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An anonymous reader shares a report: It turns out that when fewer cars spew exhaust as they drive along, air quality improves. That's the conclusion of a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health that looked at the effect of increased numbers of both EVs and plug-in hybrids on air pollution in California. The Golden State has by far the largest number of plug-in vehicles in the United States, and they've now reached significant numbers to have a positive impact on air quality.
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Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad on bearing witness, the fragile power of social media, and why documenting lived reality matters more than ever. Read more ›
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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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In his first interview since abandoning the pursuit, Ted Sarandos said the decision to drop out had actually been made earlier, based on various bidding scenarios Netflix had worked out in advance. Read more ›
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The blockchain analytics firm said flows from Iran’s largest exchange spiked immediately after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Tehran, pointing to possible capital flight. Read more ›
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The British Computer Society (BCS) has appointed two new directors to join the leadership team of the Chartered Institute for IT. Harpreet Panesar is set to join the group as its director of membership and volunteer engagement, while Adam Thompson has been named as its new director of digital. Both of the new hires join ... Read more ›
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Building on the iPhone 16e from 2025, Apple's latest iPhone has a few noteworthy upgrades with the same $599 price. Read more ›
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Apple today announced the iPhone 17e, featuring the A19 chip, MagSafe connectivity, and more. The iPhone 17e contains the A19 chip from the iPhone 17. It also contains Apple's latest-generation C1X modem from the iPhone Air, delivery up to 2x faster cellular performance than the iPhone 16e. The front of the device now features Ceramic Shield 2, offering 3x better scratch resistance than the previous generation. The iPhone 17e starts... Read more ›
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Apple today introduced a new iPad Air, with key upgrades including the M4 chip, an increased 12GB of RAM, an N1 chip for Wi-Fi 7, and a C1X cellular modem. The new iPad Air can be pre-ordered on Apple.com and in the Apple Store app starting Wednesday, March 4, with availability set to begin Wednesday, March 11. In the U.S., pricing continues to start at $599 for the 11-inch model,... Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! Мы — Настя, Эвелина и Михаил — бэкенд-разработчики Т-Банка, пишем код на Scala и горим желанием его популяризировать. Приветствуем любую обратную связь! (づ ◕‿◕ )づ Читать тридцать восьмой Read more ›
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Apple has just announced the addition of the iPhone 17e to its smartphone lineup. This model is kitted with the A19 chip that also powers the base iPhone 17 and it will support the Apple Intelligence suite of AI tools. As the rumors suggested, the iPhone 17e will indeed be priced at $599, same as last year’s iPhone 16e. That previous model was missing a few elements that are now... Read more ›
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Apple has announced the iPhone 17e, its new entry-level iPhone. Here's what's new and how it compares to its iPhone 16e predecessor. Read more ›
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Apple has taken the wraps off the iPhone 17E, its latest entry-level smartphone. The iPhone 17E starts at $599 for 256GB of storage, and is available in black, white, and pink. The company revealed the new device as part of a series of announcements that kicked off this week. The iPhone 17E is like a […] Read more ›
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Но не в самом приложении Max – речь пойдёт о продукте стороннего разработчика внутри мессенджера, который почему-то не хочет исправлять очевидную и крайне серьезную ошибку своего сервиса. Читать далее Read more ›
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A once-prominent New York City real estate developer has admitted in federal court that he cheated investors who trusted him… Continue reading Former New York real estate developer Joshua Schuster admits investor fraud and gambling losses scheme Read more ›
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In January, when Apple announced an agreement to use Google’s Gemini models in Apple products, it was an admission that the iPhone maker hasn’t been able to compete in AI on its own over the past couple years. But the deal also showed that Apple is again relying on an outside company to help it with another deficiency: in cloud computing. Now there’s a chance Apple could deepen its cloud... Read more ›
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Chinese AI developer MiniMax said Tuesday that its revenue more than doubled to $79 million last year, from about $30 million in 2024, driven by the growth of its Hailuo AI video generation app and other products. In its first earnings announcement since its initial public offering in January, ... Read more ›
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We're one episode into Marshals: A Yellowstone Story, and it's safe to say the new CBS and Paramount+ show isn't getting the expected reaction. Read more ›
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With enough electric range to handle daily driving and a gas engine for reassurance, Kia's Sportage makes a great case for plug-in hybrids. Read more ›
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The first fiber-optic cable ever laid across an ocean -- TAT-8, a nearly 6,000-kilometer line between the United States, United Kingdom, and France that carried its first traffic on December 14, 1988 -- is now being pulled off the Atlantic seabed after more than two decades of sitting dormant, bound for recycling in South Africa. Subsea Environmental Services, one of only three companies in the world whose entire business is... Read more ›
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IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an estimated 95% of ATM transactions in the United States and runs on the kind of mainframe systems IBM has sold for generations. Anthropic said the shrinking pool of developers who understand... Read more ›
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Climate scientists trying to predict how much hotter the planet will get have long grappled with a surprisingly stubborn problem -- clouds, which both reflect sunlight and trap heat, account for more than half the variation between climate predictions and are the main reason warming projections for the next 50 years range from 2 to 6 degrees Celsius. Two research groups are now racing to close that gap using AI,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Researchers at ASML Holding say they have found a way to boost the power of the light source in a key chip making machine to turn out up to 50% more chips by decade's end, to help retain the Dutch company's edge over emerging U.S. and Chinese rivals. ASML is the world's only maker of commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines, a... Read more ›
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Panasonic is handing over the manufacturing, marketing, and sales of its TVs to Shenzhen-based Skyworth, effectively exiting in-house TV production. Ars Technica reports: Skyworth is a Shenzhen-headquartered TV brand. The company claims to be "a top three global provider of the Android TV platform." In July, research firm Omdia reported that Skyworth was one of the top-five TV brands by sales revenue in Q1 2025; however, Skyworth hasn't been able... Read more ›
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A 7,000-word "doomsday" thought experiment from Citrini Research helped trigger an 800-point drop in the Dow, "painting a dark portrait of a future in which technological change inspires a race to the bottom in white-collar knowledge work," reports the Wall Street Journal. From the report: Concerns of hyperscalers overspending are out. Worries of software-industry disruption don't go far enough. The "global intelligence crisis" is about to hit. The new, broader... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI's environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water consumption as "totally fake" and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI's energy use is to compare it against humans. In an interview with Indian Express, Altman acknowledged that evaporative cooling in data centers once made water usage a real concern but said that is no longer the case, calling... Read more ›
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A study published last week in PNAS found that people who regularly cause problems or make life difficult -- whom the researchers call "hasslers" -- are associated with measurably faster biological aging in those around them, at a rate of roughly 1.5% per additional hassler and about nine months of additional biological age relative to same-age peers. The research drew on DNA methylation-based epigenetic clocks and ego-centric network data from... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: PayPal, the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped out almost half of its value, according to people familiar with the matter. The San Jose, California-based company has fielded meetings with banks amid unsolicited interest from suitors, the people said. At least one large rival is looking at the whole company, while some other suitors are... Read more ›
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U.S. artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic said three Chinese AI companies set up more than 24,000 fraudulent accounts with its Claude AI model to help their own systems catch up. From a report: The three companies -- DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax -- prompted Claude more than 16 million times, siphoning information from Anthropic's system to train and improve their own products, Anthropic said in a blog post Monday. Earlier this month,... Read more ›
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