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A small SUV is a great choice if you want a vehicle that is practical, comfortable and versatile enough to handle anything from daily driving to multi-day road trips. Available all-wheel drive, good mpg and starting prices in the low $30,000s are other big draws. But what to get? Well, two of the most popular picks are the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. While the CR-V has been among Edmunds’ top recommendations in recent years, Toyota has fully redesigned the RAV4 for 2026 with updates that enhance its style, technology and value. Is it enough to overtake its longstanding rival?…
The Indian government is widening the scope of its anti-theft and cybersecurity initiative to cover both new and used smartphones, an effort aimed at curbing device theft and online fraud but a move that is also raising fresh privacy concerns. As part of the expansion, the Indian telecom ministry is requiring companies that buy or trade used phones to verify every device through a central database of IMEI numbers. This comes in addition to a recent directive ordering smartphone manufacturers to preinstall the government’s Sanchar Saathi app on all new handsets and push it onto existing devices through a software…
by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 12:10 PM ET, Tue December 2, 2025 Managed business travel directly improves a corporation’s revenue, according to new data by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), conducted in partnership with the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA). The study, called “Quantifying the Return on Investment of U.S. Business Travel: Company Benchmarking Analysis” took a look at over 3,200 firms in the U.S. across 17 different industries to see the impact managed corporate travel has on the corporations themselves. The findings? Every one percent increase in managed travel spending corresponds with a 0.20 percent rise in company…
Amazon Music announced on Tuesday the launch of 2025 Delivered, the platform’s take on Spotify’s popular Wrapped experience. The feature offers users a personalized annual summary of their music-listening habits. With 2025 Delivered, users will see a recap of their listening trends, showcasing their top artists, favorite songs, and preferred genres, along with stats for audiobooks and podcasts. Amazon Music’s year-end recap stands out with a feature specifically designed for users with an Alexa-enabled device. These users can view the title of the most frequently requested song they’ve asked Alexa to play throughout the year. Image Credits:Amazon Music This year,…
Apple announced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out Apple Music Replay, its answer to Spotify’s popular Wrapped feature. Apple Music Replay gives users a look back at their year in music by highlighting their top songs, artists, and albums they streamed. This year, the feature includes even more listening habits, including “Discovery,” which highlights new artists users listened to, and “Loyalty,” which spotlights artists that users have kept coming back to each year. Additionally, “Comebacks” highlights artists who made a return to users’ listening rotation. Users will also be able to see their total minutes listened to on the streaming…
TV makers need to get more lifetime value from a customer after selling a unit. With more competition in the market, companies often need to sell TVs at a discounted price with lower margins. The best way for them to recover the money is by striking partnerships with channels, streaming services, and advertisers. This is the core thesis around Barcelona-based Titan OS, which provides a smart TV operating system to TV makers with a promise to get better lifetime value out of the customer. The company said today it has raised €50 million ($58 million) in Series A funding, led…
DRESDEN, Germany (AP) — When pastry chef Tino Gierig is asked what the famous Dresden stollen tastes like, his eyes sparkle and his voice rises to an enthusiastic sing-song as as he describes the rich delicacy filled with raisins and other dried fruits.“Stollen tastes like Christmas, like family, like tradition, like hominess, peace, serenity,” the 55-year-old said as he lovingly kneaded his buttery yeast dough before folding in golden raisins in his Dresdner Backhaus bakery.Bakers in the eastern German city of Dresden have been making stollen for hundreds of years and it is now a treasured Christmas tradition. It is…
French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday, a launch that aims to prove it can lead in making AI publicly available and serve business clients better than Big Tech rivals.The 10-model release includes a large frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities and nine smaller offline-capable, fully customizable models. The launch comes as Mistral, which develops open-weight language models and Europe-focused AI chatbot Le Chat, has appeared to be playing catch up with some of Silicon Valley’s closed-source frontier models. Open-weight models release their model weights publicly so anyone can download and…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bulking up its AI agent platform, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, to make building and monitoring AI agents easier for enterprises. AWS announced multiple new AgentCore features on Tuesday during the company’s annual AWS re:Invent conference. The company announced new tools for managing AI agent boundaries, agent memory capabilities, and agent evaluation features. One upgrade is the introduction of Policy in AgentCore. This feature allows users to set boundaries for agent interactions using natural language. These boundaries integrate with AgentCore Gateway, which connects AI agents with outside tools, to automatically check each agent’s action and stop those…
Amazon has announced it’s launching a new service that completes deliveries in 30 minutes or less in Seattle and Philadelphia. The new “ultra-fast” delivery option will allow Amazon to better compete with services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Instacart. Customers will be able to order a range of different items, including milk, eggs, fresh produce, toothpaste, cosmetics, pet treats, diapers, paper products, electronics, seasonal items, over-the-counter medicines, chips, dips, and more, according to the company. Prime members can choose the fast delivery option for a $3.99 fee per order, while non-Prime members will have to pay $13.99. Orders below $15…