Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.
Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers
Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart ring.
Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option
Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The change to a pay-as-you-go model is part of some sweeping changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, and is designed for people who don't use cloud access enough to warrant a month...
Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers
Microsoft is announcing some major changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, less than a year after opening up cloud gaming to its Xbox Game Pass Premium and Essential tiers. While all Game Pass plans have included unlimited cloud gaming over the past year, from November this will be limited to just 15...
Circular unveils Ring 3 series with contactless payments and on-finger vibration alerts
The Circular Ring 3 series announcement comes amid a year of heightened competition in the smart ring market, following the launches of the Oura Ring 5 and RingConn Gen 3.
OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.
Anthropic automatically signs out Claude users to protect them from hackers
Infostealer malware apparently had harvested active Claude login sessions from users' PCs.
Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s
The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot
Apple has reportedly canceled innovative product that was ‘Ternus priority’
A new Omdia research note today outlined Apple’s reported Mac and iPad roadmap for the years ahead, and it also mentioned that a key rumored product has been canceled. Here are the details. more…
Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
Article URL: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552572 Points: 122 # Comments: 35
Motorola just introduced another Razr that's covered in Swarovski crystals
The latest crystal-covered Razr phone is here.
Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
Lenovo IdeaPad Vibe is a MacBook Neo competitor starting at $699
Lenovo is taking on the MacBook Neo with a colorful new laptop – the IdeaPad Vibe. more…
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area
Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028
Until Dawn 2 launches January 28
The interactive slasher Until Dawn 2 takes place on a tropical island and stars 'Stranger Things' actor Dacre Montgomery.
Lenovo's $700 IdeaPad Vibe is ready to take on the MacBook Neo
Lenovo's IdeaPad Vibe features a colorful new design, a range of processor options and, most importantly, is rather affordable.
Lenovo's latest expandable screen laptop concept feels like it's ready for the real world
The Project Swan concept features a 14-inch screen that stretches to 17 inches in just a few seconds.
Lenovo unveils two Yoga laptops with NVIDIA's RTX Spark
Lenovo's Yoga laptops now get the option of harnessing NVIDIA's RTX Spark for heavy-duty workloads.
Circular brings mobile payments to its 3 Series smart ring
Circular's smart ring gets NFC and a haptic motor to go with its one-line ECG.
NVIDIA's PAIR lets you use idle PCs for AI computing tasks
NVIDIA's PAIR is a free, open-source tool that can distribute AI workloads across idle computers.