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Why Mentorship Is the Most Underrated Leadership Skill
I started my professional journey as an engineer before moving into product strategy and innovation leadership roles for several global technology organizations. Over the years, I have served as a mentor for a variety of programs including Products That Count’s strategic product …
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Unprecedented European Heatwave Has Killed More Than 20,000, New Study Claims
This preliminary estimate underscores the growing threat of deadly extreme heat events despite efforts to adapt to a warming world.
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Teaching AI to run with the turbines
Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfolding far from consumer-facing tools. In industries where physical infrastructure, operational continuity, and safety are p…
MIT Technology Review
★ A Tale of Two Modems
Marko Zivkovic, reporting for AppleInsider regarding some of the data revealed by Tata Electronics’s massive data breach: For the U.S. variant of the iPhone 18 Pro, which will feature mmWave compatibility, Apple seemingly plans to use Qualcomm modem hardware. Multiple Qualcomm co…
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Game Discs Deserve to Die
We cannot protect a dying medium, but we can try to make our digital future more consumer-friendly.
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The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem
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. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type…
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Xiaomi launches crowdfunding for its first smart storage device
Xiaomi on Wednesday launched crowdfunding for its first smart storage device on the Xiaomi Youpin platform, marking the company’s debut in the home data storage market. The device is powered by a high-performance quad-core processor and comes with up to 16TB of storage capacity. …
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Amazon India Launches Probe Into Fatal Fire At Partner Warehouse
Ecommerce major Amazon India has reportedly launched an internal investigation into a fire at one of its third-party delivery partner,…
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PDD embraces China’s ‘city of the future’ after bruising regulatory clash and record fine
The operator of budget online marketplaces Temu and Pinduoduo is ramping up its commitment in a state-backed development zone – dubbed a “city of the future” in official discourse – months after the e-commerce group was hit by the heaviest penalty in a record food-safety crackdow…
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Tencent launches Ubisoft-licensed Just Dance: Party on mobile platforms with AI body tracking
Tencent today launched Just Dance: Party, a mobile rhythm game based on Ubisoft’s Just Dance franchise, across iOS, Android and HarmonyOS devices. The game uses a proprietary AI-powered skeletal tracking algorithm that enables full-body motion capture through a smartphone’s front…
technode.com
China’s AI Compute Shortage: The Real Problem Isn’t Oversupply But Something More Dangerous
Despite claims of 80% idle data centers, China’s AI compute landscape faces a structural mismatch where effective capacity lags far behind paper capacity
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Meta appoints Alex Schultz as its first-ever Chief Data Officer to strengthen AI strategy
Meta has created the new role of Chief Data Officer (CDO) for… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
Article URL: https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755965 Points: 1231 # Comments: 501
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Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758309 Points: 256 # Comments: 193
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Know Your Food: Organic Production
A few weeks ago we published the first in a new series of articles, Know Your Food. It was born out of the realisation that most people know surprisingly little about …read more
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Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-01-kimi-k2-7-is-now-available-in-github-copilot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756602 Points: 302 # Comments: 126
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A Rare Drone Common Sense Outbreak, In Denmark
Last September, Denmark was gripped by a spate of drone sightings near airports. It’s familiar territory for Hackaday, as we reported on a similar drone panic saga at British airports …read more
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Trying Out Viewer Suggestions for Levitation on an Induction Cooker
Doing something once is fun, but if you get interesting feedback from viewers on how to make things even more fun, you can only follow all of these instructions and …read more
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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.
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A Light-Up Map Of Monaco
If you want to get around Monaco, a map — digital or otherwise — is probably the best way to navigate. But if you just want to appreciate the city’s …read more
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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.
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