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The Verge
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1w ago
Amazon’s Smart Thermostat can help lower your energy bills, and it’s down to $62
With temperatures on the rise and Earth Day right around the corner, now’s a good time to invest in a smart thermostat if you haven’t already. A good one like A
HubSpot Marketing
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1w ago
Knowing About AI Isn't Enough. Here's How to Actually Use It.
Maybe you’ve op
Adweek
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1w ago
Lippe Taylor and Twelvenote Rebrand as /Prompt, Betting on AI-Native Future
The independent PR agencies join forces as an integrated marketing shop with AI at the core

Hackernoon
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1w ago
pg_textsearch 1.0: How We Built a BM25 Search Engine on Postgres Pages
Postgres full-text search struggles at scale due to poor ranking and no top-k optimization. pg_textsearch introduces native BM25 with Block-Max WAND, delivering

Hackernoon
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1w ago
AI Isn’t Ready to Run Our Lives
I asked an AI tool to extract 329 articles from my Substack. Simple copy-and-save job. Instead, it tried 14 approaches, failed at all of them, created empty fil
ArXiv cs.AI
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1w ago
Learned Elevation Models as a Lightweight Alternative to LiDAR for Radio Environment Map Estimation
arXiv:2604.05520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Next-generation wireless systems such as 6G operate at higher frequency bands, making signal propagation highl
ArXiv cs.AI
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1w ago
Cortex AISQL: A Production SQL Engine for Unstructured Data
arXiv:2511.07663v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Snowflake's Cortex AISQL is a production SQL engine that integrates native semantic operations directl

Hackernoon
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1w ago
In the Age of AI, Your Keyboard Still Matters
I don’t think AI makes keyboard efficiency irrelevant. If anything, it changes where the bottleneck is. I’m typing less code by hand than I used to, but I’m sti
The Verge
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1w ago
Spotify’s Prompted Playlists can help you find new podcasts to listen to
On Tuesday, Spotify expanded its Prompted Playlists feature to include podcasts, an update that could make it easier for Premium users to find new shows to list

Forbes Innovation
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1w ago
Satechi’s Launches New 3-In-1 Charging Stand With Fast Qi 2 Charging
The new charging stand from Satechi supports the latest Qi2 25W wireless charging standard and can charge iPhones, AirPods and Apple Watches at the same time.
TechCrunch AI
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1w ago
Google Maps can now write captions for your photos using AI
Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users ar
ZDNet
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1w ago
I tried Google Photos' new AI Enhance tool: How it crops, relights, and fixes your shots - sometimes
Now rolling out to Android users globally, AI Enhance uses generative AI to improve your photos instantly. Here's how to use it, and where it falls short.
The Verge
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1w ago
You can now turn 2D apps into 3D while using the Galaxy XR headset
Android XR is getting a new feature that turns 2D apps, websites, images, and videos into "3D experiences." The feature, which Google calls "auto-spatialization
Towards Data Science
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1w ago
From 4 Weeks to 45 Minutes: Designing a Document Extraction System for 4,700+ PDFs
How a hybrid PyMuPDF + GPT-4 Vision pipeline replaced £8,000 in manual engineering effort, and why the latest models weren’t the answer The post From 4 Weeks to
Techpoint Africa
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1w ago
Introducing EGF: An Open File Format for Educational Games
EGF is an EPUB-inspired format published on Zenodo in Nov...

TechCabal
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1w ago
I built a product in 20 minutes with Projectmaven
Projectmaven uses artificial intelligence (AI) to take a rough idea and turn it into a structured plan with proposed features, target users, third-party integra

SingularityHub
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1w ago
MIT Mined Bacteria for the Next CRISPR—and Found Hundreds of Potential New Tools
An AI system unearthed a trove of CRISPR-like proteins in minutes instead of weeks or months. The post MIT Mined Bacteria for the Next CRISPR—and Found Hundreds

Forbes Innovation
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1w ago
Can Decentralized Exchanges Finally Compete With Wall Street Speed?
New highspeed decentralized exchanges aim to rival Wall Street by combining low-latency execution with advanced risk models, potentially reshaping crypto market

Forbes Innovation
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1w ago
Daring, Costly Rescue Mission Highlights The Case For Drones
A complex rescue mission involving 150 aircraft to rescue one airman in Iran shows why uncrewed aircraft are increasingly needed.

Hackernoon
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1w ago
Why the Mall Failed: and What It Teaches Us About Synthetic Data
The mall didn't fail because people stopped buying. It failed because we mistook infrastructure for retail. Synthetic data is at risk of the same mistake.

The Next Web AI
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1w ago
Picsart launches “Earn with Picsart”, a monetisation programme with no invite list
The AI design platform is paying creators based on engagement performance rather than audience size, marking its transition from a tool into a platform where cr

Social Media Examiner
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1w ago
AI Video Editing: Save Time and Create Better Videos
Are you avoiding video because you think the production is too time-consuming or expensive? Want to use AI video tools to create and edit quality marketing vide
Techpoint Africa
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1w ago
After 17 years, Paga’s CEO hands Nigeria operations to new leader
Paga has appointed a new acting CEO for its Nigeria business as founder Tayo Oviosu steps back after 17 years. The move signals a shift toward global expansion,
TechCrunch AI
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1w ago
AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost
Rocket's new AI platform combines strategy, product building, and competitive intelligence, aiming to move beyond code generation.
ArXiv cs.AI
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Toward a Universal Color Naming System: A Clustering-Based Approach using Multisource Data
arXiv:2604.03235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Is it coral, salmon, or peach? What seems like a simple color can have many names, and without a standard, the
ArXiv cs.AI
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IPSL-AID: Generative Diffusion Models for Climate Downscaling from Global to Regional Scales
arXiv:2604.03275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change require high-resolution projections to infor
ArXiv cs.AI
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ExpressEdit: Fast Editing of Stylized Facial Expressions with Diffusion Models in Photoshop
arXiv:2604.03448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Facial expressions of characters are a vital component of visual storytelling. While current AI image editing
ArXiv cs.AI
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Open3DBench: Open-Source Benchmark for 3D-IC Backend Implementation and PPA Evaluation
arXiv:2503.12946v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This work introduces Open3DBench, an open-source 3D-IC backend implementation benchmark built upon the
ArXiv cs.AI
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Leveraging Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-Time Monitoring and Control of Industrial Environments
arXiv:2510.13820v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This research proposes an extensive technique for monitoring and controlling the industrial parameters
TechCrunch AI
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2w ago
How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others
Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.

Hackernoon
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2w ago
Why Microservices Struggle With AI Systems
Adding AI to microservices breaks the assumption that same input produces same output, causing unpredictability, debugging headaches, and unreliable systems. To
TechCrunch AI
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2w ago
Spain’s Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI
The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople's spacecraft.

Hackernoon
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2w ago
Event-Driven Architecture with Azure Service Bus & .NET Core: Designing Scalable & Resilient Systems
Event-driven architecture enables scalable and resilient systems by decoupling services through asynchronous messaging. Using Azure Service Bus with .NET Core,
ArXiv cs.AI
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Automatic Textbook Formalization
arXiv:2604.03071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a case study where an automatic AI system formalizes a textbook with more than 500 pages of graduate-
ArXiv cs.AI
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A Multimodal Vision Transformer-based Modeling Framework for Prediction of Fluid Flows in Energy Systems
arXiv:2604.02483v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of complex fluid flows in energy systems are prohibitively expe
ArXiv cs.AI
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LitPivot: Developing Well-Situated Research Ideas Through Dynamic Contextualization and Critique within the Literature Landscape
arXiv:2604.02600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing a novel research idea is hard. It must be distinct enough from prior work to claim a contribution w
ArXiv cs.AI
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High-resolution probabilistic estimation of three-dimensional regional ocean dynamics from sparse surface observations
arXiv:2604.02850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ocean interior regulates Earth's climate but remains sparsely observed due to limited in situ measurements
ArXiv cs.AI
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Solving the Two-dimensional single stock size Cutting Stock Problem with SAT and MaxSAT
arXiv:2604.01732v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cutting rectangular items from stock sheets to satisfy demands while minimizing waste is a central manufactu
ArXiv cs.AI
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Recovering Sub-threshold S-wave Arrivals in Deep Learning Phase Pickers via Shape-Aware Loss
arXiv:2511.06731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning has transformed seismic phase picking, but a systematic failure mode persists: for some
InfoQ AI/ML
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2w ago
Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 4.0, Google ADK for Java 1.0, Grails, Tomcat, Log4j, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for March 30th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 4.0 and Google ADK for Java 1.0; first release candidates

Hackernoon
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2w ago
Building a Cross‑Platform Ollama Dashboard with 95% Shared Code
Ollama makes it easy to run models like Qwen, Mistral, and Gemma on consumer hardware. This tutorial shows how to build a production-ready admin dashboard for O

Hackernoon
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2w ago
How I Use AI to Reply to 50+ Emails a Day Without Losing My Voice
Most advice regarding the use of AI for email processing tends to focus primarily on "speed." While this approach is indeed effective at first, the problem is t

Hackernoon
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2w ago
Building an AI-Powered DevSecOps Guardrail Pipeline with GitHub Actions
Learn how to build an AI-powered DevSecOps guardrail pipeline using GitHub Actions to automatically detect security vulnerabilities before deployment.

Google AI Blog
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2w ago
Create, edit and share videos at no cost in Google Vids
New AI capabilities are coming to Google Vids, powered by Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1, like high-quality video generation at no cost and more.

Google AI Blog
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2w ago
New ways to balance cost and reliability in the Gemini API
Google is introducing two new inference tiers to the Gemini API, Flex and Priority, to balance cost and latency.
ZDNet
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2w ago
New out-of-band Windows 11 update fixes March's installation errors - how to get it
Windows 11 users who tried to install March's broken preview update will want to grab the new replacement.

Forbes Innovation
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2w ago
Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Model Stack To Reduce OpenAI Dependence
Microsoft launches three in-house MAI models for transcription, voice and image generation through Foundry, hedging its reliance on OpenAI.
InfoQ AI/ML
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Github Integrates AI to Improve Accessibility Issue Management and Automate Feedback Triage
GitHub has launched a continuous AI-powered workflow to manage accessibility feedback at scale. Using GitHub Actions, Copilot, and Models APIs, the system centr
DeepCamp AI