Samsung’s folding phone family has a new middle child with a fresh form factor, but which of its eighth-gen foldables is right for you?
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Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.
Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing and more — today's techie signal.
Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind.
A recent study suggests that not getting enough sleep increases the risk of weight gain, and thus of conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines.
Organizers want the show to be the most-viewed halftime show in history. Having Shakira, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, and BTS will surely help—but do soccer fans want it?
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out and more — today's techie signal.
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
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JSON →a16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC have invested in Cascade's $3.5 million seed round.
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
Samsung’s folding phone family has a new middle child with a fresh form factor, but which of its eighth-gen foldables is right for you?
People spend hours watching videos on their smartphones. The wider, shorter, and lighter Galaxy Z Fold8 caters to exactly that.
Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.
WhatsApp on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will let users hear and reply to messages, make calls, view their call history, and access favorite contacts hands-free and right from their car's screen.
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The fitness trackers I’d recommend to beginners, athletes, and kids.
Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.
An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
It didn’t keep my coworkers at bay, but Flipper’s expensive productivity tool did help me focus on the task at hand.
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