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In Brief 12:39 PM PDT · July 31, 2026 Index Ventures has raised $2 billion in fresh capital across three funds, the firm announced on Friday. The 30-year-old firm raised $400 million for its new seed-focused fund and $900 million for its venture fund. Index also added $700 million to
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8.0 Pros & Cons * High-quality music streaming * Hi-res and spatial included * Impressive music catalog * Not great for non-Apple users * Spatial music is hardly essential * Competitors offer a lot more features When music streaming services first appeared, the need to buy songs or albums from services like iTunes evaporated. Yet,
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Editors’ note, July 31:On July 27, the Federal Communications Commission issued an update clarifying how its national security restrictions on equipment from foreign companies would apply to robots. The FCC confirmed to CNET that it applies not just to humanoid robots but also to household devices like robot vacuums,
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Crossing a border to learn has always required passing through a gate, and the gate has always changed shape rather than disappeared. Once it was a letter of introduction and a great deal of luck. Today it is an application portal, a visa interview, a credibility check, an agent’s
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Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging’s Henk van Ess, for example, intentionally generated images adding things
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* Ukraine's MUL.E combines battlefield transport with portable electrical power for frontline units * The electric motorcycle crosses anti-vehicle minefields without triggering many buried explosives * A detachable generator keeps drones and communications equipment powered during extended frontline operations Ukraine's Defense Ministry has codified the MUL.E, its
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It got a bit buried in all the other announcements, but back at Computex in May, AMD announced EXPO Ultra Low Latency (EXPO ULL), a new classification of memory kits that not only run high transfer rates but also exceptionally low sub-timings. This offers outsized improvements in performance, especially 1%
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When Sony announced that it would no longer be producing physical PlayStation discs from 2028, the response was not positive, to put it lightly. Yes, PC gaming may now be almost entirely digital, and things have certainly been moving in a similar direction with consoles over the last few years,
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A new report from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School has mapped out the ways Silicon Valley’s VC-backed founders commit fraud — and the role investors play. For the report, published online in June, researchers built a database of tech founders and companies who
