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All that building comes with some heavy environmental costs.

The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

Facebook and WhatsApp also surpassed 3 billion monthly users this year, according to Zuckerberg. Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This milestone comes almost four years after Instagram reportedly hit 2 billion…

Hey HN, We’re Jash and Mahimana, cofounders of Flywheel AI (). We’re building a remote teleop and autonomous stack for excavators. Here’s a video: Interfacing with existing excavators for enabling remote teleop (or autonomy) is hard. Unlike cars which…

Travellers wait in terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport. The UK’s National Crime Agency arrested a man in West Sussex in connection with a ransomware attack that caused significant flight delays last week and forced many airlines to check passengers and…

I spent the weekend improving my home network to get faster, more reliable Wi-Fi speed. Here’s what I did.

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YouTube will finally let you dismiss the pop-ups that fill your screen with recommendations at the end of a video. Now, when you come across an end screen, you can select a new “hide” button in the top-right corner of…

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As Instagram celebrates the 3 billion milestone, it also plans to roll out features that help users control what content is algorithmically recommended to them.