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"If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?" That was the [rhetorical] question The Verge's Sean Hollister asked when he reviewed ModRetro's Game Boy-style handheld device back in 2024. He said it "might be the best version of the Game Boy ever made," though the connection to Palmer Luckey and his defense tech startup Anduril left him conflicted. "I don't remember my childhood nostalgia coming with a side of possible guilt and fear about putting money into the pocket of a weapons contractor," he
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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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Earlier this week, vivo announced the start of the global rollout of the X300 Ultra and X300 FE with the exact date depending on the market – it’s April 24 for Spain, for example. Also, the X300 Ultra is now up on Amazon with an eye-watering price tag of €2,000 (16GB/1TB). Based on the results from last week’s poll, the vivo X300 Ultra will be one of the main challengers... Read more ›
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Before buying a washing machine, you want to make sure it is well-rated by real-world users. This customer satisfaction survey ranked the best brands. Read more ›
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The laugh that arrives before the painful part of a story isn't a sign of healing. It's a social contract, written in real time, that releases the listener from having to respond seriously — a skill learned from people who cou Read more ›
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The best movies on Amazon Prime Video this month include Pretty Lethal, The Bluff, Super 8, The Great Escape, Sinners, and more. Read more ›
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Fully electric vehicles are the new hotness, but hybrids still have their place in the market. Here are some common hybrid battery issues drivers run into. Read more ›
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After Artemis II's astronauts returned to earth, "NASA has Artemis III in its sights," reports the Associated Press: In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III's yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander or two in orbit around Earth. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin are racing to have their company's lander ready first. Musk's Starship and... Read more ›
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With the weather starting to warm, you may be feeling the itch to start a new project. One of these tools from Lowe's could be helpful additions for that. Read more ›
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Есть такая штука, как "дисплей покупателя" - это тот самый экран на кассе, где пишут сколько денег вы должны заплатить. И есть такое народное развлечение - делать из этих экранов всякое разное - ну например, "часы или метеостанцию" (с)Фишка тут в том, что можно приобрести их б/у за копейки, и получить при этом винтажный газоразрядный экран, приятного зеленого или синего цвета. Пусть алфавитно-цифровой - для часов этого более чем достаточно.... Read more ›
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Every day, valuables are mislaid at airport security, but their journey doesn't end there. Discover the fate of items that travelers leave behind. Read more ›
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With Google releasing the first Android 17 beta version in February, it's now smartphone manufacturers' turn to kickstart their beta programs. Motorola was one of the first to jump on the bandwagon and is doing so with a longer list of devices compared to last year. In addition to the Motorola Edge (2025), Moto G57 and Moto G57 Power, the list of all Motorola devices has been updated with several... Read more ›
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Tinder now lets you prove you are human by scanning your irises at a physical orb device made by Sam Altman's World. Read more ›
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AI growth could add up to 5 million metric tons of e-waste by 2030, as rapid hardware upgrades and data center expansion increase environmental impact. Read more ›
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I grew up in Australia and now live in Saigon, which means I’ve spent most of my adult life watching people with very different amounts of money move through the same social rooms. Expats who made a fortune in tech sitting at the same restaurant as a Vietnamese grandmother who raised five children on almost ... Read more Read more ›
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A growing wave of “AI doom influencers” is shaping public perception as real-world developments amplify concerns about advanced AI systems. Read more ›
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Введение: Звучащие кувалдыПредставьте, что вы часто ходите мимо кузницы. Кузнецы бьют молотами по наковальне, и вдруг вы замечаете странную вещь: одни молоты звучат вместе красиво, слитно, а другие — противно, вразнобой. Так, согласно легенде, Пифагор пришёл к открытию, которое положило начало теории музыки . Он принёс молоты в лабораторию и взвесил их. Оказалось, что веса молотов, дающих красивое сочетание (консонанс), соотносятся как простые числа 2:1, 3:2 и 4:3 . Так... Read more ›
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Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping… Read more ›
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iPhone 18 Pro leak reveals a new Dark Cherry color, offering a premium, muted look similar to Kindle devices, alongside other subtle color options. Read more ›
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175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system "Pix", developed by the country's central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have developed their own widely used digital systems for instant payments. Latin America has been able to build up sleek and effective payment systems in record time because it is not... 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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