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Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.
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Hidden IT problems are quietly creating risk, shadow IT, and lost productivity
Presented by TeamViewer Enterprise technology failures are largely invisible. Research from TeamViewer, based on a global survey of 4,200 managers and employees, finds that the majority of digital dysfunction never reaches the IT help desk. Employees work around slow applicatio…
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World’s Slowest Rocket Company Suddenly Wants to Churn Out 60 Rockets a Year
Blue Origin is setting its New Glenn rocket up for a major challenge.
gizmodo.com
Data: The Seed Funding Boom Is Concentrating Capital In The San Francisco Bay Area
In 2025, the Bay Area expanded its dominance of U.S. seed funding — capturing a growing share of both deals and dollars — even as most startups remained geographically dispersed, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows, resulting in a more bifurcated landscape.
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Hollywood Has Finally Made a Hippo Horror Movie. It’s About Time
Compared to many other fictional animal villains, hippos kill plenty of people in real life every year.
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xAI launches Grok 4.3 at an aggressively low price and a new, fast, powerful voice cloning suite
While Elon Musk faces off against his former colleague and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in court, Musk's rival firm xAI, founded to take on OpenAI, isn't slowing down on launching competitive new products and services. Last night, xAI shipped a new, proprietary base large languag…
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Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…
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The definitive sign someone grew up emotionally responsible for an adult isn’t hyper-competence, it’s the inability to enjoy a calm afternoon without scanning for what they might be forgetting
The visible half of growing up parentified is hyper-competence. The invisible half — the one that actually identifies the wiring — is what happens to your nervous system when nothing is wrong.
siliconcanals.com
Why the most successful founders aren’t the most visionary — they’re the most psychologically consistent
While visionary founders dominate headlines and TED talks, venture capital data reveals a startling truth: 70% of startups fail not because of bad ideas, but because their founders couldn't maintain stable behavioral patterns through the chaos of building a company.
siliconcanals.com
How the vinyl revival fills the gaps streaming left behind
As global sales climb, the reasons people buy records diverge sharply across cultures.
restofworld.org
Inside Fino Payments Bank’s Troubles And Transition To A Small Finance Bank
Fino Payments Bank, which has been in choppy waters since the arrest of its CEO Rishi Gupta in February, saw…
inc42.com
US Defense Department signs contracts with Nvidia, Microsoft and AWS to integrate advanced AI into classified networks
The US Department of Defense has signed new deals with Nvidia, Microsoft,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics
After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine what was wrong with …read more
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City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978370 Points: 405 # Comments: 109
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3D Printed Orrery Runs On A Single Motor
The solar system is kind of hard to observe in motion all at once. Sometimes, it’s nice to have a little model to look at, so you can see the …read more
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Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Article URL: https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983352 Points: 235 # Comments: 107
noctua.at
A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes
In this article, we will learn how Kubernetes is a system of promises, and that every piece of it is a small program keeping one of those promises.
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Adapting a 100-Year-Old Lens To A Modern Camera
You can get all kinds of fancy lenses for modern cameras, with all sorts of mechanical and electronic wizardly to make them shoot better images. But what if you paired …read more
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Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks
Article URL: https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979839 Points: 221 # Comments: 179
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Ti-84 Evo
Article URL: https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979583 Points: 454 # Comments: 385
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Rust Helps Make A $1 Handheld Console
These days, even an old Game Boy will set you back $100 or more, and a new handheld console will be many multiples of that. However, you can build a …read more
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