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Frontier Labs And Robotics Companies Again Top List Of New Unicorns In April 
A total of 28 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April, with robotics startups and frontier labs leading by number of entrants for the second consecutive month.
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Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens
Juli Clover, MacRumors: Apple has removed more desktop Macs from its online store as the global memory shortage continues. Mac mini models with 32GB and 64GB of RAM are no longer available for purchase, nor is the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 256GB RAM. The M3 Ultra Mac Studio is now…
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Apple to pay $250M to settle lawsuit over Siri’s delayed AI features
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit for overpromising the arrival of Siri's AI features.
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Possible Flight-Related Hantavirus Case Emerges After Cruise Ship Outbreak
Fernando Clavijo, the president of the Canary Islands, has opposed the Spanish government's plan to have the ship docked off the city of Tenerife.
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GPT-5.5 Instant shows you what it remembered — just not all of it
OpenAI updated the default model for ChatGPT to its new GPT-5.5 Instant, along with a new memory capability that finally shows which context shaped responses — at least some of them.  This limitation signals that models are starting to create a second, incomplete memory observabi…
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Scaling AI into production is forcing a rethink of enterprise infrastructure
Presented by Nutanix Across industries, organizations are focused on how to move from AI pilots, proofs of concept, and cloud-based experimentation to deploying it at scale — across real workloads, for real users, in real business environments. VentureBeat spoke with Tarkan Mane…
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International tech
Meesho Q4: Loss Narrows 88% To ₹166 Cr
Ecommerce marketplace Meesho trimmed its consolidated net loss by 88% to ₹166.3 Cr in Q4 FY26 from ₹1,391.4 Cr in…
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Anthropic enters $200Bn agreement with Google for cloud and TPU chips
Anthropic has reportedly entered into one of the largest infrastructure agreements in… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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The generation that sacrificed the most for their families is now quietly grappling with a question nobody prepared them for: if I spent my whole life living for others, what do I actually believe about how I want to live now
Surveys of older adults consistently surface a quiet pattern: people who spent decades building lives around providing, caregiving, and obligation often report difficulty naming what they actually enjoy once those roles loosen. Researchers studying aging and identity describe it …
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Reliance Eyes Multi-Billion-Dollar LEO Satellite Push To Take On Starlink: Report
Reliance Industries is reportedly exploring a major play into the satellite communications segment through a multi-billion-dollar investment in low earth…
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Samsung crosses $1Tn valuation as shares rise over 120% in 2026 amid strong AI chip demand
Samsung has crossed the $1 trillion market valuation for the first time,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Opinon: Critical thinking still outperforms fast AI adoption when it comes to thriving in an AI-driven world
It seems like there’s a story being told in just about every workplace right now. It goes something like this: the future belongs to the fastest AI adopters. The people who pick up the new tools first, build the slickest workflows, automate the most of their job, are the ones who…
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RGB Laser Projector Does Colorful Asteroids and Much More
Have you thought about building a galvonometer-based laser projector, but don’t know where to start? There are a lot of resources out there, but you could do worse than to …read more
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Retrotechtacular: Julius Sumner Miller Breaks Lamps with Magnets
If you watched the Mickey Mouse Club way back when, you might remember Professor Wonderful, who was, in reality, physics professor [Julius Sumner Miller]. He also had his own show, …read more
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Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
Article URL: https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031769 Points: 297 # Comments: 95
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Why Opposed Piston Internal Combustion Engines Are Great
Converting the ignition of a fuel-air mixture into usable mechanical energy lies at the core of a dizzying number of internal combustion engines developed over the course of more than …read more
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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP
In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.
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You’ve Seen the Chip Shortage and the Memory Shortage, Now Prepare For The PCB Shortage
It’s nice to hide away in our little corner of the internet and talk tech, safely away from the turmoil of world events. Sometimes though, geopolitics intrude even into our …read more
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Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
Article URL: https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032265 Points: 211 # Comments: 28
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How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products
In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.
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Using Hamster Power to Charge a Phone
It seems fair to say that hamsters are a somewhat divisive pet, between their fluffiness, high-strung nature, short lifespan and incessant squeaking that sounds like some electronic device is trying …read more
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