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MAPU Introduces the World’s 1st “Platform Utility Ratio” Redefining How Crypto Value Is Measured

Wednesday at 21:08 PM, via Tech Financials

FAYETTEVILLE, NC (PinionNewswire) — MAPU, the native utility token powering the MatchAwards.com AI economic-development platform, today announced the launch of the industry’s first Platform Utility Ratio (P/U Ratio) a transparent, data-driven metric grounded in real activity generated across the MatchAwards ecosystem. This marks a major milestone for Web3: a digital asset whose value...

TraceFuse Unveils New ROI Calculator for Smarter Amazon Rating & Profit Optimization

Wednesday at 21:00 PM, via Tech Financials

RENO, Nevada (PinionNewswire) — TraceFuse, a leading provider of ecommerce review-intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of its new ROI Calculator – an analytical tool designed to give Amazon sellers unprecedented clarity into how their product ratings affect sales, profitability, and long-term marketplace performance. As competition intensifies and customer expectations rise,...

Wells Fargo CEO Says More Job Cuts Coming at the Bank as AI Prompts ‘Efficiency’

Wednesday at 20:45 PM, via Slashdot

Wells Fargo expects more job cuts and higher severance costs in this quarter that ends in three weeks, bank CEO and President Charlie Scharf said Tuesday at an investors conference in New York. He’s also betting on AI to drive efficiency and, eventually, further workforce reduction.From a report: “As we’ve gone through the budgeting process, and even pre AI, we do expect to have less people as...

Democrats Warn Their Party May Try To Unravel Any Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

Wednesday at 20:09 PM, via Slashdot

As the battle over Warner Bros. Discovery grows, two Democratic lawmakers are warning that their party may try to block or unravel anyacquisition by Paramount when it returns to power. Semafor: In a letter to the WBD board and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent first shared with Semafor, Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said they were concerned about the national...

Amazon Changes How Copyright Protection is Applied To Kindle Direct’s Self-Published Ebooks

Wednesday at 19:33 PM, via Slashdot

Amazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Starting on January 20, 2026, authors who set their titles as DRM-free will see their books made available in these more open formats. From a report: The decision to use Digital Rights Management (DRM), a copyright protection mechanism, is...

HDMI Forum Continues To Block HDMI 2.1 For Linux, Valve Says

Wednesday at 18:51 PM, via Slashdot

New submitter emangwiro shares a report: The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve’s Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations. In a statement to Ars Technica, a Valve spokesperson confirmed...

Should people wear a mask in public if they feel unwell with flu?

Wednesday at 18:47 PM, via The Guardian

NHS and No 10 advice differs on wearing masks if you have flu symptoms. What is best practice for prevention and protection?

An NHS leader has said people who are unwell with flu “must wear” a mask in public. A UK government official has said if you need to go out while sick, you should only “consider” wearing a mask.

So what is the official advice, how serious is the threat posed by flu, and...

Volvo XC90 And XC60 Lead South Africa’s Pre-Owned PHEV Market

Wednesday at 18:34 PM, via Tech Financials

Volvo Car South Africa continues to strengthen its position as a leader in South Africa’s electrified vehicle landscape, with the brand’s plug-in hybrid models ranking first and second among the country’s best-selling used PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). New market data from AutoTrader South Africa reveals a compelling trend: demand for Volvo’s electrified vehicles remains...

Meta’s New AI Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company

Wednesday at 18:05 PM, via Slashdot

Meta’s newly recruited AI “superstars” have developed an us-versus-them mentality against the company’s longtime executive leadership, creating internal friction over whether the team should focus on catching up to rivals like OpenAI and Google or improving Meta’s core advertising and social media businesses. Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg hired in June to be chief...

A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?

Wednesday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

A fin whale washed ashore in Anchorage and was left there for months. Then a self-described ‘wacko’ museum director made a plan

When a whale dies, its body descends to the bottom of the deep sea in a transformative phenomenon called a whale fall. A whale’s death jump-starts an explosion of life, enough to feed and sustain a deep-ocean ecosystem for decades.

There are a lot of ways whales can...

The DHS Data Grab Is Putting US Citizens at Risk

Wednesday at 18:00 PM, via Wired

As the US government rapidly merges data from across agencies in service of draconian immigration policies, citizens increasingly risk being caught up as well.

Man made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests

Wednesday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed

Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk.

It is known that humans used natural fire more than 1m years ago, but until now the earliest unambiguous...

MTN price increases announced in South Africa

Wednesday at 17:33 PM, via MyBroadband

MTN South Africa has announced adjustments to its consumer contract pricing, which it said will result in a 9.7% average increase in subscription fees.

A Complete Guide to the Jeffrey Epstein Document Dumps

Wednesday at 17:26 PM, via Wired

New records about the infamous sex offender are released seemingly every week. Here’s a quick rundown of who’s releasing the Epstein documents, what they contain—and what they’re releasing next.

Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ

Wednesday at 17:25 PM, via Slashdot

A study this week has found that shoppers using Instacart are often charged different prices for identical products at the same store at the same time, even when selecting in-store pickup rather than delivery. The Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, and Consumer Reports organized nearly 200 volunteers across four cities to simultaneously check prices on 20 grocery items. Price...

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