All of the announcements from Amazon’s 2025 Alexa Plus event The Verge is live blogging Amazon’s big Alexa event in New York City. It kicks off at 10AM ET on February 26th, and the company was focused on its new subscription-based Alexa Plus, beefed up with a bunch of generative AI features. We didn’t get news about new hardware, instead the AI features, and a

Amazon is launching Alexa.com and new app for Alexa Plus Amazon is launching an alexa.com website and a new mobile app where Alexa Plus subscribers will be able to use the AI-powered voice assistant. We don’t have many details beyond that, but the website and the app could be handy new ways to interact with the revamped Alexa, which was announced at an event this

In Crucial Judicial Race in Wisconsin, G.O.P. Now Has a Financial Edge Two years ago, Democratic money carried a liberal jurist to victory and swung the state’s high court to the left. Now, Elon Musk and other wealthy donors have given Republicans a chance to swing it back.

Writing the History of the Biden Presidency, in the Trump Era A group of academics met to hash out a first scholarly history of the Biden administration. But in today’s scrambled politics, has the yardstick for success and failure changed?

The Next Phase of Trump’s Large-Scale Work Force Cuts Is Underway Workers at a handful of agencies have begun receiving notifications that they are part of the “reduction in force” directed by the president, after a wave of firings that targeted probationary workers.

Agriculture Department Looks to Import Eggs as Prices Soar The United States is in talks with several countries in an effort to immediately secure new supplies.

What We Know About the U.S.-Ukraine Minerals Deal A draft agreement discussed on Tuesday does not include a $500 billion payout the Trump administration demanded earlier.

A Woman Died Midflight. They Had to Sit Next to Her Body. Flight attendants placed the body of a woman who died during a 14-hour flight in a seat next to a couple from Australia. They described the experience as distressing.

Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”

Two Planes, in Washington and Chicago, Abort Landings to Avoid Collisions The near misses on Tuesday came after a string of aviation disasters, including the midair collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet last month that killed 67 people.

UK’s Starmer to Meet Trump With a Boost on Defense and Pleas for Ukraine Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain cut international aid to raise military spending. He’s hoping to make a case for Ukraine in the White House.

Victory Sunday Welcome to the Victory Sunday Thread It is Sunday, 6:00 am here in the eastern half of Hyder, Alaska. It’s time to ask yourself: What was the one, best thing you did on behalf of your fitness this week? What was your Fitness Victory? We want to hear about it! So let’s hear your fitness Victory this week! Don’t forget to upvote your favorite Vict…

Looking for suggestions for where to visit My wife and I will be flying into Zurich for a wedding in Lake Como. We have two nights to spend somewhere prior to the wedding festivities in Northern Italy and three nights to spend following the wedding festivities. We are looking for some suggestions for where we should go/see/do. We have no return flights booked just yet and are open to any…

What album made you think “this is gonna change the entire face of a subculture/genre” when you heard it the first time? I vividly remember hearing Burial’s Untrue. To give you all a bit of a reference about my usual music taste which is very eclectic, I had previously been really in to garage, and the entire UK scene but also had been hearing a lot of ambient/soundscapes/analog music from the likes of Tim Hecker, William Basinski and Robert Rich previous to this…

How to Start an Online shop Hey everyone! I work with small business owners and have helped many launch their online ventures. After seeing successes (and failures), I wanted to share what I’ve learned about starting an online business the right way. From my experience, there are six key steps that make the difference between thriving and struggling. Let me know if I misse…

How much is your open rate / CTR? 🤔 Couldn’t attach the photo on this sub. Open rate is 55% and got order worth – 639.33 CAD. screenshot I was working with a client recently on his website when he mentioned he wanted to start email marketing for his e-commerce store. He had a decent customer base but wasn’t leveraging emails to drive sales. Edit – Got a lot of queries earlier rega…

Bitcoin Miner GDA Expands West Texas Facilities With 50 MW Deployment Genesis Digital Assets is a private bitcoin miner that claims to have one of the largest hashrate capacities in the world.

Story Protocol’s IP Rockets 40% as Traders Bet on IP Tokenization Despite markets taking a brutal hit on Tuesday, two altcoins—Story’s IP and Hyperliquid’s HYPE—are stealing the spotlight.

Bitcoin’s Lofty Max Pain Suggests Higher Spot Prices as $5B Options Expiry Approaches Over $5 billion of notional value is set to expire this Friday on Deribit at 08:00 UTC.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire Wants Dollar-Backed Stablecoins to Register in U.S.: Bloomberg “It shouldn’t be a free pass, right?” Jeremy Allaire, a co-founder of stablecoin issuer Circle said.