Monthly Archives: February 2024

Top Amazon aggregator Thrasio files for bankruptcy

Aggregators like Thrasio raised billions of dollars from investors looking to cash in on the third-party seller rollup craze.

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Biden Issues Executive Order to Restrict Personal Data Sales to China and Russia

In an attempt to limit blackmail and other harm, he will issue an executive order asking the Justice Department to write rules restricting sales to six countries.

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How to Manage Streaming Subscriptions As Service Prices Rise

Canceling is simple. The tough part is remembering to do it.

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Sweanty’s wearable patch for athletes tracks salt loss to help them hydrate

Wearables are coming in an increasing array of shapes, form factors and guises these days as health and fitness tracking proliferates. Here at 4YFN at the MWC tradeshow we spotted a new one: A stick-on patch for tracking athletes’ sweat … Continue reading

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Fintech giant Stripe’s valuation spikes to $65B in employee stock-sale deal

Payments infrastructure giant Stripe said today it has inked deals with investors to provide liquidity to current and former employees through a tender offer at a $65 billion valuation. Notably, the valuation represents a 30% increase compared to what Stripe … Continue reading

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Apple to scrap electric car project, much to Elon Musk’s delight

Apple Inc. plans to wind down its electric car project to shift focus to artificial intelligence (AI), with Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk celebrating the move in his trademark style. According to Bloomberg, after investing billions of dollars over a decade, … Continue reading

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WWE 2K24: Post Malone’s soundtrack features Grimes, 100 Gecs and Turnstile

Music icon and all-round pop culture fan Post Malone has created the soundtrack to the upcoming WWE 2K24 title, and fans will be able to hit the ropes with him. The game’s developer has announced that the music icon will … Continue reading

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The staggering production cost of an Apple Vision Pro

Concerns over the viability and challenges ahead for Apple to establish its Vision Pro headset have been highlighted by research claiming each device costs a whopping $1,500 to manufacture. As reported by Omdia, the findings indicate the flagship Apple product … Continue reading

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WordPress and Tumblr will sell user data to train AI models – report

The parent company of Tumblr and WordPress, Automattic, is striking a deal to sell user data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. The deal has been discovered by 404media, with the tech news site getting hold of internal documents that … Continue reading

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Google Gemini: CEO Sundar Pichai admits ‘we got it wrong’

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has sent an internal memo to staff, stressing the Gemini errors are “completely unacceptable” after the artificial intelligence (AI) app embroiled the company in controversy. The tech giant suspended its image creation function on Gemini in … Continue reading

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