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Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm. Axios: Yahoo's business centers mostly on aggregation. Journalism isn't its core focus. Regent is trying to pull together a portfolio of tech news sites and is eager to invest in news. Earlier this week, it acquired Foundry, which houses a slew of online tech publications, such as PCWorld, Macworld and TechAdvisor.
In a statement, Regent said it is "thrilled to expand its
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Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at Elon Musk over two nights following the Tesla arson and vandalism attacks — and the Tesla CEO was listening. Read more ›
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Elon Musk shared a photo of his DOGE office setup at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Friday, revealing a massive gaming screen. Read more ›
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Trump said "special needs" education and nutrition programs will be handled by HHS and the Small Business Administration will handle student loans. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's super PAC has spent millions of dollars on a Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the first major statewide campaign since Trump's election. Read more ›
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Elon Musk held a last-minute all-hands event at Tesla's Texas Gigafactory. Some workers felt perplexed, while others were reassured. Read more ›
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Elon Musk said at an all-hands meeting on Tuesday evening that he "can't walk past a TV without seeing a Tesla on fire." Read more ›
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A California law firm is pursuing a class action lawsuit against Apple, claiming it falsely advertised Apple Intelligence. Read more ›
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Famous singers and musicians who date each other often end up collaborating on music, like Sonny and Cher and Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco. Read more ›
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Tori Carter and Kirk Rickman sold their home in December 2022 to become full-time cruisers. They've since been on 29 sailings. Read more ›
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Google sues scammers who flooded the Maps app with over 10,000 fake business listings. Read more ›
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"So what I am saying is, 'Hang on to your stock,'" Musk told employees in the Texas Gigafactory. Read more ›
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Amazon wants fewer management layers and a merit-based culture, as CEO Andy Jassy stresses the importance of speed and employee ownership. Read more ›
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Printemps opened a new store in New York City on Friday, marking its return to the US market with an experience-focused retail model. Read more ›
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Patricia Arquette, who stars as Harmony Cobel in the series "Severance," spoke to Business Insider about why Cobel is interested in Mark and Gemma. Read more ›
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My American family moved from the US to Okinawa and have now lived in Japan for years. Driving, shopping, and parenting here have surprised me. Read more ›
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Surprise! Dragon Age: The Veilguard has just gained a few more weapons on PC, thanks to the arrival of the Rook's Weapons Appearance Bundle. Read more Read more ›
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The NGAD will replace the F-22 Raptor, which entered service two decades ago, as the US Air Force's top air superiority fighter. Read more ›
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The popular sci-fi thriller wrapped up its second season, answering some lingering questions while saving some mysteries for the upcoming third season. Read more ›
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Russia stores its Tu-95 and Tu-160 bomber aircraft at the Engels-2 base and uses these planes to carry out strikes against Ukraine. Read more ›
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"SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year," writes the BBC, "as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests." Human landings could begin as early as 2029 if initial missions go well, though "2031 was more likely", he added in a post on his social media platform X... The billionaire said in 2020 that he remained confident... Read more ›
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fahrbot-bot shares a report from Reuters: BYD on Monday unveiled a new platform for electric vehicles (EVs) that it said could charge EVs as quickly as it takes to pump gas and announced for the first time that it would build a charging network across China. The so-called "super e-platform" will be capable of peak charging speeds of 1,000 kilowatts (kW), enabling cars that use it to travel 400 km... Read more ›
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Roku is testing autoplaying video ads that play before users can access the home screen. While Roku claims this is just an experiment, users are threatening to abandon the platform if the change becomes permanent. Ars Technica reports: Reports of Roku customers seeing video ads automatically play before they could view the OS' home screen started appearing online this week. A Reddit user, for example, posted yesterday: "I just turned... Read more ›
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Harvard University on Monday announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the 2025-26 academic year. From a report: "Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all of our students encounter, fostering their intellectual and personal growth," Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a statement. "By bringing... Read more ›
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After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company, the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that "The arbitration order has no impact on Macmillan... We will absolutely continue to support and promote it." (They added that they were "appalled by Meta's tactics to silence our author through the use... Read more ›
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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said startups are reaching $1-10 million annual revenue with fewer than 10 employees due to "vibe coding," a term coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy in February. "You can just talk to the large language models and they will code entire apps," Tan told CNBC (video). "You don't have to hire someone to do it, you just talk directly to the large language model that... Read more ›
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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance text for hampering American innovation in a speech to entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on Tuesday, arguing that offshoring has eroded U.S. technological leadership. "Our workers have been failed by the government of the last 40 years," Vance told the American Dynamism Summit, criticizing two "conceits" of globalization: that nations manufacturing products wouldn't eventually design them too, and that cheap foreign labor benefits innovation. "As they... Read more ›
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Across high-income countries, humans' ability to reason and solve problems appears to have peaked in the early 2010s and declined since. Despite no changes in fundamental brain biology, test scores for both teenagers and adults show deteriorating performance in reading, mathematics and science. In an eye-opening statistic, 25% of adults in high-income countries now struggle to "use mathematical reasoning when reviewing statements" -- rising to 35% in the US. This... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon's cloud. Amazon apparently sent the email to users with "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" enabled on their Echo. Starting on March 28, recordings of everything spoken to... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday affirmed that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence without human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed with the U.S. Copyright Office that an image created by Stephen Thaler's AI system "DABUS" was not entitled to copyright protection, and... Read more ›
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