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  • Apples C1X Modem Faces First Reported Failure in iPhone Air

    A reported hardware failure affecting Apple’s new in-house C1X 5G modem in the iPhone Air has surfaced online, marking the first known real-world incident involving the company’s own baseband technology. The ‌iPhone Air‌ is the first iPhone model to ship with the Apple’s internally designed C1X 5G modem, replacing Qualcomm’s X75 modem used across the read more

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    Apples C1X Modem Faces First Reported Failure in iPhone Air

  • Art Basel Exhibitors Revealed for Its Swiss Fair, Hungarian Artist Dóra Maurer Dies at 89: Morning Links for February 19, 2026

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BASEL SQUARED. Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, has revealed the 290 exhibitors from 42 countries participating in its hometown, 2026 edition, from June 18 to 21. This year, 21 first-timers are making the trip, several hailing from an ever-broadening geographic scope, including read more

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    Art Basel Exhibitors Revealed for Its Swiss Fair, Hungarian Artist Dóra Maurer Dies at 89: Morning Links for February 19, 2026

  • Giggle raises funding to expand flexible staffing platform

    Budapest-based Giggle, a staffing platform connecting blue-collar workers with shift-based roles, has raised an undisclosed funding round to support its expansion into the Romanian market. The round was led by OXO Labs, part of O3 Partners and the family fund of Romania’s Catalyst NXT Ventures, headed by former Hungarian finance minister Peter Oszkó, alongside three read more

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    Giggle raises funding to expand flexible staffing platform

  • Art Basel Names 290 Galleries from 43 Countries for Its Flagship Swiss Fair, with 21 First Timers

    Art Basel has announced the 290 galleries that will participate in its 2026 flagship fair in Basel, taking place June 18-21, with the VIP days on June 16 and 17. Exhibitors come from 43 countries and territories, including 21 first-time participants. The main Galleries sector will include 232 exhibitors spanning historical to contemporary work. Twelve read more

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    Art Basel Names 290 Galleries from 43 Countries for Its Flagship Swiss Fair, with 21 First Timers

  • Rana Begum’s Abstractions Are Industrial-Strength, But They Shine

    Growing up in Bangladesh and Hertfordshire, England, Rana Begum didn’t know that being an artist was a possible future for her. Her father worked various jobs to support the family, and brought them to the UK looking for a better life. “I didn’t even know I could draw,” the artist told me recently, but since read more

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    Rana Begum’s Abstractions Are Industrial-Strength, But They Shine

  • Hauser & Wirth to Represent Carol Rama Estate

    Hauser & Wirth, one of the biggest galleries in the world, has added yet one more artist to its roster: Carol Rama, whose estate Hauser & Wirth will represent alongside the Berlin-based Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi. Rama was one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. Working in Italy, she produced paintings about female read more

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    Hauser & Wirth to Represent Carol Rama Estate

  • Can Everdye clean up one of fashion’s dirtiest processes?

    Behind every brightly coloured garment lies a largely invisible cost. Dyeing synthetic fibres can account for up to 60 per cent of the total energy used in textile production, while the global dyeing industry is responsible for nearly 20 per cent of water contamination and around 5 per cent of greenhouse-gas emissions. In a sector read more

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    Can Everdye clean up one of fashion’s dirtiest processes?

  • Report: Meta Revives Smartwatch Plans to Take On Apple Watch

    Meta is set to release its first smartwatch this year featuring health-tracking and built-in Meta AI, reports The Information. The smartwatch, which would compete directly with Apple Watch and other brands, is the result of a revived project that Meta canceled in 2022 amid broader spending cuts at its Reality Labs hardware division. The original read more

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    Report: Meta Revives Smartwatch Plans to Take On Apple Watch

  • TrueLayer lands eBay "strategic investment"

    eBayhas made a “strategic investment” in UK open banking fintech TrueLayer, the UK fintech announced today. eBay has made the investment through its VC arm, eBay Ventures, joining existing TrueLayer investors Stripe, Tiger Global, Tencent and Temasek. TrueLayer did not provide details about the size of the investment. TrueLayer said: “For TrueLayer, it represents both read more

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    TrueLayer lands eBay "strategic investment"

  • ‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science

    In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out its latest public health alert on so-called “superbugs”, strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics. These drug-resistant germs, the CDC warned, are responsible for more than 3m infections in the read more

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    ‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science

  • If You’re Building a Home Gym, Start With Dumbbells and a Yoga Mat

    To join or not to join a gym: That is the question. If you opt out of building a home gym, you can join a club and have access to more weights and machines. Friends and classes motivate you to keep coming, and that monthly bill keeps you disciplined. On the other hand, gym memberships read more

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    If You’re Building a Home Gym, Start With Dumbbells and a Yoga Mat

  • Could Apple Demo Immersive F1 on Vision Pro at Its March 4 Event?

    Apple’s upcoming March 4 media event could include a demo of immersive Formula 1 content on Apple Vision Pro, Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber has suggested. The timing appears to be what’s sparked the idea. The 2026 F1 season kicks off in Australia on March 8, just four days after the “Apple Experience” set to be read more

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    Could Apple Demo Immersive F1 on Vision Pro at Its March 4 Event?

  • This Is Not My LA Art World

    Daily Newsletter Helene Schjerfbeck’s penetrating self-portraits at The Met, Pride flag artist’s foundation sues the Trump administration, and remembering Henrike Naumann. We’re just a week away from Frieze LA, when East Coast dealers and local artists alike descend upon the Santa Monica Airport, but this isn’t Renée Reizman’s first rodeo. Since the critic and artist read more

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    This Is Not My LA Art World

  • Inside the Gay Tech Mafia

    No one can say exactly when, or if, gay men started running Silicon Valley. They seem to have dominated its upper ranks at least the past five years, maybe more. On platforms like X, the clues are there: whispers of private-island retreats, tech executives going “gay for clout,” and the suggestion that a “seed round” read more

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    Inside the Gay Tech Mafia

  • This AI Tool Will Tell You to Stop Slacking Off

    I’ve tested a lot of software tools over the years designed to block distractions and keep you focused. None of them work perfectly, mostly because of context. Reddit, for example, is something I should generally avoid during the workday, so I tend to block it—this is a good decision for me overall. The problem is read more

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    This AI Tool Will Tell You to Stop Slacking Off

  • Tingit raises €1.5M to scale AI-powered repair platform across Europe

    Tingit, a startup transforming how we repair fashion and electronics, has raised €1.5 million investment round to take its AI-driven repairs platform across the European Union. Led by Coinvest Capital and joined by Firstpick, NGL Ventures, and previous investors Heartfelt (Germany), BADideas (Latvia), and Purpose Tech (Czech Republic), the funding marks a major step toward read more

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    Tingit raises €1.5M to scale AI-powered repair platform across Europe

  • How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

    For all these approaches, from the fully public to the paranoid, the same principle applies as in a Signal conversation: A piece of information is only as secure as the least secured device that accesses it. So as you consider your threat model and whose devices and accounts within your group have access to your read more

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    How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

  • Copla raises €6M Series A to support EU regulatory compliance

    Copla, a European regtech company developing real-time compliance infrastructure for regulated financial services, has raised €6 million in a Series A funding round led by Baltic DeepTech & AI VC Iron Wolf Capital. US-based Operator Stack also participated, alongside existing investors including Specialist VC, SuperHero Capital, FirstPick, NGL Ventures, Loggerhead Partners, and a group of read more

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    Copla raises €6M Series A to support EU regulatory compliance

  • SportIQ expands connected sports ball technology with $6.2M raise

    SportIQ, a company that develops smart basketballs and in-app shooting coaching technology, has raised a total of $6.2 million in a Series A funding round completed in two closings. The latest closing included $3.2 million in new funding from KB Partners, Koppenberg Management, Match Ventures, and a group of high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Read read more

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    SportIQ expands connected sports ball technology with .2M raise

  • Agaton raises $10 million to expand its AI platform for sales teams

    Stockholm-based Agaton, an agentic AI platform that uses voice analysis to help enterprise sales teams identify and act on opportunities in customer conversations, has emerged from stealth and raised $10 million in total seed funding. The round was co-led by Inception Fund and Alstin Capital, with participation from seed+speed Ventures and Foundry Ventures. Additional investors read more

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    Agaton raises million to expand its AI platform for sales teams