Mansour bin Zayed, Kuwaiti Crown Prince discuss regional developments during phone call Source link

Austria affirms its commitment to working with partners in Middle East to protect regional stability Source link

Amazon is starting to roll out its redesigned Fire TV mobile app to customers, the company announced on Thursday. While you could previously only use the app as a backup remote, the updated experience lets you browse and discover content directly from your phone, manage your watchlist on the go, and play titles on your TV from the mobile app. …

Chinese automaker BYD unveiled a new battery pack Thursday that the company says is capable of charging from 10% to 70% in five minutes. Taking it to almost 100% takes about four minutes more. Recharge times like those would nullify concerns about electric vehicles’ charging times — one of the few places where internal combustion engines retain an advantage. Even in …

Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack on his phone was indeed hacked.  In a press release sent to journalists on Thursday, the public prosecutors’ offices in Rome and Naples, which are investigating the spyware scandal in the country, said that a technical report concluded that the phones of …

Bridget Perry. (LinkedIn Photo) — Amperity, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies collect and manage customer data, named Bridget Perry as chief marketing officer. Earlier in her career, Perry was a marketing director for Microsoft for nearly nine years and worked for more than eight years at Adobe, leaving the role of CMO of Europe, Middle East and Africa. She …

The Department of Defense (DOD) has officially notified Anthropic leadership that the company and its products have been designated a supply-chain risk, Bloomberg reports, citing a senior department official.  The designation comes after weeks of conflict between the AI lab and the DOD. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has refused to allow the military to use its AI systems for mass …

It feels like we could all use a little (or a large) boost of joy and optimism right now, so it’s a perfect coincidence that a Games Done Quick event is on the horizon. Frost Fatales 2026 is running from March 8 through March 14. This week-long livestream will be raising money for the National Women’s Law Center, a nonprofit …

Elon Musk-owned X announced on Thursday that it’s revamping the social network’s Creator Subscriptions offering with a number of new features, including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, and a shareable subscriptions card, among other changes. The company believes these updates will allow creators to attract more fans and provide better experiences, as it pushes to become …

If your Playdate wishlist is anything like mine (endless), here’s a good excuse to actually go ahead and free some of those games from limbo: Panic is running a two-week-long sale on the Playdate Catalog to celebrate its three-year anniversary. Sure, the majority of Playdate games are pretty cheap as is, but they can still add up when you’re on …

UAE President receives phone call from Prime Minister of Libya's Government of National Unity affirming solidarity with the UAE Source link

The Sub Pop location on 7th Avenue in Seattle, with Amazon’s Spheres visible across the street. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Longtime Seattle independent record label Sub Pop Records is leaving Amazonia. The company announced via social media on Thursday that its retail store at 2130 7th Ave., at the base of Amazon’s re:Invent headquarters tower, is closing this Sunday …

Who needs Half-Life 3 or Beyond Good & Evil 2? Roku, in an attempt to gamify content discovery on its platform, has cooked up a gaming announcement for the ages. Behold: Roklue. Yes, that’s a real name that someone with a job title and (likely high) salary came up with. Roklue (shudder) will quiz players on “the movies and TV …

Nominal on Thursday announced a fresh $80M Series B extension round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Founders Fund. This followed the company’s $75M Series B round led by Sequoia in September. Nominal offers software that helps hardware engineers test their designs and began as a picks-and-shovels type of startup for the defense industry. The three-and-a-half-year-old, L.A.-based company says …

US President Donald Trump has said he should personally be involved in selecting Iran’s next leader after Ali Khamenei, warning that Tehran would be “wasting its time” if it attempts to appoint a successor without US involvement. In an interview with an American website, Trump said that discussions are underway in Iran regarding the country’s next supreme leader. He claimed …