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The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten

Bill Gates is worried about AI. Nobody’s preparing for a future of mass unemployment, inhumanly powerful cyber attacks, and a massive accumulation of power and wealth among emperors of tech. Yes, that Bill Gates. Really.

A mere 25 years since the Redmond global octopus squeezed its tentacles tighter with Windows XP, yer man’s getting cold feet about this tech stuff. He glances nervously back at the Great Depression. Do we really want to go back there?

He’s not wrong, but that doesn't count for much these days. His remedies, that of collective international regulation and national planning and investment in creating new realms of employment for the soon-to-be-defenestrated white and blue collar humans, are logical and necessary. For the moment, at least, this simple fact renders them impossible, in the same way that an increasingly aggressive decarbonization of the economy is logical, necessary, and currently impossible. Planning for the...

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Dyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for you

Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Dyson is once again expanding its line of personal care products with a device that focuses on your teeth instead

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Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender

Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning BORK! BORK!BORK! There was a time when catching a bus meant knowing how the local network worked: a dog-eared timetable or encyclopedic knowledge of routes and numbering systems was required before you even got

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Welcome home! How AI data centers supply chain uncertainties might drive re-shoring

Hyperscaler AI vendors have ambitious plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, and, on some counts, trillions, on new AI data centers over the next five years. Constraints on energy, memory, and AI chips tend to grab the headlines. Yet these plans also come at a time of growing

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The Insta360 X5 Is $465 at Amazon and Ready for Your Next Adventure

Save $85: We’ve spotted the Insta360 X5 for $465 at Amazon right now. That saves you $85 and represents a 15% discount. It’s not quite as low as the price we saw during the Fourth of July sales, but it’s still a solid price on this camera

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Dyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for you

Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender

Welcome home! How AI data centers supply chain uncertainties might drive re-shoring

The Insta360 X5 Is $465 at Amazon and Ready for Your Next Adventure