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Everyone wants the story to be about AI. AI is replacing seats. AI is collapsing pricing. AI is eating the workflow. There’s truth in all of it, and we write about it here every week. But after the month we just had with one of our own vendors, I’m convinced the bigger story is t

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Building Worlds That Train Robots Real-to-sim-to-real (R2S2R) as a scalable engine for training and evaluating robot policies America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Today, we’re excited to be publishing an excerpt from Dr. Fei-Fei Li’s recent blogpost “Building Worlds That T

GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS Plug-and-play convenience for an advanced mod. Limits on the amount of VRAM on Nvidia's consumer GPUs have forced

With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our relationship to technology, partnering along the way with players like Andrew Yang, Kendrick Lamar, and Pete Davidson. Now, with a new flip phone and a growing wave

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Amazon Pushes Virginia to Let AI Data Centers Fund Their Own Grid Upgrades Amazon urged Virginia regulators to allow hyperscalers to fund transmission via CIAC, igniting debate over who pays for AI-driven grid growth in PJM. Amazon urged Virginia regulators during hearings this m

China’s Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe opened a $400 million lithium sulfate processing plant, part of efforts by African governments to capture more of the added value in mining industries. The plant, just outside Harare, is now fully operational, months after the government froze th

S&P Global said it will take a majority stake in Nigeria’s oldest credit ratings agency, expanding the financial data company’s ground presence in Africa amidst a growing clamor for better assessments of the continent’s realities. As one of the big three ratings agencies, alongsi

Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on the Greek island of Crete, has neither. Line

Travel distribution platform TBO Tek reported an 81.2% year-on-year growth in its operating revenue for the first quarter of FY27, while its profit increased 31.7% during the same period. The company’s revenue from operations rose to Rs 926 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 511 crore in Q

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NVIDIA and more than 35 founding partners have launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, an initiative focused on developing open-source tools, models, agent frameworks, and security technologies for AI systems. The membership is notable as much for who is absent as who signed on: Mi

Testing laptops on battery and AC power — Comparing Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, and AMD Do you get the same performance on a plug and on battery? Sometimes! When you use a laptop, you might assume that it will always perform the same, whether you use it while plugged in or unplugged.

Teacher arrested for clapping in support of opposition at an AI data center meeting — gigawatt-scale project gets approved anyway despite community resistance Is clapping politely disruptive enough to get you arrested? Police from Emporia, Kansas, arrested a teacher for applaudin

The Scoop When researchers asked a question about Uyghur detention camps in China, one of DeepSeek’s open-source AI models claimed there was no evidence they existed. When they asked an AI model created, or distilled, from that DeepSeek open-source model the same question, it sai

DoorDash is building a drone delivery business, including its own aircraft, as part of an effort developed by its robotics and autonomy team, which will eventually operate within the company’s delivery app. The company unveiled the new business, called DoorDash Air, after receivi

Tom's Hardware Verdict MSI’s Cubi NUC AI+3MG offers a quiet, compact computing experience with easily upgradable RAM and storage. However, its $2,000 price is very expensive, and the iGPU doesn't allow for gaming alongside your office work. Pros - +Compact, understated design -

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The US and Iran traded strikes after days of uneasy peace, raising fears of fresh escalation. Tehran’s “surprise” ballistic missile attack on US forces in Jordan was the first assault since Friday; hours later, the US and Saudi Arabia launched joint attacks on Iranian-backed mili

Tim Cook's final earnings call as Apple CEO takes place the same week the iPhone maker touched a $5 trillion market cap and surpassed Nvidia as the world's most valuable company. But there's no time to celebrate. Even with the stock trading at a record price and up 25% this year,

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How to buy second-hand PC hardware without getting scammed — essential rules of engagement for finding used parts and machines in an inflated market Avoid scams, scams, and even more scams. In one year, the entire market for owning or building a PC has changed considerably. The A

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon

Aluminum has left an indelible mark on the world — more than 3 billion tons of red mud, a waste product of the refining process, are currently stored in open-air ponds or mounds. But to Sumedh Gostu, co-founder and CEO of Fast Metals, there’s treasure in the caustic waste. “It is

Memory maker SK hynix's profit rises 557% amid global shortage, expansion costs climb to $27 billion — shares slide despite mammoth earnings as expectations outpace reality and global AI selloffs continue Q3 DRAM bit shipments are guided up around 10%, one quarter after average s

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls

The News Zambians will vote next month in a test for the southern African region’s most closely watched economic recovery, facing the twin pressures of emergency power imports and expanded parliamentary map that threaten to complicate the nation’s reform path. President Hakainde

Three US states to deploy 60mph drones armed with pepper spray to neutralize school shooters — ‘Campus Guardian Angel’ drones can also smash windows and ram attackers Anti-shooter system coming to at least three states this year. The drone arms race is set to enter U.S. schools w

How to look better on webcam — tips for the average person to look better and more professional You don't need to be a professional streamer, but you also shouldn't look like a MySpace teen from the 90s. You don't need a professional streaming setup to take work video calls and c

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