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We’ve Seen the First 18 Minutes of ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’
The footage played at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, featuring Pedro Pascal and a bunch of AT-ATs.
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IEEE Entrepreneurship Connects Hardware Startups With Investors
Roughly 90 percent of hard tech startups fail due to funding constraints, longer R&D timelines for developing hardware, and the complexity of manufacturing their products, according to a number of studies. Generally, these startups require up to 50 percent more investor financing…
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Colliding With Reality, Indeed
Anton Troianovski, reporting for The New York Times under the headline “Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality”: President Trump is trying to cast his Iran war as all but over, a done-and-dusted success. But after years of trying to impose his own reality on t…
New York Times
Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The change began rolling out a few weeks ago, and user frustration is mounting. On Reddit, there’s a growing thread of Netflix subscribers saying they are canceling their subscription because of this change to the Apple TV app. [...] The change also means …
9to5mac.com
Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report
AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.
techcrunch.com
Hollywood’s First Big Budget AI-Generated Movie Is About Bitcoin, of Course
Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot star in 'Paycheck: The Movie.'
gizmodo.com
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YouTube adds option to turn off Shorts with new ‘Zero-minute’ timer
YouTube is rolling out a new update that lets users effectively turn… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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China’s AI firms scaled up on open-source models. The next phase may be different
In China’s hyper-competitive and lucrative tech industry, releasing cutting-edge artificial intelligence models for free may seem counter-intuitive – but it has become a core business strategy. At the University of Hong Kong last November, Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai …
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Psychology says people who always choose the aisle seat aren’t just planning for bathroom access — they’re preserving what researchers call ‘autonomous exit’: the psychological certainty that you can move whenever you need to
I’m sitting in a cafe on Pasteur Street in District 1 this morning, watching the scooters stitch their way through the intersection, and I’ve just noticed something about the guy at the next table. He took the chair closest to the door. Coffee in hand, laptop open, body angled a …
siliconcanals.com
Psychology says people who check on everyone else during a crisis before acknowledging their own fear aren’t selfless — they learned that being needed is the only form of safety their childhood ever reliably delivered
The man running toward everyone else's fear while ignoring his own isn't brave — he's rehearsing a survival strategy he learned before he could tie his shoes.
siliconcanals.com
The Mexican security company with a $1.27 billion surveillance empire
Founded as a home alarm business in 1995, Grupo Seguritech now operates 188 command centers across Mexico and has at least 31 subsidiaries. Now it's coming to the U.S.
restofworld.org
Startups In DPDP Maze, Flipkart Eyes $2.5 Bn & More
Can Startups Solve The DPDP Puzzle? A regulatory scramble has ignited a ₹10,000 Cr compliance market. With a year left…
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Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained
This article covers how Figma’s design-to-code and code-to-design workflows actually work, starting with why the obvious approaches fail, how MCP solves them, and the engineering challenges that remain.
bytebytego.com
Desktop Digitizer Makes Note Capture a Breeze
While it might seem quaint these days, we’ve met many makers and hackers who reach for a pen and a pad when learning something new or working their way through …read more
hackaday.com
Codex for almost everything
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/codex-for-almost-everything/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796469 Points: 799 # Comments: 399
openai.com
FPGA Powers DIY USB Scope and Signal Generator
Oscilloscopes and to lesser extent signals generators are useful tools for analyzing, testing and diagnosing circuits but we often take for granted how they work. Luckily, [FromConceptToCircuit] is here to …read more
hackaday.com
The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
Article URL: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799120 Points: 265 # Comments: 186
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Do We Really Need Another Development Board?
It’s fair to say that there are a lot of development board form factors for MCUs, with [Tech Dregs] over on yonder YouTube on the verge of adding another one …read more
hackaday.com
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796830 Points: 370 # Comments: 77
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Claude Opus 4.7
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411 Points: 1638 # Comments: 1152
anthropic.com
Everything we like is a psyop?
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/everything-we-like-is-a-psyop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800738 Points: 200 # Comments: 120
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