Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been
The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.
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The late Sam Neill will reportedly feature in The Legend of Zelda film, making it very probably the actor's final on-screen role
There's been a flurry of news related to castings in the upcoming live-action Legend of Zelda film, including the name of the actor who's landed the...
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The humble Wii Nunchuck has been turned into a video editing tool because it's 'one of the most ergonomic things ever made'
What a wonderfully geeky way to edit.
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Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.
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Indie game publisher Devolver Digital wants to go private
Indie game publisher Devolver Digital is looking to return to private ownership, after a rough few years as a publicly-traded company. Read more
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We'll all be streaming our games in about "three years", says Take-Two boss, raising some post-release questions about GTA 6
In Take-Two's latest financial report, CEO Strauss Zelnick makes some bold statements about the future of the games industry. As the industry reels from Sony's controversial...
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Instacart Builds Blueberry, an AI-Powered Assistant to Help On-Call Engineers Investigate Incidents
Instacart introduced Blueberry, an AI-assisted incident response system that helps on-call engineers investigate production issues faster. It combines AI agents, operational data, and historical incident knowledge...
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Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors — ‘ it no longer felt safe to stay,’ developer escorted out by police
Some protesters brought a guillotine to public consultation for a potential data center in Salem, Oregon. Even though this was displayed outside the venue, it was...
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What devs need to know about localization, ft. Concha Fernandez Alvarez, Aurelie Perrin, and Guido Di Carlo
We're breaking down what developers need to know about working with localizers to bring their games to different languages.
Read moreHow to Install OpenMetadata on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Docker Compose: Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to install OpenMetadata on Ubuntu using Docker Compose. Deploy the complete stack with Airflow, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch. The post How to Install OpenMetadata on...
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NASA’s IXPE Studies Magnetar
Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026,...
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The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How ideas...
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