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Consumer Cellular Introduces SpeakEasy Phone Plans for Seniors 75 and Up

Mobile phone use among older Americans continues to grow. According to Pew Research's Mobile Fact Sheet published in November 2025, 95% of US adults age 65 and older own a cellphone, and 78% own a smartphone. Yet for many people age 75 and up, complicated devices and service

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You Can Preorder Slate Auto's $25K Electric Pickup Now

Full production of the customizable truck isn't expected to ramp up until 2027. Slate Auto's much-discussed sub-$25K electric truck is one step closer to reality. It's now available for preorder on the company's website. However, it could still be a year

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NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips

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TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved over $3.84B in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx since 2019

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Nothing Phone 4b Design Unveiled Globally Ahead of India Debut with Fresh Blue Aesthetic and Sleek Glyph Bar

London-based consumer tech startup Nothing has officially pulled back the curtain on the design of its upcoming smartphone, the Nothing Phone 4b. Anticipated to be the latest cost-conscious addition to the evolving Phone 4 family—which currently includes the Phone 4a and Phone 4a Pro—the upcoming handset expands the

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Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end

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A question of sovereignty - debating what it means to keep control in the AI age

Sovereignty has been on many business and technology leaders’ minds over the past couple of years, particularly in Europe. For example, it was the surprisingly frank subtext of the recent SUSECon summit in Prague. As one of my reports from the open-source vendor’s April event noted: Digital sovereignty is

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Gartner predicts AI coding costs will surpass average developer salaries by 2028

According to Gartner, the rapid adoption of AI coding agents is set to significantly increase software development costs, with AI coding expenses expected to surpass the average developer’s salary by 2028. The primary driver is the surge in large language model (LLM) token consumption, coupled with the industry’s

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OpenAI's Free GPT-5.5 Model Makes ChatGPT Better At Understanding Context

GPT-5.5 Instant is now more capable at processing complex questions. Alexsl/Getty Images OpenAI has updated GPT-5.5 Instant, the model you interact with the most when you use ChatGPT, to be better at understanding context and adapting to queries as you alter them to add more conditions or

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CM Yogi’s Growth Dialogue with Google: Roadmap for a Viksit Uttar Pradesh through AI, Investment and Innovation

In a step towards connecting the vision of a Viksit Uttar Pradesh with the global technology and investment ecosystem, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held an important meeting with Google Cloud Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Tarun Pant and his team during his Bengaluru visit. In this interaction, held before the roundtable

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New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a $50M Series B led by DST at a $500M valuation, as it enters the US

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The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China

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