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Nominal raises $240M at $3B, tripling its value since March

That is triple its valuation in March. Back then, Nominal raised $80M at $1B in a round led by Founders Fund. Nominal told Paayal Zaveri at Bloomberg that its revenue has more than tripled so far this year. Bloomberg…

How does Google Wallet's notification feed work and can you disable it?

If you've looked over the pros and cons of digital wallets and settled on Google's Wallet app, you'll be happy to know an update has dropped for the platform. This update, which began to roll out in October 2026…

Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny

The revelation that he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy threatens to complicate that argument. The Financial Times reported Friday on Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang, a former executive at Megaspeed, an…

Workers feel pressure to use AI and show off to bosses — even when it slows them down

This comes as two in three (63%) workers say their employers now actively encourage or expect AI use for at least some tasks, with as many as 39% even highlighting their AI use to managers despite believing it didn't…

RCS broke my Google Messages; these fixes got it working again

That's enough for me to label text messages ancient. Add Android Police on Google Add as Preferred Source I ditched text messaging a long time ago, and I haven't looked back since. I use RCS in Google Messages every day…

A true paleo diet would include a lot more insects

In 2024, Sabrina Carpenter released Espresso and suddenly she was having a moment. Right now, the cast of Celebrity Traitors are all having a collective moment. For much of the 21st century, entomophagy – the eating of…

Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution

In its release, Meta said Ember was “designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing.” Meta particularly emphasized…

This video shows how AI can read the radio waves coming from an HDMI cable to mimic what's on screen

A post on X by Psalter shows TempestSDR, which can capture the signal from your HDMI cable and almost recreate the image on another screen, because the cable creates an electromagnetic field that can be read. The quality…

Adobe becomes Disney’s AI partner to build models on its characters

It extends work with Walt Disney Imagineering to Disney’s studio and ESPN. No financial terms were disclosed. Adobe has become Disney’s “ Official AI Innovation Partner ” in a multi-year deal to build custom AI models…

The reason your laptop can get hot after extended use

The reason? There are many components inside — such as the processor and battery — packed into a relatively thin chassis, and all that heat has to go somewhere. This heat is often completely normal and caused by things…