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10:41 AM PDT · July 30, 2026 Spotify is giving users a new way to personalize their playlists with “User Notes,” a feature that lets them add their own notes to individual tracks, the company announced on Thursday. The streaming service says the new feature is designed to let users
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The Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 hit shelves next week, so you've only got a few days left to score big preorder savings. Samsung unvelied more than new foldables at its Galaxy Unpacked event last week. We also got our first look at ist next-gen lineup of
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Education is at a crossroads. People are having fewer kids, which means schools are bracing for lower enrollments. You can’t throw a rock on TikTok without running into an exhausted teacher ready to tear their hair out. And on top of this is the now-pervasive, often institutionally sanctioned use,
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NASA says this is the largest area of the honeycomb-textured terrain Curiosity has found so far. by Stevie Bonifield Jul 30, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC Image: NASA Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Thanks, AI: A new study by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is once again reminding everyone that internet users are losing significant amounts of money to online scams. In fact, the losses are
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Open weight models have become powerful enough to handle complex tasks such as multi-step agentic workflows, advanced reasoning, and long-horizon coding. However, as these models grow in capability, they also grow in size and hosting multi-trillion parameter architectures requires purpose-built infrastructure, high-end GPU compute, and optimized serving frameworks. On July
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Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can “control entire humanoid robots.” While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot’s upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports “whole-body motions” ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announcement on Thursday. 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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If you haven't yet received a new Secure Boot certificate for your Windows PC, don't worry: Microsoft is still working on dishing them out. Secure Boot helps protect the startup process by verifying digital signatures before any code loads into Windows. The tool's original
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Ozlo Sleepbuds 23.5 / 5 pros and cons * Very comfortable, masks most disruptive noise. * Stayed in my ears each time I wore them. * Easy-to-use app. * Expensive. * The sleep data takes a while to load. * The sleep staging greatly overestimated and underestimated various cycles. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The FCC has banned the sale and import of foreign-made robotic devices and power inverters. * The ban includes vacuums and lawn mowers from the world's largest robot manufacturers. * Robots previously imported into the
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Vehicles purpose-built to drive without human help received the first-ever approval in the US to pick up paid customers, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced on Thursday. The company, Amazon subsidiary Zoox, says it will soon begin to charge for rides in Las Vegas, where it’s been
