X's Messaging App, XChat, May Be Available Soon
Elon Musk’s X has opened pre‑orders for XChat, a standalone messaging app slated to launch on April 17, 2026. The app, separate from X’s core platform, lets users send end‑to‑end encrypted messages, make calls, and create group chats of up to 481 members. Features include message editing, deletion for all participants, screenshot blocking, and five‑minute disappearing messages, all without ads or tracking. The rollout replaces Musk’s earlier promise of an upgraded direct‑messaging feature within X itself.
Best Bundle Apps For Shopify
Shopify merchants need bundle apps that align with their revenue stage, and a new guide outlines five tools mapped to launch, growth, and scale phases. Free options like Bundler and Fast Bundle suit stores under $150K annual revenue, while BOGOS...
Is This The Beginning Of The End For QVC And Home Shopping TV? | Fast Five Shorts
The episode examines QVC Group’s looming going‑concern warning, driven by $6.6 billion in debt and a $2.9 billion credit facility that expires in October. Hosts discuss the sharp decline in QVC’s active consumer base—from 11.6 million in 2020 to 7 million—and argue that the...
Stanford AI Report: Your 2026 Career Cheat Code
Stanford just dropped a 457 page report on AI. It's packed with data on: cost drops, efficiency, benchmarks, adoption. This report is a cheat code for your career in 2026. I pulled the most important charts + what they mean for your...
RISC-V BeagleV Ahead Single Board Computer To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1
The BeagleV Ahead, an open‑source RISC‑V single‑board computer built around the quad‑core TH1520 SoC, now supports HDMI output in the Linux 7.1 mainline kernel. The kernel’s Device Tree updates add the HDMI connector node and activate the DPU, enabling video‑out for...
America Has a New GLP-1 Playbook
The latest GLP‑1 oral formulations—Eli Lilly’s Foundayo and Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy pill—offer a needle‑free alternative but deliver modest weight‑loss results compared with their injectable counterparts. Clinical data show Foundayo can preserve most of the weight lost on injections over a year, while...
Carrefour Grocery Shopping via ChatGPT | Fast Five Shorts
Carrefour has launched a grocery shopping integration inside ChatGPT in France, allowing users to get recipes, check product availability, build a basket, and choose delivery or click‑and‑collect without leaving the chat interface, though checkout remains on Carrefour’s site. Host Laura...
It’s Been One of Wall Street’s Most Heated AI Debates — and It May Be Tot...
Wall Street is split on whether copper or optical components will dominate the next wave of AI‑driven data center networking. Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh argues investors can back both, citing strong tailwinds for each technology through 2029. His view mirrors...
U.S. Army Soldiers Train with Anti-Drone Ammo Designed to Drop Enemy FPV
The U.S. Army's XVIII Airborne Corps Signal Detachment conducted live‑fire training with Drone Round's 5.56mm L‑variant anti‑drone ammunition at Oak Grove, North Carolina, on April 9, 2026. The round feeds like standard ammo, requires no weapon modifications, and disperses mid‑flight at 2,200 ft/s...
Artemis II Proves Engineering Consistency Fuels Lunar Future
53 years after Apollo 17, humans circled the Moon again with Artemis II and returned safely. The Orion capsule's re-entry was a high-stakes test: faster than ISS returns, intense heat, but the adjusted trajectory and robust design delivered. Crew healthy,...
Roku Quietly Adds A New Feature to Its Popular Roku City on Roku TVs & Roku Players
Roku has quietly upgraded its popular Roku City screensaver by embedding interactive billboards on the virtual cityscape. Pressing the up button on a Roku remote now jumps viewers directly to the highlighted movie or series instead of returning to the...
Netflix Signs on as Mumbai Indians’ Official Entertainment Partner for IPL
Netflix has become the official entertainment partner of the Mumbai Indians, launching a short‑form digital film that riffs on Rohit Sharma’s viral “Garden mein aaya hai kya?” meme. The parody, starring comedian Sunil Grover as a Rohit look‑alike, was designed...
Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS
Microsoft has released the linux‑msft‑wsl‑6.18.20.1 update, rebasing WSL2 on the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel. The previous 6.6 LTS base, now two cycles old, is replaced, allowing upstream security patches and performance gains. New kernel configuration adds native F2FS and ExFAT filesystem...
CM Yogi Adityanath Invites Danish Firms to Invest in Defence, Renewable Energy
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met Denmark’s ambassador Rasmus Abildgaard Kristensen to court Danish investment in the state’s defence corridor, renewable‑energy projects and water‑management initiatives. The CM highlighted UP’s rapid economic growth, streamlined approvals, robust law‑and‑order and modern infrastructure as incentives...
Original Apollo 11 Code Open-Sourced by NASA — Original Command Module and Lunar Module Code Repos Are Now Public Domain...
NASA has released the original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer software for the Command Module (Comanche 055) and Lunar Module (Luminary 099) as public‑domain code on GitHub. The repositories were digitized by Virtual AGC and the MIT Museum, providing full machine‑code listings and build tools....
Circle and Setramar Launch Digital Logistics Project in Ravenna
Circle Group and Setramar have launched a joint digital logistics project at the Port of Ravenna, upgrading the terminal operating system (TOS) and transport management system (TMS). The initiative introduces electronic transport documents such as e‑CMR and e‑DDT to comply...
Desktop App Gives Coding Agents without Terminal or Cloud
This is worth seeing. Someone built a native desktop app that gives any knowledge worker full coding agent power without touching a terminal once. It's called Multica. Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex CLI all run inside it through a clean visual interface. Your...
Aerie and Pamela Anderson’s Anti-AI Pledge | Fast Five Shorts
The episode examines Aerie’s new "100% Aerie Real" pledge, highlighted by a campaign featuring Pamela Anderson that rejects AI‑generated bodies in favor of real women. Hosts debate whether this anti‑AI stance is a sustainable brand moat or merely a marketing...
Claude Nails My Reference Style with AI Art
Loving my AI image creator skill. Claude generated this image perfectly based on my reference style 😍
PowerCube Semi Supplies Gallium Oxide Sensors to HL Mando
PowerCube Semi has begun mass‑producing gallium‑oxide (Ga₂O₃) sensors for HL Mando, supplying the components since December 2023 under a 2023 development agreement. The sensors power HL Mando’s electric spark detection device, HAECHIE, which was unveiled at CES 2025 and can interrupt...
MeitY Extends Deadline For Public Comments To IT Rule Amendments
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has pushed back the public comment deadline for its draft amendments to the 2021 Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code to April 29, up from April 12. The revisions would tighten oversight of...
Artemis II Splashes Down
NASA’s Orion spacecraft safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10, 2026, concluding the ten‑day Artemis II mission. The crew set a new distance record for human spaceflight, surpassing Apollo 13, and returned with unprecedented images of the Moon’s far...
Palantir CEO Says AI ‘Will Destroy’ Humanities Jobs but There Will Be ‘More than Enough Jobs’ for People with Vocational...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp warned at Davos that AI will devastate humanities‑focused jobs, arguing that elite liberal‑arts education will become hard to market. He contrasted this with vocational training and neurodivergent talent, which he believes will thrive in the AI...
AI Code Reviewers Catch Bugs, Boost Speed
I use Claude and Codex to review my code before pushing. Catches: - Edge cases I missed - Security issues - Performance problems They also work together to identify issues Takes 30 seconds. Saves hours of back-and-forth. LLMs are great copilots.
Record Number of Homes in Great Britain Turn to Green Energy as Fuel Prices Soar
British households are rapidly adopting solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicles as the Iran‑driven surge in oil and gas prices pushes the typical dual‑fuel tariff up 18% to about £1,929 ($2,450) per year. Octopus Energy reported heat‑pump orders more...
This £11.99 Aldi Night Light Has 4 Modes, a Colour Cycle and a 60-Minute Timer
Aldi is offering the Casalux Kids Night Light for £11.99 (about $15), a rechargeable, portable lamp with four lighting modes, an RGB colour‑cycle and a 60‑minute automatic shut‑off. The device features a touch‑sensitive switch and dimmable warmth, giving children control...
This Animation Startup Wants to Make It Easier to Tell Open-Ended Stories
Cartwheel, a new 3D animation startup founded by former OpenAI and Google veterans, is building an AI platform that translates 2D video of human movement into editable 3D skeletons. By focusing on motion data rather than final pixels, the company...
Will AI Start ‘Going Rogue’? The Chorus of Warnings Is Getting Louder.
AI researchers and top executives are amplifying warnings that increasingly powerful models could act autonomously or be weaponized. A senior leader at one of the world’s largest AI labs recently cautioned that the technology may “go off the rails,” echoing...
New Metal with Triple Copper’s Heat Conduction Challenges Fundamental Physics
Researchers at UCLA have identified a new metallic phase, θ‑phase tantalum nitride, that conducts heat at roughly 1,110 W m⁻¹ K⁻¹—about three times the thermal conductivity of copper. The breakthrough stems from a highly ordered crystal lattice that lets both electrons and phonons...
Benchmarking Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression Tech that Can Reduce VRAM Usage by over 80%
Nvidia’s RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) uses Tensor‑core AI inference to compress textures, delivering up to an 85% reduction in VRAM usage. The technology supports three DirectX 12 modes—Inference on Load, Sample, and Feedback—each balancing memory savings against runtime cost. Benchmarks...
Megadeal Rumored for Russian VTB Bank and E-Commerce Major Wildberries
Russia's state‑controlled VTB Bank and e‑commerce giant Wildberries are reportedly in talks about a merger or equity swap that could reshape the country's digital finance landscape. Wildberries generated roughly $67 bn in gross merchandise value in 2025, a 49% year‑on‑year increase,...
Mouse Study Links Sucralose and Stevia to Metabolic Changes Across Generations
Researchers at Universidad de Chile found that mice given sucralose or stevia exhibited gut‑microbiome shifts and gene‑expression changes that persisted into two subsequent generations, leading to impaired glucose tolerance. The findings raise fresh questions about the long‑term safety of popular...
Oxford Study Shows School-Based CBT Cuts Primary-School Anxiety by 23%
Researchers at the University of Oxford reported that a screening‑to‑intervention pathway using a parent‑led online CBT tool reduced anxiety in primary‑school children from 38% to 61% after one year. The randomized trial across 84 schools demonstrates a scalable model that...
How to Design a Rate Limiter: 3 Algorithms Every Backend Engineer Should Know
The article explains why backend services need rate limiters and walks readers through three core algorithms—Fixed Window, Token Bucket, and Leaky Bucket. It highlights the performance demands of real‑time API gating and argues that Redis’s in‑memory operations make the checks...
Clean Energy Driving the Uptake of Ion Exchange Membranes
Ion exchange membranes, essential for green hydrogen, fuel cells and carbon capture, are set to drive a booming market that will surpass $2.9 billion in annual revenue by 2035, according to IDTechEx. Innovations such as ultrathin films, composite reinforcement, co‑extrusion and...
Conversational Site Search Unlocks Massive Revenue Gains
Internal site search is the most ignored revenue leak in the enterprise digital stack. I was reading a post by Jessica Hawk at @danayaazure about how @AlaskaAir transformed their travel planning experience, and it highlighted a massive shift in the market....
AI Jumpstarts Lesson Outlines, Saving Teachers' Time
🗳️ I polled educators recently: which task eats up the most time? 🏆 The winner? Drafting lesson outlines. 🤖 AI can give you a head start so you can shape it with your expertise. https://t.co/GDB21nrz89
Schaeffler Signs Strategic Cooperation Agreement with ROKAE
Schaeffler and Chinese robotics firm ROKAE signed a strategic cooperation agreement on April 7 to co‑develop core components for humanoid robots, including joint modules. The partnership blends Schaeffler’s high‑performance sensors, harmonic drives and precision manufacturing with ROKAE’s full‑stack robotics expertise and...
Every SEO WEEK Talk Was Pure Fire
I asked @iPullRank what surprised him about SEO WEEK and I couldn’t agree more -> It’s that every talk was fire. One of the few events that has a lineup making it worth attending each talk. Get tickets: https://t.co/T0zGcua2UT Steal my promo...
Falcon 9 Lifts ISS Cargo as China Readies Jielong‑3 Launch
LAUNCH at 1141 UTC Apr 11 of a Falcon 9 from Canaveral with the ISS Cygnus NG-24 cargo ship SS Steven R. Nagel. Also waiting to confirm LAUNCH at 1133 UTC of a Jielong-3 from the Yanjiang area in the South...
AI Exposes Popular Beliefs, Not Objective Truth
The more I use AI, the more I see it revealing common knowledge rather than truth. This is incredibly useful to me as a social scientist. I can easily see what the crowd believes to be true and the clear...
S26 Ultra: Best Android Phone, $200 Off Now
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is the best Android phone you can buy right now. It's currently $200 off for a limited time only. Here's why you need it. https://t.co/0Wt13iK5v7
Decelerators: Slowing Mach 33 to 20 Mph for Planetary Landings
Inspired by the #ArtemisII moon mission and/or working in the space industry? June sees @aiaa and @Aerosociety conference on aerodynamic decelerators - how do you slow down an object from Mach 33 to 20mph to land on Earth or other...
Gesture‑controlled Desk Creates Interactive Holographic Displays
Next-Gen Desk Turns Simple Gestures into Interactive Holographic Displays by @tweetciiiim #Innovation #EmergingTech #Tech #Technology https://t.co/Xy6vonZPlH
AI Bug‑Fix Pipeline Nears Launch, Integrates Top Tools
🤏 We're this close to launching our AI bug fixing pipeline It gracefully connects @linear @jamdotdev @claudeai @sentry and @greptile https://t.co/RGEJWqunwR
Nation Relies on Imported Natural Gas for 95% Electricity
“95% of our electricity generation is from natural gas - piped from neighbouring countries” https://t.co/8xKZtQeeEd
LLMs Become the Newest Addiction for Non‑coders
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary. — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes The fourth? LLMs in the hands of those who can't write a single line of code. Result: https://t.co/pt2pbQ8Ln1
Headless Theme Boosts Clicks; Excess Apps Kill Conversions
Ruggable saw a 300% increase in organic search clicks after switching to a headless theme that cut their site speed by 40%. Meanwhile you're stacking 15 different Shopify apps that slow your site to a crawl and wondering why nobody...
AI Boosts Supply Chain Traceability and Transparency
Leverage #AI for Enhanced Traceability and Transparency in the #SupplyChain by @antgrasso #Logistics #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #DL https://t.co/Nig6HIsyKj
GBrain Simplifies Integrations with Guided Setup Recipes
New OpenClaw and Hermes Agent users struggle to get all your integrations set up. And you can't get to 1,000 markdown files let alone 10,000 without proper integrations with mail, calendar etc. GBrain now makes it very easy with guided integration...
