Apple co-founder slammed the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, over mass job cuts at various government agencies.

Mid-aughts news aggregator Digg is making a comeback, thanks to a pairing that would have seemd unlikely when the site debuted in 2004: Digg founder Kevin Rose and a former corporate rival, Reddit cofounder and former CEO Alexis Ohanian. The pair bought Digg from its prior owners Money Group in early 2025 for an undisclosed sum. The deal was supported by True Ventures, which counts Rose as a partner, as well as Ohanians Seven Seven Six fund.They know this is an unlikely pairing. I really disliked you for a long time, Ohanian told Rose during an interview with Fast Company. Reddit had raised $12,000 at YC. We felt like outsiders. Here was a tech celebrity who had VC funding, was in Silicon Valley . . . This was the birth of the new web 2.0 era. And he was getting the press, he was getting the funding.The animosity was mutual. When I first heard about Reddit, I remember somebody was like, oh, theres this site that does voting like you guys do, Rose recalled. And I went to the site, and I was like, oh, those motherfuckersthey just copied our shit. And I was pissed.Two decades later, Reddit is a publicly traded company with a $28 billion market capitalization and reigns supreme as the true front page of the internet, while Digg is a footnote in mid-aughts internet history. Rose has spent much of the time since Digg investing in companieshis fund has poured money into Fitbit, Peloton, and Ring, among others.Over the years, however, Rose and Ohanian met and realized they had a lot in common and struck up a friendship. Now, Ohanian, who resigned from the Reddit board in 2020, is ready to help revive a company that he long warred with. He and Rose, along with Diggs new CEO, web3 entrepreneur Justin Mezzell, want to reimagine social media, creating what they describe as an online ecosystem with better vibes than todays combative platforms.Reviving Digg from obscurityDigg launched in 2004 where users could digg or bury contentsimilar to Reddits upvote and downvote systema crowdsourced way to determine what made the sites homepage. At its peak in 2009, Digg had about 44 million users and was a major driver of traffic to news organizations. After a messy redesign in 2010 alienated users, the site lost users and never really recovered.It was sold to the incubator Betaworks in 2012 for a reported $500,000 despite raising $45 million from venture capital. (Though LinkedIn bought its assets and patents for a rumored $4 million while the Washington Post hired much of its staff.)It was later sold to an adtech firm called BuySellAds in 2018 and then Money Group, which was its final steward before this sale. Despite numerous relaunches, Digg never recaptured its place in internet glory or its cultural relevance.Improving the internets vibeRose and Ohanian share a common critique that todays social media landscape has become toxic and exhausting. They simply want to bring good vibes back to the social webif thats possible.Dude, its the vibes. Nostalgia is so hot right now, Ohanian told me. Were in our early 40s. Weve got kids. Our perspective on the world has shifted a lot. I am nostalgic for the internet forums, essentially. Forums taught me how to fix my computer. Strangers on the internet when I was a dorky teenager were willing to teach me things with their time because of this very simple software.The internet he said was smaller and felt less broken.Rose wants to use artificial intelligence to handle the janitorial work of content moderation, freeing community members and leaders to handle more fulfilling tasks. They didnt expand on this vision, but content moderation has been a hot topic of late with Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, aggressively rolling back its content moderation policies after Twitter, now X under Elon Musk, did the same.The dream is you can build a viable, healthy, great business with your users in a way that aligns their goals, their outcomes, Ohanian said. That is the dream scenario.An aggregator for a new eraThe new Digg will depart from social media conventions in several ways, though Rose is hesitant to disclose much of what the team is working on. He does share that the site wont have follower counts, an intention to move away from what he calls popularity contests that are common on social media.He also wants to give community members more ownership over their audiences, but didnt give specifics how. Its insane to me that someone would spend five years of their life building up a community of millions of members and have basically no ownership over that community, he said. The site will ultimately have what Rose called good vibes, throwback, fresh coat of paint thats familiar to original Digg users but modernized for 2025.Digg will roll out invitations to the platform in the coming weeks and Rose said he wants to grow the sites user base, which he says currently stands at 600,000 monthly users, to 20 million before committing to a specific revenue model (Twitter competitor Bluesky managed to gain 30 million followers in roughly a year from launch.) Rose says until then, the company is well capitalized.Rose says he doesnt want to replace social media, but give a different experience and new ideaseven if theyre reminiscent of the past. This is not about you reading a headline three months from now that Digg has replaced Reddit, he says. Thats not the goal here. Its to reimagine whats possible.Ohanian adds that the intent is about more than just a nostalgia play. Even on day one, I hope someone whos never been to Digg is like, this feels fun. The internet can be fun.

On a boat, surrounded by snow-covered mountains and icebergs in shades of blue, Qooqu Berthelsen points to the breaking sea ice as a worrisome sign.Now, though, something is worrying him and many Greenlanders as much as the retreating ice that endangers their livelihood.My concern, says the 23-year-old hunter, fisher and tour company owner, is that Trump will come and take Greenland.He then repeats what has become a mantra for Greenlanders in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump pushed their Arctic homeland into the spotlight by threatening to take it over. That has ignited unprecedented interest in full independence from Denmarka key issue in a parliamentary election on March 11.Greenlanders dont want to be Danish. Greenlanders dont want to be American, Berthelsen says.Greenland, he says, is not for sale.Its a rising argument about a strategic locationYoull hear this declared all over the land, from the prime minister and university students in Nuuk, the worlds northernmost capital, to hunters and fishermen in sparsely populated villages across the planets largest island. This is, after all, Kalaallit NunaatGreenlandic for the Land of the People or the Land of the Greenlanders.Most of those 57,000 Greenlanders are Indigenous Inuit. They take pride in a culture and traditions that have helped them survive for centuries in exceptionally rugged conditions. In their close link to nature. In belonging to one of the most beautiful, remote, untouched places on Earth.Many in this semi-autonomous territory are worried and offended by Trumps threats to seize control of their mineral-rich homeland, even by force, because he says the U.S. needs it for national security.How can a few words . . . change the whole world? asked Aqqaluk Lynge, a former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and founder of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, which governs Greenland. It can because hes playing with fire. Were seeing another United States here with whole new ideas and wishes.Greenland is vital to the world, though much of the world may not realize it. The U.S and other global powers covet its strategic location in the Arctic; its valuable rare earth minerals trapped under the ice needed for telecommunications; its billions of barrels of oil; its potential for shipping and trade routes as that ice keeps retreating because of climate change.Not even one of Trumps most fervent fans in Greenlandwho proudly wears a MAGA hat, and a T-shirt emblazoned with Trump pumping his fist and the words: American Badasswants to be American.But like other Greenlanders, he wants stronger ties to the U.S. and to open for business beyond Denmark, which colonized them 300 years ago and still exercises control over foreign and defense policy.When Trump came to office, he wanted to talk to Greenlanders directly without going through Denmark. He wants to negotiate with us and thats why the Danish are very afraid, said Jrgen Boassen, who has visited the White House and welcomed Donald Trump Jr. when he recently visited Nuuk.The American presidents comments set off a political crisis in Denmark. The prime minister went on a tour of European capitals to garner support, saying the continent faced a more uncertain reality, while her country moved to strengthen its military presence around Greenland.Theres consternation all aroundFor some, its been dizzying, a rollercoaster of emotions since Trumps threats, since his son landed in Nuuk in January in a TRUMP-emblazoned plane and since his father posted on social media: MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN! with a message to Greenlanders: Were going to treat you well.When that was happening, I felt like I was hit in the stomach, said Qupanuk Olsen, a mining engineer and social media influencer running in the election for the Naleraq party.Around her, supporters gathered at a bay filled with giant pieces of ice in Nuuk waving the red and white national flag that represents the sun and the ice that covers most of Greenland.I could feel that the ground will no longer ever be the same again, she said. Its as if we were on sea ice and it started to break, and we dont know whats going to happen next.Journalists from afar have descended on Nuuk, asking locals what they think of Trumps words. Pro-Trump media influencers known as the Nelk Boys arrived handing out MAGA hats and $100 bills to children in Nuuks streets.Even though there are strong feelings of sadness, despair, confusion, I think were also stronger than ever. Were fighting it for our people and that gives me hope, said Aka Hansen, an Inuk filmmaker and writer. She is suspicious of Trumps intentions but still thanks him for turning the worlds attention to her homeland.We went through all the emotionsat first very funny, very light, then very serious, said Hansen, who worked with Conan OBrien when the comedian came to Nuuk in 2019 to shoot an episode poking fun at Trumps idea of buying Greenland. Now, with all the international press thats been here, weve been given a voice thats being taken seriously.Like many other Greenlanders, she doesnt want to be ruled by another colonial power. But she feels Trumps rhetoric has increased the momentum for independence from Denmark.The former colonial ruler is accused of committing abuses against her islands Inuit people, including removing children from their families in the 1950s with the excuse of integrating them into Danish society and fitting women with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970sallegedly to limit population growth in Greenland.Its a historic moment for Greenland . . . compared to two months ago when nobody was talking about independence, Olsen said. Now, everybodys talking about it.Is autonomy the way?A former colony of Denmark, Greenland gained self-rule in 1979 and now runs itself through its parliament. A treaty with the United States, and a U.S. military base in Greenland, also gives Washington say over the territorys defense.Greenland is massiveabout one-fifth the size of the United States or three times the size of Texas. Its land mass is in North America, and its Arctic capital city is closer to New York than to Copenhagen.Denmark is just a middle man in that whole setup. And we dont need that middle man anymore, said Juno Berthelsen, a candidate in the election for Naleraq party. He says Trump has given Greenland leverage to negotiate with Denmark. Our political goal is to have our own defense agreement, so that we connect directly with the U.S. in terms of defense and security.His party, he said, aims to invoke an article in a law that would give Greenland increased autonomy and eventually a path to full independence.Asked to describe Greenlands moment, he said: If I had to pick one word, it would be exciting. And full of opportunities.In his first term in office, Trump began to talk about acquiring Greenland from Denmark, a longtime U.S. ally. Back in 2019, most dismissed it. But it had a ripple effect.It was not taken that seriously back then as it is today. But it was important for Greenland because he, without wanting, did Greenlanders a favor, said Ebbe Volquardsen, a professor of cultural history at the University of Greenland. He underlined the value of being in a union with Greenland.Greenlands economy depends on fisheries and other industries as well as on an annual grant of about $600 million from Denmark. When Trump showed interest in buying Greenland because of its strategic location and mineral resources, he highlighted that annual sum as the amount of what other nations would be willing to pay to have a military or commercial presence in Greenland, Volquardsen said. With that, he gave Greenland leverage for more autonomy and possible reparations for abuses committed by its former colonial ruler.That was important because the narrative in Denmark until that date . . . had been that Greenland is receiving this funding as a kind of aid or altruistic gift, Volquardsen, said.Greenland awaits the next stepsof othersLife in Nuuk seemed to go on as usual in mid-February, except for a heat wave. After weeks of subzero temperatures, it made the capital of Greenland several degrees hotter than Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital.Large chunks of powder blue ice were blown by winds, blocking boats on the harbor and creating a spectacle for residents who snapped photos under the pink light of a sunset. Some nights, the sky was lit up by spectacular streaks of green and other colors from the northern lights.You could almost forget that Greenland has become ground zero for a geopolitical showdownif, that is, you ignored the front pages of local newspapers featuring images of Trump and the ticker tape in downtown with his name and the Greenlandic word Amerikamiut.On a frigid day, a group of kindergarteners in fluorescent vests walked in line behind their teacher as they crossed a road covered in ice and snow. A few blocks away, teenagers played hockey on a frozen pond.On a hill next to a statue of the Danish-Norwegian missionary who founded the city in 1728, bells tolled, and a recently married couple laughed as family members threw rice on them for good fortune outside Nuuks wooden Lutheran cathedral. More than 90% of Greenlanders identify as Lutherans.After the wedding ceremony, guests converged at their home for a Kaffemik, a traditional celebratory gathering where they share coffee and baked goods.Some Greenlanders say they felt safe while being largely unknown to the world. Now, though, that feeling has dissipated.Sitting with her husband at a dinner table filled with families chatting and laughing, Tukumminnguaq Olsen Lyberth, said the wave of attention and polarizing comments prompted some friends to delete Facebook accounts.Were not use to having this big attention about us, so its overwhelming. Before, no one knew about us. Now, its a blitz of attention, said Olsen Lyberth, 37, a cultural history student at the University of Greenland.I feel like this is the longest January, she said jokinglyin February. Its all of it. Everything feels too overwhelming.Associated Press journalists Emilio Morenatti and James Brooks contributed to this report.Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press

If there's a category of furniture I never think about, it's cloakroom furniture. But these pieces caught my eye. They're the stock-in-trade of Dalform, a Swedish company that sells to schools, hospitals, gyms, sporting venues, businesses and institutions. The powder-coated finishes come in a variety of colors. The pieces are designed for institutional timelines, meaning they should last forever. "We offer products with very low life cycle costs through high quality," the firm writes. "All our storage cabinets have long warranties and are manufactured in Dalarna from Swedish quality steel from SSAB, with doors in extra-strong steel plate or compact laminate fitted with piano hinges." Absurdly, I kind of want one of these units in my entryway.

In just a matter of years, quadrotor drones have gone from consumer playthings to CIA-level technology. Drone manufacturer DJI's Dock 3 moves well beyond the consumer sector, targeting emergency responders and infrastructure inspectors. The "drone-in-a-box" system allows the company's autonomous Matrice 4D and Matrice 4TD drones to be deployed from a moving vehicle, and can operate in extreme temperatures, from -22F to 122F (-30C to 50C). The drones feature multiple cameras: Wide-angle, medium telephoto, proper telephoto, and infrared thermal for night vision. They're also equipped with a laser range finder, and can do fancy tricks like follow moving vehicles and map the surrounding terrain.The drones have a forward-flight time of 54 minutes, or can hover for 47 minutes. Their communication range is an insane 10km, and you can use more than one drone to extend the range, relay-style; you can also have two drones share just one of the dock units, in a hot-racking set-up. The demonstration is pretty nuts:These are expected to retail in the low-$20,000 range.

Every year, I look forward to tech expos like MWC because its the one place where Ill get to peek under the hood of my favorite companies to see what theyve been cooking in their R&D departments. You know that every year, youll see some crazy stuff from Lenovo, Motorola, TCL, Tecno, LG, and even Samsung. Ill be honest, Samsungs a market leader in quite a few departments it has a solid footing in mobiles, smartwatches, tablets, TVs, and appliances and I expected them to embrace weirdness and creativity within those niches, but it looks like Samsungs gunning for the gaming industry too. Meet the Flex Gaming Console, a wild concept that brings foldable tech to handheld consoles.Tucked away at the Samsung Display booth (the Display-based R&D division of Samsung), the Flex Gaming Console is a pretty wacky-looking handheld. It sports a Nintendo Switch-style design with a central screen and multi-colored control areas on the left and right but unlike the Switch, the thing folds in half like a book. Why? Portability seems to be the first thing that comes to mind. The second most obvious answer is because its cool as heck!Designer: Samsung DisplayFirst off no, this isnt a future product. Samsung knows better than to enter the gaming space unprepared (just look at how quickly Google Stadia collapsed). The Flex Gaming console is a proof-of-concept to highlight the capabilities of Samsungs flexible display technology. In short, its Samsungs way of giving OEMs ideas for foldable gaming devices. If Nintendo or Valve bites the bait, great! Otherwise, this is Samsung telling other players like ASUS ROG, Lenovo Legion, and Razer to disrupt the space.Kept away from attendees behind a Do Not Touch sign, we still managed to get a close look at the Flex Gaming console thanks to a helpful Samsung employee. The device is surprisingly compact, measuring thinner than any flagship handheld console when opened. Even when folded shut, its a little under an inch thick. Open it, and youre greeted with a 7.2 screen that folds along the middle. Theres obviously a crease, but its distributed thanks to a wide double hinge. The most impressive bit, however, is the design of the controls on either side of the screen. With an almost yin-yang-like design, the controls are designed to fit into each other when shut. The protruding joysticks thumb disc fits perfectly into the hollow space left behind by the torus-shaped action buttons.Youve got a bunch of other controls like dual trigger buttons on the top left and right. An obvious Home and Play/Pause button on the front, volume controls on the top, an aux input, and even an SD card slot. Its surprising how detailed the console is, even though Samsung shows no plans of marketing or launching such a device. If anything, theyre teasing Nintendo, which announced the Switch 2 in January, boasting just mild iterative upgrades to its design. If someone were to launch a foldable controller running SteamOS or even Xbox Game Pass, I think it would absolutely take the gaming world by storm.Is a folding game console practical? Well, Id tend to agree, given that compact tech is always perceived as better than bulky tech. The Flex Gaming console borrows from Samsungs work in its foldable phone department, cleverly distributing batteries and PCBs in ways that allow folding without compromise in performance. The console is sublimely thin, which means sure, its not as powerful as a Steam Deck, but current Steam Decks cant fit into your pocket. This one can.The post Nintendo, Watch Out! Samsung Debuts The Worlds First Foldable Gaming Console At MWC 2025 first appeared on Yanko Design.

Samsung, LG, and many other consumer electronics giants have invested a lot in their flexible displays since the potential applications are limitless. Right from the folding and rollable TV displays to trifold smartphones that look like the next evolutionary step. Just like the LG StandbyME Go smart display made all the news last year, the Samsung Briefcase foldable display is poised to do the same.This unconventional prototype dubbed Flexible Briefcase was revealed at Mobile World Congress 2025 alongside other concept reveals from the South Korean consumer electronics giants display division. The USP of this future-forward design fit for a Bond movie is its bendable screen iteration that allows for a laptop-like configuration, both at the front and bottom of the inside of the briefcase. Call it a portable monitor or a foldable display, the choice is yours since Samsung didnt allow anyone to even lay a finger on this cool gadget.Designer: Samsung DisplayThe odd hand carry has an 18.1-inch foldable display with QHD+ (2,0002,644 resolution) and 184 PPI pixel density on each side. Flexible Briefcase comes with the On-Cell Film (OCF) technology for improved brightness while lowering power consumption for longer battery life. The metallic briefcase-like housing has two handles that integrate when the thing is closed. It has charging ports, power and volume buttons, and is placed strategically in the housing for smooth operation. In a way, it looks ready for the consumer market but dont jump the gun yet, as a handful of potent concepts make it past the prototype stage. Samsung not allowing anyone to touch the unique gadget at the show lets us make our conclusions.With that screen real estate staked in a portrait configuration, itll be great for professionals who want to crack a business deal with this impressive piece of technology by their side. Programmers and coders will find this screen configuration ideal for working on projects while on the go. Flexible Briefcase is the perfect computing machine if you dont want to bring along a backpack or look ordinary walking on the streets.At the MWC 2025 booth, the thin briefcase was shown off in both open and closed configurations. Interestingly, a big screen gadget adjacent to the briefcase indicates that the display can be taken out if you want to use it in a tablet format. If thats the case itll be very interesting for various use-case scenarios; be it at home, in the office, or out in public. For now, Samsung has not leaked anything on the plans for this gadget, nor has any upcoming timeline been released.The post Samsung Flexible Briefcase with foldable display takes everyone by surprise at MWC 2025 first appeared on Yanko Design.

The 12.3-inch OLED display, 144HZ refresh rate, and included stylus are just a few of the top selling points.

Anima Interactives forthcoming game Take Us North aims to capture the lived experiences of those trying to cross the US-Mexico border.

The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, its been abruptly halted.