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This week, we're looking back at our hellish 2024 and trying to figure out where to go from here. We began the year with enormous hype around artificial intelligence, but that's cooled off after seeing how useless many AI features have been. It's also clear that many companies, including Microsoft and Apple, are trying to push half-baked AI concepts onto users. Looking forward, we're expecting a rough few years for the tech industry (not to mention the world as a whole).
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The Japan Transport Safety Board released a report on Wednesday addressing the January 2 collision at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. Read more ›
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Former Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer told BI that automakers ditching EVs for hybrids risked falling even further behind their Chinese rivals. Read more ›
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David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult star in the upcoming DC film, out July 11. Read more ›
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xAI, which is set to build a supercomputer with 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, raises $6 billion. Read more ›
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I've had iOS 18 on my iPhone for a few months now, and one of my favorite new features is RCS messaging. Here's why. Read more ›
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United Airlines' share price more than doubled this year. A broad network, strong finances, and coming fleet refresh are among the reasons why. Read more ›
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Lel Smits and her husband invest one day's salary for each of her children every Christmas. She is committed to teaching them financial literacy. Read more ›
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A huge bombardment of energy infrastructure that has knocked out power in parts of Ukraine was deliberately planned for Christmas day, Zelenskyy said. Read more ›
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Satellites and chunks of space junk come close to colliding on a regular basis. The situation could get dangerously out of control. Read more ›
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Hit the ground running in 2025 with the ultimate collection of productivity apps for Windows and save a staggering 72% during this StackSocial deal. Read more ›
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Here is how organizations can strengthen defenses against Interlock ransomware targeting FreeBSD servers. Read more ›
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Software development is entering an "autopilot era" with AI coding assistants, but the industry needs to prepare for full autonomy, argues former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. Drawing parallels with self-driving cars, he suggests the role of software engineers will evolve from code authors to operators of code-generating machines. Taylor, a board member of OpenAI and who once rewrote Google Maps over a weekend, calls for new programming systems, languages, and... Read more ›
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Kopite has spilled the beans of Nvidia's RTX 5070 family; detailing CUDA core counts, VRAM capacities and TDPs. Read more ›
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Jaymes O'Pheron is a Fargo-based entrepreneur who has lived in Washington, Texas, Ireland, and North Dakota. His favorite spot might surprise you. Read more ›
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Whether you work with media for your job or just want to make that family Christmas photo a little bigger, being able to resize an image is incredibly useful. Read more ›
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Russia's economy will be under major strain in 2025, economists told BI. One said stagnation was similar to the USSR at the start of the 1980s. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images This year showed that a roguelike can be almost anything. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more ›
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Netflix hooked viewers with the mystery of "Fool Me Once," and stoked controversy with "Baby Reindeer." Read more ›
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Lawyers for Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, have questioned his ability to stand trial in a federal sex trafficking case. Read more ›
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Honda and Nissan have officially confirmed rumors that they're pursuing a merger, the companies wrote in a joint press release. Each would continue to operate under its own brand, but with a new joint holding company as parent. If Nissan-controlled Mitsubishi also came on board, the combined group would become the world's third largest automaker by sales volume and have a net worth of up to $50 billion. "Today marks... Read more ›
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Elon Musk's X has hiked prices for its ad-free Premium+ subscription service to $22 a month, up from $16 before ($168 to $229 annually), TechCrunch reported. That represents a 37.5 percent increase, the largest since Elon Musk purchased the platform previously known as Twitter back in 2022. One stated reason for the hike is that Premium+ is now "completely ads-free," with X claiming that it's a "significant enhancement" to the... Read more ›
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The pornographic website PornHub is adding Florida to its list of states to block starting next year. Gizmodo reported that Floridians who visited the porn website recently were greeted with a warning that says “You will lose access to PornHub in 14 days” thanks to a new state law that requires an ID to visit the website. PornHub has already blocked a number of states from accessing its wealth of... Read more ›
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If you're traveling for the holidays today, I hope you're not flying on American Airlines. As of this morning, the airline said on X that all of its flights were currently grounded, with no current time table for when flights will resume. As The Verge notes, a notice posted by the Federal Aviation Administration confirms that there is a "nationwide groundstop" for all AA flights; it also says that this... Read more ›
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ChatGPT is now available on WhatsApp. Starting today, if you add 1 (800) ChatGPT to your contacts — that's 1 (800) 242-8478 — you can start using the chatbot over Meta's messaging app. In this iteration, ChatGPT is limited to text-only input, so there's no Advanced Voice Mode or visual input on offer, but you still get all the smarts of the o1-mini model. What's more, over WhatsApp ChatGPT is... Read more ›
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Movie icon and super spy James Bond seemed to be on another rise to the top of the box office just a few years ago, but things have been almost as quiet as a shot from a Walther PPK with a silencer ever since then. Daniel Craig took on the role in 2006 with Casino Royale and passed the baton with 2021’s No Time to Die in one of the... Read more ›
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Lilium, a company working on flying taxis that can take off and land vertically, has ceased operations. As TechCrunch notes, German media Gründerszene was the first publication to report that it laid off 1,000 workers a few days ago after it failed to secure more financing to continue its technology's development. Patrick Nathen, the company's co-founder, has announced that the company has stopped all operations on LinkedIn. Tagging his co-founders,... Read more ›
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A new report published by the child safety groups Heat Initiative and ParentsTogether Action details the alarming presence of inappropriate apps that are rated as suitable for children as young as four years old on Apple’s App Store. The groups worked with a researcher to review as many apps as possible in the span of 24 hours, and say they ultimately identified over 200 apps that contained “concerning content or... Read more ›
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It looks like Meta is preparing to add displays to its popular line of Ray-Ban smart glasses, according to a report by Financial Times. These screens could show up in a future iteration of the device as early as next year. The likely release window is the second half of 2025. According to folks familiar with Meta’s plans, the screens will be on the smaller side and will likely be... Read more ›
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This week, we're looking back at our hellish 2024 and trying to figure out where to go from here. We began the year with enormous hype around artificial intelligence, but that's cooled off after seeing how useless many AI features have been. It's also clear that many companies, including Microsoft and Apple, are trying to push half-baked AI concepts onto users. Looking forward, we're expecting a rough few years for... Read more ›
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