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It can be tough to find a good gift for tech obsessives. Since they keep up with the latest releases, they probably already have the new high-profile gadgets out there. Luckily, Engadget staffers keep their eyes peeled all year long for the truly unique stuff. We travel to CES, attend product launches, cover major and minor tech events — we also can’t help but buy ourselves any zany, clever, addictive or productive tech we happen to stumble across. In short, we’ve got some ideas about good gifts for tech ne
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t feasible (or economical) to push everything through large reasoning models. So, when building out an internal Ask AT&T personal assistant, they reconstructed the orchestration layer. The result: A multi-agent stack built on LangChain... Read more ›
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Consumer-focused venture capital (VC) firm Sauce.vc has marked the final close of its second “opportunities fund” at ₹750 Cr (about… Read more ›
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6 марта 2026 года в Санкт‑Петербурге пройдёт WiDS Meetup — событие, которое я организую уже третий год подряд. Это не конференция в классическом смысле и не «просто митап». Да, у нас есть праздничная рамка, но смысл не в ней. Для меня WiDS Meetup — попытка нащупать новую форму технологического события, где инженерная глубина и практическая ценность не спорят с эстетикой, а усиливают друг друга. Судя по тому, как растёт аудитория... Read more ›
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![[Update] Exclusive: AI Startup Companion Labs Raises $2.5 Mn](https://times42.com/media/7/3/8/12036738_640x200.jpg "[Update] Exclusive: AI Startup Companion Labs Raises $2.5 Mn")
Update | February 26, 2026, 13:50 IST Interactive AI startup Companion Labs has secured $2.5 Mn (about ₹22.7 Cr) in… Read more ›
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Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has conducted an on-site inspection of Microsoft Japan over suspected antitrust violations. The probe focuses on allegations that Microsoft restricted access to its software services on rival cloud platforms, favouring its own Azure servers and limiting competition. Read more ›
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Как использовать в России нейросети Claude без VPN. Обзор Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet, Haiku: тесты, возможности, фишки и удобные способы оплаты. Читать далее Read more ›
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Once seen as the most safety-conscious player in artificial intelligence, Anthropic is now stepping away from one of its key commitments, pausing model development when safety lags behind capability. The move marks a major shift in the company’s philosophy as the global AI race intensifies. Read more ›
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Привет, друзья!В этой небольшой статье я расскажу вам о новом свойстве события toggle - source, а также о новом атрибуте HTML-элемента dialog - closedby.Свойство source позволяет определять источник переключения видимости поповера (popover), а атрибут closedby позволяет декларативно управлять логикой закрытия dialog, но обо всем по порядку. Читать далее Read more ›
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The Bridgerton season 4 part 2 ending, which is now on Netflix, tells us a lot about where season 5 could head... if you know where to look. Read more ›
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Alpa, a London-based hospitality-focused FinTech startup, today announced that it has raised €2.9 million ($3.5 million) in its pre-Seed funding round to strengthen its core product and engineering capabilities. The round was led by Daphni, with participation from True Capital, 2100 Ventures, Firedrop, Oprtrs Club, Kima Ventures, and Sonorcap. A group of hospitality and tech ... Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! Сейчас тема ИИ у всех на слуху: эта технология то ли собирается перевернуть современный мир, то ли всем уже надоела, то ли и то и другое сразу. У пользователей ее упоминание в продуктах может вызвать как интерес, так и тревогу, особенно когда она обещает больше, чем реально дает. Меня зовут Юля, в MТС я занимаюсь внедрением ИИ-функций в нескольких продуктах. В этом материале расскажу о результатах собственного исследования... Read more ›
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Привет! Я — Аля, старший продакт-менеджер выделенных серверов в Selectel. Представьте, вашей команде нужно разработать новый интерфейс для продукта. Вы ставите задачу на дизайнера, а он приносит статичные картинки экранов в Figma. На встрече команда смотрит на них и понимает, что половина сценариев не продумана. Возникают вопросы: «Что будет, если пользователь нажмет на кнопку или данные не загрузятся?» И вместо того, чтобы передать задачу в разработку, вам приходится выяснять детали... Read more ›
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While most founders obsess over product-market fit and funding rounds, the ones who break through €10M discover they must do something far more painful: systematically fire themselves from the very roles that made them successful in the first place. Read more ›
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London-based Alpa has raised $3.5 million in a pre-seedround led by Daphni, with participation from True Capital, 2100 Ventures,Firedrop, Oprtrs Club, Kima Ventures, and Sonorcap. Angel investors incl... Read more ›
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How to watch FIFA World Cup 2026 for free from anywhere with a VPN. Top-ranked Spain, Kylian Mbappe's France and Lionel Messi's Argentina are amongst the favorites. Read more ›
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Уже на этой неделе (с 1 марта 2026 года) вступает в свою законную силу и начинает действовать Приказ ФСТЭК России № 117 «Об утверждении требований о защите информации, содержащейся в государственных информационных системах, иных информационных системах государственных органов, государственных унитарных предприятий, государственных учреждений». Новый приказ отменяет существовавший более 10 лет приказ ФСТЭК России от 11.02.2013 № 17 «Об утверждении Требований о защите информации, не составляющей государственн Read more ›
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Если вы разрабатываете iOS-приложение с виджетом, Watch-компаньоном (это приложение для Apple Watch, которое работает в паре с основным приложением на iPhone) или Share Extension - рано или поздно вам придётся передавать данные между процессами. App Groups - стандартный механизм для этого, и на первый взгляд он прост: добавил capability, написал UserDefaults(suiteName:), поехали. Но именно эта кажущаяся простота и создаёт проблемы. Данные лежат в незашифрованном контейнере, любое приложение из вашей коман Read more ›
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![[Перевод] США больше не верят в ИИ? Почему создатель ChatGPT отправился искать деньги в Индии](https://times42.com/media/5/7/8/12036578_640x200.jpg "[Перевод] США больше не верят в ИИ? Почему создатель ChatGPT отправился искать деньги в Индии")
Сэм Альтман не отступает, даже несмотря на то, что проблемы OpenAI продолжают нарастать как снежный ком.С начала 2026 года плохие новости копятся одна за другой:Сделка с NVIDIA теперь под серьезным сомнением.Стратегическое партнерство с SoftBank повисло в воздухе.Партнерский проект Stargate - Oracle - пережил сокрушительный обвал цен на акции, потрепав нервы всем, кто делал ставку на прорыв в сфере ИИ.Вдобавок ко всему, американская общественность все активнее выступает против строительства дата-центров.И,. Read more ›
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Apple’s AirTag is designed to help people keep track of personal belongings like keys, bags and luggage. But because AirTags and other Bluetooth trackers are small and discreet, concerns about unwanted tracking are understandable. Apple has spent years building safeguards into the AirTag and the Find My network to reduce the risk of misuse and to alert people if a tracker they don’t own appears to be moving with them.If... Read more ›
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The team behind the beloved Dark Sky weather app has announced a new iPhone app called Acme Weather. The release comes after Apple's 2020 acquisition of Dark Sky, which it ultimately shut down in 2022 after integrating much of its tech into the native iOS Weather app. Acme Weather is primarily designed to address the uncertainty inherent in most forecasts, as different models yield disparate results and no two weather... Read more ›
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The US State Department is building a web portal, where Europeans and anyone else can see online content banned by their governments, according to Reuters. It was supposed to be launched at Munich Security Conference last month, but some state department officials reportedly voiced their concerns about the project. The portal will be hosted on freedom.gov, which currently just shows the image above. “Freedom is Coming,” the homepage reads. “Information... Read more ›
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The government agency that sends its corps members abroad to volunteer in foreign countries launched its latest initiative called Tech Corps. The Peace Corps' latest proposal will recruit STEM graduates or those with professional experience in the artificial intelligence sector and send them to participating host countries. According to the press release, volunteers will be placed in Peace Corps countries that are part of the American AI Exports Program, which... Read more ›
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Meta is shutting down the standalone Messenger website, according to a company help page. The website will disappear in April, though web users will still be able to send and receive messages within Facebook. "After messenger.com goes away, you will be automatically redirected to use facebook.com/messages for messaging on a computer," the help page reads. "You can continue your conversations there or on the Messenger mobile app." Users will be... Read more ›
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Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaigns…to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models." Distillation in the AI world refers to when less capable models lean on the responses of more powerful ones to train themselves. While distillation isn't... Read more ›
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A decision to ban Telegram on home soil may have backfired on the Kremlin. Last week, Russia went on a blocking spree, banning a number of Western apps in an effort to push domestic users towards Max, an unencrypted state-owned app. One of the restricted apps was WhatsApp (which was also blocked) rival Telegram, a move that drew rare internal criticism from soldiers and pro-war bloggers, with the army being... Read more ›
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The Closing Ceremony for the 2026 Winter Games is this Sunday. (Li Jing/Xinhua via Getty Images) Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images The 2026 Winter Olympics come to an end this weekend. This year's Closing Ceremony theme is "Beauty in Action." The event will feature appearances from musician and DJ Gabry Ponte, actress Benedetta Porcaroli, and ballet dancer Roberto Bolle. Alfredo Accatino, the ceremony's artistic director, has promised the ceremony... Read more ›
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Looks like we won't get to hear the powerful hum of an all-electric Lamborghini on the streets anytime soon. According to a report from The Sunday Times, Lamborghini has abandoned making a production version of the Lanzador EV concept, which was expected to hit the market in 2029. Stephen Winkelmann, chairman and CEO of Lamborghini, told The Sunday Times that there was "close to zero" interest from its customer base... Read more ›
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OpenAI is reportedly hard at work developing a series of AI-powered devices, including smart glasses, a smart speaker and a smart lamp. According to reporting by The Information, the AI company has a team of over 200 employees dedicated to the project. The first product scheduled to be released is reported to be a smart speaker that would include a camera, allowing it to better absorb information about its users... Read more ›
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