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The Best Power Bank Deals for Endlessly Refreshing the Same 4 Websites
A good power bank is essential. Between my phone, headphones, tablet, and smartwatch, I feel like I always have one device or another begging me to plug it in. I actually carry around a power bank with me everywhere due to my chaotic, spontaneous lifestyle and refusal to charge my devices when they aren’t actively read more
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ISPTech secures €5.5M seed to improve in-orbit mobility
InSpacePropulsion Technologies(ISPTech), a German space tech company developing propulsion systems designed to enable fast and agile in-orbit manoeuvring, has raised €5.5 million to advance deployment of its non-toxic propulsion technologies for operational missions. The round was led by Join Capital, with participation from High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Faber, First Momentum Ventures, Lightfield Equity, Final Frontier read more
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Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Block's employee base — and he says your company is next | TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes. On Thursday, Dorsey announced that Block, the payments company he founded that operates Square, Cash App, and Tidal, is cutting more than 4,000 employees, nearly half its global workforce, taking it from over 10,000 workers read more
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Best Frieze LA Booths: Textile Shows & ICE Commentary
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Dealers Are Abuzz at Frieze LA’s VIP Day: ‘It’s a Frenzy’
First-day sales reports from galleries at the latest edition of the Frieze Los Angeles art fair indicate an abundance of enthusiasm. Enough New Yorkers escaped the snow to be everywhere in the aisles, and major California collectors and cultural figures were spotted in numbers. “It’s a frenzy,” said clearly harried LA dealer Charlie James, standing read more
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Ulysses Jenkins, Video Art Trailblazer with an Eye on Mass Media, Has Died at 79
Ulysses Jenkins, a muralist, performer, and trailblazer of video art, has died at 79. His death was confirmed by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, his hometown and first collaborator in a lifelong examination of the connective and destructive potential of mass media. The museum mounted a retrospective of Jenkins’s work in 2022, titled “Without read more
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Hands-On With Nano Banana 2, the Latest Version of Google’s AI Image Generator
Google just debuted Nano Banana 2, an updated version of its AI image generator. It combines the abilities of Google’s previous release, Nano Banana Pro—like text rendering and web searching—with speedier image generation. This tool will be the new default in Google’s Gemini chatbot. The first image model from Google under the Nano Banana moniker read more
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A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch
A group of notable open source programmers are joining with a VC investor to launch a nonprofit called the Open Source Endowment in hopes of permanently solving the perennial issue with developing open source software: funding. Backers of the Open Source Endowment include Thomas Dohmke (the former GitHub CEO who raised a record $60 million read more
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Whats Coming in the M5 MacBook Air
Along with the low-cost MacBook, Apple could introduce a refreshed version of the MacBook Air next week. Most of the focus will be on the new machine, but the MacBook Air is expected to get some useful internal updates. M5 Chip The next-generation MacBook Air will adopt the M5 chip, which Apple already introduced in read more
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Anthropic CEO stands firm as Pentagon deadline looms | TechCrunch
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he “cannot in good conscience accede to [the Pentagon’s] request” to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems. “Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions,” Amodei wrote in a statement. “However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI read more
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How the Berlinale Turned Into a Horror Show of German Censorship
Despite its desperate attempts to divorce art from politics, the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) sparked controversy yet again after multiple prizewinners’ acceptance speeches included criticisms of Israel and Germany. Amid speculation that Berlinale Director Tricia Tuttle could be ousted as the event executives navigate the next steps, hundreds of film professionals have come to read more
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‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union
This week, the Uncanny Valley team dives into the feud that has been brewing between Anthropic and the Pentagon—and what it says about how the government interacts with tech companies. Later, Zoë Schiffer tells us why figuring out whether you are agentic or mimetic has become the new litmus test in Silicon Valley. Plus, we read more
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Judy Baca Denies Misusing $5M Grant for Iconic LA Mural
News The LA Times reported that 10 employees accused the activist and artist of using funds from a Mellon Foundation grant for personal benefit. Judy Baca at the LACMA Art+Film Gala at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 1, 2025 (photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic via Getty Images) Activist and painter Judy Baca, best read more
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Art Movements: New Curator at the Frick
Community Aaron Wile will be a senior curator at the institution. Plus, the Venice Biennale announces its full list, and the Bezoses are chairing the Met Gala (yay!). Aaron Wile, the new John Updike Curator at the Frick Collection (photo courtesy Frick Collection) Art Movements,published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, read more
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In 'The Fall-Off Is Inevitable,' J. Cole Circles Back to the Beginning
The second cut on disc 39 of his most recent double album, “The Fall-Off Is Inevitable” unfolds J. Cole’s life and professional career through a backward-moving narrative. Directed by Palestinian-American filmmaker Ryan Doubiago, the track’s accompanying music video visually captures the feeling of reminiscence, as the rapper looks back on his journey thus far. Though read more
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David Driskell’s Gifts to Black Art
Features The artist and scholar spent decades championing Black artists through collecting, creating, and providing financial support through the Driskell Prize. David C. Driskell,”Pine and Moon“(1971), oil on Masonite; Portland Museum of Art, Maine (© Estate of David C. Driskell, courtesy DC Moore Gallery, New York. Image courtesy Pillar Digital Imaging) PORTLAND, Maine — David read more
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SoCal’s Bunny Museum Receives Gift of Rabbit Sculpture
Once dubbed “one of the weirdest, wildest, places you can visit” by SFGate, the Bunny Museum in Altadena, California, burned to the ground in 2025’s Greater Los Angeles Wildfires. Founded by Candace Frazee and her husband Steve Lubanski and dedicated to all things bunny, the beloved SoCal institution had been open to the public since read more
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High Museum COO Resigns After $600K Disappeared
News An internal investigation traced “financial irregularities” back to Brady Lum, who had served as the Atlanta art museum’s chief operating officer since 2019. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta (photo CC BY-SA 2.0 by Aleksandr Zykov via Flickr) The chief operating officer at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta has resigned after read more
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This AI Agent Is Designed to Not Go Rogue
AI agents like OpenClaw have recently exploded in popularity precisely because they can take the reins of your digital life. Whether you want a personalized morning news digest, a proxy that can fight with your cable company’s customer service, or a to-do list auditor that will do some tasks for you and prod you to read more
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Memory shortage could cause the biggest dip in smartphone shipments in over a decade | TechCrunch
A rise in the need for computers and data centers to power AI is causing a massive shortage of RAM, driving memory prices sharply higher. Now, analyst firm IDC predicts that this will cause smartphone shipments to plummet by 12.9% this year, making it the biggest single-year dip in more than a decade. Earlier this read more
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