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Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesFinancial services company E-Trade has restricted purchases of GameStop and AMC stock, a source tells Bloomberg. The two stocks have become popular on forums like the r/WallStreetBets subreddit and seen their prices skyrocket to unprecedented highs over the past week. (GameStop hit $483 earlier on Thursday and briefly went above that during the day. Last Thursday, the stock closed at $43.)
Weâve seen users on Twitter report that they have been unable to buy the stocks
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iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotics. Investors âwill experience a total loss and not receive recovery on their investmentâ if the deal is approved, iRobot said. The company didnât discuss how the move might affect its employees in the US or elsewhere. Amazon dropped... Read more âș
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The Stephen King adaptation wrapped up its first season Sunday night on HBO with a little slice of fan service. Read more âș
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If you want to understand how the US government works today, you should study President Donald Trumpâs attempt to pardon a woman named Tina Peters last week. Peters is a former Colorado election clerk and a die-hard believer in the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. In 2021, Peters committed a series of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Apple and Samsung are best equipped to handle rising memory chip costs that could drive down global smartphone shipments by 2.1% in 2026, according to new data from Counterpoint Research. Image credit: iFixit In its latest projection for the smartphone market next year, the firm has downgraded its forecast from a previously expected 0.45% growth, citing a memory shortage that has pushed component costs up 10% to 25%. Chinese brands... Read more âș
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Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Ventana Micro Systems, a RISC-V CPU specialist whose engineers have spent several years pushing the open instruction set toward high-performance server and edge designs. Read more âș
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Jimmy Kimmel has responded to Trump's Truth Social post about the death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. Read more âș
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Amidst the economic uncertainty ushered in by this AI boom, some folks still have conviction and are offering hope to the community. Edward Crisler, the PR manager for GPU maker Sapphire, has just said that he believes DRAM prices will start to plateau in the next few months, so don't panic buy right now. Read more âș
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One of 2025's splashiest games, Hollow Knight: Silksong, is getting its first major DLC expansion, developer Team Cherry announced in a blog post. The nautically-themed Sea of Sorrow update will come to the moody Metroidvania some time in 2026, and better still, it will be free for all players. The DLC will include "new areas, bosses, tools and more," the developer wrote. There aren't a lot of clues to the... Read more âș
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Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are worth a combined $511 billion after jointly adding $185 billion to their fortunes this year. Read more âș
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Intel has tightened its ties with the current US administration, appointing an economic advisor to President Trump as its new head of government affairs. Read more âș
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant link has been found between [âŠ] Read more âș
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Roomba maker iRobot goes bankrupt; now owned by former supplier Picea Read more âș
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Android and iOS aren't the only game in town, and polled readers like this alternative platform. Read more âș
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Archer, Beta, and Joby are developing autonomous, gas-electric hybrid air taxis in hopes of clinching defense contracts. Read more âș
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Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle. Read more âș
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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said that reframing stress as positive can have a "huge impact on your ability to manage it." Read more âș
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As workers rail against the tyranny of shared schedules, tech companies say they can help Read more âș
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Regardless of the experiences and material things that money can offer, at the end of the day, kids "just want your time," Chris Hemsworth said. Read more âș
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The rise of AI and hyperscale computing is driving a global shift from air-based to liquid and embedded cooling as various companies are developing silicon-integrated systems capable of handling multi-kilowatt system-in-packages that can be commercialized by 2027. Read more âș
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Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services - an approach that would allow AI agents from any company to easily access information and tools across the internet in a standardized way. It's a key step [âŠ] Read more âș
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After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following issuing warnings earlier this year that it was fast running out of options, iRobot announced it will enter Chapter 11 protection and plans to be acquired by its contract manufacturer, the Chinese-based Picea Robotic. The company says [âŠ] Read more âș
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When business leaders spout buzzwords like "AI," "8K" and "5G," sometimes in the same sentence, we often get a sneaking suspicion they don't know what they mean! With President Donald Trump, there's no need to wonder: he clearly has no idea. "What does [6G] do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin?" [âŠ] Read more âș
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The US State Department is turning back to an old typeface in its latest quest to tear up anything related to diversity or accessibility. In an internal document seen by Reuters and The New York Times, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the Biden-era decision to switch to Calibri typeface in official department [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Trump administration could soon require tourists from dozens of nations to hand over their social media handles before entering the country. Under a proposal from US Customs and Border Protection, the agency would make social media history from the past five years a "mandatory" part of the screening process, as reported earlier by The [âŠ] Read more âș
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It's Game Awards season, y'all. That special time of the year when we gather together to celebrate video games and the people who make them⊠by watching expensive commercials briefly punctuated by the odd awards speech or musical performance. For better or worse, The Game Awards is the biggest night on the video game event [âŠ] Read more âș
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On Thursday evening, with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks looking over his shoulder, Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to grab unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence for the federal government. The order can't by itself unilaterally override state AI laws, but it directs federal agencies to take steps to reduce [âŠ] Read more âș
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I asked a simple question at Google's Project Aura demo last week. What do you call these things? To my surprise, multiple people launched into a vigorous discussion on the taxonomy of glasses-shaped face computers. It turns out "smart glasses" is out as a term. The term "AI glasses" is in. Kind of. Actually, it [âŠ] Read more âș
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Letâs face it, the same thing happens year after year. Things get busy with work, school, and life in general until youâre suddenly up against the clock as you race your gifts to your local post office, FedEx store, or UPS location. Weâve all been there, but weâd like to help as you plan your [âŠ] Read more âș
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If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested. Set to a song calling holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, shopping, caroling, baking cookies, [âŠ] Read more âș
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