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If U.S. automakers turn their backs on electric vehicles, "their sales outside the U.S. will shrivel," warns Bloomberg. [Alternate URL.]
They're already falling behind on the technology, relying on a 100% U.S. tariff on Chinese EVs to keep surging rivals like BYD Co. at bay.... While the American automakers "mostly understand the challenge in front of them, they don't have full plans" to confront it [said Mark Wakefield, head of the global automotive practice at consultant AlixPartners]...
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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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AI upskilling platform Ivee raises $1m seed round backed by Steven Bartlett Read more ›
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After briefly announcing its new foldable at CES, Motorola is now ready to debut its first book-style foldable in full at MWC 2026. There are several features we already knew, including support for Motorola’s new Pen Ultra stylus and no fewer than five cameras. However, many specs were still unknown. There are some pleasant surprises. Motorola decided to make both screens brighter than any of its rivals by quite a... Read more ›
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Motorola has revealed a little more about its upcoming folding phone, and all signs point toward a premium option - not the budget-friendlier alternative the category could use. For starters, the Razr Fold will cost €1,999 (about $2,350) bundled with the Moto Pen Ultra. It'll go on sale first in Europe, with North America to […] Read more ›
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With a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and a triple 50MP camera system, Motorola’s first book-style foldable means business. Read more ›
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The recent Motorola Edge 70 is focused on a super-slim build, but that comes at the expense of battery capacity – the phone is only 6.0mm thick, but its battery is only 4,800mAh. For comparison, the Edge 60 was a 7.9mm phone with a 5,200mAh battery. Now Motorola is launching the Moto Edge 70 Fusion. It slims down compared to its predecessor too, but without sacrificing the battery – it... Read more ›
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A wave of cyber-enabled operations took place early Saturday morning alongside the joint US-Israeli attack on targets across Iran, according to cybersecurity experts and observers. Read more ›
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The mental health crisis isn't primarily a clinical problem—it's an institutional one. The industries profiting from treating anxiety and depression benefit enormously from framing systemic collapse as individual pathology. Read more ›
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Social media platforms don't just distribute political content—they actively shape which arguments gain traction and which fade into algorithmic obscurity, creating a new mechanism of manufactured consent. Read more ›
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Corporate loyalty persists not because workers are foolish, but because institutions systematically manufacture psychological ownership—making employees defend systems engineered against their own interests. Read more ›
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Bengaluru-based Turiyam.ai has raised $4 Mn (about ₹36 Cr) in its pre-seed funding round led by Ankur Capital and Axilor’s… Read more ›
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That drawer full of old USB drives may look useful, but think twice before reusing them, as some tasks become far riskier once flash memory starts to age. Read more ›
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The new platform is set to be unveiled at Nvidia’s GTC developer conference in San Jose next month and will incorporate a chip designed by startup Groq. Read more ›
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According to the AWS spokesperson, at around 4.30PM PST, one of its Availability Zones was impacted by objects that struck the datacenter, creating sparks and fire. It added, that it will take several hours to restore connectivity in the affected zone. Read more ›
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Traders lean into supply compression stories in altcoins as Hyperliquid ramps up token burns and Jupiter freezes new emissions, even as bitcoin churns between $60,000 and $69,000 with muted flow. Read more ›
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he wants to introduce new powers to protect children, beyond those in an Online Safety Act which is only two-and-a-half years old. The government said it would run pilots with families and teenagers to examine how potential social media restrictions could work in practice. Read more ›
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"Reimagining Hollywood Glamour" was the event's dress code. Jenna Ortega, Kate Hudson, and Chase Infiniti all opted for warm neutrals. Read more ›
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Australia in December became the first country to ban social media for teenagers, citing mental health concerns, prompting an outpouring of world leaders saying they would do the same. The country now says it is spearheading a similar crackdown on AI by putting age restrictions on the content people can access with the technology. Read more ›
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The first fiber-optic cable ever laid across an ocean -- TAT-8, a nearly 6,000-kilometer line between the United States, United Kingdom, and France that carried its first traffic on December 14, 1988 -- is now being pulled off the Atlantic seabed after more than two decades of sitting dormant, bound for recycling in South Africa. Subsea Environmental Services, one of only three companies in the world whose entire business is... Read more ›
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IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an estimated 95% of ATM transactions in the United States and runs on the kind of mainframe systems IBM has sold for generations. Anthropic said the shrinking pool of developers who understand... Read more ›
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When one company asked job applicants to submit a video where they answer a question, most of the 300 responses were "eerily similar," reports the Washington Post (with a company executive saying it was "abundantly clear" they'd used AI.) Job seekers are turning to AI to help them land jobs more quickly in a tough labor market.... Employers say that's having an unintended consequence: Many applications are looking and sounding... Read more ›
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"In August 2025, TypeScript surpassed both Python and JavaScript to become the most-used language on GitHub for the first time ever..." writes GitHub's senior developer advocate. They point to this as proof that "AI isn't just speeding up coding. It's reshaping which languages, frameworks, and tools developers choose in the first place." Eighty percent of new developers on GitHub use Copilot within their first week. Those early exposures reset the... Read more ›
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The narrative that AI spending has been singlehandedly propping up the U.S. economy -- a claim that captivated Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington over the past year -- is facing serious pushback from economists [non-paywalled source] at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, all of whom now calculate that the AI buildup's direct contribution to growth was dramatically overstated and possibly close to zero. The debate hinges on... Read more ›
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Climate scientists trying to predict how much hotter the planet will get have long grappled with a surprisingly stubborn problem -- clouds, which both reflect sunlight and trap heat, account for more than half the variation between climate predictions and are the main reason warming projections for the next 50 years range from 2 to 6 degrees Celsius. Two research groups are now racing to close that gap using AI,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Researchers at ASML Holding say they have found a way to boost the power of the light source in a key chip making machine to turn out up to 50% more chips by decade's end, to help retain the Dutch company's edge over emerging U.S. and Chinese rivals. ASML is the world's only maker of commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines, a... Read more ›
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Panasonic is handing over the manufacturing, marketing, and sales of its TVs to Shenzhen-based Skyworth, effectively exiting in-house TV production. Ars Technica reports: Skyworth is a Shenzhen-headquartered TV brand. The company claims to be "a top three global provider of the Android TV platform." In July, research firm Omdia reported that Skyworth was one of the top-five TV brands by sales revenue in Q1 2025; however, Skyworth hasn't been able... Read more ›
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"A surprisingly ravenous black hole from the dawn of the universe is breaking two big rules," reports Live Science. "It's not only exceeding the 'speed limit' of black hole growth but also generating extreme X-ray and radio wave emissions — two features that are not predicted to coexist..." "How is this rule-breaking behavior even possible? In a paper published Jan. 21 in The Astrophysical Journal, an international team of researchers... Read more ›
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A 7,000-word "doomsday" thought experiment from Citrini Research helped trigger an 800-point drop in the Dow, "painting a dark portrait of a future in which technological change inspires a race to the bottom in white-collar knowledge work," reports the Wall Street Journal. From the report: Concerns of hyperscalers overspending are out. Worries of software-industry disruption don't go far enough. The "global intelligence crisis" is about to hit. The new, broader... Read more ›
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