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In Brief 10:37 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 BP has had an on-again, off-again relationship with climate tech. Now, it’s definitely “off.” On top of pivoting away from clean energy earlier this year, the oil giant announced today that it was selling the majority of its venture portfolio
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Google will allow third-party app stores to connect with the Play Store in the US starting on July 22. The Play Catalog Access Program lets eligible app stores display and distribute apps and games from Google Play. Users will still get downloads and updates through Google Play, but they will
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Newsletter platform Beehiiv is expanding into new avenues of engagement by launching a feature called Community, which lets subscribers of a creator chat with each other. The company also launched a new AI Copilot that helps creators manage and grow their audience. The updates come as Beehiiv positions itself as
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Why it matters: TSMC has doubled down on its enormous US expansion plans, committing another $100 billion to its Arizona operations. The money is expected to fund at least four additional fabs producing chips
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As a dedicated remote worker and editor for all things office here at TechRadar Pro, I'm always on the look-out for interesting gadgets, gear, and tech that's actually useful. So, I've picked out 12 items for your desk that are what I'd
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Democratic congressional candidate for New York’s 17th district Cait Conley fears the Trump administration’s focus on cartels and fentanyl is coming at the expense of U.S. preparedness for threats from China and Russia — a trade-off she likened to Washington’s overinvestment in counterterrorism after the Sept. 11
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NVIDIA introduced the Thor-based T3000 and T2000 chips today, targeting mass-market robotics and edge AI deployment. For robotics companies weighing custom silicon against off-the-shelf platforms, the calculation now includes a set of Thor-architecture modules built for the cost and power constraints that come with running foundation models outside a data
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Microsoft is the biggest seller of cybersecurity software on the planet. Now it is tearing that business up and rebuilding it around AI. The overhaul means more AI security tools, fewer traditional products, and merged engineering teams. It has already cost several hundred jobs, The Information reported. The driver is
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TL;DR Apple plans to release an OLED iPad mini with an A19 Pro chip by October, its biggest update to the tablet in half a decade. Apple is preparing the biggest overhaul of its iPad mini in half a decade, with plans to release a version featuring an OLED
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The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, it told Fortune in an exclusive. That takes its total
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* Researcher “Chaotic Eclipse” releases new Windows 11 zero‑day dubbed LegacyHive, a local privilege escalation bug targeting user registry hives * Exploit could let attackers elevate low‑privileged accounts, but requires prior device access; no CVE or full PoC was published * Experts caution that skilled actors could weaponize it quickly, urging
