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Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store.
The deal never happened. Instead, a couple months after the talks ended, Apple began recruiting Sebastiaan de With, Lux’s co-founder and designer—a revelation to the startup’s CEO, Ben Sandofsky, who learned of it while investigating de With late last year over an unrelated matter. He fired de With in December, and de With announced he had joi
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Apple's plans to enhance the iPhone 18 Pro's Camera app led it to consider acquiring Halide, but the talks ultimately collapsed and were followed by a fierce legal dispute between the startup's co-founders, according to The Information reports. In the summer of 2025, Apple reportedly held discussions to acquire Lux Optics, the developer behind the popular iPhone camera apps Halide, Kino, and Spectre. The company concluded that it could get... Read more ›
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Around the time last fall that Vercel tripled its valuation to $9 billion, the startup decided to throw a swank dinner party. It was a chance for Malte Ubl, the company’s chief technology officer, to talk shop and discuss the fast-changing landscape with a dozen so other Silicon Valley executives—and an opportunity for Vercel, a 10-year-old company that sells a platform for developing AI apps and websites, to show off.... Read more ›
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You know that person at work who never seems rattled? The one who absorbs bad news like it’s weather, who stays steady when everyone else is spiraling, who handles a crisis with the kind of composure that makes you wonder if they were born without a stress response? They weren’t. And psychology has some uncomfortable ... Read more Read more ›
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J.D. Power's 2026 Vehicle Dependability Study includes a lot of the usual well-performing suspects. Where do Chevrolet's models come up in the rankings? Read more ›
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The MacBook Neo is breaking Apple sales records for first-time Mac buyers, with the cheap laptop now out of stock in several markets as demand surges. Read more ›
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Elon Musk wants to pay the salaries of TSA agents who have either been working unpaid or not showing up for work, causing huge lines at US airports. Read more ›
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The Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless pairs exceptional comfort with impressive sound quality for a mid-tier price. The microphone leaves something to be desired, but overall, it’s a solid all-day wear, even when you’re not gaming. Read more ›
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*The following article is inspired by a letter from one of our readers* There was a period of about two years where I sat at my own kitchen table across from a man I could see through completely, and I smiled, and I passed the bread, and I asked about his job, and I said ... Read more Read more ›
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TL;DR: Написал open-source десктопное приложение TG Unblock на Rust, которое в один клик обходит блокировку Telegram через локальный WebSocket-прокси. Трафик заворачивается в обычный HTTPS к web.telegram.org — DPI не видит MTProto, провайдер не может шейпить. Без VPN, без серверов, без абонентки. Код на GitHub — by-sonic/tglock.Предыстория: почему GoodbyeDPI не спасаетС весны 2026 года Telegram в России стал работать, мягко говоря, через боль. Сообщения доходят по 10 секунд, медиа не грузятся,... Read more ›
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The Apple TV is now almost two decades old amid rumors of the announcement of a new model. Today marks 19 years Apple launched the original Apple TV. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple TV at Macworld Expo in January 2007 alongside the original iPhone, but it didn't launch until March. The Apple TV was initially previewed as the "iTV." The device allowed users to wirelessly stream movies, TV... Read more ›
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She also predicted Dick Cheney would become president and most drugs would be legal in 2026. Read more ›
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Когда говорят, что у какой-то страны N миллиардов баррелей запасов, это является оценкой, которая зависит от методики, цены, технологий, зрелости проектов, инфраструктуры и даже политики.Запасы не геологический факт вроде массы планеты, а скорее оценка извлекаемого объема, которая меняется вместе с ценой на нефть, доступом к технологиям, стоимостью сервиса, инфраструктурой, политикой, налогами и даже качеством менеджмента. Именно поэтому два корректных источника могут показывать разные цифры - просто потому Read more ›
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I tried and ranked fish sandwiches from McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Popeyes. Read more ›
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I have five children and no favorite — but my bond with my youngest is different. He's 28 and still on my phone plan. Read more ›
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Ina Garten's orecchiette pasta has broccoli rabe and two types of sausage. It's packed with flavor and reheats well, making it perfect for leftovers. Read more ›
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Сейчас никого не удивить многочисленными релизами анимешных игр — это стало обыденностью. А в конце девяностых в Японии вышла консоль, которая состояла исключительно из чисто японских тайтлов, многие из которых за пределами страны вообще не известны. При этом, консоль заставила понервничать даже боссов Nintendo — маломощная портативка выдавала приятную картинку и имела весьма неплохую библиотеку игр, которая нравилась японцам. Имя консоли — WonderSwan. Читать далее Read more ›
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The funny shape of eggs is the curious lifeblood of Oeuf, the new physics platformer by prolific developer Increpare Games. In a gaming landscape saturated with complex systems dropped into simple games, that grapples with metaphor within straightforward narratives, and that is desperate to bring cinematic sensibilities into gaming, Oeuf only asks that you briefly […] Read more ›
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Just past the soybean farms in Pickaway County, Ohio, stands a flat-roofed building clad in blue and gray panels, with John Deere tractors near the entrance and hard hat–wearing construction workers busily laying pipes in the ground. The 866,000-square-foot factory isn’t much to behold—it looks like any of the many humble industrial warehouses that line the roads near Rickenbacker International Airport, a Midwest cargo hub. But the company behind the... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Kings League, a fast-growing, internet-savvy soccer startup, takes a lean approach to pro sports• Tech Culture: Can protein-obsessed techies help save Sweetgreen? • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Real Vikings,” “Kutchinsky’s Egg” and “Sirat”Patrick Collison, one of the most interesting people in Silicon Valley, made a very exasperated comment this week about the media—and why it seems to cover tech and... Read more ›
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For a little salvation, Sweetgreen co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman has lately been looking beyond the piles of chopped romaine lettuce and maple-glazed squash that originally won his company a devoted following with the suit-and-salad lunch set in Washington, New York and Los Angeles. The high-earning young people who used to frequent Sweetgreen are not eating there as much anymore. So Neman has partly turned his attention to winning over... Read more ›
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ByteDance has put on hold the global launch of its latest video-generation model, Seedance 2.0, due to a string of copyright disputes with major Hollywood studios and streaming platforms, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. The TikTok parent released Seedance 2.0 to consumers and businesses in China last month, and some clips generated by the model immediately racked up millions of views on X due to... Read more ›
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U.K.-based cloud provider Nscale, whose announced customers include OpenAI and Microsoft, is in negotiations to acquire a massive AI data center site in West Virginia, The Information reported. Amazon, Meta and a cloud ally of Google have also expressed interest in the site. The site is ... Read more ›
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Leaders at enterprise app makers such as Figma, Workday and HubSpot have downplayed threats from AI that could crimp their growth, a concern that has pressured their stocks for months. But the securities filings those leaders sign every quarter are beginning to note the competitive risks the companies face from AI agents, which their customers could use to replicate their apps or draw data from them. So far this year,... Read more ›
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It’s party time in San Jose, Calif.! Nvidia on Monday kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in the city, the biggest event on the chip giant’s calendar—which, given the number of public events featuring its CEO, Jensen Huang, is saying something. Huang is scheduled to deliver his keynote tomorrow morning, and it is sure to be a must-watch for people in the AI sector. One of the biggest things... Read more ›
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Hua Hong Group, China’s second-largest chip manufacturer, has developed 7-nanometer chip-making technology for AI chips, Reuters reported, citing four people familiar with the matter. Chips made at that level of precision are powerful enough to drive AI applications and support model training. ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has appointed new leaders to oversee its Stargate computing initiative after deciding to rent more AI servers from major cloud providers rather than build its own data centers, according to two people familiar with the changes. As part of its reorganization, OpenAI has divided its computing effort into three groups: technical design of the data centers OpenAI uses, commercial partnerships with firms such as cloud providers and chip firms,... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms struck a deal to spend $27 billion on Nebius Group’s AI data centers over the next five years, the cloud provider announced Monday. Dutch firm Nebius will supply Meta with $12 billion of dedicated capacity starting early next year, which will include deployment of Nvidia’s latest ... Read more ›
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Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the judge hearing Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, has shown herself in other high profile tech cases—such as Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple—to be unafraid to skewer arguments or testimony from witnesses in her courtroom.That was clear on Friday, in a hearing in the OpenAI case to determine whether an economist Musk’s lawyers have hired can submit his damages report as evidence. The economist, C. Paul Wazzan,... Read more ›
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