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CarPlay is great as it comes, but a few personalization tweaks make it even more convenient. Habanero Pixel/Shutterstock If your vehicle supports the feature, one of the best quality-of-life upgrades you can make to your drives is setting up Apple CarPlay with a cable or wirelessly. This way, you
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* 69% of Americans oppose AI data centers near their communities, a national poll finds * Public support for nearby AI data centers has fallen sharply since 2025 * Only 4% strongly support new data centers in their communities today American resistance to AI data centers has intensified sharply over the past year,
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In Brief 4:23 PM PDT · September 8, 2026 A video game posted to the Trump administration’s website — one that closely resembled Tetris — has been taken down after the Tetris Company complained. The White House recently took the unusual step of posting a number of arcade-style video games to
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For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems: pursuing multiple hypotheses, validating them against evidence, learning from what does not work, and adapting their approach as new
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You have to reboot your PC eventually, but how often should you do this? Olivier Le Moal/Getty Images It's common wisdom among PC users to restart your computer on a regular basis. Some even go so far as insisting that you must do so every day, lest
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This seems to be the year of AI agents, and Meta is diving into the game. The company on Tuesday announced a new agent program called Muse, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg describes as a “personal agent” that understands your habits and goals. It’s available now in the US. Agentic
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It seems the public wants fewer cameras, not more, but that hasn’t stopped the large appliance industry. While a fridge or oven camera almost certainly presents less of a privacy risk than a Flock surveillance unit — hey, it’s right there in the name — one could argue they’ve
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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 rocket spent 24 days at sea before recovery efforts began. SpaceX's Starship 40 is one fast rocket, having traveled thousands of miles from Texas to the Indian Ocean in around 65 minutes. Its journey home is, well, slightly slower: The company says it will take several months.
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Standalone AI devices didn’t get off to the best of starts. Just to recap, I’m referring to the Humane AI Pin, which crashed and burned before it ever really took off, and the Rabbit R1 mini computer, which arrived a little underbaked. Both devices were products of 2024,
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Portable power stations are lifesavers during a blackout, easily keeping your phones, laptops and routers fully charged. But what happens when you need to power something much larger, such as your fridge or washing machine? Many people assume they need to drop thousands of dollars on a whole-home battery system
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At the Dyson Unveiled event at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Dyson announced a whopping 10 new products, including its first toothbrush, three robot vacuums, three air purifiers, a wet floor cleaner and two hair tools: its first dryer brush and a hair straightener designed to lessen heat damage. If you’
