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You can soon attend Zoom meetings as your AI avatar

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-19 19:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Zoom’s vision of filling meetings with AI clones has nearly arrived. On Wednesday, the video conferencing app announced that you’ll soon be able to create a “photorealistic” avatar of yourself in case you aren’t “camera-ready.” That means your AI avatar can appe

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How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 22:25:24

We have an air bike in our basement. If you are unfamiliar with air bikes, they are similar to stationary bikes with foot pedals but also have handles you push and pull with your arms. It uses air resistance, so the harder you pedal and move your arms, the higher the resistance. It’s also known as an assault bike. 😬 Which is apt, because it’s a butt-kicker of a workout. I use it about once a week, more frequently in the winter when it’s too cold to run, and less often in the summer when I can

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How to Motivate Yourself to Do a Thing You Don't Want to Do

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 03:25:24

We have an air bike in our basement. If you are unfamiliar with air bikes, they are similar to stationary bikes with foot pedals but also have handles you push and pull with your arms. It uses air resistance, so the harder you pedal and move your arms, the higher the resistance. It’s also known as an assault bike. 😬 Which is apt, because it’s a butt-kicker of a workout. I use it about once a week, more frequently in the winter when it’s too cold to run, and less often in the summer when I can

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Procedural Island Generation (III)

news.ycombinator.com Chema Guerra 2025-09-20 10:29:49

Resulting terrain elevation with multi-scale noise layers and mountain peaks This post continues from Part II, where we established the paint map foundation and mountain ridge system. Now we’ll add detailed noise layers, distance-based mountain peaks, and do blending to create the final terrain elevation. Paint Map (recap) Before applying noise layers, we start with the foundation established in Part I - the paint map that defines our base land/water distribution: The paint map from Part I -

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How to measure the returns on R&D spending

technologyreview.com David Rotman 2025-09-20 22:00:00

Sure, it’s easy to argue for the importance of spending on science by pointing out that many of today’s most useful technologies had their origins in government-funded R&D. The internet, CRISPR, GPS—the list goes on and on. All true. But this argument ignores all the technologies that received millions in government funding and haven’t gone anywhere—at least not yet. We still don’t have DNA computers or molecular electronics. Never mind the favorite examples cited by contrarian politicians of se

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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions (1991)

news.ycombinator.com V. E. Mchale 2025-09-24 17:29:50

The Obsolescence of Political Definitions V. E. McHale Defense I am not qualified to translate German, much less technical philosophical texts. However, Kondylis’ insights are criminally underappreciated and of interest to many today as they grapple with the dissolution of liberalism that Kondylis predicted in 1991–1992. Hopefully, his work will be translated with due care as its centrality is appreciated. The below is from Planetarische Politik Nach Dem Kalten Krieg, pp. 91–104 The Obsoles

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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions

news.ycombinator.com V. E. Mchale 2025-09-24 22:29:50

The Obsolescence of Political Definitions V. E. McHale Defense I am not qualified to translate German, much less technical philosophical texts. However, Kondylis’ insights are criminally underappreciated and of interest to many today as they grapple with the dissolution of liberalism that Kondylis predicted in 1991–1992. Hopefully, his work will be translated with due care as its centrality is appreciated. The below is from Planetarische Politik Nach Dem Kalten Krieg, pp. 91–104 The Obsoles

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Texas banned lab-grown meat. What’s next for the industry?

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-09-29 21:00:00

Texas joins six other US states and the country of Italy in banning these products. These legal challenges are adding barriers to an industry that’s still in its infancy and already faces plenty of challenges before it can reach consumers in a meaningful way. The agriculture sector makes up a hefty chunk of global greenhouse-gas emissions, with livestock alone accounting for somewhere between 10% and 20% of climate pollution. Alternative meat products, including those grown in a lab, could help

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5 business leaders on how to balance innovation with risk - and turn your ideas into action

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-01 15:29:00

Richard Drury/DigitalVision/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Bridging the gap between aspiration and achievement isn't easy. Smart business leaders focus on projects that deliver top-line growth. They support staff, work with peers, and encourage experimentation. For business leaders who want to embrace technological innovation, there are many potential risks, from wasting money on failed projects to falling behind faster-moving rival

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Bluesky adds private bookmarks

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-05 11:40:51

Social networking startup Bluesky is rolling out one of users’ most in-demand features — no, not an edit button! — bookmarks. The company on Monday announced the new addition, which it calls Saved Posts. The feature is accessible through a new bookmark icon underneath each post, next to the heart for favoriting. Your saved posts can then be viewed at any time from the new “Saved” section in the app’s main navigation. While it may seem redundant to have both likes and bookmarks on a social app

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The Diffusion Dilemma

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 08:03:03

On the sun-baked plains of the American Midwest in 1892, a revolution was loudly sputtering to life: the tractor, an engine which signaled the end of the era of animal power and the beginning of the age of machine power. This machine was not just a piece of equipment; the tractor was a manifestation of an exponential shift in energy density, from animal metabolism to coal burning, empowered by discoveries in thermodynamics. But diffusion of the tractor, screeching across the horizon, took much l

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The Download: unnerving AI avatars, and Trump’s climate gift to China

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-10 08:10:00

—Rhiannon Williams Earlier this summer, I visited the AI company Synthesia to give it what it needed to create a hyperrealistic AI-generated avatar of me. The company’s avatars are a decent barometer of just how dizzying progress has been in AI over the past few years, so I was curious just how accurately its latest AI model, introduced last month, could replicate me. I found my avatar as unnerving as it is technically impressive. It’s slick enough to pass as a high-definition recording of a

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Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-11 07:05:33

When Synthesia launched in 2017, its primary purpose was to match AI versions of real human faces—for example, the former footballer David Beckham—with dubbed voices speaking in different languages. A few years later, in 2020, it started giving the companies that signed up for its services the opportunity to make professional-level presentation videos starring either AI versions of staff members or consenting actors. But the technology wasn’t perfect. The avatars’ body movements could be jerky a

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Google critics think the search remedies ruling is a total whiff

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-13 15:06:24

Today’s ruling is a reminder of Google’s sweeping power over the online economy, but the limited remedies ordered by the court demonstrate why we need additional rules of the road for Big Tech. That’s why we must pass my bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Online Act to stop dominant platforms like Google from continuing to unfairly preference their own products over competitors’ — which hurts consumers and entrepreneurs, and stifles innovation. Through three administrations, our antitrust

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What's New with Firefox 142

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 23:50:55

New tools for focus, privacy, and smoother mobile browsing. Privacy Privacy Android Android Private tabs that stay private Your private tabs lock automatically when you step away — and only unlock with your face, fingerprint, or PIN. Language Language Android Android Getting even more multilingual Now translate web pages into Japanese, Chinese, Korean and more, so you can browse in your preferred language. Security Security iOS iOS Smarter passwords, fewer hassles Firefox suggests strong pass

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I hate installing apps to save money, but this Pixel privacy feature makes it worthwhile

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 22:00:49

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Prices at fast food chains, restaurants, and even grocery stores have spiraled out of control over the past couple of years. Luckily, not all hope is lost — if you’re a savvy shopper, you might know that the best way to save real money is to check for loyalty program discounts and limited-time offers. The only problem? Most of these offers require you to download each company’s app and check into them from time to time. If installing a dozen different apps s

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Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators

news.ycombinator.com Anna Claire Vollers 2025-10-18 23:37:53

Cash Cow David vs. Goliath State Solutions Private equity companies have gobbled up group homes and other services for people with disabilities, attracting the attention of state and federal regulators across the nation and alarming advocates.People with intellectual or developmental disabilities have suffered abuse, neglect and even death while under the care of private equity-owned providers, according to a recent report from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project.“Private equity

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Private Equity Snaps Up Disability Services, Challenging Regulators

news.ycombinator.com Anna Claire Vollers 2025-10-19 14:37:53

Cash Cow David vs. Goliath State Solutions Private equity companies have gobbled up group homes and other services for people with disabilities, attracting the attention of state and federal regulators across the nation and alarming advocates.People with intellectual or developmental disabilities have suffered abuse, neglect and even death while under the care of private equity-owned providers, according to a recent report from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project.“Private equity

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‘The Vampire Diaries’ Almost Cast Marvel’s Sebastian Stan, New Book Reveals

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-21 23:48:32

The Vampire Diaries helped define the CW’s genre days, and for many fans, it’s also the moment they discovered Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actor Paul Wesley. He was cast alongside costar Ian Somerhalder to play the vampire brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore, but things could have been very different: Marvel’s Sebastian Stan almost got the call to play the character. In an upcoming oral history titled I Was Feeling Epic by Samantha Highfill excerpted in EW, she reveals that Stan took a meetin

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Unlocking enterprise agility in the API economy

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-24 07:00:00

From CapEx to OpEx: The new connectivity mindset Another, practical concern is also driving this shift: the need for IT models that align cost with usage. Rising uncertainty about inflation, consumer spending, business investment, and global supply chains are just a few of the economic factors weighing on company decision-making. And chief information officers (CIOs) are scrutinizing capital-expenditure-heavy infrastructure more closely and increasingly adopting operating-expenses-based subscri

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Bridging the Governance Gap: AI, Risk, and Enterprise Innovation

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-26 04:00:05

Artificial intelligence (AI) is redrawing the boundaries of IT governance. Traditional frameworks built around predictability, transparency, and linear systems are ill-suited to AI and machine learning models’ dynamic, opaque, and constantly evolving nature. As organizations expand AI applications across critical sectors like healthcare, finance, and public services, the friction between innovation and oversight grows more pronounced. Without a reimagined governance strategy, these gaps can hind

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Apple details new App Store taxes and price changes in select countries

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-01 02:35:30

Apple is contacting developers about upcoming tax and price updates for a few countries, including Canada, Romania, and Brazil. Here are the details. Tax changes start today, price changes slated for September 8 In an email sent to developers, Apple announced that as of today, proceeds from the sale of eligible apps and in-app purchases (IAP) have been modified in: Brazil: Imposto sobre Operações Financeiras (IOF) of 3.5% Imposto sobre Operações Financeiras (IOF) of 3.5% Canada: Digital serv

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AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

news.ycombinator.com Vp Of Product 2025-11-02 22:03:37

AI is making Google Search radically more helpful, so you can ask any question on your mind and get things done. Starting today, we’re bringing more advanced agentic and personalized capabilities to AI Mode so you can make progress on your tasks and get more tailored information based on your interests. We’re also bringing AI Mode to even more people around the world. Read on for more. Get things done with agentic capabilities in AI Mode New agentic capabilities in AI Mode can help you get thi

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Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts

wired.com Jason Koebler 2025-11-05 17:00:00

The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman wearing a white shirt and black skirt is always livestreaming, boasting about the various features of different office printers. She has a phone in one hand and often checks it as if to read a sales script or monitor the viewer comments coming in. “My friends, I’ve gotta plug this game-changing office tool that c

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Three highlights from Apple’s two-day event on privacy and AI

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-09 11:37:01

A few months ago, Apple hosted the Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, which featured presentations and discussions on privacy, security, and other key areas in responsible machine learning development. Now, it has made the presentations public. Here are three highlights. As it did recently with the presentations from the 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Machine Learning, Apple published a post in its Machine Learning Research blog with a few videos and a long list of studies and pa

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Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 00:08:18

This article explains how these four things fit together and shows some examples of what they are used for. Derivatives Derivatives are the most fundamental concept in calculus. If you have a function, a derivative tells you how much that function changes at each point. If we start with the function , we can calculate the derivative as . Here are those two functions graphed. One use of derivatives is for optimization – also known as finding the lowest part on a graph. If you were at and wan

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PYX: The next step in Python packaging

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 10:42:49

A Python-native package registry from the creators of uv. Fast Speed up installs from PyPI, PyTorch, and your own private sources with optimized artifacts and uv-native metadata APIs. An order of magnitude faster than other private registries. Secure Create dedicated index URLs to filter packages by popularity, age, vulnerabilities, and more. Encode your own compliance rules and ensure reproducible builds on the server. Modern A singular focus on Python means best-in-class support for cutting

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Of Course the ‘Avatar’ Cabbage Guy Is Getting a ‘Magic’ Card

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-20 00:20:43

Edge of Eternities is barely out, and Spider-Man hasn’t even swung onto shelves yet, but that’s not stopped Wizards of the Coast from marching on into promoting the next next set coming to Magic: The Gathering—its “Universes Beyond” crossover with Avatar: The Last Airbender. Alongside previews of how the world of Avatar will work mechanically in the landscape of the game, our first extensive preview of what to expect in the set confirms the obvious: Cabbage Guy is getting his own Magic card. To

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Fight Chat Control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 05:50:34

You Will Be Impacted Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent or suspicion. This is not about catching criminals. It is mass surveillance imposed on all 450 million citizens of the European Union. 📱 Mass Surveillance Every private message, photo, and file scanned automatically: no suspicion required, no exceptions*, even encrypted communications. 🔓️ Breaking Encryption Weakening or breaking end-to-end encryption exposes everyone’s commu

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Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

wired.com Meg Wilcox 2025-11-24 00:00:00

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When staffing shortages caused the National Weather Service (NWS) to suspend weather balloon launches at its Kotzebue, Alaska, station earlier this year, a startup deploying next-generation weather balloons, WindBorne Systems, stepped up to fill the void. The company began selling its western Alaskan atmospheric data to the NWS in February, plugging what could have been a critical data gap in w

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You can soon attend Zoom meetings as your AI avatar

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Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators

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