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Google Maps now labels the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America when viewed within the U.S., following President Donald Trump's executive order. Read more ›
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As of Monday night, when users in the US search for "Gulf of Mexico" in Google Maps, they are presented with a result for "Gulf of America." Read more ›
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Boom hopes its breakthrough will allow supersonic flights over land, making US coast-to-coast flights 90 minutes faster. Read more ›
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Fandom revolutionized sex work and remapped the parameters of connection across social media. The question now is, how real are you willing to get? Read more ›
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The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is reportedly lighter than the Galaxy S25, and a new release date leak lines up with what we've heard before. Read more ›
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The Oppo Find N5 is launching on February 20 and we were able to spend a bit of time with the phone to bring you our quick first impressions. Oppo says that the upcoming Find N5 is the thinnest book-style foldable phone (when folded) in the world. Unfolded, Huawei's tri-fold Mate XT may have it beat, but folded it's no contest - the Oppo wins. The Find N5 isn't fragile,... Read more ›
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Elon Musk is leading a group of investors making a $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI. Sam Altman dismissed it and was criticized by Musk. Read more ›
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Kate Curtis' mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when she was 71. To take care of her mom and her kids, she had to quit her job. Read more ›
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Stellar Blade developer Shift Up expects the forthcoming PC release of its action game to exceed sales of the console release. Read more Read more ›
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Google Maps now shows the “Gulf of America” in place of the “Gulf of Mexico” for users on both web and mobile in the United States. It made the change after the Trump administration formally changed the name today of the body of water spanning between the eastern coast of Mexico and the Florida panhandle. […] Read more ›
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to transform federal spending and the federal workforce is crashing up against judges who’ve temporarily blocked several of their policies. Judges have frozen Trump’s “spending freeze” orders, the Musk team’s effort to access government payment systems, Musk’s “fork in the road” offer for federal employees to resign, and an […] Read more ›
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Apple plans to release a MacBook Air with an improved LCD display in 2027, featuring Oxide TFT technology instead of the current amorphous silicon (a-Si) panels, according to a new report from The Elec. The new display technology is said to be a significant upgrade over current MacBook Air screens. Oxide TFT LCD panels offer better power efficiency and improved performance compared to traditional a-Si displays, resulting in sharper images,... Read more ›
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In a dramatic escalation of Silicon Valley’s most heated AI rivalry, Elon Musk just announced that he’s leading a $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI’s nonprofit arm, according to The Wall Street Journal. The bid was reportedly delivered to the board Monday morning. The offer brings together a powerful coalition of backers, including Musk’s own […] Read more ›
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Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson takes over from Chris Evans' Steve Rogers in "Captain America: Brave New World." Read more ›
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Dhruv Loya came to the US as an international student. It took hundreds of applications before he was able to land a job in the country at Tesla. Read more ›
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From data center cooling to novel chip design, VCs are pouring cash into startups making AI more cost-efficient and environmentally-friendly. Read more ›
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The administration must immediately restore federal funding, wrote a federal judge in Rhode Island who is overseeing a lawsuit brought by 22 states. Read more ›
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: How Gen Z is using AI to get ahead at work. Read more ›
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Apple's first OLED MacBook Pro remains on schedule for a 2026 release, featuring the new slimmer design Apple is rumored to be working on, based on a new report from The Elec. Samsung Display is said to be currently producing test samples of the OLED panels on its first deposition machine, which was installed in November 2024. However, industry projections estimate just 3 to 5 million OLED panels to be... Read more ›
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Lina Khan is out of the government, but she hasn’t given up her crusade against big tech. The former Federal Trade Commission chair has written an opinion piece for The New York Times suggesting the success of China’s artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek is a sign that “there isn’t enough competition” in the tech industry. Perhaps Lina Khan is living on a different planet. In the U.S., aside from ChatGPT parent... Read more ›
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How painful would it be for ByteDance to shut down TikTok in the U.S. altogether? Such a question may be moot if you only listened to President Donald Trump, who has frequently weighed in on the likelihood of a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations—perhaps to Oracle, maybe to Elon Musk, or even to the U.S. government itself! But as we’ve reported here and as the Washington Post reminded us... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase’s $917 million investment in a Greek fintech company has gone so wrong that the bank last year offered to sell back half of its stake at a valuation of $175 million. The fintech, Viva Wallet, didn’t take the offer. JPMorgan responded with a lawsuit that accused Viva’s founder of bullying and threatening its representatives. It demanded its full investment back, plus interest. Whoever wins this fight, the deal... Read more ›
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Hugging Face, a repository for open-source artificial intelligence, has laid off about 10 people from its sales team, according to a person with direct knowledge of the cuts. That’s around 4% of the 250-person company. The cuts impacted Hugging Face’s consulting business, “Expert Support ... Read more ›
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Amazon’s sales grew 10% year-over-year to $187.8 billion in the fourth quarter, the company said Thursday. Operating income, meanwhile, grew 61% to $21.2 billion, in part as the company kept a lid on logistics costs. Most of Amazon’s business lines reported steady or slightly slowing growth ... Read more ›
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The tech industry’s project to build out artificial intelligence is proving even more capital intensive than the peak of the last investment supercycle by oil and gas firms in the mid-2010s. Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon and Alphabet spent an estimated average of 17.2% of their revenues on capital expenditures in 2024, up from 12.7% in 2021, with the figure expected to rise further in 2025. Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The Thiel protégé set to dispense a dose of abrupt change to the U.S. Health Department• The Top 5: The best high-tech protective gear for skiers and snowboarders• Plus, our Recommendations: A tricky traitor in the Troubles; a deeply researched television set; and Michael Fassbender goes James Bond–ish Oh, bonjour, Monsieur le Vice-Président! Next week, JD Vance will bid adieu to the... Read more ›
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Republican Senator Bill Hagerty on Tuesday introduced a bill to create a regulatory framework on stablecoins, representing the first push in Congress to pass a crypto legislation under the new Trump administration. Stablecoins—crypto tokens pegged to dollars and backed by U.S. treasuries and ... Read more ›
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Google doesn’t get the accolades OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek are getting in advancing artificial intelligence, but it’s arguably doing some things right.Case in point: On Wednesday, Google made a trio of new Gemini AI models generally available to app developers, including a reasoning model akin to OpenAI’s o1 and the much-discussed DeepSeek R1. The models themselves are nearly as good as those of Google’s rivals, according to the Chatbot Arena... Read more ›
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The DeepSeek reasoning artificial intelligence, R1, isn’t just a gift to businesses eager to cut their AI costs. American cloud providers looking to boost their server rental businesses moved quickly last week to make R1 available to their customers.So far, however, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google aren’t charging cloud customers to use DeepSeek, which is open source, the same way they charge for other models—based on how much text... Read more ›
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