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The viral Chinese app Are You Dead? (known as Sileme in Chinese) targets people who live alone by requiring regular check-ins and alerting an emergency contact if the user doesn't respond. It launched in May and is now the most downloaded paid app in China. Cybernews reports: Users need to check in with the app every two days by clicking a large button to confirm that they are alive. Otherwise, the app will inform the user's appointed emergency contact that they may be in trouble, Chinese state-run outlet G
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The testimony also calls into question whether Ross failed to follow his training during the incident in which he reportedly shot and killed Minnesota citizen Renee Good. Read more ›
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"[It's] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said. Read more ›
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The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation. Read more ›
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Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Z Flip8 has already been rumored to be thinner and lighter than its predecessor, and it will be powered by the Exynos 2600 chipset. Now we have the first details about its cameras, and you'll be disappointed if you expected any changes. That's right, according to a new rumor, the Galaxy Z Flip8 will have a 50MP main camera, a 12MP ultrawide, and a 10MP selfie camera.... Read more ›
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The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said that tech companies must pay for their own data centers without spiking utility bills for American households. Read more ›
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Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group that the organization calls “transformational.” Read more ›
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Even people who don't use credit cards pay more for everyday goods because merchants raise prices to cover card fees, said Klarna's CEO. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said he'll impose a 25% tariff on any country doing business with Iran, effective immediately. Read more ›
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Save up to 25% on Nomad Goods accessories such as Nomad phone cases, Nomad wallets, and more this January. Read more ›
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Save 20% with an LG promo code today, plus up to $1,000 off appliances, 40% off bestselling TVs and monitors. Read more ›
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Klearly, an Amsterdam-based FinTech startup focused on in-person payment solutions, today announced it has raised €12 million in Series A funding to fuel its mission to build Europe’s best payments system for restaurants. The round was led by PayPal Ventures (PayPal’s venture arm), with participation from Italian Founders Fund and existing investors, including Global PayTech ... Read more ›
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On-chain data revealed that a wallet linked to the token's deployer removed $2.5 million in liquidity, prompting accusations of a possible rug pull. Read more ›
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says negative narratives around AI are "extremely hurtful," and that science fiction speculation isn't connected to reality. Read more ›
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An app asking "Are you dead?" has gone viral in China, sparking debate about loneliness and the risks of living alone. Read more ›
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The 46th Separate Air Mobile Brigade showcased a "new way of capture" for enemy drones that seems to use a line or cord to fight quadcopters. Read more ›
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Following safety concerns, Google has pulled certain AI-generated health overviews and is reviewing how its search AI handles sensitive medical topics. Read more ›
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Police have patrolled the area based on reports of sightings, but the monkeys still haven't been found. Read more ›
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How to watch EFL Cup for free. Live stream Newcastle United vs. Manchester City in the EFL Cup for free. 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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schwit1 shares a report from Gothamist: Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data from anyone who enters its supermarkets, according to new signage posted at the chain's Manhattan and Brooklyn locations earlier this month. Anyone entering the store could have data on their face, eyes and voices collected and stored by the Rochester-headquartered supermarket chain. The information is used to "protect the safety and security of our... 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 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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