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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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A leaked Xbox Elite Controller Series 3 appears to keep Microsoft’s familiar pro design while adding Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, and two mysterious lower controls. Read more ›
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An IT professional says he was turned down for a role so quickly that he felt compelled to tell the employer what happened. Read more ›
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Carol Leonard, a 65-year-old grandmother in Baton Rouge, raises her grandsons alone, facing financial challenges without legal custody support. Read more ›
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At a premiere for a new YouTube-exclusive show, celebrities, creators, and taxi cab drivers partied under one roof. Read more ›
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A dozen "vibe coders" have built no-code apps and websites to support their aging parents, from reading medical records to managing medications. Read more ›
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Когда я начал ковыряться с локальными LLM, главная боль была не в установке моделей, а в понимании, что вообще влезет в моё железо. Документация Hugging Face говорит “Llama 3.1 8B” — что это значит для моей видеокарты с 16 GB? А если хочу 32k контекст? А с Q4_K_M? Несколько недель назад мне попался open-source калькулятор whatmodelscanirun.ru. Прогнал его на трёх своих сетапах (4060 Ti, 3090, M2 Pro), сравнил предсказания с... Read more ›
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Крупномасштабные планы по развитию советского дирижаблестроения начала 30-х годов, столкнувшись с не осознававшимися на старте трудностями, не сбылись. Крупнейшим советским дирижаблем так и остался построенный при поддержке Умберто Нобиле полужёсткий «Осоавиахим», трагически погибший по пути в полярную спасательную операцию. В последние предвоенные годы строительство и даже эксплуатацию последних остававшихся мягких дирижаблей было решено прекратить, сделав ставку на самолёты, и производственные мощности се Read more ›
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К лету 2026 года игровая индустрия окончательно перешла к смешанному формату: крупные шоу возвращаются в офлайн, но онлайн‑презентации остаются основным способом быстро охватить аудиторию. Получился достаточно плотный календарь сезона, в котором платформодержатели обозначают стратегию, издатели показывают релизы ближайших лет, а независимые студии получают шанс выделиться.В этом материале мы собрали все крупные игровые конференции, выставки, фестивали и трансляции лета 2026 года — с кратким разбором их роли Read more ›
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Could an AI replica of your ex actually help you heal? A psychologist isn't so sure. Read more ›
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Elder care in the US can cost up to five figures a month. Eight people told us how they found care for themselves or their loved ones. Read more ›
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The sentence: "An Amazon television show video game tie-in" is about as big a red flag as a two star hygiene rating on a kebab van. You would not be at fault for looking at Invincible Vs with narrowed eyes. However, would you believe it, Invincible Vs is an exceptionally enjoyable game. Not only does it do wonders as an adaption, it might just be one of the best fighting... Read more ›
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UK-headquartered payments technology company Currensea has announced a major regulatory milestone, securing a Payments Institution Licence from the Dutch central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). The approval, granted to its newly established subsidiary Currensea Europe B.V., provides the regulatory foundation for the firm to begin serving customers across the European... Read more ›
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On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon. Read more ›
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Microsoft is testing one of the biggest Windows 11 interface shakeups yet, and it quietly brings back a feature many users have missed for years. The Start menu is changing too, and some of the updates feel surprisingly thoughtful. Read more ›
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Adam Jones tried using AI to edit the social media posts for Myers' Bagels. After customer outcry, he apologized — but isn't anti-AI. Read more ›
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ChatGPT can now take care of your personal finances, which definitely sounds like a good idea. In the US, subscribers to ChatGPT Pro can now connect accounts from over 12,000 financial institutions, thanks to a partnership OpenAI has established with the financial connection service Plaid. Once you connect your account(s) to ChatGPT, you'll see a dashboard of your portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments. ChatGPT can answer questions about... Read more ›
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Naveen Rao, a longtime California resident, ascended to a rarefied tier of wealth last year when his startup, Unconventional AI, was valued at $4.5 billion. The company is based in Palo Alto, but with the specter of a new tax on billionaires looming over the state, Rao began considering other places to live. Last month, he found one: a $20 million mansion in Incline Village, a charming mountain town on... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• Tech Culture: Billionaire tax brings new boom time to Tahoe haven• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Interview: What Does Tucker Carlson Really Believe? I Went to Maine to Find Out,” “Hated by All the Right People,” and “Widow’s Bay”A very old proverb comes to mind when I think about this exact period in AI—because, really, it’s a moment when the enemy of your... Read more ›
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Tech companies from Spotify to Uber to Airbnb told investors on their March-quarter earnings calls that AI was making their workers more productive, allowing them to ship more code and handle more customers with the same or fewer employees. Many companies are seeing profit margin improvement as AI is helping them do more while holding their headcount steady or in some cases allowing them to cut jobs. But some companies... Read more ›
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How many AI chip designers can the public market support? We’ll get a sense of that on Thursday when Cerebras Systems, the biggest of a new generation of chip designers dedicated to AI, is expected to go public at a valuation of $35 billion. If it follows the pattern of other AI-related IPOs, such as cloud firm CoreWeave, Cerebras will be a big hit. CoreWeave went public a year ago... Read more ›
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Chinese social media giant Kuaishou Technology is planning to spin off its Kling AI video business ahead of an initial public offering next year, in an attempt to capitalize on investors’ appetite for AI stocks, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. Kuaishou has held talks with potential investors for a pre-IPO funding round that values Kling at $20 billion, the two people said. Kling develops AI video... Read more ›
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Uber promoted its Chief Marketing Officer Jill Hazelbaker to president and chief corporate affairs officer, adding human resources, real estate and safety to her remit. Hazelbaker is a veteran technology communications and public policy leader who worked at Google and Snap before joining Uber in ... Read more ›
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Google recently observed hackers using AI models to find a previously undiscovered security flaw, the company said on Monday. The hacker planned to use the flaw for a “mass exploitation event,” but Google security researchers believe they successfully warded off the attack after noticing the ... Read more ›
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As access to Nvidia AI chips become more elusive, major developers such OpenAI and Meta Platforms are diversifying their sources of computing power, including by striking deals to use a variety of AI server chips. But making that approach work is not a cinch. The AI labs need to tailor the code that trains and runs their models to each type of chip they use. It turns out there are... Read more ›
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AI chip designer Cerebras Systems raised its preliminary IPO pricing range to between $150 and $160 a share, from between $115 and $125, in a sign that investor demand for the company is strong. At the new pricing range, Cerebras would raise about $4.5 billion. It would also value Cerebras at ... Read more ›
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Critics of the AI build-out are picking the wrong fight when they attack data centers for their water use. But they are right when they say the digital economy is getting thirstier and the tech industry should answer for it.The whole AI supply chain is water intensive, and reducing use in one place can increase it elsewhere. New research shows chip factories and power plants use considerably more water than... Read more ›
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