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Cognition, the startup developing coding assistant Devin, announced it raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. The round, which comes just four months after Cognition’s previous fundraise at a $26 billion valuation, was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir.

It’s common wisdom among PC users to restart your computer on a regular basis. Some even go so far as insisting that you must do so every day, lest some terrible fate befall you. But is that still the case in 2026, or is this advice held over from an earlier era of computing?

CarPlay is great as it comes, but a few personalization tweaks make it even more convenient.

A video game posted to the Trump administration’s website — one that closely resembled Tetris — has been taken down after the Tetris Company complained.

SpaceX’s Starship 40 is one fast rocket, having traveled thousands of miles from Texas to the Indian Ocean in around 65 minutes. Its journey home is, well, slightly slower: The company says it will take several months.

Artificial intelligence has solved a major mathematics problem, but credit for the accomplishment is murky.

The game, ‘Build the Wall,’ filtered classic block-stacking mechanics through the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

On August 4, Grant de Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, UK, noticed something strange going on with his Claude Max 20x account. He hadn’t been working that day, yet his token usage was climbing.

Google said it will change its Search services in the EU in an effort to sidestep some of the €890 million (~$1 billion) in fines levied by the European Commission earlier this summer. The EU charged a fine of €460 million (~$534 million) on claims that Google had abused its dominance in search to prioritize…

Eighteen years after its debut, Roku remains one of the best streaming devices you can get. But despite its success, many of the company’s most loyal customers may still not be maximizing their Roku experience. You may be surprised to learn that Roku has hidden menus beyond its run-of-the-mill home screen and settings. Largely, these menus…