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When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launched in 2023 as essentially a staffing agency, albeit a highly automated one. Language models reviewed resumes and did the interviewing. […]
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My boyfriend texted me those dreaded four words: "Is your Spotify down?" Sure enough his, mine and thousands of other users' Spotify accounts appear to be down and out at the moment, with Downdetector recording over 10,000 reports from users. Spotify is apparently working on the problem. The account, Spotify Status, shared an update on X at 9:45 AM on Monday, "We’re aware of some issues right now and are... Read more ›
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The world’s top chipmaker wants open source AI to succeed—perhaps because closed models increasingly run on its rivals’ silicon. Read more ›
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Global web traffic from SpaceX's satellite-based internet service more than doubled in 2025, according to Cloudflare's annual year in review report. Read more ›
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Some flights into JFK Airport spent hours taxiing before they could park at a gate, with over 1,400 flights in the area disrupted. Read more ›
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He also directed 'Stand By Me,' 'A Few Good Men,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' 'This Is Spinal Tap,' and many more. Read more ›
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LG smart TV owners discovered over the weekend that a recent webOS software update had quietly installed Microsoft Copilot on their devices, and the app cannot be uninstalled. Affected users report the feature appears automatically after installing the latest webOS update on certain models, sitting alongside streaming apps like Netflix and YouTube. LG's support documentation confirms that certain preinstalled or system apps can only be hidden, not deleted. At CES... Read more ›
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By May 2024, Ebony Dupas knew she had a problem. She had started to feel a mild anxiety about her sense of direction and purpose in life earlier that year, but within a couple months, that had spiraled into a paranoia that she could neither shake nor explain. Referred by her doctor, Dupas began consulting […] Read more ›
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The autonomous vehicle industry is heating up thanks to advances in AI. But can those same innovations help startups like HyprLabs build safe tech? Read more ›
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Thousands of RGB drones lit up the Dubai Frame to create the largest ever playable Tetris game. Read more ›
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Apple's latest Apple Watch update isn't about big redesigns or headline features. Instead, watchOS 26.2 focuses on small but significant changes. Read more ›
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Netflix laid out the rationale for acquiring Warner Bros, saying the deal is: "pro-consumer, pro-innovation, pro-worker, pro-creator, and pro-growth." Read more ›
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jane Way, 84, who works 30 hours a week as a US-based accountant for a South African orphanage. Read more ›
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There was a notably 'dangerously close' approach between a newly launched Chinese satellite and Starlink-6079 a few days ago. Read more ›
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LG smart TV owners are reporting that a recent webOS software update has added Microsoft Copilot to their TVs, with no apparent way to remove it. Read more ›
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A 41-year-old Brooklyn mom juggles two jobs and cuts cost to afford $20,000 annually for childcare for her two young kids. Read more ›
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Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has stated his latest game, To a T, "didn't sell well" and "wasn't a good fit", expressing the difficulties of releasing more experimental games. Read more Read more ›
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The Rockefeller Christmas Tree is arguably the most famous tree in the country. Here's what it has looked like through the years. Read more ›
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Eywa as his witness, James Cameron has pledged to make movies for theaters so that side of the business stays alive. Read more ›
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The Black Hat Europe hacker conference in London included a session titled "Don't Judge an Audiobook by Its Cover" about a two critical (and now fixed) flaws in Amazon's Kindle. The Times reports both flaws were discovered by engineering analyst Valentino Ricotta (from the cybersecurity research division of Thales), who was awarded a "bug bounty" of $20,000 (£15,000 ). He said: "What especially struck me with this device, that's been... Read more ›
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David Chung shares how his mother's immigrant journey inspired him to build a multimillion-dollar beauty business from the ground up. Read more ›
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Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services - an approach that would allow AI agents from any company to easily access information and tools across the internet in a standardized way. It's a key step […] Read more ›
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Memory suppliers just blew a hole in the PC gaming industry - and they're about to do the same to everything else. For weeks, PC enthusiasts have borne the brunt of skyrocketing memory prices, but the shockwaves will soon impact a wider range of products as suppliers pour resources into a far bigger and more […] Read more ›
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When business leaders spout buzzwords like "AI," "8K" and "5G," sometimes in the same sentence, we often get a sneaking suspicion they don't know what they mean! With President Donald Trump, there's no need to wonder: he clearly has no idea. "What does [6G] do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin?" […] Read more ›
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The US State Department is turning back to an old typeface in its latest quest to tear up anything related to diversity or accessibility. In an internal document seen by Reuters and The New York Times, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the Biden-era decision to switch to Calibri typeface in official department […] Read more ›
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The Trump administration could soon require tourists from dozens of nations to hand over their social media handles before entering the country. Under a proposal from US Customs and Border Protection, the agency would make social media history from the past five years a "mandatory" part of the screening process, as reported earlier by The […] Read more ›
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It's Game Awards season, y'all. That special time of the year when we gather together to celebrate video games and the people who make them… by watching expensive commercials briefly punctuated by the odd awards speech or musical performance. For better or worse, The Game Awards is the biggest night on the video game event […] Read more ›
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On Thursday evening, with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks looking over his shoulder, Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to grab unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence for the federal government. The order can't by itself unilaterally override state AI laws, but it directs federal agencies to take steps to reduce […] Read more ›
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Teased at Google I/O, Project Aura is a collaboration between Xreal and Google. It's the second Android XR device (the first being Samsung's Galaxy XR headset) and is expected to launch in 2026. Putting it on, I get why the term "smart glasses" doesn't exactly fit. Is it a headset? Smart glasses? Both? Those were […] Read more ›
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I asked a simple question at Google's Project Aura demo last week. What do you call these things? To my surprise, multiple people launched into a vigorous discussion on the taxonomy of glasses-shaped face computers. It turns out "smart glasses" is out as a term. The term "AI glasses" is in. Kind of. Actually, it […] Read more ›
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Let’s face it, the same thing happens year after year. Things get busy with work, school, and life in general until you’re suddenly up against the clock as you race your gifts to your local post office, FedEx store, or UPS location. We’ve all been there, but we’d like to help as you plan your […] Read more ›
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