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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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While Memorial Day is still a week away, Samsung has early Memorial Day TV deals that you can shop right now. The retailer has record-low prices on its top-rated TVs, with up to $1,500 in savings. • Shop Samsung's full early Memorial Day sale I've rounded
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* Report finds five island nations depend entirely on one vulnerable underwater internet cable * Accidental ship anchoring causes most global undersea cable failures every year * Smaller island nations remain dangerously exposed to complete nationwide internet blackouts A new report has highlighted how all 48 island nations worldwide, including major economies such
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Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Siri relaunch is widely seen as Apple’s big chance to reestablish its relevance in artificial intelligence. As part of that effort,
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The MeacoFan Sefte Pro 10in Table Air Circulator delivers powerful and surprisingly quiet airflow that keeps warm spaces genuinely cool and comfortable. It has an auto-adjusting Eco mode, app connectivity that lets you control it remotely and a handy night mode for better sleep on warm evenings. The rechargeable and
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Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments this week, and now it’s up to jurors to decide whether OpenAI did anything wrong as it’s transformed into a slightly-more-for-profit organization. But as Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I noted on the latest episode of TechCrunch’
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Tada Images/Shutterstock Amazon Customer Service might not be able to help for this type of refund. The online retail giant was hit with a class action lawsuit, as first reported by Reuters, where customers are seeking refunds for increased product prices caused by the tariffs instituted by the Trump
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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the de facto standard for grounding large language models (LLMs) in private data. The standard architecture — chunking documents, embedding them into a vector database, and retrieving top-k results via cosine similarity — is effective for unstructured semantic search. However, for enterprise domains characterized by highly interconnected
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* Kioxia’s new SSD reaches storage speeds previously reserved for enterprise hardware systems * Kioxia XG10 Series doubles sequential performance compared with the earlier XG8 generation * The XG10 Series combines PCIe 5.0 speeds with enterprise-style encryption security support Kioxia has introduced its XG10 Series SSD, bringing PCIe 5.0 storage
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Terraria turned 15 this weekend, and it's still got plenty of life left in it. In a Steam post celebrating the game's 15th anniversary, developer Re-Logic promised there's still more to come with update 1.4.6 and beyond — including cross-play, which is "
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The company is banking on privacy being its AI differentiator. by Terrence O'Brien May 17, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing
