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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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ETH Zurich's new quantum chip stores data the way a guitar stores a note, using vibrations, with a simple caveat: it can play several notes at the same time Read more ›
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Google and Epic Games this week withdrew their joint settlement agreement after it became clear the court was unlikely to allow it. With the settlement out, Google is bound by a permanent injunction issued in October 2024 requiring it to allow alternative app stores on Android devices. In a court filing [PDF], Google said that it plans to begin supporting alternative app stores on July 22. In a statement to... Read more ›
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Are the Collison brothers looking to spice up their life? According to Reuters and other news outlets, the Collisons’ payments firm, Stripe, has teamed up with private equity firm Advent to make a $53 billion acquisition offer for PayPal. While the aging payments firm has lost the plot in recent years, this is not exactly a generous offer. Though it’s pitched well above PayPal’s recent rock-bottom price, it’s below where... Read more ›
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Skullcandy's new flagship Crusher 1080 headphones blend Bose audio and big bass. Read more ›
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Skullcandy’s audio products aren’t exactly known for their stellar audio quality or noise cancellation, but its latest headphones are getting an assist from Bose to turn things around. Read more ›
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Skullcandy announced a new version of its Crusher wireless headphones today featuring a few of Bose's audio technologies including its QuietControl ANC and head-tracking spatial audio. The Crusher headphone line differentiates itself from the competition through the use of both full-range and dedicated bass drivers in each ear cup to boost deeper frequencies. Skullcandy admits […] Read more ›
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There are three technologies in the Crusher 1080 ANC that have never been in a non-Bose pair of wireless headphones before. Read more ›
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The Skullcandy Crusher 1080 feature three Bose-made tools in a non-Bose headphone for the first time (and without the Bose price tag) Read more ›
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Kevin O'Leary went on several news programs, including Fox News, and accused some critics of his Stratos data center project of being foreign agents. Read more ›
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If you're headed out on the road or into the wilderness, one of these tools could make the difference between a relaxing getaway and a weekend-long hassle. Read more ›
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The Pentagon seeks a cheaper long-range drone after costly MQ-9 losses raised concerns about future battlefield sustainability and affordability. Read more ›
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Mac users should watch out for macOS malware called CrashStealer, according to Jamf Threat Labs. The malware impersonates Apple's crash reporting framework, and it's meant to steal all kinds of sensitive information. CrashStealer collects browser data, password manager data, cryptocurrency wallet extensions, and keychain data, and Jamf first noticed it circulating in a fake Apple-notarized app called Werkbit. With notarization, the malware is not stopped by Gatekeeper, which is part... Read more ›
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Cellular iPads purchased from Apple can now be paid off over three years, making the company’s higher tablet prices easier to manage. Read more ›
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Anthropic is in talks with banks to arrange credit lines worth a few billions of dollars in a move that would increase its access to cash ahead of a planned initial public offering this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The new loans would build on the $2.5 billion, five-year revolving credit facility Anthropic received last year from banks. Companies often expand that type of capacity ahead of... Read more ›
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Roughly 100 wildfires are raging out of control in Ontario, sending smoke streaming more than 1,000 miles from their origin. Read more ›
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Fuel cost United 84% more than normal in the past three months as the war raged on. Read more ›
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Nvidia on Wednesday released a new small, open-source model for “physical” AI that operates in the real world, including for robots. The model, Cosmos 3 Edge, is just 4 billion parameters and can run on a customer’s own computer rather than in a data center. It can act as both a so-called vision ... Read more ›
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Major publishers Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow have sued Google, accusing it of using millions of copyrighted books to train Gemini without permission or payment, in "one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history." The Guardian reports: The publishers argue that Google repurposed books that had been supplied for limited services such as Google Books, Google Play Books and Google Scholar. Those services allowed Google... Read more ›
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Silicon Canals
Washing a mug the moment you set it down isn't about tidiness — 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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 — training on millions of hours of video game data rather than real-world robot telemetry — was detailed by TechCrunch this week. Read more ›
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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 — and their names were left off the press release. Read more ›
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What the IMF did not say on Wednesday matters as much as what it did. Read more ›
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In Britain’s 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 ›
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As MIT Technology Review put it, “generating an image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone.” 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 ›
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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 ›
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One number from Microsoft’s 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 Microsoft’s WorkLab, which published ... Read more Read more ›
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