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Foreigner's request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society

soranews24.com

Such an odd encounter that we’re hoping it was a YouTube prank. Visiting a foreign country...
Such an odd encounter that we’re hoping it was a YouTube prank. Visiting a foreign country can be an unsettling experience, especially when you’re in a place like Japan, where a lot of the signage is written in kanji characters and most of the locals only speak Japanese. Our reporter Seiji Nakazawa, who’s travelled ...
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Tesla Clears Key China Assisted-Driving Hurdle with Baidu Deal

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The wealthy are building "passport portfolios"

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Apple Vision Pro Successor Not Expected Until End of 2026

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The demand for Apple Vision Pro is slowly dwindling, but the company’s long-term goals have not...
The demand for Apple Vision Pro is slowly dwindling, but the company’s long-term goals have not budged an inch. A new report states that the successor to the $3,499 AR headset could launch sometime by the end of 2026. However, there is a huge glaring issue that Apple needs to address, or this product category will m...
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Step Differences in Instructional Video

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Why China Keeps Making More Cars Than It Needs

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Show HN: Link Pantry – a repository of links on various topics

linkpantry.com
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Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, and They May Be as Smart as Gorillas

popularmechanics.com

Andreas Saatze-Stein / 500px//Getty ImagesIn a 2020 study, crows performed a complex task that involved hundreds...
Andreas Saatze-Stein / 500px//Getty ImagesIn a 2020 study, crows performed a complex task that involved hundreds of firing sensory analytical neurons. Crows can do jobs, share knowledge, and even ritualistically mourn their dead.Recent research suggests crow brains tightly pack neurons to help make them smart.Crows ...

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Korea sees more deaths than births for 52nd consecutive month in February

hani.co.kr

Nurses and other health professionals look after newborns in the maternity ward of a postpartum care...
Nurses and other health professionals look after newborns in the maternity ward of a postpartum care facility in Seoul in February. (Yonhap) The number of live births in Korea fell below 20,000 in February, a record low for the month.According to a report on population trends for February published by Statistics Kor...
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Forget moonshots, investors want profit now

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Japanese yen weakens to 160 against the USD for the first time since 1990

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The Japanese yen weakened to 160 against the U.S. dollar in Monday morning trading in Asia.The...
The Japanese yen weakened to 160 against the U.S. dollar in Monday morning trading in Asia.The yen has traded around 150 or weaker against the dollar since the Bank of Japan ended its negative interest rate regime in March.Japanese authorities have repeatedly warned against "excessive" moves in the yen, but have mad...

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Phishing Campaigns Targeting USPS See as Much Web Traffic as the USPS Itself

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Dynamic Slots in Web Components

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Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres

postgres.ai

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The Ivy League and other elite private colleges are losing esteem

natesilver.net

These days, I use Twitter in two ways: first, to blatantly shill for this newsletter and...
These days, I use Twitter in two ways: first, to blatantly shill for this newsletter and other things I’m trying to promote. And second, as a sort of staging area for takes. Sometimes those takes are intentionally trollish, while others contain the seed of something more serious. Here is one recent example:Wait, was...
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Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

matteason.co.uk
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Haystack DB – 10x faster than FAISS with binary embeddings by default

github.com
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Quiet quitting: You always had workers who did 9-5 but it's a creeping malaise

irishtimes.com

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FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator

philpem.me.uk

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The 'boring phone': stressed-out Gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones

theguardian.com

It’s almost enough to make you stop doomscrolling: dull devices are now cool.The Boring Phone is...
It’s almost enough to make you stop doomscrolling: dull devices are now cool.The Boring Phone is a new, featureless flip phone that is feeding the growing appetites of younger people who want to bin their smartphones in favour of a dumbphone.The latest model is a collaboration between Heineken beer and the fashion r...
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Big Tech Has Slashed Its Office Presence in San Francisco by Half

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Governments use facial recognition for protest surveillance

restofworld.org

On March 13, 2022, 34-year-old English teacher Yulia Zhivtsova left her Moscow apartment to meet her...
On March 13, 2022, 34-year-old English teacher Yulia Zhivtsova left her Moscow apartment to meet her friends at the mall. Bundled up against the freezing cold, she entered the metro at the CSKA station on the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line, passing through station barriers that let travelers pay by scanning their faces. B...

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Meta's 'set it and forget it' AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash

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It was Valentine’s Day when Meta’s ad platform started going off the rails. RC Williams, the...
It was Valentine’s Day when Meta’s ad platform started going off the rails. RC Williams, the co-founder of the Philadelphia-based marketing agency 1-800-D2C, had set one of Meta’s automated ad tools to run campaigns for two separate clients. But when he checked the platform that day, he found that Meta had blown thr...
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In America's Biggest Oil Field, the Ground Is Swelling and Buckling

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