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Google Wallet home keys are rolling out in Google Home Public Preview, enabling NFC door unlocking and hands-free access with compatible Aliro hardware.
Google's carbon emissions rose 25 percent in 2025, Amazon's rose 16 percent, both attributed to AI data center expansion. Their own sustainability reports now show the industry's net-zero pledges are incompatible with
Microsoft Corp. unveiled Microsoft Frontier Company on Thursday, a $2.5 billion venture backed by 6,000 engineers that will embed directly inside enterprise clients to turn AI licenses into working systems. The announcement
Europe's highest court dismissed Google's final appeal over its €4.125 billion Android antitrust fine on Thursday, confirming that pre-installation practices exploited user inertia rather than product merit, and closing an eight-year legal
Apple raised its foldable iPhone Ultra production to 10 million units for September, putting the $2,500 device on course for Apple's most ambitious hardware bet. The same memory shortage driving that price
Sam Altman has proposed handing the Trump administration a 5% equity stake in OpenAI worth roughly $42.6 billion, and is pushing other leading AI companies to offer equivalent stakes, framing it as
Sony Interactive Entertainment will stop producing physical game discs for new PlayStation releases after January 2028, ending a format that defined console gaming for 30 years. With 85% of PS4 and PS5
Sony Interactive Entertainment will stop producing physical game discs for new PlayStation releases after January 2028, ending a format that defined console gaming for 30 years. With 85% of PS4 and PS5
Taiwan prosecutors raided 12 locations tied to Super Micro Computer, Albatron Technology, and Chief Telecom on June 29, targeting a $2.5 billion Nvidia chip-smuggling scheme. The problem: Taiwan has no law that
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 returned globally on July 1 after a 20-day suspension under a first-of-its-kind U.S. export control order triggered by a three-word prompt: "fix this code." The factual dispute at
National Grid Ventures is investing $1.75 billion for a 35% stake in Joulent LLC, which is building a 2.67-gigawatt gas-fired plant in West Texas to power a Microsoft data center — without
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