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Here’s a deal scoop to wrap up the year: RetailNext, a 17-year-old startup that sells smart cameras to bricks-and-mortar retailers for measuring foot traffic, sold earlier this month to multistage investment firm Battery Ventures, people familiar with the matter said. The transaction might sound small, but it could have bigger implications for what’s to come in venture-backed mergers and acquisitions.Battery’s private equity arm paid between $100 million and $200 million for the firm, one of the people said
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Apple TV+ will be available to stream for free starting on Friday, January 3, with the promotion set to last through Sunday, January 5. For the first time, Apple is providing unlimited access to its catalog of TV shows and movies with no subscription fee. The Apple TV+ streaming service can be accessed from any web browser and on any device that has an Apple TV app. The Apple TV... Read more ›
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Ahead of CES 2025, Nvidia is giving away five classic GPUs signed by CEO Jensen Huang. Read more ›
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Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded. Read more ›
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The Toyota Land Cruiser has been around for decades, and it's changed a lot in that time. These models represent some of the most reliable you can get today. Read more ›
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Sameer Singh, who oversees TikTok's North America ad business, is leaving the company in February, per an internal memo. Read more ›
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In 2018, scientists documented the same orca mother carrying her dead calf for 17 days across more than 1,000 miles of water. Read more ›
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Despite the Musk-Trump bromance, Tesla is facing a tough year after disappointing 2024 sales numbers. Read more ›
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Tech leaders like Bill Gates and Amazon's Werner Vogels expect changes in the workforce and consumer tech habits in 2025. Read more ›
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One of the final acts of the Biden administration has left Donald Trump a chance to leave a major imprint on the alcohol industry. Read more ›
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House of the Dragon keeps HBO's dubious streak alive after the similarly much-pirated likes of The Last of Us and Game of Thrones. Read more ›
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Musk’s posts, which have racked up hundreds of millions of views on X, are his latest effort at inserting himself into UK politics. Read more ›
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Apple refreshed the Mac mini back in November, adding M4 chips and increasing the base storage. We did a hands-on impressions video at the time, but we thought we'd follow that up with a more in-depth review now that we've had more time to spend with Apple's cheapest desktop machine. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. Priced starting at $599, the Mac mini offers the most affordable... Read more ›
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The Verge / Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images A few months before the first Cybertrucks were delivered to customers, Tesla CEO Elon Musk got on a call with investors and said he wanted to “temper expectations” about the polarizing vehicle. “It’s a great product, but financially, it will take, I don’t know, a year to 18 months before it is a significant positive cash flow contributor,” Musk said in the... Read more ›
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Visionary Realms is an ambitious game studio that recently launched early access for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, a classic fantasy MMO. Read more ›
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Image: LMVPD A day after a Cybertruck exploded in the Trump Hotel valet area, law enforcement officials released more details on the progress of their investigation, including the coroner’s confirmation that the driver was a US Army soldier named Matthew Livelsberger, who died by suicide of a self-inflicted gunshot just before the explosives in the truck’s bed detonated. “I’m comfortable calling it a suicide with a bombing that occurred immediately... Read more ›
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Apple has reportedly ceased production of its expensive £3500 Vision Pro headset, as unsold stock has piled up. Read more Read more ›
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It's not the gyrating motion of the hips that keeps the hoop aloft; it's a body type with a sloping surface as "hips." Read more ›
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OneWeb managed to restore its services after a 48-hour outage. Read more ›
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US News & World Report ranked US cities for the best quality of life. The top locations include Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Honolulu. Read more ›
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Keanu Reeves went above and beyond motion capturing his performance as a 'junkie mech pilot' in Amazon's gaming anthology series. Read more ›
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Robotaxis are quickly gaining ground, largely thanks to Alphabet-backed Waymo, which announced in October that it was completing more than 100,000 paid rides for passengers per week. Waymo plans to enter new regions next year. And everything in the market is sure to intensify further as Tesla tries to begin mass-producing its own robotaxis in 2026. Existing ride-hailing services are in for a period of disruption. Uber is one of... Read more ›
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When we looked into the future a year ago, we saw a period ahead full of exciting new AI gadgets, dealmaking at Netflix and trouble in a burgeoning corner of the retail world. But even the best clairvoyants don’t always get it right, and our crystal ball clearly was picking up some static interference when we gazed through it last year. Still, we were pretty correct about that retail guess,... Read more ›
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A Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday morning, killing the driver and injuring several bystanders, contained gasoline and other fuel canisters and large firework mortars, Las Vegas police said. The findings, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk ... Read more ›
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Benefits startup Level has told its clients that it is shutting down after an effort to sell the company fell through, marking another abrupt closure of a fintech that has left users in the lurch. Level, which was founded in 2018 and raised a $27 million Series A round in 2021 led by Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, told the companies offering its benefits plans that they would need... Read more ›
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Here’s a deal scoop to wrap up the year: RetailNext, a 17-year-old startup that sells smart cameras to bricks-and-mortar retailers for measuring foot traffic, sold earlier this month to multistage investment firm Battery Ventures, people familiar with the matter said. The transaction might sound small, but it could have bigger implications for what’s to come in venture-backed mergers and acquisitions.Battery’s private equity arm paid between $100 million and $200 million... Read more ›
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The Information’s readers spent a lot of time this year on Elon Musk. And on the artificial intelligence wars. They were early to what’s happening at Apple, too—a foldable phone!—and displayed a deep interest in how tech and politics are increasingly colliding. Read more ›
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At the moment, TikTok is fighting for survival. The Chinese-owned app has been locked in a monthslong legal battle over a law that will ban it in the U.S. on Jan. 19 if it hasn’t cut ties with its parent company, ByteDance. The entire drama is headed for a final showdown next week, with the company planning to argue for its existence in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. But... Read more ›
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While the rest of us were recovering from heavy Christmas dinners and too much time with relatives, Chinese quant trading firm High-Flyer Capital Management dropped the latest update on Thursday to DeepSeek, its open-weight large language model. Senior researchers at American firms including OpenAI and Meta Platforms almost immediately started investigating the Chinese rival’s technology and its claims about what little hardware it took to produce the model.High-Flyer says it... Read more ›
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In many ways, artificial intelligence defined 2024. Nvidia’s perch as the dominant seller of the graphics processing units that power much of AI propelled it past $3 trillion in market capitalization, making it the world’s second most valuable company as of Dec. 27, trailing only Apple. Despite a growing legion of rivals and would-be rivals (see our AI Chip Database), Nvidia’s sales actually grew faster than those of Advanced Micro... Read more ›
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ByteDance continues to use Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence chips despite U.S. efforts to block Chinese companies from using them. The Chinese owner of TikTok recently told suppliers it planned to spend up to $7 billion to access Nvidia chips outside China in 2025, according to a person who has been involved in the plan. The effort, led by co-founder Zhang Yiming, would make ByteDance one of the world’s biggest... Read more ›
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