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The Pixel Watch 5 starts at $400 for the 41mm wifi only model. / Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET 8.4 Pros & Cons * Sleek design with wide range of great color options * Fast charging, 0 to 100% in under 45 min * Improved HR and GPS accuracy * Repairable design makes fixes easier
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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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Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices of a startup called Generalist AI, where I watched robot arms perform simple chores like stacking cups, putting blocks into bowls, and the like. I
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Marvell Technology has agreed to give Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion of its shares. In return, Google will buy its custom chips. The chipmaker set out the deal in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. Its stock jumped as much as 14 percent on the news.
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Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, the startup whose software helps companies route their spending across hundreds of AI models. The payments firm confirmed the deal on Wednesday, making official an acquisition the press first reported earlier this month. Neither company put a figure on the deal. Outside reporting has,
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Samsung has raised prices for some of its advanced contract chipmaking by as much as 15 percent for new orders, according to a Reuters report. Two people familiar with the matter said the increases follow a surge in demand for AI chips. That demand is tightening capacity in a business
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Uber has begun offering autonomous rides in Europe for the first time, in the Croatian capital, Zagreb. From Wednesday, riders there can book a self-driving car through the Uber app, the company said. The service is run with the Chinese firm Pony.ai and the European operator Verne. There is
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Meta has released a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, its chatbot. The company is pushing to turn the assistant into a tool for businesses and creators. The app can watch a window on your screen and answer questions about what it sees, Meta said on Wednesday. It can also
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Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The jump follows a deal to supply chips to Anthropic. The company is raising funds at a pre-money valuation
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Save $50: A reliable home security system doesn’t have to come with an ongoing subscription. The Eufy eufyCam E40 four-camera kit is now available at a record-low price, giving you an easy way to monitor your home while avoiding recurring cloud storage costs. This four-pack of cameras normally goes
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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 I was genuinely excited when I first heard about the Pixel Watch 4. Google says it’s
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* The ValidateHTML project examined the 5,000 most popular domains based on the Tranco list * Project lead Théo Ducreux found that just 53% of these sites had human-readable home pages * Almost 90% of the sites failed to meet W3C web standard, even serving violations of the HTML5 specification ValidateHTML—an
