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SpaceX’s Secret Weapon Is Gwynne Shotwell

Posted on July 31, 2018 by HeyJK
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She launches spaceships, sells rockets, and deals with Elon Musk. If all went well, Musk’s cherry-red Tesla Roadster would be propelled toward Mars with a spacesuit-clad dummy behind the wheel and David Bowie’s Life on Mars? playing on the stereo.
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Magic Leap offers a sneak peek at its mixed reality OS

Posted on July 29, 2018 by HeyJK
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Magic Leap has been peeling away one layer of secrecy after another now that it’s close to shipping its mixed reality headset. Just recently, it released an AR demo and revealed that it’s working with comics industry veteran Grant Morrison.
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How a Bunch of Lava Lamps Protect Us From Hackers

Posted on July 29, 2018 by HeyJK
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Edward Craven Walker lived to see his greatest invention, the lava lamp, make its late-’90s cultural comeback. But the British tinkerer (and famed nudist, incidentally) died before he could witness the 21st-­century digital potential of his analog creation.
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Google promises to stop suggesting ‘my face’ when you type ‘sit on’ in Gboard

Posted on July 28, 2018 by HeyJK
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Applying machine learning to everything under the sun can be tricky. Case in point: Gboard’s text prediction has been suggesting people type “my face and” after the words “sit on,” resulting in a reference to a sexual act.
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Now is the time for Walmart to strike at Amazon Prime

Posted on July 22, 2018 by HeyJK
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Amazon Prime has been an enormous influence on e-commerce, but this online juggernaut is beginning to show cracks.
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How to beat LinkedIn: The Game

Posted on July 22, 2018 by HeyJK
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Since its founding in 2002, LinkedIn has quickly become one of the most popular video games of all time. It currently has roughly 530 million users, and was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.
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Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part of the process?

Posted on July 19, 2018 by HeyJK
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Down a chaotic lane in chaotic Govanhill, the works of two of Glasgow’s female Turner Prize-nominated artists, Lucy Skaer and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, are being produced. But it is two men who have their studio here.
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Apple is reportedly upgrading most of its Mac lineup this fall, including the Mac mini

Posted on July 11, 2018 by HeyJK
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Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has published his research note of predictions for Apple’s fall lineup — and it’s a doozy, via 9to5Mac.
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Scientists discover world’s oldest colour – bright pink

Posted on July 10, 2018 by HeyJK
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Scientists have discovered what they say are the world’s oldest colours – and they are bright pink. The pigments were discovered after researchers crushed 1.1bn-year-old rocks found in a marine shale deposit, beneath the Sahara desert, in the Taoudeni basin in Mauritania, west Africa.
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This amazing new web tool lets you create microsites that exist solely as URLs

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK
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Former Google designer Nicholas Jitkoff, who’s now the vice president of design at Dropbox, has created a really nifty new web tool he’s calling itty bitty sites, or self-contained microsites that exist solely as URLs. You can create your own by following this URL: itty.bitty.site.
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Intel’s Mobile Failure a $17B Mistake, Says New Street Research

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK
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Apple shares new App Store stats ahead of its 10th anniversary

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK
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Apple revealed several new numbers today in a report celebrating the App Store’s 10th anniversary, including details about subscription apps.
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Shell CEO calls for 2040 ban on new petrol car sales to be bought forward

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK
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LONDON – Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies, has supported calls for the UK to bring forward its 2040 ban on new petrol and diesel cars and accelerate the move to greener energy, The Guardian reported.
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Apple Music Reportedly Surpasses Spotify Subscriber Count in the U.S.

Posted on July 6, 2018 by HeyJK
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Apple Music has now surpassed Spotify’s subscriber count in the United States, according to a confidential source who spoke to Digital Music News. The anonymous source, said to be a major U.S.
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Greener Is Getting Going
Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
The AI-Fueled Future of Work Needs Humans More Than Ever
Social Media Is Getting Smaller—and More Treacherous
A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
AI-Generated Fake News Is Coming to an Election Near You
Inequality Is a Health Risk—and It’s Getting Worse
To Keep Gen Z, Companies Need to Level Up
Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here's a Way Out
Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode
GM’s New Battery Tech Could Be a Breakthrough for Affordable EVs
A VIP Seat at Donald Trump’s Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million
Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office
Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia
My X Account Was Hijacked to Sell a Fake WIRED Memecoin. Then Came the Backlash
Buy Now or Pay More Later? ‘Macroeconomic Uncertainty’ Has Shoppers Anxious
Trump, Cryptocurrency, and the Real Winners and Losers
Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison
Donald Trump’s UK Trade Deal Could Secure Jaguar’s Resurrection

Tech Crunch

Top 10 AI Tools That Will Transform Your Content Creation in 2025
LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier
Top 10 AI Content Generator & Writer Tools in 2022
Beginner Guide to CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction) in 2022
TOP 11 AI MARKETING TOOLS YOU SHOULD USE (Updated 2022)
Most Frequently Asked Questions About Affiliate Marketing
What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
Sellfy Review 2022: How Good Is This Ecommerce Platform?
Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?

Apple Insider

Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone poised to get advanced screen & battery tech
Chinese resellers offer steep discounts on iPhone 16 to counter falling sales
Under-display Face ID again rumored for iPhone 18 Pro by accurate leaker
How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi problems on iPhone & iPad
GameSir Tarantula Pro review: A solid controller with a funky party trick
Apple research reveals potential of future Apple Intelligence tools
PayPal's 'Tap To Pay' contactless payment feature is now available to iPhone users in Germany
Mind control of an Apple Vision Pro is a reality that's still in development
Save $200 on Apple's 1TB MacBook Pro with M4 Pro chip, now $1,999
Apple Music's Sound Therapy is designed to help you focus and sleep
Prepare for a scam gold rush with the App Store changes
Jude Law and Andrew Garfield bring magic and mayhem to Apple TV+ in "Wild Things"
This new USB-C dock will allow any Apple Silicon Mac to connect 5 4K displays
iPhone 17 Air vs Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge: Apple's thin iPhone competition
Covid buy refreshes & tariff fears drove iPad sales renaissance

Google Tech

Tom Cruise returns to Cannes with ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ - AP News
Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth Group C.E.O., Steps Down - The New York Times
Cassie Ventura to resume testimony in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex-trafficking trial - The Guardian
What to Know About Muhammad Sinwar, the Hamas Leader Targeted by Israel - The New York Times
Cyril Ramaphosa says Afrikaners 'running away' from South Africa to US are 'cowards' - BBC
Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill at least 48, hospital says - BBC
Ron Johnson is threatening to tank the GOP megabill. He’s been here before. - Politico
Three-Eyed “Sea-Moth” Predator From 506 Million Years Ago Stuns Scientists - SciTechDaily
Trump meets Syrian president in Saudi Arabia before heading to Qatar - Reuters
Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans - NPR
Jokic breaks from slump, but his 44-15 not enough - ESPN
Pacers-Cavaliers: 5 takeaways as Indiana punches ticket to East Finals - NBA
Democrats pull off an upset in Nebraska, electing Omaha’s first Black mayor - The Washington Post
Menendez Brothers Resentenced to Life With Parole, Paving Way for Freedom - The New York Times
Floods force evacuation of elementary schools in northwestern Maryland - The Washington Post
Dow Jones Futures: S&P 500 Erases 2025 Loss On Nvidia-Saudi Deal; Palantir, Carvana Break Out - Investor's Business Daily
Macron open to deploying French nuclear weapons in Europe - dw.com
Tory Lanez: Convicted killer is named as suspect in prison stabbing of rapper - BBC
Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan is indicted on accusations she helped a man evade immigration agents - AP News
iPhone 18 Pro Models Again Rumored to Feature Under-Screen Face ID - MacRumors
US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree - theregister.com
MLB reinstates Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, making them Hall of Fame eligible - AP News
American business titans greet Trump in Saudi Arabia - Politico
Democrat Adam Schiff presses DOD inspector general for details on Trump's Qatari plane gift - ABC News
As Russia and Ukraine prepare for possible direct talks, cue President Trump - NPR

Hacker News

The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates
UK's Ancient Tree Inventory
Databricks and Neon
$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder
How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip
The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
Writing that changed how I think about programming languages
Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes
Fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in the water too long
Flattening Rust’s learning curve
Type-constrained code generation with language models
Using obscure graph theory to solve programming languages problems
Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM
Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode
Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions
It Awaits Your Experiments
PDF to Text, a challenging problem
Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
Multiple security issues in GNU Screen
The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
The Internet 1997 – 2021
Designing Cities for Families
Mipmap selection in too much detail
Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit
Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest
RPG in a Box
EM-LLM: Human-Inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs

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