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WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries

WeLion New Energy is on a quest to make safer, better batteries. The company’s semi-solid-state cells could improve safety and offer greater energy density than lithium-ion batteries to power electric cars, boats, and drones. From the EVs that carry commuters home to the ships th…

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The Flagship Hypershell X Series Exoskeletons Are All 15% Off in the Amazon Prime Day Sale—Save up to $300 on Staying Active and Connected

Travel farther and more often with your loved ones.

The Orange Unicorn Horrors of ‘Buddy’ Come Home Next Week

Cristin Milioti stars in Casper Kelly's indie hit about an exceptionally nightmarish kiddie TV show.

Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch

As the team at MIT Technology Review set out to choose companies for this year’s edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch, the challenge felt more daunting than any year since we started compiling the list in 2023. This year is shaping up to be one of the ho…

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After Factory’s public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests

Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.

2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch

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openJiuwen's DigitalMate Turns One Sentence Into a Native Task Screen on HarmonyOS

openJiuwen's DigitalMate, a HarmonyOS task-center agent, merges travel, local services, email and media from one request, builds native screens with A2UI, and asks before acting.

Zimbabwe banks on India’s UPI to speed up transactions, lower costs

Zimbabwe is in active talks with NPCI International to build its payments infrastructure on UPI. A deal could close by October 31 — which would make it the first Sub-Saharan African country to adopt UPI. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, la…

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Meesho Shares Jump Over 6% After Jefferies Retains ‘Buy’ Rating

Shares of Meesho rose 6.1% to an intraday high of ₹240.40 apiece on the BSE after Jefferies maintained its ‘Buy’…

Richard Yu Says Huawei Has Mass-Produced 381 Tau Chips, From Phones to Smart Cars

In an October 4 video, Richard Yu said Huawei has designed and mass-produced 381 Tau chips across phones, AI, general computing, networking and smart cars,.

POWERCHINA Connects 1-GW Gonghe Solar PV and Molten-Salt Tower Project in Qinghai to the Grid

POWERCHINA's Gonghe project in Qinghai, pairing 900 MW of PV with a 100 MW molten-salt tower plant and 10,310 heliostats, is on the grid, completing China's first three-tower solar thermal base.

Hollow-Core Fiber Enters Commercial Use Between Ningxia Computing Centers, Cutting Latency Over 30%

Hollow-core fiber is now in commercial use between intelligent computing centers in Zhongwei, Ningxia, cutting latency and loss by over 30% as light travels at 99.7% of its vacuum speed.

Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years

The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.

Oracle Health Data Breach From Last Year Was Reportedly Huge

Bloomberg reports that 20 million people were affected.

OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.

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EP228: How SSH Works

Secure shell is a method to access a remote machine securely over an unsecured network. It starts with a TCP connection from the SSH client to the remote machine (SSH server).

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

Article URL: https://flattensf.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971230 Points: 220 # Comments: 78

USB-C PD Tamed with this Analyzer

USB-C Power Delivery (PD) has been a boon to anyone working with low-voltage DC power, because at a stroke it replaces a vast array of wall warts, power supplies, and …read more

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

Article URL: https://qlabs.sh/research/dust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970871 Points: 211 # Comments: 54

A New Type of LLM on the Block: Decision-Making Models

Large language models (LLMs) output language, but they are commonly tasked with making a decision or classification of some kind instead of writing an essay or chat reply. An LLM …read more

3D-Printed Filter Removes Most Microplastics From Water

With the rise of synthetic polymers in everywhere from clothing, packaging and beyond, we have also seen a corresponding rise in fragments of these polymers in the environment. These micro- …read more

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

Article URL: https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971921 Points: 241 # Comments: 157

The LLM Blindspot: Why Models Forget What’s in the Middle of Your Prompt

In this article, we’ll look at why LLMs have this bias against middle information.

Two Microcontrollers Talking, All It Needs is an LED

There are some projects that seem at first sight to be easy, but anyone who tries them finds a whole heap of unexpected problems and turns to the off-the-shelf device. …read more