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Spotify’s Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life
Spotify has lost all enthusiasm for the little music devices it sold for just half a year. Firmware hackers, as usually happens, have a lot…
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Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one
In some ways, my review of the new MacBook Pros will be a lot like my review of the new iMac. This is the third…
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Many of you know that most of our staff is spread out all over these United States, but what you might not know is that…
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Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia
Amazon now expects around $75 billion in capital spending in 2024, with the majority on technology infrastructure. On the company’s latest earnings call, chief executive…
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Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI
While Bing Chat’s unhinged nature was caused in part by how Microsoft defined the “personality” of Sydney in the system prompt (and unintended side-effects of…
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Mazda gives the 2025 CX-50 a big efficiency boost to 38 mpg with hybrid power
The CX-50 Hybrid is also quite well equipped in its base Preferred trim. Opting for the $37,400 Premium trim adds a panorami powered moonroof, some…
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Cadillac reveals the 2026 Vistiq, a $77,395 electric SUV
Cadillac has another new electric vehicle on the way. It’s the 2026 Vistiq, a three-row SUV that fills the gap in the American automaker’s lineup.…
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There are some things the Crew-8 astronauts aren’t ready to talk about
Once the leak stabilized, the astronauts closed the hatch and began repressurizing the airlock. “Getting the airlock closed was kind of me grabbing her legs…
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FTX sues Binance for $1.76B in battle of crypto exchanges founded by convicts
The lawsuit further claims that while FTX was “in freefall, Zhao sent additional false tweets calculated, in part, to prevent FTX from seeking and obtaining…
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Anthropic hires its first “AI welfare” researcher
The researchers propose that companies could adapt the “marker method” that some researchers use to assess consciousness in animals—looking for specific indicators that may correlate…