394 Factorial just raised $150M at a $2.5B valuation, but the $540M sitting next to that equity cheque is what actually signals the next phase of European software financing

Newark apartment complex bought for much less than prior value

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George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 1 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›

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PG&E buys San Jose building to bolster South Bay operations

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George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 2 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›

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How to watch France vs England: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 third place play-off

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TechRadar 1 place · today 14:00 EDT

Here's how to watch France vs England for free online and from anywhere at the FIFA World Cup 2026, with broadcast details, TV channels and kick-off time included. Read more ›

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EV tech is trickling down to hybrid and combustion vehicles, and I’m here for it

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TechRadar 2 place · today 14:00 EDT

Software updates aren't just for EVs anymore, as combustion and hybrids are seeing OTA updates that can help support new features and even recalls. Read more ›

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Deals: Pixel 10, 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL are on sale, Nothing Phone (4a) Pro gets discounted too

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GSMArena.com 1 place · today 14:00 EDT

Google is already teasing the Pixel 11 series, which will be unveiled on August 12. These could be the first phones to feature a chipset from TSMC’s 2nm fab and are expected to swap the Samsung modem for a MediaTek one. We’ve even seen leaked prices for the US market. Rumors suggest that the new Pro and Pro XL will change their base configuration to 12/256GB, losing 4GB of RAM.... Read more ›

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ZA/UM announces layoffs two months after the launch of Zero Parades

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Engadget 1 place · today 13:55 EDT

Up to 32 employees were affected by the studio's recent decision. Read more ›

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Уроки риска от Питера Бернстайна

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TraPhro @ Habr 1 place · today 13:50 EDT

Для инвесторов «Уоррен» может означать только председателя Berkshire Hathaway; «Джек» — основателя Vanguard Group. А до своей смерти в 2009 году «Питер» означало Питера Бернстайна: экономиста, историка, мыслителя в области инвестиций и одного из самых мудрых и философских людей на Уолл-стрит. Питер видел всё, встречался со всеми, изучал всё и многие даже из великих уверены, что он разобрался в риске лучше всех. Его биография впечатляет: однокурсник Кеннеди в Гарварде, офицер... Read more ›

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GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · today 13:48 EDT

A GTA modder has embedded GTA 3 and Vice City within San Andreas, even nesting Vice City within GTA 3, with all three games continuing to run simultaneously. Read more ›

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What Is The Minimum Distance You Should Leave Between A Refrigerator And The Wall?

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SlashGear 1 place · today 13:45 EDT

Did you push your new fridge completely flush against the kitchen wall? Discover why this simple placement mistake causes expensive breakdowns. Read more ›

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AMD’s new Ryzen 7 7700X3D plummets to $279 days after launch — the X3D chip rules the mid-range at its discounted price

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · today 13:40 EDT

The Ryzen 7 7700X3D has suddenly become a solid value thanks to a $50 promo code, knocking its price down from $329 to just $279 on Newegg. Read more ›

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CNBC's Jim Cramer Says He Needs 'Cold Hard' Proof AI Is Paying Off

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 1 place · today 13:34 EDT

In a sign of our times, CNBC's Jim Cramer "said Wednesday that it's time for companies to prove artificial intelligence is paying off," reports CNBC: "I need cold hard return facts," the "Mad Money" host said. "Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I am now...." While Cramer said he remains optimistic about the long-term opportunity, he argued the market needs more evidence that those investments are translating into... Read more ›

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Strapping 11 fans and a 360mm AIO to an RTX 3080 sounds crazy until you see the 30°C temp drop — modded GPU delivered less than 5 FPS uplift at turbojet noise levels

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · today 13:22 EDT

TrashBench recently decided to test whether adding more and more fans to a powerful GPU would improve its performance. Read more ›

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Jurassic Park packed $4 million of legit 1993 computer hardware — a software engineer detailed every single piece of hardware in the film

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Tom's Hardware · today 13:12 EDT

Google software engineer Fabien Sanglard meticulously listed the computer hardware and software used in the first Jurassic Park film. He even added details for each device, turning the film into something of a computer museum. Read more ›

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Exclusive: Oracle Data Centers Face Multibillion-Dollar Cost Surprises

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Ann Davis Vaughan @ The Information 1 place · today 13:04 EDT

Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for. Oracle’s attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project on the rocks in New Mexico is a recent example. The cloud provider earlier this year was planning to spend billions of dollars to build its own natural-gas plants to power Project Jupiter, a 1,400-acre, two-plus gigawatt AI data center for OpenAI near the Texas border town of El... Read more ›

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[Перевод] «Митохондриальная теория разума» Мартина Пикарда

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SLY_G @ Habr 2 place · today 13:02 EDT

Было девять утра четверга, и Мартин Пикард наблюдал, как его кровь утекает по шлангу капельницы из руки в отверстие в стене. Он сидел на односпальной кровати в тесной комнатке, расположенной на расстоянии меньше ширины плеча от раковины из нержавеющей стали и фарфорового унитаза. Каждый час в течение 24 часов, в том числе во время сна, медсестра отводила кровь из его руки исследовательской группе, работавшей в соседней комнате; в каждый момент... Read more ›

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DOG Mode explains Bitcoin's next governance fight

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Jamie Crawley @ CoinDesk 1 place · today 13:00 EDT

Leonidas' DOG Mode client challenges Bitcoin's default relay policies, reopening a philosophical debate over censorship, free markets and who really governs the network. Read more ›

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The Laifen T1 Pro is an electric shaver with an Apple-esque aesthetic that isn't backed up by its performance

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TechRadar 3 place · today 13:00 EDT

The T1 Pro looks great, but it struggled to deliver a clean shave and often snagged painfully. Read more ›

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X and music publishers quietly settle opposing lawsuits

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Engadget 2 place · today 12:56 EDT

The original lawsuit was filed in 2023 and claimed Twitter hosted thousands of cases of copyright infringement. Read more ›

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Not Every Buc-Ee's Gas Station Is Massive, And These Small Locations Are Proof

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SlashGear 2 place · today 12:45 EDT

The Buc-ee's gas station chain is well known for being massive, and offering more than most grocery stores. Are there any smaller Buc-ee's gas stations? Read more ›

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Google is open-sourcing its 3D emoji

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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge 1 place · today 12:40 EDT

Now, if you want to, you can use Google's 3D emoji in your own creations. The company shared some details about how it went about designing the little pictograms and why, as part of World Emoji Day on Friday. Things you might not necessarily worry about in a 2D illustration suddenly become very important when […] Read more ›

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The American dream can be put in a number, and that number has halved: 9 in 10 children born in 1940 grew up to out-earn their parents; for those born in the 1980s it is now about 1 in 2 — barely a coin toss

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/11/2026 15:00 EDT

About 90 percent of American children born in 1940 grew up to earn more than their parents did at the same age. For children born in the 1980s, that share dropped to roughly 50 percent. That is the finding at the centre of The Fading American Dream, published in December 2016 by a team led ... Read more Read more ›

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spent decades studying thousands of people at the moments they felt most deeply alive, and their answers kept pointing to the same place: not passive relaxation, but total absorption in a difficult activity that stretched their abilities without overwhelming them, until self-consciousness faded and time seemed to disappear.

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/11/2026 22:52 EDT

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi did not find the deepest form of human aliveness where modern culture often tells us to look for it. Not in total comfort. Not in passive ease. Not in the blank relief of finally doing nothing. He found it in the opposite place: in hard, absorbing activity that demanded so much attention that ... Read more Read more ›

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Researchers studying late-life wellbeing have found that one of the deepest sources of joy is not just being loved, healthy, or financially secure — it is still feeling useful to someone else

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/12/2026 01:00 EDT

There is a version of a good old age that most of us carry around without examining it. In it, an older person is comfortable, cared for, in reasonable health, and surrounded by people who love them. Money is not a worry. The phone rings on the right days, someone remembers the birthday, and the ... Read more Read more ›

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A 2025 MIT report estimated that roughly 95% of task-specific enterprise generative-AI initiatives had yet to produce measurable business returns. The researchers argued that the main obstacle was not the underlying models, but tools that failed to learn from feedback, fit existing workflows or solve clearly defined operational problems.

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/12/2026 01:11 EDT

The useful reading of the MIT finding is not that generative AI has failed. It is that enterprise AI has run into the same old enterprise problem: a tool that does not fit the work is not made valuable by being technically impressive. The report in question has been widely identified as MIT NANDA’s The ... Read more Read more ›

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In the first quarter of 2026, investors poured roughly $242 billion into AI startups—about 80% of all venture capital deployed worldwide, according to Crunchbase. Nothing comparable appears in its historical data: never before had one sector absorbed such a large share of global startup investment in a single quarter.

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/12/2026 04:11 EDT

The first quarter of 2026 was not just another strong period for AI fundraising. On Crunchbase’s numbers, it was a distortion of the venture market itself: one sector absorbed most of the capital deployed into startups worldwide. In Crunchbase’s April 1 report on global venture funding in Q1 2026, investors put $300 billion into about ... Read more Read more ›

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In homes common across the 1960s and 1970s, children learned to read a parent’s mood from the sound of the front door before anyone had spoken a word — researchers call the adult result hypervigilance, and it shows up in 5 recognisable patterns

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Daniel Moran @ Silicon Canals · 07/12/2026 05:00 EDT

My father learned to read a room before he learned to read a book. The lock would turn, then a pause, then the exact weight of two shoes landing on the mat, and from those few seconds of hallway sound he already knew what kind of evening the house was in for. Keys set down ... Read more Read more ›

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Psychology says people who are kind to everyone and close to no one often weren’t always this way — there was usually a friendship, a relationship, or a family dynamic that taught them, clearly enough to stick, that letting someone fully in was indistinguishable from handing them a way to hurt you

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Daniel Moran @ Silicon Canals · 07/12/2026 05:30 EDT

I once knew a man who was, without exaggeration, the most likeable person in any room. He remembered your dog’s name. He’d top up your drink before you noticed it was empty. Waiters adored him. Strangers left him feeling like the most interesting person alive. I knew him for eleven years and I could not ... Read more Read more ›

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Adults who spent years being the funny one, the capable one, or the strong one in a group often arrive at a moment when the role has kept them so thoroughly in character that they are no longer sure there is anyone left underneath it

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/12/2026 06:11 EDT

There are roles a person chooses, and roles that quietly choose them back. At first, being the funny one, the capable one or the strong one can feel like social fluency. It gives the group a shape. It gives the person a place. Everyone knows what to expect, which is one of the simplest ways ... Read more Read more ›

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We’re taught that failure is the price of ambition, but psychologists studying explanatory style found that what happens after a setback depends partly on the story a person tells themselves about it: those who see failure as permanent and personal are more likely to become helpless, while those who treat it as temporary and specific are more likely to keep going.

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/12/2026 09:12 EDT

Ambition has a standard story about failure. You take the hit, learn the lesson, and keep moving. It is clean, motivational, and not quite true. Some setbacks become information. Others become identity. The difference is not only the size of the loss. It is also the explanation a person builds around it. Psychologists studying explanatory ... Read more Read more ›

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In 1707, a British fleet returning from Gibraltar smashed into the rocks of the Scilly Isles and lost nearly 2,000 sailors in a single night, because the navigators had no reliable way to measure longitude at sea — and the disaster is what pushed Parliament to offer the £20,000 prize that a Yorkshire carpenter named John Harrison would spend 46 years chasing with a clock

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/12/2026 09:59 EDT

The 1707 Scilly naval disaster killed nearly 2,000 sailors and pushed Britain to offer a £20,000 prize for a solution to the longitude problem — a prize that a self-taught Yorkshire clockmaker named John Harrison would spend the rest of his life pursuing. Read more ›

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