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Android Apps Must Meet New Memory Limits

Android developers have until February 2027 to get leaner or risk consequences on Google Play. Google is introducing new Play Store thresholds covering runtime memory, bitmap usage and code optimization. Apps that repeatedly exceed the limits could lose visibility or face restrictions on publishing updates, putting new pressure on developers to reduce the amount of…

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Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations. Industrial heavyweight Caterpillar has spent decades dealing with a version of that problem in the physical world, and now it’s using its experience to deploy AI. Caterpillar’s push into the autonomous space…

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Mice, a Caved-In Ceiling, and Cloudy Water: The GSA’s New Office Is Falling Apart

About 1,600 federal employees who work at the General Services Administration have been forced to relocate from their office on F Street in Washington, DC, to the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, roughly two blocks away. Workers say the new building, which also houses staff from the Office of Personnel Management has mice, a caved-in bathroom ceiling, and…

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Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off

When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture to a private-equity rescue — a business that was printing money but also had no real product or business strategy. Four years, a SPAC listing, and a controversial return-to-office mandate later, Grindr…

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