Your Phone Pinging Hijacks Your Brain for 7 Seconds, Study Finds

It's tough to ignore the buzz of your phone when a new message arrives. [...]

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, March 20

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for March 20. [...]

VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automat [...]

Can Tinder Fix The Dating Landscape It Helped Ruin?

With more than a dozen new features, including analyzing users’ camera rolls and astrology-based matches, Tinder is trying to lure Gen Z—and bring back those burned out from dating apps. [...]

Meet your company’s new HR reps: AI agents

As companies experiment with agentic systems, top execs at Salesforce and AI-powered HR players like Phenom debate just what AI is good at and the unanswered questions ahead. [...]

Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams

The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to deepen its enterprise push [...]

Blue Origin also wants to put AI data centers in space

Blue Origin has revealed its plans for an orbital AI data center system in a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The company has asked the agency for permission to deploy 51,600 sat [...]

Crimson Desert fails to boot for Intel Arc GPU users — and the developer's FAQ suggests referring to the refund policy

Pearl Abyss' new Crimson Desert is unplayable on PCs using Intel Arc GPUs, as the platform is currently unsupported. [...]

DORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready

Fourteen months after the Digital Operational Resilience Act became enforceable, Europe’s financial institutions are running out of room to improvise. The regulation, which took effect on January 17 [...]