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AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” dinky country renditions of The Weeknd, and monotonous Motown reimaginings of AC/DC. Now, a new tool from S

Journalist and author Steven Rosenbaum has more reasons than most to distrust AI. His new book, The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, is all about “how Truth is being bent, blurred, and synthesized” thanks to the “pressure of fast-moving, profit-driven AI.” Yet a New York

SpaceX may have stolen the show with its IPO prospectus, but Elon Musk’s aerospace-AI-data center company wasn’t the only notable business to file to go public this week. On Thursday, Finnish smart ring company Oura said that it had confidentially submitted a Form S-1 to the U.S.

Nvidia's earnings on Wednesday capped off another big earnings season for the tech sector. The chip giant reported another blockbuster quarter, with revenue surging 85% to $82 billion. It also unveiled an $80 billion share buyback program and raised its dividend. Investors, as is

AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development — "There is still a lot of human guidance" says Berkley researcher Automated analysis and design, powered by AI, could help the chip design process… with caveats.

Huxe, an app created by former NotebookLM developers that let users put in a prompt and generate a podcast or a podcast series about a topic, is shutting down. The announcement comes a day after Spotify released a personal podcast feature that works similarly. The company said th

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Tom's Hardware Verdict The Nitro 65 offers strong gaming and middling productivity performance that doesn’t quite justify is $2,000+ price tag. Pros - + Attractive case design - + Gaming performance on par with peers - + Minimal bloatware - + Wi-Fi 7 included standard Cons - - Av

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Texas Powers Past Virginia in Global Data Center Rankings Dallas, West Texas, and Austin-San Antonio climbed Cushman’s global rankings as AI infrastructure chases power and land. Dallas has overtaken Northern Virginia as the world’s top primary data center market, according to Cu

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AI Inference Pulls Infrastructure Back into Metro Data Centers Mathpix’s Brooklyn GPU deployment highlights how production AI workloads are driving new demand for urban colocation infrastructure. New York City is not where the AI infrastructure boom was supposed to happen. Over t

A new sports competition featuring Olympic medalists will take place in Las Vegas on Sunday. The twist? The competitors can take performance-enhancing drugs. The Enhanced Games, dubbed the "Steroid Olympics," will see 42 athletes compete across swimming, track and weightlifting.

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Best Buy shaves $700 off the amazing 49-inch Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 — The ultimate gaming monitor for your setup with superfast 240Hz refresh rate Treat yourself to this rather large and luxurious monitor for your gaming and or work setup. You can use this ultrawide monitor to c

Top medical groups are outraged and alarmed that anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired two leaders of an influential panel that makes recommendations and sets insurance coverage for preventive care—such as mammograms, colonoscopies, statin use, and depress

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Welcome to Edition 8.42 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX nearly launched its Starship rocket on Thursday amid much pomp and circumstance in South Texas, only to be foiled by a ground system issue. Such delays are to be expected, with almost entirely new hardware on both the rocket an

Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some workers eligible for average annual bonuses of $340,000. Samsung’s memory chip employees negotiated $340,000 bonuses this ye

Do Data Centers Really Boost Property Values? A Closer Look A 2025 George Mason University study found homes near data centers had higher values. But does this trend hold true everywhere? Data centers have been criticized for making a lot of noise, straining power and water suppl

Imagine the life of a federal judge in the Southern District of Florida back in 2005. On Monday, you hold a hearing on contested legislation. On Tuesday, you rule in a national security case. But on Wednesday—bah, there’s just something about Wednesday—you have to spend a sunny d

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A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the cybersecurity world with its insidious threat of turning any innocent application into a d