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After TikTok, Snap settles social media addiction case
Snap is the latest big tech company to settle a lawsuit that claimed social media platforms are harmful to children and young adults. The company has reached a “tentative” agreement in a case that was set to go to trial later this month. TikTok recently settled its portion of the…
techcrunch.com
Back to School: The 8 Best Alternatives to Buying a TV
There are so many screens out there to watch things on, and not all of them have to take up tons of space in a dorm room.
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SEM-Guided Low-kV FIB Finishing for Leading-Edge Semiconductor Failure Analysis
Discover how the ZEISS Crossbeam 750 FIBSEM sets a new benchmark for precise TEM lamella prep, tomography, and advanced nanofabrication. This delivers better resolution, better SNR, larger usable FOV, and shorter acquisition times. Learn how uninterrupted FIB milling will reduce …
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Dell Technologies Capital: How To Build A Deep-Tech Startup For A Market That Isn’t Ready Yet And Why AI Won’t Kill SaaS
In this interview with Crunchbase News, Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses how AI is reshaping SaaS and why he doesn’t believe the business model is headed for extinction, why he thinks distribution may ultimately separate the winners from th…
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At VB Transform 2026, Zillow's engineering chief said AI ROI numbers only hold up if you measure before you build
Zillow, the real estate technology company, doesn't get one conversation with its customers. They move from a phone screen to a loan officer to a real estate agent, sometimes over months or years, and expect the context to follow them. A single chatbot could never carry that thre…
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New Cooling Tech Could Pave the Way for Longer Smart Glasses Recording
xMEMS says its tiny new microfan could be a boon for AR glasses and smart glasses alike.
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International tech
XPENG releases TuringViT for smart driving and humanoid robots
XPENG has published TuringViT, a vision encoder for vision-language and vision-language-action models used in smart driving, smart cockpit systems and its IRON humanoid robot program. XPENG offers TuringViT-18L and TuringViT-24L. At 1536×1536 resolution, the company says TuringVi…
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In 1887, a Scottish veterinarian named John Boyd Dunlop watched his son bounce painfully along a cobbled path on a tricycle and glued strips of rubber into a tube of air around the wheels that night, because the boy had complained of headaches from the ride — and the pneumatic tyre he improvised in his garden was working on Belfast streets within a year
How a Scottish vet's improvised rubber tube — built in a Belfast garden shed to stop his son's cycling headaches in 1887 — became the passive suspension system every wheeled vehicle on Earth still uses.
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Alibaba outlines Qwen3.8 with 2.4 trillion parameters
Alibaba’s Qwen team has previewed Qwen3.8, a forthcoming model with 2.4 trillion parameters, and said its weights will be released soon. A preview version, Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, is already available through Alibaba’s Token Plan, Qoder and QoderWork. Alibaba has not yet provided de…
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LONGi Green Energy Plants a Technology Forest on BC Cells: ACM Silver-Free Contact, Integrated Conductive Backsheet Lead Beyond 690W Modules
LONGi Green Energy unveils eight innovations including ACM nano-alloy contact replacing silver, 672W ACM module, 690W stackable BC technology, and 35.5% crystalline-silicon-perovskite tandem cell world record.
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XPower Technology Defies Big-Chip Orthodoxy: Small RPP Architecture Chips Use Distributed Computing to Beat Giants at AI Inference
XPower Technology unveils RPP architecture AE7100E chips at WAIC: fingernail-sized chips with 12 on one card, supporting 400B-1.6TB parameter models through distributed computing at lowest token cost.
pandaily.com
Another ‘DeepSeek moment’? What China’s Kimi K3 means for the global AI industry
The launch of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has revived an intense debate that has raged in Silicon Valley ever since DeepSeek’s shock breakthrough last year: whether China can overcome its limited access to advanced chips to match the performance of the United States’ frontier artificia…
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Detection of a Four-Carbon Sugar in Interstellar Space
Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially on other worlds – …read more
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Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Article URL: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986091 Points: 324 # Comments: 288
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Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989701 Points: 362 # Comments: 150
qwen.ai
What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
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Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986731 Points: 427 # Comments…
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MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other
Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.
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Java Ring Restored After Nearly 30 Years
Back in the late 90s when absolutely everybody knew that Java was going to become the one programming language to rule them all, the Java Ring was handed out to …read more
hackaday.com
Incremental – A library for incremental computations
Article URL: https://github.com/janestreet/incremental Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987822 Points: 289 # Comments: 53
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20 FPS on E-Paper Display Without Help
If electronic paper displays have one downside, it’s generally refresh rate. Earlier versions of the tech might only have been able to do single-digit frames per second, while modern, mid-range …read more
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