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There was a week, I cannot tell you exactly when it happened, when I was technically everywhere. Responding within minutes. Never missing a message. Always available. And yet, two people I genuinely care about told me, in different ways and at different moments, that something felt off. One was a
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The last wave of AI learned to describe the world. The next needs to learn how the world pushes back. A Cambridge startup thinks the answer hides inside video games. Worldmodeldata has raised £7m (€8m) to turn gameplay into AI training data, Tech Funding News reported. London’s Iona Star
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Denmark has taken a side in one of the quieter but more consequential legal battles over how the internet pays for journalism. The Danish government has filed a written intervention at the Court of Justice of the European Union, backing Belgium in a case brought by a group of technology
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Meta has sold millions of camera-equipped smart glasses, and landed in a privacy storm for it. A Shenzhen startup is betting $1bn that the smarter move is to leave the camera off. Even Realities has raised $150m at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported. Chinese giants Meituan and Tencent led
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Five months ago, Uber promised to storm five new European countries with its food-delivery app. It just quietly hit the brakes, and the reason looks a lot like a €10bn takeover. Uber has paused five of its seven planned 2026 European launches, the Financial Times reported. Uber announced the push
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Broadcom has extended its long-running relationship with Apple through 2031, signing new multi-year agreements to design and supply a range of custom chips for the iPhone maker. The deal deepens one of the most important supplier relationships in consumer electronics, and it sent Broadcom’s shares up around 4% as
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Microsoft told its Xbox staff the truth in blunt terms: the business “is not healthy.” The fix? 3,200 job cuts, five studios out the door, two of them European. Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma laid it out in an official memo on Monday. She called it the most significant
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People increasingly ask ChatGPT instead of Google. So marketers now plant fake opinions on Reddit, hoping the chatbots repeat them. Reddit is fighting back with AI of its own. Reddit has a new spam problem, and a strange one. Brands seed the platform with stealth marketing, Bloomberg reports. They plant
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Klarna wants to be a real American bank. The Swedish BNPL giant has applied for a US banking licence, betting a friendlier Washington will let it crack a market that has bruised European rivals. Klarna has applied to US regulators to set up its own bank, tech.eu reports. The
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* AdGuard VPN is available to download directly from the Microsoft Store * This isn't a new version, just an easier way to install and manage the app * The standalone installer on AdGuard's website remains available Finding and setting up AdGuard VPN on Windows just became a little
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Chevrolet's 2027 entry level Corvette Stingray can crack the mythical 200 mph barrier for an entry-price of just under $75,000. Think about that for a second. What is this world (of supercars) coming to? GM has basically further democratized the performance tier historically gated behind six-figure price
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Fans of the Flipper Zero have spent the past few weeks wondering whether the beloved pocket multi-tool was quietly being put out to pasture. A stretch of perceived silence from Flipper Devices, which recently announced its Busy Bar smart desk display, fueled speculation that official firmware development had ended for
