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Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.
Read MorePlus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.
Read MoreI know that the Clicks Communicator got a lot of love at CES this year. Honestly, it probably deserves most of it — a physical keyboard with a fingerprint reader hidden in the spacebar is a cool design. It wasn’t much of a surprise, though, as we’d heard rumblings about big things out of Clicks
Read MorePlus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority I always see the start of every year as a blank piece of paper — a chance to start fresh. And that’s exactly what I’ll be doing this year when it comes to the apps and services I use. I regularly use several of them, but it’s time to
Read MoreMacworld TL;DR: Kick off the new year with Apple’s most powerful laptop, the MacBook Pro, for only $299.97 (reg. $1,499). If you didn’t get what you really wanted for Christmas, now’s the time to change that. A MacBook Pro can be yours for only $299.97 — $1,200 off the usual price tag — while supplies last. Upgrade your laptop for
Read MoreMacworld TL;DR: Kick off the new year with Apple’s most powerful laptop, the MacBook Pro, for only $299.97 (reg. $1,499). If you didn’t get what you really wanted for Christmas, now’s the time to change that. A MacBook Pro can be yours for only $299.97 — $1,200 off the usual price tag — while supplies last. Upgrade your laptop for
Read MoreMeta has signed long-term nuclear power deals totaling more than 6 gigawatts to fuel its data centers: “one from a startup, one from a smaller energy company, and one from a larger company that already operates several nuclear reactors in the U.S,” reports TechCrunch. From the report: Oklo and TerraPower, two companies developing small modular
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: [P]erhaps AI can, in fact, learn in a more human way — by figuring out interesting questions to ask itself and attempting to find the right answer. A project from Tsinghua University, the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), and Pennsylvania State University shows that AI
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: [P]erhaps AI can, in fact, learn in a more human way — by figuring out interesting questions to ask itself and attempting to find the right answer. A project from Tsinghua University, the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), and Pennsylvania State University shows that AI
Read MoreIn 1966, a mathematician named [Leo Moser] proposed what sounds like a simple problem: What’s the largest shape you can move through a 1-meter corridor with a right-angle corner? Now, Korean mathematics whiz [Baek Jin-eon] claims to have solved the problem, nearly 60 years later. The trick is, apparently, the shape of the sofa. By
Read MoreIn 1966, a mathematician named [Leo Moser] proposed what sounds like a simple problem: What’s the largest shape you can move through a 1-meter corridor with a right-angle corner? Now, Korean mathematics whiz [Baek Jin-eon] claims to have solved the problem, nearly 60 years later. The trick is, apparently, the shape of the sofa. By
Read MoreBetterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your crypto,” according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment account says in an X thread that this was an “unauthorized message” that was sent via a “third-party system.” Here’s
Read MoreBetterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your crypto,” according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment account says in an X thread that this was an “unauthorized message” that was sent via a “third-party system.” Here’s
Read MoreVisual Studio Code 1.108, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, introduces support for Agent Skills, a new feature that allows users to teach the GitHub Copilot coding agent new capabilities and provide domain-specific knowledge. VS Code 1.108, also known as the December 2025 release, arrived January 8. Developers can access it for Windows,
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube users are experiencing an issue that’s causing video uploads to get stuck in processing. The company has acknowledged the issue and says it is working on a fix. Uploading a video to YouTube isn’t exactly a quick process, but it doesn’t usually take very long either. You
Read MoreMost users won’t notice the change, but homes relying on older devices could lose Home access after February 10. Home upgrade The company has begun emailing users who haven’t upgraded, saying Home app access could be blocked after the deadline. Apple also warns accessories, automations, and security updates may stop working. The change affects Apple
Read MoreMost users won’t notice the change, but homes relying on older devices could lose Home access after February 10. Home upgrade The company has begun emailing users who haven’t upgraded, saying Home app access could be blocked after the deadline. Apple also warns accessories, automations, and security updates may stop working. The change affects Apple
Read MoreIf you choose to get an extra controller for your Nintendo Switch 2, you can spend a lot — and get a lot in return. Buying Nintendo’s own $89 Switch 2 Pro Controller, for instance, will net you the console’s only wireless controller with a 3.5mm headphone jack for private listening, not to mention great-feeling
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is revamping its backup settings with Expressive UI. The update also hints at a new Backup Schedule feature. This new feature could give you more control over when your photos are backed up. Since Google announced Material 3 Expressive, the new design language has been slowly
Read MoreCredit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is revamping its backup settings with Expressive UI. The update also hints at a new Backup Schedule feature. This new feature could give you more control over when your photos are backed up. Since Google announced Material 3 Expressive, the new design language has been slowly
Read MoreKia unveiled the EV2, a small and affordably priced electric vehicle built for the European market. The EV2 made its debut at the Brussels Auto Show, where executives touted it as its “most compact” EV to date. Of course, it was another in a long line of affordable, capable, and impressively designed EVs that won’t
Read MoreThe first video I saw of the Minneapolis shooting was bad enough. Shortly after I saw it, I had the terrible realization that there were multiple people in the clip holding their phones up – another angle was bound to surface. Within minutes, a second video was all over social media, and it was even
Read MoreThe image editing ability is now limited only to paid subscribers on X. Read more: Image editing on Grok limited on X after users prompt AI deepfakes
Read MoreThe image editing ability is now limited only to paid subscribers on X. Read more: Image editing on Grok limited on X after users prompt AI deepfakes
Read MoreThe funds will allow for the significant scale up of digitalisation efforts among SMEs and public sector organisations. Read more: Ireland’s national AI centre given €5.7m to advance European digital initiative
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