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Meta Platforms plans to add a facial recognition feature called “Name Tag” to its smart glasses as early as this year, The New York Times reported. The article confirms a report in The Information from last May that said Meta had revived plans to include the feature in its smart glasses. As The ...
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Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was the chair of DP World, the firm that operates Dubai's major ports, since 2007, and its CEO since 2016. Read more ›
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You've seen this movie before: A disheveled man (Sam Rockwell) busts into a restaurant, threatening to blow up the joint unless a crew of people joins him. Like Groundhog Day, he's been through this countless times before, and he immediately starts recounting otherwise unknowable details to convince the diner patrons. Like 12 Monkeys, he's from the future — the timely twist in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is that,... Read more ›
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These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace. Read more ›
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Steam revealed in its Client Beta patch notes that it will let users show the specifications of their hardware when leaving reviews. This should help other players considering a title see if the feedback was affected by the reviewer's hardware, although Valve says that this feature remains optional. Read more ›
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Hackers from Russian, China, India, North Korea, and elsewhere are using Google's Gemini AI to augment their attacks, Google says. From generating phishing lures, to translating text, coding, and vulnerability testing, Gemini is a core component of their hack attempts. Read more ›
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Meta’s VR strategy is in a bit of an uncertain place right now, with the company recently cutting many jobs at its Reality Labs, and discontinuing new content drops in beloved experiences like Supernatural. Even so, there’s still a lot of fun to be had with its Meta Quest 3S if you’ve been curious about […] Read more ›
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My husband and I started traveling full-time in our 50s. We've learned from mistakes like overplanning and choosing the wrong accommodations. Read more ›
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One Air Force base's new mandated greetings for security personnel saw backlash, with troops and civilian workers calling them 'stupid.' Read more ›
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The Trump administration’s scientific agenda has been widely characterized — rightly so — as a war on scientific progress. But, hear me out here: There is more to the story. This administration’s science policy is being shaped not solely by anti-science ideologues, but also by a motley coalition of players who have distinct criticisms of […] Read more ›
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Elon Musk took an $8 billion blow to his net worth from Thursday's slump in AI stocks, while Mark Zuckerberg saw a nearly $7 billion drop. Read more ›
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When the Mewgenics team announced in 2024 that it had added autism to the list of disorders the game's cats could inherit, developer Edmund McMillen - best known as the co-creator of Super Meat Boy - was unprepared for the reaction. "It was like the most positive response I've ever had to anything I posted," […] Read more ›
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Asus’ ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero swoops into the market as a high-end AMD motherboard with premium features, solid performance in our testing, and a fantastic all-black aesthetic. Read more ›
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Meta went to court this week in two major trials over alleged harms facilitated by its platform. In New Mexico, the state's attorney general has accused the company of facilitating child exploitation and harming children through addictive features. In a separate case in Los Angeles, a California woman sued the company over mental health harms she says she suffered as the result of addictive design choices from Meta and others.In... Read more ›
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Following intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring has announced it is canceling the integration. In a statement published on Ring's blog and provided to The Verge ahead of publication, the company said: "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety […] Read more ›
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The CEO of Cato Networks, Shlomo Kramer, said that some companies are still worth investing in. Here are the 3 things he looks for. Read more ›
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Samsung's Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57 are now listed in the Google Play Console, a sure sign that their official launch is very near. The listings confirm that the Galaxy A37 is powered by Samsung's Exynos 1480 SoC, paired with 6GB of RAM in one variant (though more will undoubtedly be offered). The phone will run Android 16 out of the box, unsurprisingly. Here it is in the official image... Read more ›
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The new consumer price index report showed the inflation rate slowed more than expected. Read more ›
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The Noledge Group, the Irish cloud ERP solution specialist driven by simplifying businesses, has announced its sponsorship of Seapoint Rugby Club in Co. Dublin. The community-focused club provides coaching and playing facilities for over 1,000 members at all levels – from seniors to juniors. The partnership will fund new equipment for Seapoint Rugby Club, support […] Read more ›
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Refresh your space with a sofa that arrives right at your doorstep. We’ve spent years in search of the best couches—read about all the styles we’ve tested here. Read more ›
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A little over a year into his second presidency, President Donald Trump has yet to turn America into a pure, uncut authoritarian nightmare — but not for lack of trying. Back in January 2025, if you asked a liberal what the new Trump administration would do in the worst case scenario, they would probably have […] Read more ›
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EssilorLuxottica and Meta Platforms sold more than 7 million smart glasses in 2025, Essilor reported on Wednesday, a huge improvement on 2024. Essilor had reported a year ago that only 2 million smart glasses had been sold since the product was launched in 2023. EssilorLuxottica’s disclosure was ... Read more ›
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Zhipu, one of China’s prominent AI developers, has anonymously released its new large language model under a different name on OpenRouter, a popular AI model marketplace for developers. Pony Alpha, a new open-source LLM launched on OpenRouter a few days ago, is Zhipu’s new model, known as GLM-5, ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk has overhauled xAI’s leadership structure following its merger with SpaceX and as he pressures the AI firm to accelerate progress on Grok AI models, The Information’s latest org chart for the combined company shows. The changes coincide with an exodus of senior leaders. The xAI reorg has elevated a handful of technical leaders who now report directly to Musk, including co-founder Guodong Zhang, who leads teams working on... Read more ›
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Even as Anthropic and OpenAI unnerve stock market investors with business-focused AI products that could undermine existing enterprise software firms, the software incumbents are trying to catch up. Companies ranging from Microsoft to ServiceNow and Snowflake have come out with products designed to help customers develop AI agents, sometimes called digital co-workers, that can use a variety of enterprise apps just as humans do. But that’s not all. As the... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Parties, PR and Epstein—inside investor Masha Bucher’s charmed ascendance• Artificial Intelligence: OpenClaw, agents and a mania within a mania • Power and Influence: How the architect behind California’s billionaires tax became tech’s villain• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Two Guys, Five Rings” and “The Rest Is History: Modern Olympics,” “Exiles” and “Rental Family”The Justice Department’s recent release of 3.5 million documents Read more ›
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Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, has agreed to buy Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app, the companies plan to announce Monday. The acquisition will expand the YouTube star’s reach beyond media, restaurants and packaged food into financial services. Founded in 2018, Step Mobile runs an app that offers a federally insured bank account without fees and a secured Visa card that helps individuals establish credit... Read more ›
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X recently hit $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue from selling subscriptions, head of product Nikita Bier said in an xAI all-hands meeting on Tuesday. The subscriptions X sells include Basic, Premium and Premium+ plans that range from $3 to $40 per month. The social media site, formerly ... Read more ›
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Big tech’s dramatic ramp-up in projected capital expenditures this year will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta Platforms. That will force some of those companies to make some difficult choices, such as whether to end stock buybacks or borrow more money. The good news is that the big tech companies have the capacity to each borrow hundreds of billions more money than they currently... Read more ›
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Around the time he filed the billionaire tax proposal that has shaken up the tech world and ignited a debate about wealth taxes nationwide, Dave Regan, president of the California-based union behind the effort, convened a group of fellow labor leaders to solicit their thoughts. In a videoconference, he told the group he had a 30-day period to finalize the measure, which would assess a one-time, 5% tax on the... Read more ›
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For years, investors and founders have told me that AI which talks and listens the way humans do is on the cusp of a breakout moment. We’re still not there.Audio models are still lagging behind their text-based brethren in terms of intelligence. If you ask an audio model like the ChatGPT voice assistant a tough math question, for instance, it’s much more likely to get it wrong than a text-based... Read more ›
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