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This building at UC Berkeley wears its earthquake prevention on the outside (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: uc berkeley, grimes engineering center, seismic-responsive structural system

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The best architectural design of 2026 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: fast company, innovation by design, skidmore

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XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-04 | by Marina Temkin | get Meta Quest 3S → | tags: xdo, 8vc, gello

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One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Beck Klein | tags: oakland police department, police union, overtime spending

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A New Smart Ring Uses Finger Sweat to Track Health (cnet.com)

2026-07-28 | by Anna Gragert | tags: smart ring, finger sweat, uc san diego

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Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: scripps oceanography, ocean deoxygenation, planetary boundaries

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Underwater Oxygen Loss Threatens Earth's Stability, Researchers Warn (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: uc san diego, scripps institution of oceanography, ocean deoxygenation

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Frontier AI Is Faceplanting at Real-World Workplace Tasks (futurism.com)

2026-07-21 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: frontier ai, uc berkeley, autonomous agents

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A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now (wired.com)

2026-07-21 | by Andy Greenberg | tags: karr security system, uc san diego, bluetooth hacking

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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: gpt-5.6, convex optimization, lean

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Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-07 | by James Temple | get Worm Composting Kit → | tags: davis, large, mitloehner

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Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-29 | by Marina Temkin | get AI Leaderboard Platform → | tags: arena, uc berkeley, ai leaderboard

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Researchers Turn Old Junk Drawer Smartphones Into a Mini Cloud Computing Platform (cnet.com)

2026-06-18 | by See Full Bio | get Smartphone Cloud Computing Kit → | tags: google pixel, cloud computing, linux

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Researchers are turning old Pixel phones into a data center – and they outperform some server hardware (techspot.com)

2026-06-15 | by Skye Jacobs | get Google Pixel Phone Dock → | tags: pixel, google, asus

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Workers Spend As Much Time 'Botsitting' AI As Producing Useful Work, Survey Finds (slashdot.org)

2026-06-15 | by Posted | get AI Bot Monitoring Software → | tags: glen, ai institute, stanford university

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College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science (futurism.com)

2026-06-03 | by Frank Landymore | get Math and Science Study Guides → | tags: uc berkeley, middle school math, sat

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Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | by Staff Writer | get SAT Math Prep Book → | tags: uc berkeley, sat, act

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I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body (wired.com)

2026-05-20 | by Will Knight | get OpenClaw Robotics Kit → | tags: openclaw, huggingface, lerobot 101

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Grade Inflation Is Going Nuts as Every Student Is Basically Submitting the Same Essay (futurism.com)

2026-05-18 | by Frank Landymore | get Essay Grading Software Tool → | tags: ai chatbots, grade inflation, uc berkeley

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3 Biohacks High-Performing Entrepreneurs Are Using to Outlast Burnout (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-20 | by Lindsay Oneill-Okeefe | get Biohacking Sleep Tracker → | tags: cellular therapies, da vinci medical, shadow burnout

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Scientists Use AI to Map Ocean Currents in Incredible Detail (cnet.com)

2026-04-15 | by See Full Bio | get Ocean Currents Map Kit → | tags: goflow, uc san diego, ocean currents

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New findings from this Gallup poll show how Americans are using AI for health advice (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-15 | get AI Health Assistant Device → | tags: gallup poll, chatgpt, uc san diego health

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Daily briefing: The air is full of DNA — here’s what it can teach us (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-14 | by Graham | get AirDNA Air Quality Monitor → | tags: airborne dna, magellanic penguins, forever chemicals

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Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | get AI Benchmark Test Kit → | tags: ai agent benchmarks, uc berkeley, sweet-bench

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How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | get AI Benchmark Testing Kit → | tags: ai benchmarks, uc berkeley, trustworthiness

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Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | by Kat Kerlin | get PFAS Testing Kit → | tags: pfas, penguins, uc davis

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CRISPR makes enhanced cancer-fighting immune cells inside mice (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-18 | by Ledford | get CRISPR Gene Editing Kit → | tags: crispr, cas9, car-t

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In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-15 | by View All Posts Bill Wadge | tags: john addison, uc berkeley, model theory

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Professors Say AI Is Destroying Their Students’ Ability to Think (futurism.com)

2026-03-14 | by Frank Landymore | get AI Critical Thinking Toolkit → | tags: chatgpt, uc berkeley, carnegie mellon

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LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-10 | get 3D reconstruction → | tags: deepmind, uc berkeley, vggt