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To celebrate Valentine's Day, EVA AI created a temporary "pop-up" restaurant at a wine bar in Manhattan's "Hell's Kitchen" district where patrons can date AI personas.
The Verge notes that looking around the restaurant, "Of the 30-some-odd people in attendance, only two or three are organic users. The rest are EVA AI reps, influencers, and reporters hoping to make some capital-C Content..."
But their reporter actually tried a date with "John Yoon", an AI companion pretending to be a psychology professo
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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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There's no getting around it: new cars these days are downright expensive, even at the bottom end of the market. So, what does "cheap" look like right now? Read more ›
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An anonymous reader The Guardian: Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over... Read more ›
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As the action unfolded at the BNP Paribas Open this week, The Information gathered dozens of tech and finance leaders for two days of tennis and tech conversations on the sidelines of the conference in Indian Wells, Calif., near Palm Springs. Read more ›
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On Valentine's Day, I brought you a story that's since made headlines all around the world: How one man, just trying to steer his DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation gamepad, discovered an entire network of 7,000 remote-control DJI robots ready to let him peek into other people's homes. To be clear, DJI had already […] Read more ›
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Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 is rumored to be launching later this year, around its predecessor's two-year anniversary, and today a tipster over on X claims that it will be using the newly unveiled Snapdragon Wear Elite SoC. Snapdragon Wear Elite features The Galaxy Watch9, on the other hand, will allegedly stick with the Exynos W1000 used in the Galaxy Watch8 and Watch7, even though it's launching alongside the Galaxy... Read more ›
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Drivers often overlook the small black boxes near intersections. But the technology inside them is cleverly changing how traffic lights react to the road. Read more ›
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Архитектура Hybrid RAG систем заняла нишу корпоративных баз знаний, став стандартом для построения сервисов генерации контента на основе внутренних корпоративных данных. Уже пару лет у этого подхода практически нет альтернатив, когда речь заходит о сочетании возможностей генеративного ИИ с требованиями корпоративной безопасности и доверия к полученным результатам. Ключевое преимущество RAG перед обычным взаимодействием с нейросетями заключается в прозрачности: мы четко видим, на основе каких документов был. Read more ›
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Vivo’s X300 Ultra phone has a 400mm lens attachment for incredible zoom capabilities — and another accessory could be joining it soon for 'general photography'. Read more ›
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New Hulu true crime series Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese explores deceit at its cruelest — and one FBI expert says it's 'natural' for fans to be worried too. Read more ›
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Your brain might be wired to solve its toughest problems not at your desk, but behind the wheel or on your feet—and there's fascinating neuroscience that explains why movement unlocks the kind of thinking your stationary mind can't access. Read more ›
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Considering every possible factor, 2025 had a host of great cars debut in 2025. Here are 13 of the best 2025 cars, plus three of the worst. Read more ›
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Here's our guide on a super simple way to stream and watch Outlander 2026 for free from anywhere in the world, as the historical fantasy reaches its conclusion. Read more ›
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Alphabet boss gets bumper package of stock options tied to the share price and growth of Waymo in the next three years Read more ›
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If Google repeats history, the Pixel 11 family will be getting official in August. And yet, we're already seeing a purported case outed for the upcoming Pixel 11 Pro XL. It's unclear if this is really based on that device's exact measurements, or just a ploy by the case maker to get some free publicity (probably the latter, which is why we're not mentioning it). But, assuming this is real... Read more ›
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a filing on Friday that it currently cannot process billions in tariff refunds because its import-processing system is "not well suited to a task of this scale." The Verge reports: The CBP's admission comes after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) last month. This week, the International Trade Court ruled... Read more ›
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Southern California's air quality board rejected proposed rules to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 opposition comments generated through CiviClick, "the first and best AI-powered grassroots advocacy platform." Phys.org reports: A Southern California-based public affairs consultant, Matt Klink, has taken credit for using CiviClick to wage the opposition campaign, including in a sponsored article on the website Campaigns and Elections. The campaign "left the staff of the... Read more ›
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On February 24th, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory activated its automated alert system, sending out roughly 800,000 real-time notifications flagging asteroids, supernovae, flaring black holes and "other transient celestial events," reports Scientific American. And this is only the beginning -- that number is projected to climb into the millions as it continues scanning the ever-changing sky. From the report: The astronomical observatory equipped with world's largest camera hit a key... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is a tall order. The quantum-resistant cryptographic data needed to transparently publish TLS certificates is roughly 40 times bigger than the classical cryptographic material used today. Today's X.509 certificates are about 64 bytes in size, and comprise... Read more ›
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A start-up called Reflect Orbital "proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night," reports the Washington Post, "with plans to bathe solar farms, industrial sites and even entire cities in light that could, if desired, reach the intensity of daylight...." Slashdot noted their idea in 2022 — but Reflect Orbital now expects to launch its first satellite in April, according to the article. "But its... Read more ›
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A start-up called Reflect Orbital "proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night," reports the Washington Post, "with plans to bathe solar farms, industrial sites and even entire cities in light that could, if desired, reach the intensity of daylight...." Slashdot noted their idea in 2022 — but Reflect Orbital now expects to launch its first satellite in April, according to the article. "But its... Read more ›
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Tuesday Pew Research announced their newest findings: that 54% of America's teens use AI help with schoolwork: One-in-five teens living in households making less than $30,000 a year say they do all or most of their schoolwork with AI chatbots' help. A similar share of those in households making $30,000 to just under $75,000 annually say this. Fewer teens living in higher-earning households (7%) say the same." "The survey did... Read more ›
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CNN reports that images from Iran's capital "have shown cars jammed along Tehran's street, with heavy traffic on major roads after today's wave of attacks by the US and Israel." And though Iran has a population of 93 million, the attacks have left Iran in a near-total internet blackout "with 'national connectivity at 4% of ordinary levels,' according to internet monitoring experts at NetBlocks..." Since Iran's brutal crackdown earlier this... Read more ›
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Interesting Engineering reports: US tech giant Google announced on Tuesday that it will build a new data center in Pine Island, Minnesota. The new facility will be powered by 1.9 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy from wind and solar, coupled with a 300-megawatt battery, claimed to be the 'world's largest', with a 30-gigawatt-hour (GWh) capacity and 100-hour duration... The planned battery would dwarf a 19 GW lithium-ion project in the... Read more ›
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There's already 5,000 sensors embedded in Antarctica's ice to look for evidence of neutrinos, reports the Washington Post. But in November scientists drilled six new holes at least a mile and a half deep and installed cables with hundreds more light detectors — an upgrade to the massive 15-year-old IceCube Neutrino Observatory to detect the charged particles produced by lower-energy neutrinos interacting with matter: When they do, the neutrinos produce... Read more ›
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It started Friday when all U.S. federal agencies were ordered to "immediately cease" using Anthropic's AI technology after contract negotiations stalled when Anthropic requested prohibitions against mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. But later Friday there were even more repercussions... In a post to his 1.1 million followers on X.com, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth criticized Anthropic for what he called "a master class in arrogance and betrayal... Read more ›
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