Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz

scmp - Alibaba Group Holding has joined rivals including Tencent Holdings and Baidu in rolling out Spring Festival red-packet giveaways to drive mass-market adoption of its artificial intelligence, committing 3 billion yuan (US$432 million) to spur spending acro…

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Constructor Capital closes $110M Fund I for science-first founders

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Constructor Capital, the Swiss venture arm of theConstructor Group ecosystem, has closed its first fund at $110 million toinvest in seed and Series A startups across deeptech, software, and edtech.The...

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TikTok outage is resolved now

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - TikTok said on Sunday it has restored service following a week of technical outages caused by a winter storm at an Oracle-operated data center. The disruptions impacted core features for TikTok’s 220 million U.S. users and occurred as the platform finaliz…

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Jupiter brings Polymarket to Solana and lands $35 million investment deal

Shaurya Malwa / coindesk - Jupiter said Polymarket will be integrated on its platform, while ParaFi Capital has made a $35 million strategic investment in JUP with an extended lockup.

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Is AI Really To Blame For All The Tech Layoffs?

bgr - Tech layoffs have been hitting the news since the pandemic ended and AI has been projected as a major reason. However, here's the actual truth.

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Oracle unveils $50B fundraising plan to fuel AI data center ambitions

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Oracle Corp. has given investors another reason to be nervous after revealing a plan today to raise between $45 billion and $50 billion this year, in order to fund the buildout of more data center capacity for artificial intelligence workloads. The cloud …

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Apple Watch Series 11 Drops Back to All-Time Low of $299 [Deal]

iclarified - The Apple Watch Series 11 has dropped back down to its all-time low price of $299 today. That is a huge $100 discount off the regular retail price of $399, matching a discount we saw during the holiday season.Continue ReadingShare Article:Facebook, Twitte…

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Apple Changes How You Order a Mac

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple recently updated its online store with a new ordering process for Macs, including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro.There used to be a handful of standard configurations available for each Mac, but now you must co…

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Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold Phone quickly sells out online despite near $3,000 pricetag

mashable - Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold Phone quickly sells out online despite near $3,000 pricetag

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MAINGEAR Retro98 PC tower is a blast from the past with RTX 5000 series power

digitaltrends - MAINGEAR’s Retro98 wraps modern RTX 50 power in a beige, late-90s tower, complete with a working turbo button. Prices start at $2,499, and only 38 units are planned.The post MAINGEAR Retro98 PC tower is a blast from the past with RTX 5000 series power app…

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Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon

Kenneth Chang / nytimes - The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts.

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: The Galaxy S26 lineup and everything else we expect

Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - Samsung’s 2025 was filled with new foldables, an ultra-thin new form factor and the launch of Google's XR platform. After making some announcements at CES 2026, the company is expected to host its first Galaxy Unpacked of the year in February to introduce…

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Apple to Delay Standard iPhone 18 to 2027, Prioritizing Foldable and Pro Models [Report]

iclarified - The case for a split iPhone release schedule just got stronger. Nikkei Asia has corroborated earlier claims that Apple plans to push the standard iPhone 18 back to early 2027, clearing the runway for a premium-focused launch in the second half of this yea…

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'Encrypt it already' campaign challenges big tech to keep your data secure

appleinsider - The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new advocacy initiative directly targeting Apple, Google, and other tech giants to demand broader adoption of data encryption and more transparent privacy controls.Encrypt it AlreadyThe campaign is known a…

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Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data

BeauHD / slashdot - Comcast's attempt to slow broadband customer losses still isn't stopping the bleeding as fiber and fixed wireless competition intensifies. In Q4 2025 alone, Comcast lost 181,000 broadband subscribers, even as it leans harder into wireless bundling and oth…

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Apple Concedes It Entered The New Year With “Depleted Inventories” And “Less Flexibility” As Memory And Advanced Node Supply Constraints Begin To Bite

Rohail Saleem / wccftech - Apple is beginning to feel the pinch from the oncoming constraints around memory products and TSMC's choked advanced node supply lines, albeit in a managed fashion. This is the biggest takeaway from Apple's just-concluded Q1 2026 earnings call. Apple is f…

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What’s Actually New in the ‘AirTag 2’?

Jesse Hollington / idropnews - Apple's 2026 "AirTag 2" is here. We dive into the teardown, new Precision Finding range, louder speaker, and why the original model might still be a better deal.Read More...

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