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Google has added new AI study tools to Search and the Gemini app. The update features interactive visuals, simulations, practice quizzes, study tools, and a student hub. In Google Search, AI Overviews can now show interactive visuals for academic topics. Students can ask follow-up questions in AI Mode to create
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Some firms cut jobs due to AI and regret their decisions. * Smart business leaders focus on value creation instead. * They help professionals find new avenues to growth. Defaulting to AI-enabled layoffs is often seen as
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TC Sottek is a senior editor who has obsessed over headlines and internet speeds since 2011. He previously worked as an advocate for the National Park System. Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat
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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. Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia’s online safety regulator, eSafety. eSafety has been looking into concerns that the
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Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill Thunderbird is moving to fortnightly releases to keep pace with Firefox's accelerated schedule. Mozilla and its subsidiary MZLA updated their flagship apps this week, releasing Firefox 154 and Thunderbird 154, respectively. Since last month's version 153 releases are
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Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot Slack has decided that AI coding agents have spent quite enough time alone with developers and would be better off doing their work where everyone can watch: on Slack. The Salesforce-owned chat factory has
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Clever protocol wrangling gets iBiz-only people tracking working on a non-iGadget A young security researcher figured out a way to enroll a Linux device into Apple’s Find My network and read live location data from it. Find My is Apple’s app for, you guessed it, finding things – whether
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Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland The US now accounts for 15 of the world's 20 largest hyperscale datacenter markets, with Northern Virginia alone hosting nearly 12 percent of global capacity. US locations have increased their dominance of
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OS PLATFORMS Per-process NPU metrics arrive as one more venerable Windows utility risks feature bloat Once upon a time, Windows Task Manager was a stone-cold killer. Optimized to within an inch of its life, it struck fear into errant processes. These days, Microsoft also wants it monitoring AI workloads. Task
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Domyn has raised more than $1bn, which makes it one of the largest financings a European AI company has ever announced, yet only about a tenth of it is equity. The Milan company took roughly $1.1bn in total, split about 10% equity and 90% debt, according to Sifted. That
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Cinemas became the latest institution to move against Meta smart glasses on Thursday. The UK Cinema Association said many operators are introducing policies to restrict camera-enabled eyewear. It gave two reasons: film piracy, and customer privacy. Taken alone, that is a trade body managing a risk. Taken with the past
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Octopus Energy has launched Octopus Charge in the US, Canada and Mexico, aggregating more than 210,000 chargers from over 20 networks with no markup on energy prices. Its European equivalent covers 1.5 million chargers across more than 40 countries. A British energy company has put more than 210,
