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Google never asked its users before adding AI Overviews to its search results and AI-generated email summaries to Gmail, notes the New York Times. And Meta didn't ask before making "Meta AI" an unremovable part of its tool in Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.
"The insistence on AI everywhere — with little or no option to turn it off — raises an important question about what's in it for the internet companies..."
Behind the scenes, the companies are laying the groundwork for a digital advertising econ
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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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После реализации в прошлой статье многотарифного учёта электроэнергии в квартире, было решено реализовать и учёт расхода воды.В продаже есть несколько уже готовых решений, которые могут подключаться к Home Assistant, передавать данные сразу в Водоканал и другие компании ЖКХ. Но стоимость устройств начинается от 3000 руб, а если стояки с подачей холодной и горячей воды разнесены далеко, то придётся покупать 2 датчика и бюджет проекта заметно вырастает.Поэтому в рамках данной статьи... Read more ›
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The InnoCN GA27S1Q OLED is a low-cost but high-specification OLED monitor that has a foot in both the gaming and business sectors. Read more ›
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Как только дизайн-система разрастается больше, чем на 10-20 кнопок, а брендов у вас становится несколько — JSON-файлы с токенами превращаются в кошмар. Дизайнеры экспортируют токены из Figma, разработчики получают пулл-реквест на 5000 строк измененного кода, и никто в здравом уме не может сказать: "А что именно поменялось и ничего ли мы не сломали?"А если вместо английской буквы "c" в коде будет русская? А что если токен зациклился сам на себя?... Read more ›
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Earlier this week, when Myntra announced that Nandita Sinha would be stepping down as CEO, it may be a surprise… Read more ›
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Reports from people familiar with the DRAM market say that Samsung is accepting last orders for the LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X memory chips. Production will likely continue throughout 2026 in order to fulfill all orders. Once LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X modules are phased out, Samsung will convert the existing production lines to LPDDR5 manufacturing in the first quarter of 2027. It's no surprise that Samsung is shifting its efforts toward the newer... Read more ›
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Привет, коллеги-предприниматели и фрилансеры. В мире автоматизации продаж Salebot выделяется как надежный сервис. Он интегрирует чат-боты, CRM, рассылки и воронки продаж в одном кабинете — это реально упрощает жизнь. Особенно впечатляет их конструктор сайтов: drag-and-drop интерфейс, готовые шаблоны под лендинги, интернет-магазины и корпоративные страницы. Добавьте A/B-тестирование, аналитику поведения пользователей и seamless интеграцию с Telegram/VK/WhatsApp — и вы получаете инструмент, который превращает Read more ›
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What looks like patience with a difficult relative is often a decades-old calculation: the cost of asking for change felt higher than the cost of absorbing the behavior. The price was never zero — it just stopped looking like a price. Read more ›
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Extra virgin olive oil might help protect your brain by working through your gut. A two-year study found that people who consumed it had better cognitive performance and more diverse gut bacteria than those using refined olive oil. Researchers even identified specific microbes linked to these benefits. The findings suggest that choosing high-quality olive oil could be a simple way to support brain health as you age. Read more ›
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Looking to ride safer and smarter? This Californian program delivers hands-on training and real benefits that make it worth a closer look. Read more ›
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After decades of drowning out their inner voice with career demands and family obligations, people in their early 60s finally encounter silence—and discover the person thinking their thoughts feels like a complete stranger. Read more ›
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Remember that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters "systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free"? It was Anthropic's experiment, with setup handled by a startup named Andon Labs (which also built the hardware and software integration). But for their latest experiment, Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund "signed a three-year lease on a retail space in SF," reports... Read more ›
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Forbes estimates he's worth roughly $110 billion, "placing him ahead of Bill Gates." And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, "has written a memoir..." It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell the world his version of his meteoric crypto rise and fall, and foreshadow his comeback. The book, Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users, Resilience, and the Founding of Binance,... Read more ›
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The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots — "has made its way into the Linux kernel," reports the blog It's FOSS "thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable kernel maintainer and the closest thing the project has to a second-in-command." He's been quietly running what looks like an AI-assisted fuzzing tool on the kernel that lives in a branch called "clanker" on his working kernel tree.... Read more ›
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The biotech industry's engineered cells could become an $8 trillion market by 2035, notes Phys.org. But how do you keep them from being stolen? Their article notes "an uptick in the theft and smuggling of high-value biological materials, including specially engineered cells." In Science Advances, a team of U.S. researchers present a new approach to genetically securing precious biological material. They created a genetic combination lock in which the locking... Read more ›
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Bloomberg describes him as a "former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience." "For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories," Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now "My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory." Engramme connects to your **memorome**, i.e., entire digital life. Large... Read more ›
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Bloomberg describes him as a "former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience." "For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories," Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now "My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory." Engramme connects to your **memorome**, i.e., entire digital life. Large... Read more ›
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Mississippi has one warehouse — run by a contractor — that sells all the liquor for the entire state of 2.9 million people. "If a restaurant or store anywhere in Mississippi wanted a bottle of Jim Beam, they had to order it from the wholesale warehouse," reports the Washington Post. But then Mississippi's warehouse-managing contractor implemented a new computer system that wasn't compatible with the state's delivery system (like they'd... Read more ›
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"RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year," argues The Verge, with models coming from all the manufacturers." And the first one of 2026 is here — the UR9 from China's Hisense — "the first look at the viability of the new backlight technology outside of demo rooms." They call it "a step above the traditional mini-LED TVs of years past." and "a great first... Read more ›
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie "is officially the year's highest-grossing film to date with $629 million at the global box office," reports Variety — and it will likely earn over $1 billion. Project Hail Mary now becomes the year's second highest-grossing movie, with four-week ticket sales over $510, notes The Hollywood Reporter: The two films have helped propel year-to-date revenue to $2.113 billion — the best showing for the first... Read more ›
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A new powerful chipset has arrived to take on x86 CPUs and Apple's M5, writes Wccftech. The blog Windows Central writes that "Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 processors are here" — and they run Windows: Microsoft has done a massive amount of work to improve compatibility and has also convinced developers to embrace Windows 11 on Arm. Users of Windows 11 on Arm PCs spend 90% of their time on Arm-based apps... Read more ›
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