The Kaoss Pad has seen many different iterations , but the mainline effect unit and sampler hasn't received an update since the launch of the KP3+ in 2013. Korg has finally given it the attention it d...
The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent since just after noon ET, with phones sw...
Hey Hacker News The ones that know me here know that I am a productivity geek. After DockFlow to manage my Dock and ExtraDock, which gives me more space to manage my apps and files, I decided to tackl...
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI AI is transforming consulting firms like McKinsey & Company and Boston Consulting Group. Firms now have dedicated staff members who build and test AI tools. Are you a co...
I've been using Claude Code heavily, and kept hitting the same issue: the agent would push changes, respond to reviews, wait for CI... but never really know when it was done. It would poll CI in loops...
A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and ...
Screens at the White House display AI-modified videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that were shared on social media by President...
Doug Bowser, former president and chief operating officer at Nintendo of America, has joined the board of directors at Hasbro. Bowser departed Nintendo on December 31 , less than a month ago. He had s...
During a recent subway outage in San Francisco I decided to build a webapp in the spirit of "Do I Need an Umbrella," basically to answer the question "Should I take the subway or a bus?" In the intere...
OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineering to see if I coul...
Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell. John Lamparski/Getty Images Dell has told its employees to expect a companywide systems overhaul in May. Top exec Jeff Clarke told workers it would be the "b...
1X's humanoid robot, Neo, will cost $20,000 or $500 a month via subscription. Camille Cohen for The Washington Post via Getty Images Humanoid robots often require human "teleoperators" to trai...
Yesim Saydan built a custom GPT inspired by Steve Jobs to act as a mentor. Courtesy of Yesim Saydan Yesim Saydan uses over 17 custom GPTs to run her solo-consultancy business. She created her ideal te...
Instagram is testing switching "following" counts to "friends" on user profiles. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Instagram is testing out replacing "following" count...
IGN can exclusively reveal two new Frozen-themed Disney Lorcana cards from the upcoming Winterspell expansion that have exciting implications for both the lore and gameplay of the TCG, and they are An...
Hi HN, I have been working with regulation-heavy documents lately, and one thing kept bothering me. Flat RAG pipelines often fail to retrieve related articles together, even when they are clearly conn...
Some Verizon customers are experiencing service outages. Smith Collection/Gado/Gado via Getty Images A service outage on Monday hit tens of thousands of Verizon users. Verizon said the outage is affec...
OpenAI executives including CEO Sam Altman (left) published a blog post containing emails that suggest Elon Musk (right) believed the AI company should have attached itself to Tesla for funding. Getty...
Producer Rick Rubin DPA / Picture Alliance A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here . In Silicon Valley, AI is fu...
Marc Benioff said that Section 230 needs to be reformed and tech companies should be held responsible for online harm. Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images Marc Benioff said that AI-related suicid...