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Wednesday January 8, 2025. 08:50 PM
Is Collins' Pocket Interpreters: France (1937 edition) the most pessimistic phrasebook ever published? What was meant as a practical tool for British tourists instead became an accidental masterpiece of travel anxiety literature, suggesting that a trip to France was less...
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Columbian police arrested Kevin Orlando Arias Forero for allegedly murdering two people in April 2024. Forero had been on the wanted list for months. Why did it take authorities so long to nab him? According to Forero, he had the assistance of a 'diabolical goblin' in...
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D-Wave, Rigetti, others plummet nearly 50% after Huang says the obvious CES The quantum computing industry seems to be just as delicate as the qubits it relies on. Shares in some publicly traded QC companies saw steep declines today, following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's CES...
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The latest crop of AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi listen to your conversations to help organize your life. They are also normalizing embedded microphones that are always on.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: It looks like Samsung is finally ready to roll out a paid subscription for its AI-powered smartphones, but it might not look like what we were expecting. According to ETNews, Samsung Electronics vice chair Han Jong-hee has confirmed that...
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Dramatic video circulating online shows two men and a dog staring out of wall-to-ceiling windows in their Los Angeles home as raging fire surrounds them. (See video below, posted by Mike Sington.) With not enough context or news sources (besides TMZ), it's not clear why the...
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Apple is currently facing criticism after its AI-based news summarizing tool misrepresented information reported by reliable news sources including BBC News and The New York Times and sent inaccurate warnings to iPhone users. Media groups have requested that the tool,...
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The Sequoia OpenPGP library has been in development for some time. LWN covered the library in 2020. Now the project's command-line interface has been released. The sq tool offers a promising alternative to the venerable GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) tool — albeit one with a...
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Cybersecurity company Eset is now urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 or another operating system well in advance of Oct. 14, 2025, when support for Windows 10 ends. into”It’s about five to twelve minutes to avoid a security fiasco in 2025,” Eset...
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By abandoning fact-checkers and loosening its Hateful Conduct policy, Meta has made clear the future it wants for its platforms.
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Generative AI (GenAI) tools produce original text and image content from user prompts by learning from the massive datasets on which their AI models and neural networks are trained. With a number of generative AI apps available to consumers today, you have more options than...
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When John Mills got caught in the path of California's Wallbridge Fire in 2020, the off-the-grid tech entrepreneur realized the chaos of trying to gather critical wildfire information could be deadly. His solution? Watch Duty — a free app to stay ahead of advancing flames. ...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: As music sales and streaming revenue reaches a high of $3 billion -- the highest since 2001, not accounting for significant inflation -- the UK video game market, which has grown almost continually for decades, has shrunk by 4.4%. The...
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Computers get clogged with digital “stuff” over time, and while we all like to think we’re good at managing all that D-detritus, there’s somehow never quite enough time to clean things up. If you’re new to the Mac, or even if you’ve used an Apple computer for...
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CES 2025 hasn’t even kicked off yet, but thanks to AMD, we’re already getting a glimpse of what’s to come: the next generation of PC gaming handhelds. AMD announced that its hotly anticipated Ryzen Z2 processor is ready to rock after first revealing the chip at...
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The folks at Zero Breeze don’t think air conditioning should just be an indoor phenomenon. Why shouldn’t we enjoy cool air when we’re out barbecuing on our backyard decks or even on while tent-camping far from an AC outlet? So, the company unveiled its Zero Breeze Mark ...
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RUN/STOP Fitness app Garmin Connect got knocked down but got up again, after an unexplained outage that left fitness extroverts flummoxed.…
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The Tor Project has published a review of major milestones from 2024, including merging with the Tails project, work to enable human-friendly.onion addresses, and the launch of WebTunnel: By mimicking common internet protocols, WebTunnel improves the resilience of the Tor...
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Satechi has introduced the SM3 Slim Mechanical Backlit Bluetooth Keyboard, offering users a full-size typing solution that supports both Mac and Windows systems. The keyboard features a sleek aluminum enclosure, a 108-key layout with a numeric keypad, and low-profile brown...
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Scientists have discovered a crucial mechanism behind one of sleep's most vital functions — cleaning toxins from the brain. The process relies on a rhythmic cycle of vessel squeezing and relaxing, driven by pulses of norepinephrine during deep sleep. Researchers at the...
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