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TL;DR Young adults are using AI chatbots to draft dating lines, party icebreakers, and real-time in-person responses. Psychologists warn it creates “self-mistrust.” A relationship coach suggests capping AI rehearsal to once a week. A growing number of young adults are using AI chatbots to script not just their texts
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* AMD's MI400 press release publishes exactly one performance figure * 288 TFLOPS of hardware FP64 on the MI430X, a GPU it positions as its go-to for sovereign AI and HPC * Unlike the MI455X, which it launched alongside, the MI430X will have researchers and sovereign AI clients waiting longer, with
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart
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Sometimes it feels like there's no escaping subscriptions. I seem to pay a monthly fee for the tools in my digital arsenal. I find myself nostalgic for the days of one-off charges with the occasional upgrade fee for some new refinements to a service. Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Google,
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Starz will be the first streaming service stop for Michael, the biopic about Michael Jackson’s early life and career. The late music legend is played by his nephew, Jaafar Jackson, who spent years studying his uncle’s mannerisms, choreography and vocals. The film has made history as the highest-grossing
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Now that people have begun experimenting with the iOS 27 public beta, a lot of attention is on the features coming later this year, like Siri AI, when Apple revamps its operating systems. But for most people right now, the more important focus is on the just-released iOS 26.6
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Climate change is reshaping weather patterns around the world, bringing heavier rainfall and more extreme weather to places that have rarely experienced them before. Floods are among the most common natural disasters, and every year they affect millions of people, take lives, destroy homes, and cause billions of dollars in
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Apple might have stumbled with the Vision Pro headset, but the company is reportedly hoping for a successful pivot to smart glasses to challenge Meta. To try and differentiate its smart glasses from Meta’s offerings Apple will apparently focus on features and policies that put privacy at the forefront,
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Your GPU dashboard says 70% utilization. On paper, the cluster is busy. In practice, a large chunk of that time is spent with your $40,000 accelerators sitting idle, waiting on a file that lives three network hops away on a NAS box. The compute queue is empty, and the
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The Honor Magic V6 is an iterative improvement on its predecessor, delivering a more refined software experience and improved specs, alongside leading durability and battery life in the foldable category. It’s still expensive, though, and tends to run hot under heavy loads, causing some slowdown. Pros * +Best-in-class battery life
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China’s latest ChatGPT rival, Kimi, is now available for download on the Apple App Store, so I downloaded it on my iPhone, intending to test it against ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. I had the prompts ready; I had the comparison planned. Then Kimi presented me with a very modern
