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Google Messages will support WhatsApp video calls

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Google Messages is working on an intriguing integration with WhatsApp. As revealed through an APK teardown of the latest version ...

DOGE staffer resigns after racist posts uncovered. Elon Musk might bring him back.

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Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer, is the first of Elon Musk’s DOGE crew to lose their job. Elez resigned from ...

Apple Is Reportedly Working On A Pixar-Style Tabletop Robot Lamp With Expressive, Lifelike Movements

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Apple keeps on challenging itself and has an ambitious approach to expanding itself into different categories. It has been increasingly ...

Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation

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Just six months after defense tech Anduril raised a massive $1.5 billion round that valued the company at $14 billion, ...

Trump admin freezes EV charging program that gave Tesla millions

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The Department of Transportation has paused funding for a $5 billion EV charging infrastructure program that Tesla has received at ...

Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test

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Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei claims DeepSeek generated sensitive bioweapons data in a safety test it ran. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...

OpenAI plans to open an office in Germany

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OpenAI is expanding its footprint to Germany. According to a press release issued Friday, the ChatGPT maker plans to open ...

Shopify pushes for ‘open trade’ as Trump delays import exemption

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On the same day that President Donald Trump delayed ending a trade exemption targeting certain Chinese imports, ecommerce company Shopify ...

Oppo Find N5 emerges in official-looking renders

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Oppo has been on a teaser rampage for its upcoming Find N5 foldable. The device is expected to launch in ...

Fintech Rapyd seeks funding at $3.5B valuation, a steep drop from $9B

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Rapyd Financial Network is reportedly looking to raise $300 million in a new funding at a steep valuation cut from ...

Google’s completely made up Gemini AI scene cut from Super Bowl ad

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Google faked an AI response from its Gemini model in an ad to be aired during the Super Bowl this ...

Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge

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Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to ...

One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge

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Elon Musk has reportedly picked fresh-faced six engineers to run DOGE. I spoke to one of them in 2023, when his ...

DeepSeek Is Sending Unencrypted Data To Chinese Servers, As Its iOS App Suffers From Multiple Severe Security Flaws

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DeepSeek app topped the App Store charts as it was the most downloaded AI app, even beating ChatGPT in its ...

Apple iPhone 16 remains the top-selling smartphone in the world in 2024

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Apple iPhone 16 remains the top-selling smartphone in the world in 2024

Apple is about to surprise iPhone users with iOS 18.3.1

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Apple is on the verge of releasing an unscheduled iOS 18.3.1 update to fix bugs, patch security issues, and more.

Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline

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Elon Musk doesn’t want Tesla to be just an automaker. He wants Tesla to be an AI company, one that’s ...

DeepSeek’s rise is prompting U.S. lawmakers to take drastic measures

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DeepSeek’s rise is causing U.S. lawmakers to take drastic measures

AirPods 4 Remain At Their Lowest Price Of $99.99 On Amazon, But If You Want Active Noise Cancellation, The AirPods Pro 2 Have Received Their Biggest Price Cut For The Year

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Apple introduced the AirPods 4 as an affordable means of enjoying wireless audio with stellar sound quality while experiencing that ...

Apple ordered to issue backdoor to users’ encrypted data by UK government

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Security officials from the United Kingdom have reportedly ordered Apple to implement a backdoor giving access to encrypted iCloud backups ...

Xiaomi’s next flip foldable tipped to feature “female-oriented customizations,” biggest battery

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Xiaomi Mix Flip 2 is rumored to arrive sometime in Q2 2025.

How To Disperse an Independent Power in Civilization 7

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Compared to Civilization 6, Civilization 7 has really mixed it up, adding a lot of new features and making gameplay ...

Commandos: Origins Gets a Set Release Date of April 9

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Kalpyso Media and Claymore Game Studios have announced today that the release date for Commandos: Origins is officially locked in. ...

Bluesky will soon let you limit replies to ‘followers only’

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Social network Bluesky will soon give its users more control over who can reply to their posts. Confirmed by Bluesky ...

ASUS States It Will Compensate For The GPU Damages Incurred By Q-Release Mechanism On Its Motherboards

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ASUS is taking responsibility for any damage to the GPU interface after using the Quick Release “Q-Release” system. Irrespective of ...

Coalition ‘concerned’ over UK appointing ex-Amazon exec as antitrust regulator chair

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A coalition of organizations and individuals have signed an open letter expressing concern at the U.K. government’s decision to appoint ...

DeepMind claims its AI performs better than International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists

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An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist ...

Bpifrance will invest $10B in the French AI ecosystem by 2029

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France’s public investment bank announced that it plans to invest as much as €10 billion (around $10.3 billion at current ...

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra vs Galaxy S25 Plus: Has the smaller phone caught up?

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Is Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra drastically better than the Galaxy S25 Plus… or not?

Startups face the recurring dilemma of whether to partner

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Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it ...