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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 8, 2025?
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Tired of Paying for Emails? We Built a Rust-Powered Sleuth Instead (and Yeah, we Got Pushback)
By @hacker9038799 [ 3 Min read ] RocketReach, Hunter, Lusha get expensive, fast. So we built an open-source alternative for discovering and verifying professional emails. Read More.
Build a Smarter Store: Let GPT Label Your Products and Predict What Sells Next
By @badmonster0 [ 11 Min read ] Build a real-time knowledge graph for product insights and recommendations with taxonomy and complementary taxonomy LLM extraction. Read More.
Speechify, ElevenLabs, Hume: Which AI Voice Can Actually Feel Something?
By @anywhichway [ 5 Min read ] Explore how AI text-to-speech engines (Eleven Labs, Hume, iCednant Speech, Speechify) perform when generating emotionally nuanced speech. Read More.
AI Giants Are Battling it Out for the Ultimate Prize in AI Race: Your Web Browser
By @neer-varshney [ 5 Min read ] Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, they all want one thing — to control the very portal through which you access the digital world, i.e. the web browser. Read More.
SOL, XRP LTC Tipped as Next in Line for Crypto ETF Approval by Bloomberg Analysts
By @johnwrites [ 4 Min read ] Which crypto ETF will be next? Bloomberg raises odds for Solana, XRP, and Litecoin ETFs in 2025 as SEC review timelines tighten. Read More.
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