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TL;DR Google has added Gemini-powered features to Waze, including destination search by voice, conversational map editing, personalised routing, and a dedicated motorcycle mode. The standout is “less chatty” mode, which reduces the number of voice prompts, an anti-feature in an AI announcement. The most strategically interesting change is conversational
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Tesla has said Cybercab employee rides are starting soon at its Texas factory. The announcement came with a clip of a gold Cybercab, butterfly doors up and no steering wheel or pedals, driving itself across the outbound lot, Mashable reports. Note the tense. Tesla said the rides are “starting soon”
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A dozen states have sued to block Paramount Skydance’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The suit, led by California attorney general Rob Bonta, was filed in federal court in California’s Northern District, CNBC reports. The timing is pointed. The Justice Department approved the roughly $110bn deal last month
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According to a report, the company plans to skip higher-performance versions of some of its processors along the way. 3 min read Apple is changing the way it will handle the release of its next flagship M processors going forward, according to a report from Bloomberg's Power On
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Global smartphone shipments just got kneecapped, falling by 11% over the past three months to the lowest levels since 2013. The memory-chip shortage is to blame for pushing up prices and squeezing demand, according to Counterpoint Research. The slowdown is a direct consequence of a supply-chain stalemate. As more chipmakers
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Microsoft is testing a cleaner version of the Windows 11 search menu that strips it of recommended content and ads. In a
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Many consider two of the most valuable companies in the world, Microsoft and Apple, to be at different ends of a spectrum. While different in their broad target market, they compete intensely in similar markets like operating systems, consumer hardware and enterprise software. It's little surprise, then, that
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 13, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,New York City Loses Power in 1977, John F. Kennedy Nominated for Presidency in 1960, Live Aid Concert Organized in 1985, and we
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Cybercriminals now deploy artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automation and sophisticated attack techniques that outpace traditional security defenses. As threats become faster and more complex, the tools designed to counter them must advance in tandem. Selecting the right solution requires evaluating practical capabilities rather than accepting marketing claims at face value.
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Welcome one, welcome all to another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature! Every week, we highlight an awesome company from our Tech Company Database that’s making waves in the global tech ecosystem. Our database features everything from S&P giants to rising stars in the startup scene. This
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A practitioner’s confession, with the log files to back it up. Pull up July 10 in my logs: 52 agent sessions across six projects. 7.3 million tokens of output. 117 million tokens read fresh into context, 1.4 billion if you count cache hits. That’s one day.
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A few weeks ago, a computer at my bank decided I was a security risk. And the human on the phone told me, flat out, that she could not overrule it. I half-joked, asking who was really in charge here, her or the computer. We spend a lot of energy
