Robot Sourcing Index (Page 49)

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OnePlus, the ‘Flagship-Killer’ Smartphone Brand, Is All but Dead

The original OnePlus phone disrupted the mobile market 13 years ago with its affordable price and top-end specs. Now,…

Jul 16, 2026

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OnePlus officially gives up on the US and Europe

OnePlus has confirmed what industry observers have long expected: it's quitting the US and European markets, and will…

Jul 16, 2026

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Collection of Digital Clock Designs

Article URL: https://clocks.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923380 Points: 212 # Comments: 38

Jul 16, 2026

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Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

Jul 16, 2026

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OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court

Article URL: https://dpa-international.com/economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260715-930-389143/ Comments URL:…

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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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Grok Build is open source

Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590 Points:…

Jul 16, 2026

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Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.

Jul 16, 2026

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Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.

Jul 16, 2026

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Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

Jul 16, 2026

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Skullcandy’s bass-boosting Crusher headphones now come with Bose’s ANC

Skullcandy announced a new version of its Crusher wireless headphones today featuring a few of Bose's audio…

Jul 16, 2026

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Can Bose Help Skullcandy Shake Its Bargain-Bin Reputation?

Skullcandy’s audio products aren’t exactly known for their stellar audio quality or noise cancellation, but its latest…

Jul 16, 2026

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Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all

Valve has been incredibly friendly to customers who need repairs - which is why it was so surprising to hear that Valve…

Jul 16, 2026

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Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads…

Jul 16, 2026

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Apple’s reportedly raising the price for AppleCare Plus on Macs and iPads

An AppleCare Plus subscription for a Mac or iPad will cost more soon, with prices going up by $0.50 per month or $5 per…

Jul 16, 2026

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HP’s OLED-equipped 2-in-1 laptop is a solid back-to-school deal

With storage and memory prices still at an all-time high, we’re happy to tell you about a solid deal on a good laptop…

Jul 16, 2026

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The Northeast Is Being Blanketed in Canadian Wildfire Smoke

Roughly 100 wildfires are raging out of control in Ontario, sending smoke streaming more than 1,000 miles from their…

Jul 16, 2026

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Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

Article URL: https://dev.moe/en/3025 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920475 Points: 219 #…

Jul 16, 2026

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Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.

Jul 16, 2026

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Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation

Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.

Jul 16, 2026

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Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"

The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.

Jul 16, 2026

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Codex Micro

Article URL: https://openai.com/supply/co-lab/work-louder/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923079…

Jul 16, 2026

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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/ Comments URL:…

Jul 16, 2026

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Why I Left Google DeepMind

Article URL: https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind Comments URL:…

Jul 16, 2026