Sonic The Hedgehog 4 will arrive on March 19, 2027

Sonic The Hedgehog 4 will arrive on March 19, 2027

We finally know when Sonic will grace movie theaters again: Paramount has announced Sonic The Hedgehog 4 will arrive on March 19, 2027, Variety ...

Doti gives enterprises a flexible AI-powered search experience to unlock their data silos

As enterprises look at how they can best leverage AI to increase their employees’ productivity, search is an obvious use case. In most companies, after all, data lives in multiple disconnected silos and the combination of large language models, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and enterprise-grade integration services now makes it ...

Lindus Health raises $55M to ‘fix the broken clinical trial industry’

A four-year-old London startup backed by Peter Thiel has raised a $55 million Series B round as it sets about “fixing the broken clinical trial industry.” The announcement comes as artificial intelligence is shaping up to revolutionize drug discovery and development, in turn spurring demand for a streamlined clinical trial process ...

Google hit with $12.6M fine in Indonesia for monopolistic practices in payment system

Indonesia’s antitrust agency KPPU fined Google 202.5 billion Rupiahs, equivalent to $12.6 million, on Wednesday for antitrust violation related to its payment system services for the Google Play Store. The KPPU ordered the search giant to cease the mandatory use of Google Play Billing in the Google Play Store. It also asked Google to let ...
The best streaming devices for 2025

The best streaming devices for 2025

Nearly every TV on the market today is a smart TV, but not every operating system is a winner. A media streaming device lets you pair whichever ...

Truecaller brings real-time caller ID to iPhone users

Truecaller for iOS has been updated with live caller ID support for its premium iPhone users.

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Donald Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

Donald Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

President Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road who was sentenced to life in prison after being found ...

Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg sanctioned by judge for allegedly deleting emails

A Delaware judge has sanctioned Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s former COO and board member, for allegedly deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. The decision arises from a case Meta shareholders brought against Sandberg and another former Meta board member, Jeff Zients, late last year. The plaintiffs alleged that ...

Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider

Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer. As part of Stargate, the company’s massive new infrastructure deal with SoftBank, Oracle, and others, Microsoft says that it has signed a new agreement with OpenAI that gives it “first right of refusal” ...
Report: Meta could release its first true AR headset as soon as 2027

Report: Meta could release its first true AR headset as soon as 2027

Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has released a report about Meta's next steps in hardware, crediting sources familiar with the company's work. According ...

Sales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memes

When George Avetisov was the founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup HYPR, he spent a lot of time in the trenches with the company’s sales team. He quickly realized that regardless of how good his sales team was, they were consistently pulling in other departments to answer customer questions or fill out technical questionnaires. ...
Berkeley SkyDeck teams with Mayfield to support AI-focused student entrepreneurs

Berkeley SkyDeck teams with Mayfield to support AI-focused student entrepreneurs

Berkeley SkyDeck, the global hub for entrepreneurship and accelerator, along with UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and ...
TikTokers offered $5000 to join Facebook and Instagram

TikTokers offered $5000 to join Facebook and Instagram

Meta's attempt to lure creators to its platforms comes as questions remain over the future of its main rival in the US.

Hindustan Unilever acquires Peak XV-backed Minimalist for over $340M

Hindustan Unilever has agreed to acquire beauty startup Minimalist for about $342 million, marking its latest push to expand in India’s fast-growing premium skincare market. The consumer goods giant will initially acquire a 90.5% stake in the four-year-old direct-to-consumer brand through secondary buyouts and primary investment, with the ...

Indian fintech Jar turns cash flow positive

Indian fintech Jar has turned cash flow positive, an executive at the Tiger Global-backed startup confirmed on Wednesday, as it gears up to deepen its offerings. The three-year-old startup, which offers its users the ability to start their savings and investment journey, achieved the milestone while still growing by more than 10 times last ...
US tech giants announce AI plan worth up to $500bn

US tech giants announce AI plan worth up to $500bn

OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank join forces to build artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Netflix to raise prices as new subscribers soar

Netflix to raise prices as new subscribers soar

Squid Game and live sports, including the Jake Paul v Mike Tyson fight, fuelled new memberships.
Netflix plans now cost between $8 and $25 after yet another subscription price hike

Netflix plans now cost between $8 and $25 after yet another subscription price hike

Netflix has released its earnings figures for the fourth quarter of 2024. While a lot of the results seem like good news for the company's ...
Funding for gaming startups dropped off in Q4 2024 | Konvoy

Funding for gaming startups dropped off in Q4 2024 | Konvoy

Konvoy's latest report shows that funding for gaming-related startups was curiously low in Q4 2024, as were VC deals.
New Netflix price hikes increase subscription fees by up to $2.50 a month

New Netflix price hikes increase subscription fees by up to $2.50 a month

The cheapest ad-free plan increases from $15.49 to $17.99.
Eleven percent of game developers were laid off in 2024, according to GDC survey

Eleven percent of game developers were laid off in 2024, according to GDC survey

It's a challenging time to be a developer these days, according to GDC's 2025 State of the Game Industry report that surveyed over 3,000 ...
OpenAI and Softbank team up for a $500 billion AI data center venture

OpenAI and Softbank team up for a $500 billion AI data center venture

OpenAI will build and open AI infrastructure worth $500 billion in the United States over the next four years in partnership with SoftBank. The ...
Transit app Moovit adds ticket-purchasing functionality throughout Europe

Transit app Moovit adds ticket-purchasing functionality throughout Europe

Transit app Moovit has partnered with the travel marketplace Distribusion Technologies to let users plan and book long-distance trips throughout ...

UK appoints ex-Amazon executive Doug Gurr as interim chair of antitrust body

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new interim chairman: former Amazon executive Doug Gurr (pictured above). The announcement comes as the U.K. seeks to position itself as a pro-growth, pro-tech nation by cutting red-tape and bureaucracy, with artificial intelligence (AI) taking center stage. The country is also ...

Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platform

London startup Vertice has made a name for itself over the years in the very crowded world of expense management with a focus on applying AI to optimize a single area where businesses, collectively, are currently sinking hundreds of billions of dollars in IT budgets that are exceeding $5 trillion annually: software and cloud spend. ...

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous dark web exchange Silk Road, which was best known as a once-thriving online marketplace for illegal drugs. Trump announced the news in a Truth Social post, saying the pardon was in honor of Ulbricht’s mother and the Libertarian movement. In 2015, a federal ...

Mr Beast is reportedly now among those trying to buy TikTok

An unlikely group, including Mr Beast and Bench acquirer Employer.com, has submitted a bid to buy TikTok.

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Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well

Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well

Security measure? Boxing out third-party tools? Or something more complex?
Perplexity launches Sonar API, taking aim at Google and OpenAI with real-time AI search

Perplexity launches Sonar API, taking aim at Google and OpenAI with real-time AI search

Perplexity's Sonar is a real-time AI search API challenging Google and OpenAI with disruptive pricing and superior performance.

Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AI

Scale AI's CEO Alexandr Wang has five recommendations for President Trump to keep the US ahead of China on AI.

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