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* Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026 * Mechanical Turk once connected more than 500,000 workers with paid tasks * Workers completed image tagging, transcription, surveys, and other routine assignments Amazon plans to permanently close Mechanical Turk, its long-running platform for outsourcing small tasks to human workers. Launched
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As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists. While some of the people pumping out this kind of content immediately own up to using AI, others
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Ever since the Xteink X4 landed in early 2026 I’ve been intrigued by this tiny line of ereaders — I loved the idea of sticking one to the back of my phone and carrying it everywhere, but at that point they just had a few too many missing features for
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The Razer Naga V3 Pro covers a lot of bases and will suit its target audience down to the ground, but it’s not without its drawbacks. Pros * +Swappable side plates are fantastic * +You’ll love the HyperScroll wheel * +Comfy design (especially for palm grip) Cons * -Holy cow, it’s
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We test dozens of phones each year, but only a few come out on top. From Apple’s iPhone 17 family to Samsung’s Galaxy S26 series to the latest foldable phones, there’s a range of options for different needs and budgets. The best phones on this list have
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Comulytic Note Pro AI voice recorder4 / 5Very good pros and cons * Mic pickup quality is excellent. * Battery life is superb. * The card is small, unobtrusive, and easy to use. * Not a fan of proprietary charging cables. * The app works hard to upsell users to paid tiers -- and they'
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You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week, WIRED found a particularly wild case: A cop in Alpharetta, Georgia, was accused of searching for the license plate of a coworker
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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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It's no exaggeration to say the large language models that power AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini are changing the world. Many of us are now relying on them for coding, writing, summarizing, and searching the web. Whatever directions AI goes in over the next few years, LLMs
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Apia, Samoa, August 28th, 2026/Chainwire/--ZMO has announced the official launch of its crypto exchange and stock futures platform, offering a simplified approach to trading through a 1-click experience. The platform combines professional-grade trading technology with an intuitive interface designed to make access to global financial markets more straightforward.
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Apia, Samoa, August 28th, 2026/Chainwire/--ZMO has announced the official launch of its crypto exchange and stock futures platform, offering a simplified approach to trading through a 1-click experience. The platform combines professional-grade trading technology with an intuitive interface designed to make access to global financial markets more straightforward.
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San Francisco, USA, August 28th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--Perturb has launched a decentralized adversarial robustness network on Bittensor that continuously stress-tests production AI models and pays a global network of researchers to find vulnerabilities that in-house red teams may miss. Five weeks after an experimental OpenAI model escaped its test environment
