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I’m no fan of Hillbilly Elegy, the 2020 movie starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close, but when I picked up the book it’s based on recently, in light of rumors that its author, J.D. Vance, would be Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, I expected it to feel more substantive than its screen adaptation. At […]
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Realme showed off a prototype smartphone with a 10,000 mAh battery in May and said it would launch a 7,500 mAh battery phone this year, while also revealing that a 10,000 mAh model was coming soon. Well, so far, we've only got 7,000 mAh battery smartphones from Realme, which include the flagship GT 8 Pro. While there's no word from Realme on the commercial availability of a 10,000 mAh battery... Read more ›
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First, tech companies usurped the meaning of ‘friends’ and ‘connection’ — now they are coming for ‘companionship’ Read more ›
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Bankruptcies are suddenly everywhere, from billion-dollar giants to small businesses to individuals. Experts are stumped at the breadth of industries. Read more ›
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Samsung is best known for its world class smartphones that make the best use of the Android architecture. What are some other cool products the company makes? Read more ›
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OpenAI is reportedly still working on baking in ads into ChatGPT's results despite Altman's 'Code Red' earlier this month. Read more ›
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We might be looking at literally the most cooked RTX 5090 yet, with a burnt power connector that has melted into itself, despite using a native 12V-2x6 cable on an ATX 3.1 certified PSU. The person smelled fire, saw it, and lived to tell the tale, all on Christmas eve. 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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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1652 on December 28 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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Phoronix reports on "an exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list" proposing "a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the 'Modern Standby' functionality found with Microsoft Windows..." Modern Standby is a low-power mode on Windows 11 for letting systems remain connected to the network and appear "sleeping" but will allow for instant wake-up for notifications, music playback, and other functionality. The display... Read more ›
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An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this story from Interesting Engineering: Cybersecurity specialists from the research group DARKNAVY have demonstrated how modern humanoid robots can be compromised and weaponised through weaknesses in their AI-driven control systems. In a controlled test, the team demonstrated that a commercially available humanoid robot could be hijacked with nothing more than spoken commands, exposing how voice-based interaction can serve as an attack vector rather than a... Read more ›
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A new Windows 11 Insider update optimises File Explorer search by removing redundant indexing operations, promising faster searches, lower memory use, and a cleaner context menu. Read more ›
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For years, Samsung has made products that try to camouflage what they are by displaying works of art. The Frame TV is the most famous example, but the company also released the Music Frame, a speaker disguised as a picture frame, at last year's CES. Now, instead of hiding a speaker with a piece of […] Read more ›
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Some Japanese computer stores are limiting GPU purchases because of supply uncertainty, especially for models with 16GB of VRAM and up. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield. Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the so-called "zone-effect" weapon would seek to flood Starlink orbits with hundreds... Read more ›
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As AI data centers' power consumption puts more strain on the grid, the U.S. is trying to tackle issue by letting them draw power directly from plants instead. Read more ›
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OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness. Or, in other words, someone whose primary job is to think about all the ways AI could go horribly, horribly wrong. In a post on X, Sam Altman announced the position by acknowledging that the rapid improvement of AI models poses "some real challenges." Read more ›
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The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant "was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986," CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities "have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant," reports CNN, "which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster." Despite nerves from many local residents, the Niigata prefectural assembly, home to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, approved a bill... Read more ›
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It's called 'Superhero,' based on Nelson's own experiences within the genre, and it's out now for you to read. Read more ›
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The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a meaningful limit on Trump’s authority on Tuesday. In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump rang in Christmas Day by ordering airstrikes against two ISIS camps in Nigeria. The strikes, involving more than a dozen Tomahawk missiles fired from a Navy ship, came shortly after Trump vowed retaliation against ISIS, which allegedly carried out deadly attacks against US troops and civilians around the world last week. But […] Read more ›
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The Supreme Court for much of the last several decades has been a fairly technocratic body. The Court, to be sure, has handed down its share of historic cases: Case names like Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Roe v. Wade (1973) are familiar to most Americans, but such highly political and culturally salient […] Read more ›
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There is no better window into the soul of America’s striving professional class than LinkedIn, a site that this year often seemed less like a networking platform than an extended group therapy session. To doomscroll through it was to encounter one post after another about the barren landscape for job hunters — laments about resumes silently […] Read more ›
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After a successful 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance came into the White House ready to shake things up, support President Donald Trump at all costs, and post whatever he wanted online. But what does Vance — the former “never Trump” conservative who has maneuvered, at least for now, into the position of MAGA heir […] Read more ›
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This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. I wasn’t always a boring newsroom-bound editor. Back in my days as a Time magazine foreign correspondent, I used to fly to far-flung places, recorder and notebook in hand. That’s how, […] Read more ›
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2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of redditors submitting reasons why 2025 was, in the words of the first post, “a long, disappointing year.” War in Gaza, vibecessions, chaos in the White House, growing […] Read more ›
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It’s been a rough year if you care about climate change policy in the United States. In Washington, the second Trump administration has moved quickly to dismantle the scaffolding of federal climate action: pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement (again), freezing or clawing back clean energy funding, fast-tracking fossil fuel projects, and even […] Read more ›
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Is CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss censoring critical coverage of the Trump administration to please the network’s billionaire backers and the president himself? It’s the crisis many have anticipated since Weiss — a center-right provocateur known for her outspoken criticism of “wokeness” and support for Israel — was appointed atop CBS News in October. And […] Read more ›
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2025 is ending much as it began: with President Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland. On Sunday, Trump appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland with the goal, as Landry put it, “to make Greenland a part of the US.” Though the territory has been moving gradually toward greater independence, Greenland […] Read more ›
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