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Now that the lounges are unusable because they're so crowded, we need space in the terminal for peace and quiet.
Lufthansa’s new “Gate of the Future” in Frankfurt features “lounge-style furniture and flexible working areas."
This sounds a lot like the lounge-like spaces airport architects from have touted for years.
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#WorthReading techmeme.com/261021/p62#a261… Walmart unveils Agent Gateway, an MCP server for AI agents to shop its site, and Agent Profiles to authorize agents and track their purchases separately (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
#WorthReading techmeme.com/261022/p8#a2610… Pressure to back promising AI startups is upending the VC investment process, with investors willing to buy into the same round at rapidly escalating valuations (Bloomberg)
#WorthReading techmeme.com/261022/p10#a261… iPhone Duo review: the outer device is by far the worst iPhone Apple has ever made, while the inner device is a splendid tablet with a UI that bests the iPad's (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
#WorthReading ft.com/content/5ae90cc4-a20d… Fixing Britain’s welfare state and the limits of AI policymaking
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An airplane just landed at a heliport. In lower Manhattan. That is the @ElectraAero EL-2, the ultra-short takeoff and landing prototype aircraft. CEO Marc Allen said Monday it was the first time the manufacturer has shown the EL2’s capabilities publicly in such an environment.
Story ➡️ vist.ly/5q45c
#eVTOL #airplane #newyorkcity #heliport #aviation
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So it occurred to me listening to a podcast on the history of Ford, that everyone was super duper mad at the capitalist railroads for gouging them and treating their employees like shit.
But at the same time, essentially all the railroads have gone bankrupt.
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CNET is doing a livestream on TikTok folding and unfolding the iPhone Duo
it’s currently on 58,000
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i have been steadily banging the drum on domestic transformer production since 2023, and now, we have resolute grid. the last time an american company fully designed and built these was in the late 80s. so excited to see this come roaring back. incredible work!
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Not wasting all your missiles in Iran can be quite useful.
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Given how out-of-nowhere it seems to many, it is astonishing that there was a small group of people who predicted with remarkable accuracy everything that is happening in AI today a decade ago (@kevinroose shows this in The AGI Chronicles). Many are now very rich and/or powerful
#WorthReading wsj.com/business/carrier-pla… Carrier Plans $600 Million Texas Plant to Make Cooling Gear for AI Data Centers
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The 'stablecoin sandwich': Why speeding up payments isn't so simple, according to Mastercard cnbc.com/2026/10/27/mastcard…
#WorthReading techmeme.com/261022/p12#a261… A look at Huawei and DeepSeek's mutual reliance, where Huawei provides compute hardware while DeepSeek contributes model workloads and kernel optimization (SemiAnalysis)
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PCBs made in America. Twice as fast as Shenzhen.
Today @CircuitHub is unveiling The Grid, our factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand.
No changeovers, no per-design setup. Prototypes and production batches, fully automated.
#WorthReading economist.com/finance-and-ec… AI compute is the new oil—and needs a new market
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I think the fundamental YIMBY insight is that, if you live in a society which imposes artificial scarcity on basic necessities like housing and health care, then there is no amount of redistribution which will make them broadly available to the poor. You need supply-side changes.