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In Brief 7:32 AM PDT · September 16, 2026 Amazon is raising the minimum starting pay for its U.S. core operations workers — like delivery drivers and fulfillment center employees — to $20 per hour and its average hourly pay to nearly $24 per hour. The company notes the higher pay
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Razer just pulled the cover off the new mouthful-of-a-name Kraken V4 X Sensa HD Haptics, a wired gaming headset that, as the name suggests, adds some tactile immersion to the gaming experience. The highlight of the latest in the Kraken V4 lineup has got to be Razer's Sensa
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Veridion has raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the world’s businesses to risk, insurance, procurement and market intelligence buyers. Its own boilerplate
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Half the fun of being really invested in a TV show is writing your own stories for your favourite characters. If you're a fan of Reacher on Prime Video, there's a chance that you've imagined the titular hero (played by Alan Ritchson) ending up
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A great pitch doesn’t win Startup Battlefield 200. A great company does. That’s why the VCs sitting in the judges’ seats matter so much. They aren’t looking for polished presentations or clever demos — they’re looking for founders solving real problems with businesses that can endure. Every
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Ursula von der Leyen, the current President of the European Commission, delivered the State of the European Union 2026 speech on September 16, 2026, at 9:00 am CEST. It was naturally heavy on European political theory (center left freedom protected by strength), the economy (need for energy independence, reducing
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* Max vs 100: Today (Wed, Sep. 16) at 6pm BST / 1pm ET / 3am AEST (Thu) * Streams: Disney+ (worldwide) / ESPN (US) * Unlock your stream with NordVPN (try 100% risk free) Max Verstappen has achieved some pretty extraordinary things on a racetrack, but the challenge facing him at Silverstone is unlike any
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Next month, Ring is rolling out a new feature called Neighbours — a type of social platform that will let you share local information such as suspicious activity or lost items, with a customisable radius of about five miles. Neighbours launched in the US in 2018, but this is the first
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: SK Hynix could be expanding its US manufacturing plans beyond chip packaging. Reports say the company is in talks with Intel about producing memory chips on American soil for the first
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If you’re looking for opportunities to demo your breakthrough to VCs and build a powerful lead-gen, then this Friday, September 18 at 11:59 p.m. PT, is your last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. On October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco,
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Sony continues to expand its PlayStation audio lineup with the unveiling of two new PS5 wireless headsets, the PlayStation Pulse and the PlayStation Pulse Edge, both of which promises upgrades in sound quality, comfort, and AI noise rejection. With the previous generation Pulse Elite laying the groundwork, the new accessories
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Running Linux normally requires more resources than you get with a typical microcontroller. Even inexpensive single-board computers intended for Linux generally have at least hundreds of megabytes of RAM and processors designed with operating systems in mind. An ESP32-S3, on the other hand, is a dual-core microcontroller that might have
