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How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Global Public Policy Hundreds of millions of users around the world use Google Earth . Many of the...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,686 posts.
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OpenAI Acquires TBPN
OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.
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Brad Fitzpatrick on the future of Go
Product updates, engineering notes, and perspectives from Sourcegraph.
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FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
Available on the portable ID NOW platform, Abbott's molecular COVID-19 test delivers results in minutes in a variety of healthcare settings.
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Google Imagen 2
Today, we’re sharing a significant upgrade to Google Cloud’s image-generation capabilities with Imagen 2 , our most advanced text-to-image technology, which is now generally available for Vertex AI customers on the allowlist (i.e., approved for access).
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
With today's update, we are excited to announce that we have integrated Mixtral 8x7B as the default LLM in Leo, our privacy-preserving AI browser assistant.
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Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha
The excitement for a new version has been tremendous and today we’re finally able to repay the much appreciated loyalty and moral support from the community by releasing the first public alpha: TextMate 2.0 alpha .
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What Twitter Can Be
Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and I own a lot of Twitter stock. 3) I do not … Continue reading →
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How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks
I scored the full text of over 12,000 arXiv papers from 2021 to 2026 across ten different fields and found that about a third of the papers currently…
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Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker
TLDR: 30 member tech team formed over seven years built India's largest stock broker. Unconventional setup. The long pending tech blog is finally here. Some backstory and context.
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How to stay private when using Android
Android is one of Google’s most important tools for collecting data on users. This guide will help you improve your privacy on Android devices.
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Reasons not to reveal your DNA
With over two decades of global impact, Mozilla Foundation continues to lead the movement for a better technology future—powered by people, open by design, and fueled by imagination.
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The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews
Companies spend thousands of dollars to buy fake reviews and get bad ones removed.
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Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
There are many greplike tools available to choose from. ripgrep is currently the fastest, which folks seem to focus on, but they have different features. Here's a chart to help you see which tools can do what.
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The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle
In his own words, James Dyson reveals the Dyson electric vehicle.
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Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant
Lumo gives you the power to solve problems big and small, while keeping your personal data confidential. Try it now.
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Colossus for Rapid Storage
Colossus’s performance comes from its stateful protocol, which plays a pivotal role in the new Rapid Storage offering launched at Google Cloud Next '25.
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New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances
From the start, AWS has focused on choice and economy. Driven by a never-ending torrent of customer requests that power our well-known Virtuous Cycle, I think we have delivered on both over the years: Choice – AWS gives you choices in a wide range of dimensions including locations (18 operational geographic regions, 4…
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A new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at speed
CU Boulder engineers have designed a new class of "microrobots" several times smaller than the width of a human hair that may be able to treat human illnesses
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HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
multi silicon ai is coming
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Element (Matrix) launches Chatterbox, end-to-end encrypted embedded chat
We’re outrageously pleased to launch Chatterbox, an end-to-end encrypted embedded chat built on Matrix!