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Apple (Mostly) Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is With New Smart Home Gear

All of the smart home gadgets Apple co-developed with LG and Schneider work just fine with other ecosystems.

300 Glaciers Gone: New Review Reveals the Scale of Ice Loss in the American West

Warming air temperatures are causing glaciers to shrink by about 8% each decade.

China’s Smart Glasses Are Once Again Making Meta Look Silly

Alibaba's Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses make lofty claims about battery life and have a camera sensor that crushes Meta on paper.

The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US military’s race to make fake blood In February 2007, a US military helicopter carrying blood to a field hospital was shot down in Iraq,…

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In the Age of Jailbroken Consoles, Xbox Says the One to Mod First Wins

People are modding their PlayStation 5s and porting 'Halo' to browsers. Xbox thinks that may be the next use case for Project Helix.

The US military’s race to make fake blood

Its call sign was Morphine 1-2. In February 2007, the hulking dual-rotor casualty evacuation helicopter had just flown three wounded soldiers to a field hospital in Balad, north of Baghdad, when another call came: an emergency mission to fly through an insurgent-controlled are…

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PHANES AI Launches SeePhys Hub, a Wearable Kit That Records Vision, Touch and Full-Body Motion

PHANES AI's SeePhys Hub pairs a four-camera headband with wrist, waist and leg trackers and tactile gloves, capturing human motion and touch data for training robots.

AI inference-chip startup SUNMMIO completes Pre-A2 and Series A funding

Beijing-based AI chip startup SUNMMIO has completed its Pre-A2 and Series A financing. The latest rounds were led by Beijing state-backed investment platforms, including Yizhuang State Investment. The company has raised nearly RMB 2 billion in total over the past year. SUNMMIO de…

Nvidia’s China AI-chip share falls to 34% as Huawei reaches 28%

Nvidia’s share of China’s data-center AI accelerator market fell to 34% in the first half of 2026, while Huawei reached 28%, according to an IDC report seen by Reuters. US export restrictions constrained Nvidia’s supplies as Chinese chipmakers expanded shipments. Nvidia shipped 6…

Tencent launches free short-drama service inside WeChat

Tencent has launched a free short-drama mini program inside WeChat called Lüpaopao Duanju. The service offers live-action, animated and AI-generated dramas, with advertisements shown between episodes. The mini program includes a browsing section and a vertically scrolling recomme…

Hong Kong regulator suspends ChaPanda shares over suspected IPO manipulation

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission ordered trading in Chinese tea chain ChaPanda’s shares suspended from 9 a.m. on October 13, citing serious concerns that its initial public offering may have been artificially manipulated. The suspension forms part of an investigation…

Alibaba launches Qwen N1 AI glasses with swappable batteries, starting at RMB 2,899

Alibaba launched its Qwen N1 and N1 Pro AI glasses in China on October 13, with standard packages priced from RMB 2,899 and RMB 3,399, respectively. Both models feature replaceable batteries in the temples, allowing users to swap batteries during use. The glasses combine a 50-meg…

Netflix to lay off 1,000 staff amid intensifying competition for user attention

Netflix said most of the cuts would affect its product, tech, legal, and human resources departments.

Zenzap raises $44M for its AI chat app that aims to replace WhatsApp in the workplace

Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell

Forget the 10-Day Forecast. AI Just Improved Extreme Weather Warnings Up to 6 Weeks Out

This promising advancement could be a boon for disaster preparedness.

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Does It Run… Duke Nukem 3D?

When id Software released DOOM back in 1993 it helped define the genre, but it was hardly the only hit first-person shooter of that decade. There was also 3D Realms’ 1996 Duke …read more

AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

Article URL: https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/2260 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083130 Points: 422 # Comments: 203

Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

Article URL: https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084757 Points: 374 # Comments: 373

How the Math Used in 19th-Century Heat Physics Helps LLMs Understand Sentences

In this article, we are going to understand how this connection works and why a model needs help understanding the order of the words even when the words already arrive in an ordered list.

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font

Article URL: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084240 Points: 441 # Comments: 168

What’s a Nonius?

If you already know what a nonius is, you can probably skip this post. But, if like us, you would have to look it up, we’ll tell you what we …read more

Rendering 3D Prints From G-Code

Your CAD software generally has some rudimentary tools for rending images of your parts, from simply-textured models to more photo-realistic options. However, those renders are of the geometry you created—not …read more

How to Build Models Without Language, with Logical Intelligence

Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.

Testing Oneself for AI Slop

The feed of a Hackaday writer brings many surprises, some rubbish, and the occasional diamond which of course we bring to you. Sometimes a page catches the eye that’s not …read more