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The weirdest tech at CES 2025

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EU races to conclude investigation into X’s content moderation efforts

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Google Home hubs can now work locally thanks to Matter

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Sources: Movement Labs, which is building a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain, is set to raise a $100M Series B at a ~$3B valuation, after raising $38M in April 2024 (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind is a nostalgic letdown

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AMD invests $20M in drug-discovery company Absci, which will move toward greater use of AMD's GPUs; Absci uses 470+ AI chips, most of which are Nvidia's GPUs (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

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How meditation deconstructs your mind

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Samsung is rolling out a smartphone subscription next month

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Meta says it will launch a test in Germany, France, and the US to post eBay listings on Facebook Marketplace, after the EU fined it €798M for abusing dominance (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

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In a first, an EU court fines the EC €400 for breaching its own data protection rules by transferring a citizen's data to the US via "Sign in with Facebook" (Reuters)

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Major quantum computing stocks, up 300%+ in the past year, fell on January 7 after Jensen Huang said "very useful" quantum computers are likely decades away (Jeran Wittenstein/Bloomberg)

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9 predictions for Trump’s second term

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Looking for a new job? How about becoming an EV teledriver?

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Whatnot, which lets users sell comics and other items through live videos, raised a $265M Series E at a $4.97B valuation, and says its annual GMV passed $3B (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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Why everyone has a gnarly stomach bug right now, explained in one chart

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The danger of Meta’s big fact-checking changes

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I found the first Matter smart fridge

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Magnitt: VC funding in the Middle East fell 29% YoY to $1.5B in 2024, with Saudi Arabia accounting for $750M, down 44% YoY, while the UAE saw $613M, down 8% YoY (Fahad Abuljadayel/Bloomberg)

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Indonesia says Apple still can't sell its iPhone 16 in the country, despite a deal to build a local production facility, as it hasn't met domestic content rules (Bernadette Christina/Reuters)

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T-Mobile is once again being sued over its 2021 data breach

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