Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

The deal could be interesting if it went through, as Digg could leverage Pocket’s existing user base to fuel interest in its relaunch.

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Intuit shares pop 9% on earnings beat, rosy guidance

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Intuit shares popped on Friday, a day after the company reported strong quarterly results.

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Why Trump’s iPhone tariff threat might not be enough to bring production to the U.S.

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

For now, most of Apple’s most important products are exempt from tariffs after Trump gave phones and computers a tariff waiver — even from China — in April.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp sells more than $50 million in stock

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar, co-founder and president Stephen Cohen and other executives also dumped millions worth of shares.

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Trump Threatens 50% Tariff on E.U. and 25% Tariff on Apple

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

The president threatened both Apple and the European Union with higher tariffs on social media Friday morning, saying that trade talks with the Europeans had stalled.

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Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on AGI, Innovation and More

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, says that “we’re quite close” to human-level artificial intelligence. After that, all bets are off.

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Apple could launch AI-powered smart glasses in 2026

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Apple is reportedly looking to release a pair of smart glasses by the end of next year in a bid to compete with Meta’s AI-powered glasses, the Ray-Ban Meta. Apple’s wearable will have all the components one would expect in smart glasses, including a camera and microphone, and will have the ability to analyze what’s […]

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Trump threatens 25% tariffs on iPhones made outside the US

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

President Trump lashed out at Apple on Friday, threatening the company with a 25% tariff on iPhones unless it moves production to the U.S. “I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s [sic] that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in […]

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AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

In a fictional scenario, the model was willing to expose that the engineer seeking to replace it was having an affair.

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Kentucky’s Bitcoin Boom Has Gone Bust

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

In the US state’s coal country, crypto mining was supposed to bring renewal. Now mines are powering down, and investors are hoping AI-powered data centers will fill the void.

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