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AirAsia superapp CEO Amanda Woo shares with TWA how they plan to flip their entire traditional frequent flier reward system into a newer Web 3.0-based approach. Ready to be introduced next year, users will then be able to convert their reward points into ‘AirAsia digital currency’. There are plans to also include NFT for the... Read more »
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The smarter, more capable version of Siri that Apple is developing will be powered by Google Gemini, reports Bloomberg. Apple will pay Google approximately $1 billion per year for a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model that was developed by Google. For context, parameters are a measure of how a model understands and responds to queries. More parameters generally means more capable, though training and architecture are also factors. Bloomberg... Read more ›
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Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory. Read more ›
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The Republican Party has had better days. In Tuesday’s off-year elections, the GOP lost every major race by a mile. Democratic candidates won the Virginia governor’s race by around 15 points, the New Jersey gubernatorial election by 13, and Georgia’s statewide public commissioner elections by more than 25 points. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Supreme Court justices […] Read more ›
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CEO criticises western ‘cynicism’ while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres Read more ›
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New NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani targeted Donald Trump in his victory speech, pledging to fight corruption and support unions. Read more ›
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When did we all start ignoring Nintendo? Was it the Wii era? Because that's the moment Nintendo stepped away. That's when Nintendo decided to leave the raw-power console fight to PlayStation and Xbox, and let them slug it out while it did something else. Nintendo decided to focus on innovation and creativity and rethink the idea of the console, the Wii being the result. I remember how it was greeted... Read more ›
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With the help of complete CPU domination in the consumer/gaming marketplace thanks to chips such as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, AMD has achieved a record breaking $2.8 billion in client revenue. Read more ›
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Zohran Mamdani beat former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa to win the race. Read his full acceptance speech. Read more ›
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The Supreme Court’s Wednesday morning argument on President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariffs went better for him than the 2025 elections, but only slightly so. At least two of the Court’s Republicans — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — appeared very likely to join the three Democratic justices in striking down those tariffs, and […] Read more ›
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Kim Kardashian accused ChatGPT of causing her to fail her law exams, calling it "insane" in a recent interview with Vanity Fair. Read more ›
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Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, 34, is projected to defeat Andrew Cuomo in the race for New York City mayor. Read more ›
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Less than one year into President Donald Trump’s second term, we finally have solid evidence that the coalition that carried him to victory one year ago today is unraveling. The slate of Republican losses — and the magnitude of Democratic wins in New Jersey and Virginia, especially — suggest not just that the Democratic backlash to […] Read more ›
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When Apple introduces its more capable version of Siri in 2026, it increasingly sounds like it'll have Google to thank. Bloomberg reports that Apple is finalizing plans to use a custom version of Gemini to power the new Siri and plans to pay Google handsomely for the privilege.The new Siri will still use some of Apple's homegrown models, but will also rely on a version of Gemini running on the... Read more ›
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The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back requirements for broadband "nutrition labels" designed to make internet shopping more transparent. Read more ›
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If you’ve ever watched a synth video on YouTube, there’s a decent chance you’ve seen the Arturia KeyStep at some point. The affordable keyboard and controller has been a steady presence since its release in January of 2016, especially in DAWless circles. Now Arturia is finally releasing a proper successor, the KeyStep mk2, and on […] Read more ›
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Zohran Mamdani, currently a state assemblyman, is set to get a large raise when he takes office as mayor of New York City. Read more ›
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A familiar face will be helping Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani set up his new administration before he takes office in 2026. Lina Khan, former Federal Trade Commission Chair under President Joe Biden, has been officially announced as one of Mamdani's transition co-chairs, alongside Grace Bonilla, Maria Torres-Springer and Melanie Hartzog.Mamdani's platform is focused on affordability, with fighting corporate corruption a key way he hopes to lower prices for New Yorkers. Mamdani's... Read more ›
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Gemini can now draw from your emails and documents while performing “deep research” queries. Google’s announcement blog called this “one of our most-requested features” for Gemini Deep Research, which is an agentic feature styled specifically for creating research reports rather than just answering questions. The chatbot starts by creating a multi-step research plan, then it […] Read more ›
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In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations. Read more ›
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A Microsoft Azure Front Door misconfiguration caused regional outages. Microsoft rolled back the change and said services were improving. Service issues hit Microsoft’s Azure platform on Wednesday, affecting a range of cloud tools and software across multiple regions. The outage disrupted access to websites and services that depend on Azure, and users shared complaints across ... Read more ›
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A new study finds AI chatbots flatter users, discouraging conflict resolution. Researchers say this behaviour reinforces poor judgement. A recent study suggests that popular artificial intelligence models from the United States and China tend to flatter users too much, and this behaviour may make people less willing to fix personal disputes. The findings add to ... Read more ›
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Tesla returns to China with robotaxis after its share withered from 16% to 6.9%, staging a comeback at Shanghai’s import expo to reverse two years of decline The Cybercab robotaxi debut comes as Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory accounts for less than 5% of China’s EV sales, while domestic rivals capture customers with aggressive pricing and localised ... Read more ›
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Univers has launched the Global Impact AI Lab with AMD, Microsoft, and NUS. To help cut downtime, save energy, and scale edge AI. Leaders are turning to edge-to-cloud intelligence because traditional systems no longer give them the visibility, control, or efficiency they need across dispersed operations. Against this backdrop, Univers has launched the Global Impact ... Read more ›
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Hong Kong unveils Fintech 2030 strategy with four pillars—Data, AI, Resilience, and Tokenisation—to cement its position as a global fintech hub HKMA announces Ensemble Pilot for real-value tokenised transactions and expanded GenAI Sandbox++ to drive responsible innovation Nine years ago, 2,500 curious minds gathered in Hong Kong for what seemed like a modest experiment—the inaugural ... Read more ›
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The AWS OpenAI partnership commits $38 billion over seven years, providing immediate access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs—one of the largest cloud computing deals in AI history OpenAI is already using the infrastructure, with full deployment targeted by the end of 2026, raising questions about AI infrastructure consolidation among major cloud providers Every ... Read more ›
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