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My Arcade reveals Gamestation Retro devices bundled with games

My Arcade revealed its new line of retro consoles, the Gamestation, which come in multiple form factors and launch later this year.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Gizmodo’s Best of CES 2025 Awards: See the Winners

This is the tech that most impressed us at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Gizmodo favicon Gizmodo

Meta eliminates DEI programs

Axios reports that Meta is eliminating its biggest DEI efforts, effective immediately, including ones that focused on hiring a diverse workforce, training, and sourcing supplies from diverse-owned companies. Its DEI department will also be eliminated. In a memo leaked to the outlet, Meta said it was making these changes because the “legal and policy landscape […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Meta disbands diversity team and says DEI has become ‘charged’

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is eliminating its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs because of the “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts” in the US, according to a memo to employees seen by Axios. Meta will also roll back representation goals and end its “diverse slate approach” to hiring. The memo, which was written by Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice...

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: The Verge favicon The Verge

Judge ends man’s 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in bitcoin

Hard drive that could provide access to 8,000 bitcoins is buried at the dump.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

Breaking the data bottleneck: Salesforce’s ProVision speeds multimodal AI training with image scene graphs

Salesforce is using structured representation of image semantics to power programs that synthesize instruction datasets for AI training.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1

Article URL: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/01/Mercury_s_shadowy_north_pole_revealed_by_M-CAM_1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42658512 Points: 43 # Comments: 11

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

TikTok ‘going dark’ in the US on January 19 looks more likely than ever

TikTok’s US saga is almost at an end, and its last major source of hope—a Supreme Court intervention—now looks unlikely to pan out. Thus, a January 19 ban in the US is looking more realistic than ever. Here’s the latest. more…

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: 9to5Mac favicon 9to5Mac

NATO wants to build an alternative satellite-based internet to be used in case of emergency

Threat of undersea cable sabotage raises concerns for alternate arrangements.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

This new mechanical keyboard for writers could be your productivity secret weapon

The Freewrite Wordrunner from Astrohaus has a few tricks and tweaks to help you stay focused on your writing. One could be addictive.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Chevy Truck History: 11 Major Models From The Last Century

Chevrolet is a name that needs to no introduction. Take a deep dive into the company's history with trucks with these models from the last 100 years.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

Everyone agrees: 2024 the hottest year since the thermometer was invented

An exceptionally hot outlier, 2024 means the streak of hottest years goes to 11.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

Fitbit app can no longer cast workout videos to TVs

One of the big perks of the Fitbit app is access to a huge collection of workout plans that include videos, but recent app updates have removed the ability to cast those videos to TVs. more…

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: 9to5Google favicon 9to5Google

Highlights from Git 2.48

The open source Git project just released Git 2.48. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. The post Highlights from Git 2.48 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: GitHub Blog favicon GitHub Blog

AMD calls Intel’s Arrow Lake ‘horrible’

AMD just commented on its recent Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU shortages, and the culprit is pretty unexpected.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

Startup claims world's first flying motorcycle, could go on sale next year for $60,000

The Skyrider X1 is essentially a hybrid between an electric moped and a quadcopter drone. It features two wheels for driving on roads and eight propellers providing stability while airborne. The vehicle is designed to fly at speeds up to 62 mph for up to 40 minutes on a single...Read Entire Article

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: TechSpot favicon TechSpot

Biden Appointee Targets Crypto Wallet Makers Like MetaMask, Phantom in Admin’s Final Days

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seeks to hold crypto wallet providers liable for on-chain fraud and erroneous transactions—a major shift in existing policy.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Decrypt favicon Decrypt

New Hampshire bill proposes Bitcoin reserve for state treasury investments

New Hampshire State Representative Keith Ammon introduced legislation to create a strategic reserve of digital assets with an average yearly market cap of over $500 billion and US-pegged stablecoins to the state treasury, according to a bill introduced on Jan. 9. The bill caps investments in these alternative assets at 10% of the total public […] The post New Hampshire bill proposes Bitcoin reserve for state treasury...

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: CryptoSlate favicon CryptoSlate

Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours, blames WP Engine

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, is scaling back its contributions to the WordPress open-source project, according to an announcement on Thursday. The company says it’s decreasing contributions to “match” the amount of time companies like WP Engine spend on the ecosystem, further escalating the tension between Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and the community. Now, instead...

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: The Verge favicon The Verge

Alien: Romulus Improved One of Its Most Controversial Scenes for Home Release

Director Fede Alvarez confirmed the visual effects of Ian Holm's android have been changed post release.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Gizmodo favicon Gizmodo

How Elon Musk’s xAI is quietly taking over X

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge When Elon Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, he touted a key advantage over his competitors: access to the vast trove of data from his newly acquired social media platform Twitter. By implementing new API fees on the network he quickly renamed X, Musk locked out other AI companies, maintaining exclusive access for his own models. And he began using X’s millions of users to...

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: The Verge favicon The Verge

Galaxy S25 high-quality render leak shows off the best parts [Gallery]

The Galaxy 25 has a refined design compared to last year’s model, with the Galaxy S25 Ultra looking a bit cleaner. New high-quality official-looking renders have surfaced, showing off every detail. more…

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: 9to5Google favicon 9to5Google

5 Non-Existent Car Features We Wish Were A Reality

Car manufacturers are constantly striving for higher levels of innovation and excellence. Here's where we see development heading in the future.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

Just 0.4% of Pump.fun Traders Have Made More Than $10,000 on Solana Meme Coins

Pump.fun has made just 294 millionaires so far, with just 0.4% of wallets profiting $10,000 on meme coins.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Decrypt favicon Decrypt

Hacker successfully tests Toslink at unprecedented distances of up to 143 kilometers — separate test shows transmission speeds of about 1.47 Mb/s

IP over Toslink, "a very useless consumer fiber optic hack", has been successfully achieved. Why? Never ask me that.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Tom's Hardware favicon Tom's Hardware

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Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

RIP to the entirely hypothetical streaming service Venu Sports

The long-awaited streaming service Venu Sports is no longer happening, according to The Hollywood Reporter and others. The sports-focused streaming service was to be a joint offering by Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox. There was no concrete reason given, other than corporate-speak. “In an ever-changing marketplace, we determined that it was best to meet the evolving demands of sports fans by focusing on existing...

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

January almost had its first pentacorn, and other startup news

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. The second week of the year is usually a busy one for startup news, and 2025 is no exception. From CES product launches to M&As and funding […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI!

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Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Reddit Programming favicon Reddit Programming

Researcher nets major reward for finding Facebook bug able to unlock the gates to its internal systems

The discover of a security vulnerability at Meta has proved valuable for one lucky researcher.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Best Laptops at CES 2025: Top Picks at the Show From Asus, Lenovo, Acer and More

From a laptop with a screen that grows to a 1-kilogram ultraportable to the world's most powerful 14-inch workstation, these are the laptops that grabbed our attention at CES.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

Citizen Sleeper 2 asks how we stay human in a hopeless future

Life for Sleepers is fraught. They gain consciousness in a state of indentured servitude, an emulated human mind inside an android body, forced to work until they’re discarded. Those who escape don’t last long due to trackers in their bodies, and their hardcoded dependence on a drug known as Stabilizer. Without it, a Sleeper’s body will eventually reject its biosynthetic organs. If this sounds like tech's worst...

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Lenovo CES 2025: The 10th-gen Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop supports up to RTX 5090 graphics

Lenovo has a new series of updated Legion gaming laptops at CES 2025. The star of the show is the 10th-generation Legion Pro 7i. It supports up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, thanks to its cooling system that enables up to 250W thermal design power (TDP). It also has an AI engine that dynamically adjusts CPU and GPU wattage for optimal performance. The 2025 Legion Pro 7i supports up to an Intel Core Ultra 9...

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

I Have No Idea What Peter Thiel Is Trying to Say and It’s Making Me Really Uncomfortable

In a rambling op-ed for the Financial Times, the master of the universe ranted about the JFK conspiracy, ‘The Decameron,’ immortal rulers from ‘Gulliver’s Travels,’ and Jeffrey Epstein.

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: Gizmodo favicon Gizmodo

EU approves $35B Synopsys and Ansys merger, subject to divestment conditions

The European Commission (EC) has given the green light for Synopsys to acquireAnsys, though the companies must sell off various software products as part of the proposed remedies. Chip design software maker Synopsysrevealed last January its plansto acquire Ansys, a simulation software developer that helps engineers model and analyze the physical behavior of products, such […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...

Published on: January 10, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch