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Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
Is AI leaving the era of "turn-based" chat? Right now, all of us who use AI models regularly for work or in our personal lives know that the basic interaction mode across text, imagery, audio, and video remains the same: the human user provides an input, waits anywhere between mi…
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Spotify’s launches a Wrapped-style recap of your entire listening history
Spotify's new feature will show you the number of unique songs that you listened to until now
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The Switch 2 Could’ve Had Drift-Resistant Joysticks All Along
But if you plan on replacing your Joy-Cons, you should know what you're getting into.
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iOS 26.5 Includes Beta Support for End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging
Apple Newsroom: Starting today, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out in beta for iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest version of Google Messages. When RCS messages are end-to-end encrypted, they can’t be read while…
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The New PowerMac
Apple stopped selling the Power Mac G5 (with space) in August 2006, so I’m not sure how much they care about Kraft using “PowerMac” (sans space) as a trademark for protein-enhanced macaroni and cheese. (I feel like there’s got to be a joke to be made here about a “cheese grater”.…
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Aaron Paul Heads to the Wasteland for ‘Fallout’ Season 3
Plus, Amazon is bringing 'Fourth Wing' to television.
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Behavioral science suggests that responding well to education and opportunity may itself be a partly inherited trait — not just a product of good parenting
A new study from Lund University, tracking roughly 880 twins from the German TwinLife project, reports that between 69 and 98 percent of the link between IQ at 23 and socioeconomic status at 27 can be attributed to genetic factors. IQ itself came in at around 75 percent heritable…
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eBay rejects GameStop’s $56Bn takeover bid over financing doubts and strategic risks
eBay has formally rejected a massive takeover attempt from GameStop, calling the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Tencent Music reports Q1 2026 revenue up 7.3% as non-membership music services rise 28%
Tencent Music Entertainment Group reported unaudited first-quarter 2026 revenue of RMB7.90 billion ($1.15 billion), up 7.3% year-over-year. Non-IFRS net profit attributable to equity holders rose 7.0% to RMB2.27 billion ($330 million). Music-related services revenue increased 12.…
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Semiconductor Startup HrdWyr Raises $13 Mn To Build AI-Native Chips
Bengaluru-based semiconductor startup HrdWyr has raised $13 Mn (about ₹124 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by Ideaspring…
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Entropy About Tech's Flyer O1: The World's First Home Flying Robot, Raising Millions in Seed Round
Shenzhen Entropy About Intelligent Technology (熵约科技) announces a millions-of-dollars seed round, led by Chuxin Capital. The company has launched the Flyer O1—the world's first home flying robot designed for family spaces—expected to officially launch by end of this year.
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The psychology of attention residue and how I have started minimizing it
Imagine this. You’re forty minutes into a piece of work. The thinking is finally clicking, the sentences are starting to land in roughly the right order, and you can feel the shape of what you’re trying to say. Your laptop pings. A Slack message. You glance at it. It can wait. Yo…
siliconcanals.com
AI is turning connected cars into pothole-finding machines
Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they're deteriorating.
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Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon …
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Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool
A new startup called Dessn has raised $6M to build AI-powered design tools that work directly with production codebases.
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Honda Wants to Complicate Your E-Motorcycle
If you ride a motorcycle, you know it is a bit of an art to manage the transmission on a typical bike. Electric motorcycles lose some of that. You usually …read more
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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
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They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
Article URL: https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700 Points: 361 # Comments: 112
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Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
https://github.com/TanStack/router/issues/7383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706 Points: 916 # Comments: 383
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The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does
You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber …read more
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Another Gift To The World From CERN: Their Entire Set Of KiCad Libraries
As the foremost boffins of Europe toil deep underneath the border between Switzerland and France in their never-ending quest to truly understand the fabric of the Universe, they rely on …read more
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Learning Software Architecture
Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106024 Points: 218 # Comments: 39
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Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
Article URL: http://www.typewritten.org/Media/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428 Points: 358 # Comments: 157
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How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem
In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.
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