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Shortly after its Android Show announcements on Tuesday, Google's DeepMind, the company's artificial intelligence lab, detailed the upcoming Magic Pointer, a feature that reimagines the mouse pointer with AI capabilities. The feature will be available in Googlebooks, Google's new AI-focused laptops, later this year.
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A recent Gallup poll found that a majority of Americans oppose data centers, which require extensive amounts of electricity and water to operate, and negatively affect local communities. 3 min read There's a growing backlash against the construction of local data centers, which consume massive amounts of electricity
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If you frequently turn to TikTok for travel inspiration, the social media app is adding an actionable option for these experiences. TikTok announced on Tuesday that it's launching a new feature called TikTok Go, which connects you to hotels, attractions, tours and other experiences and lets you book
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With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year. The company may soon pull ahead of its main competitor, as it looks to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would put its valuation at some $950 billion (OpenAI
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ByNick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology May 13, 2026 03:28 PM ET The enterprise license agreement is part of a $5.6 billion vehicle and will bring agentic artificial intelligence to workforce and logistics management. * Contracts * Artificial Intelligence Salesforce has signed a new $72 million enterprise license agreement with the
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Croteam / Devolver Fans of philosophical puzzle games, rejoice: The Talos Principle is about to become a trilogy. Developer Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital promise that The Talos Principle 3 will "test your mind with all-new challenges." The Talos Principle 3 will conclude the story that began with the
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whip it good The type of bar matters when it comes to how it bends and recoils, but why is still a mystery. Olympic weightlifting consists of three basic movements performed on a barbell: the snatch, the clean, and the jerk (with the latter two executed in combination). At such
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Building AI sustainably seems like a pipe dream as tech giants that previously made promises to cut emissions have been racing to build out massive data centers powered by fossil fuels. The rush to build out AI at all costs has been reinforced by the Trump administration, which is also
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A week ago, newly appointed Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro was busy regaling investors with plans to turn Disney Plus into the company’s “digital centerpiece.” By last Friday, though, his attention had presumably shifted to a fight with the Trump administration over free speech. Disney-owned ABC has now accused
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Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online series The Backrooms: a parallel universe with no internal logic, evil corporations lurking in the background, and mind-rending eldritch
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* Four in five execs say they were less likely to value human employees after using AI * AI still requires human oversight, and many struggle to fully trust it * Poor and even negative ROI continues to plague many A new study by Globalization Partners has revealed more than four in five
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Using the 1,000 most influential voices in AI that also happen to be on X, Digg wants to be your source of AI news. 3 min read Following its beta relaunch in January as a Reddit-like social news website and app, Digg shut down just two months later due
