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Broadcast Booths Around Baseball Tip Their Caps to John Sterling

Great stuff around MLB: Those around the league quickly honored that legacy during Monday night’s slate of games. Tributes rolled in from across the league, with various play-by-play announcers deviating from their typical routines to give a nod to Sterling’s distinct style. It s…

A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom

The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.

The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open-source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps

There's an app for nearly every imaginable user and use case these days, but one thing they all have in common is that they're centered around one device: the smartphone. That changes today as Hugging Face, the 10-year-old New York City startup best known for being the go-to plac…

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This Experimental Low-Waste Fuel Could Transform Nuclear Reactors

The results are good news for the thorium-HALEU fuel cycle, set to grow in relevance as advanced reactors grow smaller and abundant.

Frontier Labs And Robotics Companies Again Top List Of New Unicorns In April

A total of 28 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April, with robotics startups and frontier labs leading by number of entrants for the second consecutive month.

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Every Day Is a Perfect Day to Watch ‘Redline’

Nearly two decades later, Studio Madhouse's high-octane sci-fi anime racing film still feels like the future of animation.

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Paytm Posts ₹183 Cr Profit In Q4, Revenue Up 18% To ₹2,264 Cr

Fintech major Paytm reported yet another profitable quarter, posting a consolidated net profit of ₹183 Cr in Q4 FY26 as…

ByteDance tests paid subscriptions for AI app Doubao in push toward monetization

ByteDance has begun testing a paid subscription model for its AI app Doubao, according to an update quietly added to the app’s App Store listing, in a move that underscores the growing commercialization of AI tools in China. The company is introducing three premium subscription p…

Will Apple’s iOS 27 open third-party AI options and help Chinese iPhones escape their AI dilemma?

Apple is reportedly planning to allow users to choose third-party AI models for the first time in its upcoming iOS 27 release, expanding Apple Intelligence capabilities to power core system features such as Siri, writing tools, and image generation, according to Bloomberg. The sh…

Telecom giant China Mobile to launch AI-eSIM product

China Mobile said it will unveil its AI-eSIM product at the 2026 Mobile Cloud Conference, set to take place in Suzhou from May 7 to 9, as the state-owned telecom giant steps up efforts to integrate AI into connected devices. The AI-eSIM integrates what the company describes as an…

China’s chipmakers rush to embrace DeepSeek’s V4. Which names stand out?

The release of DeepSeek’s latest large language model, V4, has been followed by a wave of adoption among domestic semiconductor manufacturers and artificial intelligence chipmakers, with firms racing to support the model on local hardware platforms. The shift comes amid rising ge…

Google adds ‘expert advice’ from Reddit and online forums to its AI-powered search experience

Google has updated its AI search feature to include ‘expert advice’ pulled… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Claris CEO Ryan McCann on FileMaker in the Age of Agentic Coding

That previous item led me to look at Claris’s website for the first time in a while. And, lo, there’s a banner promoting a message from CEO Ryan McCann that was posted just yesterday, under the headline “How Claris Is Building for What’s Next”: Every AI-generated application crea…

Learn What It Takes to Become a Cybersecurity Consultant

Cybersecurity consultants have never been more in demand. Information security analyst roles are projected to grow nearly 30 percent between now and 2034, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More than 15 million cybercrime incidents occurred worldwide in 2024, Stati…

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Ten Technology Enablers Shaping the Future of 6G Wireless

A guide to ten technological components — from THz communications and AI/ML to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces — poised to define 6G wireless networks. What Attendees will Learn Which frequencies 6G will use — Understand why THz bands (above 100 GHz) and the7–24 GHz range ar…

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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP

In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.

A 1947 Radio Gets A Face Lift

We’ve all done it. We spy an old radio at a garage sale or resale shop. We know someone should bring it back to life, but it looks like a …read more

Direct FDM Printing with Granules

The idea of FDM 3D printing using granules rather than filament is an appealing one: rather than having to wrangle spools of filament that need to adhere to strict dimensions …read more

BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039739 Points: 227 # Comments: 369

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Taking Polyphony to a New Level

There are all manner of musical synthesis techniques, from the early electromechanical instruments through analogue tape systhesis, the all-electronic waveform synthesisers of the 1960s onwards, and Yamaha’s FM systhesis of …read more

How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products

In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.

Appearing productive in the workplace

Article URL: https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001 Points: 691 # Comments: 269

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Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362 Points: 201 # Comments: 198

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