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A couple of weekends ago, Sarah Polcz, a University of California, Davis, law professor, and her husband, Adam Brown, a top scientist at Google’s DeepMind, hosted a party at their Portola Valley home that had all the trappings of a geeky good time.
One guest piloted a drone that rained down ice cream bars on the kids in attendance. At the swimming pool, people took turns riding on a minihouseboat—the creation of another partygoer, Eric Stackpole, a former NASA engineer and co-founder of Sofar, a startup th
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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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As a local, I suggest packing essentials like a waterproof coat, bug spray, a warm hat, a water bottle, and durable shoes on a trip to Scotland. Read more ›
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I've spent a week testing iOS 27, and these are the three features that made the biggest difference to my everyday iPhone experience. Read more ›
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I let my phone die one Friday evening and, on a whim, decided not to charge it again until Monday. No grand digital-detox announcement, no warning anyone I was going off-grid. I simply let it run flat and left it face down on a shelf for two days, to see what would happen. The obvious ... Read more Read more ›
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Jordan Peele has been MIA since 'Nope,' but thankfully, that may soon change. Read more ›
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Motorola launched the Edge 70 Fusion in March, and so far it's been available in India with up to 256GB of storage. Now, however, the company has announced a new variant which pairs 12GB of RAM with 512GB of storage. [#InlinePriceWidget,14432,1#] The price for the new model is INR 36,999, which translates into about $391 at the current exchange rate. You can pick one up from Motorola’s online store in... Read more ›
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I’m not a psychologist, an economist, or a labor researcher. This is one writer noticing a pattern and reading around it. The figures below come from particular surveys and company reports, not from settled science or universal law, and a trend among one retailer’s shoppers or one country’s illustrators is not a rule about everyone. ... Read more Read more ›
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It's Blu-ray's 20th anniversary, which gave me an excuse to lock myself in a room for a work day with 4 discs released in 2026 that I missed testing previously. Read more ›
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LG refrigerators have a strong reputation for quality, and this often extends to their icemaking capabilities thanks to different advanced modes like Ice Plus. Read more ›
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Claude Guillemot died after a Cessna plane carrying the Ubisoft founder crashed on Friday in western France. He was 69. Read more ›
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The crash reportedly happened on an airstrip near the western coast of France on June 19. Read more ›
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Ars Technica's senior security editor reports: Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors the contents of device clipboards for patterns consistent with wallet addresses or seed phrases. When found, the malware also takes five screenshots over a 10-second period... "The execution of... Read more ›
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My dad didn't often say "I love you," but I always felt it. Now I understand why — and why it mattered more than I knew. Read more ›
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Once you remove lockscreen ads and toggle on book covers, here's what else you can do to customize your Kindle's screensaver. Read more ›
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Asus' ROG GM700 is a great prebuilt, packing powerful components for a solid price without compromising on the details. It just happens to look nice, too, if you're into the gamer aesthetic. Read more ›
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Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and […] Read more ›
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Long before AI, drones and satellites, a groundbreaking spy plane emerged from an extraordinary mission filled with intrigue, risk, and irony. Read more ›
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Your iPhone now celebrates birthdays with on-screen fireworks during phone calls, and it's one of iOS 27's best undiscovered features. Read more ›
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The largest purpose-driven travel flow on earth passes through the most commercially aspirational spaces on earth, and the dissonance is jarring if you stop long enough to watch who is actually walking past the glittering Hermes store... Read more ›
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The White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions on Anthropic’s advanced models to other AI companies, an official close to the U.S. government said Saturday. The mandate stemmed from what the official said was Anthropic’s refusal to fix vulnerabilities in its recent Fable 5 and Mythos ... Read more ›
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Anthropic and OpenAI have some pressing reasons to go public. But they have already relieved some of the pressure that typically pushes companies toward initial public offerings: employees anxious to cash out their equity. The two AI model companies have allowed early employees and investors to sell a combined $14 billion in shares over the last five years, according to The Information’s estimates. More employee sales of private shares are... Read more ›
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Demand for knockoff versions of retatrutide, a peptide-based drug being developed by Eli Lilly, has skyrocketed lately, propelling a gray market that likely exceeds $100 million in annual sales, according to an estimate prepared by The Information that examined many of the market’s biggest ... Read more ›
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What a weekend! Set time aside this coming Thursday for the New York City ticker tape parade celebrating the victorious Knicks. The joy flowing from that game Saturday night tops even the plaudits flowing from SpaceX’s successful IPO (read down for more on that subject.) Still, SpaceX was quickly supplanted in the business limelight by the latest Anthropic-government drama, this time over the AI firm’s recently released Fable 5 model.... Read more ›
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Tencent Holdings has backed a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead researcher of Alibaba Group’s Qwen models, according to two people with knowledge of the investment. Tencent invested $20 million in Lin’s first funding round that raised several hundred million dollars at a post-money ... Read more ›
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Data center software startup and AI-server broker Hydra Host has raised $100 million at a valuation of close to $800 million, led by Kindred Ventures. Nvidia, Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest, early CoreWeave backer Magnetar, and existing investors Founders Fund and Flume Ventures also participated. ... Read more ›
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The Murdoch family’s Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion in cash and stock, or $160 a share, giving Roku shareholders an exit at the highest price at which the stock has traded since the 2020-2022 Covid-fueled surge. In recent years Roku has traded mostly below $100 a share. Roku, which sells ... Read more ›
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When Broadcom last week announced a funding venture with Apollo and Blackstone to pay for a gigawatt of computing capacity to be used by Anthropic, it looked like the latest in a series of AI computing deals funded by private equity. Behind the scenes, however, the deal represents a risky move by Broadcom to boost demand for its chips. While the announcement didn’t spell out Broadcom’s role, the company—which works... Read more ›
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Salesforce has agreed to buy Fin, a startup that develops customer agents formerly known as Intercom, for $3.6 billion, as the software giant hopes to win new businesses from enterprises to adopt its own AI offering. The sale price is a big premium to Fin’s last valuation of $2 billion set at a ... Read more ›
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Anthropic can’t catch a break! Leaders of the AI firm are meeting with Trump administration officials in D.C. this week to try to resolve a dispute that blew up on Friday night. The administration said that it would need to cut off access to its most advanced Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models to foreign nationals, which led to the company taking down the models altogether. Then, on... Read more ›
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