Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech
You bought the hardware. Now you’ll need to subscribe for “expanded access” to the most advanced features.
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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%
Article URL: https://mynintendonews.com/2026/06/26/nintendo-has-raised-its-employees-base-salary-by-10/ Comments URL:…
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The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robot
With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.
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Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it
Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act. Beyond music, timers, and…
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Rhythm Heaven never misses a beat
Rhythm Heaven isn't Nintendo's best-known series, nor its most prolific. Prior to the launch of Rhythm Heaven Groove on…
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The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going…
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Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
Article URL: https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/ Comments URL:…
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Sony is killing all physical PlayStation game discs
Sony has announced that from January 2028 it will entirely stop the production of physical discs for new PlayStation…
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Sony is closing the PS3 and Vita digital stores
It's the end of an era for the PlayStation store on PS3 and PS Vita, with Sony now planning to shut down its digital…
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Motorola Phones Now Have a Built-In Travel eSIM for Mobile Data Outside the US
Available in select markets thanks to a partnership with Gigs, Motorola phone owners have one less hurdle to clear when…
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Internal Combustion Engine
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UK likely to intervene in Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
The acquisition was approved without concessions by the Department of Justice in June.
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Why I Stopped Arguing with People
Article URL: https://wangcong.org/2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-people.html Comments URL:…
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Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move…
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Builders Stage agenda revealed: Practical strategies for scaling startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together 10,000+ founders, startup operators, and…
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Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and…
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For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
https://biotic.org/research/spudcell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747304 Points: 339 #…
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Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
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Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
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LLMs are stuck in a groupthink rut. This startup is trying to get them out.
Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number…
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The best Switch 2 case I’ve tried is cheaper than usual
Dbrand apparently knows how to really whiff a product launch, as we recently saw with the Steam Machine Companion Cube…
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Sony is killing discs — and showing us why it’s a terrible idea
The future of video game preservation just took a major hit. This morning, Sony announced that, starting in January…
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A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago?
A timely tale about a 50-year-old robotic arm...