How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Can Machines Learn Taste? By @laumski [ 8 Min read ] Silicon Valley wants to teach AI good taste. But machines … Read more
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed … Read more
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Hugging Face’s Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It’s available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot “before Christmas 2026.” Video demos of the … Read more
Plaud has introduced a new AI wearable that’s designed to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, only this time it looks like earbuds instead of a pin. The Plaud One Explorer Edition can be worn like traditional earbuds or used through its standalone charging case, and the case includes built-in 4G to upload and process … Read more
Plaud’s new ‘agentic’ earbuds are priced at $249.
Your honor, We all know that the woman who sits before you is tired. Just look at the circles under her eyes. The novelty Pride and Prejudice T-shirt and Muji sweatpants that pass for pajamas. The unkempt, banana clip hairstyle that says “I really did wake up like this.” But she’s doing her best. And … Read more
The Galaxy S26 FE holds few surprises. The Fan Edition phones are rarely Samsung’s most exciting launches of the year, but the new Galaxy S26 FE feels especially familiar. Hardware-wise, little has changed since the S25 FE launched 12 months ago, and the upgrades have mostly come in the form of software tricks which themselves … Read more
Samsung announced its upcoming lineup of Odyssey gaming monitors today at Gamescom, and says that several will feature “world-first innovations” across display speeds and design. This includes the 27-inch Odyssey G6 it initially unveiled in December, which now features a 1,100Hz refresh rate, alongside new OLED Odyssey G9, G8, and G7 updates for 2027. The … Read more
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
The Note 17 Pro Max also has a photochromic design, which is revealed by sunlight. The 9,210mAh dual-cell battery in the new Redmi Note 17 Pro Max is the biggest that Xiaomi has fit in any phone it’s sold in Europe – and remarkably, in some other markets the phone comes with an even larger … Read more
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Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? AI-powered clinical mental health SaaS. 2. Why is now the time for your company to exist? The World Health Organization states that 1 … Read more
When an agent fails, the first request from an engineer is often: Show me what it was thinking. That request confuses two different needs. Researchers may study model reasoning. Operators need to know which version ran, what state it saw, which evidence it used, what action it proposed, why policy allowed or denied it, what … Read more
Most development work happens in the Terminal. Projects get built there, logs get checked, and scripts get run. The same environment also fills up over time with things that are easy to forget about: package-manager caches, old build artifacts, Docker layers, Xcode leftovers, and the general debris of everyday work. Clearing it out has usually … Read more
Tokyo, Japan, August 27th, 2026/Chainwire/–anyBOUND today announced the launch of its travel reward and VIP retreat services for crypto companies, enabling exchanges, wallets, payment apps and token projects to offer travel experiences as user rewards, loyalty incentives and VIP engagement programs. The service supports tailor-made retreats, VIP and KOL invitation trips, and reward travel programs … Read more
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.
The blind spot Ask the average Mac owner how malware gets onto their machine and you will hear a familiar mental model: you download a shady app, you ignore a Gatekeeper warning, you click something you should not have. Apple has spent more than a decade training users to think exactly this way, and its … Read more
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The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
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