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Bitcoin mining has crossed a critical economic threshold, with costs now exceeding market value for most operators. According to data cited by CoinShares, large public mining companies spend over $82,000 to produce a single Bitcoin -- nearly double last quarter's figure -- while smaller operations face even steeper costs of approximately $137,000 per coin.
With Bitcoin currently trading around $94,703, the math no longer works for most miners. The economics become particularly challenging in high-electric
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Kim Hunter-Borst, a healthcare professional, said she delayed retirement because she tied her identity to work, and she had golden handcuffs. Read more ›
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A study by analytics firm Semrush found that Reddit and Quora were the top two sources cited by Google in its AI Overviews. Read more ›
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A revealing demonstration with Tesla's Full Self-Driving mode is raising concerns about whether fully autonomous cars are ready to hit the streets. Tesla has reportedly pushed back the rollout of its upcoming all-electric, fully autonomous car called the Cybercab, while a recent demonstration in Austin, Texas showed a Tesla Model Y running through a school bus' flashing lights and stop signs, and hitting child-size mannequins. The tests were conducted by... Read more ›
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Explore the allure of Koh Samui, Thailand, where entrepreneurs and expats embrace a slower pace, lower living costs, and stunning natural beauty. Read more ›
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Introduction and unboxing Few remember the original OnePlus Watch, but many loved the OnePlus Watch 2 for its impressive asymmetric case design. It remains this reviewer's favorite watch design alongside Huawei's Watch GT 5 with its angled case. The OnePlus Watch 2 was also among the most long-lasting Wear OS watches around, thanks to its dual architecture - two processors, the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1, running Wear OS, and a... Read more ›
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"I just wish there was more thought put into it," Tracy Davis, who voted for Trump, said of the president's actions on student debt. Read more ›
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Apple Watches are gaining support for custom Control Center controls. Starting with watchOS 26, controls that are available in the Control Center gallery on an iPhone are automatically available on the Apple Watch as well. This is true even if the iOS app offering the control lacks a corresponding watchOS app. When you tap on one of these controls, the action is performed on the companion iPhone. watchOS app developers... Read more ›
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Love it or hate it, 'Batman Begins' is key to the character's ongoing popularity and Hollywood's reboot obsession. Read more ›
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Two of the most important companies behind China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency and AI supremacy hopes were dealt a blow on Saturday, with their addition to Taiwan’s strategic high-tech commodities entity list. Read more ›
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The minimum payment wasn't making a dent in my student loan debt. I decided to use the bulk of my paycheck to pay down my debt. Living at home helped. Read more ›
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Apple plans to offer public betas of AirPods firmware updates for the first time. The public will be able to test upcoming AirPods firmware updates through the free Apple Beta Software Program, with no Apple Developer account required. "New public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, HomePod software 26, watchOS 26, and AirPods Firmware are coming soon," says Apple. In a press release announcing new... Read more ›
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The British telecom giants earlier said it planned to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030. The company has turned to AI to reinvent its customer service operations. Read more ›
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Top European universities say they're benefiting from Trump's US visa legal battle, with a rise in interest from international students. Read more ›
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Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau shelved Boba Fett as soon as they dug him back up, but he may resurface again in the near-ish future. Read more ›
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Industrious Switch fans have started compiling a fan-made list that tracks which Switch 1 games have seen an improvement - or a decline - in performance when running on their new Nintendo Switch 2 consoles. Read more Read more ›
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Dreamworks' first go at a live-action remake with 'How to Train Your Dragon' is a success. Read more ›
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A new device developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin looks like a tattoo and measures brain activity. Read more ›
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Both Dune: Awakening and Stellar Blade have set new concurrent user records on Steam over the weekend. Read more Read more ›
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My dad moved to Mexico after my parents split. He took me on a trip when I was 12 years old that changed our relationship and we still travel together. Read more ›
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Perhaps the oldest, most pernicious form of human bias is that of men toward women. It often started at the moment of birth. In ancient Athens, at a public ceremony called the amphidromia, fathers would inspect a newborn and decide whether it would be part of the family, or be cast away. One often socially […] Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: US Navy Secretary John Phelan has told the Senate the service needs the right to repair its own gear, and will rethink how it writes contracts to keep control of intellectual property and ensure sailors can fix hardware, especially in a fight. Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Phelan cited the case of the USS Gerald R. Ford,... Read more ›
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The Atlantic makes that case that "the foundation of the AI industry is a scam" and that AI "is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking — and, soon, feeling — machines." [OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5's improved "emotional intelligence," which he says makes users feel like they're "talking to a thoughtful person." Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI company Anthropic,... Read more ›
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The Class of 2025 is encountering the worst entry-level job market in years with unemployment among recent degree-holders aged 22 to 27 reaching 5.8% this spring -- the highest level in approximately four years and well above the national average. According to Federal Reserve Bank of New York data, 85% of the unemployment rate increase since mid-2023 stems from new labor market entrants struggling to find work. Corporate hiring freezes... Read more ›
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Bluesky's user engagement has fallen roughly 50% since peaking in mid-November, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis, as progressive groups' efforts to migrate users from Elon Musk's X platform show signs of failure. The research found that while many news influencers maintain Bluesky accounts, two-thirds post irregularly compared to more than 80% who still post daily to X. A Washington Post columnist tries to make sense of it:... Read more ›
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"Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics," according to a recent announcement from the University of California, Riverside. In a new modeling study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, showed that restoring forests to their preindustrial extent could lower global average temperatures by 0.34 degrees Celsius. That is roughly one-quarter of the... Read more ›
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The World Bank sharply reduced its global economic growth forecast for 2025 to 2.3% from 2.7%, warning that the current decade is on track to become the weakest for the global economy since the 1960s. The Washington-based lender attributed the downgrade to mounting costs from "international discord -- about trade, in particular," as Donald Trump's tariff policies create unprecedented uncertainty. The revised forecast would mark the slowest growth rate outside... Read more ›
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A dating site launched last week by Belgian artist Dries Depoorter matches potential partners based on their internet browsing histories rather than curated profiles or photos. Browser Dating requires users to download a Chrome or Firefox extension that exports and uploads their recent search data, creating matches based on shared online behaviors and interests rather than traditional dating app metrics. Less than 1,000 users have signed up since the platform's... Read more ›
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In a world first, a research team used 2D materials — only an atom thick — to develop a computer. The team (led by researchers at Pennsylvania State University) says it's a major step toward thinner, faster and more energy-efficient electronics. From the University's announcement: They created a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) computer — technology at the heart of nearly every modern electronic device — without relying on silicon. Instead,... Read more ›
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Amazon has quietly doubled the ad load on Prime Video to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from the 2-3.5 minutes initially discussed when ads launched in 2024. AdWeek reports: According to six ad buyers and documents reviewed by ADWEEK, the current ad load on Prime Video now ranges from four to six minutes per hour. And while that could bring down CPMs, buyers will be watching whether this impacts user... Read more ›
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In 1989 a computer scientist argued that more functionality in software actually lowers usability and practicality — leading to the counterintuitive proposition that "worse is better". But is that still true? Python's original creator Guido van Rossum addressed the question last month in a lightning talk at the annual Python Language Summit 2025. Guido started by recounting earlier periods of Python development from 35 years ago, where he used UNIX... Read more ›
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