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As a parent, I know how easy it is to use screen time as a way to keep my kid busy — whether it’s TV, learning apps or FaceTime with family, it may buy me a few minutes. I’m not alone: A new study from Florida International University’s
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On Wednesday night, Runlayer and Rippling dropped their respective lawsuits against each other. No settlement was made. No money changed hands. Not even lawyers’ fees, according to court documents seen by TechCrunch. Rippling celebrated by instantly releasing its MCP gateway, the product at the heart of the dueling lawsuits and
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As AI continues to kill traffic to websites, Google on Thursday threw a bone to those publishers negatively impacted by the change. It’s now allowing readers to push a button on a publisher’s website to indicate it’s a “favorite source” they’d like to see highlighted more
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If you move a light quickly enough, your eyes can be tricked into seeing it in places where it no longer is. Persistence of vision displays take advantage of this effect by rapidly moving LEDs through space while carefully controlling when each one turns on. With good enough timing, a
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Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity specialist Semtech has announced production of two new LoRa transceivers, the LR2012 and LR2022 ‒ part of the company's LoRa Plus range, alongside the earlier LR2021. "With the LR2022 and LR2012 now in production, there is a LoRa Plus chip for multiple IoT
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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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When you search for self-cleaning water bottles, two brands tend to dominate the results: Larq and Sans. Self-cleaning water bottles primarily use UV-C light to purify water, removing at least 99.9% of bio-contaminants such as salmonella, E. coli and staphylococcus. And some self-cleaning water bottles offer additional features, including
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In January last year, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with NASA and Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. The Blue Ghost went on to become the first commercially built lunar vehicle to land on the moon, and the reusable lower stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 landed back
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* Watch The Girls: A Khloé Kardashian Project onHulu and Disney+ * Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save 75%) * Premiere: Friday, August 21 (global) In The Girls: A Khloé Kardashian Project, the titular member of everyone's favorite reality TV family is putting her and her friends front and center in
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One of the nicest things about checking out the best speakers at a big trade show, (in this case, Audio Advice Live in Raleigh, North Carolina) is that sometimes you have family nearby. So, when I was doing my second round of some of the vendors that really stood out
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In Brief 12:01 PM PDT · August 20, 2026 Castelion, a missile startup founded by former SpaceX executives, has raised a $1 billion Series C at a $13 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Carlyle, and JP Morgan Chase. Founded in 2022, Castelion set out to manufacture
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Silicon Valley is trying to make sense of the growing backlash against artificial intelligence, but so far, it’s not going that well. The inconvenient truth is that a significant portion of the world is not optimistic about the technology they’re building. But recent attempts to diagnose the root
