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The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.

New features are rolling out across the Android ecosystem starting today.

If you're running out of space on your iPhone, there might be unused data hiding in places you wouldn't expect.

Smart homes have gotten really good at making things really complicated. Turning on a light can involve multiple steps, compared to just flipping a switch. Homey, the Dutch-based smart home platform owned by LG, thinks it has a solution. This week it launched the Homey Portal, a touchscreen smart home controller that looks very promising, […]

The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.

After launching a budget-friendly flood sensor last month with impressive battery life, Shelly announced a new $49.99 security camera today that can be used without any additional subscription fees - although that's still an option if you want to expand its capabilities. The Shelly Camera will be available soon from the company's online store and […]

Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.

Newlight has raised a $9 million seed round and completed an 8,500-nautical-mile test run from Singapore to Ghana.

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"We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. "I'm not going to dress these facts up."

Poco's newest smartphone isn't headed to the US, but you might want it to.

Early Androids were the tech equivalent of alternative rock. iPhones were far too mainstream for some of us, and Android felt like home.

HashiCorp is positioning HCP Terraform as the governance and control plane for a new generation of AI-driven infrastructure, arguing that the rapid adoption of coding agents is shifting the biggest infrastructure challenge from writing configuration to verifying and safely executing it. By Craig Risi

Every year over 200,000 people descend on Berlin for IFA, the largest tech trade show in Europe. Some of the world’s biggest manufacturers turn up to demo everything from appliances to smartphones to smart home gadgets, and this year should be no different. IFA itself runs from September 4th to 8th, but most of the […]

It's a good time to also investigate a bit the dart I/O interfaces, especially the one related to files. The dart:io package must be imported to deal with files and directories in Dart. import 'dart:io' ; A file in Dart is an object instantiated by the File class . This object can be created by simply invoking the default constructor , where its argument will be a String . // default constructor can be used // to create a new object pointing to // a local file. File myFile = File ( "./file1.test" ); fromRawPath() is another constructor, it opens a file based on an List<Uint8> ( Uint8List ), this kind of data is usually generated by utf8.encode or ascii.encode . // fromRawPath constructor can be used // to open a file based on a raw path, // an Uint8list. File myFile2 = File . fromRawPath ( ascii . encode ( "./file2.test" ); ); Finally, the fromUri() constructor will open a file based on an Uri object. // fromUri is another construct that // can be used to open a file based on // an Uri. File myFile3 = File . fromUri ( Uri . file ( "./file3.test" ) ); Now the file object has been created, many attributes and methods are available to control it. Let check first the attributes. In the previous examples, all objects are using a relative path, when the object is returned, the absolute path attribute is set. It is the absolute path representation of the data previously passed. print ( myFile1 . absolute ); print ( myFile2 . absolute ); print ( myFile3 . absolute ); $ dart run File: '/home/user/tmp/cboring/./file1.test' File: '/home/user/tmp/cboring/./file2.test' File: '/home/user/tmp/cboring/file3.test' The original path passed as first argument can be retrieved with the path attribute . print ( myFile1 . path ); print ( myFile2 . path ); print ( myFile3 . path ); $ dart run ./file1.test ./file2.test file3.test The file object can also returns an Uri object with the help of the uri attribute . // this is a closure helper to show // the properties from an Uri object and //

Magna's investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in the Indian battery-swapping firm.

Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months.

The email arrives. "Mercury will not be able to support your business at this time. We will not be able to provide additional details about this decision." You spend the next two weeks building an appeal: residence permit, business plan, tax registration, customer contracts, the whole file. You attach a polite cover letter explaining that you are not in Russia, not a sanctioned individual, fully compliant. Mercury either does not respond or sends the same boilerplate back. By week three you have decided you did something wrong, that your business is somehow tainted, that you will never get a US bank account. None of that is true. The reject was a system response, and once you can see the arithmetic driving it, the next move gets obvious and the spiral stops. The math behind an auto-decline OFAC violation penalties start at roughly $1 million per transaction. The annual revenue from a single diaspora-founder account at Mercury sits somewhere between $50 and $500. On top of that sits reputational risk: one Bloomberg story about "the fintech serving sanctioned Russians" damages the next funding round, strains banking partner relationships, and invites regulatory attention. Run those numbers and an auto-decline on an RU or BY passport signal becomes the rational move for the fintech, even when the overwhelming majority of flagged applications are perfectly legal. The downside of a single miss outweighs the upside of correctly clearing every legal applicant. What you are looking at is a company optimising against an asymmetry: maximum downside, minimal upside, per application. There is no judgement of you anywhere in that calculation. How the decline actually happens A KYC submission includes a passport scan, residence permit, and business documents. The decisioning system flags an RU or BY passport regardless of where you live, how the company is structured, or where the revenue comes from. Human review exists, but it triggers only when the signal-to-noise ratio is exce

Google raised the price of its 4K streaming box to $149, up $50 from its original $99 price. The new price is currently live at the Google Store and Best Buy, but Amazon appears to still be offering the original price. The price hike comes just a couple of weeks after Google launched its new […]

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