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Meta is pivoting Horizon Worlds away from its original VR-centric metaverse vision and toward a mobile-first strategy, "explicitly separating" its Quest VR platform from the virtual world. TechCrunch reports: By going mobile-first, Horizon Worlds is positioning itself to compete with popular platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. "We're in a strong position to deliver synchronous social games at scale, thanks to our unique ability to connect those games with billions of people on the world's biggest social net
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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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My buddy Ray called me last spring, two weeks into his retirement. Sixty-eight years old. Forty-one years as a plumber. He wasn’t calling to complain. He was calling because something strange had happened. “Tommy,” he said, “I went fishing by myself yesterday, just sat there for four hours, and I felt like myself for the ... Read more Read more ›
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Hacks season 5 has been treating us to one episode a week on HBO Max — but for the next fortnight, things are looking a little different. Read more ›
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Inside The Legal Battle At RentoMojo RentoMojo’s road to IPO has hit a legal speed bump. Cofounder and ex-COO Ajay… Read more ›
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Qu’est‑ce que le jeu logique « trouver chiffre » ? Fonctionnalités principales du générateur de jeux Avantages pour les différents… Read more ›
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The calm one in the argument often isn't calm at all. They're running an old cost-benefit equation on autopilot, and the real injury isn't the swallowing — it's forgetting that swallowing was ever a choice. Read more ›
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United States soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke has been arrested and charged for placing bets on prediction marketplace Polymarket using classified information he had access to related to the capture of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. The US Army Special Forces master sergeant, who was directly involved with the planning and execution of the operation, allegedly made $409,881 in profits. According to the Department of Justice, Van Dyke created a... Read more ›
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Tech layoffs have picked up lately. Some pressures may be temporary as AI reshapes hiring, roles, and the future of work in Silicon Valley. Read more ›
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Pourquoi tester la fiabilité d’un véhicule d’occasion ? Les critères essentiels du test de fiabilité Historique d’entretien Kilométrage réel vs… Read more ›
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Layoffs have hit over a dozen companies in 2026, including Meta, Amazon, and Oracle. AI and economic conditions are reshaping the business landscape. Read more ›
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It's been kind of hectic here at GSMArena HQ in the last few weeks - we're getting phones left and right and are working pretty much nonstop to bring you guys content! But we're slowly getting through the pile, and today, we've got the recently globalized vivo X300 FE in the house! Unveiled and rolled internationally alongside the vivo X300 Ultra, the vivo X300 FE is coming in two configurations... Read more ›
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Когда ЭЛТ-монитор долго показывает одну и ту же картинку, на экране навечно остается ее след — из-за выгорания люминофора. Многие из вас и так это знают, а кто-то даже видел такое своими глазами. Именно для решения этой проблемы и были придуманы скринсейверы — движущаяся картинка вместо статичной не позволяла экрану «застаиваться».Но в сегодняшней статье мы не будем писать о том, как такая (вроде) очевидная штука позволила продлить жизнь огромному количеству... Read more ›
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As the terms of a bailout for Spirit are being finalized, President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was interested in the U.S. buying the airline and selling it for a profit once oil prices drop. Read more ›
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AirDrop on Android is one of the best features we’ve seen delivered to the platform in some time. With so many people in our lives owning iPhones and so many of us using Apple computers or iPads, being able to share quickly and directly with all of those devices is such a convenience. We first... Read the original post: How to AirDrop on Samsung Galaxy Phones Read more ›
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If rising gas prices have you considering a carpool, there are some things you need to consider. Here are a few tips to help you get started. Read more ›
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Elon Musk may be the busiest dealmaker right now. This Tuesday, his SpaceX rocket company said it had an option to buy coding startup Cursor for $60 billion. That would be the biggest venture-backed acquisition—other than SpaceX’s February purchase of his startup, xAI, for what Musk has said was a $250 billion valuation.Outside the Musk-verse, by contrast, tech bankers have been complaining about how slow dealmaking is—particularly in software, where... Read more ›
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We’re in a tech layoff era again—although a more accurate term may be an “employee replacement” phase. Meta Platforms told staff on Thursday it plans to lay off 10% of its staff, or about 8,000 people, next month. (The next few weeks won’t be fun at Meta!) The latest layoffs follow Meta’s cuts of about 2,000 people earlier this year and a spate of such cuts elsewhere at Snap, Amazon... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans more than 90 million years ago. But the whales' vocalized communications are remarkably similar to our own, researchers have discovered. Not only do sperm whale have a form of "alphabet" and form vowels within their vocalizations but the... Read more ›
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Intel has launched a new budget-focused Core Series 3 processor line for lower-cost laptops -- "Intel's response to budget CPUs that are appearing in laptops like the Apple MacBook Neo," writes PCWorld's Mark Hachman. From the report: Intel unexpectedly launched the Core Series 3, based on its excellent "Panther Lake" (Core Ultra Series 3) architecture and 18A manufacturing, for devices for home consumers and small business on Thursday. Intel announced... Read more ›
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Reed Hastings is stepping down from Netflix's board in June, ending a 29-year run at the company he co-founded and helped transform from a DVD-by-mail business into a global streaming giant. Hastings said in a shareholder (PDF) letter that heâ(TM)s stepping down to focus on "his philanthropy and other pursuits." Engadget reports: Hastings has served as chairman of Netflix's board since 2023, a role he assumed after stepping down as... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: An agreement with the Philippines to establish a high-tech industrial hub is the Trump administration's latest effort to lessen China's dominance over global supply chains. The deal to build up American manufacturing across a stretch of the island of Luzon, signed Thursday, will offer U.S. companies access to essential inputs such as critical minerals that bypass Beijing's control. The... Read more ›
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Newly unsealed records in California's antitrust case against Amazon allegedly show the company pressured third-party sellers to raise prices on rival sites like Walmart, Target, and Wayfair so Amazon could maintain the appearance of offering the lowest price. California says Amazon used tools like Buy Box suppression to punish cheaper listings elsewhere. The Guardian reports: [...] In one previously redacted deposition, marked "highly confidential," Mayer Handler, owner of a clothing... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes: Windows has limited FAT32 partitions to a maximum of 32GB for decades now. When memory cards and USB drives exceeded 32GB in size, the only options were exFAT or NTFS. Neither option was well supported on other platforms at first, although exFAT support is fairly widespread now. In their latest blog post, Microsoft announced that the limit for FAT32 partitions is being increased to 2TB.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows. Called GPT-Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin, the model appears to differ from most science-focused models from major tech companies, which have generally taken a more generic approach that works for various fields. In a press briefing, Yunyun Wang, OpenAI's Life Sciences Product Lead, said the... Read more ›
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Amazon's newest Fire TV Sticks are dropping support for normal sideloading, blocking apps from outside the Amazon Appstore unless the device is registered with developers. Cord Cutters News reports: This week, Amazon announced the upcoming launch of a new Fire TV Stick HD. The new model will run on Amazon's Vega OS, rather than Android, so most streaming apps will be supported, but users won't be add third party apps.... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla's email subsidiary MZLA Technologies just introduced Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client aimed at organizations that want to run AI on their own infrastructure instead of relying entirely on cloud services. The idea is to give companies full control over their data, models, and workflows while still offering things like chat, research tools, automation, and integration with enterprise systems through the Haystack AI framework. Native apps are planned... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Sam Altman's iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to potential suitors that they're a real human, provided they've already stared into one of World's glossy white Orbs and allowed their eyes to be scanned. The announcement follows a pilot... Read more ›
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