for: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Stacy Elliott / decrypt - Delaware Life breaks new ground with the insurance industry's first Bitcoin-linked annuity, offering crypto exposure with principal protection.
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digitaltrends - Page Match could let Spotify users scan a page from a physical book and instantly jump to the matching point in the audiobook, making format switching far less frustrating.The post Spotify might soon let you sync audiobooks with real books appeared first …
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techspot - Realme's P4 Power phone will be the first to feature the company's 10,001mAh Titan silicon-carbon battery. That extra 1mAh is likely a marketing ploy to put it ahead of rival Honor, which released the 10,000mAh Honor Win in China at the end of last year.R…
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Oscar Hornstein / uktech - The UK government-owned British Business Bank is set to make its largest-ever direct investment, £25m into the Octopus Energy spinout Kraken Technologies. Kraken was formed from within Octopus, one of the UK’s largest energy providers, as the AI technolog…
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