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Walk into a Sunglass Hut, try on a pair of Ray-Bans, consider the Oakleys next to them, glance at a Prada frame, and pay using your EyeMed vision insurance. That feels like four separate choices. It is closer to one. The frames, the brands, the shop and the insurer all belong to a single company, ... Read more
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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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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Australia will require large data centers powering artificial intelligence to generate as much power as they consume, and ensure that creative professionals retain control over work that may be used to train A.I. systems, as the government sets up guardrails over the rapidly growing industry. The announcements on Wednesday in a speech by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came as... Read more ›
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The Canton Network infrastructure provider will contribute to a Japanese megabank consortium studying on-chain settlement of tokenised government bonds. Read more ›
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This weekend's Netflix watchlist features an apocalyptic animated comedy, a haunting Icelandic mystery, and a true story crime thriller, all critically acclaimed and underrated. Read more ›
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The power button isn't just for turning off your phone anymore. Here's everything it can do. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1855 on July 18 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck. Read more ›
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Vehicles built for the Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) are popular among collectors and gearheads, but several cars people think are JDM may actually not be. Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Эдуард. В прошлой статье я рассказывал про локальный переводчик и синтез голоса на кабардинском. С тех пор проект вырос: я делаю приложение на iOS для чтения с синтезом и распознаванием речи на кабардинском и ещё паре десятков «обделённых» языков. Чтобы приложение было умным (ранжировало важные предложения, искало по смыслу, вело чат по книге, читало с выразительной интонацией), ему нужен полный набор языковых сигналов: лемма, часть речи,... Read more ›
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The SF mayor sent a letter to state regulators asking that AV companies stop "relying on live events to test unproven operational capabilities." Read more ›
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Netflix is seeing big drop-offs in viewing figures between successive series, and there are several reasons why. Read more ›
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Google used live stadium capture, and combined it with archival material to bring Pele's legendary goal to life. The Veo video engine, Gemini Omni, and Nano Banana Pro AI tools tagged alongside in the journey to revive a lost marvel. Read more ›
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O2 sensors help gauge whether the engine is running with too much fuel or air. Here's how much you can expect to pay when it's time to replace them. Read more ›
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The AI industry’s ability to self regulate appears to be under threat from a public perception that companies like Anthropic are untrustworthy. Read more ›
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"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's Woz Ed foundation is partnering with Realbotix, best known for their RealDoll-branded artificial companions, to deploy AI-powered robotic tutors in classrooms," writes Slashdot reader Hentes. "The doll will serve as a sort of artificial teaching assistant, helping students who get stuck or generating lessons. Students will be assigned an ID code, allowing the robot to provide personalized mentoring." NYS Focus reports: "This deployment in a working... Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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In 1991, Cambridge computer scientists Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky pointed a grayscale camera at a coffee pot outside the Trojan Room to spare themselves three flights of stairs — and accidentally built the world's first webcam. Here's how a 128×128 pixel workaround for a mundane annoyance turned into the template for every livestream on the planet. Read more ›
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We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is our reading of a pair of recent studies, not advice about your own screen habits or wellbeing. The research described here is observational and correlational, and population-level patterns are not diagnoses or predictions about any individual reader. In March 2025, OpenAI and ... Read more Read more ›
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The New York Times and Daily News have accused OpenAI of concealing internal tools capable of searching its training data and ChatGPT conversation logs for copyrighted material, escalating a copyright battle that could reshape the economics of generative AI. The plaintiffs are now asking the court to sanction OpenAI for allegedly obstructing discovery. Read more ›
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The 1989 geomagnetic storm is remembered as Quebec's nine-hour blackout. The more revealing casualty was a transformer at Salem nuclear station in New Jersey, quietly destroyed the same night — a warning about how solar storms actually damage a modern grid. Read more ›
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The twenty-minute parking lot pause looks like poor time management. It is actually a self-engineered threshold ritual — a small, defended pocket of autonomy in a day otherwise structured by other people's demands. Read more ›
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There is a familiar misreading of quiet people in loud rooms. They are assumed to be hesitant, under-confident, uninterested, or simply not pushing themselves hard enough. But the person who does their best thinking alone and feels emptied out after a long stretch of socialising may not be falling short of the room. They may ... Read more Read more ›
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In 1991, two researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory pointed a grey-scale camera at a coffee jug to save themselves a wasted trip down the stairs — and accidentally built the world's first webcam, watched by 2.4 million people before it was switched off in 2001. Read more ›
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Roughly 300 million people live along the Sahel, the semi-arid belt on the Sahara's southern edge where rainfall is scarce, soils are thin, and a single failed harvest cascades into crisis because there is almost no safety net to catch it. Read more ›
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The African Union's Great Green Wall is meant to run 8,000 kilometres from Senegal's Atlantic coast to Djibouti's Red Sea shore — a belt of restored land long enough to cross the continental United States twice. Nearly two decades in, only a fraction has actually taken root, and the project has quietly redefined what a wall of trees can be. Read more ›
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My dad spent the better part of forty years walking into the same office. When he finally retired, we threw him the dinner, made the toasts, and told him he’d earned every slow morning coming his way. He smiled and agreed. Six months later he was one of the loneliest men I knew, and he ... Read more Read more ›
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