For years, economists have predicted that artificial intelligence would hollow out the labor market. Machines would write the code, analyze the contracts, draft the emails, and automate the work that once defined white-collar...
Somewhere right now, an employee is getting an automated flag for spending too long away from their keyboard. Another is being scored on keystroke volume. And another is having their Slack tone analyzed by an algorithm to...
[Ivan Miranda] is famous for his large-scale 3D printed vehicles. They’re pretty fun, but they’re also pretty big and heavy—which can make transporting them around rather impractical. Hence, when he had reason to travel with a...
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/health/taylor-farms-cyclospora-recall-delay-call-41fef0bc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044074 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Seizure in zebrafish larva imaged using AO setup. (Credit: Bingxi Liu et al., Biomedical Optics Express, 2026) Key to understanding something like epilepsy is to be able to record highly transient events in biological tissues....
OpenAI’s fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
Article URL: https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042751 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Anthropic released its Opus 5 AI model on Friday, claiming that it “comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.” That’s welcome news for enterprises beset by rising token...
Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042528 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue re-lighting the booster’s rocket engines.
The company has comitted to 10 natural gas plants since last year.
The standard computer mouse is a perfectly useful peripheral if your hands work. If you’ve got some trouble in that area, you might appreciate an alternative input solution. To that end, [Varun Adinath Patil] created a neat...
