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Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app
As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in billions, Peacock announced on Monday that is launching two unscripted Bravo microdramas, which will stream in the Peacock app.
techcrunch.com
Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering
Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with technological capabilities and bolt applications onto them, rather than starting w…
MIT Technology Review
Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Digg returns (again) as another place to read AI news.
techcrunch.com
Implementing advanced AI technologies in finance
In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership races to impose structure, governance, and strategy after the fact. The result …
MIT Technology Review
NYT’s Wordle to become a TV game show
This will be the first time that The Times has collaborated with a TV broadcaster for an entertainment-based program, representing yet another pivot in the media company's attempt to build a sustainable digital subscription business as print revenue continues to decline.
techcrunch.com
The New PowerMac
Apple stopped selling the Power Mac G5 (with space) in August 2006, so I’m not sure how much they care about Kraft using “PowerMac” (sans space) as a trademark for protein-enhanced macaroni and cheese. (I feel like there’s got to be a joke to be made here about a “cheese grater”.…
kraftheinz.com
International tech
LDROBOT Robotics Jumps 103% on HK IPO Debut, Market Cap Hits $2.4B
LDROBOT Robotics surges 103% on its Hong Kong IPO debut, becoming China's second listed robot company after UBTECH. The DTOF LiDAR maker counts Ecovacs and Dreame as clients.
pandaily.com
Digital Gold Platforms Band Together To Form New SRO
India’s leading digital gold platforms have banded together to form a new self-regulatory organisation (SRO), called Digital Precious Metals Assurance…
inc42.com
India’s space-tech startup Agnikul Cosmos could raise up to $75Mn at $500Mn valuation
India’s private space sector is seeing fresh investor interest as Chennai-based startup… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
Alibaba to merge Qwen AI with Taobao in push for new AI-powered shopping
Alibaba Group is preparing to roll out a major integration between its AI platform Qwen and e-commerce marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, as the Chinese tech giant pushes to transform online shopping through AI. The move is designed to replace traditional keyword-based searches with …
technode.com
Behavioral science suggests that responding well to education and opportunity may itself be a partly inherited trait — not just a product of good parenting
A new study from Lund University, tracking roughly 880 twins from the German TwinLife project, reports that between 69 and 98 percent of the link between IQ at 23 and socioeconomic status at 27 can be attributed to genetic factors. IQ itself came in at around 75 percent heritable…
siliconcanals.com
China ranks third in global index for AI competitiveness in life sciences
China ranked third in a new global index measuring competitiveness in AI for biotechnology, healthcare and longevity, as the race to apply AI moves from chatbots and general-purpose models into regulated, data-heavy industries such as drug discovery, diagnostics and preventive me…
scmp.com

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Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095550 Points: 285 # Comments: 485
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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
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This Credit Card Computer Follows All Dimensions
A computer the size of a credit card is nothing new. There have been many single-board computers following the familiar dimensions. [Krauseler]’s credit card computer is different, though. It packs …read more
hackaday.com
CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler
Article URL: https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096692 Points: 314 # Comments: 98
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It’s a Water Clock, Jim, But Not as We Know It — It Has Digits
Guess what time it is– that’s right, clock time! It’s always clock time, and when it’s clock time at Hackaday the weirder the better. So, how about a water clock …read more
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A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/dealbook/ai-notetakers-legal-risk.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093043 Points: 215 # Comments: 156
New York Times
The Vacuum Tube’s Last Stand(s)
When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History often treats tubes as a dead-end technology that was suddenly …read more
hackaday.com
Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
Article URL: https://ratty-term.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093100 Points: 570 # Comments: 181
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Making Big Dry Ice Blocks With Low Pressure CO2
Although the term ‘dry ice’ is generally used for solid CO2, it’s much more accurate to call this ‘dry snow’, as, rather than being actual solid blocks, they are effectively …read more
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