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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Best Buy has raised the price of the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC to $2,099 — the first time a major US retailer
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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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Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is the best funded fusion power startup, having raised $4 billion from investors over the last seven years, including the $1 billion the company has raised now. Now, developments at CFS, plus rumblings from industry sources TechCrunch has spoken with in recent months, suggest that the
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In 2009, a surgeon named Atul Gawande and a team backed by the World Health Organization showed that a 19-item surgical checklist could cut complications and deaths by dramatic margins across eight hospitals worldwide. Not a thousand-page protocol. Not a comprehensive framework. Nineteen items, printed on a single card. Aviation
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Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann welcomes me into his palace—what he calls his large apartment in San Francisco. He sits on the couch in his living room, clad in an orange shirt emblazoned with a cartoon version of the motorcycle driven by Italian racer Valentino Rossi. He props his feet
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A lesson for aspiring vandals: Take out all the cameras, not just the ones that flout your ideals Note to privacy-conscious vandals: If you're going to destroy Flock license plate readers, make sure you also take out the other CCTV cameras in the area that could catch you
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Square Enix is gearing up to kick off a brand new era of Final Fantasy 14 with the release of the Evercold expansion. The beginning of the "Godless Realms Saga" story arc, it arrives after the epic conclusion of a decade-long saga, and follows on from Dawntrail which
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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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Meta is using AI to quickly launch apps, and more are on the way. During this week’s second-quarter earnings call, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social giant has new apps in the works, following a recent spate of other launches that included an app for Marketplace sellers, one
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Ninety-five percent of field service organizations use AI. * Firms see higher revenues when they deploy AI effectively. * However, training issues and data silos can slow adoption. Almost all (95%) field service organizations now use AI,
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While AI is shaking up all industries, few have been impacted as visibly or as quickly as web design. No longer can agencies charge for time on repetitive tasks that can easily be farmed out to AI. This creates a challenge for businesses that need to prove their value to
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* Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first in-house cybersecurity model. * It also reveals Project Perception, an agentic system whose red, blue, and green agents find, triage, and patch vulnerabilities * The launch comes days after OpenAI said its models escaped a sandbox and attacked Hugging Face Microsoft has unveiled two significant security announcements
