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‘Red Rising’ Will Continue the Sci-Fi Book-to-Film Pipeline

Once he's done with the next 'Hunger Games' movie, Francis Lawrence will try his hand at adapting 'Red Rising.'

‘We’ve Heard You’: Meta Tweaks Controversial Website-Scraping Terms Slightly

Still, it appears Meta will be gobbling up plenty of data.

Which Is the Most Underestimated Climate Threat in the US?

The many consequences of climate change are already unfolding across the U.S., and some require more urgent attention.

Apple TV Started at $69 in 2015

Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors back on 9 March 2015: Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday at the “Spring Forward” media event in San Francisco announced that Apple TV will now cost $69, discounted from its regular price of $99. The new price for the set-top box arrives on the hee…

The ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Movie Will Expand the Game, Not Adapt It

CD Projekt Red doesn't want adaptations to canonize the events of 'Cyberpunk 2077,' just keep building out the world.

Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better

The biggest change about Ember's new mug is that you no longer have to open the app to adjust your drink’s temperature.

International tech

FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups

The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…

Rokid and Tencent Mobility Bring Voice Ride-Hailing to AI Glasses via Agent-to-Agent Link

Users say a destination and the glasses handle pickup points, fare comparison, booking and password-free payment, with car details shown in view while they wait.

Purple Mountain Laboratories and China Mobile Launch AXP Agent Interconnection Platform

Built on deterministic networking, AXP is designed to register a million AI agents and run 100,000 at once, with cross-region agent addressing over 4,000 kilometers on the CENI testbed.

Flipkart’s Logistics Arm Ekart Cuts FY26 Loss By 98% To ₹26 Cr

Instakart Services, the Flipkart-owned logistics company behind Ekart, nearly broke even in the fiscal year ending March 2026 (FY26). Its…

DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-rc1 Arrives as an Unannounced V4.1 Flash Snapshot Briefly Surfaces

The first 0.2.1 release candidate adds custom plugin indexes, agent-built plugins and per-model reasoning settings. A 'deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017' API entry appeared and was removed.

Decoding Urban Company’s ₹2,500 Cr Fundraise Proposal

Listed home services major Urban Company’s board approved a proposal to raise up to ₹2,500 Cr yesterday, seeking to shore…

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.

This Hidden Device Could Free Up Gigawatts of Grid Power

This article was originally published by Canary Media. America’s energy supply crunch is driving a surge of federal and private investment in new electricity generation — from polluting gas turbines to cleaner developments like solar farms and geothermal plants. But gigawatts of …

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Apple TV Price History, Charted

Glenn Fleishman: I wondered what the entry-level, initial price of each Apple TV box at introduction was, from the March 2007 original to the Apple TV 4K (4th generation) announced October 13, 2026, adjusted for inflation. So I charted it. I suppose this doesn’t mean Apple has gi…

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DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

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EP229: 8 Chunking strategies for RAG-based agents

Which chunking strategy are you running in production?

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Oldputer Gives Old Eyes Relief with E-ink Display

Modern computers are towers of glass and metal with very few large deviations from one to another. Monitor A will go against B, except you can’t tell them apart unless …read more

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

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Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131256 Points: 366 # Comments: 207

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Making One Fender From Another

There’s a tendency among cherished brands to licence their name and logo onto all sorts of novelty items in order to make a quick buck. Joining this trend is the …read more

SolidCraft is Parametric, Automation-friendly CAD for Desktop and Browser

If you’re looking to try a new, open source 3D modeling CAD suite, especially one with automation-friendly interfaces, take a look at SolidCraft. It’s under development but there’s support for …read more

TAKTO, Open Source Hand-Tracking Built Like LEGO

Hand tracking in VR/AR can add a substantial amount of immersion and added interactivity. Unfortunately, most camera based tracking suffers when fingers get covered, intertwined, or simply out of view …read more

Discovering SDRs Everywhere

To quote commenter [douyarou], “It’s like our little version of a Precambrian explosion”. A bunch of hackers have discovered, independently and building on each other’s work, software-defined radio (SDR) capabilities …read more