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Amazon Stops Selling Fast E-Bikes To Californians

If you want to go faster than 28 mph on two wheels in California, get a motorcycle license.

Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation

Five-year old European military drone startup Helsing is close to raising another monster round.

AI agents are running hospital records and factory inspections. Enterprise IAM was never built for them.

A doctor in a hospital exam room watches as a medical transcription agent updates electronic health records, prompts prescription options, and surfaces patient history in real time. A computer vision agent on a manufacturing line is running quality control at speeds no human insp…

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iOS 26.5 Includes Beta Support for End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging

Apple Newsroom: Starting today, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out in beta for iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest version of Google Messages. When RCS messages are end-to-end encrypted, they can’t be read while…

Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon …

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Why Jane Schoenbrun Wanted to Make a Queer-Focused Slasher Film

The director of 'I Saw the TV Glow' has 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,' starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, coming August 7.

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China ranks third in global index for AI competitiveness in life sciences

China ranked third in a new global index measuring competitiveness in AI for biotechnology, healthcare and longevity, as the race to apply AI moves from chatbots and general-purpose models into regulated, data-heavy industries such as drug discovery, diagnostics and preventive me…

SMIC secures approval for $5.9 billion acquisition in China’s largest domestic wafer foundry M&A

On Monday, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) announced that its share issuance and asset acquisition plan had been reviewed and approved by the M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) Review Committee of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The committee determined that…

Google-backed edtech startup Adda247 reportedly lays off 20% workforce ahead of IPO plans

Google-backed ed-tech startup Adda247 has reportedly laid off around 200 employees (~… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Kuaishou Plans $20B AI Video Spin-Off; Tencent Joins Pre-IPO Round

Kuaishou is spinning off its AI video unit Kling at a $200B valuation with Tencent participating — the clearest signal yet that China's short-video giants see generative AI as more valuable than their core social businesses.

AI Hardware Startups: VCs Favoring Young Founders, But Is There a Valuation Premium?

China's AI hardware startup scene is divided over whether young founders deserve the valuation premiums they command — or whether VCs are simply chasing hype and labels rather than fundamentals.

OpenAI launches enterprise AI service-focused $4Bn ‘OpenAI Deployment Company’, acquires Tomoro to scale corporate AI adoption

OpenAI has launched a new enterprise-focused venture called the ‘OpenAI Deployment Company’,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted

Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.

Someone Created a Version of ‘Elden Ring’ That Runs on a PS1

Well, thou art of passing skill.

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Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?

Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-explain-whether-cloudflare-blackmailed-canonical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098537 Points: 257 # Comments: 148

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This Credit Card Computer Follows All Dimensions

A computer the size of a credit card is nothing new. There have been many single-board computers following the familiar dimensions. [Krauseler]’s credit card computer is different, though. It packs …read more

How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem

In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.

It’s a Water Clock, Jim, But Not as We Know It — It Has Digits

Guess what time it is– that’s right, clock time! It’s always clock time, and when it’s clock time at Hackaday the weirder the better. So, how about a water clock …read more

Honda Wants to Complicate Your E-Motorcycle

If you ride a motorcycle, you know it is a bit of an art to manage the transmission on a typical bike. Electric motorcycles lose some of that. You usually …read more

The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does

You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber …read more

If AI writes your code, why use Python?

Article URL: https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433 Points: 389 # Comments: 397

UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)

Article URL: https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098261 Points: 306 # Comments: 62

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Reverse-Engineering and Documenting the Fisher Price Pixter

Between 2000 and 2002 the Fisher Price Pixter was sold to children as an educational handheld toy with a touch screen that enabled drawing and listening to music in addition …read more