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DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground
DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.
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USPS Is Putting Dashcams in Mail Trucks to Keep an Eye on ‘Community Safety’
The number of roving surveillance machines is growing by the day.
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A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
Financial markets have always relied on timely information, and the drive for timeliness has always adapted to the latest technology. From clipper ships transiting the oceans to telegraph wires connecting cities to fiber-optic cables conducting trades in microseconds, traders hav…
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Gurman Reports Apple Is Launching New ‘Smart Home’ Products on October 13
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gif link): Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion for the company under new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus. At the center of the strategy is a smart-home…
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IEEE Celebrates Innovators Shaping the Future
Every year, IEEE recognizes individual researchers, innovators, and collaborative teams whose technical achievements and leadership have made a lasting impact on technology, engineering, and society worldwide with its Technical Field Awards. The honorees are selected by the IEEE …
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“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the sp…
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TPG Sells More Shadowfax Shares Via ₹114 Cr Bulk Deal
Private equity (PE) giant TPG has now offloaded more shares of listed logistics giant Shadowfax via an open-market transaction for…
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New AITO M8 SUV starts presales at RMB 389,800
AITO opened presales for the updated M8 SUV on September 30, with prices starting at RMB 389,800 ($54,700). The new model comes with Huawei’s ADS 5 driver-assistance system and a vehicle architecture designed with future Level 3 automated driving in mind. The M8 remains available…
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Cofounder Upasana Taku Picks Up 1.1 Lakh MobiKwik Shares
MobiKwik cofounder and chief financial officer (CFO) Upasana Taku has picked up 1.07 Lakh shares of the listed fintech company…
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Simple Energy Raises $180 Mn To Unlock Next Growth Phase
Electric two-wheeler (E2W) manufacturer Simple Energy has raised $180 Mn (₹1,750 Cr) in its Series C funding round. The round…
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BYD plans overseas launch event for Yangwang luxury brand
BYD plans to hold an overseas launch event for its Yangwang luxury vehicle brand, the company said in a record of its September 29 shareholder meeting. It did not give a date or location for the event. The company also said it expects its Brazil plant to produce about 250,000 veh…
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Apple Pay launches in India with an Axis Bank partnership, no UPI
Apple Pay is live in India, twelve years after its US debut. It supports Axis Bank credit cards at NFC terminals. It does not support UPI — which handles 84% of India's digital payments. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news …
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Assembling and Testing a DIY Jet Turbine
After many months of painstaking work, [AlfMart CNC Garage] over at YouTube has finally reached the stage where he can fully assemble his DIY jet turbine and commence testing. Even …read more
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Gemini 4 Argon
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913571 Points: 433 # Comments: 215
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Roman Telescope Saves Fuel, Doubles Mission
Contemplate the events that might end a space mission, and you might picture something dramatic: detonation on the pad, a dead guidance system, or micrometeoroids shattering delicate solar panels. More …read more
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The AI Race Just Got Awkward
Article URL: https://insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-just-got-awkward/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910553 Points: 357 # Comments: 396
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You said no MCP
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906637 Points: 548 # Comments: 317
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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
Article URL: https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905487 Points: 478 # Comments: 362
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AI Agents Can Think. Now They Can Pay.
I attended a MPP event at Stripe HQ, where I spoke with Emily Sands and Matt Schulman from Stripe, along with Brendan Ryan from Tempo.
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Open Source Tricorder Is In It For The Science
If you’re reading Hackaday there’s pretty good odds you’re at least somewhat fond of Star Trek. We’d bet good money most of you would quit your jobs today if a Starfleet …read more
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Apple Finally Made AirPods Repairable… Sort Of
It’s been true for a while now that Apple’s AirPods have been effectively disposable, with [iFixit] slapping each successive generation with an abysmal 0/10 repairability score. The moment that any …read more
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