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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings build a supercomputer to work out the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, wait seven and a half million years, and get 42 - at which point they uncomfortably realize that they never quite
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Apple has a new device protection plan for families for $50 per month. And it doesn’t matter how many devices your family has — they’re all covered. Apple announced the AppleCare One Family plan at its Surprise and Shine event on Wednesday. The plan will be available starting Sept.
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A string of posts on X from an AI researcher who says he quit a job at Anthropic over ethical concerns has gone viral, prompting thousands of responses and reigniting debate over the potential future dangers of artificial intelligence. Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who also worked at OpenAI on
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It’s the hot new thing in tech, and it’s where all the jobs are. Students who don’t learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That’
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: A Norwegian rescue helicopter and a small aircraft took off over Andøya in 2024, but the routes visible to satellite-navigation receivers told a different story. On tracking screens, the helicopter appeared to
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* OpenAI is developing a tool that can perform “well-defined research tasks” * Described as a “research intern” the project met its aim to achieve automation by September 2026, ahead of a fully automated AI researcher operational by March 2028 * The company believes that automated research can “enhance human welfare” and make
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You can teach (or learn) physics with calculus using maker-level technologies like BBC micro:bits and 3D printing. First year college physics typically involves an instructor at the front of the room with complicated demonstrations. An instructor might just write a lot of equations on the board, and no demonstrations
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Chinese-made drones are airlifting the bodies of flood victims and delivering food to survivors in the aftermath of devastating flash floods on the border of Nepal and China’s Tibetan region. Nepal’s army has been using four DJI FlyCart 100 drones donated from China to make 10 to 16
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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel said he will be interviewing a Democratic candidate for Senate tonight, but the interview will be on YouTube only and not broadcast on TV because of threats made by the Federal Communications Commission. Kimmel has been a prime target in the Trump FCC’s attacks on
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“And after I drew one or two diagrams, I started noticing, ‘Hey, I think I’ve thought about something like this before,’” said de Aguiar Alves. Three images, not two The idea behind the Picard maneuver comes from the way a faster-than-light spaceship would outrun its own light. If the
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“Pump the brakes” “Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.” Doug Kreuzkamp was shocked when news outlets reported that Google won an auction to buy a huge amount of operational data as part of Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy proceedings. Kreuzkamp founded a startup called Springshot in 2011, which created
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As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that problem, but what happens when you want to move to a different login organizer? Sure, you could manually type all your logins
