Nintendo is planning to launch versions of Switch 2 hardware in the EU that will let users easily replace the battery. To meet its obligations from a new EU regulation that’s set to go into effect on February 18th, 2027, Nintendo says on its website that it is “implementing measures to comply with these requirements … Read more
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Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable’s footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.
If your tickets take two weeks to cross the board while coding takes a few hours, the problem isn’t effort — it’s how much work your team keeps in flight at the same time. And there’s a 65-year-old law that explains exactly why.
Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas’ App Store Accountability Act to go into effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds. People in Texas who are creating a … Read more
The $479 WiiM Bar includes a 2.1-inch touchscreen on its front. | Image: WiiM WiiM, the audio company that’s challenged the idea that audiophile-level performance requires a small loan, is expanding its whole-home ecosystem with the WiiM Bar, which releases in July. Much like its other speakers and audio components, the WiiM Bar supports a … Read more
Behind every AI kilowatt-hour is a hidden river of evaporated water. Training a model like GPT-3 consumed 636,000 gallons—enough to fill an Olympic pool—while daily inference “drinks” a bathtub per user every week. This post reveals that data centers are massive water evaporators, with AI-driven cooling demands sometimes exceeding energy impacts. We compare water usage … Read more
Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budget. A wave of new startups is chasing those government contracts, but according to Ross Fubini, the venture investor who wrote Anduril’s first check, most of them will get lost in the Valley of Death between prototype contract … Read more
Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos, signals a dangerous shift toward “AI enclosure”—gating the most powerful cognitive tools behind seven-figure enterprise and government contracts rather than technical merit. Because its “safety” and performance claims are backed by PR rather than reproducible public benchmarks, it amplifies inequality and forces developer dependency on opaque, closed ecosystems. The solution … Read more
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The modified Ioniq 5 will be loaded with sensors to capture data for Uber’s new AV Labs division.
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Just in case you were wondering, Nvidia’s RTX Spark isn’t supposed to be a one-off. The company is not just flirting with becoming the fifth high-profile vendor of consumer laptop chips to see if people bite. At Computex 2026 in Taipei, Nvidia … Read more
Let’s learn about Job Hunting via these 118 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. Job hunting is the process of actively seeking employment, encompassing resume building, networking, and interviews. It is essential for career … Read more
If Alphabet’s record-breaking, $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.
Meta appears to have listened to the Supernatural users who protested the app’s sad fate after sweeping layoffs.
Substack’s new Reply Rules feature is currently available for all English-language publications and is designed to give creators greater control over how their audiences respond.
Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated “stories” culled from the personal data in your Google account.
Compact power banks have gotten a lot faster in the past year — and it’s not just their USB-C charging speeds that have received a boost. The newest Qi2.2-certified models can wirelessly charge an iPhone 16 or later at up to 25W. Combine that with their ability to magnetically snap on via MagSafe, and you’ve … Read more
This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent – Spark – from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It’s so effective that it’s scary. Spark knew that David’s dog is named Frida and knew the first name of Jay’s wife, even though neither of them explicitly … Read more
The breach at wearable ring maker Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.
Carvana was granted a warrant to buy shares in Slate last year, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch. Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter is heavily invested in both companies.
Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.
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Amazon’s updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app feature only surfaces AI images of clothing and home goods, allowing you to tap on the image that best matches what you’re looking for and search for similar-looking items. In a blog post, Amazon positions … Read more