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What if you could produce a 10-minute animated sitcom episode just by typing text into a box? No drawing, no voice acting, no keyframing. Just a script and a button. Welcome to Flatopia, an open-source animation engine built on Python. Using the power of Manim (the math animation library) and Streamlit, Flatopia generates fully voiced, 2D animated episodes where … Read more

Launched in March, 2025, Kilo Code is an open source coding agent that can be configured for a range of tasks.

I’m a senior full-stack developer who still cringes at AI-generated code in production. But tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude already save me hours every week – not by writing code for me, but by reading code, exploring messy open-source projects, and filling gaps where documentation is missing.

Windows 11 updates can sometimes slow your system or cause apps to malfunction. This guide walks through every safe method—Settings, Control Panel, CMD, PowerShell, and troubleshooters—to uninstall or hide troublesome updates and restore stability.

When Common Sense Media—the organisation with 1.2 million teachers on its roster—put Google’s kid-friendly AI through its paces, they found a system that talks the safety talk but stumbles when it comes to protecting actual children.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Block, and other major tech players have united to launch the Agentic AI Foundation.

Explore Structured Concurrency in Swift: parent/child relationship, automatic cancellation, task groups, and more.

This article explains how the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) works in Windows 11, how to manage it via Services, CMD, PowerShell, and BITSadmin, and how to troubleshoot common issues using the built-in BITS troubleshooter.

Setting up development environments takes time. Doing this more than once is a time sink and prone to error. So how can we reduce setup complexity and quickly get to productively writing code ? I’ve been looking at this problem and applying it to my own apps for AI with Google ADK and Python. We … Read more

It’s been 6 months since the first release of Postgresus. During this time, the project received 247 commits, new features, as well as ~2.8k stars on GitHub and ~42k downloads from Docker Hub. The project community has also grown, there are now 13 contributors and 90 people in the Telegram group. In this article I’ll … Read more

The global financial order is built on trust, treaties, and the unspoken agreement that the United States Dollar is the ultimate store of value. For eighty years, this consensus has held firm. But in December 2025, the bedrock is cracking—not because of war or famine, but because of a mathematical inevitability known in game theory … Read more

When developing a new protocol, the default assumption is nearly always that a new native token must follow. Most blockchains and Web3 frameworks rely on cryptoeconomic systems comprising incentives and penalties to maintain protocol security and deter malicious actors. However, deploying a new Web3 application as a “rollup” or “Layer Two” solution has been common in … Read more

Overly large auto-generated config can crash your system.

CreditBlockchain has launched a free mobile cloud mining app that lets anyone earn Bitcoin, SOL, and other cryptocurrencies with zero upfront cost, no hardware, and no technical skills. The platform offers free computing power, daily earnings, referral bonuses, global leaderboards, and green energy data centers for sustainable mining. Users can start mining in minutes by … Read more

Albuquerque, New Mexico/December 10,2025/–Secury Wallet, a next-generation digital asset wallet built for speed, security, and simplicity, today announced the official launch of its multichain crypto wallet featuring Chat to Pay, an instant messaging–style payment technology that allows users to send crypto as naturally as sending a text message. Alongside the product launch, the project has … Read more

The experiment started with a straightforward question: can blockchain handle real educational operations at scale? Space and Time, a Web3 data warehouse platform, needed to prove its SXT Chain could process the transaction volume that comes with thousands of students accessing courses, making payments, and receiving credentials. Indonesia provided the testing ground. According to World … Read more

Let’s talk budget! Most tech brands treat ads and content as competing line items in their marketing budget. One team pushes for more paid campaigns. Another argues for content investment. Finance wants to know which delivers better ROI. Here’s what that binary thinking misses: ads and content work better together than separately. :::tip Ready to … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Related Works 2.1. Vision-and-Language Navigation 2.2. Semantic Scene Understanding and Instance Segmentation 2.3. 3D Scene Reconstruction Methodology 3.1. Data Collection 3.2. Open-set Semantic Information from Images 3.3. Creating the Open-set 3D Representation 3.4. Language-Guided Navigation Experiments 4.1. Quantitative Evaluation 4.2. Qualitative Results Conclusion and Future Work, Disclosure statement, … Read more

Zug, Switzerland, December 9th, 2025/Chainwire/–TrustLinq, a Swiss-regulated payments company, is addressing one of the most widely recognised problems in cryptocurrency: large amounts of crypto are held globally but cannot be used easily within the traditional financial system. The lack of a reliable and compliant path from crypto into global bank networks has left billions effectively … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Related Works 2.1. Vision-and-Language Navigation 2.2. Semantic Scene Understanding and Instance Segmentation 2.3. 3D Scene Reconstruction Methodology 3.1. Data Collection 3.2. Open-set Semantic Information from Images 3.3. Creating the Open-set 3D Representation 3.4. Language-Guided Navigation Experiments 4.1. Quantitative Evaluation 4.2. Qualitative Results Conclusion and Future Work, Disclosure statement, … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Related Works 2.1. Vision-and-Language Navigation 2.2. Semantic Scene Understanding and Instance Segmentation 2.3. 3D Scene Reconstruction Methodology 3.1. Data Collection 3.2. Open-set Semantic Information from Images 3.3. Creating the Open-set 3D Representation 3.4. Language-Guided Navigation Experiments 4.1. Quantitative Evaluation 4.2. Qualitative Results Conclusion and Future Work, Disclosure statement, … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Related Works 2.1. Vision-and-Language Navigation 2.2. Semantic Scene Understanding and Instance Segmentation 2.3. 3D Scene Reconstruction Methodology 3.1. Data Collection 3.2. Open-set Semantic Information from Images 3.3. Creating the Open-set 3D Representation 3.4. Language-Guided Navigation Experiments 4.1. Quantitative Evaluation 4.2. Qualitative Results Conclusion and Future Work, Disclosure statement, … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 10, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, George Jennings, Inventor of the Toilet, was Born in 1810, Unity bought Weta Digital tech division in 2021, Ernest Lawrence won the Nobel Prize in 1939, and we … Read more

Ask most people to multiply 97 × 96 in their head, and they’ll freeze. Ask someone who’s mastered mental math, and they’ll give you the answer in seconds: 9,312. Here’s what they did differently: They didn’t multiply 97 × 96 directly. They saw it as (100 – 3) × (100 – 4), which becomes 10,000 … Read more

Welcome to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon’s brand-new Weekly Newsletter that curates Results from our Poll of the Week, and related polls around the web. Thanks for voting and helping us shape these important conversations! We asked a simple question with complicated consequences. Is tech finally coming for Hollywood? That’s the question we put to readers recently in … Read more

Table Of Links Abstract Acknowledgements & Introduction 2. Universal properties 3. Products in practice 4. Universal properties in algebraic geometry 5. The problem with Grothendieck’s use of equality. 6. More on “canonical” maps 7. Canonical isomorphisms in more advanced mathematics 8. Summary And References Universal Properties In Algebraic Geometry In the previous section we saw … Read more

Table Of Links Abstract Acknowledgements & Introduction 2. Universal properties 3. Products in practice 4. Universal properties in algebraic geometry 5. The problem with Grothendieck’s use of equality. 6. More on “canonical” maps 7. Canonical isomorphisms in more advanced mathematics 8. Summary And References The Problem With Grothendieck’s Use Of Equality The above story is … Read more

Can Blockchain Gaming Compete With Traditional Sports Titles? The licensing agreement between Soccerverse and FIFPRO, announced December 10, represents blockchain gaming’s most comprehensive sports licensing deal to date. While traditional football games have relied on official partnerships for decades, Web3 gaming has struggled to secure similar legitimacy. This partnership grants Soccerverse rights to player names … Read more

This piece explores how engineer Pranav Pawar builds AI systems that survive real-world complexity. From deal-sourcing at Bain to healthcare automation and now orchestrating multi-agent marketing systems at Kalos, Pawar focuses on reliability, verification, and long-term scalability. His work shows how AI becomes useful only when built to deliver consistently in production.

Table Of Links Abstract Acknowledgements & Introduction 2. Universal properties 3. Products in practice 4. Universal properties in algebraic geometry 5. The problem with Grothendieck’s use of equality. 6. More on “canonical” maps 7. Canonical isomorphisms in more advanced mathematics 8. Summary And References Products in Practice When a mathematician writes X × Y , … Read more