How Sequoia-backed Ethos reached the public market while rivals fell short

Ethos Technologies, a San Francisco-based provider of software for selling life insurance, debuted on the Nasdaq on Thursday. As one of the year’s first major tech IPOs, the insurtech platform is being closely watched as a bellwether for the 2026 listing cycle. The company and its selling shareholders raised approximately $200 million in the offering, […]

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AMD CES 2026 gaming trends press Q&A roundtable transcript — ‘we see a little bit of an uptick in the percentage of AM4 versus AM5 platforms’

In our final CES 2026 Q&A session for Tom’s Hardware Premium, we had the opportunity to sit down with AMD in Las Vegas, Nevada, to discuss the evolving PC hardware landscape and how products like the Ryzen AI 400 might make a splash over the coming year. If you’ve not checked out our previous rounds […]

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Angular Directives and Pipes: Complete Guide | Custom Directives, Pipes & Transformations

When I first started with Angular, I thought directives and pipes were just nice-to-have features. Then I found myself writing the same conditional rendering logic in multiple components, and the same data transformation code in multiple templates. That’s when I realized that custom directives and pipes are powerful tools for creating reusable, maintainable code. Directives […]

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Banks to lose up to $500B by 2028 as Fidelity’s digital dollar launches on Ethereum with freeze powers

Fidelity announced the launch of a stablecoin on the Ethereum mainnet, positioning the token as a compliance-wrapped settlement dollar distributed through the firm’s brokerage, custody, and wealth management channels. The move lands amid what looks like a stablecoin sprawl, as estimates suggest 59 new major stablecoins launched in 2025 alone, per third-party tracker Stablewatch. This […]

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Animal Spirits: Hi-Yo Silver! – A Wealth of Common Sense

Posted January 28, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Invesco: Today’s show is sponsored by Invesco. Visit https://Invesco.com/fixedincome to learn more about their comprehensive fixed income solutions and how they can help strengthen your portfolio’s foundation. On today’s show, we discuss: Listen here: Charts: Recommendations: Tweets/Bluesky The smaller, the […]

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The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress

Hello and welcome to Regulator, the Verge newsletter about the technology politics happening in our nation’s capital. I hope our snowstorm-affected readers are safe, warm, and haven’t reenacted The Shining at home yet. Do you know what prevents that? Subscribing to The Verge. Last week, when I was tracking Coinbase’s opposition to the Clarity Act, […]

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What you should know about the owners of US TikTok

​ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. TikTok from its Chinese parent, addressing concerns about data privacy and foreign control. The move came after years of pressure from lawmakers, who feared the Chinese government’s potential access to Americans’ data. […]

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