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A number of investors are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app, and if a deal were to go through, the platform's U.S. business could have its valuation soar to upward of $60 billion.

TechCrunch obtained a sample of the stolen data, which contained names, email addresses, dates of birth, and the user's approximate geographic location. Under Armour confirmed some sensitive information was taken in the breach.

Google has hired the CEO and top top behind voice AI startup Hume AI, signaling that voice is increasingly becoming the preferred interface over screens.

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

Since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff — but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin had previously suggested that the third launch of the mega-rocket would take the space company's robotic lunar lander to the moon.

Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" has just hit an Oscars record out of the park, landing a whopping 16 Academy Award nominations.

Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.

Spotify's new Prompted Playlist feature pulls from your long-term listening data and real-time cultural signals.

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'One Battle After Another,' 'Sinners,' 'Hamnet' and more score Academy Award attention.

Apple and Google entered a multi-year collaboration for Apple Intelligence features powered by Gemini, accelerating the development of a personalized Siri.

Donald Trump gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday and Seth Meyers used his "A Closer Look" segment to reluctantly recap.

With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.

Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.

Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it.

Donald Trump repeatedly confused Greenland and Iceland at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and Stephen Colbert has thoughts.

There’s no need for an expensive retreat to practice meditation. Try it on your lunch break to recharge your mind and body.

'The Daily Show' host Josh Johnson marked Donald Trump's first year with a look at the World Economic Forum in Davos and his White House paper-tossing press conference.

Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake, and selling up to 45.9 million shares.

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Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to get over that hurdle with their generative AI-powered interactive app, Sparkli. Sparkli was […]

A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has infected more than 600 people since October, with hundreds more being potentially exposed.

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

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See the Moon phase expected for January 22, 2025 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected.

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As states check voter registration against a mashup of federal data, a new complaint says US citizens are getting kicked off state voter rolls as a result.

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The Framework Laptop 16 is buildable, repairable, and upgradeable. It's a shining jewel in a sea of tech designed to be obsolete within a few years.

This month, resolve to revive or relinquish those old music players and point-and-shoot cameras — and retrieve any files trapped on the devices.

Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.

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Common Sense Media experts share major warning about AI toys.

Charli XCX, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alexander Skarsgård, and Jenna Ortega have new movies coming your way. The Sundance 2026 films you need to know about.

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Shingo Yamashita's 'Cosmic Princess Kaguya!' presents a virtual world so dazzling and well-run you'll wish it actually existed. Review.

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Meta Ray-Ban glasses are making it easier to film strangers without consent, and some pranksters and pickup artists are harassing people in public.

What's the best MacBook to buy in 2026? Mashable's senior shopping reporter rounds up five options for school, photo editing, and more.

Alex Honnold will climb Taipei 101 skyscraper live on Netflix in 'Skyscraper Live.' Here are the streaming details.

We've vetted the best Chromebooks for 2026, comparing the Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook Plus, Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514, and more.

Answers to each clue for the January 22, 2026 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Should you get a Shark instead of a Roomba? After testing 30+ robot vacuums at home, these are the best options from Shark.

Ubisoft has cancelled the 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time' remake as part of a major company restructure.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1677 on January 22 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

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Siri, the Apple voice assistant that used to pass for state-of-the-art AI, may soon look like its grandkids. Here's why that matters.

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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

AI audio company ElevenLabs has partnered with artists like Liza Minnelli to launch the 'Eleven Album,' made in part by an AI music generator.

We're still at least a few weeks away from hearing about the next Samsung phones, but some color and pricing info just got out.

At Davos 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Blackrock CEO Larry Fink wave away AI bubble concerns.

Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.

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SGLang, which originated as an open-source research project at Ion Stoica’s UC Berkeley lab, has raised capital from Accel.

Apple is reportedly developing an AI pin to compete with OpenAI's own upcoming wearable AI device.

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From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot happened last year.

X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky's Starter Packs, will arrive in the coming weeks.

The GoCable 8-in-1 EDC 100W Cable packs fast charging, universal connectors, and smart tools into one keyring-ready gadget for $21.99.

The feature, now public, lets you create to-do's and action items by speaking naturally to the app's AI.

Siri could look more like ChatGPT than its current state as an integrated feature across Apple products.

The newly revised document offers a roadmap for what Anthropic says is a safer and more helpful chatbot experience.

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Google's Gemini AI assistant can be coerced into sharing private user calendar data, according to researchers.

Two origin ID apps, NonUSA and Made O'Meter, are seeing downloads surge as Europeans boycott US-made goods.

Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.

A huge portion of the United States is going to be hit with snow or freezing rain this weekend. Exactly where, what, and how much remains uncertain.

WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.

The network will be designed for enterprise, data center, and government customers and could offer an alternative to SpaceX's Starlink service.

The startup plans to expand to at least four new U.S. states in 2026.

The 65-inch QM8K sees a massive discount, with equally generous markdowns on larger models.

A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care.

The medical info database has doubled in valuation since last raise in October, despite encroachment from model makers.

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The EcoFlow Delta Pro 3 is on sale at Amazon for $1,999, down from the usual price of $3,699. That's a 46% discount.

New to the Criterion Channel? You can sign up for your first year for just $79.99 instead of $99.99 through Feb. 2.

Are You Dead app from China goes viral as safety tool for people living alone. Users pay $1.15 to check in every two days with emergency contacts through an app.

Volvo has launched its EX60 electric SUV with 400 miles of range, super-fast charging, and Gemini AI.

The Swedish brand’s latest computer-packed EV hopes to take on and beat the BMW iX3. But we’re more excited about the new seat belt.

A new survey suggests that Google may have to defend its search engine dominance from ChatGPT.

Reports have spread that OnePlus is on the verge of shutting down, but at least one OnePlus executive says it isn't so.

Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.

There are multiple ways to cancel your Bumble subscription. Here's how.

The Anker Solix C1000 portable power station with a 200W solar panel is on sale for only $599 — its best price ever — at Amazon.

Netflix's mobile app will undergo a design shift. Here's what to expect.

Soon, YouTube TV will allow viewers to customize the multiview feature to watch any four channels they want side by side.

At the time, people felt like 2016 was cursed -- but at least we did not yet have a word for "doomscrolling."

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Warring factions of right-wing influencers and MAGA pundits can finally agree on something: American imperialism.

Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities of color in central New York.

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Google says it has no plans to introduce ads to Gemini as OpenAI prepares to test ads in ChatGPT.

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped its first teaser for "Masters of the Universe", the live action movie based on Mattel's action figures.

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Amazon has select configurations of the Apple MacBook Air (M4) on sale for $200 off as of Jan. 21. Prices start at $1,199.

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