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According to Lara Trump, Donald Trump has prepared but not yet delivered a speech about extraterrestrial life, though the White House says such a speech would be "news to me." White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt continued: "I'll have to check in with our speech writing team. Uh, and that would be of great interest to me personally, and I'm sure all of you in this room and apparently former President Obama, too." The Hill reports: Lara Trump, speaking on the Pod Force One podcast, said the president ha
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Demis Hassabis, Sundar Pichai, Brad Smith, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei lined up with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an AI conference. Read more ›
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Meta has reportedly revived its "Malibu 2" smartwatch project. The device, set for release later this year, will feature health tracking and a built-in Meta AI assistant. Read more ›
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr addressed Stephen Colbert's claims that CBS pulled a Democratic lawmaker's interview over federal regulatory concerns. Read more ›
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Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unleashed artificial intelligence to dramatically speed up the hunt for next-generation magnetic materials. By building a massive, searchable database of 67,573 magnetic compounds — including 25 newly recognized materials that stay magnetic even at high temperatures — the team is opening the door to cheaper, more sustainable technologies. Read more ›
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Google is testing a newer attachment sheet that houses more features but keeps them all accessible and organized. Read more ›
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Sarah McLachlan said family counseling made her realize her communication methods made her daughter feel worse about herself. Read more ›
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A survey of 6,000 executives reveals a significant productivity disconnect, where 80% of firms report no measurable improvement to operations with the use of AI, while a third of senior leaders only use the technology themselves for just 1.5 hours per week. Read more ›
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Audible's Immersion Reading highlights text in real time as narration plays, letting users read and listen simultaneously without switching apps or losing their place. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector's explosive growth of gas-guzzling datacenters, the analysis of 154 statements found. The... Read more ›
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Salesforce's internal survey reveals employee opinions on AI adoption. CEO Marc Benioff has touted AI as a major productivity driver. Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in Los Angeles about social media's impact on youth. The judge cracked down on smart glasses in court. Read more ›
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Alongside the Note 60 and Note 60 Pro smartphones, today Infinix also made the Xpad 30E tablet official. This comes with an 11-inch 1920x1200 LCD screen with 440-nit typical brightness, and it's offered in three colors: Dreamy Purple, Forest Green, and Deep Blue. The device seems to be heavily education-oriented, coming with an "AI Tutor" that includes "Photo Solving", "Tap to Ask", AI Creation, and AI Screen Recognition, as well... Read more ›
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China's humanoid robots performed kung fu on national TV, stunning viewers with how quickly the technology has advanced. Read more ›
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Kevin Hassett said Fed researchers should be disciplined for their views on tariffs, sparking fresh concern from commentators about Fed independence. Read more ›
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Пока я сажал зрение ночами рассматривая черные фотографии Луны в поисках «Луны-9», группа британских и японских ученых решила поручить ту же работу искусственному интеллекту. В результате, к 60-й годовщине первой мягкой посадки на Луну, вышло сразу два исследования с попытками обнаружить советский космический аппарат «Луна-9» на поверхности естественного спутника Земли. Обе команды показали предполагаемое место посадки, но это разные места.НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НА Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in front of a Los Angeles jury as the court decides if social media platforms are designed to be harmfully addictive. Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a landmark trial about social media addiction. Parents who attended hope the 'tide will turn' against Big Tech. Read more ›
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"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as "some of the most widely used software in the world" with 130 million downloads each month.) "Two days ago an OpenClaw AI agent autonomously wrote a hit piece disparaging my character after I rejected its code change." "Since then my blog... Read more ›
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Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it's one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical imaging might not reveal the problem -- in fact, it could even cloud it. From a report: In a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, 99 percent of adults over 40 were found to have at least one abnormality in a rotator cuff on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).... Read more ›
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China's courts are now handling more than 550,000 intellectual-property cases a year -- making it the world's most litigious country for IP disputes -- as the nation's own companies, once notorious for copying foreign designs and technology, find themselves on the defensive against a domestic counterfeiting epidemic fueled by excess factory capacity. The problem runs from knockoff "Lafufu" plush toys (cheap copies of Pop Mart's wildly popular Labubu dolls, which... Read more ›
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects "human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks" from AI, and believes most work involving "sitting down at a computer" -- accounting, legal, marketing, project management -- will be fully automated within the next year or 18 months. He pointed to exponential growth in computational power and predicted that creating a new AI model will soon be as easy as "creating a podcast... Read more ›
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Installing Linux on a MacBook Air "turned out to be a very underwhelming experience," according to the tech news site MakeUseOf: The thing about Apple silicon Macs is that it's not as simple as downloading an AArch64 ISO of your favorite distro and installing it. Yes, the M-series chips are ARM-based, but that doesn't automatically make the whole system compatible in the same way most traditional x86 PCs are. Pretty... Read more ›
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Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote programs when a user clicked a specially crafted Markdown link, all without triggering any Windows security warning. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841 and fixed in the February 2026 Patch Tuesday update, stemmed from Notepad's relatively new Markdown support -- a feature Microsoft added after discontinuing WordPad and rewriting Notepad to serve... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users were unable to accurately distinguish between these different 'interfaces.' Pano, the moderator who built the experiment, invited other members on the forum to listen to various sound clips with four... Read more ›
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Cord Cutters News reports: In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi... Viewers noticed notifications on Tubi indicating that all five seasons would no longer be available after February 10, 2026, effectively removing one of... Read more ›
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Ireland has announced what it says is the world's first permanent basic income program for artists, a scheme that will pay 2,000 selected artists $385 per week for three years, funded by an $21.66 million allocation from Budget 2026. The program follows a 2022 pilot -- the Irish government's first large-scale randomized control trial -- that found participants had greater professional autonomy, less anxiety, and higher life satisfaction. An external... Read more ›
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The large language models that millions of people rely on for advice -- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini -- will change their answers nearly 60% of the time when a user simply pushes back by asking "are you sure?," according to a study by Fanous et al. that tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The behavior, known in the research community as sycophancy, stems from... Read more ›
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