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BuzzFeed bet on AI to save it. It just cut another third of its staff.

BuzzFeed bet on AI to rescue itself. This week it laid off another third of its staff. The bet, it turns out, was never the thing that could save it. The company cut about 180 jobs on Monday, roughly a third of its remaining workforce, the…

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NITDA to license tech firms for software testing

The Punch

NITDA to license tech firms for software testing

NITDA plans to license tech firms for independent software testing, enhancing quality and security for government and private sector software in Nigeria. Read More: https://punchng.com/nitda-to-license-tech-firms-for-software-testing/

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Nimble claims its new, domain-specialized Web Search Agents cut token costs in half while boosting retrieval accuracy

VentureBeat

Nimble claims its new, domain-specialized Web Search Agents cut token costs in half while boosting retrieval accuracy

Nimble , a New York City-based tech startup VentureBeat previously covered for its efforts to re-invent web search for enterprises by using multiple AI agents to improve accuracy and depth, is taking another step toward its vision of a…

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Runna's new coaching feature will adjust your workout based on local heat and humidity

Engadget

Runna's new coaching feature will adjust your workout based on local heat and humidity

If it's extra hot or humid where you are, the Runna app will adjust your workouts accordingly.

Engadget

Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year

Ars Technica

Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year

When we last checked in on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in February, NASA was announcing that it had formally classified the 2024 crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft as a “Type A” mishap, an acknowledgement that the test flight was…

Ars Technica

Ukraine loses $70 million daily from downtime of Black Sea ports — paper

Three ports of Greater Odessa accounted for $2.1 billion worth of goods out of total Ukrainian exports worth $3.5 billion in June

Ottawa plans to end 'Netflix tax,' replace with public Canadian content funding: document

Ottawa plans to end 'Netflix tax,' replace with public Canadian content funding: document

The federal government will "eliminate" the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC and replace it with government funding, it said in a court document.

US helps about 1,000 ships pass through Strait of Hormuz since early May — CENTCOM

500 million barrels of crude oil passed through the narrow waterway

BTS say they won't submit their music for the 2027 Grammy Awards

BTS say they won't submit their music for the 2027 Grammy Awards

The seven members of the group BTS dropped a joint statement on Instagram sharing the news that they won't be submitting any music for the next Grammy Awards.

GMKtec launches the new Evo-X1 Pro mini PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 and OCuLink — and it already has an early bird deal

TechRadar

GMKtec launches the new Evo-X1 Pro mini PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 and OCuLink — and it already has an early bird deal

GMKtec has just launched the Evo-X1 Pro, a premium AI-focused mini PC built around AMD's new Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 chip, 64GB LPDDR5 RAM, with an OCuLink port that lets you bolt on a full desktop GPU when you need more graphics power. To mark…

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Lava Network Puts Tokenization to Work on Germany's EUR 500M Battery Storage Problem

Hacker Noon

Lava Network Puts Tokenization to Work on Germany's EUR 500M Battery Storage Problem

Germany needs to roughly quintuple its battery storage by 2030, and the capital to build it has to come from somewhere. Lava Network is now testing whether tokenized financing can be part of the answer. The protocol's Tokenization Sandbox…

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In DC, Lapid tells Democrats who voted to block arms sales to Israel that ‘they’re wrong’

Times of Israel