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Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’

Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens. While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on desktop, Google has long been al…

How ‘Rick and Morty’ Spinoff ‘President Curtis’ Will ‘Retcon’ Its Main Character

Co-creators Dan Harmon and James Siciliano talk about the upcoming Adult Swim series starring Keith David.

Amazon competitor Bookshop.org says Kobo e-reader support will happen this year after all

Bookship.org seemed to delay this anticipated partnership again, but tells TechCrunch that it has settled business terms and is working on integration.

Jason Snell Ends His Column, and 28-Year Run, at Macworld

Jason Snell, at Macworld: My first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going out of business. It was the fall of 1997, and Steve Jobs had returned to Apple and engineered the ejection of Gil Amelio as CEO, but there was no iMac yet, no visible turnaround in …

Scientists Built Amphibious Cyborg Cockroaches and We Regret to Inform You They Work

Next week: cyborg locusts!

VHF Propagation: What Every RF Engineer Should Know

A practical educational guide to common and uncommon VHF propagation modes, covering the physics, range implications, and real-world behaviors engineers need to understand. What Attendees will Learn 1. Why “line of sight” fails as a practical VHF planning model. 2. How refraction…

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Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, was worth nearly £10 billion before turning 40 — and he still owns roughly 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia that the family has refused to sell for three centuries

Hugh Grosvenor became the 7th Duke of Westminster at 25 with a £9.9 billion fortune built on 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia — land his family has leased, but never sold, since 1677.

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China memory module giant’s first-half profit set to jump more than 600-fold

One of China’s biggest memory module makers is forecasting a more than 600-fold surge in first-half profit, highlighting the boost to the mainland’s downstream storage companies from the global memory-chip upcycle. Shenzhen Longsys Electronics said on Friday evening that the net …

Two people can eat the identical bowl of pomegranate seeds and only one receives the anti-aging payoff — the difference comes down to a set of gut bacteria the majority of us simply don’t carry

Only a specific set of gut bacteria — Gordonibacter and Ellagibacter species — can convert pomegranate ellagitannins into urolithin A, the molecule longevity researchers link to mitochondrial repair. Most adults don't carry enough of them, which means the same bowl of seeds deliv…

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Flipkart Launches Second ESOP Liquidity Event In 12 Months

Walmart-owned ecommerce major Flipkart has announced its second ESOP liquidity event over the past year, allowing eligible employees to sell…

Apple brings back card payments for App Store, iCloud subscriptions in India: Report

Apple has reportedly started bringing back credit and debit card payments for… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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UBTECH says full-size humanoid robots typically run for only two to four hours amid U1 battery criticism

UBTECH’s newly unveiled full-size humanoid robot U1 has drawn widespread attention, particularly the U1 Ultra (male version), which carries a price tag of RMB 990,000 ($146,000). However, its reported battery life of just two to four hours has sparked criticism from some who argu…

The World’s Obsession With ‘Obsession’ Just Hit Another Major Milestone

Curry Barker's viral horror hit just crossed the $400 million mark at the box office, putting it on a very elite list.

The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Nintendo Will Quit Selling the Original Switch in Europe. Who’s Next?

The end seems nigh for the OG Switch and the era of all-physical game cards.

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The Bit79 was a Famicom clone that took the “Family Computer” Name Seriously

While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, it was very rarely used as a …read more

Ultra-Long Range Flights To Ease Australian Air Travel

Pity the poor Australians. Isolated on a jagged hunk of land far from everywhere else, these industrious people have to take two-legged flights (or more) to reach a great many …read more

Road to Elm 1.0

Article URL: https://elm-lang.org/news/faster-builds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803364 Points: 249 # Comments: 106

Good Judgment Beats Good Prompts

2026.04 - "Judgement is the last human skill AI can't replace". Everyone is saying it. I am trying to understand it. I want you to get good at it. Let's get philosophical and practical.

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Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

Article URL: https://www.map.signalbox.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802535 Points: 334 # Comments: 125

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Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

Article URL: https://raheeljunaid.com/blog/anthropics-method-to-losing-goodwill-in-a-few-easy-steps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803751 Points: 231 # Comments: 171

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Hackaday Europe 2026: Is Your Blood Pressure Monitor Lying To You?

Blood pressure is one of the so-called “vital signs” that medical practitioners use to determine the basic state of a patient in any given moment. It’s exactly what it sounds …read more

Article URL: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993 Points: 207 # Comments: 157

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.