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The collaboration aims to build a modern acquiring infrastructure for Wio Bank without legacy technology dependencies, enabling faster merchant onboarding, real-time settlements, and seamless multi-mode payment acceptance at scale. Pine Labs,  a global fintech platform focused on modernizing how businesses accept and manage payments, has announced a strategic partnership with Wio Bank,  the Middle East’s leading digital financial platform. The collaboration aims to build a modern acquiring infrastructure for Wio Bank without legacy technology dependencies, enabling faster merchant onboarding, real-time settlements, and seamless multi-mode payment acceptance at scale. Under the partnership, Wio Bank will deploy Credit+, Pine Labs’ modular, API-first…

NintendoI don’t usually get excited about novelty gadgets, but the Nintendo Talking Flower has me curious, and a little conflicted. Nintendo finally spilled the details on this quirky little desktop buddy it teased last September, and it’s every bit as ridiculous—and charming—as you’d expect. Inspired by a talking flower from Super Mario Bros. Wonder, it talks throughout the day, sometimes offering encouragement, sometimes spouting nonsense.Related: Nintendo Switch 2 launch games: what I’m planning to play firstAt $34.99, it’s an affordable slice of whimsy that’s hard not to love—if you’re okay with occasional interruptions and a small dose of chaos. But…

Last week saw a TENAA listing for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy A57 and we now have the accompanying images for the listing. The A57 is shown in its purple color and it features a similar overall look to its predecessor but with a noticeably slimmer body. According to the specifications, Galaxy A57 will measure 6.9mm and weigh 182 grams. That’s noticeably slimmer and lighter than the Galaxy A56’s 7.4mm and 198-gram profile. The device will retain the aluminum frame and glass back just like its predecessor. Samsung Galaxy A57 Elsewhere, A57 will reportedly feature a 6.6-inch…

Open the website of one explicit deepfake generator and you’ll be presented with a menu of horrors. With just a couple of clicks, it offers you the ability to convert a single photo into an eight-second explicit videoclip, inserting women into realistic-looking graphic sexual situations. “Transform any photo into a nude version with our advanced AI technology,” text on the website says.The options for potential abuse are extensive. Among the 65 video “templates” on the website are a range of “undressing” videos where the women being depicted will remove clothing—but there are also explicit video scenes named “fuck machine deepthroat”…

The partnership aims to empower government and private sector organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by delivering secure, scalable, and citizen-focused digital services through advanced cloud solutions. BARQ Systems  has announced a strategic alliance with iOCO,  a provider of end-to-end technology and hyperscale solutions across Africa, the UK, and Europe, and Egypt-based cloud-native-first company PortfolioTech.  The partnership aims to empower government and private sector organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by delivering secure, scalable, and citizen-focused digital services through advanced cloud solutions. The alliance addresses the challenges faced by governments and enterprises in the…

AmazfitThe meal-recall effect isn’t easy to implement. Widely studied in the 2000s, this cognitive memory trick—where remembering a recent meal can reduce your next snack intake—takes self-discipline and, more importantly, time. If you’re like me and lunch is a grab-and-go sandwich while responding to emails, you probably don’t have much of either. You’re in survival mode. That’s the context in which Amazfit introduced the Amazfit V1TAL at CES 2026—it’s a concept product that’s basically an AI camera that watches you eat.Related: UREVO at CES 2026: building a smarter wellness lifestyleHow the Amazfit V1TAL worksEating in front of an AI camera…

Apple announced its first new device of 2026 – the second-generation AirTag. It arrives nearly five years after the original AirTag’s debut and brings several updates while retaining the same basic design as its predecessor. AirTag 2nd Gen The “new AirTag” brings Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip. It’s the same chip found in the iPhone 17 series, Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Series 11 smartwatches, and it unlocks improved Precision Finding, which can now guide users to their lost items from 50% farther away. AirTag 2nd Gen brings improved Precision Finding Apple Watch Series…

NVIDIA Launches Earth-2 Family of Open Models for Weather and Climate AI Jan. 26, 2026 — AI weather and climate prediction is more accessible than ever for scientists, startups, developers, enterprises and government agencies worldwide. At the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting, NVIDIA today unveiled a new NVIDIA Earth-2 family of open models, libraries and frameworks for weather and climate AI, offering the world’s first fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack. Credit: NVIDIA These open technologies — including pretrained models, frameworks, customization recipes and inference libraries — accelerate all forecasting stages, from processing initial observation data to…

These centres aim to support governments and industry in adopting frontier technologies responsibly while addressing regional priorities and advancing international cooperation. The World Economic Forum (WEF)  is set to expand its global Fourth Industrial Revolution Network with the launch of five new Centres for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) in France, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and India. These centres aim to support governments and industry in adopting frontier technologies responsibly while addressing regional priorities and advancing international cooperation. Focus areas will include artificial intelligence (AI), energy transition, cyber resilience, and other emerging technologies. In France, the European…

The Nothing Phone (3a) and (3a) Pro launched last March, and so their successors are probably only a few weeks away at this point. The Nothing Phone (4a) Pro was first spotted in an IMEI listing all the way back in September, then a leak in December detailed both upcoming devices giving us some specs, and earlier this month Nothing confirmed a storage upgrade for at least one of the models, along with a possible price hike. Now, the Nothing Phone (4a) may have been certified in the UAE by TDRA, with the model number A069. For reference, note that…