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Cohere acquires, merges with Germany-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’
Cohere, the Canada-based AI company that makes AI tools for businesses in regulated industries, announced Friday it would merge with Aleph Alpha, a German company that also builds AI systems for businesses and governments.
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New Zealand Passed a Generational Smoking Ban in 2022, But Repealed It Before It Went Into Effect
Eva Corlett, reporting for The Guardian in 2023: New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts — a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands of lives and be “catastrophic”…
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Hyundai’s New IONIQ V Looks Kind of Like a Cybertruck for Normal People
The new IONIQ V is key to Hyundai's plans in China.
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★ Norwegian Boating Licenses and Generational Law
The Norwegian Maritime Authority: If you were born in 1980 or later and plan to operate a recreational craft of more than 8 metres in length or with an engine power of more than 25 hp, you need a boating licence. The boating licence is a certificate permitting you to operate Norw…
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★ ‘We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here’
George Lucas got so many nuances right in Star Wars. Little touches that said so much. One of the most overlooked is a moment that I vividly remember from first seeing it, on the big screen, as a kindergartener or thereabouts. It’s during the scene where Luke enters the Mos Eisle…
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XOXO Explore
Andy McMillan and Andy Baio: Today, over 10 years later, and almost two full years after we retired the festival for good, we’re finally launching that website. Named after what we thought would be a throwaway title for a short-lived GitHub repo, allow us to introduce XOXO Explor…
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Meta teams up with AWS to deploy ARM-based Graviton CPU chips for AI expansion
Meta has entered into a major long-term agreement with Amazon Web Services… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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The people who answer ‘I don’t mind, whatever you want’ aren’t being easygoing. They’re running a private calculation that having a preference has cost them more than it has ever earned them
The people who answer 'I don't mind, whatever you want' aren't being easygoing. They're running a private calculation that having a preference has cost them more than it has ever earned them
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RIL Expands Ajio Rush To 600+ Cities
Doubling down on quick commerce, Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) today said that it scaled its four-hour apparel delivery service,…
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Nobody talks about why a small morning routine can quietly change a whole life in three months, and it isn’t the cold plunge or the journaling or the protein, it’s that for the first time in years you’re giving yourself one hour where nobody is asking you to be anyone else
Last week I watched a guy at the café across from my apartment in Saigon do his whole morning routine in public. Cold brew, journal open, some kind of supplement powder stirred into a glass, AirPods in, the works. I’m not judging, I’ve been that guy. But watching him I realized s…
siliconcanals.com
DeepSeek-V4 preview now available with open-source access
DeepSeek released a preview version of its new V4 model series and made it open source. The model supports an ultra-long context of up to one million tokens and shows improvements in agent capabilities, knowledge coverage, and reasoning performance. The V4 series comes in two ver…
technode.com
XGRIDS’ LingView P1 Spatial Camera Wins Four NAB Awards
XGRIDS’ LingView P1 spatial camera won four awards at NAB Show, highlighting its ability to convert real-world environments into interactive 3D digital spaces.
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2026 Green Powered Challenge: Solar-Powered Pollution Monitor
As we learn more about all the nasty stuff floating in the air, it becomes more compelling to monitor the air for pollution levels. [Aleksei Tertychnyi] does just that with …read more
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 367: Radioactive Weather, Continuous Pickles, and Moon Junk
When Elliot Williams and Al Williams compare their notes on the week in Hackaday, you know you’ll get at least one or two bad puns. How bad? Tune in and …read more
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Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074 Points: 368 # Comments: 408
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
GPT-5.5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 - April 2026 (1010 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894000 Points: 217 # Comments: 123
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SDL Now Supports DOS
Article URL: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15377 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892291 Points: 227 # Comments: 81
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Muon Magnetic Moment Matches Model, Making Major Malaise
Sometimes, a major discovery is exactly what you were hoping not to find. That’s the case with a team at Penn State who seem to have recently closed the door …read more
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Audio-Forward Case Mod of Classic 90s Portable TV
The humble cathode ray tube (CRT) was once the technology behind almost all of our televisions and computer displays. Its replacements, from LCD screens to OLED and others, are generally …read more
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A Smart Thermostat For 120V Fan Coil Systems
Many HVAC systems in North America operate off 24V systems, which can be readily upgraded with off-the-shelf  smart thermostats quite easily. However, there are many people living in buildings with …read more
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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40b-in-anthropic-in-cash-and-compute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895080 Points: 206 # Comments: 7
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