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San Francisco, United States, August 19th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--HireQuotient, which recently announced its strategic partnership with Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY), delivers another strong return on investment (ROI) for a PE-owned North American media and retail giant. Chief People Officer of the organization, Ann Jadown shared her amazement at closing 15 critical
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Travis Kalanick certainly has had a love-hate relationship with VCs over his career. As the founder of Uber he was a VC darling, raising what was then an unprecedented roughly $15 billion in venture funding during his tenure. Then, a boardroom battle with key investor Bill Gurley of venture firm
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition as it works to catch up to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI race, Bloomberg reported Wedesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Cognition CEO Scott Wu disputed the report soon after it published, writing on X that
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Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is also giving eligible college students a free year of its paid AI plan. The company set out the changes in a back-to-school post on Wednesday. The headline offer is the
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* Rakuten is helping Helsing navigate Japan's complicated military procurement system * Helsing's HX-2 strike drone is already undergoing trials with Japan's military * Japan's expanding defence budget is attracting overseas military technology companies Rakuten has revealed it is now working with German defense AI
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J Studios/Getty Images August 19, 2026 05:19 PM ET New U.S. Census Bureau data shows that AI is quickly becoming a routine workplace tool, while government leaders are finding that training, guardrails and employee-led experimentation can help turn everyday use into meaningful adoption. * Artificial Intelligence * Census Most
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One thing I admire about Gen Z is their appreciation for single-purpose, dedicated devices. Digicams are a great example and I frequently see young people shooting with them out in the wild. MP3 players are another obvious choice. If you agree, then you’ll want to check out this video
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* Free Blockbuster uses repurposed newspaper dispensers to create free movie libraries * Bingebrowse replicates old-school video stores for your streaming subscriptions * There's only one actual Blockbuster still operating We've got good news for fans of the long-gone Blockbuster video stores: they're back! Back! BACK! Well,
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Great headphones don't need to cost the earth. If you're heading back to school and in need of a budget-friendly pair of cans or earbuds to help you block out distractions while you study, I'm here to help. At TechRadar, we review dozens of
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Samsung made it official at Unpacked a few weeks ago — the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Fold 8 Ultra are both available now. The Fold 8 arrives with a notably compact, passport-sized 4:3 ratio, while the Fold 8 Ultra keeps the familiar design from the Galaxy Z Fold 7
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Fanatics Betting and Gaming (FBG) built a multi-agent customer support system on AWS to solve a challenge unique to sports betting. Customers expect instant, accurate answers, especially during live events when every minute counts. Customers ask about account issues, deposit limits, state-specific regulations, and responsible gaming resources. The rules vary
