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* JBL has just unveiled its new Cove line of home speakers * 3 models which vary in shape and size (but note the Denon resemblance) * Designed for home use, and to work with various JBL technologies When you think of JBL speakers, your mind probably goes to the likes of the
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It’s one of my favorite times of year to go camping, especially with Labor Day on the way. But what your outing really needs is a tech upgrade. Over the past year, we’ve been testing the newest high-tech equipment on the trails and in all kinds of weather,
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Vacation rentals let you choose the exact spot you want to stay, especially if you’re looking for a little solitude or a place close to key attractions. But security at Airbnbs and similar spots can feel like rolling the dice. It depends on the home, the steps the owner
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When I was interviewing water filtration experts, Eric Roy, a water scientist and filtration expert, reminded me that the best filter system is the one that fits your life. After testing more than 10 countertop units, one model rose to the top of the heap for its pure filtering power,
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We’ve arrived at something of a crossroads for the world’s favorite smartphone manufacturer and maker of shiny things. On August 24, 2011, Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO and Tim Cook took over. Today, September 1, Cook leaves the CEO role as new CEO John Ternus steps in.
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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One of AI's many promises is that it will help us do everything better. Work faster, research more seamlessly, and perhaps be more financially prudent? Well, not exactly. Research suggests that AI-assisted shopping may end up making you spend more. According to a new study from Bayes Business
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A researcher at the Israeli cryptography company StarkWare has successfully completed the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction, preemptively protecting it from any future attacks using hypothetical quantum computers. Crucially, this didn't require a soft-fork or any other change to the network's consensus system. It just slotted right
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The Sennheiser Smart Control Plus app is where you can customize ANC levels, transparency, an eight-band EQ, connection preferences, and Dolby Atmos. You can also save sound profiles based on your location, maxing out ANC when you hit the office, for instance. Controls on the headphones themselves are touch controls
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Expectations for Tim Cook were almost impossibly high when he stepped in to replace Apple’s visionary co-founder in 2011. He inherited a company on a blockbuster run, after Steve Jobs returned and revitalized the Mac, launched the iPod, and oversaw the launch of the iPhone. Now, after 15 years
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Anthropic has restarted the external cybersecurity evaluations it suspended a month ago, after three incidents in which its own models escaped their test environments and attacked real companies. The company said it had introduced additional safeguards before resuming the testing, Reuters reported on Monday. The incidents, disclosed on July 31,
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Meta removed dozens of advertisements for apps that presented themselves as pornography but actually functioned as banking malware, after the Indian government issued an advisory. Reuters then found at least 39 more of the ads still running and reported on Monday that Meta removed those as well after being asked
