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Apple appeared to drop a bombshell Thursday morning in saying it would comply with a new European law by offering to lower its App Store commissions to 20% from 30% and dropping other longtime restrictions, including its prohibition on alternative app stores. Apple also opened up the iPhone chip used for Apple Pay to banks and other developers to launch contactless payments at cash registers.
At the same time, though, Apple said it would introduce a new flat fee for large developers, based on the volume of
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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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Google plans major expansion of Alabama data center campus - which could be backed up with nuclear power. Read more ›
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Four top retail brokerages Zerodha, Groww, Angel One and Upstox have reportedly been granted approval from the International Financial Services… Read more ›
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Lenovo announced a new version of its chonky speaker-filled Tab Plus tablet that once again puts a strong focus on audio. While the original Tab Plus launched two years ago with eight built-in speakers requiring a 13.58mm rear bulge to squeeze them all in, the new Tab Plus Gen 2 bumps that to nine speakers […] Read more ›
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The Kodak Charmera returns in a new Millennium edition, with six new colorways equipped with additional Y2K-inspired photo filters and frames, for the same low price. Read more ›
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Sellers on TikTok used pricey items to lure bidders to “Surprise Sets” livestreams, but most of the auctions yielded only cheap prizes. Gambling experts are concerned about the potential for harm. Read more ›
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Despite being an objectively terrible digital camera, the Kodak Charmera has been incredibly popular thanks to a cheap price tag and several fun retro designs inspired by the iconic 1987 single-use Kodak Fling. Instead of entirely rethinking that formula, Reto, the company licensing the Kodak brand, is following up on the original Charmera with a […] Read more ›
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For decades, Florida was the archetypal presidential swing state — and as recently as 2016 and 2018, Democrats came close to winning statewide elections there. Then things took a turn. After Ron DeSantis was elected governor in 2018, the Sunshine State moved solidly right of the country in 2020, and 2022 and 2024 brought double-digit […] Read more ›
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A new EV Marketplace has been launched, the first of its kind in Ireland. Developed in partnership with Nevo – Ireland’s only dedicated EV platform, designed to help drivers research, compare, and transition to electric motoring – the new digital marketplace aims to make it radically simpler and quicker for consumers to switch to electric […] Read more ›
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Here is a finding that stuck with me. Across three big American studies tracking more than 17,000 people, those who felt roughly eight, eleven and thirteen years older than their actual age had 18%, 29% and 25% higher mortality risk respectively. The figure tracked not their chronological age, but how old they felt. The age ... Read more Read more ›
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Threads has surpassed 500 million monthly active users, Meta announced on Tuesday, hitting the milestone just shy of the platform's third birthday. Threads got off to a hot start in 2023, reaching 100 million users even faster than ChatGPT, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he thinks Threads could hit 1 billion users. Meta […] Read more ›
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New simulations suggest Venus' extremely slow backward rotation may have been triggered by a high-angle collision with a fast-moving object roughly one-tenth its mass. The impact could have dramatically altered Venus' spin and melted nearly its entire mantle. Universe Today reports: Venus' bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a new paper presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly... Read more ›
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TSMC is exploring panel-level packaging and is working on its CoPoS technology, but the company's Kevin Zhang says wafer-level packaging technologies is considerably more advanced than panel-level packaging. Read more ›
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The star of Steven Spielberg's new sci-fi film has mixed feelings about a sequel, though. Read more ›
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BAE Systems has committed €50m (£43.2m) to VC funds focused on backing European defence tech startups. A sum of €25m (£21.6m) will be invested into two funds headed up by Expeditions and Lakestar, who are both working to help shape the future of European defence innovation by backing founders and technologies aiming to deliver next ... Read more ›
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When Founders Fund earlier this year set out to raise its latest fund, a $6 billion vehicle to back mature startups like Anduril, it was the first time in the firm’s two-decade history it had asked its limited partners for more cash within two years of its prior fundraise. The reason: It had already blown through the $4.6 billion fund it raised last year, thanks to investments in seven startups,... Read more ›
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Big news: Anthropic has a new version of a Mythos-class model coming later today called Claude Fable, according to a person with knowledge of the release. It’s a neutered version of Mythos with safeguards to protect against its misuse either in cybersecurity hacks or the construction of bioweapons, the person said.For those who have been living under a rock, Anthropic first previewed Mythos in April, describing it as an ultra-powerful... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s Starlink is hitting new roadblocks with regulators India over concerns about how its satellite internet service has been used in the Iran war, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Iranian regulators have not approved Starlink, but the U.S. has smuggled thousands of terminals into the country, ... Read more ›
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Broadcom said Tuesday that it is launching a new fund—backed by Apollo and Blackstone—to help finance more than 20 gigawatts of AI data centers through 2028 using chips designed by Broadcom, including projects tied to Anthropic and OpenAI. Apollo will lead an initial $35 billion commitment to ... Read more ›
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Software companies and their shareholders have watched the recent growth of Anthropic and OpenAI with unease. But the mood is shifting as customers complain about AI costs, and the old guard smells blood in the water. Last week, Palantir CEO Alex Karp and his lieutenants told his customers at an event outside San Francisco that they’re foolish to do business directly with AI firms rather than with intermediaries like his... Read more ›
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It may not seem like it now, as we barrel toward SpaceX’s public debut this week, but not every initial public offering will involve a $1.75 trillion rocket-ship company. Soon enough, public investors may get to judge a much more down-to-earth business: school bus fleets. Sequoia Capital-backed Zum, known for using its electric school buses to shuttle kids to class in school districts including Los Angeles and San Francisco, has... Read more ›
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Prediction markets platform Kalshi is asking customers in some wagers to provide the name of their employer, industry and job function before making bets, to help the company crack down on potential insider trading. “For markets with heightened insider or manipulation risk, we now collect ... Read more ›
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Can OpenAI do anything simply? Many companies, when publicly acknowledging the possibility of an IPO, emphasize that the final decision will depend in part on “market conditions.” That’s what OpenAI’s rival Anthropic did last week. But the ChatGPT firm chose to be more cryptic. Revealing its confidential IPO filing on Monday, OpenAI said it might hold off on its debut for a while “because there are things we want to... Read more ›
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OpenAI is in advanced negotiations to lease a proposed 10 gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The campus under discussion would be among the biggest of its kind, with a total cost of at least $500 billion if fully built out based on today’s prices... Read more ›
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When Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman took the stage at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C, in March, she wasn’t shy about how the company wields its stock indexes to woo business. In an interview with Carlyle Group Chair David Rubenstein, Friedman highlighted Nasdaq’s key distinction from rival exchanges: It also manages the influential Nasdaq-100 index, the benchmark whose rules dictate how roughly $800 billion worth of funds invest. That means... Read more ›
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