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You can no longer assume a pair of black-rimmed glasses is just prescription eyewear. As Meta AI smart glasses grow in popularity and other wearables join the race, they’re facing mounting public backlash over their hidden surveillance capabilities. Smart glasses can record, stream and process video without alerting anyone
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It may finally be safe to eat lettuce again after June’s horrifying—and bagged-salad-trust-destroying—cyclospora outbreak. But the summer of ’26’s foodborne illness train rolls on with a new rash of recalls: for salmonella. The FDA has reported multi-state salmonella bacteria outbreaks tied to jalapeños, granola, dog food,
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OS PLatforms The version that started to bring all Microsoft’s pieces together Today marks the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 becoming available on August 24, 1996. Windows NT 4.0, codenamed “Tukwila,” went on retail sale exactly 30 years ago. This was the version that started
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By Sugandha Srikanteswaran, Head of Infrastructure and Platforms, The Hartford India Software Engineers know the difference between code that works once and code that runs reliably. Demonstrating a proof of concept focusses on getting a functional or a capability ask in a proven action. A feature passes in development, behaves
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By Rajeev Singh, MD, BenQ India & South Asia For years, the boardroom sat at the centre of how organisations thought about work. Decisions got made there, and so, in a way, did hierarchy, because whoever had the clearest sightline to the screen usually ended up with the loudest voice
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By Gaurav Nigam, EVP & Business Head, NIIT Limited A fraud analyst who cannot interpret the output of an AI model may now be less employable than someone who can, even when both have the same understanding of credit and risk. That captures what is changing across banking, financial services
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By Srinivas Choudhary, Founder & CEO, Alligator Automations Artificial intelligence is quickly turning into part of the manufacturing technology stack, with uses going across predictive maintenance, quality inspection, production optimisation and energy management. But as adoption speeds up, manufacturers need to make sure that AI investments are assessed not only
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Vertiv has launched a consultant portal in India aimed at giving consulting engineers access to technical material and design resources used in planning critical digital infrastructure projects. The registration-based platform brings together technical documentation, BIM content, design tools and training resources. It also provides registered users with access to Vertiv’
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AMD has launched the AMD Client Tokenomics Calculator, a tool designed to help enterprise IT decision-makers assess the cost implications of deploying AI workloads at scale. The calculator allows organisations to compare estimated costs across cloud-only, local and hybrid deployment models based on their AI usage and infrastructure strategy. Users
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ai and ml Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work Eigen Labs, a five-year-old tech biz based in Seattle, Washington, estimates that owners of Apple Silicon hardware can earn $120 to $200 per month on average by selling idle compute power for AI inference. Gajesh
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* Sandisk's new NAS SSD lineup reaches a massive 7.68 TB capacity * The flagship NAS 800 carries an unusually high 14 PBW endurance rating * Sandisk offers SATA and PCIe 5.0 options for NAS systems Sandisk has introduced two SSD families designed specifically for network-attached storage systems, with
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Zillow and Redfin have reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and five states, ending a legal fight over a 2025 partnership that the FTC claimed hurt competition in the rental-listing market. The settlement was announced on Monday, just as the case was scheduled to head toward trial
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Manuel Mazzanti/NurPhoto via Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW August 24, 2026 04:37 PM ET The guidance directs the Transportation Department and other agencies to “implement a plan to integrate space launch and reentry management into airspace and traffic control modernization efforts.” * Transportation * FAA * Space * NASA
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Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) arrives at a House Oversight Committee closed-door interview on Capitol Hill on May 18, 2026, in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW August 24, 2026 04:29 PM ET Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., is pushing for a September markup of
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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It is the summer of salmonella, it seems. Multiple overlapping salmonella outbreaks now sprawl across at least 30 states as of late August, even as cases of prodigious-poop-causing parasite cyclospora seem to be receding. Hundreds have been sickened, and simultaneous recalls are in effect for products as diverse as eggs,
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1:16 PM PDT · August 24, 2026 You don’t need a keynote session to make noise at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Sometimes the best way to meet investors, customers, and partners is by exhibiting directly on the Expo Hall floor at San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13-15. That’
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Today’s Wordle answer features a repeated letter, but it’s a common one, so you might guess it. Read on for hints and the answer. Today’s Wordle hints Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a
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Today’s Strands puzzle might inspire you to get some exercise. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: Enjoying nature. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Put on your boots. Clue words to unlock
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Today’s NYT Connections has some enjoyable topics covering entertainment and sweet treats. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group
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Save $180: Portable power stations can be a lifesaver during outages, camping trips or long road adventures, and this EcoFlow bundle is one of the best values we’ve seen. Amazon has dropped the EcoFlow River 3 Max bundle to $319, matching its record-low price. While it’s branded as
