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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. I checked out one of the biggest anti-AI protests ever Pull the plug! Pull the plug! Stop the slop! Stop the slop! For a few hours this Saturday, February 28, I watched as a couple hundred anti-AI protesters marched through London’s King’s Cross tech hub, home to the UK headquarters of OpenAI, Meta and Google DeepMind, chanting slogans and waving signs. The march was organized by a coalition of two separate activist groups, Pause AI and Pull the…

The new agentic AI engine reduces time spent on developing and sharing pricing from days to just 10 minutes, giving customers fast, accurate competitive deal pricing to help drive decision making and manage cost control. Colt Technology Services (Colt) , the global digital infrastructure company, announced a successful proof of concept for an agentic AI engine it has developed together with Microsoft, to accelerate, simplify and clarify complex deal pricing for customers and enhance the Colt customer experience. As Colt’s customers grow, scale and expand their global presence, pricing can be complex, particularly across global markets and a lack of transparency…

HonorHONOR Magic V6 vs Galaxy Z Fold 7— and is Galaxy Z Fold 7 better? That’s the question coming out of MWC 2026, where foldables are clearly having a moment. From Motorola’s latest Razr to Lenovo’s unconventional folding concepts, the category is evolving fast. “Thin” may not define traditional smartphones anymore, but in the world of book-style foldables, two ultra-slim halves matter.That’s where the HONOR Magic V6 steps in.Unveiled at MWC 2026, this ambitious new foldable is pushing ultra-thin engineering, IP68 and IP69 durability, and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 power—while also positioning itself as “Apple-ready” with cross-device syncing features.…

Last month, Motorola announced its Razr 60 FIFA World Cup 26 Edition and today two more devices are joining it. The Motorola Razr Fold and Edge 70 Fusion FIFA Editions are now official, and we managed to get some hands-on time with the pair following their introductions. Both phones offer similar designs with their backs sporting raised-dot patterns, which Motorola claims were inspired by the texture and materials of the game of football. They feature a prominent 26-pattern signifying the World Cup 2026 and 24K gold plating for the Motorola batwing and FIFA World Cup 26 logos. The Razr Fold…

And yet despite that urgency, the atmosphere at the march was pleasant, even fun. There was no sense of anger and little sense that lives—let alone the survival of our species—was at stake. That could be down to the broad coalition of interests and demands that protestors brought with them. A chemistry researcher I spoke to ticked off a litany of complaints, that ranged from the conspiracy-adjacent (that data centers emitted infrasound below the threshold of human hearing that induced paranoia in people who lived near them) to the reasonable (that the spread of AI slop online was making it hard…

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The company will operate on a software-led, asset-light MVNO model, leveraging existing mobile network infrastructure instead of building its own towers. Lebara  has officially entered the Nigerian market with a soft launch, positioning itself as a niche-focused Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) among the 46 licensed in the country. Rather than targeting the broad market, the company aims to serve underserved and specialized consumer segments, addressing persistent issues such as network disruptions, service gaps, and high data costs. The company will operate on a software-led, asset-light MVNO model, leveraging existing mobile network infrastructure instead of building its own towers. This…

Motorola was one of the first companies to launch a foldable phone, but so far it had restricted itself to flip-style devices. This January at CES the company revealed its first book-style foldable, though it left some details under wraps. The Motorola Razr Fold still isn’t ready to go on store shelves, but at least now we have an almost complete picture. The Fold will be available in Europe, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific, North and Latin America. Motorola Razr Fold Europe will be the first to get it with pre-orders set to begin on…

On the bank of the river that runs through the Swedish town of Borlänge, construction is underway on a sprawling new data center. The site previously housed a paper mill. When the developer, EcoDataCenter, broke ground in September, its CEO Peter Michelson declared, “The facility once produced paper, the raw material of the newspaper information age. Now, Borlänge will produce the raw material for AI and the next information age.”The Borlänge facility is one of more than 50 currently under construction or soon to be developed across the Nordics—the region made up of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland—as demand…

It will span mobile connectivity, cloud technologies, and compute capabilities across AI-driven RAN and packet core use cases, and platform level-security and network capabilities to help enhance ecosystem enablement and time-to-market for cloud-native solutions. Ericsson  and Intel  are pooling their next-generation technology leadership to help accelerate ecosystem readiness for seamless transition to AI-native 6G deployments and use cases. The collaboration – an extension of a decades’ long relationship – was announced at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2026. It will span mobile connectivity, cloud technologies, and compute capabilities across AI-driven RAN and packet core use cases, and platform level-security and network…