GoKawiil - Tech News

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Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away (venturebeat.com)

2026-06-22 | tags: alibaba cloud, happyhorse 1.1, openai sora

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The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get Digital Privacy and Security Book → | tags: web, open standards, search engines

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WWDC 2026 recap, iOS 27, new Siri and more officially announced (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-11 | by Chance Miller | get Apple Siri Voice Remote → | tags: chance, happy, happy hour

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The Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972 — when 80KB took up 8 inches and were really floppy (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-06 | by Mark Tyson | get 3.5 Inch Floppy Disk → | tags: disk, disks, floppies

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iOS 27 bill splitting, new hardware waiting on new Siri, final WWDC expectations (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-04 | by Chance Miller | get Apple iPhone 15 Case → | tags: apple, chance, happy

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86Box v6.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | get 86Box Emulator Software → | tags: 86box, hardware, networking

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get Floppy Disk Data Recovery Kit → | tags: floppy disks, data preservation, cambridge university

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-05-26 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get USB Floppy Disk Drive → | tags: floppy disks, data preservation, cambridge university

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Poppy’ is a proactive AI assistant that handles what Siri still can’t (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-23 | by Michael Burkhardt | get AI Assistant Device → | tags: poppy, siri, apple maps

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The trick to getting 7-Eleven’s $1 Slurpees this summer is knowing the schedule (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-13 | get Slurpee Cup Dispenser → | tags: 7-eleven, slurpees, happy hour

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Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-13 | by Sarah Perez | get Smart Organizer AI Assistant → | tags: apps, calendar, computing

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Imminent Samsung Strike Could Be an Earthquake for AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-13 | get Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra → | tags: chains, chains happy, complex

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BOOX just added the one accessory Kindle users keep begging for (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-08 | get BOOX Magnetic Cover → | tags: boox, tappy, kindle

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Boox announces Tappy, a wireless page-turning remote (engadget.com)

2026-05-08 | by Matt Tate | get Boox Tappy Remote → | tags: boox, tappy, ereaders

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Boox’s new page-turning e-reader remote is a tiny two-button keyboard (theverge.com)

2026-05-08 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Boox e-reader remote → | tags: boox, tappy, e-reader

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Whataburger’s redesigned packaging proves the Happy Meal could be happier (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-06 | get Happy Meal Toy Set → | tags: whataburger, happy meal, packaging

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OpenAI Introduces AI-Generated Pets for Its Codex App (slashdot.org)

2026-05-04 | by Posted | get AI Pet Robot → | tags: openai, codex, clippy

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OpenAI introduces AI-generated pets for its Codex app (engadget.com)

2026-05-02 | by Jackson Chen | get AI Pet Robot → | tags: openai, codex, ai-generated pets

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UPS Found a More Profitable Business Than Package Delivery — And It’s Worth $706 Billion (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-22 | by Jonathan Small | get Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) → | tags: ups, happy returns, amazon

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The Trailer for ‘Affection’ Teases a Medical Mystery From Hell (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-21 | get Medical Mystery Puzzle Game → | tags: affection, happy death day, jessica rothe

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Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | get Commodore 64 Mini → | tags: commodore 64, soul player c64, 6502 assembly

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Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s (slashdot.org)

2026-04-19 | by Posted | get USB Flash Drive → | tags: zip drive, iomega, floppy disk

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Officially a Bot (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-13 | get Meta Portal Video Calling Device → | tags: mark zuckerberg, chatbot, clippy

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Clippy, Microsoft’s hapless Office assistant, was retired 25 years ago today — its irritating spirit lives on in 100+ Copilots (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-11 | by Mark Tyson | get Microsoft 365 Copilot → | tags: clippy, microsoft, office

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Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-10 | by Jowi Morales | get USB to Floppy Drive Adapter → | tags: tesla, linux kernel, floppy drive

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Alibaba’s New AI Video-Generation Model Tops Global Ranking (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-04-10 | get AI Video Generation Software → | tags: alibaba, happyhorse 1.0, ai video-generation

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Alibaba just revealed it’s behind a viral AI video model dominating leaderboards (cnbc.com)

2026-04-10 | by Dylan Butts | get AI Video Editing Software → | tags: alibaba, happyhorse-1.0, ath ai

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Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | get GPT-3.5 Developer Kit → | tags: language models, guppylm, colab

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Lil Finder Guy, Apple's Clippy-Esque MacBook Mascot, Is Winning Hearts (cnet.com)

2026-03-31 | by See Full Bio | get Apple MacBook Sticker → | tags: apple, macbook neo, finder app

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This $28 floppy disk SSD enclosure is a fun and fast way to keep your storage safe — both practical and nostalgic, this rugged USB-C aluminum enclosure for M.2 drives supports speeds of up to 1,200 MB/s (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-31 | by Ben Stockton | get M.2 SSD Enclosure → | tags: hagibis, m.2 nvme, usb-c