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LandSpace’s failed rocket test points to a SpaceX-style shift in China’s space industry. Public failure aligns it with a SpaceX-style engineering model. For years, China’s space programme optimised for certainty. Launches were designed to succeed the first time, failures were rare, and experimentation stayed largely behind closed doors. That operating model is now under strain. ...
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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 ›
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President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on Denmark and other European nations over Greenland annexation, citing national security concerns. Read more ›
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AMD’s 2026 PC strategy focuses on incremental CPU updates, price-to-performance GPUs, and cautious AI upscaling. Read more ›
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Visits to the US by international travelers declined for the eighth straight month in December, in a continued blow to the tourism industry. Read more ›
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Watch Australian Open for free. Live stream Yuan vs. Swiatek in the 2026 Australian Open online for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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Since the United States announced it would “run” Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has openly floated similar interventions elsewhere in Latin America. But the country Donald Trump has fixated on most isn’t an adversary — it’s an ally. Greenland, a NATO member and longtime partner of the United States has repeatedly […] Read more ›
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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 […] Read more ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes "educated guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances "we think will drive progress or incite the most change — for better or worse — in the years ahead." This year's list includes next-gen nuclear, gene-editing drugs (as well as the "resurrection" of ancient genes from extinct creatures), and three AI-related developments: AI companions, AI coding tools, and "mechanistic interpretability" for... Read more ›
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Turns out people might like to circumvent centralized financial infrastructure in times of political upheaval. Read more ›
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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 ›
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Watch Australian Open for free. Live stream Sinner vs. Gaston in the 2026 Australian Open online for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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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 ›
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AMD will try to keep graphics card prices as low as possible for gamers during the DRAM shortage. Read more ›
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Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more. Read more ›
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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 ›
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Friday a federal judge "cleared U.S. power company Dominion Energy to resume work on its Virginia offshore wind project." But a U.S. federal judge also ruled Thursday that another major offshore wind farm is allowed to resume construction, reports the Hill. "The project, which would supply power to New York, was one of five that were halted by the Trump administration in December...." In fact, there were three different court... Read more ›
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Author: Aaron Crowe, Head of Revenue, APAC, Eagle Eye Discussions with retail leaders in Bangkok and Taipei reveal how AI-driven loyalty programmes are reshaping the competitive landscape. Years of Netflix recommendations and Amazon’s “customers who bought this” suggestions have trained shoppers to expect personal recognition from every business they interact with. What started as a ... Read more ›
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Indonesia and Malaysia blocked Grok over deepfake, non-consensual sexualised images. Officials cite human rights violations and user harm. Access to Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot run by Elon Musk, has been blocked in Indonesia and Malaysia after the tool was used to generate sexualised images of real people. The move comes after days of growing ... Read more ›
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India weighs smartphone rules that would require source code access. Tech firms say the plan has no global precedent, could expose sensitive data. India is weighing a set of new security rules that could change how smartphones are built, tested, and updated before they reach users. At the centre of the debate is a proposal ... Read more ›
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New technique lets AI models process information and reduce reliance on GPU memory. Chinese AI companies ‘innovate around’ US chip export restrictions. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has unveiled a new approach to building larger, more capable AI models without needing the most advanced – and expensive – computer chips that US export controls have restricted. ... Read more ›
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Meta’s Reality Labs layoffs and VR closures come as smart glasses rise. The metaverse remains, but focus is shifting away from VR. Meta’s pullback from virtual reality is not subtle. Roughly one in ten employees in its Reality Labs division are losing their jobs, and several VR game studios owned by the company are being ... Read more ›
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The Trump administration green-lights Nvidia H200 AI chip sales to China with conditions. Shipments cannot exceed half of the US domestic sales’ volume. White House’s balancing act between protecting US chipmaker revenues and limiting Beijing’s abilities. The Trump administration has approved Nvidia H200 chip exports to China, but the green light comes with significant strings ... Read more ›
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Lenovo’s CIO Playbook shows AI spending rising, while scaling remains difficult. CIOs expect returns but still face hurdles in governance and infrastructure. Across Asia Pacific, AI is no longer treated as a side project. For most enterprises, it is now a core budget and planning item. New data from the fourth edition of the Lenovo ... Read more ›
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President Trump’s new tariff targets advanced AI processors, including Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X, under the Section 232 national security order Policy creates contradiction: H200 exports to China were approved on Tuesday, then subjected to 25% import duties on Wednesday President Trump has imposed a 25% tariff on imports of high-end artificial intelligence chips, including ... Read more ›
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SEON reported strong commercial momentum in 2025, with annual recurring revenue growing by more than 80% and customer numbers increasing by several hundred as organisations increasingly sought to unify fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) operations. The company also disclosed a more than 250% year-on-year increase in API use, which it attributed to deeper integration ... Read more ›
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