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New Zealand Passed a Generational Smoking Ban in 2022, But Repealed It Before It Went Into Effect
Eva Corlett, reporting for The Guardian in 2023: New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts — a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands of lives and be “catastrophic”…
The Guardian
‘Final Fantasy XIV’ Wants You to Chill
The critically acclaimed MMO's next expansion, 'Evercold,' is bringing big gameplay changes to let you keep up at your own pace.
gizmodo.com
DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5
The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the release of its open source R1 model that matched proprietary U.S. giants. It's bee…
venturebeat.com
★ Norwegian Boating Licenses and Generational Law
The Norwegian Maritime Authority: If you were born in 1980 or later and plan to operate a recreational craft of more than 8 metres in length or with an engine power of more than 25 hp, you need a boating licence. The boating licence is a certificate permitting you to operate Norw…
daringfireball.net
Yong Wang Turns Information Into Insights
When Yong Wang recently received one of the highest honors for early-career data visualization researchers, it marked a milestone in an extraordinary journey that began far from the world’s technology hubs. Wang was born in a small farming village in southwestern China to parents…
spectrum.ieee.org
Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain
Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab. But it's a two-way street.
techcrunch.com
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XYZ Embodied AI Launches BotPack B Series Edge Computing Backpack
XYZ Embodied AI has introduced the BotPack B Series, an edge computing backpack that enables robots to run AI models locally with reduced latency.
pandaily.com
XTEINK Raises Over RMB 100 Million to Expand AI E-Paper Devices
XTEINK, a Chinese AI e-paper startup, has raised over $14 million to expand its ultra-portable secondary screen devices and accelerate overseas growth.
pandaily.com
If you’ve been trying to change your life and keep ending up in the same patterns, the problem probably isn’t the plan, it’s that the part of you making the plan is the same part of you that built the life you’re trying to change
You're meticulously crafting the perfect escape plan from your unsatisfying life, unaware that the escape artist and the prison architect share the same mind—and that's exactly why you keep building better cages instead of finding freedom.
siliconcanals.com
AI optimism surges in Asia, unlike in the U.S.
New research shows Americans are far less excited about AI — and far less trusting of regulators — than their counterparts across Asia.
restofworld.org
XGRIDS’ LingView P1 Spatial Camera Wins Four NAB Awards
XGRIDS’ LingView P1 spatial camera won four awards at NAB Show, highlighting its ability to convert real-world environments into interactive 3D digital spaces.
pandaily.com
SpaceX, Anduril and others secure $3.2Bn US Space Force contracts for Golden Dome project
SpaceX has been selected as one of the contractors for the US… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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2026 Green Powered Challenge: Solar-Powered Pollution Monitor
As we learn more about all the nasty stuff floating in the air, it becomes more compelling to monitor the air for pollution levels. [Aleksei Tertychnyi] does just that with …read more
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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40b-in-anthropic-in-cash-and-compute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895080 Points: 206 # Comments: 7
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 367: Radioactive Weather, Continuous Pickles, and Moon Junk
When Elliot Williams and Al Williams compare their notes on the week in Hackaday, you know you’ll get at least one or two bad puns. How bad? Tune in and …read more
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Spool Roller Gets Touch Screen
If you have a desktop 3D printer, you probably want something to hang filament spools on. [LVTRC] has a spool roller that fits the bill. It also incorporates a scale …read more
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I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
Article URL: https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892019 Points: 749 # Comments: 445
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Audio-Forward Case Mod of Classic 90s Portable TV
The humble cathode ray tube (CRT) was once the technology behind almost all of our televisions and computer displays. Its replacements, from LCD screens to OLED and others, are generally …read more
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
GPT-5.5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 - April 2026 (1010 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894000 Points: 202 # Comments: 113
developers.openai.com
SDL Now Supports DOS
Article URL: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15377 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892291 Points: 215 # Comments: 75
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