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As the Mobile World Conference begins in Spain, Lenovo brought a new attachable accessory for their laptops — an AI agent. CNET reports:
The little circular module perches on the top of your Lenovo laptop display, attached via the magnetic Magic Bay on the rear. The module is home to an adorable animated companion called Tiko, who you can interact with via text or voice... [I]t can start and stop your music, open a web page for you or answer a question. You can also interact with it by using emoji. Give it.
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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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Installing an online help desk should take little time or money. HESK is an open-source solution worth considering. Read more ›
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After weeks of continuous decline, funding momentum in the world’s third largest startup ecosystem picked up in the final week… Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon's cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain -- meaning that full recovery from the cloud disruption could take nearly... Read more ›
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Lego is celebrating May the 4th early, and turning it into a weekend event, with double points for Insider members, new sets, and some especially nice sets that land as a free gift with purchase. Read more ›
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What's the best car for a new driver? It depends, but it sure isn't one of these, and not just for the price tag. Read more ›
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Paul Walker's Nissan Skyline from "2 Fast 2 Furious" vanished for years before surfacing in an unlikely place that stunned movie car fans worldwide. Read more ›
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From chaotic lines outside the courthouse to the presiding judge who runs a precise schedule, here is how the Tesla CEO's testimony went. Read more ›
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Next year the original iPhone turns 20 - or rather, it's the 20th anniversary of its launch, as we doubt any units are still around. Apple has long been rumored to be planning something special to mark the occasion, and a few days ago a report talked about a 20th anniversary iPhone coming with a quad-curved screen. As it turns out, that won't be a special anniversary iPhone model -... Read more ›
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Garmin’s smartwatches generally have a more expensive upfront cost, but this deal on the entry-level Vivoactive 6 tears that barrier down a bit, if health and fitness are your priorities over smarts. Read more ›
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Genesis is aiming higher with the GV90, combining dramatic styling, refined interiors, and new tech to make a serious statement in the luxury SUV market. Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for May 2 No. 585. Read more ›
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You don't always need to reach for a menu or click to get stuff done on your Mac. Read more ›
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The Mac mini just became harder to buy on a budget after Apple dropped its $599 model during a worsening memory and storage crunch. Read more ›
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We've become unpaid actors in a trillion-dollar theater where every swipe, click, and pause gets recorded, analyzed, and sold—all because we couldn't be bothered to read the fine print. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf. The decision, while only immediately affecting people born with a very rare form of genetic deafness, is being hailed as a milestone in the quest to treat hearing loss. "It's the first time in history there's a new drug for hearing loss," says... Read more ›
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Physicists have proposed a new kind of atomic clock based on a revived superradiant laser concept that could produce an extraordinarily stable signal with a linewidth around 100 microhertz, potentially the narrowest ever for an optical laser. "The implications of this result could stretch well beyond timekeeping," reports Phys.org. "A laser immune to environmental frequency shifts would be a powerful tool in optical interferometry -- using interference patterns in light... Read more ›
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Intel's stock price soared 24% Friday. It's the stock's largest single-day spike since since October 1987, reports CNBC, "as investors cheered signs of renewed growth due to mounting artificial intelligence demand." The stock closed at $82.57 and is now up 124% this year after jumping 84% in 2025. Friday's rally topped a 23% gain for the stock on Sept. 18, when Nvidia agreed to invest $5 billion in the company...... Read more ›
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The Free Software Foundation's Licensing and Compliance Manager published a blog post this week to explicitly state that"Responsible AI" Licenses (RAIL) are nonfree and unethical. The licenses restrict AI and ML software "from being used in a specific list of harmful applications," according to the license's web site, "e.g. in surveillance and crime prediction." (The license's steering committee is volunteers from multiple academic institutions.) But even though Responsible AI licenses... Read more ›
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It's the U.S. government's main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic's "Mythos". To run it they'd hired Collin Burns, who'd worked at OpenAI and then Anthropic. But Burns started work Monday at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation — and then "was pushed out Thursday by the White House, according to the people, who spoke... Read more ›
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"Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers," reads the pull request. And so Thursday Linus Torvald merged the pull request "to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem," reports Phoronix, "and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters." This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated... Read more ›
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Microsoft released the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" in 2016, adding an optional Linux environment into every operating system since Windows 10. But now an open source developer has brought Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, reports the blog It's FOSS, "with Linux kernel 6.19 running alongside the Windows 9x kernel, letting both operate on the same machine at the same time." A virtual device driver handles initialization,... Read more ›
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There's a glass roof — but no rear-view window. Instead the Polestar 4 replaces the rear-view mirror with a live feed from a wide-angle camera. Its high-resolution display (1480 x 320 pixels) promises "a panoramic view of the outside," according to Polestar's web site, showing more of what's behind you. "Visibility in the dark and in rainy conditions is also vastly improved." Besides the camera feed (and side mirrors), the... Read more ›
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Colorado's "age-attestation" bill left the House committee with new exemptions for open-source operating systems, applications, code repositories, and containerized software distribution, reports the blog Linuxiac: [The bill] focuses on operating system providers and application stores. Its main requirement is that these providers supply an age-related signal via an interface, so applications can determine whether a user is a minor... System76 founder Carl Richell shared on Fosstodon that the updated bill. Read more ›
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After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers "immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions," reports Fortune: 14-year-old in New South Wales, told The Washington Post in December 2025, just before the implementation of the ban, she planned to use her mother's face ID to log in to Snapchat and . In a Reddit thread on ways to bypass the ban, one user suggested using a printed mesh... Read more ›
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