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The FCC approved SpaceX's plan to launch an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites on Friday. That brings the total number of satellites the company will have in orbit to around 15,000 worldwide. As part of the approval, the government is also waiving previous requirements that prevented overlapping coverage and enhanced capacity. SpaceX originally sought approval […] Read more ›
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Your neighborhood GameStop might be on the chopping block, along with more than 400 other retail locations across the US. As first reported by Polygon, the retailer is pursuing a severe cost-saving measure by closing up several hundred physical locations. According to a blog that keeps track of GameStop closures, there are 410 locations that are confirmed to be closing or are already closed, along with another 11 that are... Read more ›
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World governments have taken aim at Elon Musk's Grok chatbot, which has generated sexualized AI images of real women and children. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump on Friday called for a 10% cap on credit card interest for one year. Read more ›
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, 28, is expecting her second child with her husband, 60. Here's what to know about her life and career. Read more ›
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Superheat was at CES 2026 to showcase what it describes as “a water heater that pays for itself.” Instead of a resistive heating element, it warms your H2O with heat generated by a Bitcoin ASIC miner. Read more ›
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While your broke friends are still buying the same status symbols that drained their twenties, financially savvy 30-somethings have quietly stopped purchasing these ten wealth-killers—and the difference in their bank accounts is staggering. Read more ›
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California has over 200 billionaires that could be hit by a proposed wealth tax. Several have recently moved assets out of the state. Read more ›
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Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop. In November, I got fed up and said screw it, I'm installing Linux. Since that article was published, I have dealt with one minor catastrophe after another. None of that has anything to do with Linux, mind you. It just meant I didn't install it on […] Read more ›
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Microsoft finally allows administrators to remove the Microsoft Copilot app from managed versions of Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU. However, you need to have Microsoft 365 Copilot installed, among other conditions. Read more ›
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Multiple shops are reportedly saying that GPUs are selling almost as soon as they arrive, with higher-end models becoming increasingly challenging to keep in stock. Read more ›
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If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you're not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the "sensitive information" of 17.5 million Instagram users. Malwarebytes added that the leak included Instagram usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and more. The company added that the "data is available for sale on the dark web and can be... Read more ›
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GMKtec's new EVO-T2 mini PC is powered by Intel’s 18A Core Ultra X9, with support for up to 128GB of LPDDR5x memory and 16TB of SSD storage. Read more ›
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You won't just be carving turkey in November, you'll also be carving out time to see 'Godzilla Minus Zero' on the big screen. Read more ›
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Forza Horizon 5 has reportedly sold more than 5 million copies on PS5. Read more Read more ›
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President Donald Trump is pushing for major US oil companies to pump at least $100 billion into Venezuela. Read more ›
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Dev creates a quintet of UEFI games with the premise of Win -> Boot, Lose -> Shutdown. Read more ›
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A YouTuber has managed to run Doom on a Krups Cook4Mec smart pressure cooker after dumping and reflashing the firmware on the appliance’s touchscreen control hardware. Read more ›
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This week Meta announced several new features for "Meta Ray-Ban Display" smartglasses: - A new teleprompter feature for the smart glasses (arriving in a phased rollout) - The ability to send messages on WhatsApp and Messenger by writing with your finger on any surface. (Available for those who sign up for an "early access" program). - "Pedestrian navigation" for 32 cities. ("The 28 cities we launched Meta Ray-Ban Display with,... Read more ›
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From a lollipop that lets you taste sound to a Tamagotchi style AI pet that physically grows, here are the coolest tech you could get your hands on. Read more ›
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The Chinese government this week asked some tech companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, according to two people involved in the communication, throwing up a possible roadblock in Nvidia’s hopes of restarting chip sales to one of its biggest markets. The instruction came roughly a month after President Donald Trump said he would allow Nvidia to sell H200s to China, marking the biggest rollback of... Read more ›
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LMArena, a startup that operates a widely cited ranking of AI models based on their performance, has raised $150 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion, including the new money, according to the company. That’s nearly triple the valuation of its seed funding round, announced in May 2025. The funding round, co-led by existing investors Felicis and the University of California’s investment arm, will help the company pay for computing... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s official foray into health, unveiled in this post on Wednesday, has been a long time coming, as we explained last summer. In short, OpenAI is creating a special section of ChatGPT for customers to ask health-related questions and dump data from their personal health apps and wearable devices to get personalized advice. The features are in a trial phase with a subset of paid users for now. (See our... Read more ›
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Amazon has started laying the groundwork to open a big-box retail store in the Chicago suburbs, according to planning documents. That marks a return to similar plans for a Target-like store that Amazon shelved a few years ago. In recent weeks, Amazon has sought approval from the village of ... Read more ›
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Venezuela-focused stablecoin startup Kontigo said it will repay the $340,000 that was stolen from more than 1,000 of its customers in a hack, according to a statement the company issued on Monday. In a statement published to X, Kontigo said it detected unauthorized access that affected some ... Read more ›
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Lambda, an upstart cloud provider that rents out Nvidia AI chips—and whose biggest customer was recently Nvidia itself—is trying to raise at least $350 million before a potential initial public offering this year, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Mubadala Capital, which manages money for the United Arab Emirates government and other investors, is in talks to lead the funding round, which is structured to sell stock to... Read more ›
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In its push to make ChatGPT a “personal super assistant” and stay ahead of rivals, OpenAI is developing new features that aim to turn the chatbot into a personal health hub. One feature would let people use ChatGPT to analyze data contained in their personal health apps and wearable devices, such as an Oura ring, Apple Watch or Whoop bracelet, according to two people who have seen designs for the... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang must feel like a child whose parents are perpetually at war. Weeks after he glimpsed a chance to resume sales of AI chips to China—thanks to approval from President Donald Trump—China has said, “Not so fast.” As our Hong Kong reporter Qianer Liu scooped today, the Chinese government has asked local tech companies to temporarily halt any plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 chips. China may yet... Read more ›
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It seems like these days, every big e-commerce and AI company is racing to figure out how to make AI agents that can shop just like a human. In the case of Amazon, the company’s version of AI-powered shopping is becoming widespread enough to step on other retailers’ toes—evidence that it’s pulling ahead in the nascent market.Earlier this week, Amazon sparked blowback from some small retailers that noticed they were... Read more ›
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After nearly three years of building its own version of cutting-edge large language models, Amazon has come up with models that offer a reliable, cheap alternative to the flashiest ones made by rivals but don’t fully replace them. That’s true even in Amazon’s own products: Amazon’s Rufus shopping assistant uses a mix of its in-house Nova models and those developed by Anthropic. Kiro, a vibe-coding agent Amazon released in the... Read more ›
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