When it was revealed earlier this month that Withings would require new users to subscribe to a Withings Plus subscription to sync heath data from the company’s devices to third-party apps, Tom Anthony, who was already fed up with the Withings mobile app which they describe as a “bloated mess,” became motivated to “free” their … Read more
The Joshua Kushner-led Thrive Holdings is acquiring ADT in an all-cash deal valued at $7.6 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027 and will take ADT private, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Joshua Kushner is the brother of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Thrive Holdings was founded last … Read more
To anyone listening closely to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been saying over the past couple of years, this week felt like the clearest sign yet that AI is about to fundamentally change the size of Microsoft’s workforce. Microsoft is now offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and … Read more
Comments
A distributed lock is not a bigger mutex A distributed lock is not a bigger mutex. It is a different animal wearing the same costume, and the costume is what gets people hurt. Distributed locks look deceptively similar to local mutexes. You acquire, you perform a critical operation, you release. That resemblance is dangerous. A … Read more
Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain and Coursera. It’s platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents.
The AI tool provides recommendations and adjusts the recipe accordingly. | Image: The New York Times The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it has sparked some drama among users. NYT Cooking senior editor Genevieve Ko announced the feature last Friday, … Read more
On Thursday, AI app Wabi, now describing itself as a “personal agent,” said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.
The long-awaited remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo Switch 2 launches next Thursday, November 5th. In other words, you have a week remaining to secure your physical edition with a $10 discount at Amazon and Walmart. Once the game launches, the physical version will almost certainly go from $59.99 to … Read more
Hud has launched agentic rollouts, a new capability that helps coding agents move a code change from pull request to production while Hud validates each step against how that code actually behaves in live environments. The release targets what has become a major bottleneck in engineering: coding agents write a change in minutes, but that … Read more
Let’s learn about Iphone via these 82 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. Apple’s line of smartphones, known for their integrated ecosystem and user experience, which redefined mobile computing and continues to influence technology … Read more
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. ## Awesome AGENTS.md That Can Be Used on Any Agent and Any Stack By @khasky [ 3 Min read ] I reverse-engineered … Read more
Today on Decoder, I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story inside the numbers of the Anthropic IPO filing — a document known as an S-1. Anthropic just filed its S-1 to go public on the Nasdaq, and it could start … Read more
Amazon is adding several new features to its AI shopping assistant, including ways to create, edit, and move items between shopping lists and gift registries. As an example, Amazon says you can now ask Alexa for Shopping to “Create a new shopping list” or “Show me what’s left on my wedding registry.” The ecommerce giant … Read more
The social networking site is facing criticism for blocking access to the site, which identifies thousands of ICE agents and other employees working for Homeland Security.
The acquisition would bring two major players in on-demand delivery under one roof, combining DoorDash’s dominance in restaurant takeout with Instacart’s reach in grocery delivery.
After engineering a flexible version of Tetris that could be wrapped around a magazine, Kevin Bates’ latest creation is a digital candle that uses a custom AI model to accurately simulate the appearance of a flickering flame across a grid of LEDs. It’s a far cry from the types of devices Bates is typically known … Read more
The Anthropic S-1 seems to have provided the financial justification for the company to spend as much as it possibly can on compute. If you are the kind of person who wonders if Anthropic is doing its level best to build a machine god while convincing Wall Street it’s in the business of selling IT … Read more
For more than 15 years, Apple has had a pretty simple answer to the idea of a touchscreen MacBook: no. Yesterday, Apple finally decided to think different and announce one anyway. “You’ve gotta touch it to believe it,” says Apple CEO John Ternus. He might be right: I haven’t yet touched it, and I still … Read more
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.
The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what’s on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions with the AI bot.
Six days from now, TechCrunch Founder Summit brings experienced founders, investors, and operators to Boston on Nov. 4 to share the decisions, mistakes, pivots, and lessons that shaped their companies. Register before it starts for ticket savings and deals.
Comments