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Why Public Speaking Skills Are Worth Investing In
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London-Based Tapestry VC Closes On $80M Third Fund To Invest In Repeat European Founders
Tapestry VC has closed an $80 million third fund to double down on Europe’s repeat founders and expects the coming wave of AI exits to produce yet another generation of experienced founders.
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The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public. Later that month, SpaceX filed an a…
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
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★ A Tale of Two Modems
Marko Zivkovic, reporting for AppleInsider regarding some of the data revealed by Tata Electronics’s massive data breach: For the U.S. variant of the iPhone 18 Pro, which will feature mmWave compatibility, Apple seemingly plans to use Qualcomm modem hardware. Multiple Qualcomm co…
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PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass Subscriptions
Following up on my earlier post on Valve’s righteous objection to selling game console hardware at a loss, I should have noted that PlayStation Plus starts at $11/month (and goes up to $20/month) and Xbox Game Pass starts at $10/month (and goes up to $23/month). One draw of these…
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Adding a dollar’s worth of protein powder to a latte is apparently enough to turn a five dollar coffee into a six dollar wellness purchase
I started taking protein powder a few weeks ago, after roughly a decade of treating it the way some people treat cults: intriguing from a distance, definitely not for me. I don’t have a dramatic reason for the wait. I just assumed one scoop would turn me into someone who says the…
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Will share buy-backs help Chinese big tech companies rescue battered valuations?
Chinese tech giants including Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holding, Meituan, and Xiaomi have launched aggressive share buy-back programmes to revive investor confidence amid continuing scepticism towards the sector, while analysts suggest that a bottoming out could soon be in …
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China’s EV makers are taking over the European factories Ford and Nissan can’t fill
What seems like a rescue could prove to be a retreat, as Chery leads its rivals into the heart of Europe’s car industry.
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Meta appoints Alex Schultz as its first-ever Chief Data Officer to strengthen AI strategy
Meta has created the new role of Chief Data Officer (CDO) for… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Somewhere a grandchild is living through the ordinary afternoon they’ll describe, sixty years from now, as the moment they felt most safe — and no adult in the room has any idea it’s happening
Ask an adult when they felt safest in their whole life and a striking number of them will not name a wedding day or a graduation or a birthday. They will describe an ordinary afternoon in a kitchen they can barely picture anymore. Researchers who study autobiographical memory hav…
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Govt Asks Meta To Pause WhatsApp Username Rollout: Report
The Centre has reportedly issued a notice to Meta to pause the rollout of WhatsApp’s proposed username feature in India…
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Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading
The company has grown rapidly by acquiring and revamping last-generation tech brands like AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote, Meetup, and Vimeo.
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As AI Reshapes Global Energy Systems, Melbourne Leads Through Engineering Collaboration
This article is brought to you by Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) supported by Business Events Australia. As artificial intelligence accelerates global demand for compute, a parallel constraint is emerging with equal urgency: energy. From hyperscale data centers to electrified …
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Digital resilience compounds when AI and human expertise scale together
Presented by Splunk Agentic AI is making IT and security teams dramatically more efficient. But it’s also removing the apprenticeship that has long produced experienced operators. As organizations automate more of the work once performed by junior analysts and engineers, they’…
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How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users
In this article, we will look at the entire journey in detail and challenges the OpenAI engineering team faced.
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Trying Out Viewer Suggestions for Levitation on an Induction Cooker
Doing something once is fun, but if you get interesting feedback from viewers on how to make things even more fun, you can only follow all of these instructions and …read more
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Fable 5 is Back
Article URL: https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2072402636813607381 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752030 Points: 362 # Comments: 341
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Inside Thinking Machines’ Interaction Models
In this article, we will look at what the research preview covers and the concept of an interaction model proposed by Thinking Machines.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 873: Wait, That’s Not Open Source!
This week Jonathan chats with Andy Gryc and Aaron Basset about QNX, and the interesting Open Source history and future of that embedded OS. Why does QNX Everywhere feel more …read more
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How AI Agents Manage Memory and Avoid Forgetfulness
In this article, we will try to understand how that architecture gets built, from the constraint that forces it to exist all the way to the tradeoffs that follow.
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No-Drill Sailing Kit for a Canoe
The first known use of humans using wind to perform mechanical work with machines dates back to ninth-century Persian windmills. But if we count sailing vessels among those machines, the …read more
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Positioning Without Satellites Or Base Stations
We’re all used to satellite navigation systems such as GPS or GLONASS, sheer magic in which the combination of a set of reference transmitters and super-accurate timing information can be …read more
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Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
Article URL: https://news.ubc.ca/2026/06/mrna-vaccines-are-safe-effective-and-full-of-promise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754963 Points: 269 # Comments: 234
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