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• Apple’s future M chip plans come into focus. (theverge.com)
  Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter notes Apple’s push for an AI agent-powered “Project Mulberry” upgrade for its Health a…
• How astronomers cope with all those Starlink satellites. (theverge.com)
  SpaceX has launched over 7,000 low earth satellites that have disrupted astronomical observations. Another 70,000 LEO satellites are expect…
• Point of care: Life-saving clinical trial technology at the crossroads (zdnet.com)
  The fate of nations may depend upon the contributions of brave patients willing to risk their lives for treatments and vaccines. The techno…
• You can now use your smartphone as a karaoke mic on some Samsung TVs. (theverge.com)
  Samsung TV owners belting out their favorite tunes using the Stingray Karaoke app can now reach for their smartphones to level up their per…
• Google’s new ‘reasoning’ Gemini AI model is now available for free. (theverge.com)
  Less than a week after its release to Gemini Advanced subscribers, the Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) model is now available to anyon…
• Compute to data: using blockchain to decentralize data science and AI with the Ocean Protocol (zdnet.com)
  The conflict between access to data and data sovereignty is key to understanding how AI works, and moving it forward. The Ocean Protocol Fo…
• Singapore updates contact tracing app to include foreign visitors (zdnet.com)
  Country's COVID-19 contact tracing app has been updated to include travellers visiting Singapore and the government also is looking at issu…
• In discussion on network performance (zdnet.com)
  Wireless networks are being asked to do more than ever before, but in many instances, the technologies they are built on have their origins…
• 8BitDo embraces the translucent green controller trend. (theverge.com)
  Following Hyperkin announcing a translucent green controller at CES 2025 based on the Halo-themed Xbox Microsoft introduced in 2004, and Ba…
• Facebook slaps labels on 'state-controlled' media outlets (zdnet.com)
  Social media platform has begun labelling media outlets it deems to be state-controlled, including China's Xinhua News and Russia's Sputnik…
• China, Iran, and Russia worked together to call out US hypocrisy on BLM protests (zdnet.com)
  Report from social media research group shows foreign diplomats and state-controlled media pounced on the US' abysmal handling of the BLM p…
• Uber is teaming up with OpenTable. (theverge.com)
  The new partnership will create integrations across the Uber Eats, Uber, and OpenTable apps to “offer dining reservation access and seamles…
• Sam Altman talks consumer tech. (theverge.com)
  I listen to a lot of podcasts as an AI reporter since these CEOs seem to really love a hot mic and a sympathetic ear. I just listened to Op…
• DocuSign posts strong Q1, enters remote work, digital transformation winner's circle (zdnet.com)
  "We added more than 10,000 net new direct customers and almost 58,000 self-service customers, bringing our global total of paying customers…
• Scientists led by AI scholar Yoshua Bengio urge privacy, opt-in approach for COVID-19 contact (zdnet.com)
  Testing appears to be still urgently needed for containing and ultimately eradicating COVID-19. Canadian AI scholar Yoshua Bengio and colle…
• Mobvoi announces TicPods ANC: $90 earbuds with ANC, IPX5 water resistance, and single bud use (zdnet.com)
  One main feature of the $249 Apple AirPods Pro is active-noise cancellation (ANC) and a couple other recent headsets launched with this cap…
• Meet the new Volvo CEO, same as the old Volvo CEO. (theverge.com)
  Ex-Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson has his old title back, replacing Jim Rowan who held the job for three years after Samuelsson stepped down in…
• Meet the very latest in baseball bat technology. (theverge.com)
  The baseball season is only a few days old, and a new “bowling pin” bat has set the game on fire. It’s the result of some fascinating scien…
• Working from home tech: We review an ultraportable printer and scanner (zdnet.com)
  We look at a portable printer and portable scanner that would have been ideal for the coffee shop, but will also fit nicely in a small cubb…
• Firefox: Power user tips and tricks (zdnet.com)
  I've been playing a lot with the new Firefox 74 release over the past few days, and there's a lot built into this browser. Here are some ti…
• California preps for self-driving big rigs. (theverge.com)
  The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles proposed updating its autonomous vehicle regulations to include testing heavy-duty trucks. Califor…
• Kaspersky speaks on US government ban and a closed Russian internet (zdnet.com)
  As Eugene Kaspersky saw his chance to celebrate a decade of sponsoring the Ferrari Scuderia F1 team evaporate when the Melbourne Grand Prix…
• Chrome could suffer apart from Google, says Google. (theverge.com)
  Testifying in the Google Search antitrust trial yesterday, Chrome general manager Parisa Tabriz said Chrome’s features and functionality ow…
• Double-tapping the Google Photos search icon brings back classic search. (theverge.com)
  9to5Google says the shortcut is a quick alternative to tapping “Switch to classic search” after initiating an “Ask Photos” search. Ask Phot…
• Meta has an AI chatbot sexting problem. (theverge.com)
  The Wall Street Journal reports that over a period of months, it was able to coerce Meta AI — even the ones meant to mimic celebrities like…
• MIT’s deep learning found an antibiotic for a germ nothing else could kill (zdnet.com)
  Scientists at MIT and Harvard’s Broad Institute and MIT’s CSAIL built a deep learning network that can acquire a broad representation of mo…
• You wouldn’t steal a font. (theverge.com)
  But the folks behind the mid-2000s anti-piracy campaign that once compared pirating software to stealing a car might have, reports Torrent…
• Etsy is selling Reverb, its music gear resale site. (theverge.com)
  Almost six years after buying it for $275 million, Etsy is selling Reverb to an investor group founded by former SoundCloud CEO Kerry Train…
• Opportune time for APAC firms to assess support for remote workplace (zdnet.com)
  A common desire to contain the coronavirus offers an opportunity for Asian businesses that previously may not have embraced remote work arr…
• TicWatch Pro 2020 review: Google Wear OS smartwatch with layered display, ample RAM, and low $260 (zdnet.com)
  While Google seems to have let Wear OS hang on the vine, companies like Mobvoi continue to offer options for those who don't want an Apple…
• Huawei rumored to have an Nvidia-rivaling AI chip. (theverge.com)
  In response to US restrictions on chip exports, Chinese companies have been trying to develop their own hardware to power generative AI, bu…
• NASA tests out 3D wind profiling to improve weather forecasts. (theverge.com)
  It’s gathering “extremely precise” wind measurements using an instrument that sends out 200 laser pulses per second from an aircraft. By do…
• Academic publisher Wiley calls for “ethical and legal” AI training. (theverge.com)
  In a statement published on its site, Wiley says AI developers must obtain a license to use its content for AI training and development. “W…
• Samsung might keep its anti-glare advantage over iPhones for another year. (theverge.com)
  Despite rumors that Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro smartphones would feature an anti-glare display similar to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra / S25 Ult…
• Donald Trump: “I would frankly tell these people not to use Signal.” (theverge.com)
  Trump’s interview with The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg (on purpose, this time) is now out. If you choose to use Signal, we ha…
• These popular iPhone and iPad apps are snooping on data copied to the clipboard (zdnet.com)
  iOS and iPadOS apps have unrestricted access to the system-wide general pasteboard, also referred to as the clipboard. While this could be…
• Pandemic preparation: Epidemiologists answer reader questions about coronavirus COVID-19 (zdnet.com)
  Will our food supply be safe? Should we fear deliveries? Will it be safe to go out and vote? We passed along reader questions to two leadin…
• ChatGPT got caught sexting minors too. (theverge.com)
  Days after The Wall Street Journal reported Meta AI was getting explicit with underage users, TechCrunch has found ChatGPT has the same pro…
• Trump continues his tariff retreat with a new deal for automakers. (theverge.com)
  More incoming tariff flip-flopping from the White House, The Wall Street Journal reports today. Trump is expected to rollback some duties o…
• Meta’s AI ‘therapists’ are fabricating psychology credentials. (theverge.com)
  404 Media found that chatbots created by AI Studio — a custom AI character maker for Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp — will claim to hav…
• Chief growth officer: How to manage digital transformation, disruption, and growth (zdnet.com)
  Just as scientists learn from the natural world, we can take inspiration from studying how organisms thrive despite the continuously changi…
• Happy Birthday to Steve Jobs’ screed against Flash. (theverge.com)
  15 years ago today, Steve Jobs published “Thoughts on Flash,” railing on Adobe’s platform for being bad for batteries, apps, and the web. S…
• Trump is throwing out hundreds of scientists’ work on climate change. (theverge.com)
  The Trump administration notified contributors to the national climate assessment on Monday that they’ve been “dismissed” as it re-evaluate…
• Coronavirus expected to cause significant decline in IT spending, says IDC (zdnet.com)
  IDC has slashed its 2020 IT spending forecast, as analysts now expect to see a substantial slowdown in spending on both hardware and softwa…
• Tesla’s board chair gets closer to liquidating all her stock. (theverge.com)
  Robyn Denholm, who was appointed chair of Tesla’s board of directors after the SEC forced Elon Musk to step down, just sold over $32 millio…
• Linux Foundation open sources disaster-relief IoT firmware: Project OWL (zdnet.com)
  When disasters happen, communication can collapse, and things can get even worse. Project OWL's DuckLink IoT devices will make it fast and…
• Fortnite is offering a free Stormtrooper outfit. (theverge.com)
  ...if you link your Epic Games account to your MyDisney account, according to a blog post. It’s a “first step” ahead of the planned “univer…
• Sony may spin off its chipmaking unit. (theverge.com)
  Bloomberg reports that the tech conglomerate, which is looking to streamline its operation and recently began spinning off its financial ar…
• An ‘official’ Flappy Bird game is back, but it has nothing to do with the original creator. (theverge.com)
  Today, a Flappy Bird game launched in the Epic Games Store on Android (and nowhere else, so far), but is it the Flappy Bird? It’s from the…
• ServiceNow revs its updated Now Platform for AI, automation powered workflows (zdnet.com)
  Data from the Now Platform is surfaced via contextual recommendations, predictions and insights, self-service, automation with virtual agen…