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Daiko will launch blockchain-based virtual pets game

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-18 11:00:00

Daiko said it plans to launch its blockchain-based Virtual Pet game to bring real-world dog care into gaming. The Irish company said we live in a time where our lives are increasingly intertwined with smart devices and digital experiences, and innovators like Daiko are taking the canine-human bond to the next level. Set for a 2026 debut, the Daiko’s Virtual Pet morphs your real-world dog care routine into an immersive, gamified digital experience that grows, learns, and plays alongside you. Yo

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Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

news.ycombinator.com Martin Holland 2025-09-19 02:37:22

The Danish Ministry of Digitization is to completely abandon Microsoft in the coming months and use Linux instead of Windows and switch from Office 365 to LibreOffice. Minister Caroline Stage (Moderaterne) announced this in an interview with the daily newspaper Politiken. It comes just a few days after the country's two largest municipalities initiated similar steps. This summer, half of the ministry's employees will be equipped with Linux and LibreOffice. If everything goes as expected, the ent

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Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically lower AI costs

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-19 03:00:00

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing on Thursday said it has raised an enormous Series B round of €189 million (about $215 million) on the strength of a technology it calls “CompactifAI.” CompactifAI is a quantum-computing inspired compression technology that is capable of reducing the size of LLMs by up to 95% without impacting model performance, the company said. Specifically, Multiverse offers compressed versions of well-known, open-source LLMs – primarily small models – such as Llama 4 Sco

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New study finds little evidence of surge pricing when retailers use digital shelf labels

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-18 07:06:00

Recap: In recent years, digital shelf labels have stirred debate across the United States. Although some shoppers and lawmakers worry the technology could enable unpredictable, demand-driven price hikes, a new academic study suggests those fears may be overblown. Research recently published by teams from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego, and Northwestern University analyzed five years of pricing data from a major grocery chain that adopted digital shelf

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Chime's IPO will test public market appetite for fintech as companies line up to exit

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-19 04:35:01

Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images There's a mini-boom happening in fintech. After a multi-year IPO slowdown triggered by rising rates and valuation resets, some of the emerging players in online stock trading, banking, lending and crypto-related services are hitting the public market, or at least preparing for a debut. The next test of Wall Street's enthusiasm is expected to come on Thursday, when Chime is slated to start trading on the Nasdaq. The provider of online bank

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The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-09-17 18:00:00

It is a significant overhaul of a department that in 40 years has never before been placed so squarely on the chopping block. Here’s how today’s defense tech companies, which have fostered close connections to the Trump administration, stand to gain, and why safety testing might suffer as a result. The Operational Test and Evaluation office is “the last gate before a technology gets to the field,” says Missy Cummings, a former fighter pilot for the US Navy who is now a professor of engineering

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iOS 26 will bridge the gap with digital IDs in Apple Wallet thanks to this new addition

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-18 10:12:39

Yesterday at WWDC25, Apple announced a new addition to the Wallet app that’ll certainly bridge the gap when it comes to digital ID adoption in the United States: support for passports. Apple announced Drivers Licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet back with iOS 15 in 2021, but since then, it’s only rolled out to a handful of US states. Apple currently supports 9 US states plus Puerto Rico, and will soon add 3 more. Still, 12 is far short of all 50 US states. Soon, however, Apple will introduce suppo

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Protect Your Mane: The 10 Superfoods I'm Using to Prevent Hair Loss

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 03:00:00

I've known for years that there is a chance my hair will thin as I get older. Plenty of people lose their hair as they age, and it's likely I won't be exempt from it. However, that doesn't mean i'm going to sit down and wait for my hair to thin and disappear though. I've always loved my hair, even when I switch between growing it out a bit, or cutting it all off for a shorter look. When I started to look for ways to keep my hair healthy, I found vitamins that could help, but I wanted to do more

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Jewel Burks Solomon’s Collab Capital has closed a new $75M fund

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-19 01:30:00

Collab Capital announced today the close of a $75 million Fund II. Jewel Burks Solomon, who rose to prominence in Silicon Valley during her years running Google for Startups US, has just closed her second fund for her VC firm Collab Capital. Fund II is $75 million and includes heavyweight limited partners like Apple, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and The Leon Levine Foundation. Solomon co-founded the firm alongside Barry Givens in 2020 with an inaugural $50 million Fund I and invested in 38

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How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-06-04 01:51:24

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has come into force, and it’s meant that some of the world’s biggest tech companies are having to make major changes to how they operate. The law, which is designed to increase competition in the EU’s digital markets, designates some large online companies and their services as “gatekeepers.” Those that have received the gatekeeper designation — the companies on the list are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft — have to meet str

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Download your Kindle books right now - Amazon is killing this option in a few days

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-06-04 00:09:00

ZDNET Another day. Another cloud service changing the rules on stuff we already bought and paid for. This time, Amazon is removing a feature that's been part of the Kindle experience for more than a decade: downloading files to your computer. Also: The best Kindles of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed I'm not going to bury the lede: You have until Feb. 26, 2025, to download copies of your Kindle books to your computer. After that, Amazon will remove the ability to download books to files you

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Experts Say These 6 Vitamins and Minerals Unlock Healthy Aging

cnet.com Lara Vukelich 2025-06-04 00:00:03

Throughout our lives, we get nearly all the vitamins and minerals we need from a balanced diet. However, that can change as we age because we're at an increased risk for low vitamin consumption, partly because our bodies can no longer effectively absorb certain nutrients. So if you're dealing with deficiencies, are on specific medications or have particular health conditions, your doctor may advise you to take certain supplements to make sure your body has all the nutrients it needs. These are

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12 Best Foods for Optimal Eye Health

cnet.com Kacie Goff 2025-06-03 22:00:00

Taking care of your eyesight is essential. You can help strengthen your eyes in simple ways, like taking screen breaks, wearing sunglasses and even eating nourishing foods, vitamins and minerals. The best part is that most of these foods are probably already in your home. Read more: Best Places to Buy Glasses Online Best foods for healthy eyes Anjelika Gretskaia/Getty Images Whether you've got a family history of vision problems or you're trying to fight eye strain in your day-to-day life, h

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Best Vitamins for Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails in 2025

cnet.com Taylor Leamey 2025-06-04 00:36:00

Extra certifications help you feel confident that the vitamin only contains what’s on the ingredient label. The most popular forms of vitamins are capsules, tablets and gummies. Decide which one is best for you. Some vitamins have serving sizes of three or more capsules daily. Others only require one tablet each day. Always take note of the dosage of each nutrient included in your vitamin selection. Every multivitamin will have nutrients, but they may also contain ingredients you'd rather av

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Unit Network raises $18M for decentralized platform enabling real-world and digital asset trading

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-06-04 04:00:00

Unit Network, a decentralized financial ecosystem enabling trading of real-world and digital assets through tokenization, has raised $18 million. The venture capital investment was led by industry leaders such as the Blockchain Founders Fund and Outlier Ventures, alongside notable entrepreneurs including Cristina Venture (White Star Capital), Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar (Rootstock), Joshua Seims (Metastable Capital), Richard Wang (Draper Dragon Fund), Thomas Hessler (Zanox), Yuval Rooz (DigitalAss

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Immutable-backed Inevitable Games Fund grows 180% in 9 months

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-06-03 23:00:00

Immutable, in collaboration with King River Capital and Polygon Labs, today announced the inaugural returns on liquid investments of the Inevitable Games Fund (IGF). The fund recorded a 2.8 multiple on invested capital (MOIC) for investments that have launched token generation events (TGEs), outpacing the 1.36 multiple seen from Bitcoin during the same time period. Anchored by Alpha Wave Ventures, backed by Alpha Wave Global and the Abu Dhabi Royal Group’s Chimera Capital, IGF has made investm

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Italian media groups file criminal complaint over the WhatsApp hack on journalists

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-04 05:31:50

The fallout continues from the recent WhatsApp hacking campaign (by a still-unconfirmed entity) that targeted nearly 100 journalists and activists. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that a collection of Italian media groups has filed a criminal complaint with the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office. They hope to discover who installed the zero-click spyware, which was made by the Israeli-founded Paragon Solutions. According to Bloomberg, the complaint describes the spyware as an "intolerable intrusio

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Latest Tech News

Daiko will launch blockchain-based virtual pets game

Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically lower AI costs

New study finds little evidence of surge pricing when retailers use digital shelf labels

Chime's IPO will test public market appetite for fintech as companies line up to exit

The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems

iOS 26 will bridge the gap with digital IDs in Apple Wallet thanks to this new addition

Protect Your Mane: The 10 Superfoods I'm Using to Prevent Hair Loss

Jewel Burks Solomon’s Collab Capital has closed a new $75M fund

How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

Download your Kindle books right now - Amazon is killing this option in a few days

Experts Say These 6 Vitamins and Minerals Unlock Healthy Aging

12 Best Foods for Optimal Eye Health

Best Vitamins for Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails in 2025

Unit Network raises $18M for decentralized platform enabling real-world and digital asset trading

Immutable-backed Inevitable Games Fund grows 180% in 9 months

Italian media groups file criminal complaint over the WhatsApp hack on journalists

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