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Coinbase now lets you buy crypto with Apple Pay in third-party apps

Coinbase announced an integration with Apple Pay on Monday, allowing app makers to build the ability to buy crypto with Apple Pay directly into their apps. The integration is part of Coinbase Onramp, which gives app makers a way for customers to turn their traditional currencies, such as USD, into cryptocurrencies. That process has historically […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Black Hole Puzzle

Article URL: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/black-hole-puzzle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299891 Points: 30 # Comments: 15

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Facebook's Little Red Book

Article URL: https://www.map.cv/blog/redbook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299863 Points: 277 # Comments: 133

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Static IPs for Serverless Containers

Article URL: https://modal.com/blog/vprox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299829 Points: 82 # Comments: 32

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Best Buys Cyber Monday sale is live β€” save big on AirPods Max, gaming laptops, and huge TVs

The best Cyber Monday deals at Best Buy include heavy discounts on the AirPods Max, the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, and huge QLED TVs.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models

Article URL: https://research.google/blog/unlocking-the-power-of-time-series-data-with-multimodal-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299590 Points: 67 # Comments: 8

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Get 3 months of Kindle Unlimited for less than a dollar

For Cyber Monday, new subscribers can get three months of Kindle Unlimited for only 99 cents.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit

Musk says for-profit OpenAI harms public interestβ€”and his own company, xAI.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

US blocks China from foreign exports with even a single US-made chip

New China export curbs could hurt US chipmakers, allies more than Huawei.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

Apple AirTag 4 Packs are priced at an all-time low for Cyber Monday

The Apple AirTag 4 Pack is available for $69.99 on Cyber Monday, its lowest price ever. Get it now and save $29.01.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

21 Best Cyber Monday Clothing Deals on WIRED-Specific Fashion Finds

We're practical, smart, and we wear hoodies, barefoot shoes, and climbing pants every day. You want to look like us. Here's how.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Wired favicon Wired

Cyber Monday streaming deals include the Hulu and Disney+ bundle for $36 for one year

This is it: Cyber Monday is your last chance to get what's possibly the best streaming deal of the season. Disney+ and Hulu are some of the streaming services offering Cyber Monday deals this year, and the Duo Basic bundle is on sale for $3 per month for twelve months, which comes out to $36 for the full year. If you're only interested in the Hulu part of the deal, you can get Hulu's ad-supported tier for $0.99 per...

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

An Apple employee is suing the company over monitoring employee personal devices

An Apple employee sued the tech company as part of an effort to limit the visibility employers have on personal devices used for work. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Over the weekend, China debuted a new rocket on the nation’s path to the Moon

Depending on how you count them, China now has roughly 18 types of active space launchers.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

Robloxs new Party feature makes Discord obsolete

Roblox players don't have to coordinate playing together off the platform.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Bioluminescent wood using the white rot fungus desarmillaria tabescens

Article URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202403215 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299231 Points: 61 # Comments: 11

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

AWS launches security tool to help businesses recover from cyberattacks

AWS Security Incident Response wants to do the heavy lifting during security incidents.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Wazes killer feature finally coming to Google Maps

Google Maps is getting one of Waze's most-beloved features.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Cyber Monday PlayStation deals discount the DualSense wireless controller to $54

Whether you picked up a new PS5 console on sale or not, you can also save on console accessories for Cyber Monday. One of the best deals for Sony fans is on the PS5 DualSense wireless controller, which you can give for $54 a pop at various retailers including Amazon, Target and Best Buy. The discount applies to a bunch of colorways, too, so you’re not limited to just the standard black or white versions. Just be aware...

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents

I think graph is a wrong abstraction for building AI agents. Just look at how incredibly hard it is to make routing using LangGraph - conditional edges are a mess.I built Laminar Flow to solve a common frustration with traditional workflow engines - the rigid need to predefine all node connections. Instead of static DAGs, Flow uses a dynamic task queue system that lets workflows evolve at runtime.Flow is built on 3...

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

PS5 anniversary update adds themes for each generation of the PlayStation

Sony is giving gamers a surprise shot of nostalgia to celebrate PlayStation’s 30th anniversary β€”and not just the retro hardware that sold out in a flash. A software update pushed on Monday adds the classic boot screen and themes for each generation of console hardware. β€œChoose your favorite generation,” Sony’s introduction advises before popping up a menu with screen theming options for the PS1 through PS4. After...

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

The world of Dante's Divine Comedy

Article URL: https://lithub.com/a-riveting-timeless-journey-through-the-afterlife-inside-the-world-of-dantes-divine-comedy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299025 Points: 47 # Comments: 27

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Ads might be coming to ChatGPT β€” despite Sam Altman not being a fan

OpenAI is toying with a move into ads, per the Financial Times. CFO Sarah Friar told the newspaper it’s weighing an ads business model, with plans to be β€œthoughtful” about when and where ads appear. In a follow-on statement, Friar stressed it has β€œno active plans to pursue advertising,” but it seems clear the idea […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Targets Cyber Monday deals are live β€” check out our favorite deals

Black Friday may be over, but the time to save certainly isn't. You can find Cyber Monday deals at Target, including 30% off PokΓ©mon cards and a $49.99 Keurig K-mini Go.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

The best Cyber Monday PlayStation deals include $75 off PS5 Slim consoles

Cyber Monday is in the air, gently blowing breezy deals our way. Case in point? The PS5 Slim is available for $75 off at Amazon, Walmart, Target, Sony and other retailers. This brings the price of the disc-based version down to $425 and the digital-only model down to $375. This is a fairly budget-friendly way to see what all the PS5 fuss is about. Despite the moniker, there’s nothing slim about the specs. This is a...

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Poland arrests former spy chief in Pegasus spyware probe

The former head of Poland’s internal security agency Piotr Pogonowski was forced to appear in front of a parliamentary committee investigating the alleged abuse of Pegasus spyware in the country. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Amazon Prime members can play Death Stranding for free on Luna this month

Amazon has revealed the list of PC games that Prime members can claim at no extra cost, as well as the titles they can stream for (almost) free on Luna. One of those in the latter camp is Death Stranding. You'll be able to check out the Director's Cut edition of Hideo Kojima's hit walking sim for the rest of the month on Luna. That might just be long enough to start making sense of the game. Another notable title in...

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Nvidia's closest rival once again obliterates cloud giants in AI performance; Cerebras Inference is 75x faster than AWS, 32x faster than Google on Llama 3.1 405B

Cerebras Inference leads in AI performance; 75x faster than AWS, 32x faster than Google on Llama 3.1 405B.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

OpenAI spent $80M to $100M training GPT-4; Chinese firm claims it trained its rival AI model for $3 million using just 2,000 GPUs

Chinese firm claims it trained rival GPT-4 model for $3 million using just 2,000 GPUs.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Blizzard’s pulling of Warcraft I & II tests GOG’s new Preservation Program

Blizzard's push of remasters has GOG committing to its DRM-free offerings.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-brain-microbiome-could-humans-have-one-too-20241202/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42298797 Points: 159 # Comments: 57

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

AWS re:Invent 2024 - all the news and updates as it happened

Here's everything we saw at AWS re:Invent 2024.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

AWS re:Invent 2024 day three live - all the news and updates as they happen

We're live in Las Vegas, and ready for AWS re:Invent 2024 day three.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

AWS re:Invent 2024 day two live - all the news and updates as they happen

We're live in Las Vegas, and ready for AWS re:Invent 2024 day two.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

The best Nintendo Switch deals live on Cyber Monday

Some have sold out, but plenty of Nintendo Switch deals are still live as of Cyber Monday. Shop the OLED "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" Bundle for $299, plus a ton of games under $30.

Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable