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International Business Machines agreed to acquire data streaming firm Confluent for around $11 billion in cash. Confluent provides technology that helps companies manage real-time data streams used in AI models, making it a logical fit for IBM as it looks to boost its software, cloud and AI ...
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The AFL-CIO, which represents some 15 million workers across the US, is backing a planned Minnesota economic blackout to protest ICE. Read more âș
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President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on Denmark and other European nations over Greenland annexation, citing national security concerns. Read more âș
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We moved from Texas to Denver and downsized our home, gaining more time together, walkability, community, and freedom for our kids. Read more âș
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Turns out people might like to circumvent centralized financial infrastructure in times of political upheaval. Read more âș
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"Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the [âŠ] Read more âș
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We now have some idea of what's at stake in the longstanding feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI. As first reported by Bloomberg, the latest filing, as part of a lawsuit that accuses the AI giant of abandoning its non-profit status, claims that Musk is owed anywhere between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from the "wrongful gains" of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk claimed in the filing that he's... Read more âș
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Since the United States announced it would ârunâ Venezuela and captured President NicolĂĄs Maduro, the Trump administration has openly floated similar interventions elsewhere in Latin America. But the country Donald Trump has fixated on most isnât an adversary â itâs an ally. Greenland, a NATO member and longtime partner of the United States has repeatedly [âŠ] Read more âș
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Android tablets are slowly but surely becoming great in the shadow of the market-dominant iPad. Example, the Oppo Pad 5 Matte Display Edition, also known as the Oppo Pad Air5. This may very well be all the tablet you ever need. It has a large anti-glare display, a long-lasting battery, and solid performance. Let's touch on that last bit - the tablet has what Oppo calls a 48-month fluency protection,... Read more âș
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Increasing DDR5 prices are leading buyers to buy "ancient" desktop platforms going as far back as the DDR3 era. YouTuber discovers 4790K powered system with an RTX 2060 Super and $40 worth of 32GB DDR3 memory can run games modern AAA games at 60FPS. Read more âș
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Enjoy the web in peace with this lifetime subscription to the AdGuard Family Plan, now $39.99 (reg. $169.99). Read more âș
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I began choosing grocery cashiers over self-checkout and was surprised by how much small human interactions helped combat loneliness. Read more âș
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. One of those trips was interrupted Sunday when the bus got rear-ended. The bus, produced by the company Beep, was following its... Read more âș
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AMD will try to keep graphics card prices as low as possible for gamers during the DRAM shortage. Read more âș
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A new article from Bloomberg says dozens of America's colleges "succumbed to a fundamental problem killing colleges across the US: not enough students. The schools will award their final degrees this spring, stranding students not yet ready to graduate and forcing faculty and staff to hunt for new jobs." The country's tumbling birth rate is pushing schools toward a "demographic cliff," where a steadily dropping population of people in their... Read more âș
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Elon Musk wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion over his claims that he was defrauded. Read more âș
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Amazon is reportedly adding Teresa Palmer (The Fall Guy, Warm Bodies, Hacksaw Ridge) to its pantheon of Norse gods for its God of War TV show adaptation. As first reported by Deadline, Palmer will play Sif, Thor's wife and eventual leader of the Aesir, in the live-action adaptation. It may not carry as much weight as the casting of the video game's protagonist that was revealed earlier this week to... Read more âș
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This Jackery HomePower 3000 portable power station is more than 50% off right now. Read more âș
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Boomer Anne Golberg, 73, teaches other seniors how to master the art of using an iPhone. She says the technology isn't as scary as they might think. Read more âș
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Motive Technologies, a seller of AI-powered dashcams to trucking companies, is delaying the marketing of its initial public offering, which was supposed to begin on Monday, three people close to the company said. It could delay its roadshow another week, two of the people said. They didnât describe the exact reasons, but one person called it a âtechnical issueâ rather than a case of Motive pulling the offering for good.... Read more âș
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In November, a young robotics startup called Gradient began interviewing applicants for an engineering internship at the Palo Alto, Calif.âbased company. But after talking to a half-dozen of them, the startup decided to ditch its plan to add interns. Why exactly? âNot worth our time,â said J.X. Mo, 23, Gradientâs co-founder. While some of the applicants had seemed promising, ânone of them would be cracked enough for us to hire... Read more âș
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Last summer, a manager at startup Motive Technologies sent an urgent Slack message to 400 employees based in Pakistan. âWE HAVE A PROBLEM,â it said in all caps. Motive sells AI-powered dashcams that allow trucking companies to monitor drivers and send alerts about crashes and other safety issues. In August, the dashcams recorded a string of collisions, but customers never received the alerts. Read more âș
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OpenAI is Microsoftâs most important AI provider and its biggest cloud server customer. But as OpenAI does more business with Microsoftâs cloud rivals, Microsoft is doing more business with Anthropic, OpenAIâs archrival. Microsoft has quietly become one of Anthropicâs top customers and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500 million a year for Anthropic AI to power Microsoft products, according to a person with direct knowledge. At the same... Read more âș
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One month before Google paid $4.8 billion for Intersect Power, the tech giant had a message for federal energy regulators: They should fast-track approvals for data centers that supply some of their own power. Intersect does just that, producing power for data centers to allow them to operate without relying entirely on the grid. Googleâs purchase of Intersect is the first step by a major tech company to acquire a... Read more âș
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Robinhood and Coinbase are two of the most popular trading apps, historically concentrating on equities and crypto, respectively. But more and more, theyâre competing head to head. Coinbase is launching stock trading, while Robinhood is expanding in crypto. Both are also betting big on prediction markets. Yet as far as stock performance goes, the two companies couldnât look more different. Robinhoodâs shares rose 186% last year, while Coinbaseâs fell 12%.... Read more âș
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Last November, during one of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huangâs five visits to Taiwan last year, he and CC Wei, CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., met with reporters. Wei told the assembled media that Huang had come to ask for more chips, to which Huang, standing next to him, replied: âYes!â Huang wasnât the only U.S. tech executive making such requests. In recent months, Broadcom, which places manufacturing orders with... Read more âș
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday announced a record capital expenditure between $52 billion and $56 billion for 2026, as it tries to ease the capacity constraint on its production facilities. About 70% to 80% of the spending will go to manufacturing equipment for ... Read more âș
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BitGo, a crypto custody firm, said Monday itâs launching its initial public offering, seeking to raise as much as $201 million at a valuation of up to $1.96 billion. The company began pitching the shares to investors today, meaning they will likely start trading within the next two weeks. BitGo ... Read more âș
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In a new research paper published this week, DeepSeekâs founder and researchers proposed a new technique that makes AI models more efficient by allowing them to retrieve simple factual information without relying on a compute-intensive process. The technique, called Engram, enables AI models to ... Read more âș
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