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Data Centers Used to Be Movie Set Pieces. Now They’re the Villain
One data center got $77M in subsidies to produce one job. It's starting to look like the poster child for an industry's ruin.
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Sector Snapshot: EV Funding On Track For Modest Gains 
Funding to EV-related startups reflects a mix of optimism and restraint. While investors are backing big rounds for a handful of upstart brands, funding remains far below prior peaks and exit activity appears muted.
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The First Look at the ‘Elden Ring’ Movie Set Reveals an Infamous NPC
Plus, get a sneak peek at the aliens of 'Disclosure Day' in new footage.
gizmodo.com
Watch a Game Collector Recreate 1974’s Nintendo Arcade Target Shooter ‘Wild Gunman’
Full-motion video! From 1974!
gizmodo.com
Google doesn't pay the Nvidia tax. Its new TPUs explain why.
Every frontier AI lab right now is rationing two things: electricity and compute. Most of them buy their compute for model training from the same supplier, at the steep gross margins that have turned Nvidia into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google does not. On…
venturebeat.com
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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The global edtech boom is fading as investors look elsewhere
Venture capital is moving away from K-12 edtech worldwide as investors prioritize AI tools and workforce training with clearer returns.
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smart #2 EV concept and #6 EHD hybrid hatchback unveiled at brand night ahead of Beijing Auto Show
On Wednesday, at the smart Global Brand Night event held in Beijing, the China-Germany joint venture electric vehicle brand smart unveiled the new smart #2 concept car and the smart #6 EHD under the theme Change of Perspectives. As the brand continues to expand its electric vehic…
technode.com
Tencent unveils first flagship AI model with former OpenAI researcher at helm
Tencent Holdings has released a new flagship artificial intelligence model, the first since former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu joined the Chinese tech giant to lead its foundational AI development efforts. The Shenzhen-based company said on Thursday that the new model, an open-s…
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Huawei Launches New EV Powertrain Brand “DriveONE” at HarmonyOS Event
Huawei launches DriveONE, a high-efficiency EV powertrain brand aiming to redefine industry standards.
pandaily.com
Can IndieSemiC Win China’s 20-Cent Chip Challenge To India?
You or Neil Armstrong — who’s smarter? Ignore the 57 years spaced in between. And, it’s you, beyond doubt. The…
inc42.com
Google introduces Gemini Enterprise Agent platform, new AI chips, and more at Cloud Next ’26
At its annual cloud conference, Google Cloud Next 2026, Google announced a… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Ben Thompson on Tim Cook’s Legacy
Ben Thompson at Stratechery, “Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing”: Cook was, without question, an operational genius. Moreover, this was clearly the case even before he scaled the iPhone to unimaginable scale. When Cook joined Apple in 1998 the company’s operations — centered on Apple’…
stratechery.com
Are you paying an AI ‘swarm tax’? Why single agents often beat complex systems
Enterprise teams building multi-agent AI systems may be paying a compute premium for gains that don't hold up under equal-budget conditions. New Stanford University research finds that single-agent systems match or outperform multi-agent architectures on complex reasoning tasks w…
venturebeat.com
Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say
The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.
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How DoorDash Launches a New Country in One Week
In this article, we will look at how this architecture was designed and the challenges they faced.
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KernelUNO, An OS For The Arduino Uno
If you were to point to a single device responsible for much of Hackaday’s early success, it might be the Arduino Uno. The little board from an Italian university with …read more
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Making RAM at Home in Your Own Semiconductor Fab
There’s little point in setting up your own shed-based clean room for semiconductor purposes if you don’t try to do something practical with it. Something like responding to the RAMpocalypse …read more
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Website streamed live directly from a model
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How Gut Bacteria May Affect the Outcome of Cancer Immunotherapy
In the ongoing development of cancer immunotherapy, as well as our still developing understanding of the human immune system, there’s always been a bit of massive elephant in the room. …read more
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Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867 Points: 670 # Comments: 167
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Parallel agents in Zed
Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866750 Points: 246 # Comments: 137
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Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment at 10 km
For those who haven’t been following along, [BPS.space] aka [Joe] is on a journey to launch a home-built rocket past the Kármán line where it will officially reach outer space. …read more
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The Security Architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflow
In this article, we will look at how GitHub built a security architecture that assumes the agent is already compromised.
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