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Google updates AI search to include ‘expert advice’ from Reddit and other web forums

Google updates AI search to include ‘expert advice’ from Reddit and other web forums

💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,ai overviews,Google,Google Search,Reddit 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Google is updating Search to improve its AI experience by adding additional context to links, such as conversations from web forums, as well as a feature that highlights links from user news subscriptions. While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more specialized queries, this design choice can also be messy. Image credits:Google (Opens in a new window) Two years ago, Google overhauled its search experience to put AI front and center — when you search for…
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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: With the rather excellent Steam Controller now on its way to the lucky few that managed to order one, Valve has released a full set of CAD files for their new hardware. The idea is to let enterprising modders create their own Steam Controller add-ons, like skins, charging stands, grip extenders or smartphone mounts. The Valve release includes files for the external shell ("surface topology") of the Controller and Puck, with a .STP, .STL and engineering diagram of each device, with the latter showing areas…
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Chrome on Android now supports approximate location sharing instead of exact sharing

Chrome on Android now supports approximate location sharing instead of exact sharing

🚀 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Android,Chrome,Google 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Google announced this week that Chrome on Android now lets users share their approximate location with websites instead of their exact location. The tech giant says that while some instances require an exact location, like when you're placing a delivery order or trying to find the nearest ATM, there are instances where your approximate location is enough, like when you can access local weather and news. “By letting you share your approximate location, we give you more control over your location data,” Google explained…
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Ted Turner, CNN founder who pioneered cable TV news, dies at 87

Ted Turner, CNN founder who pioneered cable TV news, dies at 87

💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Facebook Tweet Email Link Threads Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87. The Ohio-born Atlanta businessman, nicknamed “The Mouth of the South” for his outspoken nature, built a media empire that encompassed cable’s first superstation and popular channels for movies and cartoons, plus professional sports teams like the Atlanta Braves. Turner was also an internationally known…
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Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding

Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding

💥 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Enterprise,AI,Fundraising,General Catalyst,a16z,voice AI,expert networks 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When companies are looking for opinions or advice on a project, they tend to go to LinkedIn or use expert networks like GLG, Third Bridge, or Alphasights. But they often do not find high-quality entries, despite their searches. Today, these sites ask experts to fill out a form based on their job title, which is then used to match them with companies that need their help. Ethos, based in London, believes that artificial intelligence can improve both aspects of this experience. For…
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Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I used to see that retro multi-stroke text effect quite often and tried to replicate it using the CSS text-stroke property, but the results never quite matched. Because text-stroke accepts a single value, stacking elements was the only workaround I could think of, though it didn't seem to work. (more…)
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3 days left to get 50% off your second pass to Disrupt 2026

3 days left to get 50% off your second pass to Disrupt 2026

✨ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: TC,Startups,Transportation,Privacy,Hardware,Crypto,Climate,Fintech,Biotech & Health,Venture,Media & Entertainment,AI,Robotics,Fundraising,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Three days. That's all that's left to decide, not only whether you'll participate in TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, but also who you'll appear with from October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco — and how much credibility you'll gain from the opportunity. Now, you can Buy one ticket and get a 50% discount on the second of the same type of ticket. This offer Ends May 8 at 11:59 PM PT. Then, prices go up — and so…
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setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 » catstret.ch

setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 » catstret.ch

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: time for another Sun Ray blog post! I've had a few people email me asking for help setting up a Sun Ray server over the last few months, and despite my attempts to help them get it going there's been mixed results with running SRSS on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10.my Sun Ray server is still on an earlier OI snapshot, so I figured it was about time to try to actually follow the new guides myself.installing OI in a Proxmox VMfirst hurdle - VM configuration.…
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Zest Maps is the AI-powered “spiritual successor to Foursquare.”

Zest Maps is the AI-powered “spiritual successor to Foursquare.”

💥 Discover this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Check In 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: As Mario Gomez-Hall walked me through his new restaurant discovery app, Zest Maps, the founder paused at his user leaderboard and highlighted a profile that was topping the charts with over 1,000 visits. It's Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley, who's helping to test the beta.“He gave us really helpful feedback,” Gomez-Hall says. “It's kind of a spiritual successor to Foursquare.” (For those who may not remember, Foursquare was a hot social app for checking in on location around 2010 when…
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Fractional Growth Engineer (Contract) – Coverage Cat

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Seeking a self-starter for a fractional role. Currently NOT accepting applicants from: CA, MA, NJ, OR, WA, CT, IL, RI, MD, MI, NH, HI. Role is to support the team with organic growth engineering implementation and operations. This can range from designing AI tools for growth to hiring folks to do in-person canvassing off Craigslist! Growing the world's AI-native insurance broker still takes some IRL effort. Anyone with a growth mindset and a willingness to overcome operational obstacles to ensure experiment success are encouraged…
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