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Earlier this month MasterCard noted that even Walmart now allows its customers to make purchases through ChatGPT. And after polling more than 4,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and UAE, they found "more than four in 10 consumers already use AI tools to help them shop, including 61% of Gen Z and 57% of millennials."
Many (50% of Gen Z and 49% of millennials) say they'd even let AI handle all their gift-buying if it meant avoiding stress. Younger shoppers trust AI's taste, with 51% of Gen Z and 55% o
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Tesla will stop selling its $8,000 Full Self-Driving (FSD) option and make it strictly a monthly subscription service after February 14, CEO Elon Musk announced on his X platform. Musk didn't reveal the price or why he's making the switch, though FSD is already available by subscription for $99 per month or $999 per year. The shift could be advantageous for buyers, particularly if they decide to dump their new... Read more ›
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Jim Henson's fantasy classic starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, and a whole bunch of Muppets is hitting the road with a live band. Read more ›
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SK Hynix demonstrates 48 GB HBM4 memory with a 2,048-bit interface over at up to10 GT/s Read more ›
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2025 saw the largest revenue generated through crypto scams to date with an estimated $17 billion stolen from victims worldwide. Read more ›
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After launching 32-terabyte HAMR drives, Seagate has achieved the same feat with CMR tech, releasing three new drives across its iconic product families. Starting at $699.99 and going all the way up to $849.99, these 32 TB hard drives spin at 7200 RPM, have transfer speeds of up to 285 MB/s, and five-year warranties. Read more ›
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The UK government has backtracked on a plan to require all workers to have a digital ID following a backlash. It will no longer be mandatory to register with the digital ID program to prove one has the right to work in the country, as the BBC reports.The government announced the now-scrapped digital ID requirement in September. "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you... Read more ›
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With Trump's proposed cap on credit card interest rates and new caps on student loans, more Americans might turn to alternative lenders. Read more ›
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A growing number of domestic and international airlines are offering Starlink WiFi to passengers, like United Airlines, British Airways, and Emirates. Read more ›
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Rachel Swanson, a registered dietitian, aims to eat protein and fiber as well as a wide variety of plants to support a healthy microbiome. Read more ›
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After weeks of deliberation, sources suggest that China will only allow companies to purchase H200 GPUs for "special circumstances," although Beijing has yet to define exactly what that means. Read more ›
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Two years ago, companies like Meta and OpenAI were united against military use of their tools. Now all of that has changed. Read more ›
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While major banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Citi, warned that a 10% credit card cap would reduce access to credit, some CEOs applaud the plan. Read more ›
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As RAM prices spike, Nothing is laying the groundwork for justifying fewer hardware upgrades in 2026. Read more ›
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Nothing CEO Carl Pei says the era of cheaper smartphones is ending, with memory shortages and AI demand pushing costs so high that brands have little choice but to raise prices or rethink what phones offer. Read more ›
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Meta’s VR gaming push is shrinking, and you’ll feel it. Reality Labs layoffs and the closure of the studios behind Resident Evil 4 and Deadpool point to fewer big exclusives for Quest owners. Read more ›
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Companies are laying off or restructuring to have fewer middle managers with more reports each. This can be done well — or it can lead to burnout. Read more ›
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You don't need an iPhone 16 or iPhone 17 to access this Apple Intelligence feature. Read more ›
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Chinese customs officers were allegedly told to disallow the entry of Nvidia H200 chips, effectively banning the entry of these AI processors into the country. The command comes as other sources say that Beijing will only allow the import of these AI GPUs for 'special circumstances.' Read more ›
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alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: At the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), physicists successfully exceeded what is known as the Greenwald limit, a practical density boundary beyond which plasmas tend to violently destabilize, often damaging reactor components. For a long time, the Greenwald limit was accepted as a given and incorporated into fusion reactor engineering. The new work shows that precise control over how the plasma is created and... Read more ›
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company is "going big time" into its 14A (1.4nm-class) process, signaling confidence in yields and hinting at at least one external foundry customer. Tom's Hardware reports: Intel's 14A is expected to be production-ready in 2027, with early versions of process design kit (PDK) coming to external customers early this year. To that end, it is good to hear Intel's upbeat comments about 14A. Also,... Read more ›
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Linus Torvalds has weighed in on an ongoing debate within the Linux kernel development community about whether documentation should explicitly address AI-generated code contributions, and his position is characteristically blunt: stop making it an issue. The Linux creator was responding to Oracle-affiliated kernel developer Lorenzo Stoakes, who had argued that treating LLMs as "just another tool" ignores the threat they pose to kernel quality. "Thinking LLMs are 'just another tool'... Read more ›
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A major new review by the Cochrane collaboration -- an independent network of researchers -- evaluated 73 randomized controlled trials involving about 5,000 people with depression and found that exercise matched the effectiveness of both pharmacological treatments and psychological therapies. The biological mechanisms overlap considerably with antidepressants. "Exercise can help improve neurotransmitter function, like serotonin as well as dopamine and endorphins," said Dr. Stephen Mateka, medical director Read more ›
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A new study "compared how well top AI systems and human workers did at hundreds of real work assignments," reports the Washington Post. They add that at least one example "illustrates a disconnect three years after the release of ChatGPT that has implications for the whole economy." AI can accomplish many impressive tasks involving computer code, documents or images. That has prompted predictions that human work of many kinds could... Read more ›
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Is there a trend? This week four different articles appeared on various tech-news sites with an author bragging about switching to Linux. "Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop," quipped the Verge's senior reviews editor, who finally "got fed up and said screw it, I'm installing Linux. They switched to CachyOS — just like this writer for the videogame magazine Escapist: I've had a fantastic time gaming on... Read more ›
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Scifi author/tech activist Cory Doctorow has decried the "enshittification" of our technologies to extract more profit. But Saturday he also described what could be "the beginning of the end for enshittification" in a new article for the Guardian — "our chance to make tech good again". There is only one reason the world isn't bursting with wildly profitable products and projects that disenshittify the US's defective products: its (former) trading... Read more ›
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Paris Judicial Court ordered Google to block additional pirate sports-streaming domains at the DNS level, rejecting Google's argument that enforcement should target upstream providers like Cloudflare first. "The blockade was requested by Canal+ and aims to stop pirate streams of Champions League games," notes TorrentFreak. From the report: Most recently, Google was compelled to take action following a complaint from French broadcaster Canal+ and its subsidiaries regarding Champions League piracy..... Read more ›
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Microbiology had its golden age in the late nineteenth century, when researchers identified the bacterial causes of tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, and a dozen other diseases in rapid succession. Antibiotics had theirs in the mid-twentieth century. Both booms eventually slowed. Vaccine development, by contrast, appears to be speeding up -- and the most productive era may still lie ahead, Works in Progress writes in a story. In the first half of... Read more ›
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Remember that re-discovered computer tape with one of the earliest versions of Unix from the early 1970s? This week several local news outlets in Utah reported on the find, with KSL creating a video report with shots of the tape arriving at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, the closet where it was found, and even its handwritten label. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the closet where it was found... Read more ›
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