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Solar power may seem like the perfect source of energy. Once you’ve got a solar panel, you can get all the energy it is capable of producing for free — at least as long as the sun is shining. But in reality, there’s more to it than that. The
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Reflection AI has locked in more computing power. The US startup signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based cloud provider, according to Bloomberg. The agreement runs through 2029. It gives Reflection access to Nvidia’s newest GB300 chips. Nebius confirmed the deal. Its shares
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China’s biggest memory chipmaker is about to test the public markets. ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, has priced its Shanghai IPO at 8.66 yuan ($1.28) a share, the South China Morning Post reported. The sale will raise about 57.9 billion yuan, or $8.5bn. That
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TL;DR South Korea opened bidding for a free, unlimited AI chatbot for all citizens. At least 50% must use domestic models. Beta in September, full launch by year-end. South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service
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TL;DR OnePlus is exiting the US and Europe as early as this week. Realme exits China. OnePlus will shut down globally by 2027. The memory shortage killed its budget lineup. OnePlus, the Android brand that built a cult following with aggressively priced smartphones, will begin to cease operations in
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Chai Discovery’s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery just minted another fast-rising star. Chai Discovery has raised a $400m Series C that values the San Francisco
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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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Netflix just can’t let Stranger Things go. Since the final episode aired on New Year’s Eve there’s been a behind-the-scenes documentary, an animated series that expands the story, and now, on the 10th anniversary of the show’s original release, Netflix has released a new version of
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Céline Dion is scheduled for 16 Paris concerts in 2026, from September 12 to October 17. Including the 10 additional shows announced for May 2027, the total is 26 concerts. This makes it a lucrative target for scammers. Fans searching Facebook for tickets to Céline Dion’s 2026 Paris concerts
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Sony has delayed the release of its FlexStrike wireless fight stick for PlayStation 5 and PC, moving it from the original August 6 date without providing a new timeline. The company says it's facing "unexpected production delays," though it hasn't said which part of
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Mere moments after Argentina lost to France in a Round of 16 match during the 2018 World Cup in Russia, commentators were already predicting it would be his final time on a World Cup pitch. “This was Lionel Messi’s final World Cup match, surely,” one stated, “and maybe his
