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Google’s Pixel Watch 5 Pumps Up Its Fitness Smarts

Whether you’ll actually use all of this depends on your active lifestyle, but I can see it being particularly useful for someone new to the gym who wants a little structure that feels personal. I do appreciate that it syncs to the watch, so I can see rep counts and rest intervals without unlocking my phone.

Gemini is still one of Pixel Watch’s best features, and it can now tackle offline tasks, such as starting a workout, which is handy if you tend to leave your phone at home on runs. The dual-band GPS is the same, but Google says route tracking is now twice as accurate in urban environments. It now accounts for atmospheric interference and multipath errors, which should help it maintain more accurate positioning around tall buildings. So far, I’ve had zero issues with route mapping in Chicago, and I can say the same for the previous...

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Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company set out the plan in a statement. The offering comes in two parts. Nebius is selling $2.75

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China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time

The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is one of only a handful of private companies to land an orbital-class booster. Reuters reported that the feat places LandSpace alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin, and narrows China’s gap with the US in

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A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide

Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social media, according to a new investigation by the Tech Transparency Project. The effort relies on paid influencers and funded parent groups, the watchdog said. Meta developed the tactics in the United States, the

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OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring

OpenAI has put figures and detail on the slowdown it signalled this week. It paused some frontier training for two weeks, it said. It is also running a new monitoring system for the riskiest work. That system adds about 20 percent to the compute cost of what it covers. The

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Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time

A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide

OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring