GoKawiil - Tech News

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Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people — and the grid — will actually want (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-12 | by Tim De Chant | tags: reservoir, water heaters, asymmetric capital partners

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Windows 11's latest update quietly ends support for picture passwords (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: windows 11, microsoft, picture password

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Apple Arcade adding ‘two beloved puzzlers’ to ad-free platform in September (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-11 | by Zac Hall | tags: apple arcade, block blast, art of fauna

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Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines (slashdot.org)

2026-08-10 | by Posted | tags: microsoft, onedrive, photos app

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Roku Unleashes 24/7 AI Slop Channel (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Frank Landymore | tags: ai slop, petrie, petrie norris

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AMD Buys AI Chip Startup Taalas That Hardwires AI Models Into Its Silicon (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: broido, broido intermetrics, established

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How Startups Scale Smarter With Data-Driven Decision Making (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-06 | by Cyrus Claffey | tags: customer, decisions, growth

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Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: truemetrics, last mile delivery, gls

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No, Apple Photos face recognition is not a privacy threat – quite the opposite (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple photos, face recognition, meta

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Judge greenlights multi-billion-dollar class action over Apple Photos’ face recognition (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-03 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple photos, biometric privacy act, face recognition

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Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: beats, circles, nets

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Visa to buy cybersecurity firm BioCatch for $2.4 billion amid surge in AI-powered scams (cnbc.com)

2026-08-03 | by Hugh Son | tags: biocatch, visa, behavioral biometrics

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EU announces new rules on AI transparency (engadget.com)

2026-08-03 | by Steve Dent | tags: ai act, deepfake, european commission

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Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: isopolis, pixel map, show hn

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Stop graphing everything: When GraphRAG actually beats vector RAG (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: graphrag, retrieval-augmented generation, microsoft

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Structured AI data pipelines score 10.9 points below free-form code — DataFlow-Harness closes the gap (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: dataflow-harness, peking university, retrieval-augmented generation

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PSP classic Lumines hits iOS and Android (engadget.com)

2026-07-30 | by Kris Holt | tags: lumines, enhance, ios

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Google will now let you sign in to your account with a selfie video (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-23 | by Aisha Malik | tags: google, biometric login, selfie video

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Google will let you upload a video selfie to recover your account - but should you? (zdnet.com)

2026-07-23 | by Jada Jones | tags: google, biometric data, face recognition

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Why emotional intelligence will be an important performance metric in the future of work (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: emotional intelligence, performance metrics, management

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Google adds selfie video as a log-in option (engadget.com)

2026-07-23 | by Mariella Moon | tags: google, selfie video, biometrics

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AI agents aren't confidently wrong because of bad context — they're wrong because of bad data engineering (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: ai agents, data engineering, vector store

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AI Can Generate Pictures, but It Can Also Help Locate Your Lost Real Photos (cnet.com)

2026-07-22 | by Rachel Kane | tags: google photos, ai search, smartphone media

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The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: biometric databases, visa waiver, european commission

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You can now let Claude handle your passwords, assuming you’re cool with that (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: 1password, claude, anthropic

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Netflix stock is getting battered again. Now it says it will share viewership metrics even less frequently (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: netflix, nflx, wall street

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The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: enterprise ai, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases

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Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-13 | by David Uzondu | tags: health, health data, metrics

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It Turns Out That There’s Way, Way More to Know About ‘Tetris’ Than You Thought (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-13 | tags: know tetris, tetris, tetris thought

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Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-12 | tags: agent, code, compression