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Calif. carmaker Fisker, once worth $2.9B, warns of looming bankruptcy

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I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia

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Thermonator, the Flame-Throwing Robot Dog, Can Now Be Yours for $9,420

gizmodo.com

The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you...
The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on its back. Yes, the Thermonator, which was announced late last year, is finally available for purchase in the United States. Shockingly, the product can be yours for a mere...

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Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod

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PyPy v7.3.16 Release

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ShotSpotter Keeps Listening After Contracts Expire

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The department reported misses more than 550 times in 2023, and a public safety director complained...
The department reported misses more than 550 times in 2023, and a public safety director complained about a 55-round miss in 2022.
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Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI

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To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it...
To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads distrib...
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70k workers show another way to earn living in globe's largest industrial co-op

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When Marisa Fernández lost her husband to cancer a few years ago, her employers at the...
When Marisa Fernández lost her husband to cancer a few years ago, her employers at the Eroski hypermarket went, she says, “above and beyond to help me through the dark days afterwards, rejigging my timetable and giving me time off when I couldn’t face coming in.”She had a chance to return the favour recently when th...
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North Macedonia advertises Invest.com for free close to a decade

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Macedonian transporters have been advertising the private Invest.com website this past decade for free, after a...
Macedonian transporters have been advertising the private Invest.com website this past decade for free, after a supposed mix up regarding the campaign “Invest in Macedonia”. While the campaign was popular during the tenure of the country’s previous government, Invest.com is a site of a Cypriot currency trading compa...
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Other People's Problems

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Open-Shell: A collection of utilities bringing back classic features to Windows

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Faer-rs: Linear algebra foundation for the Rust programming language

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Lego Mindstorms IDE in WASM

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Key Defendant in Anna's Archive Lawsuit Denies Any Involvement with the Site

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Old Macdonald Had a Drone: Inside Farming's Tech Boom

thewalrus.ca

The MacLellans can pinpoint the moment their farm in Kensington, Prince Edward Island, underwent a significant...
The MacLellans can pinpoint the moment their farm in Kensington, Prince Edward Island, underwent a significant change: spring 2009. That’s when the family tractors were outfitted with GPS. “You can take someone with less experience, throw them in the tractor, and the tractor drives itself,” says Bevin MacLellan. At ...
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Ask HN: What tools are you using to evade the ever enshittified "big" web?

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Does diversity make teams work better?

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Google wants employees to move faster

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Google search boss Prabhakar Raghavan told employees to prepare for a different market reality, because "things...
Google search boss Prabhakar Raghavan told employees to prepare for a different market reality, because "things are not like they were 15-20 years ago."At a recent all-hands meeting, Raghavan said user behavior is changing, competition is heating up and regulation is becoming a bigger challenge.Raghavan said he's sh...

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Learn OTP with Gleam

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Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again

digiday.com

By Seb Joseph • April 23, 2024 • 4 min read • Google is delaying the...
By Seb Joseph • April 23, 2024 • 4 min read • Google is delaying the end of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser — again. In other unsurprising developments, water remains wet. The announcement was made on Tuesday ahead of quarterly reports from Google and the ever-watchful U.K. Competition and Markets Authorit...
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Marchetti's Constant

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Average commuting time Marchetti's constant is the average time spent by a person for commuting each...
Average commuting time Marchetti's constant is the average time spent by a person for commuting each day. Its value is approximately one hour, or half an hour for a one-way trip. It is named after Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti, though Marchetti himself attributed the "one hour" finding to transportation analyst...
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Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone

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Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users....
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the St...
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Google delays phase-out of third-party cookies on Chrome yet again

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Show HN: Podlite - a lightweight markup language for organizing knowledge

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