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Python is the TIOBE programming language of 2021 — what does this title even mean?

04-01-2022 13:28 via thenextweb.com

It was like the Formula 1 finale all over again. But instead of Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, the popular Python and C# programming languages were fighting to get the TIOBE programming language of the year award. In December, C# looked almost certain to win the crown, but tables turned by the end of the year, and Python grabbed the pole position. For the uninitiated, TIOBE, a software quality measurement company based in the Netherlands, produces a monthly index of popular languages a

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Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai

21-08-2026 20:51 via thenextweb.com

Aptera has partnered with Shanghai’s Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling, testing and pilot production. Aptera pays two-thirds of the costs, while its latest filing reports $10.1mn in cash and substantial doubt about continuing as a going concern. Aptera has finally found someone to build its solar car. The […]
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Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads

21-08-2026 20:29 via thenextweb.com

Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it. Google calls the […]
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Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day

21-08-2026 19:52 via thenextweb.com

Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been testing quietly in Brazil since July. It is now available to everyone in the US. Pocket lets people type a prompt and get back a small interactive thing, which Meta calls a gizmo. […]
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China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim

21-08-2026 19:50 via thenextweb.com

China’s market regulator has ordered a recall of more than 4 million vehicles, including nearly 2.98 million Teslas, because interior emergency door releases blend into the surrounding trim. The remedies are warning labels and software updates, ahead of a 2027 standard banning concealed handles. China has recalled more than four million cars because a lever […]
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Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months

21-08-2026 19:35 via thenextweb.com

Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement gives no price. It is the second consultancy Ode has absorbed in four months. The company Anthropic built […]
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Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores

21-08-2026 19:25 via thenextweb.com

They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to sell something online. In their case, hand sanitizer. It worked well enough to become […]
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Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models

21-08-2026 19:18 via thenextweb.com

Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. That makes Meta one of Microsoft’s largest AI customers. Both companies declined […]
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Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks

21-08-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com

Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, and nobody has said whether that is a coincidence. Bob Nelsen led the […]
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World ID and peaqOS bring privacy-preserving human verification to robots and machines

21-08-2026 18:40 via thenextweb.com

It lets autonomous machines confirm they are interacting with real people without learning their identities August 21, 2026: Robots and autonomous machines running peaqOS can now verify whether they are interacting with a real human through World ID, following a new integration available through robotic.sh. The integration brings proof of human directly into peaqOS, allowing […]
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Walmart is accepting tap to pay after eleven years of refusing

21-08-2026 18:36 via thenextweb.com

Walmart is adding tap to pay at its checkouts from Monday, ending more than a decade of refusing the technology. The retailer will not say so in those terms. Its announcement does not use the word Apple once. The rollout starts at selected Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations on 24 August, the company said. […]
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Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them

21-08-2026 18:22 via thenextweb.com

Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for tuning the Discover feed, and topic controls for audio news briefings. Mrinalini […]
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Apple paid 40% of its global tax bill to one country

21-08-2026 18:13 via thenextweb.com

Apple paid Ireland $17.1bn in tax last financial year. That is around 40% of everything it paid in corporate income tax anywhere in the world. The figure comes from a company filing that breaks Apple’s tax down country by country, Reuters reported from Dublin. Apple paid $43.2bn in income taxes worldwide in the year to […]
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AI doesn’t need to replace humans to weaken human capability

21-08-2026 18:05 via thenextweb.com

Artificial intelligence is becoming one of the fastest ways to remove friction from knowledge work. A 2025 field experiment termed Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI involving 6,000 workers found that access to generative AI reduced time spent on email, with some users spending 25% less time on it each week. Another research study titled […]
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Apple Music will label AI songs, and the tags behind them are now mandatory

21-08-2026 17:55 via thenextweb.com

Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops being optional. Apple emailed music industry partners on Thursday to announce Made With AI Labels, Billboard reported after obtaining the message. Any track a content provider tags as “materially generated using AI” will carry a visible […]
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Uber is fined 825 million euros over automated driver suspensions

21-08-2026 17:35 via thenextweb.com

The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts by automated systems without telling the drivers properly. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under the General Data Protection Regulation. Reuters reported the decision after reviewing a document dated 17 August. The regulator, known as […]
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Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book

21-08-2026 17:26 via thenextweb.com

Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the company said. Its total raised now stands at $450mn. Starcloud was founded in 2024, and its March round valued […]
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Micron is spending $10bn on a lab betting the memory cycle has changed

21-08-2026 17:13 via thenextweb.com

Micron is putting $10bn into a research lab built on the premise that AI has permanently changed what memory is worth. The company announced Micron Research Labs on Thursday, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with a planned $10bn over the next decade. It is separate from the more than $250bn Micron has committed to American manufacturing […]
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Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions

21-08-2026 16:58 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or possibly an acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Jensen Huang met Rebellions co-founder and chief executive Sunghyun Park at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters this week, people familiar with the matter told the news agency. They asked not […]
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New York has more tech workers than San Francisco for the first time

21-08-2026 16:42 via thenextweb.com

New York has more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since CBRE started counting 13 years ago. The property firm’s Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report, subtitled “AI Realignment Underway”, puts the New York metro at 394,300 tech talent jobs in 2025 against 375,730 in the Bay Area. New York […]
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Patreon says its discovery problem for small creators is its own fault

21-08-2026 16:23 via thenextweb.com

Patreon has published a roadmap of new and revamped features. TechCrunch counted 30 of them. The most consequential line in the post is an admission. “To the smaller creators on Patreon: the lack of discovery you’re seeing right now is not your fault. It’s ours,” chief executive Jack Conte wrote in a long post to […]
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Broadcom seeks more than $60bn in debt to fund AI chips for Anthropic

21-08-2026 14:17 via thenextweb.com

Broadcom is in talks with lenders to raise more than $60bn in debt, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The money would finance AI chips for Anthropic and other companies. Bloomberg cited people with knowledge of the matter. The figures under discussion could take the total as high as $100bn. Talks are continuing and the terms may […]
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Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff

21-08-2026 14:05 via thenextweb.com

Nvidia has agreed to pay Poolside $6bn to license the software the startup used to build AI models, and to offer jobs to 109 of its staff. It is also investing $1bn in what remains, at a $12bn pre-money valuation. The terms come from a letter Poolside sent its investors, first reported by Newcomer. The […]
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Mark Zuckerberg bought a castle, while the rest of us get one made of sand, once a year

21-08-2026 13:45 via thenextweb.com

Strancally Castle stands above a bend in the Blackwater, half an hour’s drive from Youghal, in a stretch of Co Waterford where the river runs wide, and the light is mostly grey. James and George Richard Pain built it around 1830 for John Keily, MP for Clonmel, and set it in front of the ruin […]
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DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

21-08-2026 13:40 via thenextweb.com

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the company’s API platform. It takes the text-only V4-Flash and adds the ability to read images and screenshots. […]
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Samsung approves a record $80bn shareholder return, and the stock falls

21-08-2026 13:15 via thenextweb.com

Samsung Electronics approved the largest shareholder return in South Korean corporate history on Friday. Its shares then fell as much as 2.6% in post-market trading. The board signed off on a Samsung shareholder return of between 90 trillion and 110 trillion won for 2026. That is roughly $65bn to $80bn. It is about five times […]
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YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline

21-08-2026 12:52 via thenextweb.com

YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather than simply imposing the increase. A price-change notice seen by TNW went to a Romanian subscriber on Friday. It puts the individual plan up from RON 29.00 to RON 32.00 a month, a rise of about 10%. […]
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Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production

21-08-2026 12:37 via thenextweb.com

Castelion has raised $1bn at a $13bn valuation. Three SpaceX executives founded the company in 2022 to build missiles. Its first product is Blackbeard, a hypersonic strike weapon designed for quantity rather than craft. The structure repays a close read. The round is $800m in equity plus $250m of committed financing for a revolving credit […]
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Adobe Firefly can now generate music, speech and sound effects

21-08-2026 12:06 via thenextweb.com

Adobe Firefly’s audio tools became generally available on Thursday. Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound Effects now sit beside the image, video and design tools in its creative AI studio. Each runs on a different model. Generate Music uses the Firefly Music Model and produces original tracks tuned to a video’s length and mood. […]
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Trump signs a memo to clear the regulatory path to three launches a day

21-08-2026 11:17 via thenextweb.com

The United States conducted 178 orbital launches and re-entries last year, but the White House now wants at least a thousand a year by 2030. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday directing federal agencies to clear the path to that number, largely by getting out of the way. It instructs them to speed […]
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