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Some applications demand a big CPU with eight or more big cores and a fat discrete GPU drawing 300W. Most don't, and if you disagree, let's interrogate how much time you spend on your smartphone. The fact of the matter is that you simply don'
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* Nashville's Metro Council voted 27 to 5 to authorize acquiring the 23.49-acre site next to the Nashville Zoo by negotiation or condemnation * This comes after a local fight escalated into a national campaign with a 500,000-signature petition * The vote grants an option rather than a commitment:
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The "SteamBoy" mod can double as a pseudo Steam Controller. Image: u/PhyFawkes on Reddit An impressive Steam Deck Game Boy mod, appropriately dubbed the Steam Boy, is ablaze across the r/SteamDeckModded subreddit and tech press this week. The idea for this mod stems from the realization
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Apple may or may not be working on a mostly-glass 20th anniversary iPhone. This long-rumored passion project would not necessarily transform the iPhone into a fully translucent device, but would extend the front and back glass panels so that they almost meet around a far thinner metal border. But like
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Uber has sold off its entire stake in Serve Robotics, the autonomous delivery robot company that spun out of the ride-hailing company more than five years ago. Uber made the disclosure in a regulatory filing that was first reported by Bloomberg. Uber’s exit from Serve Robotics has been brewing
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Gettyimages.com / Just Super ByRoss Wilkers, Senior Staff Reporter August 11, 2026 03:32 PM ET The Department of Homeland Security has two more hyperscaler awards to finalize before it can move ahead on a separate competition for this enterprise cloud program. * Contracts * DHS The Homeland Security Department has entered
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Credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images TrendForce, a tech industry analysis firm, reports that the bill of materials for Apple's 256GB iPhone 18 Pro is expected to rise by about 38% year over year, making the phone's manufacturing nearly 1.4 times as expensive as that of the
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For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google’s fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn’t the first
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In Brief 12:38 PM PDT · August 11, 2026 The FBI is warning that cybercriminals are hacking into the social media accounts of adults and children to steal their intimate explicit images and videos. The perpetrators rely largely on social engineering tactics to target people, the alert said, and victims
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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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In addition to a historic total solar eclipse, August also features one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year. On the night of August 12 and into the early morning of August 13, astronomy enthusiasts in the northern hemisphere and parts of the southern hemisphere will be able
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In Brief 12:15 PM PDT · August 11, 2026 ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there’s been one place where it’s been lacking: the Linux community. Certain sectors of the open source developer community have been clamoring for OpenAI to bring its chatbot to their neck
