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Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules 
How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .
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Apple Is Reportedly Worried About Its Non-Creepy Reputation as It Prepares to Enter a Creepy Product Category
Can Apple's hard-fought reputation for privacy survive the release of a glasses product?
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The Messy Release of ‘Avatar Aang’ Continued at San Diego Comic-Con
Allegations of generative AI use hurt 'Avatar Aang,' which already couldn't catch a break this year.
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TechCrunch Mobility: Uber bets on its former CEO
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
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The ‘Lanterns’ Experience at Comic-Con Was One for the Ages
The 30-minute activation is themed to the upcoming DC show, premiering on August 16.
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Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack
"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
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International tech
30,000 Hours of Tactile Data Fills Embodied Intelligence Gap: XinZhi Embodied and Fudan University Release Three Technical Reports on Haptic Sensing
XinZhi Embodied and Fudan University publish three technical reports covering 30,000 hours of tactile data for embodied intelligence, addressing the missing touch sensing capability in robot manipulation.
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China Swarm Drones Achieve First Full 3D Typhoon Observation: Bee Colony Drone Array Captures Complete Typhoon Landfall Process From Multiple Altitudes Simultaneously
China Meteorological Administration uses bee colony drone swarm for first full-process three-dimensional typhoon observation, deploying coordinated UAV array to capture temperature, humidity, wind, and turbulence data.
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The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent
On July 13, more than 200 leading economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organised by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Its warning was stark: artificial intelligence may drive an economic transformation “larger than the Industrial Revo…
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Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2026
Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping…
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Flipkart’s Digital Mall Now Has A Food Court
When Flipkart entered quick commerce last year, many were sceptical of the move, as the ecommerce giant was seen as…
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Apple’s biggest-ever leak happened in India. Will firms rethink their China relocations?
When Apple set its sights on India as its next promising market, CEO Tim Cook planned to take a leaf out of the company’s China playbook – a retail and manufacturing strategy that had paid hefty dividends to the US tech giant. “We are, in essence, taking what we learned in China …
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Repairing a “for parts” Canon 7D Mark II DSLR
The exciting part of buying a ‘broken, for parts’ off a site like EBay is that you rarely know exactly just how ‘broken’ it truly is. Even if the seller …read more
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Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-discloses-94-1-billion-in-spacex-stock-marking-6-stake-91655d7c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057574 Points: 250 # Comments: 195
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London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service
Article URL: https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/gatwick-airport-robotic-parking-stanley-robotics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058669 Points: 210 # Comments: 143
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Delta Pen Plotter Draws In Multiple Colors
If you’re building your first plotter, or you just like thinking in right angles, you’d probably consider a Cartesian design for your build. [András Vujovits] went another route with his …read more
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How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com got Mauled by Bots
A lot has been made about the increase of automated traffic on the Internet, with the past years LLM-related crawlers having quite literally swarmed the picture here. Not only does …read more
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Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
Article URL: https://english.mapn.ro/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057248 Points: 208 # Comments: 238
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Duplicating Parts Using Silicone Molds
[Do As I Do] had a simple task to complete. A couple of small parts needed to be duplicated in some quantity, with good dimensional accuracy and surface finish. There …read more
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Kill The Cookie Banner
Article URL: https://killthecookiebanner.eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057175 Points: 440 # Comments: 237
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Ever Seen Claude Use Fusion 360?
We’ve all done it before: a simple project that escalated to the point of extreme overengineering. But what’s less common is [Lee Hutchinson]’s digital clock, whose case is (somewhat-successfully) designed …read more
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