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Uber’s European expansion plans may have hit a speed bump

Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 — but now five of those launches are reportedly on hold.

‘Mob Psycho 100’ Crew Reflect on the Make‑or‑Break Journey of the Decade‑Defining Anime

For director Yuzuru Tachikawa and Mob and Reigen Japanese voice actors Setsuo Ito and Takahiro Sakurai, 'Mob Psycho 100' didn't start out as sure bet, but its resonance with fans all these years later made the anime's hard-fought battle to exist worth it.

What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public

Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

Grim New Details From the Life of the Plaintiff in Social Media’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Case

The anonymous social media addiction lawsuit plaintiff known as “K.G.M.” has stepped out of the shadows.

All the New Books and Manga Announced by Kodansha at Anime Expo 2026

There's a new 'Witch Hat Atelier' story collection to tide you over until the anime's second season.

International tech

Chased by Huawei, Alibaba, and Meituan, AI Infrastructure Firm SiliconFlow Races Toward IPO

SiliconFlow, an AI token supply platform backed by Huawei, Alibaba and Meituan, files for Hong Kong IPO despite negative gross margins and mounting losses.

The GPU Hunger Games, E3W’s Safety Crisis & More

India’s AI Boom Runs Into A Compute Crunch The way India buys AI compute power is being rewritten. Amid geopolitical…

China memory module giant’s first-half profit set to jump more than 600-fold

One of China’s biggest memory module makers is forecasting a more than 600-fold surge in first-half profit, highlighting the boost to the mainland’s downstream storage companies from the global memory-chip upcycle. Shenzhen Longsys Electronics said on Friday evening that the net …

HeyGears Steps Beyond Dental 3D Printing, Takes Aim at Bambu Lab's Consumer Market Turf

HeyGears, dominating 60% of China's dental 3D printing market, launches consumer-grade products with full-color resin printing, challenging Bambu Lab's FDM dominance.

ByteDance and Alibaba to disable humanlike AI custom agents as new rules loom

Two of China’s major consumer-facing artificial intelligence apps, ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba Group Holding’s Qwen, are moving to disable customised agent features, as new rules on humanlike AI interaction services are set to take effect, part of Beijing’s push to build a bro…

OYO’s IPO Hinges On One Trade-Off: Profitability Vs Debt

OYO’s IPO became synonymous with highs and lows in India’s startup ecosystem. Every high point in the past four years…

‘E.T.’ Is Getting a Lego to Light Up Your Life

If you love aliens and the 80s, Lego has a new 'E.T.' set that combines the best of both worlds.

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The Coolest Hat At The Hacker Camp

People in hotter parts of the world may permit themselves a grin at this, but Europeans have recently been suffering under an unseasonal June heatwave. Most of us have been …read more

Seeing Bacteria, Nanoprisms, and More with an Atomic Force Microscope

Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image their subjects. Instead, they physically detect the subject’s surface with a …read more

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership

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Demonstrating LFP Battery Safety in Case of BMS Failure

Generally, LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries are quite safe and stable, but it’s still possible for something to go wrong, even something catastrophic, like the battery management system (BMS) developing a direct …read more

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Hackaday Links: July 5, 2026

Happy belated July 4th to all the readers from the United States — hopefully you aren’t reading this from a hospital bed after losing a hand or burning off your …read more

2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: A 3D-Printed Raman Spectrometer

When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion of their energy to raising the vibrational energy of …read more

Proof of Human: How to Verify a Person Is Real and Unique

For this article we spoke with the team behind World, including Tiago Sada and Lily Gordon at Tools for Humanity, on how they try to solve this problem.