News

 A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible
It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body. When surgeons attempted it a few years ago, the newly-transplanted eye wasn’t able to see. But researchers believe they might hav…
MIT Technology Review
Trunk Tools' stack cut document review from 60 days to 10 by ditching general-purpose models
Most verticals aren’t clean, well-oiled SaaS databases; the reality is ugly documents, proprietary schemas, implicit workflows, and long‑running tasks that most general-purpose models struggle with. This prompted construction project management company Trunk Tools to build a spe…
venturebeat.com
The Download: a smoking “endgame” and a new Elizabeth Bear story
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. The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway. —Jessica Hamzelou As the parent of two little girls, I often think…
MIT Technology Review
Everything Announced at the Crunchyroll Anime Expo 2026 Panel
Crunchyroll has tons of anime coming this year and next, including a 'Solo Leveling' film that picks up after season two.
gizmodo.com
★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
Anthropic released the first version of the Claude “desktop” app for MacOS in October 2024 — an Electron clunker that did not impress UI designers. When it came out, I wrote: ChatGPT’s native Mac app, on the other hand, is a truly native Mac app. It looks like a Mac app and feels…
daringfireball.net
Are Those Fake Books on the New Air Force One AI-Generated?
The books are somehow both real and fake at the same time.
gizmodo.com
International tech
Hit party game Party Animals heads to mobile, bringing furry chaos to smartphones
At the 2026 TapTap Game Conference on Thursday, Recreate Games announced the development of a mobile version of its hit party game Party Animals. The studio said, “The mobile version folder has been created,” but did not disclose a testing schedule or release window. Even so, the…
technode.com
5 digital minimalism hacks that have made me calmer and less stressed
I did not get calmer by reading grand books about attention or by taking a week-long digital detox in the woods. I got calmer by doing five small, mildly annoying things every day that quietly changed the texture of my working hours. They are not clever. They do not require an ap…
siliconcanals.com
China's Domestic AI Compute Revolution Reaches a Tipping Point
China's domestic AI compute industry hits a turning point as ByteDance, Alibaba, and Baidu pivot to domestic chips, with domestic GPU share rising to 41% of new deployments.
pandaily.com
Skyroot sets July 12-August 4 launch window for India’s first private orbital rocket
India’s private space industry is preparing for a historic milestone as Hyderabad-based… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
Humanoid Robots Enter the Frontline: From Show Floor to Factory Floor as Star Employees
Humanoid robots are transitioning from showcases to real workplaces, with robots deployed in factories and logistics centers achieving 85% of human efficiency.
pandaily.com
Kuaishou’s Kling AI raises nearly $3 billion in funding
Kling AI, Kuaishou’s AI video generation business, raised nearly $3 billion in external funding on July 2, with its post-money valuation expected to reach $18 billion. The financing will support Kling AI’s transition to independent commercial operations. The round was co-led by C…
technode.com
AI’s Volatile Power Use Quietly Tests Grid Limits
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is typically framed as an energy problem. Data centers are projected to consume a growing share of global electricity demand: The International Energy Agency estimates they could account for 3 to 4 percent of total glo…
spectrum.ieee.org
CloverWorks Goes Full Green Yuri With First Trailer for ‘The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All’ Anime
The anime adaptation for Sumiko Arai's mega-popular queer webcomic-turned-Yen Press manga series releases in January 2027 on Crunchyroll.
gizmodo.com
‘Danganronpa 2×2’ Slayhem Mode Brings New Thrills, Chills, & Kills
Perhaps even more excitingly, Spike Chunsoft's fixing that terrible side-scrolling map.
gizmodo.com

Trending

Multi-Region Architecture: Going Global Without Going Broke
When an application grows geographically, it is logical to start serving it from a second region to improve latency and availability.
bytebytego.com
How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users
In this article, we will look at the entire journey in detail and challenges the OpenAI engineering team faced.
bytebytego.com
The Organ That Forgot To Use Transistors
When we think of 1960s synthesizers it’s usual to imagine instruments with vast arrays of controls and patch cables for configuring their many filters, oscillators, and other parameters. They created …read more
hackaday.com
60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it
Article URL: https://github.com/teamchong/pxpipe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776464 Points: 210 # Comments: 84
github.com
Costco is the anti-Amazon
Article URL: https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-anti-amazon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776044 Points: 240 # Comments: 222
phenomenalworld.org
Espionage Against the European Parliament
Article URL: https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779683 Points: 207 # Comments: 53
citizenlab.ca
Settling the Debate on Soldered versus Crimped High-Current Connectors
For some reason there’s heated debate around the topic of whether high current carrying wiring ought to use crimped or soldered connections, even though the industry standard is to crimp …read more
hackaday.com
A New Twist on the To Do List
Humans are odd creatures, and no two are exactly alike, which is likely why so many different methods exist for tracking the progress of tasks that must be accomplished. [Simone …read more
hackaday.com
This KVM runs a P4 instead of a Pi.
If you asked us to build you a KVM last week, we’d likely have reached for a Raspberry Pi. Now, thanks to [JonathanRowny], we’d seriously consider an ESP32-P4, because his …read more
hackaday.com