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The newest Willy Wonka project that's coming your way isn't a movie musical. Wonka's Golden Ticket is a competition reality series from Netflix based on Roald Dahl's 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which follows a boy named Charlie Bucket and
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If you've noticed that Hibernate isn't as visible on Windows 11, that's not by accident. 2 min read Remember Hibernate mode? For longtime PC users, Hibernate was a mainstay of the Windows shutdown menu, alongside the Restart, Sleep and Shut Down commands, as a
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While the FDA is not obligated to accept the recommendations from its advisory committees, it often does. In an introductory briefing document for the meeting next month, the agency said it “does not intend to issue a final determination on the issues at hand until input from the advisory committee
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There are plenty of AI image-generation models these days, but the ones capable of quality outputs tend to be slow and expensive. Google DeepMind says its new image model, known as Nano Banana 2 Lite, offers the best balance of quality and speed. It’s available today across the Google
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TL;DR Rob Hanna of Precision Content says enterprise AI underperforms because organisations treat language like structured data. The real bottleneck is ungoverned documentation, and technical publications teams already have the skills to fix it. Rob Hanna observes that many enterprise AI initiatives may be losing momentum because organizations continue
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Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the lab. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Science is now available
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Schneider Electric is buying Cognite, a Norwegian-founded industrial AI company, for $3.1bn in cash. The French group wants software that can make factories and power grids think for themselves. Schneider Electric said on June 30, 2026 that it had agreed to acquire all of Cognite in an all-cash deal
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55 years ago, the legendary Gene Wilder invited us to join him in "a world of pure imagination." Now, a disembodied AI recreation of his sonorous vocals is inviting us to join him in his "my newest wonders beyond imagination." But there's little-to-nothing imaginative
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For those unfamiliar, ZLUDA is a tool that allows unmodified CUDA code to run on non-NVIDIA GPUs. Up until a few months ago, it was being commercially funded, but ZLUDA is back to being a weekend project for now. That said, with the latest version 6 update, AMD GPUs now
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Businesses run on fast decisions, but the teams who hold the answers are often buried under a backlog of routine requests, leaving users waiting in line for insights they need now. Today, we are bringing Conversational Analytics in BigQuery to general availability, so both business and technical teams can query
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Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model, Claude Sonnet 5, on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Sonnet 5 is the first Sonnet model of Anthropic’s latest generation and represents a meaningful step forward. It delivers top-tier intelligence at
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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. The price of LG’s UltraGear 27GX700A-B 1440p gaming monitor that came out last August has dropped to nearly its best price
