Year: 2026

Google ditches the screen with the new Fitbit Air (2026)

Google ditches the screen with the new Fitbit Air (2026)

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this trending post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Products / Health and Fitness,Face Off ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Air isn't meant to stand alone so much as serve as a data collector within Google's expanding health software ecosystem. (The company also renamed the Fitbit app "Google Health.") Built on top of the Gemini system, the Health Coach is the brains of the system, promising personalized guidance based on your habits, goals, and biometric data. Instead of just displaying statistics, Google Health Coach translates them into actionable recommendations. It can create workout plans, suggest recovery…
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Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Iโ€™ve been experimenting with running local models on and off for a bit and Iโ€™ve finally found a setup that seems to work reasonably. Itโ€™s nothing like the output of a SOTA model, but the excitement of being able to have a local model do basic tasks, research, and planning, more than makes up for it! No internet connection required! Not to mention that itโ€™s a way of reducing your dependence on big US tech, even if just a tiny bit. I gotta say though,…
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Google renames Fitbit app to Google Health

Google renames Fitbit app to Google Health

โœจ Check out this awesome post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Crunch Time โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: More than a After a decade since its debut and five years after it was acquired by Google, Fitbit has officially been rebranded as Google Health. As part of the transition, Google also announced plans to discontinue the 12-year-old Google Fit app later this year, though details about migrating user data to Google Health will be released in the coming months.Google introduced a radical redesign of the Fitbit app last year in public beta, centered around a new…
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Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers โ€” state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks โ€˜ratepayer protection pledgeโ€™ promises

Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers โ€” state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks โ€˜ratepayer protection pledgeโ€™ promises

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The Maryland Office of Peopleโ€™s Counsel (OPC), a state agency that represents its utility consumers, filed a complaint before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding PJM Interconnection, LLCโ€™s plans to charge it $2 billion of the $22 billion it spent to upgrade its grid to accommodate increasing demand from data centers. According to the OPCโ€™s press release, this $2 billion bill will cost the stateโ€™s consumers an extra $1.6 billion in the next ten years alone โ€” that means an extra $823 million for…
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Anthropic says the “sinister” portrayal of the AI โ€‹โ€‹was responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

Anthropic says the “sinister” portrayal of the AI โ€‹โ€‹was responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Anthropic,Claude โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Fictional depictions of AI could have a real-world impact on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Cloud Opus 4 often tried to blackmail engineers into avoiding replacing it with another system. Anthropic later published research suggesting that models from other companies had similar issues with โ€œmisalignment.โ€ Anthropic has apparently done more work on this behavior, claiming in a post on The company went into more detail in a blog post stating that…
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

โœจ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years.I feel like even after all these years weโ€™re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.Itโ€™s been super fun to experiment & integrate MCP into it.We just passed 2000 developers last month actively deploying with canine.I'm working on https://engine.buildIt's a durable orchestration system for AI code generation which solves the problem of not being able to trust LLMs to complete long running (and high quality) implementations without having to babysit…
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Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Startups,Edward Kim,Gusto,mollie amkraut mueller,tanay kothari,Wispr ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: How will work settings change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent Wall Street Journal feature examines the growing popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be linked to dynamic programming tools, and what that might mean for office etiquette. One venture capitalist said that visiting startup offices now feels like stepping into a high-end call center. Gusto co-founder Edward Kim apparently tells his team that in the future, offices…
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SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here’s how that could impact the atmosphere and the night sky

SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here’s how that could impact the atmosphere and the night sky

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Most of humanity has a great propensity to think in the short-term, but generally, long-term considerations โ€” air pollution, deforestation and emissions, for example โ€” just aren't our thing. That's partly why scientists are deeply concerned about a recentย SpaceX proposalย to launch one million satellites โ€” data centres โ€” into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from losing the natural night sky, to losing access to space, to the environmental impact on our atmosphere.At the moment, there are roughly 16,000 satellites orbiting Earth, 14,000 of…
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Diabetes detection needs better tools. They are on the road

Diabetes detection needs better tools. They are on the road

โœจ Check out this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Science,Science / Health,Testing Testing ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: For decades, A Diagnosing diabetes depends largely on measuring blood sugar and seeing if it exceeds the clinical threshold. But researchers are increasingly concerned that this approach ignores the millions of people who are already progressing toward the disease.Globally, diabetes has become one of the defining health crises of the modern era. According to the World Health Organization, 14% of adults had diabetes in 2022, up from 7% in 1990. In the United States, more than 40 million people have diabetes,…
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Spain just became one of Europe’s cheapest power markets. Here is how.

Spain just became one of Europe’s cheapest power markets. Here is how.

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: In the first four months of 2026, the average wholesale electricity price in Spain was โ‚ฌ44 per megawatt-hour. In Italy, it was โ‚ฌ127. In Germany, โ‚ฌ96. In the UK, โ‚ฌ103. Spain is now cheaper than France, well below the central-European bloc, and within striking distance of the Nordic hydro-and-nuclear heavyweights that have always topped the cheap-power league.This is not where most observers expected Spain to be. A decade ago, Spain was a cautionary tale of stranded solar investment and one of Europeโ€™s more expensive power…
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