Why a former AirPods engineer is now building heat pumps
Merino Energy has simplified the heat pump dramatically in a quest to make them cheaper and easier to install.
Motorola announces Moto Pad and next-gen Moto G Stylus
Motorola has announced its two latest devices: the budget-friendly Moto G Stylus smartphone and the Moto Pad. The latter is a tablet and a new addition to the Motorola lineup with an 11-inch 2.5K display, compared to the 6.7-inch screen on the Moto G Stylus. The Moto Pad offers a MediaTek D6300 5...
Adobe takes on NotebookLM with Acrobat Student Spaces
Designed specifically for students, this new free tool generates study guides, mind maps, podcasts, and other AI-powered visual and auditory learning content based on class notes and other uploaded materials. Here are the details. more…
Aqara releases new Thermostat Hub W200 with Apple Adaptive Temperature support
Aqara just released the new Aqara W200 Thermostat Hub, featuring Matter 1.4 support and native integration with Apple’s new Adaptive Temperature functionality. These additions make it a compelling alternative to Nest for anyone wanting deep, system-level control within Apple Home. more…
Waymo opens robotaxi service in Nashville, partners with Lyft
Waymo now operates commercial robotaxi services in 11 cities, with various methods to hail.
Adobe launches Acrobat-based Student Spaces, a free AI-powered study tool for students
Adobe Acrobat Student Spaces is a free tool for students to use AI and create different kinds of study material from documents.
The AI gold rush is pulling private wealth into riskier, earlier bets
On a recent episode of Equity, we talked to Arena Private Wealth to explore a growing trend: family offices bypassing VCs to gain direct exposure to AI startups, turning them from passive investors into active participants.
More threats to Apple’s chipmaker through attempted theft of TSMC technology
A new Reuters piece describes new threats to Apple’s chipmaker TSMC as a result of further reported actions by the Chinese government. Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly told officials that he slept “with one eye open” after attending a classified CIA briefing on Taiwan, and there is no sign that he w...
Hermeus raises $350M to build unmanned hypersonic fighters
The defense aviation startup is coming off two successful flight demonstrations, and with the next one, it's aiming to go supersonic.
White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record
'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration' First, the good news: the Artemis II crew has successfully swung around the far side of the Moon and surpassed Apollo 13's record for the farthest distance traveled by humans in space. Now the bad news: ...
Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world
Article URL: https://www.intofarlands.com/atlasofarda Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674027 Points: 104 # Comments: 18
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The Download: AI’s impact on jobs, and data centres in space
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 one piece of data that could actually shed light on your job and AI Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, an AI-fueled jobs apocalypse is spoken about as a given...
Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go
Article URL: https://github.com/pion/handoff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673880 Points: 71 # Comments: 11
No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships
UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphorically The UALink Consortium, a group of tech giants working on GPU networking standards to provide an alternative to Nvidia's NVLink and NVSwitch, has released new specs, but is still months away fr...
Spotify's Prompted Playlist feature now works for podcasts
Spotify's Prompted Playlist tool now works for podcasts, after launching the feature for music earlier this year. As the name suggests, this is an AI thing. It lets users use natural language, or prompts, to describe what they're looking for in a playlist and the algorithm does the rest. The plat...
Best Electric Bikes (2026): Commuting, Cargo Bikes, Mountain Biking
I tested the best electric bikes in every category, from commuters and mountain bikes to foldables and cruisers.
Spotify’s prompted playlist feature will now work for podcasts, too
Spotify will now allow users to input natural language prompts to create podcast playlist.
NHTSA closes probe into Tesla's remote parking crashes
The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration has closed its investigation into Tesla’s remote parking features, after it found that previously reported incidents led to minor issues and happened in low speed. NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigations opened an evaluation into incidents i...
An inside look at the ‘fiasco’ of the Vision Pro launch in Apple stores
A new report provides an insider’s view of the Vision Pro launch at Apple stores, describing it as “a fiasco” in many of them. It also claims that while the Vision Pro launch was particularly problematic, it also pointed to broader issues with changes made to retail staffing over the years … more…