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11:10 AM PDT · June 29, 2026 Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Anthropic have made a deal that allows California government agencies to use Claude at a discounted price. This agreement comes at a time when businesses are struggling to manage the hefty costs of enterprise subscriptions to AI tools.
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AI and ML Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge The central bank for central banks is concerned about the eye-watering sums being invested into AI, and it's raising the specter of a global recession should the bubble burst. In its
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TL;DR WhatsApp is letting users reserve usernames starting today, so people can connect without sharing their phone number for the first time. WhatsApp is opening username reservations starting today, allowing its more than three billion users to connect with people without sharing their phone number for the first time.
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TL;DR TIDAL will tag fully AI-generated music with an AI badge, block it from royalties and direct-to-fan sales, and remove AI tracks that impersonate artists. TIDAL is cutting off the money supply for AI-generated music. The streaming service announced a new policy that will prevent fully AI-generated tracks from
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Continuous glucose monitors have become popular among those who need to track their glucose levels because they're painless devices. These monitors also connect to an app on your smartphone or Apple Watch, allowing you to check your blood sugar whenever you want. CGMs give you real-time readings to
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Why You Can Trust CNET Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement Julian Nagelsmann's team looks to improve as they get their knockout stage
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A scanned yearbook page contains 176 printed names, 4 portrait photographs, and zero machine-readable structure linking them. To digitize this page, you need reliable photo detection with bounding boxes and accurate name extraction. You also need a way to determine which name belongs to which face based on page layout.
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you're a smart home user or on the path to becoming one, you've probably heard the buzzwords of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter thrown around by various manufacturers and even seen all three names printed on
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After a bunch of price increases, the M3 iPad Air stands out if you’re looking for the best tablet under $500. by Cameron Faulkner Jun 29, 2026, 5:49 PM UTC Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year
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SpaceX gains a vertically integrated rival as launch specialist adds global comms network Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Iridium Communications in an $8 billion cash-and-stock deal, potentially creating another challenger to SpaceX and Amazon for vertically integrated satellite broadband. Both Rocket Lab and Iridium's boards unanimously agreed
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OS PLATFORMS Polished Mandriva descendant still makes room for PCs the 64-bit world has left behind Mageia 10 marks 15 years since the distribution's first release in June 2011. The project began the previous year as a fork of Mandriva, itself formerly known as Mandrake Linux. We last
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* Germany vs Paraguay Kick-Off time: Monday, June 29 | 9.30pm BST / 4.30pm ET / 6.30am AEST (Tue) * Watch free on BBC (UK) / SBS (AUS) / CazéTV's YouTube (Brazil) * Unlock your free streams with Norton VPN (60-day money back guarantee) Germany face South American opposition for the second game
