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Virtual Reality: A Bold New Era for Workforce Learning

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Every generation thinks it has reinvented learning. Slides replaced chalkboards. E learning replaced slides. Then came microlearning, gamification, bite-sized content, and apps that flood employees with “nudges.” Yet, ask any HR team a simple question. Are employees actually learning faster today? The honest answer is usually no. Workforces are drowning in content but starved for … Read more

Slab is the first MIDI controller built exclusively for Serato Studio

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Music making is always better with hardware. Native Instruments and Ableton have had incredible success with their custom MIDI controllers that integrate with their DAWs (digital audio workstations), Maschine and Live, respectively. Native Instruments’ Maschine (yes, it’s the name of the hardware and the software) and Ableton’s Push are pretty much the gold standard for … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Flight Recorder: A New Go Execution Tracer (12/13/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Sir Francis Drake Sets Sail on Circumnavigation Voyage in 1577, Saddam Hussein is Captured in 2003, Nanking is Raised and Destroyed in 1937, and we present you with … Read more

This $1,500 robot cooks dinner while I work

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The Posha robot chef can autonomously cook a meal from scratch. As I’m sitting in my office writing this review, delicious, cheesy, garlicky scents are wafting up the stairs. I can hear whizzing and whirring, and the occasional clunk, as a robot chef in my kitchen is making macaroni and cheese. Its app tells me … Read more

The Nex Playground and Pixel Buds 2A top our list of the best deals this week

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The Nex Playground is a compact, cube-shaped console that’s currently on sale for $50 off. | Image: The Verge The Nex Playground is apparently one of the hottest consoles this holiday season thanks to its kid-friendly games and fun, motion-controlled gameplay. And now through December 14th, the cube-shaped console is on sale for its Black … Read more

Flight Recorder: A New Go Execution Tracer

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In 2024 we introduced the world to more powerful Go execution traces. In that blog post we gave a sneak peek into some of the new functionality we could unlock with our new execution tracer, including flight recording. We’re happy to announce that flight recording is now available in Go 1.25, and it’s a powerful … Read more

Why Do People Keep Fantasizing About AI Bringing On the Apocalypse?

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Hi everyone, Michael Reilly here. It’s still early in 2024, but is anyone else exhausted by the levels of drama and hyperventilation surrounding AI? One thing that’s been particularly striking for me is some people’s willingness to invoke catastrophe—actual apocalyptic visions of our future—to describe their spiffy chatbots and image generators. I’m thinking in particular … Read more

10 Proven Ways to Reduce Misalignment Between Stakeholders in Product Teams

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If you work in product management long enough, you realize something uncomfortable. The biggest blocker to shipping great products isn’t engineering capacity. It’s a misalignment between stakeholders. PMs spend countless hours in meetings debating opinions, revisiting decisions, clarifying context, and fixing broken communication loops. Misalignment is the invisible tax on every tech organization; it slows … Read more