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Long before men’s daily thoughts about ancient Rome became a TikTok meme, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman’s mind was regularly turning toward the Roman Empire.
In the early pandemic months of 2020, he ripped through Philip Matyszak’s “24 Hours in Ancient Rome,” a book that, by his own admission, was “written for eighth graders.” Friedman went down a Roman rabbit hole, diving into Wikipedia articles about the ruins of Pompeii and learning how to bake Panis Quadratus, an ancient sourdough. But nothing piqued.
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Adobe reports $7.9 billion in online spending on Black Friday, up 8.2% from 2023, and expects final online numbers between $10.7 and $11 billion. Read more ›
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Mistral AI releases content moderation API powered by its Ministral 8B language model. The €6 billion-valued European AI startup has backing from tech giants Nvidia and Microsoft. The European artificial intelligence powerhouse Mistral AI has announced the release of its new content moderation API, marking a step in its mission to deliver sovereign AI solutions.... Read more » Read more ›
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Buy now, pay later sales on Cyber Monday are expected to reach $993 million, driven in part by mobile shopping trends. Read more ›
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Ford County, Kansas, has sued a group of nearly a dozen companies accusing them of "false representations" regarding the recyclability of plastics. Read more ›
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Here are some hints — and the answers — for Connections No. 538 for Saturday, Nov. 30. Read more ›
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Here are some hints — and the answers — for Connections: Sports Edition No. 68 for Saturday, Nov. 30. Read more ›
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Meta plans a $10 billion global underwater cable project spanning 25,000 miles, which would be solely owned by Meta, TechCrunch reported. Read more ›
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Volkswagen, Chevrolet, and Tesla buyers are heavily influenced by Federal tax incentives, according to a J.D. Power survey. Read more ›
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Elon Musk praised Apple's new hearing aid feature for AirPods, despite his rocky history with the tech giant. Read more ›
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The second-gen Apple Watch SE is a bargain at $149, so long as you don’t need the latest sensors, | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re an iPhone owner on a budget looking for a good fitness tracker right now, the latest Apple Watch SE is a great option. That’s especially true today, now that Apple’s most affordable smartwatch is available at Amazon and Walmart in... Read more ›
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Donald Trump's proposed tariffs could raise car prices, impacting US and European automakers such as General Motors, Volvo, and Jaguar Land Rover. Read more ›
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Here are some hints -- and the answers -- for the Nov. 30 Strands puzzle, No. 272. Read more ›
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly flew to Mar-a-Lago after Trump announced new tariff plans. Read more ›
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Microsoft research reveals how AI agents are transforming computer interaction through GUI control, with major tech companies racing to deploy LLM-powered automation tools worth $68.9 billion by 2028. Read more ›
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All cords lead to WIRED. Come gather to find the best Black Friday tech deals. Read more ›
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Notre Dame Cathedral is set to reopen on December 7, more than five years after a fire devastated parts of the building. Read more ›
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A little over week after Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's launch, developer GSC Game World is back with the post-apocalyptic shooter's first patch, promising over 650 fixes for Xbox and PC. Read more Read more ›
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FAA reports busiest Thanksgiving air travel yet, with 232,000 flights and minimal delays or cancellations, but potential snowstorms may disrupt plans. Read more ›
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TP-Link products always make CNET's best-of lists for smart home devices, and Black Friday is bringing some of the best prices I've seen. Read more ›
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Brightcove, which makes software to help companies create and make money from videos, agreed to be taken private by Italian mobile app operator Bending Spoons for $233 million in cash in a deal expected to close early next year, the companies announced on Monday. The purchase price Bending ... Read more ›
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Last year, the board of now-collapsed fintech startup Synapse Financial Technologies discussed whether to remove the company’s CEO, Sankaet Pathak. At the time, discrepancies in Synapse’s ledgers were piling up, which the board was aware of. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange argued in favor of keeping Pathak in the role based on the belief that founders were best placed to run their companies, according to a person close to... Read more ›
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Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, announced on Monday that he would reinstate a tax credit for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump Administration removes federal EV tax credits. But the state may not extend the credits to Tesla because of the company’s large market ... Read more ›
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If Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had its way, the chip manufacturing powerhouse would be a neutral party in the battle between the U.S. and China for technological supremacy—a semiconductor version of Switzerland, one TSMC executive told The Information. Unfortunately, the company may find it increasingly tough to avoid picking a side. Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department launched an investigation into whether TSMC was still producing chips for Chinese tech... Read more ›
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Uber announced a new service on Tuesday to help companies label their data and train artificial intelligence models. Through the new service, Scaled Solutions, Uber will hire data labelers on contract to provide companies with human-written annotations, such as descriptions of images or rankings ... Read more ›
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Apple’s desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can’t overcome a design hurdle with the slim iPhone planned for release next fall—it can’t fit a physical SIM card tray, which is required in China. Apple plans to release its slim iPhone next year, alongside new versions of its traditional models, aiming to rejuvenate iPhone sales by providing customers with a compelling reason to... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing Google’s search antitrust case warned that he doesn’t want to delay the upcoming trial of remedies to deal with Google’s illegal search monopoly, now scheduled for the spring. At a status conference for the case on Tuesday, the judge said the incoming presidential ... Read more ›
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It’s a bit early to be offering predictions for 2025, but here goes anyway. Chances are very good that sometime next year we’re going to hear a bunch of complaints about newly released Apple iPhones dropping calls more often than previous models did. In other words, we’re in for a repeat of the “Antennagate” brouhaha of 2010, when similar connectivity issues on the new iPhone 4 became a big story.Assuming... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Saturday said that the company will balance compliance with technological advancement and customer service under the incoming Trump administration. “The advancement of AI is global. Open science and open research of AI is global, and nothing can stop this,” Huang told ... Read more ›
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Ray Kurzweil’s predictions about technological advancements have intrigued—and unnerved—people for decades. At 76, he’s still quite up to the task and threw out a whopper within minutes of sitting down with me. “When we achieve AGI in the 2030s, we’re going to actually merge this intelligence with ourselves,” Kurzweil said, with utter straightforwardness. (AGI, of course, is the technical term for AI that has achieved human-level intelligence.) “It will actually... Read more ›
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