Google unveils Emergency Live Video, similar to iOS' Emergency SOS Live Video, letting US users on Android 8 or later to share live video with 911 responders (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
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Android users can now share a live video on 911 calls
Give 911 responders a visual on Android
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Google unveils Emergency Live Video, similar to iOS
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Dropbox says its CFO Timothy Regan will step down after five years in the role and will be succeeded by Avalara president Ross Tennenbaum; DBX drops 5%+ (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/dropbox-cfo-timothy-regan-step-down-2025-12-10/
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Dropbox says its CFO Timothy Regan will step down after five years in the role and will be succeeded by Avalara president Ross Tennenbaum; DBX drops 7.55%
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TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato (Jem Aswad/Variety)
TikTok Announces Live Podcast Series, Launching With Demi Lovato
TikTok is launching a live podcast series called 'TikTok in the Mix' that premieres on Thursday with special guest Demi Lovato.
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TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato
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Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Amazon changes how copyright protection is applied to Kindle Direct's self-published e-books | TechCrunch
Amazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free e-books in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct P...
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Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026
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Sources: Meta's new AI model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in spring 2026 as a "closed" model, and was trained using Google's Gemma, OpenAI's gpt-oss, and Qwen (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/inside-meta-s-pivot-from-open-source-to-money-making-ai-model
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YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
YouTube TV Plans Launching in 2026 With 10+ Genre-Specific Packages
In early 2026, YouTube plans to launch YouTube TV Plans, over 10 genre-specific packages including a sports tier with ESPN, FS1 and NBC Sports Netw...
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YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1
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Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek) https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/
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Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants
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Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017 (Benoît Morenne/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/finance/fervo-energy-raises-462-million-lands-google-as-investor-27a06c13?st=Tk1GJ2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017
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Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma (Pia Singh/CNBC)
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‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up
The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been trained in ...
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Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google
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In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/intel-amd-accused-of-failing-to-block-chips-in-russian-missiles
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In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine
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