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Nothing’s Ear 3a Wireless Earbuds Can Take ‘Audio Snapshots’

Nothing's Ear 3a wireless earbuds have two recording features that separate them from the rest of the Nothing pack.

The Milky Way’s Arms May Stretch Farther Than We Thought

New measurements could force astronomers to revise the mass of the galaxy.

The ‘Star Wars’ 50th Anniversary Celebration Begins in Philadelphia

A brand new exhibition called 'Star Wars: The Experience' opens February 2027 at the Franklin Institute.

The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

Forterra has deployed more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs in conflict zones in Ukraine.

Netflix invented binge-watching. Now it may have outgrown it.

A new report suggests Netflix viewers aren’t sticking around for Season 2. The bigger issue may be that binge-watching itself is no longer the advantage it once was.

What billions of AI predictions taught Expedia before the age of AI agents

There's an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they're building the second. Velocity without discipline and strategic direction is a liability, not an asset.…

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Broadcom secures long-term Apple custom chip deal through 2031

Broadcom and Apple have expanded one of the technology industry’s most important… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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China’s AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur

Backed by the state, Chinese workers are using AI to deal with limited resources and drive innovation to compete with Silicon Valley.

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Microsoft to lay off 20% of Xbox staff, divest five game studios to improve profitability: Report

Microsoft is reportedly planning the biggest restructuring in Xbox’s history. The company… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Kuaishou shares tumble as Tencent slashes stake after US$3b Kling AI deal

Shares of Kuaishou Technology plunged 12 per cent on Tuesday after Tencent Holdings slashed its stake in the short-video platform by selling 273 million Class B shares, just days after leading a US$3 billion financing round for Kuaishou’s artificial intelligence video unit, Kling…

Embodied AI's Spatial Vision Achilles' Heel Finally Solved: CMG Lab's IROS 2026 Breakthrough

China Merchants Group's LionRock AI Lab identifies and solves VLA shortcut learning with Hybrid Dynamic Data Collection, accepted at IROS 2026.

Alibaba wins reprieve on US lobbying after Pentagon blacklisted companies

Tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has secured a temporary legal reprieve that effectively allows it to resume lobbying in the United States, the latest development in its dispute with the Pentagon after the firm was included on a blacklist of companies deemed to support China’s mi…

North American Startup Funding Shattered Records In First Half Of 2026, Driven By AI

Overall, investment in U.S. and Canadian startups totaled a staggering $392 billion for the first half of 2026, per Crunchbase data, dwarfing anything we’ve seen before.

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Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple’s Version 27 OSes

The third developer betas of Apple’s 27 OSes dropped today, and this new page in Apple’s developer documentation drew my attention — a built-in Uniform Type Identifier for Markdown data: UTI: net.daringfireball.markdown Conforms to: public.utf8-plain-text I had previously recomme…

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Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’

Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens. While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on desktop, Google has long been al…

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Belt Fed Potato Cannon Spits Spuds

Spud guns are a staple of summertime fun for the maker set, especially on the Eagleland side of the pond, combining as they do two of our favourite things: firearms …read more

Why the NES Put Out a Wobbly Picture

The NTSC television standard is a masterpiece of mid-century engineering, to pack a color image into the transmission bandwidth of a monochrome one, and to do so while maintaining backward …read more

An Interactive Tomato Farm Overseen by AI

Oh, the farming lifestyle…living off the land, fending for yourself. But who’s got time for all that? For the modern hacker, the best option in the garden space may be …read more

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812055 Points: 201 # Comments: 67

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Is Now the Time for Volumetric 3D Printing?

Of all innovations adopted by the maker community within the past couple of decades, one stands among the rest on top for anything regarding manufacturing. It goes without saying here …read more

How to sequence your own DNA at home

Article URL: https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812156 Points: 303 # Comments: 111

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Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

Article URL: https://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811591 Points: 556 # Comments: 342

Proof of Human: How to Verify a Person Is Real and Unique

For this article we spoke with the team behind World, including Tiago Sada and Lily Gordon at Tools for Humanity, on how they try to solve this problem.

Learning to code is still worthwhile

Article URL: https://stevekrouse.com/learn-to-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810439 Points: 263 # Comments: 252

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