Uber is acquiring Blacklane, the Berlin chauffeur platform backed by Sixt and Mercedes-Benz

The deal, financial terms undisclosed, expected to close by end of 2026, arrives weeks after Uber launched its own Uber Elite chauffeur service and positions the ride-hailing giant as a serious player [...]

Everyone is talking about the Galaxy S26 Ultra Privacy Display — but there’s one major problem

Samsung's Privacy Display tech is slick, but could be a social hand grenade in flagship phone form. [...]

Europe’s not-so-dry January: Unicorns and a new tech identity

Every January, millions take on Dry January, a ritual of restraint and resetting after the holiday season. If that’s the benchmark for kicking off the year with moderation, Europe’s startup ecosys [...]

Coral raises $12.5M to automate healthcare’s administrative back office

The New York startup has built AI that reads handwritten fax forms, processes prior authorisations, and completes patient intakes in under five minutes, all without asking providers to change how they [...]

Digg’s comeback hits pause after bots and AI overwhelm the site

The social news pioneer is shutting down its relaunch just two months after going live, saying automated accounts flooded the platform as it tries to build a more human-centered web. [...]

The Designer rebuilding AI interfaces for humans

Valentyn Pavliuchenko, head of Hosanna Studio, suggests replacing inhumane AI prompting with intuitive, high-performance interfaces that bridge the gap between technical power and human desirability W [...]

The Morning After: Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying his AI company, xAI

Like some sort of corporate Russian doll, SpaceX has announced its acquisition of xAI. The merger will “form the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth,” accord [...]

SpaceX and xAI: A merger of ambition, optics, and unanswered questions

If you look at the press releases and breathless commentary around the recent acquisition of xAI by SpaceX, you might think we’re witnessing a tectonic shift in technological destiny.  A $1.25 tril [...]

TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this

The United States imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to keep them out of the American market. TikTok and YouTube are making that strategy irrelevant. A survey of 9,000 potential EV buye [...]