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We’re heading into the holidays, when a look back at 2025 seems natural (and a good way to make up for the relative lack of news!). Let’s start with Google’s amazing turnaround in 2025. Not only did it emerge mostly unscathed from the antitrust litigation regarding search, it made a giant leap forward in the AI market. Conspiracy theorists will see a significance in the fact that those two things happened in that order. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine they would have happened in the reverse order. Consider tha
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Score savings of up to AU$670 on TVs, vacuums, flagship phones and so much more during Kogan’s Boxing Day 2025 sale. Read more ›
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Looks like Apple's foldable iPhone will not get a clean debut as Samsung prepares for a head-on battle. Read more ›
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In July Google promised to scale the CO2 batteries of "Energy Dome" as a long-duration energy storage solution. Now IEEE Spectrum visits its first plant in Sardinia, where 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide power a turbine generating 20 MW over 10 hours — storing "large amounts of excess renewable energy until it's needed..." "Google likes the concept so much that it plans to rapidly deploy the facilities in all of... Read more ›
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Waymo’s robotaxis suffered a serious failure on Saturday when a power outage affecting a large part of San Francisco caused problems for its autonomous cars in the city. Some 130,000 residents lost power to their homes and businesses, while the outage also knocked out traffic lights at major intersections, causing confusion for Waymo’s robotaxis. Many ... Read more ›
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Karen Gilchrist jokes that her "maternal instincts kicked in late," but by 2024 she and her husband, Pablo Slough, decided to prioritize family over climbing the corporate ladder. Read more ›
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The US is now reviewing the social media of some visa applicants. Several major tech companies are warning visa holders not to leave the country. Read more ›
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NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus. Read more ›
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Lee Wan Yu, a former Disneyland parade dancer, shares a behind-the-scenes look at the audition process and what she learned from Disney's magic. Read more ›
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As iRobot's founder Colin Angle looks back on its path to bankruptcy, he says it was hard to overcome competitors in China. Read more ›
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The Indie Game Awards has withdrawn two awards previously given to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, not because of the debate about what does and doesn't constitute an "indie" game, but because a representative of Sandfall Interactive had agreed that no gen AI had been used in the development when, in fact, it had. Read more Read more ›
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A widespread power outage in San Francisco affected thousands of residents. It also left Waymo robotaxis stalled on city streets. Read more ›
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From tariff rebate checks, to bonuses, to Trump accounts, to DOGE dividends, here's all the free money Trump has floated giving to Americans. Read more ›
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My 10-minute broccoli cheese casserole is cheap, comforting, and consistently the first dish people ask me to bring. Read more ›
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Was 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' another worthwhile trip to Pandora, or should this be the last of the films? Read more ›
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Natalie Lynch moved from San Francisco to Europe with her dog last year. She told BI that her life isn't perfect, but it's better than in the US. Read more ›
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WhatsApp GhostPairing attacks let hackers hijack accounts using device-linking, exposing messages and media while bypassing authentication completely. Read more ›
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Several of Waymo's autonomous vehicles were seen stuck in the middle of San Francisco streets following a significant power outage that took out the city's traffic lights. Waymo responded to the power outage by suspending its ride-hailing services in the city, but images and videos on social media showed the self-driving taxis stopped at intersections with hazard lights on. "We have temporarily suspended our ride-hailing services in the San Francisco... Read more ›
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"On Saturday, videos shared widely on social media showed Waymo vehicles stopped mid-intersection with hazard lights flashing, forcing other cars to maneuver around them," reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Independent notes that "Without working traffic lights, the driverless cars were seemingly left confused, with many halting in their tracks and causing major traffic jams. Local riders and pedestrians shared photos and videos of the vehicles stuck at intersections with... Read more ›
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Imagery of spools carrying 65km (~40.4 miles) of optical fiber, for FPV drone control, have been shared on Russian social media channels. Read more ›
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Recently, Nick Noone, co-founder and CEO of Peregrine, was introduced to Candace Parker, sports broadcaster and retired WNBA star, by mutual friends. They hit it off. The two share a passion for athletics. (Noone was a Stanford gymnast.) And both have an interest in startups. (Parker is an active angel investor.) After Noone described how his startup sells Palantir-esque data analytics software to local police and public safety departments, Parker... Read more ›
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Over the past this year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ways to get useful responses out of it, one employee said. But even as ChatGPT attracted more users this year,... Read more ›
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TikTok employees working for the company’s U.S. Data Security division will be moved under a U.S. joint venture ownership company in January and will no longer be able to receive Restricted Stock Units from TikTik’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, staff were told on Friday. The U.S. Data ... Read more ›
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The iPhone family is growing again. Over the next two years, Apple is planning a major expansion of its smartphone product line that could see it selling at least seven new models of its flagship device by fall 2027, up from five iPhone models today, according to multiple people working directly on the products at both Apple and its suppliers. The move will see Apple—which is often criticized for releasing... Read more ›
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Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have gained popularity in the U.S. by letting people bet on everything from elections to Oscar winners to weather trends. But over the past year, a substantial portion of their wagers—and in Kalshi’s case the vast majority—have come from sports betting. And now traditional sportsbooks and crypto exchanges are crashing the prediction market party. DraftKings, one of the two largest online sportsbooks in the... Read more ›
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Businesses such as IBM and Salesforce have long used chatbots to greet their website visitors and offer them assistance with getting more information about their products. In recent years, generative AI has livened up these chatbots so they are no longer confined to a small set of canned responses. But some technology providers are having trouble keeping these AI chatbots from going off-topic. For instance, earlier this month, Sierra, a... Read more ›
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Amazon reorganized its AI development team, it said on Wednesday, by expanding it to also include quantum computing and silicon development, which includes development of Trainium chips. Those organizations were previously part of Amazon Web Services. Amazon’s AI team, which developed its Nova ... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI lab co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is planning to release its own in-house models next year, co-founder and Chief Scientist John Schulman said on a podcast. So far, Thinking Machines has released Tinker, an application programming ... Read more ›
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Brett Adcock, the CEO of robotics startup Figure AI, has started a new AI lab called Hark, which will be funded by $100 million of his personal capital, according to a copy of a memo Adcock sent to Figure employees and investors on Thursday seen by The Information. The AI lab will be focused on ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has hired former UK Chancellor George Osborne to a new position it’s calling the Head of OpenAI for Countries, according to Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane’s LinkedIn post. Osborne will lead the company’s effort to expand its Stargate data center buildout across the rest of the ... Read more ›
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