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India’s app market is booming — but global platforms are capturing most of the gains
Non-gaming apps, led by streaming and AI, are driving growth, even as India's spending per user lags global peers.
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
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Tesla just increased its spending plan to $25B — here’s where the money is going
Tesla's planned capex for 2026 is three times higher than what the company has historically spent. Its CFO said, as a result, Tesla will have a negative free cash flow the rest of the year.
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Ben Thompson on Tim Cook’s Legacy
Ben Thompson at Stratechery, “Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing”: Cook was, without question, an operational genius. Moreover, this was clearly the case even before he scaled the iPhone to unimaginable scale. When Cook joined Apple in 1998 the company’s operations — centered on Apple’…
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The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell amid the constant launch…
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What The Record Venture Funding Quarter Actually Means For Your Startup’s Fundraise
For startup founders, the opportunity today is to solve real problems by building vertical, AI-driven solutions in specific industries. MGV's Marc Schröder shares tips on successfully building a startup with an eye toward acquisition.
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Not everyone who says they’re fine is lying. Some people genuinely cannot locate the word for what they’re feeling because nobody ever sat with them long enough to help them name it, and fine became the only vocabulary they trust
For some people, saying they're fine isn't evasion — it's the only emotional vocabulary they were ever given. The psychology of alexithymia, and why naming feelings is a skill, not an instinct.
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I’m in my 60s and the hardest thing about being a parent wasn’t the tiredness or the responsibility, it was watching my daughter expect good things to happen to her and realizing I’d spent my entire life bracing for bad ones, and I have no idea how to teach her something I never learned.
A retired electrician in his 60s reflects on watching his granddaughter expect good things to happen, and confronts the lifetime of anticipatory anxiety he inherited from his own father — and what the research actually says you can and can't pass down.
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Centre Mulls Stricter AI Governance Framework Amid Rising Risks: Report
The Centre is doubling down on artificial intelligence (AI) regulation as rapid advances in the technology raise fresh concerns around…
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smart #2 EV concept and #6 EHD hybrid hatchback unveiled at brand night ahead of Beijing Auto Show
On Wednesday, at the smart Global Brand Night event held in Beijing, the China-Germany joint venture electric vehicle brand smart unveiled the new smart #2 concept car and the smart #6 EHD under the theme Change of Perspectives. As the brand continues to expand its electric vehic…
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New Gaming Regime, Kabeer Biswas’ New Venture & More
India’s New Online Gaming Regime India’s gaming landscape is bracing for a reset. Yesterday, MeitY notified the Online Gaming Act,…
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Meta rolls out ‘Live Chats’ feature on Threads amid growing competition with X
Meta is introducing a new ‘Live Chats’ feature on Threads to bring… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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AI needs a strong data fabric to deliver business value
Artificial intelligence is moving quickly in the enterprise, from experimentation to everyday use. Organizations are deploying copilots, agents, and predictive systems across finance, supply chains, human resources, and customer operations. By the end of 2025, half of companies u…
MIT Technology Review
Tesla Says EV Orders Benefitted From Soaring Gas Prices
Also, Musk owns up to a broken promise and vows to spend an unbelievably large amount of money to make up for it.
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3 things Michelle Kim is into right now
Isegye Idol If you thought K-pop was weird, virtual idols—humans who perform as anime-style digital characters via motion capture—will blow your mind. My favorite is a girl group called Isegye Idol, created by Woowakgood, a Korean VTuber (a streamer who likewise performs as a dig…
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How DoorDash Launches a New Country in One Week
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How Gut Bacteria May Affect the Outcome of Cancer Immunotherapy
In the ongoing development of cancer immunotherapy, as well as our still developing understanding of the human immune system, there’s always been a bit of massive elephant in the room. …read more
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Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment at 10 km
For those who haven’t been following along, [BPS.space] aka [Joe] is on a journey to launch a home-built rocket past the Kármán line where it will officially reach outer space. …read more
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Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867 Points: 541 # Comments: 134
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Website streamed live directly from a model
https://x.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444 (https://xcancel.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867048 Points: 246 # Comments: 71
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Making RAM at Home in Your Own Semiconductor Fab
There’s little point in setting up your own shed-based clean room for semiconductor purposes if you don’t try to do something practical with it. Something like responding to the RAMpocalypse …read more
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Parallel agents in Zed
Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866750 Points: 213 # Comments: 118
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Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
Article URL: https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866913 Points: 346 # Comments: 193
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 868: Remove the Noodles
This week Jonathan chats with Johannes Millan about Super Productivity and Parallel Code! Those are two very different projects, but both aiming for helping us get our work done. Super …read more
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