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Nothing sees the Phone 3 as the ‘right product’ to start scaling up in the US

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-04-17 01:38:09

TL;DR Nothing has confirmed the Phone 3 will be available in the US. The Phone 3 will support AT&T and T-Mobile. The handset will also be available in Canada. Nothing is preparing to launch its next flagship phone — the Phone 3. The new handset will obviously be available in the UK, where the company’s headquarters are located, but will it also come to the US? We now have a definitive answer and a few extra details. Nothing has told TechCrunch that it plans to launch the Phone 3 in the US. W

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The Nothing Phone 3 will be available in the US via Amazon

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-17 01:45:34

The Nothing Phone 3 is getting an official release for US customers. The handset will be available to purchase from Amazon or directly from the company, according to a report by TechCrunch. Nothing CEO Carl Pei has been teasing this news since April, but now it's official. Canadians will also be able to get in on the retail action, as Nothing has inked a deal with Best Buy to sell the new handset in the region. The phone goes on sale next month. The company has produced eight handsets since fo

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Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs — today it IPO’d at $14.5B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-04-17 00:23:17

One of the year’s most anticipated IPOs took place on Thursday when neobank Chime raised $864 million in its IPO, pricing its shares at $27, which is above its previously announced range of $24 to $26. That gave it a starting market cap of about $9.8 billion. While some would point out that this is far below its last private valuation of $25 billion, according to PitchBook’s estimates, shares opened at $42, putting it at $14.5 by midday in heavy trading, according to Yahoo Finance. The hungry

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Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-04-17 05:06:00

Editor's take: Customer care has become one of the most notorious business failures of the digital age, and everyone knows it. Now, artificial intelligence threatens to take this horror show of impersonal, unreliable service to a whole new level. Within a couple of years, 50 percent of the organizations that had planned to replace their customer service personnel with AI models are expected to reverse their decision. According to a recent survey from Gartner, the original goals were overly ambi

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Chime opens at $43 in Nasdaq debut after pricing IPO above expected range

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-04-17 05:10:15

CEO of Chime, Chris Britt, center right, rings the opening bell during the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite on June 12, 2025 in New York City. Chime opened at $43 in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday after selling shares at $27 each in an IPO that valued the online banking company at $11.6 billion. Late Wednesday, Chime raised about $700 million in its offering, and existing investors sold an additional $165 million worth of shares. The stock is trading under the ticker sy

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Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-04-17 05:14:38

NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty In his 2005 book "The Singularity is Near," the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the Singularity -- the moment in which machine intelligence surpasses our own -- would occur around the year 2045. Sam Altman believes it's much closer. In a blog post published Tuesday, the OpenAI CEO delivered a homily devoted to what he views as the imminent arrival of artificial "superintelligence." Whereas artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is usually defined as a computer

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Reddit is adding new features for comments

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-04-17 05:48:24

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit is introducing some new features for comments, including the ability to share comments as posts, a comment insights tool to track things like upvotes and views, and comment drafts, according to a post from the Reddit product team. The features are rolling out today on Reddit’s native apps and on the web, and the rollout will continue “over the next few weeks.” Sharing

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Google’s excellent TV Streamer (4K) is on sale just in time for Father’s Day

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2026-04-17 05:49:12

I love finding deals on devices that pull double duty, as it feels like it’s stretching my dollar even further. That’s why Google’s discounted TV Streamer (4K) caught my attention this week. It’s not just a powerful streaming device but also a great smart home hub — one you can currently grab from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Google for around $84 ($16 off), which is just $5 shy of its lowest price to date. Google’s latest set-top box is a clear upgrade over the company’s prior streaming dong

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Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs. Today it IPO’d at $14.5B.

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-04-17 05:23:17

One of the year’s most anticipated IPOs took place on Thursday when neobank Chime raised $864 million in its IPO, pricing its shares at $27, above its previously announced range of $24 to $26. That gave it a starting market cap of about $9.8 billion. While some would point out that this is far below its last private valuation of $25 billion, according to PitchBook’s estimates, shares opened at $42, putting it at $14.5 by midday in heavy trading, according to Yahoo Finance. The hungry response

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Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale

wired.com Emily Mullin 2026-04-17 09:08:34

US Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jan Schakowsky on Thursday sent letters to the two potential buyers of troubled genetic testing firm 23andMe demanding details about consumer data privacy should either of them acquire the company. Signed by 20 other Democratic members of Congress, the letters were sent to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and TTAM Research Institute, which have put forth separate bids to buy 23andMe. In the letters, they ask Regeneron and TTAM if they will continue to give custome

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Apple will let you play video in CarPlay with iOS 26

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-04-17 09:21:36

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Apple’s days of blocking you from watching video through CarPlay appear to be coming to an end. The upcoming iOS26 update will allow people to project video from their phones onto the center display of their vehicle through AirPlay. This will enable users to “watch their favorite videos from iPhone right on their CarPlay di

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Conveyor uses AI to automate the painful process of vendor security reviews and RFPs with AI

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-04-17 09:00:00

Selling software to companies is such a time-consuming process. Even after customers are convinced a product is right for their organization, they still need to ensure the software meets all their security requirements. Chas Ballew realized just how painfully slow and tedious the vendor security and compliance review process was when he was running Aptible, a hosting platform for healthcare companies that he co-founded in 2013. “What we saw was that every time one of our customers was trying to

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Battery manufacturer Powin files for bankruptcy months after landing $200M loan

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-04-17 09:28:24

Battery manufacturer Powin filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. The Oregon-based company said it has more than $300 million in debt. The Chapter 11 filing will let the company continue operating while it restructures its debt. Powin manufactured grid-scale batteries using lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cells from China. The company had been searching for alternative domestic suppliers, but the supply chain wasn’t sufficiently mature, Jeff Waters, the company’s former CEO, told Bloomberg in April.

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Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey says the defense tech company will 'definitely' go public

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-04-15 21:02:19

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries will go public, founder and CEO Palmer Luckey said Tuesday. "We are definitely going to be a publicly traded company," he told CNBC's "Closing Bell: Overtime." "We are running this company to be the shape of a publicly traded company." He added that there isn't "really a path" for a company like Anduril to win significant trillion-dollar defense contracts without going public. Luckey did not detail an IPO timeline. Since its founding, Anduril has risen

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Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds

futurism.com Unknown 2026-04-17 13:01:41

A Boeing Dreamliner 787 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood with 242 people aboard mere moments after taking off from Ahmedabad in western India, exploding in an immense fireball. The cause of the immensely tragic loss of life remains unknown. As CNBC reports, it could take months to find out. The top-selling wide-body aircraft was delivered to Air India in 2014. According to a tweet by FlightRadar, the Boeing jet ascended to roughly 200 feet before plummeting back down at a "vertica

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Apple Intelligence announcements at WWDC: Everything Apple revealed for iOS, macOS and more

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-17 13:27:43

Apple Intelligence hasn't landed in the way Apple likely hoped it would, but that's not stopping the company from continuing to iterate on its suite of AI tools. During its WWDC 2025 conference on Monday, Apple announced a collection of new features for Apple Intelligence, starting with upgrades to Genmoji and Image Playground that will arrive alongside iOS 26 and the company's other updated operating systems. In Messages, you'll be able to use Image Playground to generate colorful backgrounds

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Rust compiler performance

news.ycombinator.com Kobzol'S Blog 2026-04-15 06:24:44

Perhaps the most often repeated complaint about Rust is its slow feedback loop and long compilation times. I hear about it all the time; in Rust podcasts, blog posts, surveys, conference talks or offline discussions. I also regularly complain about it, being a Rust user myself! Recently, in addition to the usual compile times complaints, I also started noticing the following sentiments being expressed by frustrated Rust developers: “Why doesn’t the Rust Project care more about this pressing and

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Ancient Roman Street Vendors Served Up Songbirds

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-04-17 13:35:17

Ancient Romans in need of a quick bite often chowed down on fried songbirds, new research suggests. A researcher working on the island of Mallorca found bones of song thrushes inside a trash pit near the ruins of an ancient fast food joint. The study, published in May in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, suggests that thrushes were commonly sold and consumed in Roman cities. This challenges the long-held belief that these small, speckled birds were a delicacy reserved for elite ban

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Bose’s latest Ultra earbuds have some AI-powered tricks for navigating your noisy world

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-04-17 18:37:14

Bose TL;DR Bose has announced the successor to its premium QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds. The second-gen QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds offer enhanced ANC, improved voice pickup, and wireless charging support. The earbuds are priced at $299 and will be available in Black, White Smoke, and Deep Plum colorways. Bose expanded its premium headphone and earbud lineup with the launch of new Ultra models back in 2023. Its original QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds are still among the best wireless earbuds on the

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AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, and that’s problematic

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-17 16:33:02

The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies are stepping up efforts to deal with a growing problem of chatbots telling people what they want to hear. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic are all working on reining in sycophantic behavior by their generative AI products that offer over-flattering responses to users. The issue, stemming from how the large language models are trained, has come into focus at a time when more and more people have adopted the chatbots not only at work as

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Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-04-17 21:00:00

Nnamdi Emelifeonwu was always curious about what work life was like for his colleague Feargus MacDaeid, one of the few registered blind lawyers in the U.K. Both practiced law at the global firm Freshfields. When asking about what would make his life easier, the answer was clear: “Help me navigate definitions in complex contracts without losing context,” Emelifeonwu told TechCrunch. He realized the fix to MacDaeid’s request would be useful to every lawyer. So in 2017, Emelifeonwu and MacDaeid t

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How Warp is introducing robots to automate its network of warehouses

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-04-17 21:00:00

Warp was founded in 2021 to help companies streamline their shipping supply chains and reduce costs through its tech-enabled network of shippers, carriers and warehouses. Now, it wants to make supply chains further efficient by using robots to automate its web of warehouses. Daniel Sokolovsky, the co-founder and CEO of Warp, told TechCrunch that Warp is always looking for ways to make shipping more efficient for its customers, which include enterprises like Walmart, Gopuff, and HelloFresh. Wit

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Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-04-17 21:00:00

After acquiring universal messaging apps Beeper and Texts.com, WordPress.com owner Automattic has added another communication-focused startup to its lineup: relationship-management app Clay. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Clay had so far raised over $9 million in venture capital from investors like General Catalyst and Forerunner Ventures. The tool will continue to be supported and will later be integrated with other Automattic products, like Beeper. Clay’s software, launc

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Former Intel engineers form AheadComputing to break CPU performance limits with RISC-V design

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-04-18 01:03:00

What just happened? In the heart of Oregon's Silicon Forest, a group of veteran chip architects has traded the security of a tech giant for the high-stakes world of startups, aiming to redefine the future of microprocessors. The founders of AheadComputing, who collectively spent nearly a century at Intel, are now channeling their expertise into building a new class of CPU, one they believe could upend the industry's established order. Rather than building on the legacy of x86, the team is betti

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GitLab patches high severity account takeover, missing auth issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-04-18 01:26:00

GitLab has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in the company's DevSecOps platform, including ones enabling attackers to take over accounts and inject malicious jobs in future pipelines. The company released GitLab Community and Enterprise versions 18.0.2, 17.11.4, and 17.10.8 to address these security flaws and urged all admins to upgrade immediately. "These versions contain important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab inst

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Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-17 23:57:20

Live Events The majority of justices on Brazil's Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users. Gilmar Mendes on Wednesday became the sixth of the court's 11 justices to vote to open a path for companies like Meta, X and Microsoft to be sued and pay fines for content published by their users. Voting is ongoing but a simple majority is all that is needed for the measure to pass.The ruling will come after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warn

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My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-18 00:21:16

During a one hour period today, my computer contacted 63 different Apple domains while i was not logged on and using it. I have been trying to minimize to the extent possible the reach of big tech into my life. A full 25% of the DNS queries from one of my computers (M2 MBA with macOS 15.4) are to Apple owned domains - even though my DNS provider (NextDNS) blocks Apple's native telemetry. Additionally, since I do not use Apple for my mail, contacts, calendars, podcasts or news, I already have th

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Amazon Is Going All Out, This Top-Performance TP-Link WiFi 7 Router Is Selling for Peanuts Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-04-18 01:10:11

There’s nothing more frustrating than dealing with poor Wi-Fi at home. Slow speeds, dropped connections and dead zones can turn everyday activities (streaming, gaming, video calls, and more) into a real challenge. If you’re looking for a turbocharged connection that keeps up with your needs, it’s time to consider upgrading your home network. Although your internet service provider (ISP) router typically is subpar, buying a good-quality router can be well worth it. Today, the TP-Link WiFi 7 rout

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Amazon Prime Video Now Comes With Double the Ads!

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-04-18 01:40:25

It wasn’t that long ago that an ad-free experience was the default for streaming services. But companies need to make sure the line keeps going up, and one way to do that is to monetize the audience by serving them ads. Amazon introduced ads to its Prime Video streaming service last year, with the promise that it would be light and unintrusive. Well, time to juice those profits, because Adweek reports that Amazon will double the number of ads that it serves per hour to its viewers. Look at this

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Inexpensive AI Agents Threaten Entry-Level Coding Jobs

wired.com Paresh Dave 2026-04-18 00:00:00

In 2007, Luke Arrigoni, an AI entrepreneur, earned $63,000 at his first job as a junior software developer. Today, he says AI tools that write better code than he did back then cost just $120 annually. The numbers don’t sit right with him. Arrigoni, who runs Loti AI, a company that helps Hollywood stars find unauthorized deepfakes, worries that underpriced AI tools encourage companies to eliminate entry-level roles. He wants to flip the incentive structure so people’s careers don’t end before t

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Nothing sees the Phone 3 as the ‘right product’ to start scaling up in the US

The Nothing Phone 3 will be available in the US via Amazon

Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs — today it IPO’d at $14.5B

Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course

Chime opens at $43 in Nasdaq debut after pricing IPO above expected range

Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why

Reddit is adding new features for comments

Google’s excellent TV Streamer (4K) is on sale just in time for Father’s Day

Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs. Today it IPO’d at $14.5B.

Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale

Apple will let you play video in CarPlay with iOS 26

Conveyor uses AI to automate the painful process of vendor security reviews and RFPs with AI

Battery manufacturer Powin files for bankruptcy months after landing $200M loan

Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey says the defense tech company will 'definitely' go public

Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds

Apple Intelligence announcements at WWDC: Everything Apple revealed for iOS, macOS and more

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Ancient Roman Street Vendors Served Up Songbirds

Bose’s latest Ultra earbuds have some AI-powered tricks for navigating your noisy world

AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, and that’s problematic

Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient

How Warp is introducing robots to automate its network of warehouses

Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools

Former Intel engineers form AheadComputing to break CPU performance limits with RISC-V design

GitLab patches high severity account takeover, missing auth issues

Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content

My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use

Amazon Is Going All Out, This Top-Performance TP-Link WiFi 7 Router Is Selling for Peanuts Before Prime Day

Amazon Prime Video Now Comes With Double the Ads!

Inexpensive AI Agents Threaten Entry-Level Coding Jobs

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