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Canva is restructuring in a way that affects 1,271 people, or 22% of the company. Some staff will lose their jobs, others will change roles and some will be asked to relocate. Co-founder and chief executive Melanie Perkins announced the changes in a note to staff on Wednesday, which Canva published.…
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Anker announced a new indoor security camera that's designed to watch your yard, driveway, or front porch through a window, instead of monitoring what's inside your home. The new Anker Eufy Window Camera E10 takes a similar approach to the Wyze Window Cam that launched nearly a year ago. It installs…
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If you already have a compatible e-reader, the $35 Kindle Click could be all the upgrade you need.
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South Korean consumer group plans to accuse Tesla of misleading tens of thousands of buyers over its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software. The group says most of Tesla’s cars in the country cannot legally use it, according to Reuters, which has seen the complaint. Citizens United for Consumer…
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Handing an AI agent the passwords to your financial life is “totally insane”, says Alex Stamos. He is Meta’s former chief security officer. Stamos made the remarks on a recent episode of Alex Kantrowitz’s Big Technology Podcast, Natalie Musumeci reported for Business Insider. Stamos joined Cognition…
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Oracle has scrapped a chip leasing deal with Tencent worth an estimated $7bn after the Trump administration leaned on it, according to a Wednesday report in the Financial Times. US officials went to Oracle with concerns about the deal, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter.…
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Rian Johnson is an analog photography devotee. The director of Knives Out and The Last Jedi can often be spotted on set with a Leica M6 at his side, documenting production on film. But sometimes, it's still easier to reach for a phone. So Johnson started wondering if the photos from his iPhone could…
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I tested over a hundred options—my top picks from Apple, Bose, and Beats stood out from the rest.
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If you’re someone who owns an iPhone, you might have considered getting a MagSafe power bank that can quickly recharge it. I tested a handful of options that claim to deliver 25W Qi2.2 speeds wirelessly, and my top pick was Baseus’ AM52 10,000mAh battery, which happens to be steeply discounted right…
Tech / Wired ·
Since early 2026, the law has required electric bike owners to get licenses—and in some cases, insurance—to ride. It has left many stranded and confused.
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Riders and lawmakers often don’t know the difference, and retailers sometimes muddy the waters on purpose. Here’s how to buy the micromobility vehicle you actually want.
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James Talarico, the Democratic Texas senator-elect, not only managed to flip the state in yesterday's midterms but prevailed in the most expensive Senate election to date. More than $573 million was spent on advertisements between Talarico, his Republican opponent Ken Paxton, and their aligned PACs.…
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) that oversees the wireless standard has formally adopted Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT) as an optional feature of the Bluetooth Core 7.0. It's an upgrade the Bluetooth SIG has been previewing over the past year that increases Bluetooth LE's maximum…
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Supermicro will build and sell AI inference systems that pair SambaNova’s SN50 chips with Nvidia GPUs, the companies said on Tuesday. The collaboration initially plans for 10,000 SN50 chips, according to SambaNova’s announcement. The racks will join Supermicro’s Data Center Building Block Solutions,…
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European deep tech companies in the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) Scaling Club have raised €4.06bn since joining the programme, according to a new report published by the initiative. The Club, funded by the EIC, supports 120 scale-ups from 26 countries. The report, Europe’s Deep Tech…
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When Donald Trump began his second term as president, Silicon Valley gratefully embraced moral nihilism. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more collectively donated millions to Trump's inauguration fund to ensure his favor in a new era of gangster tech regulation. Meta overhauled its content policy…
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A new study found evidence of natural selection in the dogs of Chernobyl, but it’s still unclear what drove these genetic differences and what evolutionary advantages they may provide.
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Qualcomm has completed testing the first chips built with its High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) memory technology, clearing a key step towards using it in data centre AI hardware. The company announced the results, saying the technology will feature in its Dragonfly AI250 accelerator, designed to run…
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Traversal, a New York startup whose AI agents find out why company software breaks, has raised $120 million in a Series B round. The deal values it at $1 billion, the company announced on Tuesday. Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Khosla Ventures co-led the round. Sequoia Capital, Battery…
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OpenAI employees repeatedly warned the company’s leadership and board about weaknesses in its security practices over several years, including before ChatGPT launched in late 2022, Reuters reported, citing five people familiar with the matter. Some employees came away with the impression that…
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SpaceX is teaming up with Qualcomm to build out its nationwide mobile network. Under the multi-year deal, SpaceX will bring Qualcomm's Dragonwing technology to "tens of thousands" of 5G cell sites across the US, with the first deployments set for 2027. The news of the partnership comes as part of…
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Google has offered voluntary exit packages to some staff in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland since June. The move, reported by Reuters today, widens a scheme that the company had already run in the US and the UK. Google confirmed the expansion to Reuters, which could not establish…
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Every year, Paris startup campus Station F tries to identify the young companies worth watching. Its latest Future 40 list names 40 startups it considers the strongest among more than 1,000 companies based at the campus in 2026. Now in its eighth edition, the Future 40 selection is based on results,…
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The fact our TVs are gathering our information isn't new, but what and how they're tracking - and if we can stop it - is hard to figure out. Researchers at Northeastern University monitored 12 TVs from 10 manufacturers to test whether opting out of automatic content recognition (ACR) actually works.…