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Foldable phones have unique durability concerns thanks to their moving parts and internal screens.
macOS is now a far healthier platform for gaming than it was just a few years ago, but it can't compete with Windows in many ways.
Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling" introductory screen in an APK…
Mini PCs offer a convenient form factor, but a laptop is ready to go with you anywhere. There's no perfect answer.
Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra
CarPlay's widgets let you check info quickly, which is a great option for apps that aren't otherwise supported.
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
TV and laptop repairs can get expensive in a hurry, so getting a warranty sounds smart. But is it really?
The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.
The new vuln, CVE-2026-88779, is a memory overflow bug that leads to denial of service
It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or…
The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it's also now the first to escape the FCC's Roomba ban. Well, sort of - because the Matic wasn't banned to begin with. Here's what's actually happening: On…
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.
Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.
People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze…
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long Musk paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
Like OpenClaw but with access control
Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month.
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable…
Meet RemoveMacAI
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
Under 1 million years old, “Elias 2-24b” is now the youngest exoplanet ever observed, and it may force researchers to reevaluate theories about how planets are formed.
The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae.
Another few bite the dust
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days officially begin tomorrow, but I’ve already spotted early discounts on gear our team recommends.
After months of testing, this high-end smart scale has made me rethink how much a bathroom weigh-in can tell me.
With no new 007 actor named and no film in the near future, Omega has had to get creative to keep its lucrative spy watch train running.
Longer battery life, better screen, upgraded Siri and new variable aperture camera in refreshed design from last year’s modelApple’s smaller Pro iPhone gets the best kind of spec bump for 2026: longer battery life…
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s totalAI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material…
Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creepFrom the veranda on his bush block, Denver Kanowski has watched resources…
Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruptionThere’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in…
A deep-seated duopoly allows the tech giants to exploit the public and developers. But the regulator has powers to stop this abuse – it should use themChi Onwurah is the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and…
While waiting for the dedicated LLM build hardware to arrive, I tried running Gemma 4 E4B on a Core i7-8850H laptop with 64GB RAM via LM Studio. It started well. It did not end well.
AI-assisted coding is genuinely useful in the hands of experienced professionals. In the hands of people who don't understand what they're building, it's a liability waiting to happen. An opinion from 30 years in IT.
A plain-English guide to SPF, DKIM and DMARC — what each one does, how to set them up correctly for your Australian domain, and how to test that everything is working.
Hitting cloud AI token limits too often and tired of paying for it. The plan: build a local LLM server from salvaged server hardware, a budget GPU, and a 25-year-old rack case. Part I covers the hardware decisions.
From a Creality Ender 3 during COVID lockdowns to dual Bambu Labs printers and a rack full of filament — a personal journey into 3D printing, including the parts nobody tells you about.
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