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The $399 Apple Watch Series 12 and Google’s $400 Pixel Watch 5 both start at a similar price, and they highlight new health and AI features when paired with the iPhone or any Android phone, respectively. While both watches look identical to last year’s Apple Watch Series 11
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Save $50: Prime Day is less than 24 hours away and you can already get the Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium for $210. That’s $50 off its usual $260 price. Unlike a lot of the early deals I’ve seen, you don’t need a Prime membership to get this
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Save up to $130: Prime Day doesn’t officially start until Oct. 6, but you don’t have to wait for it to save on TCL’s gear. You can get up to $130 off its Nxtpaper tablets and phones right now at Amazon, and a couple of these are
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An article from Dive Brief AI is likely to eliminate some entry-level SOC roles, a Swimlane survey found. It is also creating opportunities to develop more strategic skills. Published Oct. 5, 2026 First published on This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: * AI
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Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, a US maker of industrial design and engineering software, for about $22.6bn (€20.1bn) in cash. The French group announced the deal on Monday morning. The announcement came a day after the Financial Times first reported that the two companies were close
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Norway’s government plans to ban the use of AI glasses in selected public places for a limited time and announced the plan today, saying that people could be filmed or recorded without their knowledge. The ban could cover places where the public often gathers, such as parks, beaches, museums,
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All of that is fairly par for the category, and it’s not until the big guns come out that the BodyScan 2 really starts to show off its biggest tricks. By default, you’re prompted to take a more intensive 90-second “longevity scan” every seven days, and I’ve
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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. Introducing Campus: The digital home for educational institutions — Every educational institution needs
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The US Senate has passed the bipartisan Health Care Cybersecurity and Resilience Act, introduced by Senators Bill Cassidy, Maggie Hassan, Jon Cornyn, and Mark Warner. The bill was first introduced in 2024, but failed to pass before the end of that congressional term. It was reintroduced in December 2025. Having
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We have to do a lot more in the absence of Federal leadership. That was one of the less colorful comments from Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, the home state to the US tech sector, when asked about the increasingly febrile question of AI regulation, or rather the lack thereof.
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It is no longer news that AI is driving incredible demand for electricity. You may have read that data centers were using 6% of the electricity supply in the UK and the US as of May this year, or that these centers require 40% more energy than originally expected. Electric
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Chicago Fire, the longest-running series in Dick Wolf‘s One Chicago franchise (which includes Chicago Med and Chicago P.D.), returns this week for its 15th season. The hit procedural is centered on the fictional Firehouse 51 and follows the daily struggles of the firefighters and paramedics who report for
