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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against a former 75-year-old senior vice president who left the company in July for Intel, alleging he likely leaked trade secrets to his current employer. The world’s largest chipmaker said that Lo Wei-jen violated a ...
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Google's Pixel Buds Pro 2 earbuds are on sale for $165 via Amazon. That's a nice discount of $64, which breaks down to 28 percent. There is a spot of bad news. The deal only applies to the hazel colorway. Other colors are discounted, but they aren't as cheap. It's not as if the hazel is hideous. These are standard dark brown-hued earbuds. The device made our list of the... Read more ›
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Meta hires C.J. Mahoney as chief legal officer, replacing Jennifer Newstead, amid growing scrutiny over antitrust and data privacy issues. Read more ›
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Anker dove into CES 2026 with a slew of announcements that bring new chargers and accessories under its umbrella. The new accessories include improved visual interfaces, faster Qi2 wireless charging and “upgraded ecosystems” that support the latest iPhones. Some of the latest devices are even available to buy right now. First up is the Anker Nano Charger with smart display, which features a tiny screen, 180-degree foldable prongs and provides... Read more ›
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Google has announced that it will publish Android source code to AOSP in Q2 and Q4 of each year. Read more ›
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If I were building a new PC today, I'd go for a small form factor mATX or ITX build. With companies like Fractal Design and Lian Li making cases that can fit modern GPUs without sacrificing on thermals, you don't need to settle for the old mid-tower monstrosities of yesteryear. And that's why PNY's new "Slim” model RTX 50-series designs caught my eye. All three variants, covering the 5070, 5070... Read more ›
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"States must step in to hold X and Musk accountable, if Trump’s DOJ won’t," Wyden said. Read more ›
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Birdbuddy debuted two new smart bird feeders, which are successors to its existing bird feeder options. The Birdbuddy 2 and the Birdbuddy 2 mini are set to launch later this year. The $199 Birdbuddy 2 features 2K HDR video, a wider field of view, dual integrated solar power, better audio, an improved extended perch, and more seed capacity. It was shown off earlier this year, and pre-orders have sold out,... Read more ›
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Troy Baker, one of the most well known actors working in video games, believes generative AI could have a positive effect overall on performing arts. Baker thinks it'll cause a reaction whereby people will seek out "authentic" experiences more - live shows, live theatre - and turn away from "gruel that gets distilled to me through a black mirror". Read more Read more ›
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Meta has a waitlist for its Ray-Ban Display glasses extending into 2026. The tech giant said it's pausing its international expansion to catch up. Read more ›
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Nvidia's CES keynote was notably not consumer-focused. Instead, the company detailed its booming data center business, with a deeper look at its NVL72 Rubin platform. Read more ›
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As a child-free couple with remote jobs, we choose not to spend Christmas and New Year's gathering with family. Instead, we travel somewhere new. Read more ›
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Amazon tests Shop Direct, pulling product listings from other retailers without consent, highlighting data scraping issues. Read more ›
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Jamie Siminoff's community, and the garage he founded Ring in, burned in the Palisades fire. Now he's teaming up with Watch Duty to fight wildfires. Read more ›
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The "talent is everywhere" approach that U.S. employers adopted during the white-hot pandemic job market is quietly giving way to something much older and more familiar: recruiting almost exclusively from a small set of elite and nearby universities. A 2025 survey of more than 150 companies by Veris Insights found that 26% were exclusively recruiting from a shortlist of schools, up from 17% in 2022. Diversity as a priority for... Read more ›
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The 90-second video urging U.S. military personnel to refuse to follow illegal orders was deemed "punishable by DEATH!" Read more ›
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If you need a reliable desktop that won’t feel outdated the moment you unbox it, this is a practical deal. The HP OmniDesk desktop with Intel Core Ultra 5 225 (2025), 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD is down to $549.99 (compared value $769.99), saving you $220. For most people, this is the sweet spot: ... Read more ›
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Unnecessary characters, replacing the main star, and adding ridiculous plots are just some of the signs that it's time to call it quits. Read more ›
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DLSS 4.5 testing by enthusiasts has revealed a 20% or greater performance reduction compared to DLSS 4.0 on RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs. Read more ›
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As almost everyone in Silicon Valley has found out lately, creating AI is a money drain, and many of the biggest startups eager to do so aren’t profitable. That’s true even for the AI business run by the world’s richest man, and that’s why I expect Elon Musk will take a drastic step next year to keep the money flowing to xAI: by selling to the profitable part of his... Read more ›
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Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips inside data centers directly to developers, rather than just owning or developing the physical structures that surround them. The cloud business... Read more ›
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For an eventful year, 2025 is ending the same way it started. A year ago, Nvidia, OpenAI and others made it clear they would do everything necessary to win the race for artificial intelligence.The year ended with the same companies doing the same thing. Nvidia capped off a year of dealmaking—mostly to cement its lead in AI chips by agreeing to pay $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one... Read more ›
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For Christmas this holiday season, I bought my mom a navy blue 1980 Lake Placid Olympics sweater. It has special significance for her because, as a college student in upstate New York at the time, she got to attend the famous “Miracle on Ice” hockey game between the U.S. and Soviet Union in person. Now, almost half a century later, my mom finally has some merchandise to commemorate it. The... Read more ›
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Trump Media and Technology Group, the company that operates President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, said it will issue a new cryptocurrency to shareholders, according to a statement on Wednesday. The planned crypto coin, which the company said will likely be issued in ... Read more ›
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Happy New Year! It’s the perfect time for a refresh on what’s been top of mind for The Information’s readers—and the early trends and open questions worth keeping tabs on in 2026. In 2025, our most popular stories revealed growing cracks in the artificial intelligence boom and pinpointed challenges facing the most dominant AI companies. The top story was also one of our most recent, about a “code red” inside... Read more ›
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No one in Silicon Valley gets wealthy or powerful by dwelling on the past. Rather, the brightest minds within tech often outshine the competition by obsessing about the future. We like to get in on the game too. In keeping with annual tradition, we’re publishing below our best educated guesses on what’ll happen in 2026: what Microsoft buys, what Amazon discards, what robot goes mainstream, and 12 other pieces of... Read more ›
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Shares of Chinese AI chip developer Shanghai Biren Technology surged on their debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Friday after the firm’s successful initial public offering. The stock’s rise is the latest indication of investors’ strong interest in China’s domestic semiconductor sector. On ... Read more ›
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What’s that smell? It’s the whiff of humble pie being eaten by The Information’s prognosticators. A year ago, we made a series of predictions about tech deals that would get done, executives who would leave their companies and other events that we thought might happen in 2025. Many of those predictions did not come to pass. In our defense, when you have a policy of making bold and specific predictions,... Read more ›
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OpenAI is taking steps to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its eventual release of an AI-powered personal device, said a person with knowledge of the effort. The device is expected to be largely audio-based, said three people with knowledge of it. When people speak to ChatGPT, the chatbot can talk back but the large language model that powers the audio version is a different one to the... Read more ›
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