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Trump on Saturday signed into law a high-stakes continuing resolution that keeps the government funded through late September. Read more ›
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Portugal said it was reconsidering purchasing the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 jet in the wake of Trump's recent policy shifts. Read more ›
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Tesla protests, falling sales, and fierce competition are testing the popular saying, "You should never bet against Elon Musk." Read more ›
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SpaceX chief Elon Musk says the Starship rocket will put Tesla’s Optimus robot on Mars in 2026, followed by human landings that are likely to happen in 2029. Read more ›
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Disney's keeping the Percy Jackson train a-going with another season that'll adapt 2007's The Titan's Curse. Read more ›
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"Alphabet's Waymo autonomous vehicles are programmed to follow the rules of the road..." notes the Washington Post. But while the cars obey speed limits and properly use their turn signals — they also "routinely violate parking rules." Waymo vehicles driving themselves received 589 tickets for parking violations in 2024, according to records from San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency... The robots incurred $65,065 in fines for violations such as obstructing traffic,... Read more ›
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Slashdot has run nearly a dozen stories about Michael Mann, one of America's most prominent climate scientists and a co-creator of the famous "hockey stick" graph of spiking temperatures. In 2012 Mann sued two bloggers for defamation — and last year Mann finally won more than $1 million, reports the Washington Post. "A jury found that two conservative commentators had defamed him by alleging that he was like a child... Read more ›
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SNES consoles appear to run faster as they age, thanks to the SPC700 sound chip. Read more ›
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A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” Read more ›
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Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant. Read more ›
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In a recent video explaining high RTX 5090 prices, the PowerGPU CEO revealed distribution-level scalping, which also impacts system integrators. Read more ›
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Lip-Bu Tan will get a $1 million base annual salary for leading Intel, but his performance-related bonuses are worth so much more than that. Read more ›
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The PSU comes with 80 Plus Platinum certification and four 12V-2x6 power connectors. Read more ›
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Smith previously praised Ribeiro's work ethic on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," saying: "Nobody commits as hard as Alf." Read more ›
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Wondering what '86' means in the Toyota GR86's name? Discover its origins, history, and connection to Toyota's legendary sports cars. Read more ›
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Apple this week said that it plans to add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to the Messages app in future iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS software updates, and that news actually has some additional implications. As noted by 9to5Mac's Michael Burkhardt, Apple has indirectly confirmed that it will be adopting the RCS Universal Profile 3.0 specification, which includes not only end-to-end encryption, but also several other iMessage-like enhancements that... Read more ›
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DOGE terminated Navy veteran Ben Gibson after he moved from Idaho to Washington, DC, for a VA job. He said the process was unbelievable. Read more ›
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Hacking is more prevalent today than it ever has been, but there is still a lot of bad information out there. Here are the myths about hacking you can ignore. Read more ›
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Huawei's licenses to install Windows expired this month, so the company will no longer be able to produce and sell PCs with Windows. Read more ›
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DeepSeek’s sudden rise to global stardom has earned the startup a status akin to national treasure in China. One result is restrictions on how the company operates. In recent weeks, company executives have forbidden some of DeepSeek’s employees involved in the research and development of artificial intelligence models from traveling abroad freely, according to three people familiar with the company. Meanwhile, the government of eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, where DeepSeek’s... Read more ›
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In early 2023, Nvidia was seeing near-endless demand for its artificial intelligence chips. Cloud computing giants such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud were increasing their orders, sending Nvidia’s revenue to new heights. Developers were scrambling to access the chips, which were hard to come by. Then Nvidia made a curious move: It agreed to spend $1.3 billion over four years to rent its own chips from... Read more ›
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Anthropic’s year is off to a good start. Its annualized revenue—a measure of the past month's revenue multiplied by 12—has grown from $1 billion at the end of last year to $1.4 billion as of earlier this month, according to a person who has seen the numbers. In other words, Anthropic is generating more than $115 million a month. That’s roughly the same revenue pace its rival OpenAI reached in... Read more ›
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ServiceNow is buying AI startup Moveworks for $2.85 billion, the enterprise software firm announced first thing this morning, an effort by ServiceNow to get a jump on agent-powered services. We included Moveworks in our Generative AI Takeover List, which you can see here. And now on to the rest of the column…We’ve written a lot about how investors have warmed to AI applications businesses, in part because of how much... Read more ›
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Uber and Lyft dominate ride-hailing in North America, a position that has helped them turn cash-burning operations into moneymakers. Now Bolt, an Uber rival in Europe and Africa, is trying to undercut the two ride-hailing companies in their home markets. Earlier this year, Bolt started offering ride-hailing services in Toronto and scooter rentals in Washington through the Hopp app. Bolt is using the same playbook that it uses for its... Read more ›
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Manus, a new artificial intelligence agent that has gone viral on social media, announced that it is teaming up with Alibaba Group to offer its service to users in China. Manus, launched last week on an invitation-only basis, has attracted a lot of attention based on a demo video that impressed ... Read more ›
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In this week’s episode: Waymo, Larry Page, TikTok and our first $1 million More or Less bet. YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Read more ›
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BNY, the nation’s oldest bank, is expanding the services it handles for stablecoin giant Circle, the latest sign that U.S. banking access for the crypto industry is easing under a friendlier regulatory environment. The bank will allow some clients to send money to and from Circle through BNY for purchase or sale of Circle’s stablecoins, people with knowledge of the development said. Previously, Circle’s clients had to use smaller banks... Read more ›
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Intel named former Cadence Design Systems chief Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, sending its stock up 12%. The appointment follows the departure of Pat Gelsinger as CEO in December as it struggled to compete in the market for artificial intelligence chips and its stock price tanked. Tan had stepped ... Read more ›
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The groups of buyers circling TikTok’s U.S. operations are likely to find it a more svelte company than it was a year ago, after a string of senior managers left the popular video app. At least eight TikTok executives, including music chief Ole Obermann, global head of litigation Emily Stubbs and Sameer Singh, head of North American ad sales, have left TikTok or announced their departures since the beginning of... Read more ›
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