Frontier helps Arbor build a “vegetarian rocket engine” to power data centers
Frontier, a organization backed by Stripe, Google and Meta, announced Tuesday that it will pay startup arbor energy to remove 116,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide by the end of the decade. With the agreement, Arbor will help build the first commercial-scale power plant in southern Louisiana, discarding biomass and generating electricity for the data center. […]
UAE Proptech Huspy raises $599 million in Europe
If you enter a Dubai bank to apply for a mortgage in 2020, when it comes to listing, you could be buried in documents or face a major price contradiction. This experience led Jad Antoun to start Huspy. This is a startup that streamlines the way UAE people buy homes digitally. Over the past five […]
Fortnite Maker Epic Games resolves anti-trust cases against Samsung
Fortnite Maker Epic Games has settled an antitrust lawsuit against Samsung, according to court filings. The incident, filed last September, accused Samsung of working with Google to block rival app stores on Samsung phones by default. “Following the parties’ argument, they are dismissing the trial against Samsung,” Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said in an X […]
ChatGpt is testing a mysterious new feature called “Study Together.”
Some CHATGPT subscribers are reporting new features that appear in the drop-down list of available tools called “Study Together.” This mode is clearly a chatbot method that will become a better educational tool. Rather than providing answers to the prompts, some say they need to ask more questions and answer people, like Openai’s answer to […]
iOS 26 Beta 3 Dial Back Liquid Glass
The new Glassy Look for iPhone was toned down with Monday’s release of iOS 26’s third developer beta. This follows users’ complaints that some of the user interfaces have made them even more difficult to read. At WWDC 2025 in June, Tech Giant introduced a new design language known as Liquid Glass. This is inspired […]
Jack Dorsey is working on the Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat
Jack Dorsey, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder, wrote in a Sunday night X post that he created an app called Bitchat over the weekend (probably a combination of the words “bit” and “chat” rather than other words). Bitchat is a messaging app that operates over a Bluetooth mesh network, allowing users to send messages without […]
Waymo Robotaxis is heading to Philadelphia and New York
Waymo began two “road trips” to Philadelphia and New York City on Monday, expressing interest in the alphabet-owned company expanding to cities in the northeast. Waymo’s branded “road trips” do not necessarily represent a commercial launch anytime soon. Waymo has announced several other road trips this year, including Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego and […]
Threads are approaching X’s daily app users, new data shows
Market Intelligence Provider According to new data from SigraceWeb, Instagram threads are closer to top competitor X in terms of mobile app users. In June 2025, Threads mobile app for iOS and Android had 115.1 million active users, representing 127.8% growth from the previous year. X reached 132 million active as its growth fell 15.2% […]
AI forces integration into the data industry, but that’s not the whole story
The data industry is on the verge of dramatic transformation. The market is integrated. And if you’ve had transactions in the last two months, momentum is gaining if Databricks buys Neon for $1 billion and Salesforce snaps cloud management company Informatica for $8 billion. The acquired companies range in size, age and focus area within […]
Ingram Micro says the ongoing outage caused by ransomware attacks
Ingram Micro, a US technology that distributes giants and managed service providers, said on Monday that ransomware attacks are the cause of the ongoing outage. The hack began on Thursday, and many of the company’s website and its network have since gone down. Late Saturday, the company said in a simple statement that it could […]