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Banks across Asia are embracing facial recognition, as the biometric tech becomes a common part of daily life.
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Morgan Freeman said he sometimes thinks about retiring, but when his agent calls with a new offer, "the whole thing just boils back into where it was yesterday." Read more ›
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It's Valve time. The Bellevue-based firm is making three hardware announcements today, including a new Steam Machine mini PC that it claims is more than six times as powerful as the Steam Deck, a revised Steam Controller with more mainstream appeal, and the Steam Frame, a new standalone VR headset that marks the debut of SteamOS on ARM mobile chips. All three are due to arrive in early 2026. Read... Read more ›
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Valve has made a trio of hardware announcements today, including a standalone VR headset with unique tech for streaming games called Frame, a revised and more mainstream Steam Controller, and even a revival of the old Steam Machine concept: a tiny gaming PC that brings your Steam game library to your living room. Read more Read more ›
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The provision, tucked into the spending bill that could end the US government shutdown, would ban intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, including gummies and drinks. Read more ›
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How to watch World Cup qualifiers for free. Live stream Cameroon vs. DR Congo in World Cup qualifiers for free. Read more ›
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For the first time, astronomers captured the shockwave of a supernova bursting through the surface of a dying red supergiant star, revealing a surprisingly symmetrical, grape-shaped explosion. Space.com reports: Seeing this moment in detail has previously been elusive because it's rare for a supernova to be spotted early enough and for telescopes to be trained on it -- and when they have been, the exploding star has been too far... Read more ›
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Congress voted to reopen the government, setting up an end to the longest government shutdown in US history. Read more ›
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The rumored MMO set in Sony’s post-apocalyptic Horizon universe is real — and we’ve seen a video spilling details about the game before it’s been announced. The new game is called Horizon Steel Frontiers, and Sony and the Korean video game company NCSoft are working on it together. Based on a more than 10-minute video […] Read more ›
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Valve is about to challenge the Xbox and PlayStation on their home turf. Ten years to the month after Valve's original Steam Machines went on sale, the company is announcing… the Steam Machine. I flew to Valve's headquarters to try the company's new PC-based game console, alongside a brand-new Steam Controller and the new Steam […] Read more ›
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Google will allow 'experienced users' to install Android apps made by unverified developers. Read more ›
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The US Treasury Department said the two firms are fronts used by Iranian agents to supply HESA, the firm that makes the Shahed and Ababil drones. Read more ›
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Treasury Secretary Bessent's comments came after President Donald Trump said he would lower some tariffs. Read more ›
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How to watch World Cup qualifiers for free. Live stream France vs. Ukraine in World Cup qualifiers for free. Read more ›
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Dutch startup Partnify, the online business platform that streamlines project collaboration between companies, has raised €1.8M in funding. Zwolle, the Netherlands-based Partnify, an online platform that facilitates collaboration between multiple companies and teams, has raised €1.8M in funding. The investment round was led by European venture capital firm Hi inov (marking its first investment in ... Read more Read more ›
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Hyperliquid reportedly took a bad debt of $4.9 million due to alleged POPCAT manipulation. Read more ›
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The House of Representatives voted in favor of a monthslong funding measure late Wednesday. Read more ›
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NY Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally, protesting recent firings that followed a staff confrontation with HR. Read more ›
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The government minted the final one-cent coin in Philadelphia, though billions remain in circulation. Read more ›
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Google is launching Ironwood, its new TPU. The chips could ease GPU shortages. Many companies training AI models have found themselves stuck — GPUs are expensive, in short supply, and power-hungry. That might soon change. Google is preparing to add a new version of its Tensor Processing Unit, called Ironwood, to its cloud service. The ... Read more ›
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Dubai digital government AI achieves 96% adoption. Uses months-long deployments and binding ethics to outpace global competitors. Predictive services platform coming early 2030s; synthetic data frameworks enable privacy-safe innovation at scale. While most governments measure digital transformation timelines in years, Dubai’s digital government AI initiatives are rewriting the playbook with deployment cycles measured in months ... Read more ›
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Huang said Nvidia can’t sell AI chips to China due to US export rules. He warned the US must “run fast” to stay ahead in AI. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said demand for the company’s Blackwell chips remains “very strong,” with its orders for wafers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) continuing to climb, as reported ... Read more ›
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India to make AI curriculum mandatory from Class 3 from 2026-27, among the earliest introducing AI education at primary level. Extensive teacher training for 10m+ educators. Curriculum development led by IIT Madras, and resource materials to be completed by December 2025. India’s Ministry of Education has announced a significant shift in the country’s education system, ... Read more ›
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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking—a Chinese AI model challenging OpenAI Anthropic—outperformed GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on critical benchmarks, costing just $4.6M to train The model scored 44.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam versus GPT-5’s 41.7%, while offering API pricing six to 10 times cheaper than American competitors A Chinese AI model challenging OpenAI Anthropic arrived ... Read more ›
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Australia accuses Chinese hackers of targeting infrastructure. ASIO warns Chinese hacker groups could plan sabotage. Australia’s intelligence chief has warned that hackers linked to the Chinese government are trying to infiltrate the country’s critical infrastructure, including telecommunications networks. Speaking at a business forum in Melbourne, Mike Burgess, director general of the Australian Security and Intelligence ... Read more ›
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