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Online platforms have transformed how consumers subscribe to services and try products. Free trials, simplified checkout processes and clearly stated cancellation deadlines are now widely used to reduce friction and build trust. However, when free-trial promises are not upheld in part or even in full and when follow-up becomes difficult or impossible, even routine transactions can escalate into drawn-out disputes. Recent testimonials shared with TechRound indicate that some users of major digital platforms are experiencing unclear cancellation confirmation, limited escalation procedures and delayed or unresolved refunds after cancelling free trials within stated timeframes.   What Consumers Say They Are Experiencing…

On Tuesday night, Elon Musk gathered the employees of xAI for an all-hands meeting. Evidently, he wanted to talk about the future of his AI company, and specifically, how it relates to the moon. According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult. “You have to go to the moon,” he said, per the Times. The move, he explained, will help xAI harness more computing power than…

Tarek Miah, 20, of Littlehampton Road in Salvington, has been charged with four counts of rape, causing a child to engage in a penetrative sexual act, causing a child to watch a sexual act, casing a child to engage in a non-penetrative sexual act and false imprisonment. The charges relate to a report received on February 7 of two teenage girls being kept in a vehicle against their will in Midhurst and a report of non-recent sexual offending involving a girl in the Durrington area, Sussex Police said. All three victims are being supported by specialist officers. Miah has been…

Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs has revealed an expansion of its crypto holdings, reporting roughly $2.36 billion in total crypto exposure — including $1.1 billion in Bitcoin ETFs, according to financial holding disclosures. Bitcoin’s portion of the haul — the largest of any digital asset listed — highlights just how far the venerable investment bank has shifted from earlier skepticism toward meaningful exposure in the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap.  The $1.1 billion position was in IBIT, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF. The SEC filings also revealed holdings of approximately $35.8 million in Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, roughly $92,000…

There’s been a lot of pushback on electronic door handles lately, as multiple carmakers — especially Tesla — have been accused of making manual door releases too hard to find and access during an emergency. Rivian is one of the companies that reportedly decided to change this on its upcoming R2 SUV, and a spate of first-look videos released Tuesday finally give us a look at what the company has changed. First off, the front doors open from the inside in the same way as in the existing R1 vehicles. There is an electronic button that opens the door, and…

Wednesday 11 February 2026 2:00 am  |  Updated:  Tuesday 10 February 2026 4:41 pm Share Facebook Share on Facebook X Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp Email Share on Email The BNPL industry is bracing for a shakeup. (Image: PA) Providers of buy now, pay later services are set to feel the crunch as the UK’s financial watchdog tightens its regulatory focus on the fast-growing industry.Merchants and lenders are set to take a combined hit of as much as £3bn following the regulation overhaul by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), according to its own projections. The City…

On Tuesday, Matthew Doyle, who sits in the House of Lords, had the Labour whip withdrawn over his past support for Sean Morton – a former Labour councillor in Moray who was charged with possessing and distributing indecent images of children in December 2016. Morton was suspended by Labour after he appeared in court and was later convicted, including for possessing indecent pictures of children. Scottish Labour confirmed on Tuesday that the whip had been removed from Duncan-Glancy, who also had links to Morton, while a probe was underway. READ MORE: Pam Duncan-Glancy replaced as Labour candidate for Glasgow seat…

Mr Donegan, 43, was shot several times by a lone gunman in broad daylight as he sat in his red Porsche Panamera on the Glen Road.16:18, 10 Feb 2026Updated 16:36, 10 Feb 2026Jim Donegan was murdered in 2018A representative for police has been pressed for progress towards an inquest into the death of a man who was shot dead outside a school in Belfast.James Donegan, from Lisburn, known as Jim, was murdered as he waited for his 13-year-old son outside the boy’s school in west Belfast on December 4, 2018.Mr Donegan, 43, was shot several times by a lone gunman…

Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept.  The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024 while attending Cornell University in New York.  Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and…

Ryan Beiermeister, who served as OpenAI’s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male colleague accused her of sex discrimination, the Wall Street Journal has reported. “The allegation that I discriminated against anyone is absolutely false,” Beiermeister told the Journal. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for comment and also contacted an email that appears to be associated with Beiermeister; neither had responded at the time of publication. Per the Journal’s report, Beiermeister’s termination came after she expressed criticism of a planned ChatGPT feature dubbed “adult mode.” The new mode would introduce erotica into the chatbot user…