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Meta Platforms is drastically relaxing its stance on content moderation, moving in the direction of Elon Musk’s X, a move that responds to pressure from the incoming Trump administration that will shake up the social media sector. In a post written by Meta’s newly promoted Chief Global Affairs ...
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With the decorations packed away for another 12 months and the new year now well and truly begun, developer Mojang has roused from its festive slumber to launch six new features from Minecraft's first planned update of 2025 into testing. Read more Read more ›
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"This is likely to end up being one of the most expensive wildfires in modern California history," said AccuWeather's chief meteorologist. Read more ›
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"I think if we try for $2 trillion, we've got a good shot at getting one," Musk told political strategist Mark Penn. Read more ›
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After nine of public beta access, hugely influential colony sim Dwarf Fortress' roguelike Adventure Mode is getting its full Steam release on 23rd January. Read more Read more ›
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Splash Damage has announced it's cancelling the development of Transformers: Reactivate, and that it'll be "scaling down" the studio as result, leaving roles "at risk of redundancy". Read more Read more ›
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Californians were already fighting to find affordable insurance policies. Read more ›
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Michael Burry refrained from posting on X, bet big on a trio of Chinese tech giants, and saw one stock wager pay off last year. Read more ›
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Amazon and JPMorgan want to turn back the clock on working from home — but it's too late to stop it Read more ›
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In the UK today, McDonalds is finally launching its Sonic the Hedgehog 3 themed Happy Meals. Read more Read more ›
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The Raspberry Pi 5 becomes the first Raspberry Pi with a 16GB RAM option but is it worth the extra money? Read more ›
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China broadened a home appliance subsidy program just as inflation data showed continued weak consumer demand. Read more ›
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Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet software with legions of fans. Learning Excel and its functions and formulas can be tricky, but here are the basics. Read more ›
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10 years after he was first attached to the project, It and The Flash director Andrés Muschietti says he still has plans for Sony's Shadow of the Colossus film adaptation. Read more Read more ›
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Today we have with us the Xiaomi Pad 7. Launched in China back in October of last year, the Pad 7 is finally getting a wider release, starting with India. The model we have here is the Indian unit and it’s identical to the one launched in China. Starting with the design, you are getting an all-aluminum shell with no visible antenna lines. The device is only 6.18mm thick and... Read more ›
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CES 2025 is half done and we are still tracking down the newest and coolest technology that Las Vegas has to offer. Here are the highlights of day 2! Read more ›
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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said that when it comes to hiring, she looks for candidates who are interested in learning new things. Read more ›
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The Palisades and Eaton fires are still raging through Los Angeles. Emerging photos offer a glimpse of how devastating their toll will be. Read more ›
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Magnesium supplements can calm your nervous system, relax your muscles and improve your sleep quality. 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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Meta Platforms is drastically relaxing its stance on content moderation, moving in the direction of Elon Musk’s X, a move that responds to pressure from the incoming Trump administration that will shake up the social media sector. In a post written by Meta’s newly promoted Chief Global Affairs ... Read more ›
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Within hours of OpenAI’s demonstration of its latest advanced reasoning model, o3, social media platforms and online forums were filled with posts from software engineers questioning their future: What happens to their jobs when artificial intelligence can write code better than they can? But Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth, whose firm helps OpenAI, Google and others to develop code-writing AI, thinks doomsayers about the future of software engineers have it all... 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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Databricks and Snowflake, already embroiled in a fierce rivalry over software that manages companies’ data, are now jockeying for position in generative artificial intelligence—particularly AI that helps businesses search their own data. Those goals have led both companies to consider buying the same startups. In recent weeks, representatives from Databricks and Snowflake have talked to the leaders of Voyage AI, a year-old startup both companies backed, about a potential acquisition,... Read more ›
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Welcome to Applied AI, The Information’s twice-weekly newsletter that will take you inside how businesses are using artificial intelligence.I’m Jon Victor, the lead writer for Applied AI. For seven years I have been reporting on technology and most recently on how businesses are using AI. I recently interviewed Marc Benioff for a profile of Salesforce’s big push into AI agents and Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi about how AI is helping workers... Read more ›
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U.K. lawmakers grilled bargain sellers Shein and Temu in a hearing Tuesday, pressing for answers about the potential use of forced labor in their supply chains as part of a broader government inquiry into labor rights. Liam Byrne, the lawmaker who chairs the committee, said the committee was ... Read more ›
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The year is just a week old and already things are getting shaken up. Meta Platforms’ announcement on Tuesday that it was eliminating its fact-checking program in favor of an X-like community notes feature is a seismic event for social media. No longer will Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, try to pretend it has a monopoly on truth. Instead, Meta will leave it to members of the public... Read more ›
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Shares of Carvana fell 2% after a short-selling research firm, Hindenburg Research, published a report alleging that the publicly traded online car dealer has weak underwriting standards and an increasingly risky portfolio of subprime loans. The report focused on the role played by the ... Read more ›
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Specialized chip designers Broadcom and Marvell Technology have been getting a lot of investor love lately. Both companies’ shares have surged more than 30% over the past three months as their revenues have soared, thanks to their efforts helping tech giants including Google and Amazon build their own artificial intelligence chips. Meanwhile, shares of the biggest AI chip designer, Nvidia, have stalled as its super-hot revenue growth has slowed. Right... Read more ›
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