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‘The Odyssey’ Was Made for Imax 70mm. Good Luck Watching It That Way

‘The Odyssey’ Was Made for Imax 70mm. Good Luck Watching It That Way

Over the last several years, the Imax format has taken on a few different forms—but only a few dozen theaters are capable of screening it in its full …
GoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: The Best Action Camera You Can Buy

GoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: The Best Action Camera You Can Buy

GoPro’s New Mission 1 cameras bring action cameras to a higher level with a larger sensor and more cinematic footage.…
Contagious Cancer Found in North American Catfish

Contagious Cancer Found in North American Catfish

Scientists identified the first known cancer transmissible among freshwater fish in a lake that spans the US and Canada.…
How Many Electrolytes Should You Be Taking, and Can You Have Too Many?

How Many Electrolytes Should You Be Taking, and Can You Have Too Many?

Electrolyte powders promise better hydration, energy, and recovery. But unless you’re losing serious fluid, water and food probably have you covered.…
Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040741 Points: 268 # Comments: 150…
Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instead

Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instead

Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life's little problems. Sleepbuds sold by the likes of Anker and Ozlo are a good exam…
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040296 Points: 241 # Co…
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.…
After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

Remember when Meta was planning to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the smart glasses feature that lets people hear each other more clearly -…
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain

Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain

"Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so."…
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires

One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires

Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips t…
I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.…
Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent

Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent

Roku blames RAM shortage after CEO called it "great" for business in May.…
Chinese Companies Are Selling Vapes With Chemicals Potentially More Potent Than Nicotine

Chinese Companies Are Selling Vapes With Chemicals Potentially More Potent Than Nicotine

Big Tobacco studied nicotine analogs like 6-methyl-nicotine for decades but never marketed them. Now, Chinese vape makers are using them to sidestep U…
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.…
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."…
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.…
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announc…
Qualcomm is about to raise prices and that’s bad news for everyone

Qualcomm is about to raise prices and that’s bad news for everyone

Qualcomm sent a letter to customers on Friday warning of plans to increase its prices by "a percentage in the double digits," Bloomberg reports. The p…
Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses

Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses

Meta's smart glasses have been a PR headache for the company. Public backlash has been swift, and fierce; people are concerned about the erosion of pr…
The quest to keep organs alive outside the body

The quest to keep organs alive outside the body

This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is…
Blade Runner 2099’s moody dystopia streams on Amazon in November

Blade Runner 2099’s moody dystopia streams on Amazon in November

After teasing the series with some first-look images yesterday, Amazon is finally properly unveiling its Blade Runner streaming series. Called Blade R…
Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50

Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50

Roku has increased prices across its streaming hardware, with the cheapest HD Streaming Stick now priced at $39.99 instead of $29.99, as first reporte…
DJI camera clone company Xtra is halting and refunding all preorders

DJI camera clone company Xtra is halting and refunding all preorders

After selling a barely disguised version of the hit DJI Osmo Pocket 3 in the United States last year, Xtra Technology seemed ready to sneak in its ver…
Nothing works and everyone is euphoric

Nothing works and everyone is euphoric

Article URL: https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033004 Points: 259 …
This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about

This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about

"These are things that tend to be really hard."…
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Ch…
Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.…
One of the best 2-in-1 Chromebooks is almost $200 off for today only

One of the best 2-in-1 Chromebooks is almost $200 off for today only

Most Chromebooks ship with only 8GB of RAM, which is enough for some people, but certainly not enough for me. Multitaskers who want more memory in the…