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AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge launched an open-source platform called Gas Town. It lets users orchestrate swarms of AI coding agents simultaneously, assembling software at speeds […]
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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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The endless cycle of highlighting passages, saving articles, and planning transformations creates a psychological loophole where your brain experiences the reward of growth without ever risking the vulnerability of actual change—turning self-help into self-deception. Read more ›
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As Wizards prepares for its first big 'Magic' con of the year, its approach to a new unionization effort threatens to undermine any goodwill the studio has. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Standard: If state lawmakers have their way, you'll have to get a license plate for your e-bike, and if you're planning to buy one next year, it'll be slower. Amid growing concerns about e-bike safety, particularly among children in Bay Area suburbs, two bills introduced this year aim to make it easier to ticket riders and reduce the top speed... Read more ›
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Not all trifolds are created equal — just ask our own Allison Johnson, who recently spent time with Samsung’s ill-fated Galaxy phone. Aurzen’s Zip projector is the kind of trifold gadget we can fully get behind, though, and it’s currently on sale at Amazon for $259.99 ($140 off). You can also pick it up in […] Read more ›
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Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they’ve solved the mystery of Bitcoin’s creator. So why does the hunt continue? Read more ›
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British troops are getting missiles produced by a UK-based startup as top militaries seek a cost-effective defense against attack drones. Read more ›
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Other states like New York, New Jersey, and Illinois are considering similar bills. Read more ›
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Being the only contact point that your car has with the ground, a good set of tires is very important. What exactly is the five-year rule for tires? Read more ›
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A Weibo leaker today suggested that Apple's iPhone Air 2 may be the only next-generation ultra-thin flagship smartphone from a major brand, after the original model's poor sales performance appears to have led competing manufacturers to abandon plans for their own follow-up products. The leaker known as "Digital Chat Station" today posted on Weibo, claiming that the iPhone Air barely surpassed 700,000 unit activations even after multiple rounds of price... Read more ›
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Konami has revealed the latest big crossover event for eFootball, bringing beloved characters from beloved anime Naruto to the sports juggernaut. It's also released a trailer to celebrate, which any and all football fans absolutely must watch. Read more Read more ›
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Seoul Forest was supposed to feel like a gentle spring escape: gardens, walking paths, photo spots, and Pokémon hiding among the trees. Instead, opening day showed just how powerful nostalgia can be when a beloved childhood brand meets a real-world destination. Pokémon Secret Forest opened May 1 as part of the 2026 Seoul International Garden Show, a massive public event running through October 27 across Seoul Forest and nearby areas.... Read more ›
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Apple’s upcoming AI photo tools are less about innovation for its own sake and more about catching up in a space where competitors have already reset expectations Read more ›
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The European Commission signaled in January 2026 that it wanted to commercialize European open-source software as part of its push for digital sovereignty. According to the consultation, the EU faces a “significant” problem in its dependence on non-EU countries in the digital sphere, which “reduces users’ choice, hampers EU companies’ competitiveness and can raise supply ... Read more ›
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A Trump administration directory designed to help seniors find healthcare inadvertently exposed Social Security numbers. Read more ›
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If you use a free version of Gemini, it’s quite possible that you might soon see ads inside the standalone app. Speaking during an earning’s call, Google’s chief business officer Philipp Schindler said that, “If done well, ads can be really valuable.” The Gemini app is a very clean experience, free from ads and sponsored... Read the original post: Google Eyes Ads Inside Gemini App Read more ›
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The Xteink X4 and X3 are excellent alternatives to Kindles and Kobos if you want an e-reader that's as easy to slip into your pocket - just not out of the box. Both devices come with stock firmware that's clunky, limited, and occasionally confusing, but that can be easily fixed by plugging them into a […] Read more ›
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SoftBank is planning to launch an AI and robotics startup in the U.S. to build data centers. The firm is gunning for a $100 billion valuation and aims to list the startup this year. Read more ›
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Summary: Google is investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic ($10B cash now at $350B valuation, $30B conditional on performance targets) plus five gigawatts of compute over five years, bringing its total commitment to ~$43B. The deal arrives as Anthropic’s revenue hit $30B ARR (up from $1B in January 2025) and its secondary market valuation […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Summary: SoftBank Corp. plans to convert part of the former Sharp LCD factory in Sakai, Osaka into one of Japan’s largest battery production lines for AI data centres, with production expected within five years (~2031). The move completes a vertical integration stack spanning chips (Arm, Graphcore, Ampere), modular data centre manufacturing (Lordstown), energy generation (SB […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In short: The US government’s 9.9% stake in Intel, acquired for $8.9 billion last August by converting CHIPS Act grants and Secure Enclave funds into equity at $20.47/share, is now worth approximately $36 billion after Intel’s stock surged 20%+ on a massive Q1 earnings beat. The $26.5 billion unrealised gain is one of the most […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In short: X-Energy raised $1.02 billion in the largest nuclear IPO on record, pricing at $23 (21% above range) on the Nasdaq, with shares surging 31% on opening to imply a $12 billion market cap. The offering was 15x oversubscribed. The same company failed to close a $1 billion SPAC in 2023. The difference is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Summary: Europe’s effort to protect children online has collided with its own privacy architecture. The ePrivacy derogation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning expired on April 3 after Parliament voted 311-228 to reject its extension, the EU’s new age verification app announced April 15 was hacked in under two minutes, and the CSA Regulation (“Chat Control”) remains […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The gap between finishing a course and actually being useful on a team, Denis Brovarnyy has seen it from both sides. And in an era where AI is reshaping every technical role, that gap is getting more expensive to ignore. Companies are no longer experimenting with AI. They are implementing it. And they need people […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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As artificial intelligence systems scale rapidly across enterprise environments, a critical gap is becoming harder to ignore: security is not evolving at the same pace as deployment. Organizations are integrating AI into production workflows, customer platforms, and decision-making systems, but many still lack robust frameworks to ensure those systems are secure, trustworthy, and resilient. This […] This story co Read more ›
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For years, the web intelligence industry has been a reliable support system for major data-powered developments across industries. As big data kept getting bigger, the infrastructure requirements to ensure sustained data flow became harder. In recent years, AI has been taking the biggest leaps forward. The story of how the web intelligence industry responded to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Summary: Meta and Microsoft announced workforce reductions on the same day, April 23, affecting up to 23,000 positions combined. Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs (10% of staff) and cancelling 6,000 open roles effective May 20, while Microsoft launched its first-ever voluntary retirement programme offering buyouts to up to 8,750 US employees whose age plus years […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Summary: Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 ARM CPU cores in AWS data centres for agentic AI workloads. The chips are general-purpose processors, not AI accelerators, handling the CPU-intensive inference and orchestration tasks behind real-time reasoning and multi-step agents. The deal is one piece of a procurement […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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