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Skip to content Unscrewed Fairphone’s CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone. You can fully disassemble the Fairphone Gen 6+ in about 20 minutes. Credit: Ryan Whitwam You can fully disassemble the Fairphone Gen 6+ in about 20 minutes. Credit: Ryan Whitwam
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In 1992, Klee Dienes was an MIT undergraduate working as a manager of the university’s web server and paying for cheeseburgers with student loans. Around him, a government research network called ARPANET was becoming the internet. One day, he demonstrated MIT’s internet research to a visiting senator from
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Save $800: You don’t have to wait for the weekend to enjoy early Labor Day deals, and this chance to save $800 off a new LG OLED TV is a great example. The 65-inch B6 OLED TV normally retails for around $2,000, but you’ll save 40% and
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Save $500: If a clean house minus the hassle is your thing, the Dreame X60 Ultra might just be exactly what your floors need. With Labor Day deals in full swing, now’s a great time to grab one. Wellbots has slashed $150 off the usual $1,499 price, bringing
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Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR's Ajeya Cotra The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe to Hard Fork. Big Technology
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Infinix has launched the HOT 70 Pro in India, and on paper it could be one of the more sensible smartphones under ₹25,000 right now. The phone comes in four colourways, including Thermo Orange, Mirage Green, Silk Glow Purple and Dive Blue, each with a distinct finish. It also
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America’s road safety regulator is looking into Tesla’s newest robotaxi just a day after it began carrying passengers. “NHTSA is in contact with Tesla and is evaluating the situation,” a spokesperson for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said, according to Reuters. The service began on Thursday in
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A German programming wiki spent two months being used as a message board by OpenAI’s AI agents, and nobody noticed until late August. Researchers found more than 15,000 edits on DseWiki left by agents that appear to have been coordinating with each other, Reuters reported in an exclusive.
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* GPT-6 Astra just scored 92.7% on understanding how to interact with your apps, up from 5.6's 76.9% * New recurrent depth reasoning also allows Astra to think about your problem in a new way * OpenAI admits there are some safety concerns about how GPT-6 reasons OpenAI
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Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR's Ajeya Cotra The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe to Hard Fork. Big Technology
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It’s now a familiar story: a company launches a new AI chatbot or AI-powered search feature. It works great in the demo. Then real customers show up, all at once, all asking questions at the same time and the feature that impressed everyone in the boardroom starts crawling, timing
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Google introduced its Gemini Audio AI models earlier this year, during the latest developer-focused I/O conference. Now, the advertising corporation is going to bring these additional features to three of
