WEDNESDAY, 28 JANUARY 2026, 01:17
Amazon is closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores in a shift to focus on its online same-day delivery service and new big-box retail stores. From a report: The e-commerce giant said Tuesday that some of its shuttered Amazon-branded brick-and-mortar stores would be converted into Whole Foods Market locations. Amazon said its branded stores failed to deliver the right...
Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.
The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs.
The settlement means TikTok will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.
Only users who have already registered and completed age verification will be able to access the world’s largest porn site.
OpenAI launched a dedicated team in October called OpenAI for Science, led by vice president Kevin Weil, that aims to make scientists more productive — but Weil admitted in an interview with MIT Technology Review that the LLM cannot yet produce novel discoveries and says that’s not currently the mission. UC Berkeley statistician Nikita Zhivotovskiy, who has used LLMs since the first ChatGPT,...
Pinterest said on Tuesday it would trim its workforce by less than 15% and reduce office space, as the social media company looks to reallocate resources to AI-focused roles and initiatives. From a report: The announcement comes as the company competes with TikTok and Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram for digital advertising budgets, as these platforms continue to draw marketers with their...
Vodacom, MTN, and Cell C say they are scrutinising new regulations from ICASA that govern voice, SMS, and data bundles.
On-chain perpetual futures are drawing renewed interest as traders and DeFi-native investors prioritize self-custody without giving up professional-grade trading infrastructure. In parallel, structured yield strategies are gaining traction as users search for returns backed by real protocol performance rather than token inflation. This trend is showing up across the sector, with Paradex...
On January 19, the database migration error on Paradex briefly priced Bitcoin at zero dollars, triggering automated liquidations across thousands of leveraged positions before engineers halted trading and rolled back the chain to a pre-maintenance state. The eight-hour outage and subsequent blockchain reversal reignited a familiar debate in decentralized finance: when push comes to shove, […]
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has officially extended the deadline for written submissions to its Inquiry on new Individual-Electronic Communications Network Services (I-ECNS) licences. Stakeholders now have until 16 February 2026 to submit their responses, following considered requests for additional time. I-ECNS Licence: An Individual Electronic...
Samsung said today that its Galaxy Z TriFold, the first tri-fold smartphone to ship in the U.S., will be available starting January 30 at a price point of $2,899 — substantially more expensive than any other phone on the U.S. market, including Samsung’s own $2,000 Galaxy Z Fold 7 and a fully loaded 2TB iPhone 17 Pro Max. The company will only sell the device through its website and Samsung...
Court documents unsealed last week in a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic reveal that the AI company ran an operation called “Project Panama” to buy millions of physical books, slice off their spines, scan the pages to train its Claude chatbot, and then send the remains to recycling companies. The company spent tens of millions of dollars on the effort and hired Tom Turvey, a Google executive...
The automaker said that it would buy back stock worth up to $6 billion and that it expected profit to rise this year after it pulled back from electric vehicle production.
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Ypê, the Brazilian consumer goods company whose products can be found in over 95% of Brazilian homes.
Gian Visser is the co-founder and CEO of Afrihost, the ISP at the top of the South African rankings.
Not everyone wants to trade shares or take big risks with their hard-earned money — and they shouldn’t have to.
Sliyd, the one-click digital wallet built for instant rewards and simple onboarding, today announced the completion of the 100k Sliyd Drop – a campaign that delivered TOSHI rewards at scale, creating 100k new wallets on the BASE network via one-click rewards. In a sector where many focus on scale and vanity metrics but struggle to […]
Davos, Switzerland, January 27th, 2026- Global Stratalogues, in collaboration with the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), launched the joint Event Report and White Paper titled “Digital Assets Policy Roundtable: A Turning Point for Digital Asset Governance” at GBBC Blockchain Central Davos, held alongside the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. Caption: David Stybr, President & CEO […]
From bluebird days to blizzards, WIRED tested the best ski goggles for all weather conditions.
The Department of Home Affairs has responded after the Association of Communications and Technology served it with court papers.