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Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company that went public at a $4.1 billion valuation in 2021, has officially renamed itself Smartbird and appointed a new chief executive to lead its pivot into AI compute. Shares surged more than 50% on Wednesday morning before pulling back. The rebrand completes a transformation first announced in April, when the company […]
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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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Dire Straits' Guy Fletcher says that Atmos can deliver more emotion from the music you love Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said the granite helipad will prevent the new fleet of Sikorsky Marine One helicopters from damaging the South Lawn. Read more ›
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Nvidia has a plan to deal with the growing list of AI server chip competitors: partner with them. In the latest example, Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their respective hardware in a new system to power AI models, the companies told The Information exclusively. Read more ›
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A centimeter-sized crystal has revealed clear signs of quantum entanglement, showing that large, everyday objects can display surprisingly deep quantum behavior. The discovery could help solve the mystery of strange metals while opening new possibilities for ultra-precise quantum sensors and other advanced technologies. Read more ›
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Diesel engines still have their place in the modern automotive world, but they're not without flaws. What is diesel regen? Why is it necessary? Read more ›
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Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained entirely on domestic chips, avoiding Nvidia hardware entirely. Read more ›
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At its next Unpacked event, Samsung is expected to launch three new foldable phones as well as refreshed smartwatch models. Read more ›
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SUVs aren't exactly known for their fuel economy, but even among these inherently less fuel-efficient vehicles are some that have truly terrible mileage. Read more ›
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Mere hours ago a rumor claimed Google would, rather fittingly, (considering the naming) be unveiling the Pixel 11 devices on August 11, and it turns out that rumor was wrong - but not by much. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has now received an official invite from Google to the grand launch event, and it's taking place on August 12 in New York City at 6 PM local time. Google Pixel event... Read more ›
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An Omdia report warns that smartphones priced below $400 could decline by more than 22% in 2026 as rising memory costs, fueled in part by AI demands, reshape the global smartphone market. Read more ›
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Samsung, it seems, deserves a little more respect. The electronics conglomerate may be best known in the U.S. for its TV sets and smartphones, which jostle with the iPhone for attention, but it’s also one of the three biggest makers of memory chips globally (along with Micron Technology and SK Hynix). The explosion of that business, thanks to demand from AI data centers, has turbocharged profits at all three companies—with... Read more ›
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YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers, listen up — you could be owed a share of $50 million thanks to a Disney lawsuit settlement. Read more ›
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Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses' privacy LED light. The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling […] Read more ›
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Most people know that ships use nautical miles to measure distance, as it is in the name. You might be surprised, however, to learn that airplanes do too. Read more ›
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Get a whisper-quiet ergonomic mouse that’s so comfortable, your wrist will love you for it — and it doesn't cost the earth either. Read more ›
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ByteDance is developing its own AI chip to reduce Nvidia dependence, targeting mass production by late 2027. Read more ›
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It’s not easy to run an enterprise software company these days. For the nth example of this, read the latest story by my colleague Laura Bratton, who describes how an Atlanta real estate manager replaced Salesforce software with a custom app developed using Replit and Claude Code—saving $100,000 a year. Yipes. Fears that companies will replace their software subscriptions with cheaper AI tools have hammered not just publicly traded stocks... Read more ›
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Meta will have to defend in court the accusation that it built Facebook and Instagram to addict children, after a federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss the heart of a lawsuit brought by attorneys general from 29 states. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, sitting in Oakland, California, let the states press claims that Meta […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft is preparing to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in another round of layoffs, according to a Business Insider report picked up on Tuesday. The reductions could be announced as soon as next week, and they would affect thousands of roles across the company. Sales and consulting teams are in the frame, alongside jobs […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The US Commerce Department has lifted the export controls it placed on Anthropic’s most advanced models, ending a roughly three-week freeze that had pulled the company’s Claude Fable 5 offline. Reuters first reported the move on Tuesday, 30 June, citing a person familiar with the decision. Within hours, Anthropic confirmed it on the record in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Asia’s factories grew again in June, and the global scramble for AI hardware is doing much of the lifting, according to survey data published this week. Brisk demand for chips, servers, and data-centre equipment kept order books full even as the Iran war pushed up energy costs and lengthened shipping times across the region. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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South Korea’s competition regulator has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the Android app market, and signalled it will recommend corrective measures and a financial penalty. The Korea Fair Trade Commission said on Wednesday that its Market Surveillance Bureau found conduct affecting 14.16 trillion won, or roughly $9.1bn, in relevant revenue, according to Reuters. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Lime has priced its US initial public offering at $25 a share, according to Bloomberg News. That is the midpoint of the $24 to $26 range the company had marketed. The offering raised roughly $174m in total. Neutron Holdings, the corporate entity behind Lime, sold 6.68 million shares in the deal. Shareholders including chief executive Wayne […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run by an independent company named Open Standard, is a direct swipe at the economics that have made Circle and Tether the dominant issuers in the sector. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Bending Spoons, the Milan software group that owns Vimeo, WeTransfer and Evernote, has priced its US initial public offering above the marketed range to raise $1.68bn. The company and existing shareholders, including Baillie Gifford, sold 57.97 million shares at $29 each, according to a statement reported by Bloomberg. That is above the $26 to $28 range […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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CBC plans to raise its annual technology spending to more than $771mn, according to Bloomberg, as Singapore’s second-largest lender leans harder into AI and digital banking. The increase marks one of the first strategic signals from Tan Teck Long, who took over as group chief executive on 1 January 2026. Tan succeeded Helen Wong, who retired at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook and the European Union’s technology chief spoke by video call on Monday, and both sides came away describing the exchange as “constructive”. That word is doing a lot of work. Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, who oversees the bloc’s digital rulebook, held the meeting with Cook on 30 June. An EU […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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