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Singapore-based Digital Edge plans to invest $4.5B to build a 500 MW hyperscale data center facility in Indonesia, with the first phase set to open in Q4 2026 (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)
2026-01-28 12:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PayPal survey in October 2025: 40% of merchants already accept crypto, led by large enterprises, 85% expect crypto payments to be commonplace by 2030, and more (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
2026-01-28 12:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at AI-powered tools and apps like Aira Explorer that are helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time (Milagros Costabel/BBC)
2026-01-28 09:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Momentum Works: the GMV of the online food delivery market in Southeast Asia's six biggest economies grew 18% YoY to $22.7B in 2025, and Grab accounted for 55% (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
2026-01-28 10:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 (Beth Galetti/About Amazon)
2026-01-28 11:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (Parth Mn/Rest of World)
2026-01-28 09:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says the company plans to cut 1,700 jobs, or 4% of its workforce, mainly in its Tech and IT organizations; ASML jumps 5%+ pre-market (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
2026-01-28 11:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health (Casey Newton/Platformer)
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Q&A with James Wu on leaving his role as DJI's chief scientist to found FJDynamics to build robots for labor intensive sectors like agriculture and construction (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
2026-01-28 09:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $23B, above ~$22.4B est., and operating profit up 137% YoY to $13.3B, both company records, driven by AI HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
2026-01-28 10:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung says it will introduce a display feature for the Galaxy S26 series that improves "privacy at a pixel level" to protect users from "shoulder surfing" (Abhijeet Mishra/SamMobile)
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Osaka-based Capcom reports game sales up 13.5% to a record 34.64M from March to December 2025; the Street Fighter and Resident Evil maker's stock jumps 10%+ (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
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Toronto-based self-driving truck startup Waabi raised a $750M Series C led by Khosla and G2 and partners with Uber, which can invest $250M based on performance (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
2026-01-28 11:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon plans to discontinue its Amazon One palm recognition system on June 3 and will automatically delete all user data; One remains for healthcare check-ins (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
2026-01-28 11:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A Google bug report apparently leaks the planned Android desktop interface, showing a taller status bar, a new mouse cursor, Chrome extensions, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
2026-01-28 11:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at "neolabs" such as Safe Superintelligence and Humans&, which give priority to long-term AI R&D over immediate profits; dozens have become unicorns (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-28 08:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ASML reports Q4 net sales of €9.7B, vs. €9.6B est., and €2.84B net profit, vs. €3.01B est., and says it expects China to account for 20% of its total 2026 sales (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
2026-01-28 08:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Hugging Face declined Nvidia's $500M investment offer at a $7B valuation in late 2025; Hugging Face says it does not want a single dominant investor (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
2026-01-28 07:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Elon Musk has proposed timing SpaceX's IPO with a rare planetary alignment and his June birthday; SpaceX seeks as much as $50B at a ~$1.5T valuation (Financial Times)
2026-01-28 06:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI Whistleblower Initiative says OpenAI recently updated its whistleblower policy, addressing 8 of 13 recommendations and going further than Anthropic's policy (Rocket Drew/The Information)
2026-01-28 06:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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