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1:40 PM PDT · July 27, 2026 For hard-tech startups, manufacturing is a pricey endeavor. Now, Thea Energy has a leg up courtesy of a Department of Energy grant. The fusion power startup told TechCrunch Monday that it has received a $20 million award from ARPA-E to help manufacture its
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It's taken about two years, and a showcase at last year's CES, but Augmental's MouthPad has launched. MouthPad is an innovative wireless Bluetooth mouse controlled entirely by the user's tongue and head movements, enabling a degree of hands-free control that would normally
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Credit: OpenAI OpenAI has made ChatGPT Health, its wellness-focused AI tool, available to all US users on free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. OpenAI pitches ChatGPT Health as helping users understand their lab results, enhance their sleep or physical activity, prepare questions to ask their doctors, and more. To do
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Save $81: We’ve spotted the refurbished Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle for $419 at Woot right now. This bundle is Grade A refurbished, which makes it a good option for gamers who want the console but are on a budget. For comparison, the Nintendo Switch 2 Mario
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The cyclospora outbreak affecting produce from Taylor Farms de Mexico has sickened over 1,600 people across five states, including Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. It’s one in a long line of severe produce outbreaks, but this time, I’m reconsidering how I approach food safety, given
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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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An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google surfaced a long list of shared conversations.
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Phones have more RAM than ever, while prices skyrocket. * Flagship phones have more RAM that most people need. * Most people only need 8GB or 12GB. If you've ever pored over specs for new
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What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not always stay between you and a chatbot. Just ask Google. Over the weekend, people were surprised to discover that some AnthropicClaude chats could be easily found via web search. The issue, which appears to have been first flagged by a
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There’s a familiar moment in every SOC shift. Everyday security analysts sift through alerts, jump between dashboards, and write complex SIEM queries just to figure out what’s worth investigating. An AI-powered SOC can help. The OpenText SIEM AI Bridge tackles this head-on by connecting OpenText Enterprise Security Manager
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based
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One of the most notable ways AI is changing the world is through software coding: vast swathes of code are now written by AI, and while there's still a debate over just how beneficial this shift is, there's no doubt it's happening at a
