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Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET 9.0 Pros & Cons * Emergency satellite connectivity * $350 (starting) price * Dual-band GPS * Hands-free Gemini voice assistant * Battery lasts just over 24 hours (41mm) * Screen is prone to scratches Editors’ note: The Pixel Watch 5 is now available starting at $400, $50 more than the Pixel
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You brush your teeth twice a day, so why is your dentist still finding plaque buildup or mentioning your gumline? When it comes to brushing, technique matters, but the toothbrush you’re using makes a big difference, too. While electric toothbrushes certainly level up the old-school manual brush, not all
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AI and ML Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore? There's a new and very helpful use case for AI coding agents: designing drivers for devices, such as old printers, that were never meant to work with a particular operating system. Kuber Mehta, a New Delhi, India-based
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And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal It's an open secret that the major cloud providers don’t actually design their custom silicon from scratch. There's not much value in reinventing the wheel, so they often outsource big
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Attackers are using AI-generated exploitation scripts to break into internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) at water, manufacturing, energy, and other critical facilities, in what five US federal agencies on Wednesday called an “active threat.” In this latest round of intrusions against American critical infrastructure, the attackers use
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* Morgan County's 12-month moratorium has no enforcement power thanks to Dillon’s Rule limiting its ability to act against a proposed 50 MW Bitcoin mine by VoltCore * The town of Somerville never adopted zoning, and the site sits outside the town limits, leaving its 18-month moratorium equally unenforceable
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Waymo has opened its next-generation robotaxi to all riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco — a notable milestone for the Alphabet company as it pushes to expand its fleet with vehicles that are cheaper to build, operate, and maintain. For now, customers in these markets may be matched with
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When an AI agent uses Web Search to ground its answers on behalf of a customer, the organization behind that agent needs domain and date filters to control which sources the agent consults and how fresh those sources must be. A financial-services agent shouldn’t ground its answers in an
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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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As AI models have become more powerful, the potential for those models to be misused has grown — as has a clamor for safety guardrails that can stop such abuse from happening. AI companies must now walk a delicate tight rope between respecting their enterprise customers’ privacy while also watching usage
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The newest White House tech strategy pushes faster development of emerging technologies for the military, gives defense innovators more room to experiment, and will broaden the federal market for young defense tech startups. But it also doubles down on a particular approach to developing AI—one that favors a handful
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Asynchronous invocation patterns for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines remove idle compute costs while your AI agent processes requests. A common example is document validation: in a real-estate financing back office, an agent can read a property record or loan contract, reason about whether the information is complete
