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Walmart plans to offer deliveries using drones from Alphabet subsidiary Wing from 100 stores in five new U.S. cities, the retailer said Thursday. The retail giant is adding Wing drone deliveries from stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando and Tampa, on top of existing drone operations in ...
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MSNBC is rebranding to "MS NOW" and is getting a new logo. Employees are chattering about what the rebrand signals for the cable TV network's future. Read more ›
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Apple today released the fourth public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, allowing the public to test the updates ahead of their September launch. The fourth public betas come a week after the third public betas, and the updates correspond with the seventh developer betas that were released earlier today. Beta testers that have registered on Apple's website can download the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 updates... Read more ›
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The Trump administration is considering taking a 10% stake in Intel by converting $10.9B in Chips Act grants into equity, a move that would make the U.S. government Intel’s largest shareholder and mark a major shift in how federal chip funding is deployed. Read more ›
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Altman also doesn't want ChatGPT to become an anime sex robot. Good to know. Read more ›
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A WIRED review of a now-deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein. Read more ›
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Russian state media footage shows the M113 armored personnel carrier driving into combat in the Zaporizhzhia region. Read more ›
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When Nvidia wanted to show off software for developing artificial intelligence at its flagship customer conference in March, it brought out a Star Wars–inspired robot that bobbed its head as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talked to it. “Stand right here,” said Huang, pointing to his side, and the knee-high robot waddled to the spot, receiving cheers and applause from the audience. What Huang didn’t say was that “a puppeteer behind... Read more ›
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A recent study claims to have found new geochemical evidence of an Earth-altering comet impact at the end of the last ice age, but skeptics still aren't convinced. Read more ›
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Texas attorney-general joins Senate in investigating Meta’s practices around minors using its technology Read more ›
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Goodbye MSBNC, and hello “MS NOW.” In an announcement that has triggered widespread befuddlement and mockery, the progressive cable news network is getting rebranded. The new name isn’t meant to call to mind Microsoft or the honorific “Ms.” Instead, in the style of congressional bill-naming, MS NOW is purportedly an acronym for the following mouthful: […] Read more ›
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Apple is expected to delay the launch of its base iPhone 18 model until spring 2027, marking a major shift in the company's long-established release cycle, according to South Korea's ETNews. The report claims that Apple has informed some of its suppliers that the ‌iPhone 18‌ will not be part of the September 2026 iPhone lineup. Instead, the company will unveil only higher-end models in the fall of that year,... Read more ›
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Starbucks salaried employees, such as store managers, are set to get a 2% raise in 2025 amid the company's turnaround plan. Read more ›
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Find out how to watch the Made by Google livestream event on Wednesday, Aug. 20. We expect to see the official unveiling of the Pixel 10 series. Read more ›
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NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is leveling-up in September with the addition of RTX 5080 GPUs, which will allow for 5K streaming at up to 120fps (or 1080p/320fps for the truly frame-hungry). While you'll need to be on the $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate tier to use RTX 5080 streaming servers, NVIDIA at least isn't raising that tier's price. Subscribers at that level will still receive 100 hours of monthly... Read more ›
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The seventh developer beta of iOS 26 is now available. While we are now in the later stages of the iOS 26 beta cycle, there are still some changes. Below, we outline everything new that we have found in iOS 26 beta 7 so far. Redesigned Blood Oxygen Feature The seventh developer betas of iOS 26 and watchOS 26 include a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature on Apple Watch Series 9,... Read more ›
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More than $2.8 million was seized from suspected ransomware leader Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko. Read more ›
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Just weeks after Nvidia reached a deal with President Trump allowing it to sell AI chips in China, the chipmaker has hit a new hurdle—Chinese authorities. China’s internet regulator in the past two weeks ordered local tech companies including ByteDance, Alibaba Group, and Tencent Holdings to suspend their purchases of Nvidia chips, citing data security concerns with the chips, according to three people briefed on the matter. Read more ›
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Venture investors are discussing ploughing as much as $1 billion into Texas-based energy startup Base Power at a $4 billion valuation, or about four times its valuation in April, according to a person with knowledge of the investment talks. The startup, co-founded in 2023 by Zach Dell, a former Thrive Capital investor and son of PC mogul Michael Dell, generates revenue by managing a fleet of home backup batteries and... Read more ›
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Bullish, the crypto exchange operator and owner of news outlet CoinDesk, raised $1.1 billion in an upsized initial public offering. The Peter Thiel-backed firm said it is selling 30 million shares in its IPO at $37 per share, higher than the earlier target range of $32 to $33 per ... Read more ›
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We’re in a new era of government intervention in corporate America. The latest example is Bloomberg’s report on Thursday that the Trump administration was in talks to “take a stake” in Intel. Just on Monday, President Donald Trump said he and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had agreed that Nvidia would pay the government 15% of whatever revenues it generates from the sale of AI chips to China, in exchange for... Read more ›
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Vercel, a nine-year-old cloud startup that companies use to host and develop websites and artificial intelligence apps, has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation between $8 billion to $9 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions. The new funding could nearly triple Vercel’s private valuation from a financing in May last year and follows a recent growth... Read more ›
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For all the talk about the rise of low-cost or open-source AI models, enterprises are still gravitating to brand-name models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. That’s prompting database providers like Snowflake, Databricks and Oracle to strike deals allowing database customers to use the brand-name AI to build chatbots and search tools that can analyze each customers’ proprietary data. In the latest example, Oracle and Google announced an agreement this morning... Read more ›
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In the fast-paced AI wars, time is precious. So when Google last month said it would pay Windsurf $2.4 billion to license the prominent AI startup’s technology and hire some of its employees, the search giant hurried to add Windsurf’s researchers and engineers to its ranks. Within a day, Google had onboarded most of the Windsurf staff it had hired—but not all of them. Some of them were left in... Read more ›
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A group of more than 80 chief executive officers at crypto and fintech firms signed a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to block U.S. banks, such as JPMorgan Chase, from charging fees for access to customer data, which could threaten the business model of fintech firms. The CEOs at ... Read more ›
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Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google’s Chrome, the world’s largest internet browser, for a price amounting to nearly double its valuation. While that acquisition seems unlikely to transpire, the company has been on the prowl for smaller browsers it could more easily bite off. Since the end of last year, executives at the three-year-old startup have communicated with leaders... Read more ›
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SAP is in the midst of an artificial intelligence–fueled overhaul. The 53-year-old German enterprise software giant has undertaken a massive reorganization over the past year and a half, cutting 8,000 jobs since the start of 2024 as it aims to use AI for cost savings while hiring in new areas focused on selling enterprise AI applications. Today we’re publishing an org chart identifying more than 30 of the top executives... Read more ›
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