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OpenAI Engineer Helps Companies Attract Buyers and Boost Sales
Like many engineers, Sarang Gupta spent his childhood tinkering with everyday items around the house. From a young age he gravitated to projects that could make a difference in someone’s everyday life. When the family’s microwave plug broke, Gupta and his father figured out how t…
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Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant can use Creative Cloud apps to complete tasks
Adobe says the assistant can work across apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and its other apps to do tasks for you.
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Apple Has Hidden the Pre-Creator-Studio Versions of Keynote, Numbers, and Pages in the Mac App Store
Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: On the iPhone and iPad, Apple made the new Creator Studio features available as updates to the existing App Store releases. On the Mac though, the rollout was a lot more confusing. Apple kept the old iWork apps for Mac available on the App Store and lau…
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On the Name of Apple’s Foldable iPhone
Tim Hardwick, last week at MacRumors: Apple’s first foldable iPhone may not carry the speculative media-derived “Fold” branding after all, according to Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station. In a new post on Weibo, the oft-accurate leaker claimed that Apple’s book-style foldable co…
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Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX
The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-bo…
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Traza raises $2.1 million led by Base10 to automate procurement workflows with AI
For decades, procurement has been the back office that enterprise software forgot. Billions of dollars flow through vendor negotiations, purchase orders, and supplier communications every year at the largest manufacturers and construction companies in the country — and the vast m…
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Psychology says people who randomly cringe at past memories have a level of self-awareness that most people never develop — because the cringe only exists when a person is emotionally intelligent enough to look back at who they were and recognize the distance between that version of themselves and the one standing here now, and that distance is called growth even when it feels like shame
That uncomfortable feeling when old memories make you physically recoil isn't your brain punishing you — it's actually a sophisticated form of emotional intelligence that proves you've evolved beyond who you used to be.
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Qwen AI Glasses S1 Launch at USD 500
Alibaba‘s Qwen AI Glasses S1 are now on sale for USD 500, featuring multimodal voice-vision interaction, dual-eye displays, a 12MP camera, and hot-swappable batteries for extended use.
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Lightelligence on track with IPO plans as China’s AI photonics race gathers pace
Silicon photonic computing chips – long overlooked in the artificial intelligence hardware stack – are emerging as a new focal point in mainland China’s semiconductor push, as domestic companies move towards public listings amid intensifying US-China competition and surging deman…
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Alibaba Cloud to Raise DDoS Protection Pricing by Up to 50 Percent
Alibaba Cloud will raise prices for DDoS protection services by up to 50% starting July 15, 2026, with the mainland China Elastic 95 feature increasing to USD 21 per Mbps per month.
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Delta Intelligence Raises USD 14 Million+ to Build Humanoid Foundation Models
Delta Intelligence has raised over USD 14 million to build humanoid foundation models combining a proprietary 3D world engine, enabling full-body loco-manipulation for industrial and real-world tasks.
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OpenAI acquires AI finance startup ‘Hiro’, bringing entire team on board
OpenAI has quietly expanded its footprint in the financial technology space with… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all
For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-­edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund. By the end of the meeting, th…
MIT Technology Review
Microsoft launches MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a cheaper and faster AI image model
Microsoft today launched MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lower-cost, higher-speed variant of its flagship text-to-image model that the company says delivers production-ready quality at nearly half the price. The release, available immediately in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground with…
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Astronomers Just Dropped the Largest High-Res 3D Map of the Universe
It's a good time for cosmology.
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How LinkedIn Feed Uses LLMs to Serve 1.3 Billion Users
In this article, we will look at how the LinkedIn engineering team rebuilt the Feed and the challenges they faced.
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DOOM on a Fancy Smart Toaster
Although toasters should be among the most boring appliances in a household – with perhaps just a focus on making their toasting more deterministic rather than somewhere between ‘still frozen’ …read more
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Stop Flock
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Don’t Trust Password Managers? HIPPO May Be The Answer!
The modern web is a major pain to use without a password manager app. However, using such a service requires you to entrust your precious secrets to a third party. …read more
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Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)
Article URL: https://super-memory.com/articles/sleep.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776557 Points: 206 # Comments: 100
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A Tale of Cheap Hard Drives and Expensive Lessons
When it comes to electronic gadgets, I’m a sucker for a good deal. If it’s got a circuit board on the inside and a low enough price tag on the …read more
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Original PlayStation Brought Up To Date
In a satisfying blend of classic console restoration and modern modding, [Elliot] from the Retro Future channel has transformed a broken, dirty PlayStation into what they call the “ultimate PS1.” …read more
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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
Article URL: https://iczelia.net/posts/e16-20-year-old-bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774789 Points: 210 # Comments: 107
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Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)
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