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Turns out there's a lot going on behind that blank screen. Thomas Holt/Shutterstock You might have noticed that pressing the power button on your TV's remote doesn't fully turn it off. Modern TVs are designed to enter a deep sleep or standby mode
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Looking for the most recent NYT Strands puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Strands is like a word find game, but without the list of words to find. Sometimes I see the theme and
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Looking for the most recent NYT Connections puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. In Connections, you look at a grid of 16 words and pick four words that have a connection to each other.
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Elon Musk recently claimed that his tunneling startup The Boring Company is working on “a simple precursor Hyperloop” between Austin and San Antonio that will reduce the journey between the two cities to less than 30 minutes. The Boring Company account shared Musk’s statement and said it “would be
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Microsoft is enabling its Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR) for Intel Core Ultra series 3 Panther Lake-based PCs. While Microsoft does have an official list of games that showcase the strengths of Auto SR, it is worth noting that the list is populated with games that already support superior upscaling
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone
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Today's best smartwatches are ultra-capable, feature-packed powerhouses. But is it just me, or are they all starting to feel kinda samey? Casio recently made headlines with its delightfully retro F-B100W, which takes your classic, rubbery, blocky Casio watch and adds in step-counting features. That sent me off on
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We’re seeing a big debate over AI safety and a potential slowdown, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published a plan to “pace the frontier,” while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly echoed President Donald Trump’s claims that the AI backlash is a hoax and regulation is unnecessary.
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An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 55% against 6%, and the OECD attributes the
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President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday. The first post asked his followers to vote on a new name for the technology. The second called the campaign against it a hoax and promised an AI Force and an AI czar. The rename has taken most of the
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A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wency Chen reported the account for
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* Snap is taking its AR glasses directly into the enterprise market * Nvidia, Salesforce, and AWS are joining Snap's push into workplace computing * Snap wants Specs to become a computer rather than another camera accessory Snap is taking its augmented reality glasses into the enterprise market through partnerships with
