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Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation
The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India with support for English, Spanish, and Hindi.
techcrunch.com
Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes
When it comes to AI models, size matters. Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta’s latest Llama release had a sta…
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The Chip That Made Hardware Rewriteable
Many of the world’s most advanced electronic systems—including Internet routers, wireless base stations, medical imaging scanners, and some artificial intelligence tools—depend on field-programmable gate arrays. Computer chips with internal hardware circuits, the FPGAs can be rec…
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Why Japan’s Most Durable Asset May Not Be Made In A Factory
Today, Japan’s unique fusion of obsessive individual creativity and precision engineering underpins both its global cultural dominance and technological strength, guest author Yuki Shirato points out, creating a rare opportunity the world is only beginning to recognize.
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The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste Today, nuclear energy enjoys rare support across the political spectrum. Public approval has spiked…
MIT Technology Review
BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun
BMW i Ventures is interested in startups working on agentic AI and physical AI, as well as industrial software, advanced materials, and manufacturing and supply chain technologies.
techcrunch.com
International tech
I got stood up by an AI agent, and tracked down its human owner in China
A solo entrepreneur is paying a quarter of his salary to let AI agents run his side-hustle app. He recently realized his "employees" have been keeping secrets.
restofworld.org
Nobody warns you about the part of aging past 70 that actually lands hardest, and it isn’t the body or the slowing down, it’s the quiet Friday afternoon you realize the people who knew the younger version of you are gone, and the ones still here only ever met the careful, edited version you became
You wake up one morning past seventy and realize you've become a stranger to your own life story—the only person left who remembers the unedited version of who you were before you learned to be careful with your words and your past.
siliconcanals.com
WhatsApp Bans 9,400 Accounts Over Digital Arrest Scams Post SC Crackdown
Meta-owned WhatsApp has banned 9,400 accounts in India for involvement in digital arrest scams since January 2026, as part of…
inc42.com
China penalizes AI platforms over failure to label AI-generated content
China’s internet regulator has penalized several digital platforms for failing to properly label AI-generated content, in the latest enforcement action targeting the fast-growing sector. In a notice released on Tuesday, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said that the a…
technode.com
Making an AI a multiplier instead of a threat
Making an AI a multiplier instead of a threat Boston Consulting Group ran an experiment with 758 consultants. The ones using AI finished 25% faster and produced 40% higher quality work. The lowest performers jumped 43%. That is what leverage looks like in a controlled setting. An…
siliconcanals.com
SHAREBOT Raises Several Hundred Million RMB in New Funding as It Scales Rapid Robot Deployment Network
SHAREBOT raises a new multi-hundred-million RMB round to scale its robotics leasing platform, accelerating nationwide deployment and building a standardized robot delivery network across 100+ cities.
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How Stripe Detects Fraudulent Transactions Within 100 ms
In this article, we will look at how Stripe’s Radar does this effectively and the architectural decisions the team took while building it.
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Bugs Rust won't catch
Article URL: https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499 Points: 409 # Comments: 211
corrode.dev
Noctua Releases 3D Models, But Please Don’t Try To Dupe The Products
Noctua wants to make life easier for fans of its…fans. To that end, the company has released a bevy of 3D models across its various product lines, all available to …read more
hackaday.com
Compact VGA Output Board For The Pi Pico
Many microcontrollers can spit out simple analog video signals if that’s something you desire. However, it normally requires a bit of supporting hardware and, of course, the right connectors to …read more
hackaday.com
Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Article URL: https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945918 Points: 279 # Comments: 90
nldigitalgovernment.nl
How Amazon Uses LLMs to Recommend Products
In this article, we will look at how COSMO works and the challenges the engineering team faced.
bytebytego.com
Can you 3D Print a Pinball Machine That’s Fun to Play?
It seems fair to say that pinball machines are among the most universally loved gaming systems known today, yet the full-sized ones are both very expensive and very large, while …read more
hackaday.com
Wipeout Clone Runs Native on ESP32-S3
Psygnosis’s 1995 game Wipeout is remembered for two things: being one of the greatest games of all time, and taking advantage of the then-new PlayStation’s capacity for 3D graphics. The ESP32-S3 …read more
hackaday.com
Before GitHub
Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921 Points: 543 # Comments: 173
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