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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...

Jan 15The VergeEntertainmentImpact

The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users

Article URL: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730346 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...

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The Bears-Packers game on Amazon set a record — and showed us just how mainstream streaming has become.

Most people in the U.S. needed to subscribe to Amazon Prime in order to watch the Chicago Bears/Green Bay Packers wild card playoff game. Cooper Neill/Getty Images For lots of people, NFL games are th...

Jan 13Business InsiderSportsImpact

Democrats push FTC to investigate Trump Mobile

Elizabeth Warren and other Democrat lawmakers have written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for an investigation into alleged "false advertising and deceptive practices" fro...

Jan 15The VergePoliticsImpact

A new Ukrainian way of intercepting drones midair looks like a fishing rod in the sky

The 46th Separate Air Mobile Brigade showcased a clip of a drone with a fishing rod-style device trying to take down enemy quadcopters. Red annotation by Business Insider. 46th Separate Air Mobile Bri...

Jan 13Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

The best e-reader to buy right now

Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast -sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more book-like reading experience, with fewer...

Jan 15The VergeTechnology

The best budget smartphone you can buy

You can get a great budget device these days if you know how to pick your priorities. | Image: The Verge Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. T...

Jan 15The VergeTechnology

The Setapp Mobile iOS store is shutting down on February 16th

Setapp Mobile seemed like one of the many alternative app markets with promise that launched in the wake of the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) . While the law may have forced Apple to allow third-part...

Jan 17The VergeTechnologyImpact

Apple is losing its grip on the world's tech supply chain

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (right) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (left). Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images/Reuters Apple enjoyed a long run at the top of the tech supply chain. Now, this prized position is be...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/23/fastrender/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738853 Points: 6 # Comments: 0...

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YouTube is reaching a 'tipping point' in convincing advertisers it really is TV

Mr Beast and Rob Gronkowski attended YouTube's 2025 Brandcast event, where it pitched an audience of ad buyers in New York City. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images YouTube's pitch for TV advertising budge...

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The best noise-canceling headphones to buy right now

Whether you’re wearing them for the morning commute, while traveling, or if you’re simply trying to find some peace and quiet while working at home, noise-canceling headphones are a more essential pie...

Jan 13The VergeTechnology

NBC Sports’ new real-time player tracking lets viewers focus on their favorite athletes

NBC Sports introduced a new AI-powered player tracking system that will let viewers on mobile devices zoom in and focus on their favorite athletes. It's the first time the viztrick AiDi technology , w...

Jan 14The VergeTechnology

The next-gen SQLite won't look like SQLite

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/radarroark/03a0724484e1111ef4c05d72a935c42c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668107 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...

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Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs

Article URL: https://cinegraphs.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628336 Points: 7 # Comments: 3...

Jan 15Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

It Looks Like the Marathon Release Date Has Leaked via the Xbox Store

We already knew that Bungie’s delayed extraction shooter revival, Marathon , was toying with a March 2026 release window and a $39.99 price point , but it seems as though an advertisement on the Xbox ...

5dIGNTechnologyImpact

The best laptops you can get

These laptops can help you get work done. | Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Buying the right laptop can be stressful. It’s likely one of the pricier tech purchases you’ll make, and there are ...

2dThe VergeTechnology

Samsung Electronics boss says it's betting on AI that blends into the background, not spectacle

Simon Sung, the CEO of Samsung Electronics Europe. Samsung Electronics Samsung has a very different AI strategy from the likes of OpenAI. The company develops AI for consumer products like kitchen app...

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Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson says AI can't yet equal most junior programmers. It's why he still mostly codes by hand.

David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson said AI isn't producing code as well as most humans. Hansson remains hopeful about AI, but compared its...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Is this the end of Epic and Google’s feud?

Today, I am sitting in the courtroom that may decide the fate of Android. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is here. Google Android boss Sameer Samat is here. Together, they'll try to convince Judge James Donato t...

2dThe VergeTechnologyImpact
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