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Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.
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The Oscars Just Banned AI From Winning Acting and Writing Awards
Hollywood gets a little firmer in its stance on generative AI by keeping it away from two of the biggest Oscars categories.
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Tim Cook’s Clever Solution to the Tariff Refund Puzzle
One more from Jason Snell, from his analysis of Apple’s quarterly results: During a complicated question from J.P. Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee about product margins, Parekh unusually half-answered the question and then stopped and “turned it over to Tim” so that Cook could re…
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Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Movie Will Enchant Theaters in 2027
Netflix will treat 'Narnia: The Magician's Nephew' like a real film and give it a full life on the big screen.
gizmodo.com
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Defense Tech Leads With Multiple Large Deals, Topped By $600M For Space Security Startup True Anomaly
Large U.S. venture deals this week were led by a massive defense tech raise for space security startup True Anomaly. We also saw sizable deals for startups applying AI to fintech, marketing, customer service, healthcare and developer tools.
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Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch
It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.
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Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…
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The definitive sign of a settled adult isn’t certainty about what they want, it’s the absence of panic when they don’t yet know
The settled adult isn't the one with all the answers — it's the one whose nervous system doesn't sound an alarm when the answers aren't there yet. On the quiet skill of tolerating not-knowing.
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I worked forty years as an electrician and the thing nobody warns you about retirement isn’t the boredom, it’s that the silence at 7am on a Tuesday immediately surfaces every feeling I out-worked for four decades
Tommy Baker on what actually happens when forty years of work suddenly stops — not boredom, but the surfacing of every feeling the job kept at bay.
siliconcanals.com
New-Age Tech Stocks See A Mixed Week Amid Q4 Season, Unicommerce Worst Hit
New-age tech stocks witnessed a mixed response from investors amid the ongoing Q4 earnings season and tensions in West Asia.…
inc42.com
US Defense Department signs contracts with Nvidia, Microsoft and AWS to integrate advanced AI into classified networks
The US Department of Defense has signed new deals with Nvidia, Microsoft,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Centre Notifies 100% FDI In Insurance Sector
The Centre has allowed up to 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance companies under the automatic route, weeks after…
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IR Device Control That Lives Off The Cloud
There are lots of smart home systems that will let you blast your older dumb appliances with infrared to control them. However, many are tied to ugly cloud systems that …read more
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Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks
Article URL: https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979839 Points: 229 # Comments: 185
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Rust Helps Make A $1 Handheld Console
These days, even an old Game Boy will set you back $100 or more, and a new handheld console will be many multiples of that. However, you can build a …read more
hackaday.com
Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics
After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine what was wrong with …read more
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Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Article URL: https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983352 Points: 543 # Comments: 241
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Peripherals Hacks
Custom peripheral projects are among the most rewarding. Especially if you’re like me and you sit at the computer eight hours per day, anything that you can use on a …read more
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Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
Article URL: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982512 Points: 214 # Comments: 133
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This Handy Synth Packs An ESP32
Since the first electronic hobbyist wired up a multivibrator to a keyboard many decades ago, electonic synthesisers have been a staple of home-made projects. Now with the proliferation of significantly …read more
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EP213: MCP vs Skills, Clearly Explained
Both MCP and Skills extend what an agent can do. But they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one adds cost or complexity you don't need.
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