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‘Symbol’ Is a Surreal Escape Room Trip Better Experienced Than Explained
Hitoshi Matsumoto's esoteric 2009 film invites you to leave your sanity at the door it won't let you escape from.
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OpenAI Releases Codex Micro, a Stupid $230 Hardware Keypad
Remember back in March when then-co-CEO Fidji Simo announced to the company that “We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests”? And then weeks later they spent “low hundreds of millions” to purchase the TBPN YouTube show? In their continuing effort to focu…
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San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco
In the wake of a massive hours-long gridlock event, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has told state regulators its time to put more requirements on robotaxi operators like Waymo.
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SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition
The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses.
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People Can Lose Their Zest for Life After Starting GLP-1s, Docs Warn
A new case report highlights the potential risk of "anhedonia" from high doses of tirzepatide, though it can be treated effectively.
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China Just Dropped Another Bomb on America’s Frontier AI Companies
Moonshot's Kimi K3 beat Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 in some benchmarks... and it's an open model.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook and successor John Ternus meet POP MART founder Wang Ning at Apple Park
Apple CEO Tim Cook posted on Weibo today, welcoming the POP MART team to visit Apple Park, Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. He also shared a photo of himself with Apple’s incoming CEO John Ternus and POP MART founder Wang Ning during their meeting. This marks the se…
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Uber is acquiring Delivery Hero for $14.8Bn
Uber is powering its global food delivery ambitions with its latest $14.8Bn… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Scrapped Before Launch: ByteDance Doubao AI Glasses Gen 2 Speeds Ahead With Dual Models as Meta Ray-Ban Rivalry Heats Up
ByteDance cancels first-gen Doubao AI glasses for being too generic, accelerates dual-model second generation while planning third-gen, as AI glasses market surges 130% year-on-year.
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Ahead Of Mission II, Spacetech Soonicorn Agnikul Ropes In Ex-ISRO Chairman Somanath As Board Observer
Spacetech startup Agnikul Cosmos has onboarded former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Dr Somanath S as an observer to…
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The problem AI content moderation cannot solve
Meta and other big tech companies are increasingly using AI for content moderation, but as the backlash to Muse Image shows, it cannot protect users because it does not account for consent.
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LimX Dynamics Drops New Demo That Challenges Figure: China Humanoid Now Rivals Silicon Valley Best
LimX Dynamics Oli robot completes 3-minute uninterrupted household chores video after $200M funding round, placing China humanoid robotics on par with Figure capabilities.
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Decoy Font
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GOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating
Some breaking news from geostationary orbit, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that its newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) satellite unexpectedly went offline last night, …read more
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A USB Port by Any Other Color…
[Dr. Gough] bought a generic USB 3.0 hub on an Asian website. Surely, USB 3 is mature enough that even the cheapest hub will have some IC in it that …read more
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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426 Points: 475 # Comments: 108
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AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
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Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity
Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like planets in solar systems and big things in universes in general, it turns out …read more
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Bad Apple on a Karaoke Machine
CD+Graphics was a format that never really caught on. It let music discs pack some graphics, maybe liner notes, and mostly song lyrics into the otherwise empty space on a …read more
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A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.
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Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/sony-deletes-a-bunch-more-movies-from-the-accounts-of-people-who-bought-them/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933419 Points: 572 # Comments: 362
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