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Google Meet will take AI notes for in-person meetings too

Google's AI meeting notetaker is no longer limited to Google Meets - Gemini can also generate summaries and transcripts of in-person meetings now, as well as meetings on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, as f...

The Verge • Apr 22, 2026 • Stevie Bonifield
Technology Apr 22, 2026

Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/startups-brag-they-spend-more-money-on-ai-than-human-employees/ Comments URL: http...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price

Article URL: https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/ Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’

Microsoft first revealed it was building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google all the way back in 202...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

The Tech Oligarch's Republic

Article URL: https://www.forever-wars.com/the-tech-oligarchs-republic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Martin Fowler: Technical, Cognitive, and Intent Debt

Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud

Hi HN — we built Broccoli, an open-source harness for taking coding tasks from Linear, running them in isolated cloud...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/science/988-youth-suicides-decline.html Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed with Zoom and Tinder

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/sam-altmans-creepy-eyeball-scanning-company-gets-in-bed-with-zoom-and-tinder-200074801...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

New York Bans Government Employees from Insider Trading on Prediction Markets

A new executive order seen by WIRED prohibits New York state employees from using insider knowledge to enrich themselves...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions

One group of hackers used AI for everything from vibe coding their malware to creating fake company websites—and stole...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Rivian R2 production has started despite tornado damage to factory

The company's all-important mass-market EV is just about ready to start heading to customers.

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Physicists think they've solved the muon mystery

Results dash hopes for a fifth force but provide very precise proof of Standard Model and QFT. ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Cosmetics giant Rituals confirms data breach of customer membership records

The cosmetics retailer, which counts 41 million customers in its membership data, declined to provide an accurate total ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Will a new CEO realize Apple’s smart home potential?

It took Tim Cook years to launch Apple into major new hardware categories, such as the smartwatch. But John Ternus could...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/us-news/top-maga-influencer-emily-hart-revealed-to-be-ai-created-by-a-guy-in...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sports/ping-pong-robot-ace-makes-history-by-beating-top-level-human-players-2026-0...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

New court ruling blocks many of the government's anti-renewable policies

Added layers of review singling out renewable energy have little legal basis. ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI 

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive eSports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

Technology Apr 22, 2026

DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/04/13/announcing-duckdb-152 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Show HN submissions tripled and are now mostly vibe-coded

Article URL: https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393 P...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is $200 off for the first time since December

When the price increases for PlayStation 5 consoles went into effect on April 2nd, we weren’t sure when the next time ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Now Meta will track what employees do on their computers to train its AI agents

Meta employees' activity at work is now being used to train the company's AI agents. As reported by Reuters, Meta is ins...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

OpenAI teams up with Infosys to bring AI tools to more businesses

Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows and dep...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations

Article URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-handmade-beauty-of-machine-age Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie

"Emily Hart" is a young, AI-created conservative woman who likes to take off her clothes. ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people’s phones

The U.K.'s cybersecurity chief warned that U.K. businesses and critical infrastructure are underestimating the threat fr...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Esther and Anne Wojcicki join new healthcare accelerator, fund

Mary Minno launches early-stage startup accelerator program, Treehub, and an early-stage firm, AI Health Fund, aimed at ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

It’s amazing how good Alienware’s $350 OLED monitor is

I've recommended several OLED gaming monitors to readers over the years, and I've finally taken my own advice to buy one...