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Singles increasingly prefer to meet people in person rather than swipe on profiles on their phones, the head of Tinder and Hinge’s parent company said this week. That trend has the dating apps looking for new ways to connect people. “Our internal research shows that nearly half of singles
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The Pixel 11 Pro and 11 Pro Fold will be unveiled at a Made by Google event on Aug. 12. We’re also expecting to see the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11, too. As we get closer to the keynote, many details about the upcoming announcements have leaked or
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that “it’s
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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* Disney is exploring a free Disney+ tier to bring more viewers into its streaming ecosystem * CEO Josh D’Amaro says a free offering could help drive subscriber growth * The idea is for Disney+ to become a broader digital hub beyond movies and TV shows Disney’s TikTok partnership wasn’t
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The thought of infusing AI into weapons immediately evokes deep fears, not only based on the idea that autonomous weapons may make life-and-death decisions on our behalf, but also on the prospect of errors creeping in. But for Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, there's no alternative but
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 5, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,First traffic lights installed in 1914, eOne PC launched in 1999, Google Acquired a Public Company in 2009, and we present you with
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Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 5, 2026 –MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today unveiled MEXC 0808: Stock Season, the inaugural edition of its annual brand celebration centered on 0 Fees and Infinite Opportunities. Early bird registration is now open, ahead of the main campaign launch on August 8, offering
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Imagine!!! You send 10,000 tokens to your AI. It uses 1,200 to answer. You paid for 8,800 tokens that did absolutely nothing. Netflix engineer Tejas Chopra built Headroom, a free, open-source tool that compresses the noise before it reaches the model. Same answer. 88% fewer tokens. Zero
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Let's learn about Google Cloud Platform via these 97 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. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services
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Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters, the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon is your chance to test your
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"Taste" has become Silicon Valley's new favorite buzzword. It is now in the pitch decks, the investor theses, the product manifestos, and startup job descriptions. xAI literally had a job opening titled "Model Behavior Tutor — Style, Taste & Aesthetics," which required "immediate recognition
