Vol. 01Research desk

Corrections for the age of spectacle

The Dehyper

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Sep 21, 2026

article · The Verge

Vivo’s X500 Pro Max has 17 stops of dynamic range and 4K240 slo-mo

All three new X500 phones support at least one of Vivo’s teleconverter lenses. | Image: Vivo Vivo's new X500 flagship phones have arrived in China, and as usual the company's focus is firmly on photography. The X500 Pro Max - a new tier in its lineup - is the first phone to use

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Sep 21, 2026

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These are the first five Googlebook laptops

Google and partners are finally announcing the first laptops under the new Googlebook banner. There are five models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to kick things off. They're available for preorder starting today and arrive in stores on October 4th. Starting prices range

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Sep 21, 2026

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The long dream of the Googlebook

Dell’s XPS Googlebook is just one of the devices Google needs to be great. In late 2010, an up-and-coming Google executive named Sundar Pichai took the stage in front of a bunch of reporters and explained that Google had a big new idea about laptops. In the future, he said, the

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Sep 21, 2026

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I got to see Google’s wild ideas about the future of laptops

Googlebooks look like fancy Chromebooks at first, but there are interesting software ideas. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge There are a few things about using a Googlebook that immediately feel just right. The hardware is polished (since it's based on current lapto

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Sep 21, 2026

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The Mac Mini is still mighty, just not as cheap

Apple’s little computer gets a little spendy. There are lots of compact desktop computers out there, but none match the Mac Mini's small size and big power. 2024's redesign reduced the Mini to 0.82L, a chassis so minimal you can easily mount it behind a monitor or under a desk.

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Sep 21, 2026

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The M5 Ultra Mac Studio tears through our benchmark tests

What’s in the box?! Cores. So many cores. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Mac Studio review unit that Apple sent us to test this year is, put simply, kind of outrageous. It has an M5 Ultra chip with a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU, 256GB of RAM, and 4TB of storage

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Sep 21, 2026

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Googlebooks feel like the first laptops built for Android owners

Googlebook OS is a little bit like ChromeOS and a whole lot like Android. There's a good chance that my next laptop will be a Googlebook. If you're an Android user like me, then yours might be too, because Google is making a compelling pitch: The Googlebook does for the Android

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Sep 21, 2026

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iPhone owners can now submit a claim in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI lawsuit

Apple is paying $250 million to settle claims that it failed to deliver an AI-upgraded Siri - and now, eligible iPhone owners can submit a claim for a payout. If you live in the US and purchased an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 model between June 10th, 2024,

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Sep 21, 2026

article · Hacker News: Front Page

Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips

Article URL: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2380887#p2380888 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786689 Points: 63 # Comments: 36

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Sep 21, 2026

article · Hacker News: Front Page

Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

I disabled Siri in the Settings app, and then further disabled Siri and its extensions in Settings > Screen Time. Next, I disabled all Siri-related and Apple Intelligence-related services as per https://github.com/OleksandrKrupko/mac-os-debloat But after restarting, I could still

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Sep 21, 2026

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ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room

Article URL: https://zuckoff.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785429 Points: 465 # Comments: 193

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Sep 21, 2026

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Jev-Leftpad

Article URL: https://github.com/f/jev-leftpad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784706 Points: 149 # Comments: 52

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Sep 20, 2026

article · Hacker News: Front Page

Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/do-birds-have-accents-the-fascinating-regional-differences-in-birdsong-278108 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775579 Points: 40 # Comments: 8

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Sep 20, 2026

article · Hacker News: Front Page

One-Electron Universe

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776826 Points: 19 # Comments: 7

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Sep 20, 2026

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Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

Article URL: https://pirateface.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776699 Points: 38 # Comments: 6

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Sep 20, 2026

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Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

Article URL: https://toolguyd.com/sherline-tools-shutting-down-usa-production/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776627 Points: 65 # Comments: 25

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Sep 20, 2026

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Mathematical Billiards (2024)

Article URL: https://structures.uni-heidelberg.de/blog/posts/2024_01_costa/index.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775802 Points: 7 # Comments: 2

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