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Google adds chief AI architect to accelerate development of AI products

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-03-23 08:58:52

Google on Wednesday added a chief AI architect to its leadership ranks as the company continues to prioritize artificial intelligence and add the technology to more of its products. The company tapped Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google DeepMind's chief technology officer, for the new senior vice president position, the company confirmed Wednesday. Kavukcuoglu will report directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Semafor first reported the executive change. Kavukcuoglu will help with product strategy and "a

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Riot Games partners with T/Squared on EMEA esports

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2026-03-22 22:01:55

Riot Games announced today that it has begun a strategic, regional partnership with T/Squared, the marketing agency within TEAM Group. T/Squared will support Riot Games EMEA’s business division, in particular its core products, the League of Legends EMEA Championships (LEC) and the Valorant Champions Tour EMEA (VCT), dealing with all sponsorship deals for the two events. According to Riot Games, its EMEA — Europe, Middle East and Africa — esports partners include Kia, KitKat, Red Bull and LG Ul

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Quantum Art integrates Nvidia for its scalable quantum computers

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-23 03:00:00

Quantum Art a developer of full-stack quantum computers, has integrated Nvidia’s CUDA-Q hybrid quantum-classical platform into its “qubits.” The integration of Nvidia’s open-source platform into its advanced circuit compiler for logical qubits will advance the performance of scalable quantum computing real-world applications. The integration pairs Israel-based Quantum Art’s Logical Qubit Compiler which utilizes its unique Multi-qubit gates and Multi-Core architecture with NVIDIA CUDA-Q, an ope

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Outset raises $17M to replace human interviewers with AI agents for enterprise research

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-03-23 03:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Outset, a San Francisco startup that uses artificial intelligence to conduct market research interviews, has raised $17 million in Series A funding to accelerate adoption of its AI-moderated research platform among Fortune 500 enterprises. The round, led by venture capital firm 8VC with participation from Future Back Ventures by Bain & Com

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Why humanoid robots need their own safety rules

technologyreview.com Victoria Turk 2026-03-22 23:11:33

“If Digit’s going to walk out into an aisle in front of you, you don’t want to be surprised by that,” he says. The robot could use voice commands, but audio alone is not practical for a loud industrial setting. It could be even more confusing if you have multiple robots in the same space—which one is trying to get your attention? There’s also a psychological effect that differentiates humanoids from other kinds of robots, says Prather. We naturally anthropomorphize robots that look like us, whi

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The Download: Amsterdam’s welfare AI experiment, and making humanoid robots safer

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-03-23 01:10:00

Amsterdam thought it was on the right track. City officials in the welfare department believed they could build technology that would prevent fraud while protecting citizens’ rights. They followed these emerging best practices and invested a vast amount of time and money in a project that eventually processed live welfare applications. But in their pilot, they found that the system they’d developed was still not fair and effective. Why? Lighthouse Reports, MIT Technology Review, and the Dutch n

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Android 16 introduces Advanced Protection mode to fortify your phone against threats

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-22 07:00:01

From harmful apps to insecure connections, there are all kinds of risks you’re exposed to. Thankfully, Android features a range of security settings to keep your device and data protected from these threats. To take this protection even further, Google is rolling out an Advanced Protection mode with Android 16 . Today, Android 16 is coming to eligible devices, and with it, Advanced Protection mode. As Android 16 beta users are aware, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this feature, but now it

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Pixel VIPs widget is here to help you stay connected to your most important people

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-22 07:00:20

TL;DR Google has officially launched the Pixel VIPs widget for devices from Pixel 6 onward via the June Pixel Feature Drop. The home screen widget displays key updates like last calls, WhatsApp messages, locations, and birthdays for up to eight chosen contacts. VIP contacts can also bypass Do Not Disturb settings. Google has been working on a new Pixel VIPs widget for the Google Contacts app for a while now. Last month, we got a good idea about how Pixel VIPs would work, and earlier this week

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Google Messages is finally getting group chat icon customization and RCS tags for contacts

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-22 07:00:59

TL;DR Google has finally announced that custom icon support for RCS group chats will soon be available in Google Messages. The company has also confirmed that Google Messages will soon allow users to snooze chats. In addition, the messaging app will clearly label contacts with RCS enabled. Although Google has been working on adding custom icon support to RCS group chats in Google Messages for quite some time, the feature has yet to reach users. We first spotted references to the feature in a

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Android 16 now lets you customize keyboard shortcuts — Here’s how it works

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-22 07:24:58

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 adds the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts. This feature first went live in Android 16 Beta 2. While you can’t assign custom key combinations to every available shortcut, you can customize many of them. Update, June 10, 2025 (2:24 PM ET): Google announced today that it is launching custom keyboard shortcuts in Android so you can “create your own combination of hotkeys.” This feature is already available in Android 16 for the Pixel Tab

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Google experiments with ditching the Favorites tab in the Phone app for a simpler layout

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-23 08:16:53

TL;DR Google is testing the removal of the Favorites tab in the Phone app. Favorite contacts appear as a horizontal row at the top of the Recents tab in the new layout. The frequent contacts section no longer has a place in this redesign. Google is testing a significant change to its dialer app, and it could mark the end of a familiar tab. On at least some Pixel 8 Pro devices running version 178.0.765584175-publicbeta of the Google Phone app, the standalone Favorites tab has been removed. Ins

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9to5Mac Daily: June 9, 2025 – Liquid Glass, iOS 29, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2026-03-21 13:18:46

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by iMazing: iMazing 3 is a comprehensive platform for Apple device management with complete device control for backup management, data transfer capabilities, and much more. Try it now. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to ou

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CarPlay in iOS 26: Liquid Glass, app widgets, refreshed apps

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-03-21 16:50:24

Turns out you don’t need an Aston Martin to have a new CarPlay experience in 2025. That’s because iOS 26 brings a fresh coat of paint and some new features to CarPlay for everyone. Liquid Glass design The most obvious change is essentially a new theme that mirrors Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language used on iPhone. In CarPlay, Liquid Glass is present from app appearance options to buttons and other interface elements. CarPlay icons now support these appearance modes: Default, Dark, and C

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macOS 26: Spotlight gets actions, clipboard manager, custom shortcuts, more

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-22 05:31:58

After years of incremental tweaks, Spotlight is taking center stage in macOS Tahoe 26, in what Apple calls its biggest update ever. Here’s everything that’s new. With this release, Apple wants to evolve Spotlight from a simple file and app launcher into a fully-fledged productivity layer across macOS, much like Alfred and Raycast users have used for years. A faster, more relevant Spotlight Spotlight now aims to be the fastest way to browse and interact with content on your Mac. It uses on-dev

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9to5Mac Daily: June 10, 2025 – iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2026-03-22 07:56:46

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by iMazing: iMazing 3 is a comprehensive platform for Apple device management with complete device control for backup management, data transfer capabilities, and much more. Try it now. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to ou

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TestFlight adds managed background assets, faster macOS app installs on Apple Silicon

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-03-22 07:05:32

Apple’s TestFlight app for distributing pre-release software has been updated with new features and performance gains. Apple released TestFlight version 3.9 today, introducing managed background asset testing and a speed boost for beta app installation on recent Macs. Introduction of managed background assets (self-hosted assets) and Apple-hosted background assets for testing Faster installation of macOS apps on Apple Silicon Stability improvements and bug fixes Apple announced Background A

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iOS 26: Apple will expand family tools with smarter child account setup, age-based app filters, more

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-23 05:41:42

Apple today announced a sweeping set of updates aimed at helping parents protect kids and teens online, as part of its broader push to make Apple platforms safer, more transparent, and more age-aware. Here’s what’s coming. The new features, many of which land with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26 this fall, expand on existing parental controls and introduce smarter ways to manage Child Accounts, share age ranges with apps, and limit risky interactions. He

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9to5Mac Daily: June 11, 2025 – New AirPods features and more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2026-03-23 06:33:56

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by iMazing: iMazing 3 is a comprehensive platform for Apple device management with complete device control for backup management, data transfer capabilities, and much more. Try it now. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to ou

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Engadget Podcast: Breaking down the highlights of WWDC 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-22 04:48:40

We're joined by friends from Wired and The Washington Post. In this special episode, recorded live in Cupertino, Cherlynn and Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham are joined by the Washington Post's Chris Velazco and Wired's Julian Chokkattu to discuss Apple's announcements at WWDC 2025. Though the announcements were all over the place and felt difficult to judge until they roll out to devices, our guests and hosts agree that they felt more meaningful than past WWDCs. Credits Hosts: Cherlynn Low and

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NASA is shutting down some official social media accounts, including the Curiosity rover's handle

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-23 08:20:16

NASA is shutting down several social media accounts run by the Science Mission Directorate, including the official Mars Curiosity Rover account on X. The organization says it made the decision in order to "make its work more accessible to the public, avoiding the potential for oversaturation or confusion." The "social media consolidation project" is concentrated in part on X, where there are dozens NASA accounts affiliated with specific missions and areas of research. So far 29 accounts are bei

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Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-22 22:55:47

s3mini is an ultra-lightweight Typescript client (~14 KB minified, ≈15 % more ops/s) for S3-compatible object storage. It runs on Node, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, and other edge platforms. It has been tested on Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, DigitalOcean Spaces, and MinIO. (No Browser support!) [github] [issues] [npm] Dev: Performance tests was done on local Minio instance. Your results may vary depending on environment and network conditions, so take it with a grain of salt. The library support

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The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX" (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Ciprian Dorin Craciun 2026-03-22 02:56:36

About the fatal perils and traps of many modern tools that handle "shell commands" as passed through system(3) or sh -c . Or, how by the end of 2020, we still haven't given up on shell's equivalent "SQL building", or how shell's equivalent "SQL injection" still thrives in our engineering world... Plus a glibc bug, then a Linux man pages bug, then a POSIX specification bug... If you appreciate the insights shared in this article and you or your company are facing technical challenges or seeking

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How I Program with Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-20 18:30:14

How I program with Agents 2025-06-08 This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, How I program with LLMs, covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our existing tools (basically, autocomplete) and how careful prompting can replace traditional web search. Now I want to talk about the harder, and more rewarding act of using agents to program. Define Agent It is worthwhile starting with a definit

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Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-23 06:02:56

An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for THREE.js Integrate in your scene with other meshes and splats, fast rendering on all devices, programmable dynamic splat effects, wide format support (ply, spz, splat, ksplat)

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Chatterbox TTS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-23 09:23:52

Chatterbox TTS _Made with ♥️ by We're excited to introduce Chatterbox, Resemble AI's first production-grade open source TTS model. Licensed under MIT, Chatterbox has been benchmarked against leading closed-source systems like ElevenLabs, and is consistently preferred in side-by-side evaluations. Whether you're working on memes, videos, games, or AI agents, Chatterbox brings your content to life. It's also the first open source TTS model to support emotion exaggeration control, a powerful feat

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The New ‘Superman’ Trailer Is Packed With Super Spectacle

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-03-23 05:40:40

Oh, so that’s why the previous Superman trailers were all so similar. Tickets for the highly anticipated DC Studios film are now on sale and to celebrate, Warner Bros. has released its most revealing trailer to date. It’s filled with lots of evil Lex Luthor and even more wild visual effects shots, that showcase action, creations, and more. Presumably, these are all shots that were being finished in the previous months, but are now ready for your eyeballs. Written and directed by James Gunn, Sup

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John L. Young, the Guy Who Created Wikileaks Before Wikileaks, Dies at 89

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-03-23 08:50:56

John L. Young, often hailed as an under-recognized hero of the digital age and co-founder of the groundbreaking transparency platform Cryptome, passed away on March 28th in New York City. His death, in relative anonymity, stands in stark contrast to the thunderous revelations that defined his pioneering work. His passing was quietly acknowledged by Archinect, a professional publication for architects, on June 4th: “John L. Young, architect and the co-founder (with his wife Deborah Natsios) of

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If You're a Student Loan Borrower Enrolled in Save, Make This Move Now While Your Payments Remain Paused

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-23 08:30:02

If you're enrolled in SAVE, make this move while your payments remain on hold. Pla2na/Getty Images/CNET There's been a lot of student loan noise over the past year, but little clarity for borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education repayment plan. We've witnessed several updates to student loan programs over the past year, from proposed changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility to the ramping up of collections efforts on defaulted student loan accounts to a new Republ

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U.S. Open 2025: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-23 13:00:03

The 125th US Open takes place this weekend, with Bryson DeChambeau looking to clinch the title for a third time at the Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh. Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. The third of the year's majors, sees a 156-man field take on the course's notoriously lightning-fast, sloped greens and its punishing 175

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‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-03-21 23:00:00

Ariella Sharf was first prescribed antidepressants when she was a college student more than a decade ago. When she decided to stop taking them last year, Sharf says she wasn’t sure how to do it safely. She was disappointed when her longtime psychiatrist didn’t help her find a new doctor after she moved across the country, and she thought her primary care physician wasn’t equipped for the task. Sharf decided instead to try Outro Health, a telehealth startup that CEO and cofounder Brandon Goode de

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Latest Tech News

Google adds chief AI architect to accelerate development of AI products

Riot Games partners with T/Squared on EMEA esports

Quantum Art integrates Nvidia for its scalable quantum computers

Outset raises $17M to replace human interviewers with AI agents for enterprise research

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The Download: Amsterdam’s welfare AI experiment, and making humanoid robots safer

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CarPlay in iOS 26: Liquid Glass, app widgets, refreshed apps

macOS 26: Spotlight gets actions, clipboard manager, custom shortcuts, more

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TestFlight adds managed background assets, faster macOS app installs on Apple Silicon

iOS 26: Apple will expand family tools with smarter child account setup, age-based app filters, more

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Engadget Podcast: Breaking down the highlights of WWDC 2025

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Chatterbox TTS

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If You're a Student Loan Borrower Enrolled in Save, Make This Move Now While Your Payments Remain Paused

U.S. Open 2025: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US

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