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Charging your phone in the middle of the day can be annoying and inconvenient, especially when you’re on the go. Instead of fumbling with chargers, how about more battery life for your smartphone? That’s what’s driving 52% of US adults to consider upgrading their phone according to
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I want to talk about Magnus Carlsen. That’s right, the chess genius who even laypeople like me know about because of how good he is. He’s leagues beyond anyone else. You would’ve thought the room for improvement in today’s world would be marginal given the game
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Who’s the boss? When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems? The Lake Mariner Data Center under construction. The Lake Mariner Data Center under construction. In early June, a fire broke out in a still-unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New
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All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more. The last long weekend of summer has arrived, and with it, a slew of cart-worthy deals. While summer won't
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Why fragmented IT is quietly eroding portfolio value, and what unified operating model change Private equity has gotten very good at underwriting value creation on paper, synergy models, EBITDA bridges, 100-day plans, and add-on roadmaps. Technology, however, is where a surprising amount of that modeled value quietly leaks back out,
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When Sony’s WH-1000XM4 headphones hit the market back in August 2020, I awarded them a CNET Editors’ Choice Award, calling them nearly flawless. Despite their age and the release of two successors — the WH-1000XM5 and WH-1000XM6 headphones — the 1000XM4s remain quite popular. Now, Sony is leaning into that legacy
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Can AI-driven NAS tech be sentimental? UGreen CEO Samuel Zhang seems to think so. Launching the company’s new smart-home technology suite, he started by recounting a personal story. It was a hot summer’s day, and his family gathered in the backyard for a barbecue. They cooked together, chatted,
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The NPCs in your favorite games are (mostly) faking it Most game "AI" is a lie, and a good one. The guard who flanks you, the boss who dodges your attacks, the enemy that seems to read your mind, and almost all of it is a decision tree,
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Imagine going to bed one night and waking up the next morning to find that the cryptographic security of every Aadhaar verification, every UPI transaction, and every DigiLocker upload is now potentially breachable by machines that have not been built yet but are on their way. This is the challenge
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What if a private markets firm sent confidential deal information to the wrong person – not because of a software bug or a typo, but because an automated system misinterpreted a shorthand label and matched it to the wrong contact? In institutional finance, errors like this can introduce regulatory exposure, damage
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