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Apple confirmed this week that it has acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai in a deal valued at close to $2 billion, making it one of the company’s largest acquisitions ever, second only to the $3 billion purchase of Beats in 2014. But check your assumptions: this isn’t Beats 2.0. There’s no new headphone brand to flex. Instead, Apple is paying top dollar for tech that might let your devices understand you without you ever saying a word. These days we put our phones on silent so they won’t disturb us; soon th
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Apple is now selling M4 iPad Pro models in its online store for refurbished products, allowing customers to purchase like-new models at a discounted price. There are both 11-inch and 13-inch options available, in multiple storage configurations. Apple is offering Wi-Fi and Cellular refurbished models, and silver and black color options. Pricing on the 11-inch M4 iPad Pro starts at $759, down from the original $999 price. The 13-inch model... Read more ›
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Executives at the New York Auto Show are all saying the same thing: The industry needs AI to speed up production and reduce costs in order to survive. Read more ›
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These small but mighty purifiers all earned a near-perfect 4.5-star score in our reviews. Read more ›
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Agentic AI promises to collapse research, planning, and booking into one conversation — assuming travelers ever decide to trust it. Read more ›
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While most people double down on people-pleasing and perfectionism thinking it's their ticket to success, I discovered that the highest achievers I studied had quietly abandoned these "safe" habits years ago—and it transformed everything. Read more ›
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'Chainsaw Man' mania now extends to the madcap mania of 'Dandadan,' whose creator and former assistant to Tatsuki Fujimoto, Yukinobu Tatsu, briefly added Denji to the series in a recent bonus chapter. Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal shares the "wild behind-the-scenes story" of how the world's largest and most destructive botnet was uncovered and taken down, writes Slashdot reader sturgeon. "At times, the network known as Kimwolf included more than a million compromised home Android devices and digital photo frames -- enough DDoS firepower to disrupt internet traffic across the U.S. and beyond." From the report: Sitting in his dorm room at the... Read more ›
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Pool maintenance has long existed in a fragmented state, where different tools solve different problems but rarely work together in a meaningful way. Cleaning the floor, clearing the surface, and maintaining water quality have traditionally required separate interventions, often at different times. What has been missing is a system that not only automates these tasks […] Read more ›
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Apple today seeded revised first betas of upcoming iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming four days after Apple seeded the initial betas. Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update. It's not clear why Apple has seeded new beta updates, but there may be... Read more ›
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Memory costs have quadrupled in a year, three Redmi models are getting pricier next week, and Xiaomi's top executive is the rare voice in tech actually telling consumers what's going on behind the scenes. Read more ›
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They're the ones with color-coded planners and LinkedIn success stories who answer "How are you?" with "Busy!" — and beneath that polished exterior lies an exhaustion so deep they've forgotten what it feels like to rest without guilt. Read more ›
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We drained $20,000 from our IRA to cover our mortgage, bills and credit cards. It felt risky — but necessary to keep our family stable. Read more ›
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As hyperscalers seek efficiency and control from custom CPUs they build in house, they adopt Arm and 90% of servers running custom silicon will use the Arm ISA in 2029. Read more ›
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While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday, many great iPad deals are available outside of those moments. The day-to-day discounts come and go like the changing winds, so there’s often some amount to be saved somewhere, particularly on Apple’s most affordable iPad and the latest iPad Mini. Hell, you […] Read more ›
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They've mastered the art of having all the answers, fixing everyone's problems, and never letting their armor crack—not realizing that true friendship is forged in those raw moments when we finally admit we don't have it all figured out. Read more ›
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NSF outlines its nationwide plan to expand AI literacy, training, and adoption for workers, businesses, and local communities. Read more ›
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The class of 2025 graduated into the worst entry-level job market in five years. Now a growing number of them are using AI tools during live job interviews, and a cottage industry of startups is rushing to sell them the means to do it. Whether that constitutes cheating or common sense depends on which side […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Kandou AI, a Swiss semiconductor company that builds chip-to-chip interconnect technology, has raised $225 million in what it calls a Series A round, led by Maverick Silicon with strategic participation from SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and Alchip Technologies. The round values the company at $400 million. The label is worth pausing on: Kandou was […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta is preparing to launch two new Ray-Ban smart glasses models designed specifically for prescription wearers, according to a Bloomberg report published on Thursday. The models, codenamed Scriber and Blazer, were first spotted in Federal Communications Commission filings and are expected to reach consumers as early as next week. They do not represent a new […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that he was departing. Ross Nordeen, described by Business Insider as Musk’s “right-hand operator,” left on Friday. They were the last two of eleven co-founders, all of whom have exited […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A week that spanned semiconductor physics, orbital logistics, defence interceptors, and carob-based chocolate tells you something about the breadth of European and European adjacent capital right now. The dominant thread is not a single sector but a single instinct: back the infrastructure layer, whether that means chip interconnects, satellite transfer vehicles, or the AI plumbing […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The French AI company has secured the financing from a seven-bank consortium including BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, and MUFG. The data centre at Bruyères-le-Châtel is expected to be operational in Q2 2026 and is part of a broader push for European AI compute sovereignty. Mistral AI has raised $830 million in debt, its […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Helsinki-based company, which builds and sells full-stack superconducting quantum computers for on-premises deployment, disclosed the financing today. It was secured before the February announcement of IQM’s SPAC merger with Real Asset Acquisition Corp at a $1.8B valuation. IQM Quantum Computers has secured a €50 million financing package, approximately $57.6 million, from funds and accounts […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The standalone app, built on the AT Protocol and powered by Anthropic’s Claude, was unveiled at the ATmosphere conference by Jay Graber, who stepped back from Bluesky’s CEO role specifically to build it. It’s currently invite-only, with a waitlist open. Bluesky’s best-known differentiator from X and Threads has always been its custom feed system, the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The Luxembourg startup is taking a deliberately earth-first approach: proving radio-frequency wireless power transmission on the ground before scaling to orbit. Its CTO ran ESA’s Solaris SBSP initiative until the agency paused it in 2024. Daphni led the pre-seed round. The person best placed to know why the European Space Agency decided not to press […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Anthropic’s massive AI interview study isn’t really about technology. It’s the largest mirror ever held up to human desire. In December 2025, a software engineer in Mexico finished his workday early enough to pick up his children from school. A lawyer in India sat down with an AI tutor and, for the first time in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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