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Highlights * Android 17 arrives on Pixel phones today * Google launches Wear OS 7 with Live Updates and a battery life boost * The 9 biggest new features in Android 17 * Android foldables are getting new gamepad controls.Pixel foldables get the new feature first, which is being added to Android 17
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On Wednesday morning, workers poured hydrogen peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC. The treatment is the latest attempt by the Interior Department to control an algae bloom that has turned the pool bright green, despite President Donald Trump's costly renovation to make it “American
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A security researcher said she was able to access several internal FIFA platforms due to a simple security flaw, which allowed her to watch and have full control of the TV stream of every World Cup game. The researcher, who goes by BobDaHacker, said she simply registered as a player
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next major computing platform won’t be a phone at all. To power
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Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is being transformed under the leadership of new CEO Asha Sharma. The company is rethinking all aspects of its business as it attempts to reinvigorate the Xbox brand in preparation for the launch of its next generation console, currently dubbed Project Helix. A snippet of
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This lets people order a Gateway modem at sign-up, which can be delivered within hours. Comcast Xfinity just started offering same-day Wi-Fi for new customers, ending the tyranny of waiting a day or two. These customers can receive one of the company's Gateway modem/router hybrid units on
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As OpenAI files SEC paperwork ahead of an expected initial public stock offering, newly leaked financial documents show a company with quickly growing revenues that are currently being overwhelmed by even larger expenses. The audited financial statements, obtained by independent journalist Ed Zitron, show OpenAI’s reported revenue growing from
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SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. It comes just two days after SpaceX’s unprecedented IPO and a few months after the merger of SpaceX and xAI, which
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The EDF report also tracked a sharp uptick in gas projects. “[T]otal planned and under construction natural gas capacity rose from 44.8 GW in Q4 2025 to 65.5 GW by the end of Q1 2026, an increase of 20.7 GW,” its authors wrote, more than four
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Slim Pixelings Pixels will get their OTA in the coming weeks, but don’t expect monumental changes. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Android 17 has been in testing since early this year, with the final beta hitting devices just a couple of weeks ago. Insofar as a mature operating system like Android
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AI did my homework Pentagon turns to AI shortcut for congressionally mandated reporting Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine testify during a House Committee on Appropriations,
