March 9, 2025

AR/VR

Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2 debuts June 26 on PlayStation

Hideo Kojima announced at his SXSW keynote talk that Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2 will debut on June 26, 2025 on PlayStation. Sony also announced there will be a collector’s edition (at PlayStation.com, and preorders begin on March 17). Norman Reedus (who plays the lead character Sam in Death Stranding and Death Stranding 2) joined Kojima on stage. Kojima also showed a nearly 10-minute trailer of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, with tons of

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Colossal CEO Ben Lamm says humanity has a ‘moral obligation’ to pursue de-extinction tech | TechCrunch

The CEO of Colossal, a startup that aims to use genetic editing techniques to bring back extinct species, including the wooly mammoth, assured audiences at SXSW that the company has no plans to create a real-life Jurassic Park — lest there was any doubt. “Modern conservation isn’t working […] and we’re gonna need a ‘de-extinction’ toolkit,” Colossal CEO Ben Lamm said during an onstage interview Sunday in Austin, responding to questions from actor and board

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Everyone in AI Loves Synthetic Data—But No One Can Agree on What It Is | HackerNoon

Talk to anyone in AI, analytics, or data science, and they’ll tell you synthetic data is the future. But ask them what they mean by “synthetic data,” and you’ll get wildly different answers. That’s because synthetic data isn’t just one thing—it’s a broad category with multiple use cases and definitions. And that ambiguity makes conversations confusing. So, let’s cut through the noise. At its core, synthetic data operates along two key dimensions. The first is

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Software

Building Embodied Conversational AI: How We Taught a Robot to Understand, Navigate, and Interact | HackerNoon

Imagine asking a robot: “Hey, pick up the red cup from the kitchen and bring it here.” Sounds simple right? But for AI this involves understanding language, navigating a space, recognizing objects, and providing feedback all in real time. This is exactly what I tackled in the Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge where we built an embodied conversational agent that could understand instructions, move through its environment, interact with objects, and communicate back. Here’s how we

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Software

Coldware (COLD): Transformative PayFi Ecosystem Poised for Growth | HackerNoon

The cryptocurrency landscape continues to evolve rapidly, offering opportunities for both seasoned investors and newcomers alike. Among the most promising blockchain protocols in 2025 are Pi Network (PI) and Coldware (COLD), each pioneering revolutionary models capable of creating crypto millionaires. While Pi Network (PI) leverages its mobile-mining model, Coldware (COLD) stands out with an innovative PayFi ecosystem that redefines decentralized finance (DeFi) and real-world financial integration. Coldware (COLD): Transformative PayFi Ecosystem Poised for Explosive Growth

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Software

How WebSockets Power Real-Time Apps | HackerNoon

Introduction: When HTTP Isn’t Enough Together, Bert and Ernie, two friends are working on the side project of their dreams: a chat app that enables real-time conversations for teams who work remotely. The front-end coder Bert can hardly contain himself as he shares shiny new features with his backend specialist friend. “Look! I can type a message, and it gets sent to the server, and I can see a response popping up nearly instantly!” Ernie,

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Vibe Coding – A New System of the World (3/9/2025) | HackerNoon

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 9, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, I Invented the Internet in 1999, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Facilitating a Seamless Backend Transition From LevelUp to Paytronix to Heres How to Learn Data Structures the Fun Way With Flutter, let’s dive right in. By @marutitechlabs [ 5 Min read ]

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Tammy Nam joins AI-powered ad startup Creatopy as CEO | TechCrunch

Creatopy, a startup that uses AI to automate the creation of digital ads, has brought on a new CEO: Tammy Nam. Nam was previously COO and CMO at photo-editing startup PicsArt, and before that the CEO of video streamer Viki. She told TechCrunch via email that Creatopy was looking for a US-based executive who knows how to scale early-stage startups, has worked with European founders (the product was first developed in Romania), and understands marketing

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5G RedCap Tech to Boost Hyundai’s EV Production

2 min read The world’s largest car manufacturing plant, Hyundai’s in Ulsan, South Korea, is switching over to a low-power private 5G network called 5G Reduced Capacity, or RedCap. Original photos: Hyundai This past week at the 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Samsung and Hyundai Motor Company unveiled a private 5G network streamlined for low-power devices that connect across large facilities. The companies reported their factory’s private 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) network will transmit

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