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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Thermal cameras don't have to cost thousands (but they can). * Thermal cameras come in standalone versions, built into smartphones, and dongles. * They literally give you a money-saving superpower. I like tools. One of
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1777 Walker St., (713) 654-1777 Adjacent to the George R. Brown Convention Center downtown, the Marriott Marquis has another 100,000 square feet of meeting space of its own, including Houston’s largest ballroom. Often mentioned as the top hotel in town, it caters to business travelers and pleasure seekers
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David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. The founding story of Nest is pretty much a perfect tech myth. A legendary product maker (in this case, Tony Fadell) helps create one of
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Old compact cameras are cool again – partly because taking a photo on something that isn’t also your phone feels kinda refreshing. Add in Y2K-esque nostalgia, toy-like design, and the appeal of charmingly imperfect snapshots, and you have a neat little niche for gadgets like Yashica's Funtastic Keychain
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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about the streaming industry, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Streaming was once a reprieve
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Last week, in an exclusive interview with the Wall Street Journal, outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook warned that the memory chip crunch made price increases "unavoidable." He also made what seemed like a promise: "We're willing to use our balance sheet to help be a
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TL;DR Anthropic’s Claude Tag works as a rival AI teammate inside Slack. Salesforce promoted it publicly, but employees worry it competes with their own Slackbot and Agentforce. When Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Tuesday, a high-profile AI product that works as a persistent teammate inside Slack channels, some
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TL;DR Instagram head Mosseri previewed new ways to access Your Algorithm via gestures and per-Reel buttons. Users still want a chronological feed of people they follow. Instagram head Adam Mosseri previewed new ways to surface Your Algorithm, the feature that lets users specify which topics they want to see
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TL;DR NPCI CEO says AI will drive UPI to a billion daily transactions via fraud detection, credit, and voice onboarding. PhonePe and Google Pay hold 80%+ share. India’s Unified Payment Interface has grown to over 750 million daily transactions, and the head of the body that oversees it
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How AI’s sycophantic responses, language mirroring and hyperpersonalized content work together to send some people into a spiral. We’ve all experienced the tendency of AI chatbots to tell us what we want to hear, but there are two other, more nuanced factors that help chatbots worm their way
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One Reddit user writes about living in their car and running out of money for gas. Another says they’re going to be evicted in 48 hours and will have to give up their dog. Many are waiting on federal disability insurance payments that seem as if they will never
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There is a particular kind of dread faced by soccer fans flying long-haul on the day of a big game. You take your seat and try to make peace with the fact that for the next nine hours, you will exist in an information vacuum before landing to a barrage
