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Never Miss Your Doorbell While Wearing Headphones on iPhone
Noise-canceling headphones are great for blocking out distractions, but they can also block out sounds you actually need to hear, like a courier at the front door with your all-important package. Well, thanks to an Apple accessibility feature, your iPhone can do the listening for you and alert you when your doorbell rings. Meet Sound read more
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Iconic Baseball Painting by Norman Rockwell Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago
On Tuesday, the Art Institute of Chicago announced its acquisition of a study for The Dugout (1948) by Norman Rockwell. Donated by former governor of Illinois Bruce Rauner and Diana Rauner, it will be the first work by that artist in the museum’s collection. A popular painter of American everyday life, Rockwell (1894–1978) is most read more
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‘Old Masters Are Back!’ New York Sales Set Records for Gentileschi, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. As an Old Masters auction started up in a packed room at Sotheby’s new Madison Avenue headquarters on Thursday morning, the auctioneer, David Pollack, made an unusual announcement. By far the top-priced work in the read more
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Where Is AirTag 2s Missing Feature?
Apple just introduced its second-generation AirTag, but one rumored feature failed to arrive with the new accessory. The second-generation AirTag features 50% farther Precision Finding, upgraded Bluetooth with increased range, a 50% louder speaker, and more. Back in August 2023, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that the second-generation AirTag would have better integration with Apple’s read more
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Naoto Nakagawa 2026 Is on View at KAPOW
Announcement The Lower East Side gallery presents new works by an artist who has shown in major US museums since the 1960s. The exhibition is open through February 22. KAPOW February 11, 2026 — 1 min read Naoto Nakagawa, “Still Life With Wine Opener, Lemon, and Pomegranate” (2025), acrylic on linen canvas with gold spray, read more
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Cyclone Gezani devastates Madagascar, dozens dead
A cyclone packing violent winds killed at least 31 people as it struck Madagascar, toppling houses and causing major flooding, the Indian Ocean island’s disaster authority said Wednesday. Cyclone Gezani made landfall on Tuesday, slamming into the country’s second-largest city, Toamasina, with winds reaching 250 kilometres per hour. The National Office for Risk and read more
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Samsung’s Budget Galaxy A17 Phone Is Crippled by Frustrating Performance
My benchmark scores aligned with my real-world assessment. The A17 ranked slightly higher than Motorola’s $200 Moto G in single-core performance, but much lower in multi-core performance, indicating that the Motorola device generally has it beat when you’re juggling multiple apps. That makes sense, because I do not recall having as frustrating an experience with read more
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Apple Suppliers Plans Fall Through, Macs and iPads May Be Impacted
On an earnings call on Tuesday, Japanese company Sharp announced that the planned sale of one of its LCD display factories to its majority owner Foxconn has fell through, according to Nikkei Asia. As a result, the report said Sharp plans to halt production at the facility in August, and this decision may temporarily impact read more
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Reflow launches following a $15M+ seed round focused on operational visibility for enterprises
Reflow has closed a seed funding round of more than $15 million to support ongoing technology development and broaden access to its workflow and AI automation intelligence, alongside the launch of its workforce and workflow intelligence platform for enterprise customers. As organisations adopt AI, many are able to measure outcomes but have limited visibility into read more
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Apple Acquires New Database App
Apple acquired Canadian graph database company Kuzu last year, it has emerged. The acquisition, spotted by AppleInsider, was completed in October 2025 for an undisclosed sum. The company’s website was subsequently taken down and its Github repository was archived, as is commonplace for Apple acquisitions. Kuzu was “an embedded graph database built for query speed, read more
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Louis Fratino, Ascendant Painter of Queer Intimacy, Joins David Zwirner
With his fame fast rising, painter Louis Fratino has joined David Zwirner, one of the world’s biggest galleries. Rather than cutting ties with his past galleries, as many artists do when they join a mega-gallery like Zwirner, Fratino will still be represented by Berlin’s Galerie Neu and New York’s Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, which helped make read more
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Acquavella Plans 50-Work Matisse Exhibition This Spring
This spring, Acquavella Galleries will stage one of the most ambitious gallery exhibitions of Henri Matisse in recent memory.“Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony,” on view from April 9 through May 22, will bring together 50 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that span roughly half a century of the artist’s career. For the gallery, the read more
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Apple Home App Stops Working for Some Users as Update Now Required
In 2022, Apple introduced a new Apple Home architecture that is “more reliable and efficient,” and support for the old architecture has now ended. As expected, the app is no longer working for some users. Users who did not update the app by the February 10 deadline now see this message: “You’re running an older read more
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Mistral boss calls for European unity in AI race, as pledges €1.2bn Swedish data centre investment
The boss of one of Europe’s most high-profile AI startups today called on European unity inthe global AI race, as it committed €1.2 billion to build its first data centres outside of its nativeFrance, in Sweden. Arthur Mensch, the CEO and co-founder of French AI startup Mistral, said: “We think it is a bit of read more
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How to Set Up an Apple Watch for Your Kids
Unpairing is supposed to erase all content and settings on your watch, but in my case, it did not. If it doesn’t work for you either, tap Settings on the watch, then General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings. At this point, you can have your kid put it on (if it’s charged). read more
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Overmind launches with £2M in seed funding to support development of agentic AI
London-based Overmind, which is developing a supervision layer for AI agents, has closed a £2 million seed funding round. The round was led by specialist cybersecurity investor Osney Capital, with participation from 14Peaks, Portfolio Ventures, Antler, and Endurance Ventures. As agentic AI systems advance, security requirements are becoming more complex and are increasingly difficult to read more
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Ukraine’s wartime VR therapy is scaling beyond trauma care
When Russia’s invasion overwhelmed Ukraine’s mental-health system, clinicians faced a surge of trauma patients with no increase in staff or therapy time. That constraint — rising need without added capacity — is also familiar in the US, where provider shortages, long waitlists, and brief appointments are common. But now, a Ukrainian startup, Luminify, has found read more
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iPhone 18 Pro: Apples C2 Modem to Support 5G Satellite Connectivity
Apple’s next-generation C2 modem will bring support for 5G satellite connectivity to this year’s iPhone 18 Pro models, based on claims made by a Chinese leaker. In a post on Weibo, the account “Fixed Focus Digital” said that Apple’s C2 baseband modem – expected to debut in iPhone 18 Pro models – will support NR-NTN, read more
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Waiting for Spring in the Bay Area
Daily Newsletter MoMA PS1 announces the artists for its Greater New York exhibition, Pride flag removed from Stonewall National Monument, Jennifer Sammet interviews Mary Lovelace O’Nealon for Beer With a Painter, and don’t give up on the Bay Area’s art scene. Times are hard, but don’t believe the rumors about the death of the Bay read more
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Andercore is expanding its AI-based industrial trade platform following a $40M Series B raise
Berlin-based Andercore, an AI-enabled industrial supply trade platform, has raised $40 million in a Series B round comprising equity and debt to support its expansion in Europe. The round includes participation from existing investors Atomico and Project A, with Inven Capital joining as a new investor, alongside institutional financing from Commerzbank and KfW. The company read more
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