. Buy the Anker Laptop Power Bank for $94.49 ($40.50 off) Buy the Anker 548 Power Bank for $87.99 ($62 off) These offers are available from Amazon. The deals apply t

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In a major reversal, the world bank is backing mega dams (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Jacques Leslie 2025-07-22 11:48:50

Despite continued opposition, the World Bank has approved the first of five big dam projects expected to get its support in the coming months. Climate change has upped the need for renewable energy, but the environmental and social costs of building such massive projects remain. After a decade of declining to finance large hydroelectric dams, the World Bank is getting back into the business in a big way. Throughout the last half of the 20th century, the bank was the world’s leading supporter of

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 22 #506

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-22 11:00:24

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one, especially if you've ever kept a fish tank. Those of us who have should do swimmingly on the puzzle, but if you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 22, #302

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-22 11:00:36

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. As a University of Arkansas graduate, I breezed through the yellow category in today's Connections: Sports Edition. The green category tripped me up though. Keep reading for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. T

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Show HN: Lotas – Cursor for RStudio

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-22 19:16:10

Understands Your Files and Data Rao reads and analyzes your project files to understand your data before generating code. This allows Rao to write targeted, relevant code that integrates with your existing project structure. Writes and Edits Code Rao generates and runs R scripts and R markdown files. It also edits your existing code to fix errors and improve your analysis.

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Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-22 20:31:43

Airline pricing may seem mystifying, but behind every airfare is a complex system of fare buckets and inventory controls. Airlines don't just sell seats - they manage a dynamic inventory of fares, divided into booking classes (fare buckets) with different prices and rules. For the technically curious, understanding how fare buckets work reveals the "source code" of airline revenue management. This report delves into the hierarchy of booking classes, how airlines update seat availability across r

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Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-22 18:16:41

At Morphik, we build RAG tools to provide developers accurate search over complex documents. In this article, we explain why we operate over "images" of pages instead of doing OCR/ parsing. If you’ve ever tried to extract information from a complex PDF: one with charts, diagrams, and tables mixed with text, you know the pain. That invoice with a nested table showing quarterly breakdowns? The research paper whose intricate figures actually contain the key findings? The technical manual where the

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Reverse Engineering the Mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-22 22:56:36

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Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly

news.ycombinator.com David Roberts 2025-07-22 22:31:57

I chat with Kostantsa Rangelova and Dave Jones, authors of a new Ember report, who find that solar-plus-storage costs have declined so much that it can now provide baseload-level power in sunny cities for less than the cost of new nuclear or even new gas. We discuss why even energy pros are behind the curve on this, how quickly the technology is improving, and why most of the world doesn't see natural gas as a viable option the way the US does. (PDF transcript) (Active transcript) Text transc

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Improving End-to-End Tests to Reduce Flakiness: Tools and Strategies

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-19 12:16:32

There’s nothing worse than a test suite that fails randomly. Flaky end-to-end (E2E) tests erode confidence, slow down releases, and lead developers to ignore legitimate failures. If your team starts using the term “CI roulette,” it’s time to act. Flaky tests are fixable—but it takes visibility, discipline, and the right tooling. What Is a Flaky Test? A flaky test is one that fails sometimes and passes other times, without any changes to the code. They’re usually caused by: Timing issues (e.g

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Chrome will let you switch between personal and work accounts on iOS

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-07-23 04:00:00

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Google is introducing the option to easily switch between personal and work profiles in its Chrome browser on iOS, with data kept separate between the two. The new option is part of Google’s enterprise software package, and doesn’t allow non-enterprise users to switch freely between two Google accounts in the browser. Companies that adopt Chrome Enterprise can let employees

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PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app – and it’s completely free

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-23 08:00:40

We don’t talk enough about the amount of paperwork we come across every day. From essential bank documents, work contracts, tax notices, and bills to invoices, application forms, IDs, letters, and more, keeping everything organized can be a chore. And even more so if there’s a mix of physical and digital paperwork to deal with. Scanning your documents and organizing them digitally is a smart idea. But while there are plenty of scanner apps, any features you might need beyond basic scanning are

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Writing your Clojure tests in EDN files

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-21 07:36:59

Jacob O'Bryant | 19 Jul 2025 I've previously written about my latest approach to unit tests: [Y]ou define only the input data for your function, and then the expected return value is generated by calling your function. The expected value is saved to an EDN file and checked into source, at which point you ensure the expected value is, in fact, what you expect. Then going forward, the unit test simply checks that what the function returns still matches what’s in the EDN file. If it’s supposed to

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Memory Efficiency in iOS: Reducing footprint and beyond

news.ycombinator.com Anton Gubarenko 2025-07-23 07:59:40

Previously, we explored how memory is measured and what tools are available for inspecting usage in iOS apps. Now, let’s shift our focus to reducing memory consumption using a set of practical techniques and development best practices. But first let’s discuss different approaches to treat this problem. Initial Source of a Problem Every spike in memory has a cause, and memory optimization is no exception. Sometimes it’s a 3rd-party library — Lottie is a classic example, especially if you export

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SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 07:54:03

Announcing SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management We've supported .env integration for managing secrets, but it has several issues: Apps are disconnected from their secrets - applications lack a clear contract about which secrets they need - applications lack a clear contract about which secrets they need Parsing .env is unclear - comments, multiline values, and special characters all have ambiguous behavior across different parsers - comments, multiline values, and special characters al

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Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think

news.ycombinator.com David Roberts 2025-07-23 08:31:57

I chat with Kostantsa Rangelova and Dave Jones, authors of a new Ember report, who find that solar-plus-storage costs have declined so much that it can now provide baseload-level power in sunny cities for less than the cost of new nuclear or even new gas. We discuss why even energy pros are behind the curve on this, how quickly the technology is improving, and why most of the world doesn't see natural gas as a viable option the way the US does. (PDF transcript) (Active transcript) Text transc

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Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-07-23 08:05:38

Following the Big Bang, our universe expanded at an exponential rate. According to this theory, known as cosmic inflation, the explosive growth produced tiny quantum fluctuations that later evolved into galaxies. Cosmic inflation neatly explains how our universe got so large and mostly homogenous, and that’s why it’s remained a strong theory in cosmology for decades. But it’s far from perfect. Cosmic inflation depends on certain theoretical assumptions that can get rather arbitrary—not ideal fo

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Alaska Airlines Flights Resume After IT Outage. What to Do if You Were Affected

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-23 07:04:00

Alaska Airlines paused its operations for several hours, late on July 20. This was due to what the company called, "a significant IT outage" affecting its operations. About 3 hours later, flights resumed and the company posted on X: "Alaska Airlines has resolved its earlier IT outage and has resumed operations. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, and encourage guests to check your flight status before heading to the airport." The delays affected Alaska Air and Horizon Air flights at

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Hiding messages in a deck playing cards

news.ycombinator.com Asher Falcon 2025-07-20 11:41:04

hiding messages in playing cards I was recently thinking about the huge number of ways you can shuffle a deck of 52 cards and wondered if it would be possible to store arbitrary data, which I explore in this blog post. This blog post will go into the detail of how I found a way to store text inside the order of a deck of cards. If you want to play around with the tool, go here. How many different ways can we shuffle a deck of 52 cards? We can think of it like picking one card from 52, then one

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Gardeners Beware: Experts Warn These 9 Poisonous Flowers Might Be in Your Backyard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-23 10:49:00

With summer now well and truly here, you're probably spending more time in your backyard or garden than you would through the rest of the year. The warmer weather also means that new plants and flowers are blooming, and all of that extra color is always welcome, right? But did you know that some plants aren't as safe as they might look? In fact, you might be surprised just how many common plants and flowers could be dangerous to you, your family and even your pets. In this article, we enlist the

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SAVE Student Loan Borrowers Are Up Against an Aug. 1 Deadline. Here's What Experts Suggest

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-23 11:00:26

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET If you're a student loan borrower enrolled in SAVE, do you have to switch to a new repayment before interest payments restart in August? That's the question on millions of borrowers' minds, but the answer depends on your forgiveness options and financial situation. "It's crucial for borrowers to act based on their own personal situation," said Elaine Rubin, a student loan policy exper

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What the 'Superman' Post-Credits Scenes Mean for the Future of the DC Cinematic Universe

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-23 11:25:03

The new Superman movie continues to rule the box office after its second weekend, leading the pack with $57 million from US audiences, and this relaunch of the DC universe is only getting started. Superman stars Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor and David Corenswet as the Man of Steel. The movie isn't an origin story; it picks up when Superman is already well-known (and moments after he loses any fight-winning streak he previously had). I won't provide any more details

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I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 19:27:24

After launching 37 different products over the last few years, I’ve had one go viral and almost all the others struggle to get any traction at all. Like many indie makers, I used to think the best strategy was to just keep launching, make more bets, and hope one finally catches fire. But here’s what I’ve learned: Virality is rare and nearly impossible to predict Most of my launches that failed didn’t actually fail, they just grew much slower than I expected My current project, Refgrow, took

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T-Mobile is bringing low-latency tech to 5G for the first time

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-07-23 20:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Over the next few weeks, T-Mobile is expanding support for the L4S standard, which stands for “Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput.” The technology helps high-priority internet packets move along with fewer delays, to make video calls and cloud games feel smoother and reduce annoying hitches. Users won’t need a special phone or plan to take advantage of the benefits fr

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Apple Sports app expands soccer coverage and launches in a new country

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-07-24 09:55:20

The Apple Sports app, which allows users to track sports scores in real-time, today expanded its coverage of soccer. With the new 3.1 update, fans of the FA Community Shield soccer tournament can now follow along inside Apple Sports. Also notable is that the app is now available to download in Mexico. This means fans of Liga MX can now use the app for the first time to track the performance of their local teams, as well as how they fare in the MLS Leagues Cup. Apple also said the app has incre

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Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease

news.ycombinator.com Katarina Zimmer 2025-07-21 19:13:34

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells in human tissues, and observe “animalcules” — bacteria and protists — in the water of a lake. Increasingly powerful light microscopes followed, revealing cell organelles like the nucleus and energy-producing mitochondria. But by 1873, scientists realized there was a limit to the level of detail. W

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How earthquake alerts work on Android - and how to make sure they're enabled on your phone

How AI agents can generate $450 billion by 2028 - and what stands in the way

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Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets

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Reverse Engineering the Mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo

Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly

Improving End-to-End Tests to Reduce Flakiness: Tools and Strategies

Chrome will let you switch between personal and work accounts on iOS

PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app – and it’s completely free

Writing your Clojure tests in EDN files

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Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think

Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe

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I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again

T-Mobile is bringing low-latency tech to 5G for the first time

Apple Sports app expands soccer coverage and launches in a new country

Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease

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