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What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math
In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. My research focused on simulating how special light waves interact in liquid crystals …
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Repositioning retail for the AI era
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how products surface in searc…
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Cursor Deal Puts US On Track For Record Startup M&A Year
While SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere dominates the headlines, a number of other multibillion-dollar transactions have also closed this year. We take a look at the 10 largest M&A deals so far in 2026.
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IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade
IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail, which is twice the density of the company’s previous state-of-the-art technology announced in 2021. The design could pave the way for faster and more energy efficient compu…
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The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law
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. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to it…
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‘Barbarian’ Gets First Physical Media Release 4 Years After Its Premiere
Zach Cregger's first horror film will be available as a 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray SteelBook.
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International tech
AI Face Aversion Goes Viral as 22 Billion Yuan AI Manga Market Hits Growth Ceiling
AI-generated faces trigger physiological aversion among users as China 22B yuan AI manga market confronts aesthetic fatigue and slowing growth
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Adani Group Launches ‘Vande Bharatam’ Initiative To Back Startup Founders
Conglomerate Adani Group has launched Vande Bharatam, a nationwide initiative to identify and support entrepreneurs, innovators and problem-solvers from across…
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IRDAI’s Reform Push That Can Upend Insurance Startups
When someone buys car insurance in India, it’s generally assumed that most of the premium goes towards insurance coverage. However,…
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Amazon adds $13Bn more to its planned India investment with focus on AI, Data Centres
With Amazon CEO Andy Jassy currently visiting India and meeting with the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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China’s Big Fund becomes SMIC’s third-largest shareholder after record Star Market buyout
China’s state-backed Big Fund has become the third-largest shareholder of the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), the country’s largest wafer foundry, after SMIC completed its acquisition of a manufacturing subsidiary in the largest merger and acquisitio…
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As Storage Costs Bite, Apple Hikes Prices Of iPads & MacBooks In India
Amid soaring global memory and storage costs, big tech giant Apple has hiked the prices of its many key products…
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Cheap 80s Keyboard Gets Modern Brain Upgrade
The 1981 Casio VL-1 was a fine cheap keyboard. It had a robust build, though an admittedly limited sound palette. [Max Vega] had one of these charming instruments, and decided …read more
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Top Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Service Architecture
In this article, we will look at some of the most important anti-patterns in service architecture, how they happen, and how they can be avoided.
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Increasing Local GPS Accuracy for a Small Robot
Even though GPS makes it possible for us to easily navigate around the planet in almost any vehicle we’d like, whether that’s a passenger vehicle, airplane, or cargo ship, it’s …read more
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Fixing a Warped Paperback Spine With Gentle Heating
Although paperbacks are a much-loved aspect of the literary world, they are not really intended to last the decades the way that hardcover books are. Beyond the typical ravaged covers, …read more
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Increasing Photon Upconversion Efficiency with Structural Exciton Localization
In structures like photovoltaic cells there is only a limited spectrum of wavelengths that can perform useful work, with the remaining wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation effectively wasted. If the energy …read more
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Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge (https://openknowledge.ai/), a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and other agents. Available as MacOS app or Web UI+CLI. Fully free/local and OSS. We built this because w…
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Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-quietly-gets-one-more-year-of-support-and-updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675369 Points: 226 # Comments: 197
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CSS On The ESP32
There are lots of graphics libraries available for the ESP32, and lots of ways to program one to boot. Even still, most of us wouldn’t immediately think to CSS when …read more
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