There may be quite a lot going on in the world right now, but Trump is laser-focussed on the things that matter — one of which is apparently the renovation of a golf course in Washington D.C . Seth Meyers is, unsurprisingly, unimpressed. "So gas is over $4 a gallon, inflation's climbing, the Iran war is deadlocked, measles is spreading, AI might kill us, and there's a new strain of drug-resi…
Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center : Survey: 20% of US adults regularly consume news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020; 39% of those aged 18 to 29 and 25% of those aged 30 to 49 do so regularly — TikTok is primarily known for short-form video sharing, but it has also become a common place for many people to get news.
By sticking to in-store menu prices and a flat 5 percent fee, Olo wants to take the sting out of ordering dinner.
SAVE $75: The Coway Mighty is on sale for $154.98, saving you $75. Named Mashable's best air purifier value in hands-on testing, this compact unit cleans spaces up to 1,748 square feet and features four-stage filtration. Opens in a new window Credit: Coway Coway Mighty $154.98 at Amazon $229.99 Save $75.01 Get Deal at Amazon You can't always control what gets tracked into your house, but keeping y…
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI, logistics, satellite internet, and TV production businesses. The company announced the investment today at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin. The two-day event, hosted by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, aims to attract investment to the country. […] This story continues at The N…
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : Amazon pledges to spend €16B+ in Germany in 2027 on AWS and AI data centers, its Leo satellite program, Prime Video media production, and a Berlin robotics lab — Amazon.com Inc. said it will invest more than €16 billion ($17.9 billion) next year in Germany for operations including data centers …
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Luke Kehoe / Ookla : Analysis: London fell from 7th to last place out of 18 European capitals for median mobile download speed from 2021 to 2026; 5G adoption has outrun 5G capacity — London has slipped from seventh to last among 18 European capitals for median mobile download speed since 2021.
Epson study finds IT managers agree that most investments have covered buying new tech but not use cases Teachers are seeing declines in student attention, critical thinking and knowledge retention Schools need to focus on determining real-world use cases New research from Epson claims UK teachers feel their classroom is falling behind when it comes to successful tech integration, with nearly two-…
Over the past few months, it’s become clear that modern AI systems are quite adept at discovering software vulnerabilities and finding ways around cybersecurity defenses. Unintended real-world breaches executed by models from leading AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic during training exercises have drawn widespread concern, and while those companies have restricted access to their most capable…
When I’m teaching MBA students or executives or when I’m working in my role as an adviser to family-owned enterprises, I spend enormous energy looking for evidence of an emotion people try to hide. That emotion is fear. Humans underestimate how much fear drives our behavior. We’re familiar with the “fight or flight” response that helped our prehistoric ancestors survive in a dangerous world, but w…
The face of a silver-colored statue of Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis lasted only about 30 minutes in the Florida sun before it melted away to reveal a skeleton underneath. The 6-foot-tall statue called “Denial” was unveiled on October 13 at the Prime Meridian Plaza in Tallahassee, Florida. It’s a work of protest art commissioned by the climate advocacy group 350Action and produced by…
The Retro Ambient Audio System, from Trettitre, is a device designed to feed every generation’s sense of FOMO. The setup combines a record player, a CD player, and a cassette deck—plus a magnetic base for your phone—that snap onto a modular metal rack mounted to your wall, where they spin and play music. [Photo: Trettitre] After a Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $2.2 million (and a summ…
Andrew Haverdink, a tall grad student in a rain bib and rubber boots, wrenched a double-handed drill from the frozen soil that underlies much of Alaska’s Denali National Park and then unclipped the hollow barrel from the end of the bit. He knelt in front of a blue tarp, lined the barrel up with a plastic tray, and pushed a rod through the opposite end. A perfect solid, cylindrical core of ancient…
A growing collection of pocket-size gadgets lets you easily make recordings and extract info from them. Here are our favorites.
The comedian sees being online as similar to visiting the zoo. “I don’t need to interact with that,” he says. “It’s just a thing that I enjoy, and then I walk away.”
Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Jonathan Gluck. I’m a cancer patient. I have a type of blood cancer called multiple myeloma that is treatable but, in all but a small percentage of cases, incurable. I’ve been living with my illness for more than 22 years. During that time I’ve undergone dozens of rounds of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy as well as a difficult and potentially fatal…
OpenAI : OpenAI says its new models show major performance leaps in low-resource legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, used by banks and governments — Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.
Nscale is negotiating to sell Anthropic about $45bn more in AI computing capacity, two months after the two companies agreed to a deal of the same size. Bloomberg reported the talks, citing people familiar with the matter. A deal could be signed within days, although the terms may still change. Both companies declined to comment […] This story continues at The Next Web
Organizations can be under huge pressure to make changes to their IT estates. In particular, there are two drivers of this change. Firstly, there’s the pressure to innovate. The rapid advancement of technology and AI coupled with shifting business priorities can put organizations under pressure to adopt the latest tools, with vendor messaging advocating for the speed of adoption. Simultaneously, o…
Bloomberg : The US sanctions MiraclePlus, a Chinese VC firm founded by ex-Microsoft executive Lu Qi, over alleged ties to Zhisuan, accused of stealing Google's AI secrets — Washington has blacklisted a Chinese venture firm established by ex-Microsoft Corp. AI scientist Lu Qi for alleged ties …
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Google Cloud is currently suffering what appears to be a major outage across most of Europe. The company has confirmed "Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region" with user reports spiking on outage tracker site DownDetector . We're tracking the issue here, so stay tuned for the latest updates. Good morning - well, maybe not so good for Google Cloud, which has confirmed…
Daytona runs sandboxes for AI agents, co-founder and chief executive Ivan Burazin told TNW. Its users include Meta, Cohere and Handshake, and the company has about 30 employees. Burazin, a Croatian citizen, started Daytona with two co-founders, one of whom he has worked with for almost 20 years. Before Daytona, he co-founded Codeanywhere, a cloud […] This story continues at The Next Web
Made up of small fragments left behind by Halley’s Comet, these meteors are known for being especially bright and speedy.
The online banking services for Revolut and Lloyds Bank are down for many users right now, with Revolut confirming it's been hit by an outage that's affecting "multiple services". The issues for both Revolut and Lloyds Bank started at the same time at about 6.46am BST / 1.46am ET, with both showing large spikes on Downdetector. At their peak, there were almost 1,500 reports from Revolut customers…
Enterprises are being forced into software upgrades that they can't really get out of, report finds 91% have upgraded hardware in the past three years just to maintain software Enterprise protection legislation and software support obligations could be the answer Legacy tech has become something of a hot topic in recent years with AI, but while hardware and data foundations have been core to the d…
OpenAI is trying to speed up a funding round of about $30bn to secure investor commitments before Anthropic lists its shares in mid-November. The round could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $ 1.4 trillion. Reuters reported the plan on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI and SoftBank declined to comment […] This story continues at The Next Web
A vulnerability in NordVPN's Windows app allowed local attackers to stop unprotected system services. The flaw, officially tracked as CVE-2026-106030, does not affect NordVPN version 8.12.0.0 or later Experts label the bug "clumsy," but the actual impact on users is minimal, requiring a device to already be compromised by malware. Nord Security has rolled out an important security update for its W…
Apple is limiting iPhone Duo purchases to two per customers around the world. Apple is limiting iPhone Duo purchases to two per customers around the world.
I’m obsessed with sleep data, but I don’t love wearing a smartwatch to bed. Can the Hatch Sleep Clock give me the best of both worlds at an affordable price?
Having been at Nvidia's RTX Spark event in San Francisco earlier this month, I was lucky enough to get a firsthand walk through of the many things the 'superchip' can do. Since then I've spent almost every waking moment putting the ARM-based RTX Spark through its paces and seeing what makes it so different from other chipsets that have come before. The RTX Spark is Nvidia’s first System on a Chip…
Every top brand has its own take on ANC earbuds, each with a unique style and a plethora of features. Since you can't possibly try all the latest earbuds , the Mashable team has taken on the task of reviewing the best ANC earbuds for you. What are the best noise-cancelling earbuds? Not all earbuds are created equal — some are far more comfortable than others. Credit: Samantha Mangino / Masha…
Ryan DiLazio was a rock star at his job. On paper. It was 2022, and DiLazio was a manager of social marketing and strategy at a global advertising agency, where he was working with such brands as Sour Patch Kids, Chicken in a Biskit, and Nutter Butter, all subsidiaries of the food giant Mondelēz International. Technically, DiLazio’s role only encompassed ideating social media concepts and scheduli…
In the fall of 2025, Jeff Dodge set up a six-foot folding table in the cafeteria of Cane Bay High School in Summerville, South Carolina, to conduct a taste test. When the first rush of about 150 hungry students hit, he was waiting with slow cookers filled with steaming marinara sauce and meatballs. Kids love a taste test, but they’re also discerning, and Dodge wasn’t sure what they would make of h…
_____________ THE PLACE Pyeongtaek, South Korea Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massive new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Three fabs already operate around the clock, and a fourth is coming online. Const…
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1999 was an amazing year for movies, unleashing such truly iconic cinema as The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and 10 Things I Hate About You. You might scoff at such a comparison. But nearly 30 years since its debut, 10 Things I Hate About You is still regularly referenced online, be it Heath Ledger's wooing dance across stadium risers or Julia Stiles' eponymous f…