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Best gifts for book lovers (2025): e-readers, convenient accessories, and book sets

Best gifts for book lovers (2025): e-readers, convenient accessories, and book sets

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Lifestyle,Gift Guide โœ… Main takeaway: I love losing I'm in a good book, and I'm not the only one. Finding great gifts for book lovers isn't just about testing out the best e-reader (which we have!) or rounding up all the accessories worth adding to your Kindle (we did that too), it's about setting your favorite reader up to continue enjoying stories.You can help them with anything from a new reading tool or useful accessories to comfy items to settle in for…
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X deactivated the European Commission’s advertising account after fining the company โ‚ฌ120 million

X deactivated the European Commission’s advertising account after fining the company โ‚ฌ120 million

๐Ÿš€ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Government & Policy,Social,Elon Musk,european commission,Nikita Bier,X ๐Ÿ“Œ Key idea: X's head of product, Nikita Beer, responded to the European Commission this weekend after the European Commission fined the social media company โ‚ฌ120 million (about $140 million). In its first fine under EU digital services law, the Commission called The Commission also said that the X ad repository failed to meet the DSA's requirements for transparency and accessibility. The commission said Company After the fine was announced, X's owner, Elon Musk, called it "nonsense" and also posted, "How long before the…
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The accelerator is on the ground for self-driving vehicles

The accelerator is on the ground for self-driving vehicles

โœจ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Transportation,Amazon,nvidia,Tesla,Uber,Lucid Motors,Waymo,wayve,techcrunch mobility,avride ๐Ÿ’ก Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility โ€” your central hub for news and insights about the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free โ€“ just click TechCrunch Mobility! Another week, another round of announcements about robotaxis being launched or planned in cities. Let's take stock. Waymo It has begun testing its self-driving vehicles (with a safety monitor) in Philadelphia and will begin manual driving to collect data in Baltimore, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh; Uber and Afried…
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Coinbase begins onboarding users again in India, and plans to launch fiat currencies next year

Coinbase begins onboarding users again in India, and plans to launch fiat currencies next year

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: TC,Crypto,Fintech,India,cryptocurrency,Coinbae ๐Ÿ’ก Main takeaway: After a hiatus of more than two years, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has opened its application for registration in India. Currently, users can make crypto-to-crypto trades โ€“ but speaking at India Blockchain Week (IBW), John O'Loughlin, Asia Pacific director at Coinbase, said the company will open a cash market in 2026, allowing users in India to load funds and buy cryptocurrencies. Coinbase opened its services in India in 2022, and within days was forced to stop support for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment network. The move…
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OpenAI says it’s turning off app suggestions that look like ads

OpenAI says it’s turning off app suggestions that look like ads

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: AI,Startups,OpenAI ๐Ÿ“Œ Key idea: While OpenAI continues to insist that there are no ads - or ad tests - live in ChatGPT currently, the company's chief research officer Mark Chen also admitted that the company has "missed" recent promotional messages and is working to improve the experience. Chen and other OpenAI executives were responding to posts by paying ChatGPT subscribers who complained about seeing promotional messages for companies like Peloton and Target. In response, the company said it was only testing ways to showcase apps built on the ChatGPT app…
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Best printers for home and office: Brother, HP, and more

Best printers for home and office: Brother, HP, and more

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Computers,Gear / Products / Home Office,Buying Guide ๐Ÿ“Œ Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: Before anything else, you have to decide between ink and laser. I'll go into detail when it comes to each model, but the most important consideration is the paper type, as it's a limitation rather than a benefit. Laser printers use heat in the bonding process, which means if you regularly print on windowed envelopes or photo paper, you'll need to either use an inkjet printer or change to…
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As key talent leaves Apple, meet the new generation of leaders taking on the old guard

As key talent leaves Apple, meet the new generation of leaders taking on the old guard

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Shift Change โœ… Key idea: Start the music. Players walk clockwise in a circle. When the music stops, everyone sits on a chair. Big tech companies are implementing their plans for the next generation of lead designers, engineers, AI heads, and even CEOs.In Cupertino, Apple executives with familiar faces are retiring or reducing their responsibilities. Who comes in and who goes out? Well, Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams retired in November, and speculation is that CEO Tim Cook could succeed him in the near term.…
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This AI model can sense how the physical world works

This AI model can sense how the physical world works

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Science,Artificial Intelligence ๐Ÿ’ก Key idea: The original version to This story Featured in Quanta Magazine.Here's a test for infants: Show them a cup of water on the desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the plate towards the glass. If the painting continued to go beyond the glass, as if it wasn't there, would they be surprised? Many babies by 6 months, and by 1 year almost all babies have an intuitive idea of โ€‹โ€‹the permanence of an object, learned through observation. Now some AI models do it…
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Pat Gelsinger wants to save Moore’s Law, with a little help from the feds

Pat Gelsinger wants to save Moore’s Law, with a little help from the feds

โœจ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: AI,TC,ASML,Nicholas Kelez,Pat Gelsinger,Peter Thiel,playground global,Substrate,xLight โœ… Main takeaway: A year after being fired from Intel, Pat Gelsinger still wakes up at 4 a.m., still in the middle of the semiconductor wars โ€” just on a different battlefield. Now a general partner at Playground Global, the 63-year-old works with 10 startups. But one portfolio company has captured a significant share of his attention: xLight, a semiconductor startup that announced last Monday that it had closed a seed deal worth up to $150 million from the US Commerce Department, with the government…
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Warner Bros. purchase Netflix gives you what you’ve always needed: identity

Warner Bros. purchase Netflix gives you what you’ve always needed: identity

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Culture,Culture / Movies,Culture / TV,R&D by M&A โœ… Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: close your eyes, Think for a minute and tell me: What is a Netflix movie? Well, try again: What's the Netflix show?Sure, it's easy to name some killer headlinesโ€”Demon hunters in kpop, Strange things- But Netflix had no brand identity at all. It's not, like Disney, the home of Star Wars and Mickey Mouse. As streaming services go, they've made their name by being a jack of all trades and never a master. Now, she's made her smartest…
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