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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more âș
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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 âș
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Iâve spent the last week talking to people who are in town for Morgan Stanleyâs annual technology, media and telecom conference at the Palace Hotel this week. Even before the fireworks last week between the Pentagon and Anthropic, the gathering was sure to be buzzy, given the lineup of richly valued private startupsâincluding OpenAI and Anthropicâand the havoc their growth has been wreaking on software stocks.Indeed, conference goers were so... Read more âș
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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 times. The day-to-day discounts come and go like changing winds, so thereâs often some amount to be saved, particularly on Appleâs most affordable iPad and the latest iPad Mini. Hell, you can even [âŠ] Read more âș
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This wasnât a fun day on Wall Streetâthe S&P 500 fell 0.5%âbut one group of stocks bucked the downward trend. That would be those of several travel-booking and food-delivery firms, such as DoorDash, Booking Holdings and Expedia, which climbed between 3% and 13%. One likely reason is OpenAIâs astounding retreat from offering shopping directly in ChatGPT. While it wasnât a travel-booking or food-delivery service, investors had clearly been worried it... Read more âș
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Thanks to an awesome anniversary update, the PS5 version of Avowed gives Obsidian Entertainment's excellent action role-playing game a second chance to find the audience it deserves. Read more âș
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The Pentagon has formally designated Anthropic as a "supply chain risk," ordering federal agencies and defense contractors to stop using its AI tools after the company sought limits on the military's use of its models. In a written statement, the department said it has "officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately." Politico reports: The designation, historically reserved for foreign firms... Read more âș
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Rural India-focussed ecommerce startup Rozana has netted âč290 Cr ($31.6 Mn) in a Series B funding round led by existing⊠Read more âș
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In 1979 - nearly 50 years ago - Lego jazzed up its very first spaceships with an iconic sloped computer brick that was just painted plastic. In 2022, we introduced you to the engineer who fit a tiny computer inside. Now, industrial designer Paul Staal has flipped the script: he's created a desktop PC that's [âŠ] Read more âș
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OpenAI's debacle is arguably its least technical challenge yet. It also means Sam Altman can't just push out an app update to alleviate the issue. Read more âș
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Over the years, a lot of scam WhatsApp mass messages claimed the service would imminently become paid. That hasn't happened, obviously, and still won't - the core service will remain free. However, WhatsApp is now rumored to be soon introducing a premium tier. This will be called WhatsApp Plus. It's said to offer several additional customization options to change the app theme, app icon, and accent colors, including 14 new... Read more âș
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Homesickness and the feeling of being an outsider led Madeleine Collins to connect with other British women while raising her daughters in San Diego. Read more âș
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Benchmarks for the new MacBook Neo surfaced today, and unsurprisingly, CPU performance is almost identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. The âMacBook Neoâ uses the same 6-core A18 Pro chip that was first introduced in the iPhone 16 Pro, but it has one fewer GPU core. The âMacBook Neoâ earned a single-core score of 3461 and a multi-core score of 8668, along with a Metal score of 31286. Here's how... Read more âș
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Today, X announced some updates to its creator subscriptions platform. The leading change gives participating accounts the option to make part of tweet threads only visible to subscribers. This new Creator Subscriptions feature is called Exclusive Threads, an ironic name choice given X's main text-based social media posting competitor is called Threads.Creator Subscriptions 2.0 is here: powerful new tools to grow your subscribers and earn more.Introducing Exclusive Threads â lock... Read more âș
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After decades of dismissing my parents' old-fashioned ways as outdated nonsense, I'm now discovering that their simple rules about family dinners, contentment, and hard work held truths my generation spent our whole lives chasing through self-help books and therapy sessions. Read more âș
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The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved record-breaking performance. In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core CPU achieved a score of 29,233 for multi-core CPU performance, which tops the 27,726 score achieved by the Mac Studio's M3 Ultra chip with a 32-core CPU. M5 Max is now the fastest Apple silicon chip ever,... Read more âș
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The WP500 Ultra merges thermal imaging, hardware privacy, extreme durability, massive storage, and flagship specifications into a rugged smartphone costing $529. Read more âș
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Demarre Johnson is one of four Wall Street juniors profiled in a now-viral, meme-ified article. He knew that "controversy sells." Read more âș
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"I saw my company discard half of my peers and double my pay," the former Block employee wrote. "That's not an honor. It feels shameful." Read more âș
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The Verge is heading to Barcelona, Spain, for Mobile World Congress, the biggest phone show of the year. CES may dominate the headlines when it comes to TVs, computer components, and AI inanity, but for all things mobile MWC has it beat. Since itâs a global show, that includes all manner of announcements of phones, [âŠ] Read more âș
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This story is a comic by Danny Fenster and Amy Kurzweil and is not compatible with RSS readers. But you can (and should) read it at The Vergeâs website. Read more âș
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Ultrahuman is expanding its health monitoring ecosystem with the launch of a new flagship smart ring and a "biointelligence AI" platform upgrade. The Ring Pro is Ultrahuman's third-generation smart ring, and promises up to 15 days of battery life before needing to recharge, alongside 250 days of on-device health history storage. Those are some significant [âŠ] Read more âș
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With rare exceptions, phones are pretty boring these days. The good news is, a boatload of those rare exceptions are about to show up at once, courtesy of Mobile World Congress. The tech industry's biggest mobile show may not quite have the clout it once did, when the likes of Samsung, Sony, LG, and HTC [âŠ] Read more âș
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The tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails and files released on January 30th tie the infamous pedophile, sex trafficker, and influence peddler to elite figures across the tech industry. The world of cryptocurrency is no exception. Epstein's connections are intriguing, disturbing - and worth mapping closely. With his interest first piqued as early as 2011, Epstein [âŠ] Read more âș
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Itâs that time of year: a whole bunch of PokĂ©mon news is incoming. February 27th is the date the franchise first debuted, and The PokĂ©mon Company uses it as a chance to outline its plans in a PokĂ©mon Presents showcase. Last yearâs event included the announcement of PokĂ©mon Champions, and the 2026 edition should be [âŠ] Read more âș
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Since I saw the TCL X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at a pre-CES event in December, I've been eager to get a close look at it in my living room. At first glance, the TV impressed me enough that I named it the best TV of CES 2026. From the moment I completed Google TV setup [âŠ] Read more âș
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Just months after Netflix struck a deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Games, the streaming giant has backed out of the arrangement, declining to raise its offer beyond Paramountâs âbest and finalâ bid. Itâs just the latest twist in the acquisition saga, which started with a bidding war that [âŠ] Read more âș
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OpenAI has closed another round of funding, totalling $110 billion being newly committed to the maker of ChatGPT, which it says has more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million consumer subscribers. Amazon is investing $50 billion and striking a deal that includes plans for custom models and more. Nvidia and SoftBank [âŠ] Read more âș
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This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. In 2017, I was at rock bottom. My dad's health was rapidly failing; my relationship with my mom [âŠ] Read more âș
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