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Save $1,002: TCL’s new 65-inch QM8L is now available at just $1,498 at Amazon. This is the lowest price we’ve seen on the brand-new 2026 model – also a CNET-favorite – making it a tempting pick for those waiting for a 4K TV upgrade. Amazon isn’t the
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? The federal government is moving to block a new category of connected technology from entering the US, focusing on robotics and energy equipment tied to artificial intelligence systems. The Federal Communications
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Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation Watch out for untrusted documents. According to research, an attacker can hide malicious instructions in a Word document that, when included in Copilot for Word’s context, may alter document output and copy the instructions into
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DoorDash has won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to run its own delivery drones, and promptly made clear that most of your food will still arrive by human. The company unveiled an in-house programme called DoorDash Air on 29 July, built around a custom drone of its own rather
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PayPal finally addressed the $53bn offer sitting on its table. Its answer was: not at that price. The company gave its first public response on Tuesday’s Q2 earnings call, alongside a beat. Chief executive Enrique Lores would not comment on Stripe and Advent’s bid directly. He said only
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The most expensive part of AI coding is no longer the model. It is the software wrapped around it, and enterprises have started to notice. The immediate fight is over price. Cursor, the AI coding tool SpaceX has agreed to buy for $60bn, moved most customers to usage-based billing last
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The most disturbing corporate harassment campaign in recent tech history has a price. eBay and three of its former executives will pay nearly $56m to the couple they set out to destroy for writing a critical newsletter. David and Ina Steiner of Natick, Massachusetts, run EcommerceBytes, a small newsletter that
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Apple has become the second company in history worth $5tn. It got there by being the one big-tech giant that refused to bet its balance sheet on AI. The iPhone maker briefly touched a $5.04tn market value on Tuesday. Shares hit a session high of $342.89 before easing
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The Trump administration spent Tuesday clearing environmental law out of the way of the tech boom. It did so twice, on two fronts, with the same justification. The first move exempts data centres from the rules meant to stop acid rain. The second frees rocket launches from federal environmental review.
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Shein wanted its Hong Kong listing to be about growth. Instead, the filing meant to sell that story revealed a US regulator is investigating the company, and Shein will not say why. The disclosure sits in the draft prospectus for Shein’s planned IPO, Reuters reported. Its US business, the
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Six months ago, Anthropic was the darling of America’s AI boom. It led on the models and was loudest on the ethics. This summer, it finds itself alone. The Claude maker is now the odd one out in nearly every big AI policy fight, Axios reported. It is the
