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Lexus’ December To Remember Ad Campaign Just Turned 25, So Why Has Nobody Gifted Me A New Car Yet?

Lexus’ December To Remember Ad Campaign Just Turne...

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What Was Your Worst DMV Experience?

What Was Your Worst DMV Experience?

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International Space Station Is Leaking Over 3 Pounds Of Air Per Day And No One Can Agree On Why

International Space Station Is Leaking Over 3 Poun...

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Traffic Deaths A ‘Public Health Crisis’ As 19,000 People Killed On U.S. Roads So Far This Year

Traffic Deaths A ‘Public Health Crisis’ As 19,000 ...

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Traffic Jams: Kasey Chambers - 'Silverado Girl'

Traffic Jams: Kasey Chambers - 'Silverado Girl'

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Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source ent...

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Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: identical to the Watch 7 with similar health features, but has the guts of a three-year-old Watch 4, poor battery, and one size (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: identical to the W...

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At $16,800, Would You Make A Beeline For This 2011 BMW Alpina B7?

At $16,800, Would You Make A Beeline For This 2011...

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Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes Online)

Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera rai...

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How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of co...

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As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing AI training returns, a break from the market hype could be useful, just as with previous innovations (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see di...

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Google tightens its rules against "parasite SEO" content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on "reputation abuse" (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Google tightens its rules against "parasite SEO" c...

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SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push (Bloomberg)

SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a S...

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Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the absence of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for an IPO (Richard Milne/Financial Times)

Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Eu...

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ProRata, which is launching an AI search engine next month, inks licensing deals with DMG Media and more; sources say DMG bought a stake that values it at $130M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

ProRata, which is launching an AI search engine ne...

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An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany (Wired)

An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates...

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How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks (Financial Times)

How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision...

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How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI...

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AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI regulation to protect the public (Yoshua Bengio/Financial Times)

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's...

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TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply (Nikkei Asia)

TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate r...

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Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds aerial surveillance drones that can serve as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised €70M (Bloomberg)

Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds aerial surveill...

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The head of the axed £800M UK supercomputer project warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the global top 50, risks falling behind rivals (Anna Gross/Financial Times)

The head of the axed £800M UK supercomputer ...

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The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia as Bhutan's BTC holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, increased trading activity in South Korea, and more (Bloomberg)

The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asi...

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A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

A US Government Accountability Office report says ...

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Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb: Truth Social site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggli...

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SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tunin...

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Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-party apps from showing a user's Strava data to other users or using the data in AI models or similar apps (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)

Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-par...

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Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves "partial" data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool ...

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Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to provide internet in Brazil in 2026; SpaceSail launched its first 36 satellites in August and September (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg)

Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans t...

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Roboflow, which provides open source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Roboflow, which provides open source tools for dev...

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Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes managemen...

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Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule vs. the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving manufacturers more time (Mishaal Rahman/Android Police)

Google ships the first Android 16 developer previe...

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Source: Databricks has told investors it is looking to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold restricted stock units (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Source: Databricks has told investors it is lookin...

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Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation P...

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Coinbase says it will delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Coinbase says it will delist wBTC next month, as J...

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Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in ...

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Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses...

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A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems (Reuters)

A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-Chi...

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This Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet With A Working Top Might Be The Rarest Convertible In The World

This Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet With A Working T...

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Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as his Commerce Secretary (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgera...

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After a report that Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2% (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

After a report that Trump's "Department of Governm...

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Life Is Beautiful: Alpine Will Run An All-Pink Livery Again

Life Is Beautiful: Alpine Will Run An All-Pink Liv...

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Google ships the first developer preview of Android 16, far ahead of schedule vs. the past few years, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving partners more time (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google ships the first developer preview of Androi...

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Source: Microsoft reaches a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train AI models; HarperCollins says authors can opt out (Bloomberg)

Source: Microsoft reaches a deal with News Corp's ...

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Lamborghini Huracan Stolen By Hackers Rerouting Delivery Truck

Lamborghini Huracan Stolen By Hackers Rerouting De...

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2025 Mini Cooper Convertible Is Still An Exuberant Droptop That’s Unapologetic About Prioritizing Fun

2025 Mini Cooper Convertible Is Still An Exuberant...

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Watch The Real Roadkill Story According To David Freiburger

Watch The Real Roadkill Story According To David F...

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Google rolls out a "memory" feature for Gemini Advanced subscribers for the web app that remembers a user's interests and preferences (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Google rolls out a "memory" feature for Gemini Adv...

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This Brand New Viper Crate Engine Promises To Fulf...

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Meta is forming a new product group to build AI tools for businesses, led by Clara Shih, most recently the CEO of Salesforce AI (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Meta is forming a new product group to build AI to...

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