
fortune.com
Trump pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia to send to Mideast, and China ‘is quite happy with U.S. distraction’ as Beijing shows signs of aggressionhttps://fortune.com/2026/08/15/trump-aircraft-carrier-asia-iran-george-washington-abraham-lincoln-china-aggression/The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East.Aug 15, 2026 1:52 PM
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Are humanoid robots ready to scrub your kitchen? Not quite.http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1441545649bbad2ec914fcfe9d29&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fare-humanoid-robots-ready-to-scrub-your-kitchen-not-quite%2Far-AA29RIgW&c=12394299196911250813&mkt=en-usStartup companies are now starting to test their humanoid robots for home use, but experts said wider adoption will take years.Aug 11, 2026 8:23 AM
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Woman spots vivid banded sea snake on Australian beach: 'Very deadly but thankfully also quite docile'http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d190f51e7461bbdb2b85dcef92ab5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Flifestyle%2Farticles%2Fwoman-spots-vivid-banded-sea-233500853.html&c=1276115853167139445&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Reddit A woman's beachside wildlife encounter in Australia got attention online. The banded sea krait's vivid colors ...May 26, 2026 4:35 PM
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Mariah Carey Informs Fans That It’s Not Quite Time to Defrost for the Christmas Season: ‘I Said Not Yet!’http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d8f9637c1489a8dbba50baee3ce44&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2Farticles%2Fmariah-carey-informs-fans-not-202631791.html&c=320505718522879879&mkt=en-usWhen Mariah Carey speaks, the world listens. And on Tuesday (Oct. 28), with a cheeky video shared to her official social media pages, the music legend reminded fans that it's not time for Christmas ...Oct 28, 2025 1:26 PM
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La Niña Is Coming, but the Fall Could Be Quite Warmhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cecad0aa940588d100d69328168a7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powder.com%2Fnews%2Fla-nina-coming-still-warm&c=10475328291835506611&mkt=en-usView post: The Farmers' Almanac Reveals California's Winter Forecast: "Rain" and "Mixed" Precipitation Similar to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the World Meteorological ...Sep 3, 2025 4:39 AM
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The Cure's first album in 16 years: Not quite 'relentlessly downbeat'http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d39ef9b16429381ed9b41fd719ca4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fcures-first-album-16-years-114335709.html&c=7343185081798045885&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cure frontman Robert Smith during a concert at Hamburg's Barclays Arena in 2022. The band's first album in 16 years is ...Oct 31, 2024 4:43 AM
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Not quite a street, not quite a road – why ‘stroads’ are disasters of urban planning, and how to fix themhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cc5d1986b447099522200ecc244f0&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fnot-quite-a-street-not-quite-a-road-why-stroads-are-disasters-of-urban-planning-and-how-to-fix-them-232485&c=6639812793252404028&mkt=en-usHave you ever walked or ridden a bike along a street, and thought to yourself, “Gosh, it’s noisy”, or “This feels unpleasant”? Odds are you were on a stroad. Maybe you’ve seen someone on social media ...Jul 10, 2024 6:36 PM

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The not-quite-tangible reality of Virtual Ground Stationshttps://spacenews.com/the-not-quite-tangible-reality-of-virtual-ground-stations/The satellite communications industry could be just years away from being able to run modems and other ground station hardware in the cloud, although many technical challenges remain to be solved.Nov 22, 2022 7:27 PM
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Volcanic rock: Menis Arquitectos carves out a new landmark for Toruń, Polandhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d6c91927347ba8946463e36343abc&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wallpaper.com%2Farchitecture%2Fmenis-auditorium-carves-out-a-new-landmark-for-torun-poland&c=143434466217943860&mkt=en-usWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. CKK Jordanki is a striking composition of four irregular volumes, inspired by Tenerife's volcanic ...Aug 16, 2022 12:08 AM
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The best looking sports brand and identity ever? Quite possibly.http://www.nba.com/nets/news/brooklyn_wait_no_more_120428.htmlApr 30, 2012 6:01 PM
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Not quite an MIT degree, but MITx may still appealhttp://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5idDZ64eNNZAa_QaPHu79Cepv96wQ?docId=d6b616cf31824571bff84c7769869544Think you can hack it at MIT? If so, the world-renowned university is willing to give you a new kind of credential to prove it. Not a full-fledged diploma — that's still a possibility only for the 10,000 or so students admitted to its Cambridge, Mass., campus. But on Monday, MIT is announcing that for the first time it will offer credentials — under the name "MITx" — to students who complete the online version of certain courses, starting with a pilot program this spring. "This is not MIT light. This is not an easier version of MIT," said Provost L. Rafael Reif. "An MITx learner, anywhere they are, for them to earn a credential they have to demonstrate mastery of the subject just like an MIT student does." The announcement comes as elite universities like Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon are experimenting with how to use the Internet to extend their teaching to a global audience hungering for instruction on platforms like YouTube, Apple's iTunes U and others developed by universitiesDec 19, 2011 9:30 AM
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Show HN: CoolPlugz – A Claude MCP that turns Jira tickets into a merge-ready PRhttps://github.com/adaOctopus/claude-plugins-appHi folks, I've been a fullstack dev and solopreneur for 9 years and the last 3 I have been using AI and MCP related tools in my dev environment.Most recently I had a lot of work for a blockchain client and started using claude code more than usual. I connected jira and GitHub mcps inside claude to fetch context, but I still had to repeat myself a lot. I guided it on how to go about branching, finding repos, testing against CI and open merge-ready PRs. I also had to create a source-of-truth file for coding principles as well.I actually tracked this and I spent on avg 75 mins a day, repeating, copy-pasting and arguing with it to deliver a task.So I built this mcp orchestrator - Coolplugz - to basically feed in all the instructions and coding principles in an agentic-native way so I don't have to be involved in the process of going from a Jira ticket to a merge-ready PR so much. And it is portable which comes quite handy.It has been working quite well so far, and saved me a few hours per Aug 25, 2026 11:04 AM
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The Iran War Shows China’s Energy Strategy Is Workinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/opinion/iran-china-energy-power.htmlThe Iran war was supposed to expose China’s weakness on oil, but it didn’t quite work out that way.Aug 25, 2026 8:03 AM
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Show HN: CookWing, an AI chef that doesn't hallucinate quantitieshttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redwing.vibecooking&hl=en_USHey HN!I just released Cookwing. This is an AI app that solves the biggest problem I had when I was cooking with ChatGPT : The quantities are often hallucinated.I was curious, so I even built my own cooking quantity benchmark while development, and here are the results. We're using my system, which is anchoring tables that are searched in the original country of the recipe. For example, when cooking carbonara, it's going to check for the Italian web for the anchoring table, not the English web. Benchmark results : https://cook.redwi.ng/static/blog/cookbench-v1-cooking-quant...The results were quite stunning, We reached 90% correct runs in average with correct quantities, and I'm saying that because I actually cooked myself these and I know the exact quantities Required for these recipes.Feel free to try it and give me your thoughts!Aug 25, 2026 5:53 AM
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Every 'Practical Magic' Book, Ranked According to Goodreadshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d6ae225544594818b94278ba3fd0d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcollider.com%2Fpractical-magic-book-series-ranked-goodreads%2F&c=2368095239300325795&mkt=en-usFrom the 1600s to the 21st century, the Owens witches have quite the family history. Here’s how all four Practical Magic books stack up.Aug 25, 2026 2:10 AM

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Hodgkinson withdraws from Zurich Diamond Leaguehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cly5n3r521qo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssKeely Hodgkinson withdraws from the women's 800 metres at Thursday's Diamond League meeting in Zurich because her "body is not quite ready".Aug 24, 2026 8:02 PM
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Ask HN: Is there a stronger moat in marketplaces in the age of SaaS AI Slop?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424263Basically, what I’m trying to say is: software is cheap to produce now, but not necessarily easy to customize.It seems like everyone is honing in on distribution and capital as the moat. We have all these vibe-coding platforms and a flood of applications that are 90% there but not quite finished. Then everyone is trying to get that last 10% and capture the value there.The people winning so far are mostly agencies, right? Or hackers going door to door and selling custom solutions. But what’s killing them is the shenanigans around customer acquisition, growth hacking and stuff like that. I think startups promising things like 'your agentic CMO in a box' are a symptom of this, and personally not yet fully convinced on their utility, as much respect as I have for many cracked founders selling shovels.I don’t know if anyone saw Outbid.lol, the pay-to-rank leaderboard that just went viral on X and immediately spawned a brigade of copycats, but it made me really think: are marketplaces going Aug 24, 2026 6:53 PM
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Doctor reveals kidney disease symptoms that have nothing to do with your kidneyshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cfac164b046fc8d18e60ce93056e3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-in%2Fnews%2Fother%2Fdoctor-reveals-kidney-disease-symptoms-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-your-kidneys%2Far-AA2aQGj3&c=34602242560751450&mkt=en-usKidney disease can silently escalate, often going unnoticed until it's quite advanced. However, straightforward blood and urine tests can reveal early signs of kidney problems before any serious ...Aug 24, 2026 4:59 PM
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Doctor reveals kidney disease symptoms that have nothing to do with your kidneyshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d2823bf0140e7b663dfba3aa1bb3d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-in%2Fnews%2Fother%2Fdoctor-reveals-kidney-disease-symptoms-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-your-kidneys%2Far-AA2aQGj3&c=34602242560751450&mkt=en-usKidney disease can silently escalate, often going unnoticed until it's quite advanced. However, straightforward blood and urine tests can reveal early signs of kidney problems before any serious ...Aug 24, 2026 4:59 PM
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Will Ospreay Confirms 'Discussions' About Other Opponents At AEW All In: Londonhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb45869034530925db54ee87a7d53&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Farticles%2Fospreay-confirms-discussions-other-opponents-194149651.html&c=10024179725256741802&mkt=en-usAEW's Will Ospreay confirms there were discussions about him facing someone else at AEW All In, though he's ultimately quite happy to be facing Kenny Omega ...Aug 24, 2026 12:41 PM