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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more âș
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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 âș
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Cross-category buying on Whatnot is up 170% year-over-year - meaning buyers are exploring well beyond what they came for. The company just acquired Shaped, an AI startup built specifically to engineer those happy accidents at scale. Read more âș
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The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM," breaching the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Apple is increasing the price of some AppleCare+ subscription plans, reports Bloomberg. Monthly âAppleCareâ+ subscription plans for Macs and iPads are now $0.50 more expensive in the U.S., while annual plans are $5 more. The price increases apply to new subscriptions, so customers who already have an âAppleCareâ+ subscription for a device will keep their current prices. The âAppleCareâ+ pricing change follows price hikes on all iPads and Macs due... Read more âș
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Two weeks ago, Google released Beta 6 for Android 17 QPR1. Now weâre getting Beta 7, available now to all supported Pixel devices. Suitable for everyday usage, Android 17 QPR1 became platform stable with Beta 6. This new beta appears to be more of a bug fixing update, but weâre still rummaging to see if... Read the original post: Android 17 QPR1 Beta 7 Released for Pixel Devices! Read more âș
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The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on whether a single company can own broadcast stations that reach more than 39 percent of US TV households. In a Breitbart op-ed on Wednesday, Republican Chair Brendan Carr announced an August 6th vote to end the national ownership cap rule, which was intended to prevent one [âŠ] Read more âș
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For one week only, 'Avatar' fans in Los Angeles and Manhattan will get to see the Gaang on the silver screen. Read more âș
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The AI company teamed up with Work Louder on a programmable keyboard designed specifically for Codex. Read more âș
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TL;DR: RAG-ĐżĐŸĐžŃĐș (Retrieval-Augmented Generation, ĐłĐ”ĐœĐ”ŃĐ°ŃĐžŃ Ń ĐżĐŸĐŽĐșŃĐ”ĐżĐ»Đ”ĐœĐžĐ”ĐŒ ĐżĐŸĐžŃĐșĐŸĐŒ) â ŃŃĐŸ ĐŒĐ”Ń Đ°ĐœĐžĐ·ĐŒ, ĐżŃĐž ĐșĐŸŃĐŸŃĐŸĐŒ AI ŃĐœĐ°Ńала ĐœĐ°Ń ĐŸĐŽĐžŃ ŃДлДĐČĐ°ĐœŃĐœŃĐ” ĐșŃŃĐșĐž ŃĐ”ĐșŃŃĐ° ĐœĐ° ŃĐ°ĐčŃĐ°Ń , Đ° ĐżĐŸŃĐŸĐŒ ŃжД ŃĐŸŃĐŒŃлОŃŃĐ”Ń ĐŸŃĐČĐ”Ń ĐœĐ° ĐžŃ ĐŸŃĐœĐŸĐČĐ”. ĐĐŸĐŽĐ”Đ»Ń ĐœĐ” Đ·ĐœĐ°Đ”Ń ĐżŃĐŸ ĐČĐ°Ń ŃĐ°ĐčŃ Đ·Đ°ŃĐ°ĐœĐ”Đ” â ĐŸĐœĐ° ĐČĐžĐŽĐžŃ Đ”ĐłĐŸ ŃĐŸĐČĐœĐŸ ĐČ ĐŒĐŸĐŒĐ”ĐœŃ Đ·Đ°ĐżŃĐŸŃĐ°, Đ”ŃлО ĐČĐ°Ń ĐșĐŸĐœŃĐ”ĐœŃ ĐČŃОгŃĐ°Đ» ĐșĐŸĐœĐșŃŃŃ "ĐșĐ°ĐșĐŸĐč ĐșŃŃĐŸĐș ŃĐ”ĐșŃŃĐ° блОжД ĐČŃĐ”ĐłĐŸ ĐżĐŸ ŃĐŒŃŃĐ»Ń Đș ĐČĐŸĐżŃĐŸŃŃ ĐżĐŸĐ»ŃĐ·ĐŸĐČĐ°ŃДлŃ". ĐĐ°Đ»ŃŃĐ” ĐČ ŃŃĐ°ŃŃĐ” â ĐșĐ°Đș ĐžĐŒĐ”ĐœĐœĐŸ AI ŃĐ”ŃĐ°Đ”Ń, ĐœŃĐ¶Đ”Đœ лО ĐżĐŸĐžŃĐș,... Read more âș
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Environmental organizations want federal regulators to pause orbital data center approvals until comprehensive reviews examine cumulative environmental impacts and risks. Read more âș
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It's now easier than ever to collaborate with people outside your organization. Read more âș
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United is betting that it will continue to see high travel demand in the second half of 2026 as it stares down at an additional $6 billion in fuel costs. Read more âș
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Apple built a trillion-dollar business on chips it designs itself. It cannot design the ones its AI needs fast enough, so it is going shopping. The iPhone maker is hunting for AI chip acquisitions, The Information reported. In recent months it has talked to bankers about deals and approached chip startups to ask if they [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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Apple this week shared a new Advertising Services policy outlining the kinds of ads that won't be allowed in the Maps app. As noted by TechCrunch, Apple has a list of ad categories that are not permitted in Apple Maps. Home services - Ads that directly or indirectly promote home services are not allowed. That includes but is not limited to plumbing, electrical, locksmith, HVAC, pest control, roofing, and general... Read more âș
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The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war. Read more âș
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This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. If I had a nickel for every time President Donald Trump backtracked or changed course on Iran, Iâd haveâŠwell, at least enough money for a gallon of $3.89 gas. Trump has threatened attacks and [âŠ] Read more âș
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This time, SpaceX will try to correct some issues that occurred during the first flight and launch a batch of next-generation Starlink satellites. Read more âș
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Silicon Canals
Washing a mug the moment you set it down isn't about tidiness â it's a small, repeatable act of self-management that hijacks the brain's avoidance circuitry before it has a chance to fire. The psychology of why the tiniest completions carry disproportionate weight. Read more âș
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On September 1, 1859, a solar flare witnessed by Richard Carrington triggered a geomagnetic storm so powerful it lit up the tropics with auroras and let North American telegraph operators send messages using only current induced by the sky. Read more âș
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The person who has cooked the same five meals for thirty years isn't stuck in a rut. They've built something quieter and more durable: mastery of a small domain, and the self-respect that comes with it. Read more âș
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General Intuition, a startup building what it describes as a foundation model for embodied AI, has raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation on the thesis that robotics is approaching the same inflection point language AI crossed with GPT-3. The company's approach â training on millions of hours of video game data rather than real-world robot telemetry â was detailed by TechCrunch this week. Read more âș
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In 1946, six women at the Moore School of Engineering were handed the wiring diagrams for ENIAC and told to program it without manuals. The ballistic trajectory they got running became the first working software ever demonstrated on a general-purpose electronic computer â and their names were left off the press release. Read more âș
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What the IMF did not say on Wednesday matters as much as what it did. Read more âș
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In Britainâs biggest four-day-week trial, 71 percent of employees said they felt less burnt out by the end. That figure, not anything about profit or output, is the one that stands out. Whether the shorter week would hurt productivity had a fairly predictable answer. What it would do to people did not. We are writers ... Read more Read more âș
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As MIT Technology Review put it, âgenerating an image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone.â That figure came from a single study and describes one particularly heavy model, not image generation in general but a striking comparison is it. The study behind the number The figure traces ... Read more Read more âș
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Nearly three in ten American homes now contain exactly one person. In 1940 the figure was fewer than one in ten. That shift, measured across eight decades, is one of the largest changes in how the country lives, and it happened without a single defining moment to mark it. he U.S. Census Bureau put a ... Read more Read more âș
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One number from Microsoftâs June report spread fast: 275. That is how many times, on average, a worker gets interrupted in a day by a meeting, an email, or a chat notification. Spread across normal work hours, that works out to an interruption roughly every two minutes. The figure came from Microsoftâs WorkLab, which published ... Read more Read more âș
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