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SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI
Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product of its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor, completed just weeks a…
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★ What’s Good for the iOS Goose Is Often Not Good for the MacOS Gander
Tobias Steinke, replying on Mastodon to my “Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’” piece: But iOS app icons (and iPadOS) were always in squircle shape. Why is and was this okay for you, but it’s not for macOS? This is a good and fair question. But I not only have an…
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Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI
Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on Anthropic’s chatbot.
techcrunch.com
John Deere’s Right-to-Repair Saga Is Finally Over—for 10 Years, at Least
A decade-long fight gets a 10-year reprieve.
gizmodo.com
Elijah Wood Is All for Stephen Colbert’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie
Frodo Baggins himself isn't sure if he'll appear, but he's very excited about the film's potential.
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‘PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR’ — Chatbot on Chatbot Action Circa 1973
Back in the primordial days of AI, PARRY was an ELIZA-style chatbot created by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby to simulate the words of a paranoid schizophrenic. Someone had the genius idea to connect it to ELIZA (a.k.a. “DOCTOR”). Vint Cerf published the transcript as an RFC in 1973,…
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TCS reports 5% rise in Q1 FY27 profit to $1.4Bn, AI revenue reaches $2.6Bn
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) reported a steady start to FY27, posting a… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Apple’s iPhone Ultra initial China inventory estimated at around one million units
Apple’s first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Ultra, has entered mass production, according to supply chain sources. Foxconn has reportedly begun large-scale hiring to support production of the new device. Chinese tech blogger Dingjiao Digital said the first batch of inventory fo…
technode.com
How Cumin Co. Is Building An Integrated Kitchenware Brand
On a quiet evening in a modern Indian kitchen, you are preparing a meal for your family with meticulously selected…
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Unitree and UBTECH: Two Divergent Commercial Experiments for China Humanoid Robots in 2026
Unitree pursues affordable industrial-scale humanoids while UBTECH targets ultra-realistic luxury consumer robots, representing two competing visions for embodied AI commercialization.
pandaily.com
Microsoft reportedly assigns Obsidian to develop new Fallout game in major Xbox strategy shift
Microsoft is reportedly shifting Obsidian Entertainment to develop a new Fallout game,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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In 1946, a secretary named Betty Snyder and five other women were handed the wiring diagrams for ENIAC and told to program it with no manuals and no instructions, and the ballistic trajectory calculation they got running became the first working software ever demonstrated on a general-purpose electronic computer
In 1946, six women at the Moore School of Engineering were handed the wiring diagrams for ENIAC and told to program it without manuals. The ballistic trajectory they got running became the first working software ever demonstrated on a general-purpose electronic computer — and the…
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The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
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Streaming vs Batch: Two Philosophies of Data Processing
When is the data complete enough to be moved to the compute stage?
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A Brief History of the Crazy Old 7-Segment Display
How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 …read more
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ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: How They Differ
In this article, we will look at the various architectural forks the teams building these models encountered and the decisions they took.
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Die Casting Comes Home
You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is perhaps in part why we see most projects …read more
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Fixing a Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC
One of the attractions of buying at the bottom end of the electronics market by mail order from China is that you never quite know what will come your way. …read more
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Get a Handle on This Compact Pi Portable
Between the speed and reliability of modern desktop 3D printers and the abundance of powerful single-board computers, there’s never been a better time to build a personal computing device that …read more
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C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For
If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was eye-wateringly expensive by modern standards, and Jack Tramiel wanted …read more
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