China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets
China’s state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
China’s state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
The launch comes as tokenized stocks become one of the fastest-growing corners of crypto, with exchanges and traditional finance firms racing to expand 24/7 trading.
Netflix has shows and movies. And video games. And live sports. And podcasts. And also, apparently, YouTube videos? For a company that used to seem like the next big thing in TV, it all feels a little frenetic, and maybe a tad desperate. For a company that sees sleep as its primary competitor, it might … Read more
The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time.
Dumb Co sells flip phones that sync to your smartphone, bridging the infinite connectivity of the iPhone and the unrealistic limitations of an early 2000s relic.
Despite President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign Congress’ bipartisan housing bill, it’s set to go into effect at midnight, and its temporary CBDC ban along with it.
Stablecoins are carving out specialized roles as regulation reshapes the market, while Strategy’s Bitcoin sale and Vanguard’s tokenization push highlight crypto’s evolving financial landscape.
Model customization transforms general-purpose AI models into specialized enterprise assets. By fine-tuning foundation models (FMs) on domain-specific data, businesses teach AI their unique workflows, terminology, and deep domain specialization, along with strict adherence to brand voice and fewer hallucinations. For enterprises, this is more than an optimization. It’s the creation of proprietary intellectual property. A … Read more
Disney Plus is considering making some of its content free to watch, according to a report from Business Insider. A source tells the outlet that Adam Smith, Disney’s chief product and technology officer, mentioned a free streaming tier during the company’s town hall on Thursday. It’s not clear which shows or movies the purported free … Read more
In dentistry, image quality determines whether a claim is paid or denied. Up to 20 percent insurance claims are initially denied, with missing or low-quality images among the leading causes. Yet quality assessment has traditionally been a manual, after-the-fact process. A clinician reviews an X-ray hours or days after capture, discovering problems only when a … Read more
In this post we show how to build a semantic layer on AWS using Stardog’s Semantic AI Application over Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift, and how to run a Strands Agents agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that queries the layer to answer customer 360 questions across both sources without extract, transform, and load (ETL). The … Read more
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An artificial intelligence (AI) agent can process an invoice, help adjudicate a claim, or classify a support ticket in a proof of concept. But running these agents across thousands or even millions of work items in a production environment introduces an entirely different set of challenges. At enterprise scale, success depends on much more than … Read more
The initiative builds on a broader shift by companies exploring stablecoins to move money between international operations more efficiently.
This post was co-written with Daniel Han and Michael Han from Unsloth. Deploying large foundation models (FMs) stored at their original 16-bit floating-point precision (BF16 or FP16) is expensive. They need large GPU instances, driving up serving costs, and slowing down iteration cycles. Quantization addresses this by reducing the numerical precision of a model’s weights … Read more
Unless President Trump vetoes the bill, it will become law at midnight, banning the Federal Reserve from developing a CBDC until 2031.
Anker’s Prime Wireless Charging Station can deliver up to 25W of power to compatible iPhones. If you’re looking to declutter your nightstand and quickly charge up to three of your most-used gadgets, Anker’s Prime Wireless Charging Station is an easy way to do both. The station has spots for your MagSafe-ready iPhone, Apple Watch, and … Read more
Hey Hackers! Welcome to another edition of HackerNoon Projects of the Week, where we spotlight standout entries from the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon, HackerNoon’s global competition designed to reward what actually matters: real utility, real users, real impact. This week, we’re looking at three projects solving distinct problems, an AI signal engine for crypto perpetual … Read more
The massive round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.
Bitcoin price gains came thanks to US whales propeling the Coinbase Premium above a key trend line, new analysis from CryptoQuant reported.
Circle secured final OCC approval to establish a national trust bank, shifting its $73.2 billion stablecoin to a unified federal framework.
Amid signs of slowing engagement, Netflix is reportedly considering launching “always-on” live channels, giving subscribers something to tune into 24/7.
I used the Trump phone for a week so that you don’t have to. The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June, in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet. Nor when Trump Mobile admitted – just two weeks later – that it wouldn’t be made in … Read more
The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said.
The Fed named a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead an AI productivity and jobs task force under Chair Kevin Warsh’s policy review.
A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group extort American victim companies into paying the hackers.
Let’s learn about Automated Testing via these 115 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Automated testing is the process of using software tools to execute tests and compare actual outcomes with predicted outcomes, without … Read more
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This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Bryan Johnson, best known as the man who wants to live forever, has an incurable autoimmune disease. The internet’s most … Read more