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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is to buy a big chunk of wireless spectrum from beleaguered EchoStar for $17 billion in cash and stock, a move that advances Musk’s ambitions to launch a satellite-to-cell service. At the same time, The two companies struck a deal under which EchoStar’s cell service Boost ...
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A huge AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage has taken out multiple internet services including Alexa, Ring, Snapchat and more –here's what we know so far. Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 […] Read more ›
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Roblox, Fortnite, and a number of the world's other biggest games have gone offline as a huge outage affects the internet this morning. Read more Read more ›
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Amazon is tracking a massive AWS outage that has crippled large parts of the internet. Read more ›
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"Thinking Week" at 1440 is designed to boost innovation and employee satisfaction. Workers cancel meetings, and the CEO encourages walks in the woods. Read more ›
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A massive internet outage occurred Monday morning, impacting Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox, and more. Read more ›
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Organizers say the “No Kings” protests drew more than seven million people across 2,700 cities. The crowds included high-profile politicians, A-list celebrities, and more than a few creative inflatables. Read more ›
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Services of Snapchat, Canva, Signal, Perplexity, Duolingo, and Open AI —used by millions every day across the world— are down across the world. The disruption appears to be linked to an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read more ›
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UK-based CoMind secures €87.8M to develop technology to monitor and treat the brain without invasive procedures. London-based CoMind, a company transforming brain healthcare with its non-invasive technology, has secured $102.5M (nearly €87.88M) in funding. The company plans to complete clinical trials, pursue regulatory approval in the US, and expand its team. The funding round was ... Read more Read more ›
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Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue. Read more ›
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On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the previous annual launch record with more than two full months to go in the year. Of […] Read more ›
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One of the perks of his job, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski says, is that he gets to eat at the fast food chain "a lot." Read more ›
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If you want to cut heating costs, learn when using a space heater is more efficient than central heat. Read more ›
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Photos have emerged from the landing site that show the plane's body in pieces, with the tail section separated from the fuselage. Read more ›
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A sweeping review of over 200 studies finds that aerobic exercises like walking and cycling offer the best pain relief and mobility gains for knee osteoarthritis. Compared to other types of exercise, aerobic training showed the strongest evidence across short- and long-term outcomes. All forms of exercise were found to be safe, but experts recommend making aerobic activity the foundation of treatment. Read more ›
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It’s been over a month since the iPhone 17 series went on open sale, and Counterpoint suggests the new phones are faring much better than their predecessors. According to the report, the iPhone 17 series outsold the iPhone 16 series by 14% in its first 10 days of availability in China and the US. The figures show that the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max are outselling the 16... Read more ›
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The platform's immune system kicked in when a large number of accounts associated with Donald Trump sought attention there. Read more ›
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Saturday marked the biggest day of protest since the start of Donald Trumps’ second term. Organizers of the No Kings protests estimated that over seven million people took to the streets to declare their opposition to the president, his policies, and his tactics. Indivisible, the group behind the protests, claims that there were over 2,700 […] Read more ›
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A groundbreaking study reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t. Researchers from the University of Florida and MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that the vaccine’s immune-activating properties may boost cancer-fighting responses, acting like a nonspecific “flare” that reawakens the immune system. Read more ›
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Fintech cofounder Garima Shah believes that mistakes are inevitable in a startup environment, and accountability is key to moving forward. Read more ›
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OpenAI has spent roughly $6.4 billion in stock to buy three startups over the last 16 months, while its smaller rival Anthropic has done barely any deals. But Anthropic, recently valued at $170 billion in a funding round, told investment bankers in recent weeks that it is getting ready to move off the sidelines and do more acquisitions, according to people who have spoken to its executives. It is considering... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast last week that he wanted ChatGPT to become “people’s personal AI subscription.” The company last week made moves toward that goal with “apps in ChatGPT,” which lets people use the chatbot to search for homes on Zillow or make Spotify playlists, for instance.In another example, OpenAI has pitched companies on allowing visitors to sign into their websites using their ChatGPT credentials, just... Read more ›
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If you’ve ever uploaded a picture of a receipt to an expense report or read a PDF of a book online, you’ve likely used optical character recognition, a decades-old technique that converts images of typed, handwritten or printed text into text that’s editable on a computer.OCR might not sound like the sexiest market. But it’s interesting enough for Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most prolific backers of young AI startups... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase will invest $10 billion in mostly US-based tech companies working in areas aligned with strategic government interests. The investments are part of a broader pledge by the bank to facilitate $1.5 trillion of transactions in areas including domestic manufacturing and artificial ... Read more ›
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At Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce event for customers last year, CEO Marc Benioff told roughly 45,000 attendees that using artificial intelligence to automate everything from customer service to sales functions was an easy and quick process. At this year’s event, now underway in San Francisco, Benioff toned down the rhetoric. He said Tuesday at the event that it “takes time” for companies to make good use of available AI, whose capabilities... Read more ›
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Microsoft aims to produce the majority of its new products including laptops and servers outside China as early as next year, Nikkei Asia reported. The move is part of the U.S. tech giant’s ongoing effort to reduce its dependence on China’s domestic supply chain amid geopolitical tensions ... Read more ›
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An entity being used to fund Meta Platforms’ large-scale data center in Louisiana sold more than $27 billion in debt with an interest rate about 2.25 percentage points above the U.S. Treasury yield. Meta is raising the debt, maturing in 2049, for a roughly $30 billion special-purpose vehicle the ... Read more ›
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The deals keep coming for semiconductor firms and OpenAI. In the past month, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom have each reached very different agreements to supply chips to OpenAI. The arrangements open up all three to the risk that OpenAI, which expects to burn $115 billion through 2029, can’t afford to keep its commitments. The deals pose different risks to each company’s business, but AMD faces the biggest downside... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI is aiming to build and control the world’s most powerful data center and a massive natural gas plant to power it. The scale of the project and xAI’s precarious finances are forcing the company into unusual financial arrangements that rely on outsiders to raise funding and shoulder much of the risk. XAI wants to have as much control as possible over Colossus 2, its second supersize data... Read more ›
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Walmart said Tuesday that it would soon start selling products through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout feature, marking the first major retailer to strike an e-commerce partnership with the AI firm. Shoppers will be able to buy most Walmart and Sam’s Club products directly in ChatGPT conversations, ... Read more ›
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