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More than 100 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 — here they are

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🚀 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,evergreens,fundraising,unicorns 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns in 2025. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are focused in other industries like satellite space companies Loft Orbital and blockchain-based trading site Kalshi. This list will be updated throughout the year, so check back and see the latest powerhouse startups that are now worth over $1 billion. December Heven Aerotech —$1 billion: This startup, founded in 2019, is…

Tell HN: DigitalOcean’s managed services broke each other after update

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Yesterday my production app went down. The cause? DigitalOcean's managed PostgreSQL update broke private VPC connectivity to their managed Kubernetes.Public endpoint worked. Private endpoint timed out. Root cause: a Cilium bug (#34503) where ARP entries go stale after infrastructure changes.DO support responded relatively quickly (<12hrs). Their fix? Deploy a DaemonSet from a random GitHub user to ping stale ARP entries every 10 seconds. The upstream Cilium fix is merged but not yet deployed to DOKS. No ETA.I chose managed services specifically to avoid ops…

“One Ignore Looms Above All Others” – The Biggest Losers at the Golden Globes TV Awards | television

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Golden Globes 2026,Culture,Television & radio,Adolescence,Severance,The White Lotus 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TLooking just at the winners, last night's Golden Globes went exactly as expected. Adolescence invaded the painting, because of course it did, for all the reasons you know it by heart now. The studio was similarly successful, on the grounds that it was simultaneously funny about the entertainment industry and one of the episodes was about the Golden Globes. All deserving winners.But when you look into the nominations, things become less clear. The white lotus entered…

Boosing Henry Pollock is a sign of respect, says Phil Dawson, Northampton Saints chairman

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Northampton were forced to make two late substitutions before the game with England fly-half Finn Smith unable to play due to a calf injury – Anthony Bellew took his place despite a serious mouth injury sustained against Harlequins the previous weekend – and a hamstring problem that sidelined James Rahm.They were also beaten by Danilo Fischetti and center Rory Hutchinson in the first half and there was no way back from a 24-7 half-time deficit, despite having four tries of their own - two of…

Skeleton racing under investigation as US slider accuses Canada

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✨ Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Canada's decision to withdraw athletes from the North American Cup in Lake Placid on Sunday — a move that American athlete Katie Olender claims cost her a spot in next month's Winter Olympics — is being investigated by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation.Uhlander (41 years old), a two-time world champion in 2012, was hoping to obtain enough classification points to qualify for the sixth Olympic Games before the deadline on January 18.She won the development race but Canada's move to withdraw four athletes narrowed…

Senator Elizabeth Warren says Trump called her and talked to her about credit card rates and housing costs

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: affordability,credit cards,Donald Trump news,elizabeth warren,Housing costs 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, had just given a speech calling on President Donald Trump to use his influence to address high prices — and in an unusual move, he called her on the phone. While speaking on the phone, she said, she offered him advice about his latest push to cap credit card rates and lower housing costs. "No more delay. It's time to provide relief to American families." Read more: Banks balk as Trump…

Hands-on with the Bee, Amazon’s latest wearable AI device

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✨ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: TC,Hardware,AI,Gadgets,Amazon,bee 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In early tests with the Bee review unit, we found that the device itself was easy to use. It's just a push of a button to start or stop recording. In the app, you can configure whether a double-tap serves to bookmark a section of a conversation, process the current conversation, or both, and you can set whether a tap-and-hold gesture allows you to leave a voice note or chat with the AI assistant. (The companion Bee app currently reminds you to enable voice notes,…

Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On Sunday, Google removed some of its AI Overviews health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at risk by false and misleading information. The removals came after the newspaper found that Google’s generative AI feature delivered inaccurate health information at the top of search results, potentially leading seriously ill patients to mistakenly conclude they are in good health. Google disabled specific queries, such as “what is the normal range for liver blood tests,” after experts contacted by The Guardian flagged the…

Post your questions for Melissa Liu | film

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Melissa Leo,Drama films,Thrillers,Television,Comedy films,Comedy,Culture,Television & radio 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: It's been a remarkable career for Melissa Leo, who has earned an enviable reputation for portraying complex, tough, and often unconventional women across more than 100 on-screen roles. We count her most recent work, playing a detective in the psychological drama The Knife, as her 102nd.In the past, Liu successfully played the role of Linda Warner in the American series All My Children in 1984, receiving an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress. Since then, she's…

Michael Carrick: Is he the right person for Manchester United?

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: He did not change as manager. Always polite and friendly but never makes headlines for it.His wild celebration after a 3-1 win over Sheffield United in February 2023, sparked by some pre-match jitters, is remembered for being out of keeping with Carrick's normal behaviour.One of the conversations that took place in the dressing room before the match while gathering background information on Carrick is recalled in this article. As players on the pitch complete their warm-ups, many managers want to be left alone in silence.…