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Elon Musk's Neuralink Reveals Its Brain Chip Has Run into Some Problems

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Elon Musk’s neurotech startup Neuralink said Wednesday it has run into problems with a brain chip...
Elon Musk’s neurotech startup Neuralink said Wednesday it has run into problems with a brain chip it implanted into a 29-year-old quadriplegic man earlier this year, with the issues considered so serious, it reportedly considered having the implant removed entirely. In a blog post announcing the issues, Neuralink sa...

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Green cities could remove CO₂ from the atmosphere

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The lie of expired food and the disastrous truth of America's food waste problem

vox.com

A scene like this greets most supermarket shoppers in the US. But much of what we...
A scene like this greets most supermarket shoppers in the US. But much of what we think we know about food shopping needs an overhaul. Steve Pfost/Newsday/Getty Images Maybe you know the routine. Every so often, I go through my refrigerator, check labels on the items, and throw out anything that’s a month, or a week...
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SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005

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The next union organizing wave is at Apple

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Apple faces plenty of challenges this year including regulatory scrutiny in Washington, sluggish sales in China...
Apple faces plenty of challenges this year including regulatory scrutiny in Washington, sluggish sales in China and a competitive landscape in AI. Now, its leaders also have to contend with labor unrest. Apple store workers in Towson, Maryland, made history in June 2022 when they voted to form the first union at one...
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California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices

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If a California restaurant violates a new law requiring transparent pricing, it allows a consumer to...
If a California restaurant violates a new law requiring transparent pricing, it allows a consumer to seek "actual damages of at least $1,000." Photobuff / Getty Images Service charges; resort fees; "surcharge" add-ons: If you've been startled by unexpected fees when you pay your check at a restaurant — or book a hot...
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Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been...
Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.devIt’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create).It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file u...
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Rich Otto, head of product launches, resigns from Tesla

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The Tesla layoff saga continues, with a manager leaving the company after 7 years. But this...
The Tesla layoff saga continues, with a manager leaving the company after 7 years. But this time, the manager wasn’t laid off, but rather left on his own volition due to the effect that layoffs had on morale. It seems like every few days there’s another notice of new layoffs at Tesla. It started with Tesla laying of...
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Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is a big step forward for Linux on Macs

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Asahi Linux, the project that aims to bring desktop Linux to Apple hardware with Apple silicon—the...
Asahi Linux, the project that aims to bring desktop Linux to Apple hardware with Apple silicon—the M series of chips—is out with Fedora Asahi Remix 40. More hardware features of Apple devices are supported, the Fedora Linux 40-based distro ships with KDE's new Plasma 6 desktop, and untold numbers of bugs are squashe...
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US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week

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New whispers of imminent tariffs targeting Chinese electric vehicles reverberate through the automotive industry. President Biden's...
New whispers of imminent tariffs targeting Chinese electric vehicles reverberate through the automotive industry. President Biden's administration is seemingly prepared to impose new levies on China's fast-growing EV sector and other key industries, including batteries and solar equipment. This would mark a strategi...
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VMware security advisories now behind Broadcom barricade

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Outlaw chemists used 'blotter' to dose the world with LSD Essays

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'Vampire drone' can leech electricity from power lines to live forever

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You Can Hear the Temperature of Water

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U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access....
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A science video maker in China couldn’t find a good explanation for why hot and co...

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Unbearable hours, threats of being fired: The abuse of migrant interns in Japan

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Tine Text Editor

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A fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution

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DKIM, SPF, SpamAssassin Email Validator

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Now you can quickly view your DomainKeys, DKIM, and SPF validity, and SpamAssassin score in one...
Now you can quickly view your DomainKeys, DKIM, and SPF validity, and SpamAssassin score in one place. Just send an email to any address @dkimvalidator.com. Then check here to see the results. Here is a random address that you can use: This is useful for verifying the end-to-end functionality of your DKIM and SPF co...
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Popover API

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The Popover API provides developers with a standard, consistent, flexible mechanism for displaying popover content on...
The Popover API provides developers with a standard, consistent, flexible mechanism for displaying popover content on top of other page content. Popover content can be controlled either declaratively using HTML attributes, or via JavaScript.A very common pattern on the web is to show content over the top of other co...
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Snakes Fake Their Own Deaths, and They Even Use Special Effects

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Playing dead is a common defense strategy in the animal kingdom, but some especially melodramatic snakes...
Playing dead is a common defense strategy in the animal kingdom, but some especially melodramatic snakes have now been seen dialing it up to 11.In addition to flopping inert, mouths agape, dice snakes (Natrix tessellata) add some amazingly gross special effects. They'll defecate and smear themselves in feces, excret...
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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1B to his campaign

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Fairgen 'boosts' survey results using synthetic data and AI-generated responses

techcrunch.com

Surveys have been used to gain insights on populations, products and public opinion since time immemorial....
Surveys have been used to gain insights on populations, products and public opinion since time immemorial. And while methodologies might have changed through the millennia, one thing has remained constant: The need for people, lots of people. But what if you can’t find enough people to build a big enough sample grou...
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OpenAI could unveil its Google search competitor on Monday

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OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to announce a search product powered by artificial intelligence on Monday...
OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to announce a search product powered by artificial intelligence on Monday that could threaten Google’s dominance. That target date, provided to Reuters by “two sources familiar with the matter,” would time the announcement a day before Google kicks off its annual I/O conference, which...
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Ferries make ReachNow cars think they're being stolen

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