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Birds Are Getting Hooked on Cigarettes (futurism.com)

2026-03-21 | by Victor Tangermann | get Birds Birdhouse with Perch → | tags: nicotine, blue tits, cigarette butts

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How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps (wired.com)

2026-03-21 | by Aarian Marshall | get Tesla Supercharger Adapter → | tags: byd, flash chargers, ev batteries

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Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-19 | get Kitten TTS Model Pack → | tags: kitten tts, onnx, open-source

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America's First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Finishes Construction (slashdot.org)

2026-03-15 | by Posted | get Offshore Wind Turbine Model → | tags: offshore wind, revolution wind, massachusetts

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The Target boycott over DEI isn’t over yet (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-13 | get Target DEI Support Hoodie → | tags: target, dei, black community

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Exploring JEPA for real-time speech translation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-11 | get Language Translator Device → | tags: jepa, meta, kyutai

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TADA: Speech generation through text-acoustic synchronization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-11 | get Speech-to-text → | tags: tada, lllm, tts

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TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-11 | get Text-to-Speech → | tags: tada, rust, hume ai

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Slate Auto changes CEO months ahead of affordable EV launch (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-09 | by Sean O'Kane | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: rebuild manufacturing, massachusetts, april 2025

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Wild crows in Sweden help clean up cigarette butts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-06 | by Http | get Cigarette butt cleaner → | tags: corvids, cigarette butts, pexesls_parviz-hajizada

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Conduent data breach grows, affecting at least 25M people (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-24 | by Zack Whittaker | get Identity → | tags: conduent, ransomware, social security

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Free Bi-Directional EV Chargers Tested to Improve Massachusetts Power Grid (slashdot.org)

2026-02-07 | by Posted | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: energy, grid, massachusetts

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CoreWeave stock jumps 6% as Nvidia invests $2 billion to expand AI data center capacity (cnbc.com)

2026-01-26 | by Ashley Capoot | get Data Center → | tags: billion, cnbc, coreweave

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Legislators Push to Make Companies Tell Customers When Their Products Will Die (wired.com)

2026-01-22 | by Boone Ashworth | get Smartphones → | tags: connected, device, devices

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China’s Renewable Energy Revolution Is a Huge Mess That Might Save the World (wired.com)

2026-01-20 | by Jeremy Wallace | get Solar Power → | tags: capacity, china, energy

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Meta sets up 'Meta Compute' organization for gigawatt-scale AI data centers — initiative is said to consume hundreds of gigawatts over time (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-12 | by Anton Shilov | get Compute → | tags: compute, gigawatts, hardware

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Meta sets up 'Meta Compute' organization for gigawatt-scale AI data centers — initiative is said to consumer hundreds of gigawatts over time (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-12 | by Anton Shilov | get Compute → | tags: compute, gigawatts, hardware

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Meta announces a slew of nuclear energy agreements (engadget.com)

2026-01-09 | get Nuclear Reactors → | tags: agreement, early, gigawatts

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Meta Is Going Nuclear to Power Its AI Data Centers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-09 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: electricity, megawatts, meta

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Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-08 | get Sopro TTS → | tags: model, sopro, soprotts

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PhDs Can't Find Work as Boston's Biotech Engine Sputters (slashdot.org)

2025-12-30 | get Biotechnology → | tags: biotech, boston, downturn

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Google is betting on carbon capture to lower data center emissions. Here’s how the tech works (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-24 | tags: center, data center, emissions

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Google is betting on carbon capture tech to lower data center emissions. Here’s how it works (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-24 | tags: center, data center, emissions

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MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | get Smartphone → | tags: died, loureiro, massachusetts

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Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-15 | get Robot vacuum → | tags: chinese, filed, irobot

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Meta battles Mass. in court over allegedly designing apps to be addictive to kids (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-08 | get Facebook → | tags: actions, addictive, amendment

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IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar AI data center buildout is unsustainable — says there is 'no way' that infrastructure costs can turn a profit (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-03 | by Luke James | get Cloud → | tags: billion, gigawatts, hardware

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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-02 | by Henry Chandonnet | get Cloud → | tags: gigawatts, krishna, spending

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Silicon Valley data centers totalling nearly 100MW could 'sit empty for years' due to lack of power — huge installations are idle because Santa Clara can't cope with surging electricity demands (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-10 | by Luke James | get Data center → | tags: bloomberg, infrastructure, megawatts

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Think twice before plugging these 7 appliances into an extension cord (and why) (zdnet.com)

2025-10-31 | by Chris Bayer | get Amazon Echo Dot → | tags: cord, extension, outlet