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Score, the dating app for people with good credit, is back | TechCrunch
Two years ago, Luke Bailey had what became a controversial app idea — a dating app called Score for people with good to excellent credit. Launched just days before Valentine’s Day, the app required users to have a credit score of at least 675 to register. At the time, Bailey said he created the app read more
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Staff and Programming Cuts Are Coming to London’s National Gallery Amid Possible $11 M. Deficit
The National Gallery in London will institute cuts to staff and programming in the face of a deficit that would, in the absence of “decisive remedial action,” grow by 2027 to £8.2 million ($11.2 million), says the institution in an emailed statement. The museum says that “in the present global landscape and with the cost-of-living read more
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Art Investing Startup Masterworks Files Legal Complaint Against an Early Hire Over Lawsuit Threat
From its offices on the 57th floor of 1 World Trade Center, employees at Masterworks hawk fractional ownership of blue-chip artworks, promising retail investors hefty returns. Reporting in both ARTnews in 2022 and the New York Times in 2024 has revealed a freewheeling atmosphere in which the company has played fast and loose with legal read more
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Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims | TechCrunch
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them through Meta’s AI assistant. Meta’s plans could change, the report read more
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Apple Now Testing Flip-Style Foldable iPhone
Apple is testing a different kind of foldable iPhone with a flip-style design, according to a known leaker based in Asia. Citing supposedly verifiable supply chain information, the Weibo user known as “Fixed Focus Digital” says that Apple has tested a flip-style foldable iPhone. Such a device would compete with devices such as Samsung’s Galaxy read more
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Five iPhone 18 Pro Features Revealed in New Report
While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are still seven months away, an analyst has revealed five new features the devices will allegedly have. In a research note with investment firm GF Securities on Thursday, analyst Jeff Pu outlined the following upgrades for the iPhone 18 Pro models: Smaller Dynamic Island: It read more
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Dutch phone giant Odido says millions of customers affected by data breach | TechCrunch
Dutch phone company Odido has confirmed a data breach affected millions of its customers. The company said in a statement Thursday that unidentified hackers gained access to its customer contact system and covertly downloaded reams of customer information. A spokesperson for Odido told local Dutch media that the breach affects more than 6.2 million customers, read more
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Elehear’s New Delight Hearing Aids Have a Marvelous Fit but Lackluster Sound
The Delight hearing aids come preconfigured with four additional environmental modes in addition to the default setting, with room for four extra modes you can create yourself. Unfortunately, none of these made any real difference for my overall hearing clarity, no matter what kind of setting I found myself in. Streaming media comes across as read more
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Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI
This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy Wacksman said in our conversation this week. Last year was dismal for the real estate market, and he expects things to improve only marginally in 2026. (If January’s historic drop read more
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Louvre’s Denon Wing Springs a Leak, Damaging One Painting—But the ‘Mona Lisa’ Is Safe
The Louvre‘s Denon Wing, an area of the Paris museum that hosts masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, and many more, sprang a leak on Thursday night, marking the latest difficult turn for an institution that is facing fallout from last year’s heist, scrutiny over its infrastructure, and continued work stoppages. A read more
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University of North Texas Shutters Exhibition of Artworks Critical of ICE
The University of North Texas (UNT) abruptly shuttered an exhibition of works by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, whose practice centers the lived experience of immigrants in the United States and their inhumane treatment by federal agencies. Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá — Spanish for “neither from here nor from there” — opened on February 3 read more
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ScyAI secures €2M and launches AI risk platform for real assets
Zurich-based startup ScyAI has closed a €2 million pre-seed funding round led by AENU and co-led by PT1. The round also includes participation from unicorn founders David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge) through Anti Ordinary Ventures, as well as Bela Lainck, Robert Levenhagen, Christoph Aufmhof and Stefanie Gerhart through the angel read more
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macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apples Slipping UI Polish
Apple released macOS Tahoe last September, but despite two point updates since then, it is still struggling to resolve an embarrassing interface issue in Finder that appears to have been introduced with its Liquid Glass redesign. If you updated your Mac to macOS Tahoe and you prefer to work in Finder’s column view, there’s a read more
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Meta Plans Name Tag Facial Recognition for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, reports The New York Times ($). According to people involved in the plans who spoke to the publication, the feature is internally called “Name Tag,” and would let wearers identify people and get information about them via read more
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Do Waterproof Sneakers Keep the Slosh In or Out? Let WIRED Explain
Running with wet feet, in wet socks, in wet shoes is the perfect recipe for blisters. It’s also a fast track to low morale. Nothing dampens spirits quicker than soaked socks. On ultra runs, I always carry spares. And when faced with wet, or even snowy, mid-winter miles, the lure of weatherproof shoes is strong. read more
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These Are the Best Apple 3-in-1 Chargers for Travel—I Tested Them All
Other Good 3-in-1 Travel Chargers Photograph: Simon Hill Kuxiu Qi2 25W Travel Charging Station for $79: This charger folds down to an impressively small package, and it feels pretty solid with a silicone-covered metal construction. It can hit 25 watts for supported Qi2 phones, comes in a few different finishes, and ships with a 45-watt read more
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Police Arrest Network of Louvre Ticket Fraudsters, London’s National Gallery to Cut Jobs Amid Growing Deficit: Morning Links for February 13, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines ARTFUL DODGERS. The Louvrehas had a rough season since the brazen daylight theft of France’s crown jewels from its gilded halls last October. Now, French police have arrested nine people in connection with an extensive network of fraudsters who sold fake tickets via read more
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How Ilia Malinin Revolutionized Figure Skating with His Quadruple Axel
Ilia Malinin was born to skate. The child of two Olympic skaters—Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who both competed for Uzbekistan—he first hit the ice at six years old. In the years since, he’s skyrocketed to fame in the skating world, dubbing himself the “Quad God” for his ability to do multiple quadruple jumps with read more
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LGBTQ+ Athletes Are Front and Center at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games
At the start of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, US figure skater Amber Glenn spoke at a press conference about using her platform as an Olympian to support LGBTQ+ rights. “It isn’t the first time we’ve had to come together as a community,” she said. “I hope that I can use my platform and read more
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Four Major Works by Bacon, Freud, and Kossoff from Lewis Collection to Hit Auction Block at Sotheby’s London in March
Sotheby’s will offer four major works from the Lewis Collection next month, spearheaded by a 1972 self-portrait by Francis Bacon, in what the auction house described as a markedly stronger market than a year ago. The group, which includes two portraits by Lucian Freud and a rare swimming pool scene by Leon Kossoff, will be read more
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