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Texas governor orders audit of new data centers after realizing over 400 gigawatts of power is a lot (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Anna Washenko | tags: texas utility commissions, public utility commission of texas, electric reliability council of texas

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Don’t screw this up, Marvel (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | tags: marvel, sony, spider-man

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Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: neural networks, deep learning, hinton

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eBay’s bizarre cyberstalking saga ends with a $56 million settlement (theverge.com)

2026-07-28 | by Emma Roth | tags: ebay, devin wenig, ecommercebytes

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Massachusetts EV Drivers Can Sell Extra Energy to the Grid Under New Program (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: massachusetts, energy grid, spare electrons

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Show HN: OfflineTTS — Free browser-based TTS & STT that runs locally (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: offlinetts, text to speech, speech to text

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US homeowners installed a record amount of battery storage this year, and it's reshaping the grid (techspot.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: battery storage, energy information administration, california

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IEEE Computer Society Honors Srinivas Devadas with the ACM/IEEE-CS Eckert-Mauchly Award (computer.org)

2026-06-24 | get IEEE Computer Society Badge → | tags: ieee computer society, srinivas devadas, acm/ieee-cs eckert-mauchly award

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Peek inside the archives of a titan of 20th century architecture (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-23 | get Architectural Archive Book → | tags: i.m. pei, mit, architecture

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Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | tags: matts script archive, wwwboard, web forums

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EVs can power the grid. Why aren’t more of them doing it? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-22 | get Tesla Powerwall → | tags: evs, bidirectional charging, california

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How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-17 | by Kozlov | get Neuroscience Brain Model Kit → | tags: brain, neurons, frontotemporal cortex

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Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-08 | by Zack Whittaker | get Privacy Rights Bill Guide → | tags: location, location data, massachusetts

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Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-08 | by Zack Whittaker | get Privacy Protection Smart Device → | tags: location, location data, massachusetts

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SoftBank to Plow $52 Billion Into French Data Centers (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-30 | get French Data Center Server → | tags: softbank, french data centers, gigawatts

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First pig liver and kidneys transplanted into a person — could ease organ shortages (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-29 | by Fieldhouse | get Xenotransplantation Pig Organs Kit → | tags: pig liver, xenotransplantation, massachusetts general hospital

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The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | by The Mit Press Reader | get Barn Owl Feather Model → | tags: barn owl, feathers, silent flight

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Researchers automated LLM reasoning strategy design and cut token usage by 69.5% (venturebeat.com)

2026-05-28 | get AI Reasoning Optimization Toolkit → | tags: large language models, autotts, meta

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A beloved vegetarian restaurant chain is closing all of its locations, joining the list of retailers to shutter under the weight of suffocating costs (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-28 | get Vegan Cooking Cookbook → | tags: clover food lab, boston, vegetarian

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Samsung is using Galaxy Watch 8 to study what Ozempic, other GLP-1 drugs might secretly do to you (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-28 | tags: samsung, galaxy watch 8, ozempic

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Elizabeth Warren wants to tax AI data centers as power bills climb (techspot.com)

2026-05-28 | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: elizabeth warren, ai data centers, time magazine

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Samsung is testing Galaxy Watch 8 to prevent muscle loss on GLP-1s like Ozempic (engadget.com)

2026-05-28 | by Mariella Moon | get Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 → | tags: galaxy watch 8, samsung health, glp-1

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AI and simple blood tests could catch lung cancer earlier (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-27 | by Keener | get Blood Test for Lung Cancer → | tags: lung cancer, low-dose ct, massachusetts general hospital

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Uber, Lyft Drivers In Massachusetts Form First US Ride-Share Union (slashdot.org)

2026-05-26 | get Ride-Share Driver Union Kit → | tags: uber, lyft, ride-share

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Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts certify the nation’s first ride-hailing union (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-26 | get Ride-Hailing Union Badge → | tags: uber, lyft, massachusetts

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Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-26 | get Ride-Share Driver Union Kit → | tags: uber, lyft, massachusetts

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Massachusetts Rideshare Drivers Just Officially Unionized. Sort of (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-26 | get Rideshare Driver Union Sticker → | tags: massachusetts, rideshare, unionization

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MIT Expert Warns Courts “Will Basically Have to Grind to a Halt” as They’re Overwhelmed by AI-Generated Lawsuits (futurism.com)

2026-05-23 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | get AI Legal Research Tool → | tags: mit, chatgpt, ai lawsuits

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Wood Burning Is Reintroducing Lead Pollution Into the Air, Scientists Find (slashdot.org)

2026-05-16 | get Wood Stove Air Purifier → | tags: wood burning, lead pollution, university of massachusetts

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Microsoft's $1 Billion AI Data Center Will 'Switch Off Half of Kenya' (slashdot.org)

2026-05-12 | get Microsoft Azure Data Center → | tags: center, country, data center