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EmTech AI 2026: The Rise of the AI Platform
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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic
Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.
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More and More Lampposts in California, New York, and Connecticut Will Soon Charge EVs
Voltpost's solution for EV charging infrastructure is to augment the existing electricity infrastructure.
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The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality
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. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a ra…
MIT Technology Review
★ What’s Good for the iOS Goose Is Often Not Good for the MacOS Gander
Tobias Steinke, replying on Mastodon to my “Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’” piece: But iOS app icons (and iPadOS) were always in squircle shape. Why is and was this okay for you, but it’s not for macOS? This is a good and fair question. But I not only have an…
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Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US
I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump administration set a goal to see three new microreactors achieve criticality, a te…
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Huawei Mate 90 Series Confirmed: Debuts HarmonyOS 7 and Tao's Law Kirin Chip, Taking on iPhone 18 Pro
Huawei Mate 90 series set for September launch with HarmonyOS 7 and a new Kirin chip using Tao's Law LogicFolding technology, achieving 53.5% transistor density improvement.
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DJI Unreleased EV50 VTOL Cargo Drone Flies Above Everest, Unlocking 100km Low-Altitude Logistics
DJI pre-release EV50 composite-wing drone reaches 8,861 meters above Everest during polar mission, demonstrating 100km-range VTOL cargo capability for extreme environment logistics.
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Can Green SM Succeed Where BluSmart Failed?
When BluSmart’s cabs suddenly disappeared from the roads of Delhi NCR last year, the region’s ride-hailing market — after years…
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Exclusive: Rural Commerce Startup Wheelocity Raises ₹82 Cr In Ongoing Funding Round
Rural commerce startup Wheelocity has raised over ₹82 Cr (about $8.5 Mn) in an ongoing funding round from new investors,…
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Porsche’s first-half deliveries fall 16%, China sales plunge nearly one-third
Driven by pressure in the Chinese market and the expiration of US electric vehicle tax credits, Porsche delivered 122,306 vehicles worldwide in the first half of 2026, down 16% year over year. Deliveries in China plunged nearly one-third from a year earlier, which Porsche attribu…
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Blue Origin could raise $10Bn at a $130Bn valuation in its first-ever external funding round
Blue Origin is reportedly preparing to raise $10 billion in its first-ever… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
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Die Casting Comes Home
You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is perhaps in part why we see most projects …read more
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An Analog Synth For The Modern World
We cover so many projects here at Hackaday that lead the author down a rabbit hole of technological investigation that distracts us from the task of bringing them to you. …read more
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ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: How They Differ
In this article, we will look at the various architectural forks the teams building these models encountered and the decisions they took.
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IBM Home Director: Home Automation in 1996
Back in the 1990s IBM had a pretty sizeable presence in the PC market, including its rather spiffy Aptiva series of PCs. Naturally their PCs had to feature heavily in …read more
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C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For
If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was eye-wateringly expensive by modern standards, and Jack Tramiel wanted …read more
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in less than a week. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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Fixing a Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC
One of the attractions of buying at the bottom end of the electronics market by mail order from China is that you never quite know what will come your way. …read more
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