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Mexico Extends Its Venture Lead Over Brazil As More Global VCs Enter Latin America
Mexico’s startups led the LatAm pack in Q2 — by a wide margin. The country’s startups raised $944 million in the second quarter, up 131% compared to $409 million in last year’s Q2, and up 136% from the $401 million raised in this year’s first quarter, per Crunchbase data. For com…
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Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
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How Much Coffee Is Too Much? Heart Experts Have a New Answer
The American Heart Association has issued a new report on the link between caffeine and cardiovascular disease.
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Tokenmaxxing Didn’t Die. It Mutated
Frontier models only is the latest expression of true AI belief.
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9to5Mac Uncovers Dozens of Disguised Gambling Apps on the App Store in Brazil
9to5Mac: Brazilian users browsing the App Store rankings in categories such as Navigation, Travel, and Weather have noticed a growing number of poorly made games appearing among the top results, many of them featuring AI-generated illustrations of animals as their app icons. As i…
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‘The Odyssey’ Brought Home a Big Box Office Debut
No defying necessary: people love Christopher Nolan movies, and they went out in droves to see his take on 'The Odyssey.'
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The Atacama Desert in Chile contains weather stations that have never recorded a single drop of rain in more than a century of measurement, yet a thin fog called camanchaca rolls in from the Pacific often enough that lichens and cacti pull moisture straight from the air
In the driest desert on Earth, some weather stations have never recorded a drop of rain — yet lichens and cacti thrive by pulling water directly from a coastal fog called camanchaca.
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China develops more than 400 humanoid robot products, accounting for over half of the global total
China has developed more than 400 humanoid robot products, accounting for more than half of the global total, according to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on July 20. The ministry also said Chinese quadruped robots accounted for close to 70% o…
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The Clarion-Clipperton Zone’s nodules are estimated to contain more nickel and cobalt than all terrestrial reserves — but commercial mining is still waiting on permits and an unfinished global rulebook
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone contains more cobalt, nickel, manganese, and copper than every land-based reserve combined. After 150 years untouched, commercial extraction is now measured in months, not decades — and the science needed to regulate it is still being gathered.
siliconcanals.com
Kimi K3 developer suspends new subscriptions amid compute constraints
Chinese start-up Moonshot AI has suspended new subscriptions for its groundbreaking new model Kimi K3 as surging demand squeezes its computing power, underscoring the challenges Chinese AI labs face in serving their products to global users. “Over the past 48 hours, demand has pu…
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In 1911, an Oklahoma auto dealer named Clyde Cessna taught himself to fly by crashing his hand-built monoplane at least thirteen times on the salt flats of northern Oklahoma, because there were no flight schools within reach, no manuals worth trusting, and no one nearby who had flown one and could tell him what he was doing wrong
Before there were flight schools west of the Mississippi, a Kansas farmer named Clyde Cessna assembled a mail-order monoplane and taught himself to fly by breaking it, rebuilding it, and trying again. The method that eventually produced the world's most-built light aircraft compa…
siliconcanals.com
Exclusive: Redcliffe Labs To Acquire Megavision Diagnostics In ₹40 Cr Deal
Healthtech startup Redcliffe Labs is set to acquire Pune-based diagnostics chain Megavision Diagnostics Centre in a deal worth about ₹40…
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AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy
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MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other
Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.
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Pong-like Cabinet for Classic Dinosaur Jumper
Back when Google ran a functional search engine, there used to be all kinds of quirky, fun antics hidden in their products. From Easter eggs in certain search results, to …read more
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Hackaday Links: July 19, 2026
We’ll start this week off by giving our congratulations to Skyroot Aerospace of India for successfully launching the country’s first privately developed orbital rocket yesterday. The company’s Vikram-1 booster stands …read more
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Orion Browser by Kagi
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What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
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Seven Ways to Install Magnets Into Your 3D Prints
Magnets are awesome, so it’s no wonder we love to add them to our 3D prints. Doing so in a way that will actually last is harder, with thermal creep …read more
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Could Reticulum Power a Post-Internet Network?
These days, it is easy to think you always have access to the Internet. But some wonder if — in spite of its ARPANET, nuclear-war-planning heritage — you can actually …read more
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