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    Ending Europe’s AC culture wars — with science.

    Every heat wave Europe is embroiled in an argument over whether more air conditioning would save lives or simply worsen the climate crisis. Energy-efficient cooling will help, but scientists are also hard at work on new types of coolant to end our reliance on refrigerants, often potent greenhouse gases in their own right.

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    Chasing that 2008 high.

    As San Francisco sellers start trading houses for AI stock, you might wonder whether someone out there is trying to run the housing crisis all over again.

    tomatocactus:

    “How can we make this bubble MORE like the housing crisis” is not a question I expected people to ask

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    Does it run id?

    The Doom developer is reportedly the latest Xbox studio to be hit by Microsoft’s ongoing layoffs, prompting a new variant on an age-old question.

    Tal Rico:

    Can Microsoft run (the studio that makes) Doom? Apparently not very well.

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    Reddit’s AI conundrum.

    Reddit is clamping down on spammy AI activity, a problem that is definitely not, in any way, shape, or form, a problem of Reddit’s own making.

    Bread19:

    Let’s use AI to filter out AI because we sold our content to AI and AI is reading all the AI

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    Bentley’s first EV will be the Torcal.

    It follows last year’s EXP 15 “design concept,” and follows Bentley tradition by taking its name from the El Torcal de Antequera natural landmark in Andalusia, Spain. Bentley’s CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser says it “may just be the most considered car in our history.” We’ll find out more on September 23rd.

    Teaser image showing rear of Bentley Torcal EV
    Image: Bentley
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    The leather jacket bubble.

    Tomorrow you can buy a Tom Ford jacket worn by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at auction, but you might have stiff competition in the bidding.

    Blernsball:

    NVIDIA is going to lend OpenAI 50K to buy this, then OpenAI will lease it to Coreweave for 10K a month on a two year contract. Coreweave pledges to buy twenty more jackets from NIVIDA in the future. In return, NVIDIA will lease the jacket from Coreweave for 8K a month over 5 years.

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    Here’s an early look at tomorrow’s Nothing Ear 3A.

    The new affordable earbuds will launch alongside the Phone 4B, but WinFuture has published what appear to be official promo shots of the buds in all four colors: yellow, pink, white, and black. Will we see a return of the odd charging case microphone Nothing introduced in the more premium Ear 3?

    Render of yellow Nothing Ear 3A earbuds in the case leaked by WinFuture
    Render of pink Nothing Ear 3A earbuds next to their case leaked by WinFuture
    Render of white Nothing Ear 3A earbud leaked by WinFuture
    Render of white, pink, yellow, and black Nothing Ear 3A earbuds leaked by WinFuture
    1/4Image: Nothing / WinFuture
    The Sourdough Sidekick automates the boring bit of baking

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    But I’d only recommend it if you bake at least a loaf a week, and ideally more.

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