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Who is John Ternus, the incoming Apple CEO?
Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world's most valuable companies, but if you're not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you've probably never heard of this man, who has largely remained out of the spotlight until now.
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Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.
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New a16z-Backed News Brand Wants to Be Like Cramming Every X Post Into Your Brain at Once
MTS is a little like cable TV news, but backed by a Silicon Valley VC.
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Apple’s Annual Environmental Progress Report
Apple Newsroom: In its annual Environmental Progress Report released today, Apple marked progress toward Apple 2030, the company’s ambitious goal to be carbon neutral across its entire footprint by the end of this decade. Apple’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2025 remain down over …
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Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO, John Ternus taking over
The transition has been expected for some time and ends one of the longer and more impactful runs a CEO has had at any company. Cook had inherited a company that many industry watchers and enthusiasts struggled to separate from its famed founder. What he leaves behind is a $4 tri…
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What a John Ternus Era Means for Apple
An engineer will soon run Apple. Will that change anything?
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Google could team up with Marvell to build new AI chips for inference
Google is reportedly in talks with Marvell Technology to co-develop a new… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Hong Kong can advance AI beyond the confines of geopolitical rivalry
There is a tendency to portray the global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape as consisting of two bitter rivals – China and the United States. The remaining 80 per cent of the world’s population, by virtue of their supposed dearth of scale, research and other critical overhea…
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AGILINK Launches OmniHand 3 Series, Ships Over 8,000 Dexterous Hands
AGILINK, a spin-off from AGIBOT, has unveiled its OmniHand 3 series of dexterous robotic hands, including a sub-$150 lightweight model and a 5kg-payload flagship, with over 8,000 units already deployed in industrial settings.
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Dreame Maintains 100 Percent Annual Growth Over Eight Years
Dreame Technology has achieved a remarkable 100% compound annual revenue growth rate for eight straight years, securing the top market share position for robot vacuums in over 30 countries globally.
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Tencent’s QClaw opens international beta
QClaw, a consumer AI agent developed by the Tencent PC Manager team, has opened its international beta. The product is designed to let non-technical users deploy and interact with AI agents through messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram without command-line setup or API con…
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Amap debuts quadruped robot Tutu at Beijing humanoid half-marathon
Amap, Alibaba’s mapping platform, debuted its quadruped robot Tutu at the 2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon. The company said Tutu is designed to guide visually impaired users through complex open environments without preset routes or remote control, and demonstrat…
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AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
Article URL: https://stephvee.ca/blog/artificial%20intelligence/ai-resistance-is-growing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839951 Points: 359 # Comments: 363
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Growing Aluminium-Copper Alloy Crystals Using Hydrogen
Having molten aluminium interact with atmospheric water forms a source of hydrogen which can be rather problematic if you’re trying to cast aluminium parts. As the molten metal cools down, …read more
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Why Some S3 Videocards Have a Brightness Issue
Once a pioneer in videocards, S3’s legacy is today mostly found in details like texture compression as well as the strong presence of S3-branded videocards in the retro-computing world. There’s …read more
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EP211: How the JVM Works
We compile, run, and debug Java code all the time. But what exactly does the JVM do between compile and run?
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John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840219 Points: 1814 # Comments: 968
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Making the Most Pick-Proof Lock Yet
Throughout the centuries the art of lock-making and lock-picking have been trapped in a constant struggle, with basic lock designs being replaced by ever more complex ones that seek to …read more
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Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
Article URL: https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841129 Points: 230 # Comments: 115
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Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Article URL: https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844269 Points: 200 # Comments: 123
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How to hire people who are better than you
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you hire for something you don't understand?
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