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Save $300: We’ve just spotted the 256GB Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra for $1,800 at both Amazon and Best Buy right now. This saves you 14% over its usual price of $2,100 for a limited time. FYI, Samsung’s smartphones frequently end up on our list
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We’ve all done the infinite scroll on the Netflix app, spending an hour looking for something to watch before giving up. Sometimes there are just too many shows to choose from. And the last thing anyone wants is to get a few hours into a series that’s not
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The Trump administration has weighed in on a series of copyright disputes between news organizations and OpenAI, supporting the ChatGPT-maker’s position that its use of publishers’ content to train AI models constituted fair use. The statement of interest of the United States (PDF) was filed Tuesday in a series
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: Microsoft will soon enable a security feature designed to take advantage of virtualization capabilities available in modern x86 processors. However, the company doesn't clearly explain that this represents a
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Picture a scenario familiar to any organization running business intelligence (BI) at scale: A user opens a dashboard minutes before an important meeting and finds a blank chart. Every infrastructure monitor reports healthy. Servers are up, APIs respond, and the data pipeline completed on schedule. Yet the content on screen
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Scaling support operations requires handling rising ticket volumes, meeting strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs), adapting to evolving compliance requirements, and maintaining documentation that quickly becomes outdated, all without proportional increases in headcount. In many teams, the knowledge required to resolve tickets is fragmented across SOPs, recordings, and tribal expertise, forcing
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I recently met with some brilliant Russian mathematicians who showed me a way for artificial intelligence models to communicate via something akin to machine telepathy. The mathematicians work for a startup called Mostik—the Russian word for bridge. It’s a nod to the group’s approach, which allows different
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Every organization wants to be cyber resilient, with the ability to withstand attack, maintain operations and reduce risks overall. But desire and reality are two different things. Despite the best intentions of management and IT staff, true cyber resilience is often more of an idealistic goal than an on-the-ground fact.
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Athom, creator of the Homey home automation platform, has announced a new tap-and-twist controller dubbed the Homey Portal — combining a 2.8" color touchscreen display with a steel rotary ring for ease of control. "We've always wanted a smart home to feel as simple as flipping
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Most Internet of Things devices have a pretty simple job. They take a sensor reading, send it off to a server somewhere, then immediately forget that it ever happened. If you want to know what the temperature was 20 minutes ago, that is the cloud's problem. This approach
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This post was co-authored with Marc Steren, Odina Salihbaeva, and Aashrit Surapaneni from University Startups, a partnership between University Startups, g/d/n/a, and AWS. Trinity is a conversational AI solution that helps students with disabilities take ownership of their postsecondary planning. It was developed by University Startups, which
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Architecture documentation remains one of the most persistent challenges in software development as code bases evolve rapidly. Development teams often spend hours manually creating architecture diagrams, only to watch them become outdated within weeks of deployment. This documentation gap creates knowledge silos, slows developer onboarding, and complicates compliance audits. Amazon
