Pebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/pebble-reboots-its-thinnest-…
Yes yes I know I'm in Antarctica and it is cool and all, but, *Natural ice skating* in Denmark!
Enjoy it all you lucky devils, heaven only knows when the possibility will come round again...
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/reels/vandet-er-stift-danmarks-stoerste-soe-er-sikker-gaa-paa
Here's my tabulated preview of sky and space events (and round anniversaries) of the #NewYear, compiled from numerous sources and own calculations: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/bedeutendes-am-himmel-im-jahr-2026/
If you believe capitalism is something we simply have to live with, then we are not standing on the same ground. I cannot accept the idea of resigning myself to a system built on exploitation and inequality, treated as if it were natural or eternal. What passes for stability in capitalism is only the quiet before another round of dispossession.
I reject the kind of unionism that settles for small reforms while leaving the machinery of domination untouched. Progress does not come from p…
Sources: Anduril is seeking to raise about $4B in a round co-led by Thrive Capital and a16z, which could nearly double the startup's valuation to ~$60B (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-0…
That is us deChristmassed and it feels good. I thought the house would feel bare without it all but actually it feels clean and tidy. We moved the sitting room round and I really like it. Despite all the dross going on I'm feeling optimistic.
I might just have ordered a #pebble round 2. I hope it will feel as awesome as the last one did back in 2015.
Sickly Red ⭕️
病态的红 ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
As the nation staggers toward the 2026 round of midterm elections,
the threats to the integrity of U.S. democracy
— already a veritable hailstorm of partisan contention
— have escalated dramatically under the second Trump administration,
attaining something like hurricane force.
Owing to the fevered narratives proliferating across right-wing media,
many have come to believe that the nation faces a scourge of “illegal” voting and wide-scale fraud.
Bu…
Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure connecting banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/…
Ukraine, US, Russia to meet in UAE next week for new round of peace talks, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/ukraine-us-russia-to-meet.html
Multi-round Desktop Linux distribution showdown.
The winner of this round will face nixOS on round two.
The distros were chosen based on their popularity from the results of a previous poll and its replies.
Please consider boosting to obtain a larger sample.
Round one: fight!
#poll #linux
Time may fly like an arrow, but "fruit flies like a banana" is NOT true. Most fruits are round and have completely different aerodynamic properties. Apples and oranges, for instance, don't fly the same way as a banana at all. Let's retire such undue generalizations in 2026.
Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition
From the Romantic Round of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, quartets by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Brahms. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qgzj
Wilson's 2026 NFL mock draft 7.0: Bills get aggressive and trade for top WR, keep Super Bowl window wide open
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-moc…
Multi-round Desktop Linux distribution showdown.
The winner of this round will face Arch on round two.
The distros were chosen based on their popularity from the results of a previous poll and it's replies.
Please consider boosting to obtain a larger sample.
Round one: fight!
#poll #linux
Different Corners III ▶️
不同的角落 III ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/open-ai-funding-round-amazon.html
Russian envoy meets US officials for Ukraine peace talks before next round of trilateral negotiations: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/russian-envoy-meets-us-officials.html
Fieldguide, which uses AI agents to automate accounting and auditing tasks, raised a $75M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives at a $700M valuation (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/02/goldman-sachs-fieldguid…
IoT security device maker Verkada hit a $5.8B valuation after new funding, source says totaling $100M, led by CapitalG; it passed $1B in annualized bookings (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/verkada-capitalg-valuation-security.html
Decentralized exchange Ostium raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading, a source says at a ~$250M valuation, after previously raising $8M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/03/ostium-series-a-fundraise-perpetuals-perps-cry…
First Round Trade? Stay Put? Diving Into Cowboys 2026 Draft Options | The Draft Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDz1KmaDdc
Viture, which ranked top in XR glasses shipments in the US in Q3 2025, per IDC, raised $100M, bringing its funding in the past six months to $200M (Charlie Fink/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2
Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B round led by PSG Equity (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk4kpt2owl
StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/stepfun-series-b-round-470495/
Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/ar
Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B , with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/94663caf-6c98-4883-b3f0-cc763a3b95ff
Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/28/xiaomi-launch…
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's OpenAI investment will be "the largest investment we've ever made", after a report said plans to invest $100B in OpenAI stalled (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20