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The frustrating science of keeping your ears from doing their job. Max Miller for Engadget Active noise canceling headphones and earbuds have skyrocketed in popularity over the past couple of decades, spreading from a niche product popular among frequent fliers to a nearly ubiquitous technology. Whether we're talking
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The MacOS 27 public beta is available to download now. * Only compatible Apple Silicon Macs support the update. * Back up your Mac before installing the beta software. At WWDC 2026, Apple announced MacOS 27 "
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Canva on Tuesday launched Canva Code 2.0, a major upgrade to its AI-powered coding tool that lets users build interactive websites, apps, and experiences using plain-language prompts — and then edit the results as easily as tweaking a Canva presentation. The feature is now available to all of the company&
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1Password on Tuesday launched AI Spend and Consumption Management, a new capability embedded in its SaaS Manager platform that gives IT and finance teams a unified, real-time view of how their organizations consume and spend on AI services from vendors including Anthropic, Cursor, and OpenAI. The move marks the latest
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Switzerland’s Competition Commission opened a preliminary investigation into Google on Tuesday, after the search engine selection prompt that Android owners elsewhere in Europe still meet when they switch on a new handset quietly stopped appearing on Swiss phones. The feature, known as the Choice Screen, asks users which search
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Tower Semiconductor said on Tuesday it will spend roughly $3bn expanding its 300mm operations in Japan, net of about $1bn in grants from the Japanese government, in a two-track build-out aimed squarely at the optical components that AI data centres are consuming faster than anyone can make them. The announcement,
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One of the most decorated minds in AI is striking out alone. Richard Sutton shared the 2024 Turing Award for founding modern reinforcement learning. On Monday he said he is leaving John Carmack’s startup Keen Technologies to start a new one, Oak Lab. He announced it plainly on X.
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Kathy Hochul stopped the diggers on Tuesday. New York became the first US state to halt construction of large new data centres, imposing a one-year moratorium on anything drawing 50 megawatts or more, on the grounds that the buildings powering the AI boom are pushing up household bills, draining water,
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Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, Revolut, Stripe and Adyen made the list. The 12-month trial starts in the second half of 2027, and the money it moves will not be legal tender. The European Central Bank published the list on Tuesday: 36 payment service providers, drawn from more than 50 applicants, will
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China’s humanoid gold rush just minted another contender. LimX Dynamics has raised $200m at a $2.21bn valuation. And its founder says the race to list has become do-or-die. A Shenzhen humanoid startup has become the latest name in China’s robot boom to command a giant valuation. On
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Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, worth £800m, or $1.1bn. But no fundraise set that price. Staff did, by selling shares on London’s untested new private market. Moneybox, the British savings and investing app, is now a unicorn. It has put a value of about £800m, or $1.
