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Who decides who gets to use a piece of software?
The letter arrived at 5:21pm Eastern Time on a Friday, which is the hour at which official Washingto...
Meta face recognition for its glasses came from a ...
The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One ...
Happy birthday to the Trump phone
From the day it was announced, on June 16th, 2025, the Trump phone sounded ridiculous. The T1 Phone ...
Peacock is bringing vertical Bravo microdramas and...
Peacock is going all in on vertical video with original Bravo microdramas, a dedicated scrollable fe...
Anthropic lawsuit says it oversold the usage on it...
An Anthropic lawsuit filed in California this week accuses the AI company of overselling its pricies...
Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn’...
Today, I’m talking with Adam Bry, who is CEO of Skydio, the leading US maker of autonomous drones. B...
NewCore raises $66m to give AI agents a corporate ...
NewCore has come out of stealth with $66m to solve a problem most companies have not named yet: who,...
Nimble’s SharePower breaks in half, and it’s the c...
Nimble's latest portable charger does something most power banks can't: it splits into two independe...
Kazakhstan signs a $10bn AI deal with Nvidia-backe...
The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup...
American Express acquires TheFork for $700m to bui...
American Express acquires TheFork, the European restaurant-reservation platform, from Tripadvisor fo...
Nimble launches SHAREPOWER, a power bank that spli...
Portable chargers are usually designed with a simple goal: keep one person’s devices alive for as lo...
Google Earth’s flight simulator is now available i...
On Friday Google announced it was making a relatively unknown feature of Google Earth available to a...
Airalo and the Rise of eSIM Travel: A Smarter Way ...
International travel depends on connectivity more than ever before. From navigating unfamiliar citie...
After two decades on its own, Roku is being sold f...
Fox is buying Roku in a blockbuster $22 billion deal that could reshape the streaming landscape, pai...
Salesforce acquires Fin, the Intercom-born support...
Salesforce acquires Fin, the customer-service AI company formerly known as Intercom, in a deal worth...
Nvidia’s first bond sale since 2021 seeks at least...
The Nvidia bond sale is on. The chipmaker is seeking to raise at least $20bn in its first corporate ...
Tencent-backed Enflame wins approval for an $888m ...
The Enflame IPO is on. Shanghai Enflame Technology, an AI-chip startup backed by Tencent, has won li...
A network of X accounts is boosting AI nudify tool...
Coordinated X accounts are helping AI nudify apps reach more users, researchers say, as services lik...
Fox acquires Roku for $22bn to plant its flag in s...
Fox acquires Roku in a $22bn deal that drags the cable-reliant broadcaster squarely into streaming. ...
Fox is buying Roku
Fox has announced that it's acquiring Roku outright, in a deal that values the streaming company at ...
All the gear a 20-year gadget blogging veteran pac...
Through more than two decades of travel for both work and leisure, my packing list has evolved from ...
Lightsails have hit another speed bump on the road...
A new study suggests laser-driven interstellar lightsails may face a hidden efficiency problem as th...
AT&S pours up to €2bn into Malaysia and China to r...
AT&S, the Austrian maker of printed circuit boards and chip substrates, will spend between €1.5b...
Tesla gave European regulators misleading self-dri...
Tesla put self-published safety statistics in front of regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that...
Honor’s Magic V6 sets three foldable firsts
On paper, the Honor Magic V6 sounds like a tremendous leap forward for foldable phones: It's the thi...
This upcoming foldable is taking zoom capture to r...
Vivo’s upcoming X Fold 6 is shaping up to be a camera-first foldable, with a 200MP main sensor and Z...
This new Mac app takes your screen hostage until y...
Hydration Hostage blocks your Mac screen on a schedule and only unlocks after on-device camera verif...
Google’s Sundar Pichai chose optimism over AI at S...
The man who runs one of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies stood up to address St...
The galaxy has an exoplanet size problem, and NASA...
NASA’s proposed EVE mission would study young exoplanets to help explain why the galaxy has so few w...
India’s Razorpay files for IPO through the confide...
Razorpay, the Bengaluru payments company, has filed draft papers for an initial public offering thro...
Schneider Electric and Foxconn partner on AI data-...
Schneider Electric has announced a strategic collaboration with Hon Hai Technology Group, better kno...
This free AI Mac app builder turns throwaway promp...
Ironsmith is a free AI Mac app builder that turns plain-language requests into native macOS utilitie...
Online payments are dimming the charm of one of Am...
Tower Optical's 90-year-old binocular viewers just got a tap-to-pay upgrade, here's what's changing ...
The world’s biggest battery maker just pumped the ...
CATL chairman Robin Zeng says manufacturing challenges will keep solid-state batteries out of mass-m...
France hosts the G7 with an AI pitch built on othe...
France took over the G7 this week with Emmanuel Macron pressing artificial intelligence to the front...
UK plans social media ban for under-16s in major o...
The UK government plans to ban social media access for under-16s and introduce stricter protections ...
A Nintendo Super Mario Bros. copy just sold for a ...
A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES has sold for $3 million, setting a new record for the...
The freelancer admin tax is real. Here’s how to cu...
The numbers are quietly damning. The average freelancer in 2026 spends between eight and 10 hours a ...
US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s to...
The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models...
UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gami...
Britain is expected to set out restrictions on how children under 16 use social media, in a package ...
OnePlus just announced a new budget phone series, ...
OnePlus just launched a new budget phone series for India, and recent reports suggest the US might b...
SpaceX could hit $1tn a year by 2030, Musk claims ...
Two days after taking SpaceX public in the largest stock-market debut on record, Elon Musk said the ...
Under-16 social media ban announced by UK governme...
The UK is the latest country to follow Australia in implementing a total social media ban for childr...
Gore Verbinski says AI-written scripts should get ...
Gore Verbinski says Hollywood needs a rating system for AI use in movies, and scripts written by AI ...
ByteDance is in talks to buy AI chips from China’s...
ByteDance is in talks to buy artificial-intelligence chips from Iluvatar CoreX, a Shanghai-based GPU...
Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every...
Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a cha...
The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP,...
Global financial fraud cost victims an estimated $442 billion in 2025, roughly equivalent to the eco...
Mental health distress is on the rise, and remote ...
Researchers found that remote workers spend significantly more time alone, and the shift could accou...
Yet another study finds too many kids are seeing h...
A Molly Rose Foundation study found 34% of UK teens encountered suicide, self-harm, or eating disord...
Spotify adds editor-led videos to New Music Friday...
Spotify is embedding editor-led videos inside its New Music Friday playlist for US listeners, giving...
