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Amazon is making its satellite communication network a bit more official with a rebrand. The company has announced that Project Kuiper will now be called “Amazon Leo,” a nod to the fact that its network is composed of satellites in low Earth orbit.Project Kuiper’s journey to becoming a proper Amazon brand has been a long one. The company introduced the project in 2019 with the goal of offering internet in regions without a reliable connection, through a proposed constellation of over 3,000 satellites that could blanket 95 percent of the global population in high-speed internet. That constellation has yet to…
The EU has opened an investigation into Google over claims that the tech giant has been unfairly demoting commercial content from news media sites in its search results. The Guardian reports that the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, announced the investigation after monitoring found that certain content created by news media in partnership with advertisers and sponsors was being given such a low priority by Google that it was essentially invisible in search results. Officials said this potentially unfair “loss of visibility and of revenue” to media owners could be a result of an anti-spam policy Google operates.…
Solana (SOL) is once again under intense market scrutiny as a combination of fading memecoin activity, declining user engagement, and continuous token unlocks by Alameda Research puts pressure on one of crypto’s strongest 2025 performers. Related Reading: Ethereum Ready To Explode To $12,000 By January, Says Tom Lee While institutional inflows via ETFs remain robust, Solana’s ability to defend key technical levels, particularly the $140–$150 demand zone, will determine whether the asset stabilizes or slides into a deeper correction. Memecoin Cooldown Sends User Activity to One-Year Low Solana’s explosive rise in late 2024 and early 2025 was largely fueled by…
A 57-year-old Pittsburgh tech entrepreneur who is the founder and chairman of a software company with federal contracts including with the Pentagon is facing felony charges for allegedly soliciting sexual contact with a young girl in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. WTAE in Pittsburgh reports that Eric T. Gillespie, founder and chairman of software company Govini, was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly trying to arrange a meeting with a preteen girl for sexual purposes. The arrest was part of a sting operation conducted by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Child Predator Section. According to Attorney General Dave Sunday, an agent posed as an adult in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that the government shutdown is over, House and Senate Republicans say they will negotiate with Democrats on whether to extend COVID-era tax credits that help tens of millions of Americans afford their health care premiums. But finding bipartisan agreement could be difficult, if not impossible, before the subsidies expire at the end of the year.The shutdown ended this week after a small group of Democrats made a deal with Republicans senators who promised a vote by mid-December on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies. But there is no guaranteed outcome, and many Republicans have made clear…
Bitcoin continues to consolidate below the $105,000 mark, maintaining stability above the key $100,000 support level despite ongoing market uncertainty. Bulls appear to be losing momentum, yet sellers are showing signs of exhaustion as the price resists further decline. According to top analyst Darkfost, the market has entered a clear deleveraging phase following the major liquidation event on October 10 — a structural reset that is removing excessive leverage from the system. Related Reading Data shows that open interest — the total value of active futures contracts — has fallen by 21% over the past 90 days, marking one of…
Apple is reportedly doing away with its Major League Soccer Season Pass and including next season’s soccer matches as part of its normal Apple TV subscription. That’s according to reports of a new MLS partnership agreement from The Athletic that’s similar to a deal the company made in October to bring F1 races to all subscribers.First announced in 2022, the MLS Season Pass remains one of Apple’s most significant forays into sports programming to date. As part of its original agreement with MLS, Apple became the exclusive way soccer fans streamed MLS games globally, eliminating any kind of regional blackout,…
The most recent Switch 2 software update looks to have bricked many third-party docks and related accessories, according to users across the internet and a report by Kotaku. We don’t know if this was an intentional move by Nintendo or simply an accident. Engadget has reached out to the company for clarification.The Switch 2 update 21.0.0 brings some much-needed quality-of-life features, like the ability to turn off autoplaying videos in the eShop and new icons that indicate whether a game is digital or physical. However, it also brought along the aforementioned dock hiccup.Switch 2 owners have reported that these docks…
The Kim Kardashian co-founded shapewear brand has fresh capital to grow its retail footprint and expand in apparel and activewear, with beauty and skincare also on deck Skims has added fresh capital to fuel to its global takeover plan, closing out a year where the brand is expected to exceed $1 billion in net sales. The shapewear brand, founded by Kim Kardashian and Jens Grede, has completed a $225 million capital raise, valuing the company at $5 billion. Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the financing round with participation from BDT & MSD Partners’ affiliated funds. Skims says the capital will go…
British actress Jameela Jamil slammed the rise of artificial intelligence, especially the emergence of AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, in the entertainment industry, calling the technology “deeply disturbing.” Jamil appeared at the Web Summit in Lisbon and took a hard line against the burgeoning AI threat to entertainment, according to Deadline. “I can’t understand it in the television and film space because the whole point of acting is to emulate the human experience and so having something that is not human trying to emulate our experience is not possible,” she insisted. “I find it deeply disturbing and troubling and shame on…