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Amazon is reportedly developing a new AI-focused smartphone that doesn't rely as heavily on traditional apps. "The phone is seen as a potential mobile personalization device that can sync with home voice assistant Alexa and serve as a conduit to Amazon customers throughout the day," reports Reuters. From the report: As envisioned, the new phone's personalization features would make buying from Amazon.com, watching Prime Video, listening to Prime Music or ordering food from partners like Grubhub easier than.
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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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Nintendo is reportedly preparing a new version of the Switch 2 with a user-replaceable battery, according to Nikkei. This is to comply with a 2023 EU "right-to-repair" policy on portable electronics that mandates easy battery replacement. The regulation also covers the Joy-Con 2 controllers, so they are reportedly being redesigned to allow users to replace each lithium-ion battery. We don't know when this new Switch 2 will hit store shelves,... Read more ›
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Lawyers for Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds' newly reinstated CEO Ted Gill are reportedly pushing for Krafton to be found in contempt of a recent court ruling after the publisher confirmed a May early access release for the highly anticipated underwater survival sequel without consulting Gill. Read more Read more ›
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Here’s something I’m not proud of. For most of my thirties, I let friendships slide. I was building a business, navigating a divorce, trying to figure out who I was without the structures I’d spent years hiding inside. Friendships felt like something that would just maintain themselves. They didn’t. I lost a close friend suddenly ... Read more Read more ›
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Sustainable aviation fuel was supposed to help airlines reduce their dependence on oil. The Iran war has exposed how far aviation is from that reality. Read more ›
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Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed show has entered production and will officially be set in Rome in the year 64AD, confirming previous reports. The upcoming adaptation, then, will return to the setting of 2010’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, although the latter’s story took place more than 1,000 years after the events we'll see in Netflix's show. Ubisoft confirmed in a press release that the Netflix series will tell an original story centered... Read more ›
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Google’s revamped process for sideloading apps on Android will require several steps, including a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before installing apps from unverified developers. The “advanced flow,” as Google calls it, goes into effect from August and forces users to verify their identity by going through a 4-step process with the end goal of preventing potential scams. As Google explains in its Android Developers Blog post, most scammers rely on... Read more ›
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Netflix's live-action Assassin's Creed series will take place over 1,400 years before the events of Assassin's Creed 2 - the first (or chronologically, now technically second) time the series visited Italy. Read more Read more ›
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Достаточно большое количество проблем производительности в backend-приложениях на самом деле находятся не в коде. За последние пару лет мне несколько раз приходилось разбирать системы, где: • API отвечало слишком долго• CPU базы был загружен почти на 100% Читать далее Read more ›
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Если вам в прошлый раз показалось, что вы знаете о Хидеки Камии всё — вы глубоко заблуждаетесь. Сегодня мы поговорим о расцвете, закате и новой надежде в его карьере. Да и вообще разберёмся — а что за человек делал одни из наших любимых игр? Читать далее Read more ›
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Nasdaq's structure the SEC approved opens door to bring blockchain benefits to equities, while preserving the same-old intermediaries and market structure, industry insiders say. Read more ›
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Alibaba and other AI model giants should pay a “levy” for selling their services in Europe with the money funnelled into Europe’s cultural sector, according to the boss of Europe’s ... Read more ›
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Google is testing AI-generated headlines in Search, replacing publisher-written titles with rewritten versions, raising concerns about accuracy, transparency, and how news is presented to users. Read more ›
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Nvidia is so gung-ho about AI agents that it’s betting the buzzy software can power another one of its big bets: robots. The “agentic AI system is being built for digital first,” said Deepu Talla, Nvidia’s vice president of robotics and edge AI, or AI for powering devices, in an interview on the sidelines of Nvidia’s annual GTC conference in San Jose, Calif. “You just extend it to include physical... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat writes: Chuck Norris, known for his roles in action films and as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker on the TV show "Walker, Texas Ranger," passed away on March 19, leaving behind a legacy of inspiring millions around the world. He was 86. He became Internet phenomenon after "Chuck Norris Facts" went viral online with such wildly hyperbolic statements as, "Chuck Norris had a staring contest with the... Read more ›
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Российский финтех растёт на 15,5% в год в условиях санкций. Рынок труда перевернулся: 16 резюме на одну вакансию. И одновременно senior-продуктовые лидеры с реальным финтех-опытом структурно в дефиците. Привет, это Александр Козуб. Пока все чинят симптомы — я разбираю системы. И сегодня предлагаю разбор финтех ландшафта в 2026 . И что с этим делать, если ты строишь продукт или выбираешь, куда двигаться дальше в финтехе? Читать далее Read more ›
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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Apple's surprise announcement of the AirPods Max 2 this week. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos The AirPods Max 2 introduce a range of improvements primarily driven by the addition of Apple's H2 chip, which replaces the H1 chip used in previous models. This new chip underpins most of the upgrades, enabling more advanced computational audio... Read more ›
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CD Projekt Red has suggested that if it did have something to release this year, like oh I don't know, a secret expansion for The Witcher 3, it probably wouldn't favour a surprise release or 'shadow drop'. Read more Read more ›
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Meta has delayed the release of its next major AI model after internal tests showed it lagging behind competing systems from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The New York Times reports: The model, code-named Avocado, outperformed Meta's previous A.I. model and did better than Google's Gemini 2.5 model from March, two of the people said. But it has not performed as strongly as Gemini 3.0 from November, they said. As a... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Cloud storage company Backblaze has partnered with StorageReview to make a massive dataset containing 314 trillion digits of Pi publicly accessible. The digits were calculated by StorageReview in December 2025 after months of heavy computation designed to stress modern hardware. The dataset now hosted in the cloud weighs in at over 130TB, while the full working dataset used during the calculation reached about 2.1PB... Read more ›
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sdinfoserv writes: After running a Reddit clone for a couple of months, the Digg beta shut down again. The website is a splash memo from CEO Justin Mezzell, blaming the latest "Hard Reset" on bots. "Building on the internet in 2026 is different," writes Mezzell. "We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team..." The decision was made... Read more ›
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AI services may not stay cheap for long, as companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are currently subsidizing usage to rapidly grow market share. As these companies move toward profitability and potential IPOs, Axios reports that investors will likely push them to increase prices and improve margins. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: Flashback: Silicon Valley has seen this movie before. The so-called "millennial lifestyle subsidy" meant VC... Read more ›
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Iranian drone strikes shut down a major helium facility in Qatar, removing about 30% of global helium supply and raising concerns for the semiconductor industry, which relies on the gas for chip fabrication. "QatarEnergy declared force majeure on existing contracts on March 4, freeing it from supply obligations to customers," reports Tom's Hardware. The industry outlet Gasworld reports that no imminent restart is planned. From the report: Helium consultant Phil... Read more ›
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Meta plans to remove end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from Instagram direct messages by May 8, 2026. "Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we're removing this option from Instagram in the coming months," says Meta. "Anyone who wants to keep messaging with end-to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp." The Hacker News reports: The American company first began testing E2EE for Instagram direct messages... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: A top Senate administrator on Monday gave aides the green light to use three artificial intelligence chatbots for official work, a reflection of how widespread the use of the products has become in workplaces around the globe. The chief information officer for the Senate sergeant-at-arms, who oversees the chamber's computers as well as security, said in a one-page memo... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader tsuliga writes: Two new episodes of Doctor Who that were previously lost have been found. The original Doctor Who episodes were wiped or deleted by the BBC because they were not aware of the future use of re-runs of these shows. Ninety-five of the 253 episodes from the program's first six years are currently missing. How many more episodes are out there waiting to be rediscovered? "The... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said. Top executives... Read more ›
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Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans "have a God-given right to know what's on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It's plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives." But California company Wildtype sells lab-grown salmon — and is suing Texas over its ban on cell-cultivated... Read more ›
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