Saturday, November 7, 2026
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Tech / The Next Web ·
Sequoia Capital is closing its London office six years after opening it, and several people will leave the firm. The Silicon Valley investor announced the move on Wednesday in a memo posted on X, titled “The Sequoia of Tomorrow” and signed by its seven general partners. The firm said the decision…
Tech / The Verge ·
Following the Melania documentary movie about Melania Trump that premiered earlier this year, Amazon is now planning to release a two-part Prime Video series focusing on the First Lady. The show, Melania: The Series, is set to debut on November 20th. "MELANIA, The Series reveals never-before-told…
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Waymo co-chief executive Tekedra Mawakana says partnering with Uber was “a little bit of a crapshoot” for riders. On the same day, Uber told investors that robotaxis earn more on its platform than on their makers’ own apps. Mawakana spoke to Emily Chang on Bloomberg’s The Circuit. She explained…
Tech / The Verge ·
Someone at the White House appears to be running software that could enable outsiders to rent access on the presidential network for just "a few dollars," as reported by Krebs on Security and The Register. That's according to findings from the security firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient, which…
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Meta has paused planned changes to its rules for businesses and advertisers. Among other things, the new rules would have let it crawl the websites of firms that use its apps. The changes were due to take effect on November 20, but Meta’s existing terms will stay in place for now, Reuters reported…
Tech / The Verge ·
Kobo is launching a new monthly subscription service called Stack that lets you upload your own ebooks and documents to the company's servers where they'll be synced across multiple devices and apps, including your reading progress, highlights, and annotations. Kobo Stack is similar to Amazon's Send…
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IonQ now expects revenue of $505M to $515M this year. The quantum computing company raised the outlook on Thursday as third-quarter revenue more than quadrupled to $173.8M. Its earlier forecast was $450M to $460M, and it had revenue of $130M in 2025, Bloomberg reported. Sales would almost…
Tech / The Verge ·
Apple's iPhone Duo has been officially on sale for two weeks, and the company said today that the App Store now has over 100,000 apps that are built for the foldable. "It's been wonderful to see how quickly developers have embraced iPhone Duo, and we're grateful for their creativity and innovation,"…
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Cloudflare’s third-quarter revenue rose 39% from a year earlier to $782.5M, taking its annualised revenue past $3bn. The company reported the results on Thursday and raised its forecasts for the full year. Co-founder and chief executive Matthew Prince called it “Cloudflare’s best quarter ever”.…
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Alphabet, Google’s parent company, owned nearly 3 million shares in chipmaker Qualcomm at the end of September, a stake worth $547.9m, Reuters reported on Friday. The figures come from a regulatory filing that lists Alphabet’s holdings in other companies. Qualcomm’s shares rose more than 3% in…
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CesiumAstro has raised $730M in a Series D round that values it at more than $4.5bn. The Austin-based maker of satellites and space communications systems announced the round on Thursday. It also unveiled Synchronicity, a planned network of 737 satellites with AI built in, for commercial,…
Tech / Wired ·
With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.
Tech / Wired ·
Creators in their sixties, seventies, and eighties have flooded adult platforms as the demand for mature content has skyrocketed, with some turning to online sex work as a retirement lifeline.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Venture capital investment in European companies hit a half-year record of €11.5bn in the first half of 2026, according to preliminary data from Invest Europe. That is 11% more than a year earlier. The industry body published the figures on Thursday with a survey of fund managers and their…
Tech / The Verge ·
If you’re curious about virtual reality, Meta’s Quest 3S is a good entry-level headset for dipping your toes in, especially now it’s on sale in refurbished condition for $255.99 directly from Meta’s eBay storefront through November 8th when you use coupon code SAVE20TECH. For comparison, the headset…
Tech / Wired ·
After enduring years of smells, strange noises, and waste “tea,” I’ve found the composters and food recyclers I’d actually recommend.
Tech / Wired ·
These monthly deliveries get kids reading, coding, and cooking while encouraging them to learn about science and the world.
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Air conditioners can now follow you from room to room to cut power draw. Saving the planet, however, won’t come from a smarter breeze.
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Protesters broke into the construction site of a large Microsoft data centre on the edge of Amsterdam on Friday, during a demonstration against the project. About 100 people made it onto the site, a Reuters witness said. A spokesperson for the activist group Geef Tegengas told local broadcaster…
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Lutra, a South Korean startup, has debuted a new brand called Humans of Authenticity (HOA) that's launching another screen-free digital camera that incorporates a large open viewfinder into its design, as spotted by PetaPixel. The camera is reminiscent of the Godox C100 but the HOA A1 positions…
Tech / Wired ·
The Greenlight Family Hub displays your family calendars, manages your kid’s chores, and doubles as a photo frame. It’s also already discounted ahead of Black Friday.
Tech / The Verge ·
Buying the 4K Blu-ray disc version of KPop Demon Hunters was already going to be a wise idea for some people, especially those who primarily keep their $26.99 Netflix Premium subscription just to watch the hit animated flick in 4K. But at just $24.99 from Barnes and Noble instead of its original…
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About 600,000 of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips are being stored in Hong Kong because Beijing has not approved large-scale imports into mainland China, Reuters reported. The news agency cited two people familiar with the matter. Nvidia did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment, and neither did China’s…
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A researcher found over 100,000 words and phrases in "every major language" that are blocked from autocomplete and swipe-type in iOS, Reuters reports. The researcher, Derik Kauffman, says you can still type the words on the blocklist one letter at a time. But they won't pop up as predictive text…