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Realme showed off a prototype smartphone with a 10,000 mAh battery in May and said it would launch a 7,500 mAh battery phone this year, while also revealing that a 10,000 mAh model was coming soon. Well, so far, we've only got 7,000 mAh battery smartphones from Realme, which include the flagship GT 8 Pro. While there's no word from Realme on the commercial availability of a 10,000 mAh battery... Read more ›
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How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream Algeria vs. Burkina Faso in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free. Read more ›
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Bankruptcies are suddenly everywhere, from billion-dollar giants to small businesses to individuals. Experts are stumped at the breadth of industries. Read more ›
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First, tech companies usurped the meaning of ‘friends’ and ‘connection’ — now they are coming for ‘companionship’ Read more ›
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Samsung is best known for its world class smartphones that make the best use of the Android architecture. What are some other cool products the company makes? Read more ›
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In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. Read more ›
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OpenAI is reportedly still working on baking in ads into ChatGPT's results despite Altman's 'Code Red' earlier this month. Read more ›
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We might be looking at literally the most cooked RTX 5090 yet, with a burnt power connector that has melted into itself, despite using a native 12V-2x6 cable on an ATX 3.1 certified PSU. The person smelled fire, saw it, and lived to tell the tale, all on Christmas eve. Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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Phoronix reports on "an exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list" proposing "a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the 'Modern Standby' functionality found with Microsoft Windows..." Modern Standby is a low-power mode on Windows 11 for letting systems remain connected to the network and appear "sleeping" but will allow for instant wake-up for notifications, music playback, and other functionality. The display... Read more ›
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A new Windows 11 Insider update optimises File Explorer search by removing redundant indexing operations, promising faster searches, lower memory use, and a cleaner context menu. Read more ›
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An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this story from Interesting Engineering: Cybersecurity specialists from the research group DARKNAVY have demonstrated how modern humanoid robots can be compromised and weaponised through weaknesses in their AI-driven control systems. In a controlled test, the team demonstrated that a commercially available humanoid robot could be hijacked with nothing more than spoken commands, exposing how voice-based interaction can serve as an attack vector rather than a... Read more ›
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Some Japanese computer stores are limiting GPU purchases because of supply uncertainty, especially for models with 16GB of VRAM and up. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield. Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the so-called "zone-effect" weapon would seek to flood Starlink orbits with hundreds... Read more ›
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As AI data centers' power consumption puts more strain on the grid, the U.S. is trying to tackle issue by letting them draw power directly from plants instead. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: OpenAI is looking for a new Head of Preparedness who can help it anticipate the potential harms of its models and how they can be abused, in order to guide the company's safety strategy. It comes at the end of a year that's seen OpenAI hit with numerous accusations about ChatGPT's impacts on users' mental health, including a few wrongful death lawsuits.... Read more ›
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For years, Samsung has made products that try to camouflage what they are by displaying works of art. The Frame TV is the most famous example, but the company also released the Music Frame, a speaker disguised as a picture frame, at last year's CES. Now, instead of hiding a speaker with a piece of […] Read more ›
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I left my kids — including a newborn — to see the Backstreet Boys in August. They're back at the Sphere, and I hope another mom is doing the same. Read more ›
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Ten impossibly small Japanese laptops under 1kg - but you'll probably never be able to buy. Read more ›
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France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’ Read more ›
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Creative financing helps insulate Big Tech while binding Wall Street to a future boom or bust Read more ›
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Deal will help Google’s parent company expand access to generation needed to power AI development Read more ›
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World’s most valuable company will gain engineer who helped develop Google’s Tensor Processing Unit chip programme Read more ›
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As well as being the dominant platform in podcasting and having a growing presence in live sport, it is now the leader in TV and streaming in the US Read more ›
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TikTok’s Chinese owner set to increase capital expenditure next year in effort to further build AI infrastructure Read more ›
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Competition from Alibaba and JD.com for fast-growing instant retail market has hit the Beijing-based group Read more ›
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Context matters as much as content in determining whether text is machine generated or not Read more ›
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France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’ Read more ›
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Google DeepMind and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs target gaming with AI-generated 3D environments Read more ›
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