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Broadcast Booths Around Baseball Tip Their Caps to John Sterling
Great stuff around MLB: Those around the league quickly honored that legacy during Monday night’s slate of games. Tributes rolled in from across the league, with various play-by-play announcers deviating from their typical routines to give a nod to Sterling’s distinct style. It s…
mlb.com
Alaska’s Famous Fjords Are Becoming a Cruise Ship Nightmare
Climate change is making landslides and tsunamis more likely in fjord regions such as Alaska's Tracy Arm.
gizmodo.com
Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A
Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.
techcrunch.com
The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open-source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps
There's an app for nearly every imaginable user and use case these days, but one thing they all have in common is that they're centered around one device: the smartphone. That changes today as Hugging Face, the 10-year-old New York City startup best known for being the go-to plac…
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Claris CEO Ryan McCann on FileMaker in the Age of Agentic Coding
That previous item led me to look at Claris’s website for the first time in a while. And, lo, there’s a banner promoting a message from CEO Ryan McCann that was posted just yesterday, under the headline “How Claris Is Building for What’s Next”: Every AI-generated application crea…
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Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals
The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting its key clean power goals at risk.
techcrunch.com
International tech
Samsung crosses $1Tn valuation as shares rise over 120% in 2026 amid strong AI chip demand
Samsung has crossed the $1 trillion market valuation for the first time,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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DeepSeek targets $50Bn valuation in first-ever fundraising round: Report
DeepSeek, a two-year-old Chinese AI startup that has quickly gained global attention… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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DeepSeek Claude Code Clone Hits 8,700 GitHub Stars as Developer Goes Viral
A Rust-based terminal AI coding agent built for DeepSeek V4 has taken GitHub's trending list by storm, accumulating 8,700 stars in days. Its creator, a patent law student, is now fielding interview requests from around the world.
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Reliance Eyes Multi-Billion-Dollar LEO Satellite Push To Take On Starlink: Report
Reliance Industries is reportedly exploring a major play into the satellite communications segment through a multi-billion-dollar investment in low earth…
inc42.com
Forget the dorm-room founder. The real winners are often twice that age.
The image is by now so familiar it feels like fact. A twenty-something in a hoodie, hunched over a laptop in a dorm room or a garage, types out the lines of code that will turn into a billion-dollar company by the time he’s thirty. Zuckerberg at Facebook. Jobs at Apple. Gates at …
siliconcanals.com
PB Fintech Q4: Profit Jumps 54% To ₹261 Cr
Policybazaar parent PB Fintech’s consolidated net profit surged 54% to ₹261.2 Cr in Q4 FY26 from ₹169.7 Cr in the…
inc42.com
AI Is Rewriting What Investors Should Look For In Early Startup Teams
Technical expertise still matters, but when everyone can build, thanks to AI, it no longer differentiates, writes guest author Aaron Tainter, director of accelerator programs at Innovation Works. And that forces a harder question for investors: If the product isn’t the moat, what…
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The Download: seafloor science and military chatbots
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. Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining Last week, two oblong neon submersibles started to descend n…
MIT Technology Review
Market research is too slow for the AI era, so Brox built 60,000 identical 'digital twins' of real people you can survey instantly, repeatedly
In a world where a viral TikTok video can cause a brand to trend globally in mere hours, the traditional market research cycle — often spanning 12 weeks — is becoming a liability. The lag between a survey question and the answers from a wide (or targeted) pool of respondents has…
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Taking Polyphony to a New Level
There are all manner of musical synthesis techniques, from the early electromechanical instruments through analogue tape systhesis, the all-electronic waveform synthesisers of the 1960s onwards, and Yamaha’s FM systhesis of …read more
hackaday.com
AI On Every Machine: The LLM You Probably Didn’t Want
It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have quietly installed an LLM as …read more
hackaday.com
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986 Points: 257 # Comments: 193
anthropic.com
Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP
In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.
bytebytego.com
Why Opposed Piston Internal Combustion Engines Are Great
Converting the ignition of a fuel-air mixture into usable mechanical energy lies at the core of a dizzying number of internal combustion engines developed over the course of more than …read more
hackaday.com
Appearing productive in the workplace
Article URL: https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001 Points: 433 # Comments: 158
nooneshappy.com
BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039739 Points: 200 # Comments: 278
electrek.co
How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products
In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.
bytebytego.com
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555 Points: 753 # Comments: 250
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