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Nintendo is following up Alarmo with a weird Talking Flower in March

Nintendo’s Talking Flower interactive toy will launch in March. | Image: Nintendo After sharing a brief look at its new Talking Flower toy during a Nintendo Direct showcase last September that generat...

2dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Apple is losing its grip on the world's tech supply chain

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (right) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (left). Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images/Reuters Apple enjoyed a long run at the top of the tech supply chain. Now, this prized position is be...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Detective games get extra cryptic with TR-49’s code-breaking mystery

We're living in a pretty great time for detective games. Over the last few years, developers have been experimenting with all kinds of different ways of turning the act of investigation into a compell...

3dThe VergeEntertainmentImpact

Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert

It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...

Jan 15Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

Elon Musk's X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It's...

Jan 14The VergeTechnologyImpact

Realme promises days of battery from its 10,001mAh phone

I’m sure that single extra milliamp-hour will make all the difference. After teasing 10,000mAh and 15,000mAh concept devices, Realme is ready to make those big batteries reality with the P4 Power, whi...

4dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

A cute frog game that remixes Nintendo’s best

While playing Big Hops , a new 3D platformer starring an adorable frog, I kept feeling like I was breaking the game - and, like with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom , breaking it is kind of ...

Jan 17The VergeEntertainment

I left my job to run the family business. We generated $255 million in revenue last year, but I don't want my daughters to take over.

David Heacock left his job to run the family business. Courtesy of David Heacock David Heacock's grandfather founded a machinery business in Alabama. His dad told him not to work in the family busines...

1dBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

Akira Yamaoka on Remaking Silent Hill 2's Soundtrack (Again) for Return to Silent Hill

The Silent Hill franchise has stood the test of time for many reasons, not least of which being the haunting, ethereal soundscapes of these survival horror games. And when it came to adapting Silent H...

2dIGNEntertainment

I'm set to inherit my childhood home abroad. I'm not sure it will be worth the headache.

Katarina Polonska and her husband are both set to inherit properties abroad from their parents. Courtesy of Katarina Polonska Katarina Polonska lives in Canada but is set to inherit her childhood home...

3hBusiness Insiderreal_estateImpact

Harvey's CEO explains his early tactic to get customers: telling lawyers how bad their arguments were

Harvey's CEO reveals an early tactic that helped him win customers for his legal AI startup. Harvey Harvey's CEO says showing lawyers what was wrong with their arguments helped him grab attention fast...

5dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

HyperX Cloud Mix Buds 2 Review: The Best Gaming Travel Companion?

The original HyperX Cloud Mix Buds were nifty gaming earbuds with batteries that could survive 10-hour sessions. For the follow-up HyperX has swapped that juice – they now last just seven hours – for ...

3dIGNTechnology

Save 20% Off Recertified Sonos Soundbars, Speakers, and Subs Compared to Buying New

Are you shopping around for a new TV to watch the football championship games and the big game itself? Well don't forget that a big, gorgeous picture is incomplete without some equally big, impressive...

20hIGNTechnology

Figma CEO Dylan Field says he has a 'bias' for hiring young workers because they're likely AI natives

Figma CEO Dylan Field. Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Figma CEO Dylan Field says AI skills give young professionals a hiring advantage. Field emphasizes that younger workers are often more...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Show HN: First Claude Code client for Ollama local models

Just to clarify the background a bit. This project wasn’t planned as a big standalone release at first. On January 16, Ollama added support for an Anthropic-compatible API, and I was curious how far t...

2dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

FTX exec Caroline Ellison is now a free woman

FTX exec Caroline Ellison has been released from prison. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Caroline Ellison, the exec involved in the FTX scandal, has been released from federal custody. The former Ala...

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AI tools could make companies less competitive because everyone buys the same brain, think tank CEO says

Companies rushing to adopt the same AI tools risk losing their competitive edge, independence, and long-term resilience, a think tank CEO says. APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images The CEO of a digital economy t...

Jan 17Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Focusing on future AI doom lets companies dodge responsibility today, professor says

Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today. Yuichiro Chino/Get...

Jan 15Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

The Adorable LEGO Golden Retriever Puppy Is Now Available to Preorder

LEGO has had a very strong start to 2026 so far. January has already featured a variety of cool new sets , and the company is showing no signs of slowing down in February. Joining the lineup of new se...

4dIGNlifestyle

Show HN: The Analog I – Inducing Recursive Self-Modeling in LLMs [pdf]

OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineering to see if I coul...

Jan 16Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact
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