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Last summer, Bria Sullivan was getting ready to launch her app, an adorable companion called Focus Friend meant to help people manage their screen time. Her outlandish dream was to get 100,000 downloads. She'd been building the app with Hank Green, a creator with a huge audience, so she thought maybe, maybe, Focus Friend could […]
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A year on from the federal layoffs, Jay Gulledge, 59, said that while he has landed on his feet, he feels for other USAID workers who haven't. Read more ›
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Meta is reportedly gearing up to enter another segment of the wearables market. According to The Information, the company is planning to release its first smartwatch sometime this year. Meta has revived its smartwatch initiative internally called “Malibu 2,” The Information says, which will come with Meta AI and health tracking.The same publication reported back in 2021 that Meta was working on a smartwatch powered by an open-source version of... Read more ›
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There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $100 to $600—stood up to WIRED’s testing. Read more ›
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After scammers were successfully able to phish their way through Netgear customers for months, the company was forced to adopt a more unconventional cybersecurity measure: a 16-year-old intern named Wyatt. He was able to eventually lead the law firm to the source bank accounts of these scammers back in India. Read more ›
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For several decades now, the story of the world’s rainforests has been the same tragic one: These iconic, animal-filled ecosystems are getting cut down to make way for farms and ranches, roads and mines. And it doesn’t appear to be changing. In 2024, the most recent year of global forest data, the tropics lost a […] Read more ›
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India's digital payment platforms process trillions of dollars a year through UPI, the government-built real-time payments rail that handles more than 90% of all payment transactions in the country, but one of their largest net revenue line items is not a payment product at all: it's a cheap plastic speaker that sits on a shopkeeper's counter and reads out incoming payments aloud. The roughly 23 million soundboxes deployed across India... Read more ›
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Emerging from stealth, Agaton, a Swedish agentic AI platform identifying and actioning sales opportunities based on customer conversations, today announced it has raised €8.4 million ($10 million) in total Seed funding. The Seed round was co-led by Inception Fund and Alstin Capital, with participation from seed+speed Ventures and Foundry Ventures. The rounds also attracted investments ... Read more ›
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Gen Z and millennials are finding comfort in analog technology as AI disillusionment grows. Read more ›
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China could overtake the US in brain computer interface (BCI) technology leadership thanks to streamlined planning, regulatory approval, and financing. Read more ›
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David Chong quit his Microsoft job to build a startup. Weeks later, most of his belongings were stolen, but he doesn't regret going all in. Read more ›
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At the ongoing India AI Impact Summit, former UK PM Rishi Sunak revealed that his daughters use ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ while using AI chatbots. Does it matter to the tech that we are being kind? Read more ›
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Do you have a sense of deja vu? Because dataminers believe they've discovered more evidence that Monster Hunter Wilds could be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 - a sentence we've already typed out here at Eurogamer in the year 2026. Read more Read more ›
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Ahead of the official launch of the Nothing Phone (4a) series on March 5, new details about the base model have surfaced online. The pricing and key specs of both the Phone (4a) and Phone (4a) Pro were also leaked recently. The Nothing Phone (4a) is said to be powered by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chipset, as per a report. Notably, the device was also recently spotted on Geekbench... Read more ›
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Demis Hassabis, Sundar Pichai, Brad Smith, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei lined up with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an AI conference. Read more ›
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Business Insider's investigation into data centers was awarded the George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting. Read more ›
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Is there a more terrifying sound in video games than the roar of a Reaper Leviathan or the irritated gurgle of a Crashfish as it suddenly torpedoes toward you from shadows unseen? I mean, yes, probably - but that's not the point. Every time I slip the word "horror" into conversations about Subnautica, it's usually met with dismissals and frowns. And sure, developer Unknown Worlds' sublime underwater survival adventure isn't... Read more ›
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The gambling-like experience of using prediction markets poses risks for millions. Some struggle to stop. Read more ›
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From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful. Read more ›
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The Verge
Following intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring has announced it is canceling the integration. In a statement published on Ring's blog and provided to The Verge ahead of publication, the company said: "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety […] Read more ›
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In 1986, electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel created Music Mouse, a way for those with a Mac, Atari, or Amiga computer to dabble in algorithmic music creation. Music Mouse is deceptively simple: Notes are arranged on an XY grid, and you play it by moving a mouse around. Back in 1986, the computer mouse was […] Read more ›
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The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein's emails into detailed dossiers on his associates. Entries include known visits to Epstein's properties, possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes, and laws that they might have broken. The reports are dense, listing how many […] Read more ›
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The Trump administration just eliminated the landmark finding that has underpinned federal regulations on planet-heating pollution since 2009. For nearly the past two decades, the "endangerment finding" has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to craft rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Rather than repealing those rules individually, the Trump administration […] Read more ›
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The Late Show host Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked him from broadcasting an interview with James Talarico, a Democratic representative from Texas. During his opening monologue on Monday night, Colbert says the network's lawyers told him in "no uncertain terms" that he couldn't have Talarico on the show, forcing him to post the interview on […] Read more ›
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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about video game industry's pushback against generative AI, follow Jay Peters. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Long before the generative AI explosion, […] Read more ›
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To say that Ford has struggled to make profitable electric vehicles would be an understatement. The company recently pulled the plug on its F-150 Lightning, a truck once heralded as the most important EV ever made, after taking a staggering $19.5 billion hit on its EV investments in 2025. A new focus on hybrids and […] Read more ›
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Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. He said that Steinberger has "a lot of amazing ideas" about getting AI agents to interact with each other, saying "the future is going to be extremely multi-agent." He also said that this ability for agents […] Read more ›
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User reviews on Steam may get more informative after a Steam Client Beta update released on Thursday, which adds an option for users to attach their hardware specs to game reviews. Steam users have always been able to share their specs in the text of their reviews, but the option to automatically include that data […] Read more ›
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After rejecting Paramount's latest acquisition bid, Warner Bros. Discovery says it's giving the David Ellison-led entertainment giant seven days to make its "best and final" proposal. Though WBD is reopening negotiations with Paramount, the company makes it clear in a press release that it still favors Netflix's $82.7 billion deal to purchase its studio and […] Read more ›
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