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The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music

Spotify is probably one of the most well-known music services available (if not the most popular) around - and it seems that the company it taking advantage of that. As of this month, Spotify announce...

34mThe VergeEntertainmentImpact

Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube

YouTube is now home to the "largest digital library of Sesame Street content" with the arrival of over a hundred older, "classic" episodes of the show, as first announced last year . YouTube's collect...

6hThe VergeEntertainmentImpact

Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

For the past year I've been working to rethink how AI manages timing in conversation at Tavus. I've spent a lot of time listening to conversations. Today we're announcing the release of Sparrow-1, the...

1dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

UK digital ID plans will no longer be mandatory

The United Kingdom has walked back plans to make its upcoming digital ID scheme a mandatory requirement for working adults. While the UK government remains "committed to mandatory digital right-to-wor...

1dThe VergePoliticsImpact

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

Google's Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, ...

1dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Arc Raiders Patch 1.11.0 Adds Abyss Cosmetic Set Along With Some Fixes and Balancing Changes to the Trigger ‘Nade and Kettle

Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has released update 1.11.0 along with its patch notes, below. It adds the Abyss cosmetic set along with some fixes and balancing changes to the Trigger ‘Nade and K...

2dIGNTechnologyImpact

Game of Thrones Star Emilia Clarke Was 'Really Pissed' at Show's Language Expert Who Thought She 'Sucked' at Dothraki, He Insists She Was Never Supposed to Be Good at It

Emilia Clarke has admitted feeling "really pissed" at the expert who developed Game of Thrones' fictional languages, after reading that he thought her Dothraki pronounciation "sucked." David J. Peters...

1dIGNEntertainmentImpact

Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert

It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...

2hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Amazon’s New World: Aeternum MMO will shut down next year

Amazon has announced that the servers for New World: Aeternum , one of the company's MMOs, will be shut down on January 31st, 2027. The game will also be delisted and no longer available for purchase ...

3hThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Animal Crossing’s big 3.0 update has fans itching to return to the cozy life

Animal Crossing , like Kirby , has come back when it seems like the world needs it most. In 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizon s released on the Nintendo Switch. The game instantly became a smash hit,...

1dThe VergeTechnology

Animal Crossing’s 3.0 update dropped a little early

Animal Crossing fans looking to return to the cozy island life can do so earlier than expected. While New Horizons ' next major update, which brings the life sim game to version 3.0 , was originally s...

1dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

ICE arrested 2 truck drivers heading to a major Meta data center project

President Donald Trump holds an image showing the scale of Meta's new data center under construction in Louisiana. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images ICE arrested two drivers on Wednesday near a Meta co...

5hBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

The $LANG Programming Language

This afternoon I wrote some tips on how to present a new* programming language to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608577 . It occurred to me that HN has a tradition of posts called "The {na...

1dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Apple Creator Studio suite is launching to take on Adobe

Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage are still available as one-time purchases. Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio , a new software suite for Apple product...

2dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

The Sony Bravia 8 II is a TV enthusiast’s dream

The Bravia 8 II draws you in. Sony has a history of making excellent TVs, from the Trinitron CRTs of last century to the world's first OLED nearly 20 years ago to 2016's ZD9 mini-LED that delivered ex...

7hThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Luxury retail giant Saks files for bankruptcy

Saks Global, which owns the iconic Saks Fifth Avenue department store, has filed for bankruptcy. Jimin Kim / SOPA Images/Reuters Saks Global has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The luxury ...

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My nonprofit celebrates birthdays for families who can't afford them. In 14 years, I've never grown tired of seeing their joy.

Paige Chenault Lohoefer founded The Birthday Project in 2012 Courtesy of This be Grace Paige Chenault Lohoefer is the founder of the nonprofit The Birthday Party Project. The organization celebrates k...

2dBusiness InsidersocietyImpact

'I Cracked The Code' — After Avengers: Doomsday Directors Suggested Recent Trailers Contained Hidden Clues, One Fan's 'Timestamp Theory' is Gaining Traction

Days after Avengers: Doomsday's directors issued a cryptic tease regarding the movie's recent teasers, one fan believes they've "cracked the code" hidden in their countdown clocks. The past month has ...

11hIGNEntertainment

I visited 29 states last year. If I had to pick a new place to live, it would be this stunning coastal destination.

After visiting 29 states last year, I would choose to move to Maine. Emily Pogue My husband and I spent most of last year traveling around the United States . We spent time in 29 different states, but...

2dBusiness Insiderlifestyle

You can save over $1,500 on LG’s 65-inch C5 OLED TV

The 65-inch LG C5 OLED TV is rarely this affordable. LG might have just revealed its new C6 OLED TVs at CES 2026 , but we still don't know when they'll actually hit stores. If you don't want to wait -...

29mThe VergeTechnologyImpact
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