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KrapMaps founder Harley Treagust on gamifying bin-mapping for travellers — a free app that turns littering into a game, now live across 29 countries.

How can hand pose estimation be used for controlling drones with computer vision technology.

Article URL: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724881 Points: 109 # Comments: 40

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Article URL: https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49731282 Points: 47 # Comments: 8

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The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other factors. The partnership comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US.

I used an open-source map of a fruit fly’s brain to vibe code a website called PitchFly. Its headline suggestions were delightfully bananas.

Before Amazon’s October sale begins, learn how to investigate prices and track products like a pro.

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all […]

Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on […]

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. During last week's Apple Watch announcement, I let out a distinct "Noooo!" in the Steve Jobs Theater. Along with a […]

According to The Information, Apple is planning to get back into the server game and might just pair up with Nvidia to make it happen. Apple retired its Xserve line in 2011 and has largely left enterprise machines to other manufacturers since. But the growing demand for compute power as the AI industry continues to […]

The Metroid series is going back to its 2D roots again with Metroid Ravenous for the Nintendo Switch 2, the first side-scrolling game in the series since 2021’s Metroid Dread for the Nintendo Switch. If you’re already excited enough to consider preordering, you can save $10 on the physical version of the game when you […]

When Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil hit theaters in 2002, video game movies were largely seen as a niche. Films like Mortal Kombat and Tomb Raider had proven that big-screen game adaptations could be successful, but the commercial and critical failure of projects like the 1993 Super Mario Bros. still cast a long shadow. And […]

“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?”  That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years building Fortell, an AI hearing aid startup that recently raised $163 million from the likes of Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, and Valor Equity […]

Anthropic is initially releasing these features to Pro and Max plan subscribers.

Google is launching early access to a new MCP server for Google Home, allowing AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and others to control connected devices, review camera summaries, and access smart home activity using natural language.

The ShinyHunters gang leaked the files online after saying the Florida state agency did not pay their ransom demand.

There may be a simpler and more effective fix for rogue agents, hiding in plain sight.

Elisa de Martel, who left her position as chief financial officer at Alphabet's autonomous vehicle company Waymo in January, will be based out of Silicon Valley.

CFO Mark Davies and legal chief Andy Missan signed each other’s severance agreements while Matt Mullenweg was on leave, providing a year of salary and additional equity vesting if their departures qualify for the benefits.

The move closes the gap between the market discussions taking place on the timeline, and the market itself.

If you've shipped an AI feature on Vercel, you already know the fear: a prompt-injection loop, a misconfigured retry, or just genuine unexpected traffic, and your LLM bill stops being a line item and starts being an incident. It's not hypothetical — usage-based hosting bills spiking into five figures overnight is a well-documented enough pattern that entire blogs exist to chronicle it, Vercel included . What's changed is that Vercel now ships an actual spend cap for this specific failure mod...