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Meta is shutting down its VR social platform Horizon Worlds, which was once a key piece of the pivot to the metaverse. The company said the app will be taken off the Quest store at the end of March, and fully removed from Quest headsets by June 15. After that date, it will shift to a standalone "mobile-only experience." CNBC reports: The shift for Horizon Worlds, which was once a central part of the company's push into virtual reality, comes weeks after Meta cut over 1,000 employees from Reality Labs, the u
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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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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman are poised to face off in a high-stakes trial revolving around the alleged betrayal, deceit and unbridled ambition that blurred the bickering billionaires' once-shared vision for the development of artificial intelligence. The trial, which started Monday with jury selection, centers on the 2015 birth of ChatGPT maker OpenAI as a nonprofit startup primarily... Read more ›
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On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors already have an opinion about Elon Musk, and it's not a good one. The Verge reporter Elizabeth Lopatto, who was there at […] Read more ›
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The face-down phone isn't about secrecy. It's a quiet act of autonomy from people who learned, often the hard way, that being constantly reachable carries a real psychological cost — and the wrist turn is the only sovereignty they have left. Read more ›
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OpenAI recently missed an internal revenue goal, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, after the company’s ChatGPT chat previously missed user-growth goals. The revenue shortfall followed a surge or usage of Google’s Gemini chatbot and booming sales at archrival ... Read more ›
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Quick home services startup Snabbit has raised $56 Mn (about ₹527 Cr) in its Series D round co-led by Susquehanna… Read more ›
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Прывітаначкі, похоже с одной стороны сегодня программистов нужно меньше чем раньше, с другой стороны - благодаря LLM действительно можно делать задачи на порядок быстрее. Предполагаю, что в ручную этого бота я бы делал месяц, через Codex gpt-5.5 xhigh - часа три.В Evernote у меня записано много идей. Хорошо бы то, хорошо бы это. И таки некоторый прогресс в их реализации есть. И вот недавно - открываю официальное приложение Evernote на... Read more ›
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The jurors who will decide the winner in the artificial intelligence era’s big legal fight come from a range of backgrounds—and have mixed experiences with AI. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers impaneled the nine-member jury on Monday, kicking off Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit ... Read more ›
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According to a new rumor from Korea, Samsung is now considering changing the position of the cameras in the upcoming Galaxy S27 family. It's unclear how the design of the camera island will change, but if this pans out it will be a pretty significant redesign - Samsung smartphones have for years been associated with the current camera island placement, which you can see below. Apparently the company's reason to... Read more ›
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MobiKwik’s Big Credit Bet Begins MobiKwik is inching closer to becoming a full-stack fintech player. The listed fintech company has… Read more ›
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The trailer for psychological thriller 'Verity' offers the first peek at the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's popular 2018 novel. Read more ›
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I didn’t quit doomscrolling, I just found something that occasionally pulls me out of it before it swallows another hour. 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" #1774 on April 28 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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Don't let your old Chromebook go to waste. Even if it's no longer receiving updates, you can keep it useful with these fun DIY ideas. Read more ›
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The tiredness that doesn't match what you did all day isn't laziness or a sleep problem. It's the cost of switching between different versions of yourself, and the research on mental fatigue is starting to explain why. Read more ›
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A new email from Sony says that PlayStation will require players to verify their age later this year to keep using communication features like messages and voice chat. Insider-Gaming reports: The initiative comes from the goal of providing "safe, age-appropriate experiences for players and families while respecting their privacy" and providing "meaningful control over their gaming experiences." The age-verification process will be implemented globally, and players will need to verify... Read more ›
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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted an out-of-this-world iPhone video on Sunday, showing Earth disappear behind the Moon at 8x zoom. "I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view," said Wiseman, noting that this video is "uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom" and "quite comparable to the view of the human eye." The New York Times says the... Read more ›
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Amazon is expanding its Anthropic partnership with a deal to invest up to another $25 billion, while Anthropic commits to spending more than $100 billion on AWS infrastructure over the next decade to power Claude. "Anthropic's commitment to run its large language models on AWS Trainium for the next decade reflects the progress we've made together on custom silicon, as we continue delivering the technology and infrastructure our customers need... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Denver7: Maryland is poised to become the first state in the country to ban "surveillance pricing." The practice refers to companies using a shopper's personal data, such as browsing history, location, or purchasing behavior, to tailor prices to individual customers. The Protection From Predatory Pricing Act, passed this month and sent to the governor for a signature, would prohibit food retailers and third-party... Read more ›
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The IEA says 2025 marked a turning point for global energy, with solar posting the largest growth ever seen for any energy source and helping carbon-free power outpace rising demand. The trend led the agency to declare that the world has entered the "Age of Electricity." Ars Technica reports: The IEA report covers energy use, including the electrical grid, transportation, home heating, and other forms of consumption. As such, it... Read more ›
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Microsoft is cutting the monthly price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, but the tradeoff is that new Call of Duty releases will no longer arrive on the service at launch. Instead, they'll show up about a year later. The Verge reports: After Xbox CEO Asha Sharma admitted last week that "Game Pass has become too expensive for players," Microsoft is dropping the price of Xbox Game... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: At Google, leaders are anxious about falling behind in the race to offer AI coding tools, especially as rivals like Anthropic PBC offer more effective and popular tools to businesses, according to people familiar with the matter. The search giant is now working to unite some of its coding initiatives under one banner to speed progress and take advantage of a surge... Read more ›
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Reuters reports that Meta plans to start collecting U.S.-based employees' mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screen snapshots to train AI agents that can better learn how humans use computers. The tool, called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), will reportedly "not be used for performance assessments or any other purpose besides model training and that safeguards were in place to protect 'sensitive content.'" From the report: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told... Read more ›
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Firms like Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo, and others are reporting strong profits while reducing head count and automating more work. "All of them credited A.I. to some degree ... in areas ranging from the so-called back office, where tens of thousands of employees fill out paperwork to comply with various laws and regulations, to the front office, where seven-figure salaried professionals put together complicated financial transactions for corporate... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Framework has been selling and shipping its modular, repairable, upgradable Laptop 13 for five years now, and in that time, it has released six distinct versions of its system board, each using fresh versions of Intel and AMD processors (seven versions, if you count this RISC-V one). The laptop around those components has gradually gotten better, too. Over the years, Framework... Read more ›
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