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Despite AI's progress in building complex software, the ubiquitous PDF remains something of a grand challenge -- a format Adobe developed in the early 1990s to preserve the precise visual appearance of documents. PDFs consist of character codes, coordinates, and rendering instructions rather than logically ordered text, and even state-of-the-art models asked to extract information from them will summarize instead, confuse footnotes with body text, or outright hallucinate contents, The Verge writes.
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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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Compulsive tidiness isn't always about organization. For many adults, keeping an immaculate home is a childhood coping mechanism that never got retired — a way of producing predictable outcomes in a world that once offered none. Read more ›
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While your friends exhaust themselves performing for each other's approval, science reveals that the warm weight of your pet at 3am might be the sanest response to a world that's turned every human interaction into an audition. Read more ›
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Research reveals that when older adults stop attending every social event or having opinions on every topic, they're not becoming antisocial—they're demonstrating a sophisticated psychological skill younger people desperately need but rarely develop until faced with their own mortality. Read more ›
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As it turns out, it is possible to run a desktop PC on AA batteries - although it is, predictably, wildly impractical. Here's how many you'd need. Read more ›
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Growing up lower middle class taught a specific emotional skill: how to suppress desire so that the people already stretched thin wouldn't feel the weight of what they couldn't provide. That skill persists long after the economic constraints disappear. Read more ›
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They're the ones who've turned kindness into camouflage, mastering the art of giving just enough light to blind everyone to the darkness they're drowning in. Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1751 on April 5 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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July 2026 will mark the end of the road for Samsung's long-running default messaging app. Read more ›
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When someone leaves you feeling unsettled after a conversation where every fact they shared was verifiably true, you're not going crazy—you're experiencing the most sophisticated form of deception that good people rarely see coming. Read more ›
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Changing the oil in your car result in spillages and stains across your garage floor and clothes, but there are products that can make the job easier. Read more ›
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Nine days ago Microsoft released a non-security "preview" update for Windows 11 — not mandatory for the average Windows user, notes ZDNet, "but rather as optional, more for IT admins and power users who want to test them." TechRepublic adds that the update "was to bring 'production-ready improvements' and generally ensure system stability by optimizing different Windows services." So it's ironic that some (but not all) users reported instead that... Read more ›
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Tesla looks great on paper, but living with one can be different. Some drivers share what didn't quite live up to the promise. Read more ›
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There may be trouble brewing on the horizon for the Galaxy A57 and A37 – the results from last week’s poll are in and the consensus is that the two phones are overpriced. And that there is some serious competition in the mid-range market. Luckily, Galaxy A phones don’t stay at MSRP for long, so the first issue will correct itself soon enough. If it hasn’t already – we’re seeing... Read more ›
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That instant urge to reply — the one that makes your fingers fly across the keyboard before you've even finished reading the message — might be your nervous system protecting you from a consequence that stopped being real years ago. Read more ›
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When an expected car problem leads to a costly estimate, one driver decides to dig deeper - and what he finds turns into a lesson worth sharing. Read more ›
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The four-person Artemis II crew passed the halfway point to the moon late yesterday. Here's everything you need to know about the historic mission entering its fourth day. Read more ›
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"Emergency out-of-band fixes issued by enterprise IT giants Microsoft and Oracle have shone a spotlight on issues around both update cycles and patching," reports Computer Weekly: Microsoft's emergency update, KB5085516, addresses an issue that arose after installing the mandatory cumulative updates pushed live on Patch Tuesday earlier this month. According to Microsoft, it has since emerged that many users experienced problems signing into applications with a Microsoft account, seeing a... Read more ›
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Just six days ago — and 30 minutes after a Disney-OpenAI meeting about a project with Sora — Disney's team was "blindsided" with the news Sora was being discontinued, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, describing OpenAI's move as "a big rug-pull." Even some Sora employees were surprised by the cancellation. It was just 14 weeks ago Disney announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI's AI-powered video generation... Read more ›
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Bell Labs "created many of the foundational innovations of the modern age," writes Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — from transistors and telecommunications satellites to Unix and the C programming language. But what was the secret to its success? he asks in a new article for the Wall Street Journal. Start with its lucky arrival in a "problem-rich" environment,... Read more ›
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How powerful is Jupiter's lightning? Thick clouds cover the view, notes Science magazine. But using an instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft (orbiting Jupiter for the past decade), researchers determined Jupiter's lightning bolts are 100 to 10,000 times more energetic than earth's: A single bolt of lightning on Earth releases about 1 billion joules of energy. That means the most extreme bolts of jovian lightning carry 10 trillion joules of energy,... Read more ›
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Apple unveiled new device-level age restrictions in the UK on Wednesday. "After downloading a new update, users will now have to confirm that they are 18 or older to access unrestricted features," reports Gizmodo. "Users will be able to confirm their age with a credit card or by scanning an ID." For those underage or who have not confirmed their age, Apple will turn on Web Content Filter and Communication... Read more ›
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In many rural areas, America's online shoppers can wait half a week or more for deliveries. But Amazon started a $4 billion "rural delivery push" last year, reports Bloomberg, and has now cut delivery times to under 24 hours for 1 in 5 rural and small-town households, with 48-hour delivery to 62% of rural households. The payoff could be huge. Rural shoppers in the US collectively spend $1 trillion a... Read more ›
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"What happens when you can describe the social experience you want and have it built for you...?" asks Bluesky? "We've just started experimenting, but we're sharing it now because we want you to build alongside us." Called "Attie" — because it's built with Bluesky's decentralized publishing framework, AT Protocol (which is open source) — the new assistant turns natural language prompts into social feeds, without users having to know how... Read more ›
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Utility-scale solar construction... by robots! It's "one of the largest real-world demonstrations," notes Electrek, with 100 MW of capacity installed by the "Maximo" robots from AES, one of the world's top power companies. Maximo uses AI "to automate the heavy lifting of solar panels and accelerate solar installation," according to their web page, which shows a video of Maximo at work installing a vast field of solar panels in Kern... Read more ›
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"Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope," reports Science Daily. It's "smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record." "But this isn't just about size; it's about durability. By engraving data into ultra-stable ceramic materials, the team has opened the door to storing information that could last for centuries or even millennia without needing power or maintenance."... Read more ›
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Project Hail Mary has now grossed $300.8 million globally after earning another $54.1 million this weekend from 86 markets, reports Variety, noting that after just nine days it's now Amazon MGM's highest-grossing film ever. And last weekend it had the best opening for a "non-franchise" movie in three years, adds the Associated Press — the best since 2023's Oppenheimer: Project Hail Mary, which cost nearly $200 million to produce... is... Read more ›
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