Apple just added more frost to its Liquid Glass design

Apple’s original Liquid Glass design was very transparent. Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language just got a little more… frosted. In the third iOS 26 developer beta, Apple dialed back the transparency of navigation bars, buttons, and tabs that once allowed you to clearly see the content beneath them. Apple already toned down the glassiness … Read more

xAI updated Grok to be more ‘politically incorrect’

Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, was updated over the weekend with instructions to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased” and “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect” — part of Musk’s ongoing attempt to shape the bot’s point of view. Musk announced on Friday that xAI … Read more

DePin: A New Frontier and Beyond

Tech-forward Jurisdictions should encourage a Physical Internet Revolution. We saw Tesla’s first robotaxi rides roll out in Austin last week at $4.20 per ride, with mile data logged on Tesla-owned servers. It was a win for autonomy. Yet, in this model, the fleet owner captures the data exhaust, the network effects, and most of the … Read more

Everything From Rookie Mistakes to a New Feature: My Passion Project’s Wildest Week

Hey HackerNoon, Kuwguap here. Guess what? I have exams in two days. Yes, actual university exams. And what am I thinking about 24/7? RAWPA(My penetration testing assistant). My passion project has completely hijacked my brain, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. So, while I should be memorizing lecture notes, I thought I’d get … Read more

Advertisers Still Love Television Entertainment Channels: Here’s Why

For all the growth seen by the online media, television continues to hold sway among the masses, especially when it comes to providing them with pure and unbridled entertainment. From sitcoms and family dramas to reality TV, music, and, of course, movies, the television entertainment channels offer advertisers a captive audience of millions who watch … Read more

Real Estate Firm Murano to Build Bitcoin Treasury With $500M Equity Deal

Murano Global Investments, a Nasdaq-listed real estate firm that owns hotels across Mexico, said it’s building a bitcoin BTC treasury strategy and mulls ways to integrate the largest cryptocurrency into its operations. The $800 million market cap company slipped a bit more than 1% in trading Monday after announcing the news. The firm has entered … Read more

How INRIX accelerates transportation planning with Amazon Bedrock

This post is co-written with Shashank Saraogi, Nat Gale, and Durran Kelly from INRIX. The complexity of modern traffic management extends far beyond mere road monitoring, encompassing massive amounts of data collected worldwide from connected cars, mobile devices, roadway sensors, and major event monitoring systems. For transportation authorities managing urban, suburban, and rural traffic flow, … Read more