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In Brief 1:58 PM PDT · August 21, 2026 Apple is chopping down the team behind the Vision Pro, its long suffering VR headset, while eliminating positions across a number of other teams, Bloomberg reported. Over 200 positions, all told, have been cut, sources told Bloomberg, with around 100 from
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Walmart and its subsidiary Sam’s Club are finally launching tap-to-pay options, allowing customers to make convenient, contactless payments at checkout. For years, shoppers at Walmart and Sam’s Club had to insert or swipe a physical credit card or pay in cash, rather than simply tap their card or
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Are you reading more text written by an AI bot? A Pew Research study published this week says it’s very likely. That’s not breaking news if you’re aware of the Dead Internet Theory that dates back to 2021. CNET writer Trisha Jandoc dove into that theory last
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ai and ml Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature AI companies are buying loads of physical books, hoovering up the texts for model training, and then physically destroying the originals. A group of 18 advocacy organizations on Friday asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate the
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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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Labor Day is your last chance for summer cookouts and celebrations before cooler autumn weather rolls in and the kids head back to school. And while TVs might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to Labor Day sales, it's a great time to
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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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TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that the social media platform violated federal laws designed to protect children’s online privacy. The case stems from a lawsuit first filed in 2024 by the
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The surface facility for IceCube, with the rest being below the ice.Credit: IceCube Neutrino Observatory Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have announced new research suggesting that neutrino detections at the Arctic IceCube Neutrino Observatory could be explained by dark matter lensing of readings from blazars.
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* Beyerdynamic has announced the MMX 100 wireless and MMX 130 wireless * The MMX 100 wireless launches on September 1 for £89 * The MMX 130 wireless arrives in October for £109 German audio specialist beyerdynamic has announced two new wireless headsets, the closed-back MMX 100 wireless and the open-back MMX 130
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Today’s Connections puzzle features some fun options. As a pop-culture junkie, I loved the purple category. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre)
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Today’s Strands puzzle describes some pretty scenic locations. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: Peak Americana. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Time to climb. Clue words to unlock in-game hints Your
