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How companies weaponize the terms of service against you (theverge.com)

2026-05-14 | by Nilay Patel | get Digital Rights Management Book → | tags: disney, arbitration, disney+

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'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Will Hit Disney Plus in June (cnet.com)

2026-05-12 | by See Full Bio | get Disney Subscription Gift Card → | tags: avatar, avatar ash, clan

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The Remains of at Least 7 Probes May Still Exist on This Hellish Planet (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-12 | get Mars Rover Model Kit → | tags: venus, space archeology, probes

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People Are Already Selling the Leaked ‘Avatar’ Movie on eBay (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-12 | get Avatar Movie Leak Prevention Kit → | tags: avatar, ebay, paramount

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The Steve Jobs $1 coin goes on sale today starting at $61 for a roll (engadget.com)

2026-05-12 | by Mariella Moon | get Steve Jobs Commemorative Coin → | tags: steve jobs, us mint, innovation coin

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Here’s how to get the U.S. Mint’s $1 coin honoring Steve Jobs (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-11 | by Marcus Mendes | get Steve Jobs Commemorative Coin → | tags: us mint, american innovation, steve jobs

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A New Hantavirus Vaccine Is in the Works (wired.com)

2026-05-11 | by Javier Carbajal | get Hantavirus Prevention Kit → | tags: moderna, hantavirus, vaccine

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Steam Machine may launch soon as reservation system and four retail packages surface (techspot.com)

2026-05-11 | get Steam Controller → | tags: steam, steam machine, steam controller

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A promising Indian launch startup nears its first orbital test flight (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-11 | get Satellite Launch Kit → | tags: isro, skyroot aerospace, vikram-1

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Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-11 | by Mit Technology Review Insights | get AI Development Kit → | tags: capital one, ai innovation, customer-centric

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Innovation abounds in device charging (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-11 | by Mit Technology Review Insights | get Anker PowerCore Portable Charger → | tags: anker innovations, ganprime 2.0, gallium nitride

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Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-10 | get Sleep Tracking Sleep Mask → | tags: parenting, sleep deprivation, infant sleep

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‘Reservation Hijacking’ Scams Target Travelers. Here’s How to Stay Safe (wired.com)

2026-05-10 | by David Nield | get Travel Insurance for Safety → | tags: booking.com, reservation hijacking, data breach

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Internet Archive Switzerland (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | get Internet Archive Swiss Collection → | tags: internet archive, switzerland, sankt gallen

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The Steam Controller’s reservation queue is open (theverge.com)

2026-05-08 | by Cameron Faulkner | get Steam Controller Wireless Kit → | tags: steam controller, valve, reservation system

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Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Hassam Nasir | get Seagate External Hard Drive → | tags: wayback machine, wikimedia foundation, hard drive shortages

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Valve opens Steam Controller reservations today at 10 AM PT after record-breaking sell-out — reservation queue puts real fans ahead of automated bots (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Zhiye Liu | get Steam Controller Reservation Kit → | tags: steam controller, valve, reservation system

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NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye (futurism.com)

2026-05-08 | by Frank Landymore | get Red Dots Sky Poster → | tags: nasa, chandra x-ray observatory, james webb space telescope

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Here’s how technology transformed babymaking (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jessica Hamzelou | get Smart Baby Monitor → | tags: vitrication, ivf, embryo freezing

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Seeing Birdsong (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | get Birdsong Nature Sound Machine → | tags: birdsong, nature, wildlife

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Valve will open reservations on May 8 for the second wave of Steam Controllers (engadget.com)

2026-05-07 | by Anna Washenko | get Steam Controller Wireless Kit → | tags: valve, steam controller, steam machine

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Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get Natural Language Processing Book → | tags: claude, autoencoders, neural activity

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India’s first space tech unicorn emerges as Skyroot gears up for orbital launch (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-07 | by Jagmeet Singh | get Skyroot Rocket Model → | tags: skyroot aerospace, vikram-1 rocket, india space sector

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Valve is fighting Steam Controller scalpers with a new reservations system (theverge.com)

2026-05-07 | by Jay Peters | get Steam Controller Reservation Kit → | tags: steam controller, valve, ebay

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Over half of working moms have missed work due to lack of sleep (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-07 | get Sleep Tracking Sleep Mask → | tags: working moms, sleep deprivation, stress

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James Cameron Accused of Stealing 14-Year-Old Girl’s Face for Main Character of Billion-Dollar “Avatar” Films (futurism.com)

2026-05-07 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: james cameron, avatar, disney

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The Upper Middle Class Trap (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | by Nick Maggiulli | get Smart Budget Planner Notebook → | tags: private schools, american express, housing prices

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The Vatican's Website in Latin (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get Vatican Latin Language Book → | tags: vatican, website, latin

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Trafficked pangolins can be traced to their source by DNA — even to a specific forest (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-07 | get DNA Trace Kit → | tags: pangolins, dna tracing, forest source

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What Is a ‘Compute Tax’ and Why Is the Idea Gaining Traction? (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-07 | get Compute Tax Policy Book → | tags: compute tax, policy, economy