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Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics

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Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

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Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable

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A former Uber engineer’s disaster story

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Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test

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Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Linux through the Proton compatibility layer

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How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

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SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first suborbital flight
 

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Rails 6.1

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Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes

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Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

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MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial
 

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Free to download public domain art, posters and illustrations

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New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform

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Sony acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll

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French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookies rules

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Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack
 

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