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Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia, following years of local opposition and legal challenges

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I couldn't decide which TV to buy. Understanding OLED, QLED and Mini LED made the choice much easier

Editorial independence is core to our work. Some links may earn us a commission, without influencing our opinions. Buying a TV this Prime Day? Learn what matters most before exploring the best deals across every display category. Our Picks ProductRatingPrice Xiaomi 108 cm (43 inch) FX Pro QLED Ultra HD

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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it

Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, and not even AI can save it. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace that allows users to post gigs, and workers to bid for the

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, July 3

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword? Read on for

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Letter: chip sector group SEMI, including Micron and Samsung, warns Scott Bessent US policies affecting prices or production capacity would worsen the shortage

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Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an “order of magnitude more compute than Avocado”

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Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed

The video game disc is dead, and Sony’s been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony’s discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzberg that the company’s Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs

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Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal

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Fable 5 outage: the AI model strategy hedge | VentureBeat

Two-thirds of enterprises have hedged their AI model strategy, and the past few weeks of controversy around Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 model showed why that posture has gone mainstream. On June 12, a U.S. export-control order pulled Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — the most capable model on

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Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

Left hand, meet right hand During a 48-hour period from June 7 to 8, developer Charles Jones's Google Cloud account registered $11,089.77 in charges - most related to the use of Gemini image-generation models. Yet Jones, a solo developer who runs programmatic SEO and insurance sites,

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In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical

Sustainability demands progress on several fronts at once. For example, societies must reduce factory energy use, roll out EVs, and ensure that communications equipment can operate off-grid to extend educational opportunities to children in remote areas. China-based telecoms giant ZTE pursues all of these. CDP, a non-profit that runs an

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Price hike coming soon? These tablet, smartwatch and headphone deals are worth it right now

Editorial independence is core to our work. Some links may earn us a commission, without influencing our opinions. Prices of tech products are expected to rise in the coming weeks. So if you are planning to upgrade your old and outdated devices, now would be the right time. Published on: