Year: 2026

On Typing and Keyboards

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I have a very consistent routine. I get up early. I exercise. I shower. I make coffee. I turn my computer on, then I place my hands on my keyboard and begin working.Learning to typeI love to type. I enjoy it so much, and and in recent years Iโ€™ve grown to appreciate my ability to type more and more.I have a clear memory of my early years in elementary school being the time in which I first learned to use a keyboard. I was very…
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Best heart rate monitors (2026): Polar, Coros, Garmin

Best heart rate monitors (2026): Polar, Coros, Garmin

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Health and Fitness,Heartbreak Beat โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Frequently asked questionsWe have tested and recommended all of the heart rate monitors below, which do a flawless job. But what do all these terms mean?Heart rate zones: If someone told you they were doing 80/20 training, they were doing heart rate zone based exercises. Heart rate zones are an easy way to break down your range of effort during exercise. Zones range from 1 to 5, and 5 indicates working at 90 to 100…
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March 2026 ISO C++ standards meeting (London Croydon, UK) โ€“ Sutterโ€™s Mill

March 2026 ISO C++ standards meeting (London Croydon, UK) โ€“ Sutterโ€™s Mill

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: News flash: C++26 is done! ๐ŸŽ‰ On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed technical work on C++26 in (partly) sunny London Croydon, UK. We resolved the remaining international comments on the C++26 draft, and are now producing the final document to be sent out for its international approval ballot (Draft International Standard, or DIS) and final editorial work, to be published in the near future by ISO. This meeting was hosted by Phil Nash of Shaved Yaks, and the Standard C++ Foundation. Our hosts arranged…
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The deceptively difficult art of steering wheel design

The deceptively difficult art of steering wheel design

๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Direction of Travel ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Cars did not always have driving wheels. The first automobileโ€”the 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, invented by Karl Benzโ€”used a tiller system: a horizontal bar with a handle mounted on a vertical bar. The lever-like handle was similar in many respects to a boat rudder. Amazingly, it was another nine years before French engineer Alfred Vacheron saw the logic and fitted the first known steering wheel for his 4-horsepower Panhard car for the Paris-Rouen race. Only four years later, in…
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The rise and fall of IBM’s 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

The rise and fall of IBM’s 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

โœจ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the Florida sky. Commander Young and Pilot Crippen were at the controls as the Shuttle ascended on its first flight. But the launch, like much of the flight, was really under the control of four computers in the avionics bays one deck below the crew. A fifth computer stood ready to take over in case of a catastrophic computer malfunction.…
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Turning off Sora could be a real validation moment for video AI

Turning off Sora could be a real validation moment for video AI

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,Equity podcast,OpenAI ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: OpenAI announced this week that it will shut down Sora and related video models just six months after launching the app. In the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosik, Sean O'Kane, and I discuss what the decision means for OpenAI and the industry more broadly. To some extent, this move seems consistent with what we've heard about OpenAI as it focuses on enterprise and productivity tools ahead of a potential IPO. In fact, Kirsten suggested that OpenAI's decision to shut…
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A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

โœจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.It is the farthest human-made object in the universe.It is sending back scientific data that no other instrument in existence can collect.And it is doing all of this on 69 kilobytes of memory and an 8-track tape recorder.The phone in your pocket has roughly one million times more memory than the computer running Voyager 1.A single low-resolution photograph taken on that same phone contains…
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TechCrunch Mobility: When a robo-taxi has to call 911

TechCrunch Mobility: When a robo-taxi has to call 911

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,Tesla,Uber,Lyft,zipline,Waymo,robotaxis,techcrunch mobility ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility โ€” your central hub for news and insights about the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free โ€“ just click TechCrunch Mobility! Waymo She shared that she now provides 500,000 paid taxi rides every week. This number is small compared to its human-driven counterparts, e.g Lyft and Uber. But that's not what I found most interesting. The pace of growth in new flights and markets and its comparison to the size…
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Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says sheโ€™s never visited

Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says sheโ€™s never visited

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota โ€“ a state she says sheโ€™d never been to before. Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged โ€œa few errorsโ€ in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology. Angela Lipps, 50, was first arrested in Tennessee on July 14, according to a statement from the Fargo Police Department and…
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Your photos will likely give away your location. Here’s how to stop it

Your photos will likely give away your location. Here’s how to stop it

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Dirty Pictures ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Take a photo On any digital camera or smartphone, not only pixels are saved. The photo also gets a bunch of metadata attached to it, also known as EXIF โ€‹โ€‹(Exchangeable Image File Format) data, including details of when it was taken, the device that was used to take it, and the camera settings that were used.If your phone or camera has a GPS chip and is tracking your location, it will be invisibly stamped on the photo as well.…
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