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South Korea’s trade minister said the United States’ move to impose a 25 per cent tariff on certain AI chips would have a limited impact on the country, as memory chips that South Korean companies mainly export are currently excluded.
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The AFL-CIO, which represents some 15 million workers across the US, is backing a planned Minnesota economic blackout to protest ICE. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on Denmark and other European nations over Greenland annexation, citing national security concerns. Read more ›
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Visits to the US by international travelers declined for the eighth straight month in December, in a continued blow to the tourism industry. Read more ›
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AMD’s 2026 PC strategy focuses on incremental CPU updates, price-to-performance GPUs, and cautious AI upscaling. Read more ›
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Actor Matt Damon said Netflix wants action movies to reiterate plot lines multiple times because people are on their phones while watching a movie. Read more ›
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"Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the […] Read more ›
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Since the United States announced it would “run” Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has openly floated similar interventions elsewhere in Latin America. But the country Donald Trump has fixated on most isn’t an adversary — it’s an ally. Greenland, a NATO member and longtime partner of the United States has repeatedly […] Read more ›
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Increasing DDR5 prices are leading buyers to buy "ancient" desktop platforms going as far back as the DDR3 era. YouTuber discovers 4790K powered system with an RTX 2060 Super and $40 worth of 32GB DDR3 memory can run games modern AAA games at 60FPS. Read more ›
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See the Moon phase expected for January 18, 2025 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected. Read more ›
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Watch Australian Open for free. Live stream Berrettini vs. de Minaur in the 2026 Australian Open online for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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We now have some idea of what's at stake in the longstanding feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI. As first reported by Bloomberg, the latest filing, as part of a lawsuit that accuses the AI giant of abandoning its non-profit status, claims that Musk is owed anywhere between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from the "wrongful gains" of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk claimed in the filing that he's... Read more ›
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Turns out people might like to circumvent centralized financial infrastructure in times of political upheaval. Read more ›
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I began choosing grocery cashiers over self-checkout and was surprised by how much small human interactions helped combat loneliness. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. One of those trips was interrupted Sunday when the bus got rear-ended. The bus, produced by the company Beep, was following its... Read more ›
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AMD will try to keep graphics card prices as low as possible for gamers during the DRAM shortage. Read more ›
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As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes "educated guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances "we think will drive progress or incite the most change — for better or worse — in the years ahead." This year's list includes next-gen nuclear, gene-editing drugs (as well as the "resurrection" of ancient genes from extinct creatures), and three AI-related developments: AI companions, AI coding tools, and "mechanistic interpretability" for... Read more ›
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Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more. Read more ›
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First sighting of a 10 P-core only Bartlett Lake CPU emerges, featuring 26% better multi-core performance than the Core i5-14400, which has four more cores. 10 P-cores beat six P-cores and four E-cores. Read more ›
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The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), launched from Sriharikota today (January 12), has failed in the third stage. This is the second launch in a row where a PSLV rocket has failed. But what went wrong? Read more ›
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A new app has taken China by storm, becoming the most downloaded paid app in the country. The rather morbidly named ‘Are You Dead’ app checks in on a user every two days. If you don’t click on a button to confirm you are alive, a notification is sent to your emergency contact. The technology has triggered debate about loneliness and living alone in the Asian country Read more ›
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After Facebook and Instagram, WhatsApp is finally next in line to impose parental control feature. A new report suggests that the messaging platform is developing secondary accounts, profiles designed specifically for minors and teenagers. Read more ›
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AI hallucination is not a new issue, but a recurring one requiring attention of both the tech world and users. As AI seeps deeper into workplaces, schools, and daily life, the potential for misinformation wrapped in perfect grammar is growing into one of technology’s defining threats. Read more ›
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Social media platform X has blocked thousands of posts and removed hundreds of accounts after the government raised concerns over the misuse of its AI chatbot, Grok, to generate non-consensual obscene content. Read more ›
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Elon Musk said X will release its recommendation algorithm code amid global scrutiny, following Grok-related controversies, EU fines and probes over explicit content, transparency breaches and data access. Read more ›
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India has proposed sweeping smartphone security requirements, including source code access, drawing resistance from major manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung over data protection and proprietary risks Read more ›
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Apple may finally launch its AI-powered conversational Siri this year, after unveiling it in WWDC 2024. The rumour has it that the feature will be accompanied by the iOS 26.4. Read more ›
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Apple may finally launch its AI-powered conversational Siri this year, after unveiling it in WWDC 2024. The rumour has it that the feature will be accompanied by the iOS 26.4. Read more ›
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X admitted lapses over sexually explicit content by Grok AI after an IT Ministry warning, blocked 3,500 posts and deleted 600 accounts. The Elon Musk led-platform assured compliance with Indian laws and promised stricter safeguards against misuse of AI tools. Read more ›
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