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A Pew Research Center survey found that only 53% of U.S. adults went to a movie theater in the past year, while 7% said they've never seen a movie in a theater at all. "The findings reflected a domestic box office still fighting to regain its footing since the COVID-19 pandemic, when ticket sales collapsed 81% in 2020 due to theater closures," reports Variety. From the report: In 2025, moviegoers in the U.S. and Canada bought 769.2 million tickets, less than half of the all-time peak of roughly 1.6 billion.
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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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Mark Zuckerberg said that Instagram recommendations are "becoming more personalized" due to AI, which has led to increased time spent on the app. Read more ›
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A lifetime of watching inheritance conversations destroy relationships teaches a hard lesson about what numbers should stay hidden. Read more ›
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The designation exposes companies to tougher regulations and transparency requirements. Read more ›
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For millions of small businesses, every missed phone call can represent a missed customer and lost revenue. According to voice AI startup Upfirst, the value at risk for a single unanswered call sits at around $1,900 for a roofing company and around $620 for a legal practice. In fact, for dog groomers, over 30% of ... Read more ›
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Samsung is rumored to be working on a pair of Galaxy Buds with a new clip-on form factor (new for Samsung, that is - this has been done a lot by most of its competitors recently). We once heard they'd be called Galaxy Buds Able, but in the meantime the name Galaxy Buds On has also been circulated, with "Able" alleged to be their codename. We're going to call them... Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for July 30, No. 675 Read more ›
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CNET was given exclusive access to 11 short films created by Google Labs Flow Sessions resident artists. Read more ›
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Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone is expected to arrive in the fall of 2027 with the most significant redesign the device has seen since the iPhone X. The first iPhone was announced in January 2007 and went on sale that June, meaning the device's 20th anniversary technically falls on June 29, 2027. Apple rarely launches new high-end iPhones outside of its September timeframe, and the anniversary models are still expected to... Read more ›
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В статье будет рассмотрен и описан простой процесс сборки полезного генератора импульсов для изучения катушек индуктивности и других экспериментов.Отличие такого генератора от распространённых ШИМ-генераторов в том, что у данного генератора имеется возможность задавать отдельно длительность импульса и отдельно длительность паузы, а также количество последовательно идущих импульсов и пауз. Имеется также возможность получения полноценного регулируемого повторяющегося во времени сигнала.Все перечисленные возмо Read more ›
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Getting better audio from YouTube Music depends on more than your headphones, with streaming settings, downloads, codecs, and connection quality all involved. Read more ›
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Drone tech startup SUIND has raised ₹20.5 Cr (around $2.1 Mn) in a seed funding round led by Transition VC.… Read more ›
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В 2026 году активно выходят новые фронтир LLM-ки, агентные системы и принципиально новые подходы в самых разных областях. Медицинский AI периодически перенимает наработки, однако область применения ИИ в медицине сейчас остается весьма ограниченной. Обсудим, какие сложности скрываются под капотом медицинского ИИ-сервиса, какие типы данных там бывают, как их предобрабатывать, какие модели использовать и, главное, — насколько в 2026 году можно полагаться на автоматизированные медтех-сервисы? Читать далее Read more ›
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city's crackdown on delivery apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats is working. Read more ›
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Meta is continuing its push into agentic AI assistants. Read more ›
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Qualcomm expects its Apple revenue to decline faster than it previously anticipated, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told Reuters in an interview following the company's earnings call for the third fiscal quarter of 2026. Amon chalked up the loss to supply constraints, which will reduce the share of Qualcomm components used in the next iPhone launch well below its earlier 20 percent estimate. Qualcomm expects the drop in Apple revenue to... Read more ›
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$1bn Google deal is the first step in Verizon’s AI infrastructure growth plan, with a number of deals said to be worth billions of dollars. Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader BeaverCleaver shares a report from the BBC: The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in a crash that prompted mandatory airline safety briefings. The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft (610m) below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on April 11, 1952, following multiple-engine failure shortly... Read more ›
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Northrop Grumman has launched a private satellite-servicing mission to attach life-extending "jetpacks" to aging communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit. "It's the second satellite-saving mission to launch this month, all part of a growing, money-saving effort to keep spacecraft running as long as possible," reports Phys.org. From the report: Launched by SpaceX, Northrop Grumman's mission robotic vehicle -- dubbed MRV -- and its jetpacks will spend the next year angling into... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Verisign is finally bringing web domains to the internet after a decade of fighting. Verisign says the .web top-level domain has finally been delegated into the DNS root, clearing the way for public registrations later in 2026. Until now, consumers could not buy normal working .web domains, despite the extension attracting a record $135 million winning bid in 2016. The launch could make .web one of the more... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC News: It's rare that cancerous tumors can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma tumors among catfish in Quebec and the northeastern U.S. The discovery represents the first known transmissible cancer in fish and one of very few transmissible cancers ever found, reported the study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. Julie... Read more ›
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Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to block U.S. access to Chinese open-weight AI models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. Politico reports: On Wednesday, the newly-formed Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others in the administration with its appeal, marking the first coordinated effort by Silicon Valley's wider... Read more ›
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Scientific American reports that the 2026 Fields Medals went to four mathematicians for work ranging from the theory of knots to the motion of fluid: The Fields Medals went to Hong Wang of New York University and France's Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES), Yu Deng of the University of Chicago, John Pardon of Stony Brook University and Jacob Tsimerman of the University of Toronto. In the awards' 90-year history,... Read more ›
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Ford will become the first automaker to embed Apple Maps directly into its vehicles, starting with an all-electric midsize pickup built on its new Universal Electric Vehicle platform. "The pickup -- with Ford testing preproduction models on roads now -- is expected to start at $30,000 when it comes to market in 2027," reports the Detroit Free Press. "Ford has said several other EVs off that platform will follow, including... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Many gamers have been lamenting Sony's recently announced decision to halt sales of physical game discs in 2028. However, new data revealed by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella highlights how years of stark economic trends helped lead Sony to that decision. In a social media thread Thursday morning, Piscatella shared insights into Circana's tracking data on physical game sales in the U.S.... Read more ›
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Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video, adding a new "Games" tab where Prime members can play titles like "Hogwarts Legacy," "EA Sports FC 26," "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle," "Clue," and "Taboo." The games will be available starting today on Fire TVs in the U.S. and U.K., with additional supported devices and countries in the coming months. TechCrunch reports: With this move, Amazon is... Read more ›
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The European Union fined Google more than $1 billion for allegedly using Google Play and Search to steer users toward its own services and apps at the expense of competitors. The Associated Press reports: Google had recently lost its appeal of a $4.5 billion antitrust fine imposed by the EU for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. The European Commission, the... Read more ›
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