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Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is offering hundreds of millions of dollars in shopping vouchers and other promotions to users of its Qwen AI chatbot app during the Lunar New Year holiday. Alibabaâs effort to boost Qwenâs usage is part of an intensifying battle among Chinese tech ... Read more âș
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After co-creating Amazon Alexa, William Tunstall-Pedoe became an angel investor. When he started his second business, he drew on the invaluable experience of his mentees. Read more âș
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CEO Steve Huffman said that Reddit's success lies in being a place for authentic human conversation, not a platform flooded with bots. Read more âș
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The CIA has shut down The World Factbook, one of its oldest and most recognizable public-facing intelligence publications, ending a run that began as a classified reference document in 1962 and evolved into a freely accessible digital resource that drew millions of views each year. The agency offered no explanation for the decision. Originally titled The National Basic Intelligence Factbook, the publication first went unclassified in 1971, was renamed a... Read more âș
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Appleâs upcoming iPhone 18 Pro lineup has been the subject of numerous leaks in recent weeks. The latest rumor now claims to reveal the battery capacity of the iPhone 18 Pro Max. In a post on Weibo, tipster Digital Chat Station claims that the iPhone 18 Pro Max will feature a 5,000mAh (or larger) battery in China. Meanwhile, the international variant is said to pack a slightly bigger battery, likely... Read more âș
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The rivaling AI companies pushed GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6, and had back-to-back appearances on a tech and business podcast. Read more âș
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An elixir for keeping our brains and bodies younger may already be sitting on pharmacy shelves across the United States â if only weâd take advantage of it. Iâm talking about the shingles vaccine. It was invented because, well, shingles is a terrible disease. If you ever had chickenpox (like I did), this virus is [âŠ] Read more âș
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ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like thatâand only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules. Read more âș
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a one-sentence order announcing that Californiaâs newly gerrymandered maps, which are expected to give Democrats as many as five more seats in the US House, may go into effect during the 2026 midterms. These maps were enacted to counterbalance a Republican gerrymander in Texas, which could also give [âŠ] Read more âș
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Robotics specialist Unitree has been making waves with its humanoid robots, and a new video shows its impressive G1 bipedal bot dealing with incredibly cold conditions. In a video showing the G1 trudging through deep snow, Unitree describes the feat as âthe worldâs first autonomous walking challenge for humanoid robots in a -53.32°F (-47.4°C) extreme ... Read more âș
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"We need you to reach out, and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward," Camron Guthrie said in the new video. Read more âș
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Early reports indicate that Russian forces are encountering trouble organizing troops at the tactical level after the Starlink changes. Read more âș
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Nvidia's RTX 50 series Super refresh supposedly is design complete, but the GPU maker won't be releasing any new RTX GPUs in 2026, according to a report in The Information. Read more âș
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An active-duty enlisted member of the US military said their unit was "pressured" into seeing Amazon's "Melania" documentary about the first lady. Read more âș
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Tapestry's CEO said the initial sketches of bags and shoes are done by hand, but AI tools help tweak designs and test different colorways. Read more âș
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Nvidia representative recommends GeForce graphics card owners to uninstall the Windows 11 KB5074109 update to solve framerate drops and gaming artifacts. Read more âș
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On Thursday, Bitcoin's value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presidential election, as CNBC reports. After crossing $100,000 in November 2024 and peaking at over $122,000 in October 2025, the cryptocurrency has been in a steady decline for the last several [âŠ] Read more âș
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The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams. Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven too inflexible for an organization the Commission's size, it said. The Matrix-based solution could also eventually connect the Commission to other EU... Read more âș
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Two-day March summit to discuss trade shifts, new technologies in Canadian manufacturing. Read more âș
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Tech policy advocate Josh Tabish on why he thinks regulation shouldnât necessarily mean restriction. Read more âș
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Daly Brown and Nick Foubert built a company around their defence expertise, before finding the support to scale it. Read more âș
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How Avestecâs engineering talent pipeline reshaped how it prototypes, designs, and scales complex hardware systems. Read more âș
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New projects target communities still falling below national internet speed benchmarks. Read more âș
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Prominent investors leave advisory board as former CBC head Catherine Tait signs on. Read more âș
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John Ruffolo joins to discuss fuzzy data, âbullshitâ narratives, and the real problems hampering Canadian tech. Read more âș
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