Nearly two years ago, Framework announced one of the most ambitious laptops ever live on a San Francisco stage. On February 25th, it’s promising “an even bigger set of announcements,” and that it’ll show “everything that we’ve been working on for the last two years.” What could that mean? Well, the modular repairable gadget company […] Read more ›
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On Tuesday, Shopify shut down the Yeezy store run by Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) after it listed shirts with swastikas for sale. Ye advertised the site in a commercial shown during the Super Bowl on Sunday. It previously sold things like sneakers and t-shirts, but on Monday, the only item for sale was […] Read more ›
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BuzzFeed plans on launching a new social platform “built specifically to spread joy and enable playful creative expression.” In a blog post published on Tuesday, BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti highlights the “growing discontent” with platforms using AI-driven algorithms to keep users glued to their screens, adding that BuzzFeed’s social network would use AI […] Read more ›
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When it comes to improving the sustainability of consumer electronics, there’s a growing movement to design devices with a focus on upgradability and repairability that can extend their longevity, instead of just making them easier to recycle after a few years of use. At one time, nearly every laptop maker was caught up in a […] Read more ›
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DeepSeek is shaking up the AI industry with cost-efficient large language models it claims can perform just as well as rivals from giants like OpenAI and Meta. The Chinese startup says its flagship R1 reasoning model is capable of achieving “performance comparable” to OpenAI’s o1 equivalent, while the newly released Janus Pro multimodal AI model […] Read more ›
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Apple has released iOS 18 — plus iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and other new updates — bringing several key updates to how the company’s devices operate and setting the stage for generative AI features. The most discussed feature of iOS 18 is the Apple Intelligence suite. With the release of iOS 18.2 on […] Read more ›
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A new set of leaked Pixel 9A renders appears to confirm months of rumors that Google is virtually ditching the camera bump this year. The images, published by Android Headlines, also show the phone in four colors — black (Obsidian), white (Porcelain), pink (Peony), and purple (Iris) — will look like. Smartphones that lay flat […] Read more ›
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Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the software benefits of the […] Read more ›
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Ninja just announced a new ice cream maker that does something its existing Creami model can’t: make soft serve. The Ninja Swirl packs the option to create both regular scooped ice cream and softer swirls, and, like the original Creami, it’s versatile enough to create frozen yogurt and other variants too. Because the Swirl is […] Read more ›
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Kickstarter will start notifying supporters when a fundraising campaign faces “significant fulfillment failures” and breaks the platform’s rules. The notification will also inform supporters how it’s addressing the issue, including by “restricting the creator from launching future projects.” The update comes as part of a series of changes Kickstarter plans to make this year that […] Read more ›
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Wish there was a magic wand for quickly covering up your grays? L’Oreal’s Colorsonic might be as close as it gets, and today, it’s a little more affordable thanks to the skincare company’s latest promo. For a limited time, you pick it up directly from L’Oreal Paris for $99 ($25 off), which matches its lowest […] Read more ›
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Unity has been hit with another round of layoffs. This is according to posts on LinkedIn from recently laid off staff and confirmed by reporting from Game Developer and 80.lvl. According to reports, employees were notified via emails sent out at 5 AM local time, while the layoffs affect a number of different teams within […] Read more ›
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Samsung’s SmartTags trackers and Galaxy Find network offer similar functionality to Apple’s AirTags and Find My network, including precision finding using ultra wideband (UWB) radios. The downside is that they only work with Samsung Galaxy devices. A free open-source app called uTag (short for Universal Tag), developed by Kieron Quinn, lets Samsung’s SmartTags trackers work […] Read more ›
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Unity, a company that makes a suite of video game development tools, has recently sparked a major controversy in the industry after announcing changes to its pricing model. Under the new model, Unity plans to charge developers on a per-install basis after certain revenue and game download thresholds are met. Sentiment regarding the new pricing […] Read more ›
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Motorola has teamed up with Paris Hilton to release a limited-edition version of the Razr Plus. It’s exactly what you expect: pink, pricey ($1,199.99 to be exact, $200 more than the standard model), and comes with a custom baby pink vegan leather case that looks like a teeny handbag. It even includes an alternative sparkly […] Read more ›
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AI chatbots struggle with factual inaccuracies and distortions when summarizing news stories, research from the BBC has found. The study, which examined whether OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity can accurately summarize news, found more than half of all the AI-generated output had “significant issues of some form.” As part of the study, […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump wants to make America incandescent again. He posted on his social media platform Truth Social that he plans to end Biden-era standards for lightbulbs that accelerated the adoption of LED lighting. According to that post, he’ll direct his appointee Lee Zeldin to “go back to the common sense standards,” for lightbulbs. Zeldin […] Read more ›
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The Witcher is in a period of transition right now. While the live-action TV series is shifting to a new lead actor in the role of Geralt as it approaches its finale, the next game will switch things up even more, with Ciri as the protagonist. These are huge changes for the fantasy franchise. And […] Read more ›
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Updating a newer iPhone, iPad, or Mac to the latest software could have an unintended side effect of re-enabling Apple Intelligence. Users who turned off Apple’s AI features in iOS / iPadOS 18.3 or macOS 15.3 — the first set of updates to enable the features by default — have reported that the software suite […] Read more ›
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Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that […] Read more ›
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