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A Google ad penalty halved our revenue; fixing it meant becoming a publisher

Score: 4 | Comments: 0

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GuliKit’s new mobile Switch 2 dock lets you play with or without a TV

After teasing it on X last week, GuliKit announced a new version of its TV Docking Station today that now supports the Switch 2 as well as previous versions of the console, including the original Swit

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Two patterns, five services, one n8n workflow

The first two articles in this series each showed one technique. Implementation notes #001 was a dynamic dropdown — a form field that fills itself from an API. Implementation notes #002 was a dynamic

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Thread Direct looks to solve Matter’s biggest setup headache

The smart home networking protocol Thread is adding a new way to onboard devices without a Thread border router. The feature, called Thread Direct, is designed to let users set up Thread-powered devic

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Got Thread problems? There’s an app for that

The new Thread Networks Diagnostics Tools app from Thread Group, the standards body behind the wireless IoT protocol, officially launches in beta today. The app, which arrives on iOS and has been avai

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LinkedIn will tell others how you really use Adobe’s apps

LinkedIn is trying to make it easier for users to prove their proficiency with apps that are relevant to their current or future jobs. A new "connected apps" feature is launching today that allows use

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Jackery announces ‘world’s slimmest’ fridge battery

Jackery is jumping on the fridge-battery trend with what it says is the "world's slimmest." FridgeGuard also looks nice; a break from power stations that tend to look more at home at a job site than t

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Google’s first smart speaker in six years arrives next week

Google's first new smart speaker in six years starts shipping on June 29th, narrowly missing its promised spring launch window. Preorders for the Google Home Speaker open today, June 17th. Nothing has

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Human Judgment as a Specification

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Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom

The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers across India.

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DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.

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Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

Score: 16 | Comments: 5

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Will Matter finally be able to do what it should have always done?

Matter, the smart home interoperability standard, might finally get a feature that should have been there from day one: a single shared Matter network managed by multiple ecosystems. With this feature

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Final Fantasy meets Zelda? Yes, please

Let's be real: There's no shortage of Zelda-style games to play right now. That's true even if you've exhausted all there is to see in Tears of the Kingdom or Echoes of Wisdom. Indie developers keep f

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My backyard made me a color-changing smart lighting convert

I'll admit it. I was wrong. Wildly colorful lighting is delightful for your smart home - well, outdoors, at least. Smart lighting is one of my favorite features of the smart home - it combines conveni

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The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

Score: 82 | Comments: 27

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Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027

This will be the second market to have an Uber robotaxi service outfitted with Lucid EVs equipped with a self-driving system from Nuro.

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Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

Pinterest has launched 'Ask Pinterest,' an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and inspiration through a conversational interface.

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RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

Score: 88 | Comments: 44

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