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Roku is raising prices on its streaming hardware, and the company is pointing to industry-wide memory shortages as the reason. It's a reminder that the chips powering your living room gadgets are still subject to very real supply chain pressures, and consumers are the ones absorbing the cost.
Shifting to the software world, a developer going by Obaid is making waves on Hacker News with a post about how he got accepted into Y Combinator by, in his words, hacking it. The piece has drawn early attention for its candid look at how founders navigate one of Silicon Valley's most competitive gatekeepers, and what it means to find unconventional edges in a very conventional process.
And on the hardware side of reading, Boox is teasing a remarkably compact new e-reader called the Picco, featuring a nearly four-inch monochrome e-paper display. That puts it closer to a large thumb drive than a traditional reader, raising interesting questions about where portability ends and practicality begins for dedicated reading devices.
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