Spotify is hiking prices again
Jess Weatherbed / theverge - The price of Spotify Premium is about to jump again in the US, marking its third price hike since 2023. Spotify announced that subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia will be contacted about the updated pricing over the coming month. Individual Premium…
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A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know.
Brian X. Chen / nytimes - Google’s A.I. assistant, Gemini, can create a to-do list based on recent emails, among other new tricks. There are implications for your privacy.
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London’s Cyb3r Operations raises €4.6 million led by Octopus Ventures to tackle third-party cyber risk
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - London-based cybersecurity startup Cyb3r Operations has today announced that it has raised €4.6 million ($5.4 million) to help organisations tackle third-party cyber risk. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with follow-on investment from Pi Labs. With…
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TSMC fourth-quarter profit beats estimates, soaring 35%, as AI chip demand stays strong
cnbc - TSMCy delivered another estimate-beating quarter, with profit up 35% from a year ago as advanced chip orders tied to AI continued to dominate its business.
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Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Mira Murati ousted CTO Barret Zoph for "unethical conduct." Hours later, OpenAI welcomed him back along with two other researchers. The competing narratives can't both be true.
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Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public
BeauHD / slashdot - Digg is officially back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. "Similar to Reddit, the new Digg offers a website and mobile app where you can browse feeds featuring posts from across a selecti…
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Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls
Lily Hay Newman / wired - A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted.
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Competitor, Investor Response: Rival jabs and stock resilience
Customer Compensation: Apologies, credits, and restoration promises
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Tesla to stop selling FSD as a standalone package and switch to subscription only
Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - As its sales continue to slip and its robotaxi strategy seems to falter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said today that the company would stop selling its Full Self-Driving feature as a standalone package. Instead, starting on February 14th, the Level 2 driver-assis…
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Spot Ship Raises £1M To Modernise Ship Chartering
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Spot Ship, a SaaS platform modernising global ship chartering, has raised £1 million in a funding round led by Ventures.eu, marking the Lisbon-based VC’s first investment from Fund I. The round also included Improbable CEO Herman Narula, Tradeworks.vc, Ma…
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Mannheim’s osapiens Raises €85.8M Funding In Series C Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Mannheim-based osapiens, a provider of enterprise software for sustainable growth, has secured an €85.8 million ($100 million) Series C funding round led by Decarbonization Partners, a joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek. With this round, osapiens…
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Ceramic Shield 2 on the iPhone 17: Apple’s New Ad and the Reality of Gravity
IDrop News Staff / idropnews - Apple’s new "Relax, it’s iPhone 17" ad puts Ceramic Shield 2 to the test. We break down the science of the slide and see how the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air fared in Allstate's drop tests.Read More...
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Wine 11.0 released with performance gains and WoW64 completion
techspot - Wine 11, the latest release of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux, introduces NTSYNC support and completes the new WoW64 architecture, delivering notable performance and compatibility improvements across Vulkan, Direct3D, and system integration.Rea…
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Apple bundles creative apps such as Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro into a single subscription
Kris Holt / engadget - Apple has been putting more onus on its services for the past several years — the company makes tens of billions of dollars in revenue from that side of the business, which it claimed had a record year in 2025. Apple is nudging a little more in that direc…
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Apple Creator Studio launch overview
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Pixelmator Pro iPad transition highlights
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Quantum software startup Haiqu raises $11M to launch hardware-aware operating system
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Quantum software startup Haiqu Inc. announced today that it has raised $11 million in new funding to accelerate the launch of its operating system for quantum applications, which will include a hardware-aware quantum software stack for running near-term a…
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Real-time voice AI unicorn Deepgram raises $130M to streamline human-to-machine interactions
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Real-time voice artificial intelligence startup Deepgram Inc. has reasons to think the new year could be a good one after raising $130 million in funding at a $1.3 billion valuation. It also unveiled its latest acquisition, buying an AI-native voice start…
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Anthropic’s Cowork brings developer-grade AI agents to non-coders
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Anthropic expanded its agentic AI lineup with the debut of Cowork, a tool designed to bring the sophisticated capabilities of Claude Code to a much broader, less technical audience. Integrated directly into the Claude Desktop app, Cowork serves as a more …
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Touchwaves Raises €1.5M For Next-Generation Wearable Technology
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Touchwaves, a Dutch deeptech startup and spin-off from TNO, has raised €1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round. The round was led by SecFund, which supports startups and scale-ups addressing innovation needs of the Dutch Ministry of Defence, in collabora…
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SK Hynix to invest $13 billion in new plant amid memory chip shortage
cnbc - South Korea's SK Hynix will invest 19 trillion Korean won into a new advanced packaging plant, as the company attempts to meet growing memory demands.
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Ex-Google execs’ Ahead Health raises $6M to catch cancer, heart disease years early with AI
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Diseases are often caught late, data is scattered across systems, and advanced diagnostics remain expensive and hard to…
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NetBird announces $10M Series A to expand open source VPN alternative
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - NetBird,an open-source network security platform built on product-led adoption, hasclosed a $10 million Series A round led by Pace Capital, with participationfrom Nauta Capital, InReach Ventures, and ...
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