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HP's New AI-Powered 3D Conferencing With Google Beam: Here's What Stands Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 18:56:00

HP has partnered with Google for a new virtual conferencing solution that doesn't need VR headsets or other wearables, called HP Dimension with Google Beam. Instead of glasses, it's a giant 3D-enabled display that sits on a conference desk in front of you and mimics the feeling of interacting with someone just a few feet away. It also costs $25,000. Previously called Project Starline, HP's Dimension with Google Beam promises to be "AI-powered," which refers to algorithms in charge of adjusting

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Switch 2 Battery Percentage Acting Weird? Try This Hidden Fix

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 19:12:00

It's been almost a week since the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, which broke records for a console release by selling more than 3.5 million units in its first four days. However, there is a bit of an issue with the system's battery indicator, which may cause owners some frustration. Switch 2 owners noticed that, even though the system's battery said it was at 0%, the console was still playable for hours. Nintendo has since confirmed that this is an issue, although it appears to be a problem w

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OpenAI Launches Improved Version of Latest Reasoning Model. Here's What It's Best For

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 20:16:47

OpenAI this week announced an improved version of its o3 generative AI reasoning model, saying it performed better on benchmarks and is designed to spend more time thinking on difficult problems. The new model, called o3-pro, is now available for Pro and Team users in ChatGPT and API users, and will come to Enterprise and Edu users next week. In its release notes, OpenAI said the model is similar to o1-pro, which users favored for its math, science and coding skills. It incorporates improvement

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Switch 2 Blows Past Records to Reach 3.5 Million Sales in Just 4 Days

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 20:36:00

Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in smart home tech to craft how-to guides, explainers, and recommendations for technology of all kinds. From using his home in beautiful Bend, OR as a testing zone for the latest security products to digging into the nuts and bolts of the best data privacy guidelines, Tyler has experience in all aspects of protecting your home and belongings. With a BA in Writing from George Fox and certification in Technic

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U.S. Open 2025: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 23:00:03

The 125th US Open takes place this weekend, with Bryson DeChambeau looking to clinch the title for a third time at the Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh. Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. The third of the year's majors, sees a 156-man field take on the course's notoriously lightning-fast, sloped greens and its punishing 175

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FCC threat to revoke EchoStar spectrum licenses draws widespread backlash

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-28 20:03:18

The Federal Communications Commission is facing widespread criticism after threatening to revoke EchoStar licenses for spectrum bands that rival firms, including SpaceX, want to take over. Opposition to license revocations came from conservatives, telecom consumer advocates, and some industry groups. The Free State Foundation, a free-market group that has generally supported Republican priorities at the FCC, filed comments saying that "arbitrary" decisions would create instability in the market

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She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 11:00:09

Bridgit Mendler was not in Hollywood anymore. Instead, she found herself in rural North Dakota, where the stars sparkled overhead rather than on the silver screen. And she was freezing. When her team tumbled out of their rental cars after midnight, temperatures had already plummeted into the 40s. Howling winds carried their breath away before it could fog the air. So it was with no small sense of urgency that the group scrambled to assemble a jury-rigged antenna to talk to a spacecraft that wou

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Trade war truce between US and China is back on

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 13:18:48

Donald Trump has said the US and China’s deal to restore their trade war truce is “done” after two days of marathon negotiations in London. In a post on his Truth Social network on Wednesday the US president hailed a breakthrough reached in bilateral talks in London late the night before. The deal revived a trade truce agreed in Geneva last month that subsequently faltered because of differences over Chinese rare earth exports and US export controls. “OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO F

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With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 16:58:43

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that o3-pro, a new version of its most capable simulated reasoning model, is now available to ChatGPT Pro and Team users, replacing o1-pro in the model picker. The company also reduced API pricing for o3-pro by 87 percent compared to o1-pro while cutting o3 prices by 80 percent. While "reasoning" is useful for some analytical tasks, new studies have posed fundamental questions about what the word actually means when applied to these AI systems. We'll take a deeper l

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After RFK Jr. fires vaccine advisors, doctors brace for blitz on childhood shots

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 18:38:11

The medical community is bracing for attacks on, and the possible dismantling of, federal recommendations for safe, lifesaving childhood vaccinations after health secretary and fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired all 17 members of a federal vaccine advisory committee Monday. Outrage has been swift after Kennedy announced the "clean sweep" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (A

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The iPad Is a Full-On Computer Now

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-09-27 22:59:09

“This is what you've all been waiting for.” That's what Craig Federighi stated with a gleeful grin on his face as he introduced the latest changes to the iPad at Apple's WWDC25 keynote. He wasn't talking about new iPad hardware, new software features, or AI implementation that didn't suck. He was talking about windows. You know, those things that computers have. With the release of iPadOS 26, Apple gives these tablets the ability to use conventional windowing—and iPads will never be the same.

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Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model

wired.com Will Knight 2025-09-28 00:22:26

Apple continued its slow-and-steady approach to integrating artificial intelligence into devices like the iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch on Monday, announcing a raft of new features and upgrades at WWDC. The company also premiered the Foundation Models framework, a way for developers to write code that taps into Apple’s AI models. Among the buzzier AI announcements at the event was Live Translation, a feature that translates phone and FaceTime calls from one language to another in real time. Appl

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The UK Accelerates Its Self-Driving Car Ambitions

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-09-28 08:30:00

Slow and steady. When it comes to autonomous vehicles on city roads, that’s been the approach in most of the world’s countries. But on Tuesday, the UK announced it would put a cautious foot on the pedal, when the Department of Transport said it would accelerate plans to allow companies to operate self-driving cars on public roads in limited pilot programs starting spring of next year. The British government had initially planned to open up its roads for self-driving vehicles more than a year la

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Apple Intelligence Is Gambling on Privacy as a Killer Feature

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-28 23:04:11

As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote concluded on Monday, market watchers couldn't help but notice that the company's stock price was down, perhaps a reaction to Apple's relatively low-key approach to incorporating AI compared to most of its competitors. Still, Apple Intelligence–based features and upgrades were plentiful, and while some are powered using the company's privacy- and security-focused cloud platform known as Private Cloud Compute, many run locally on Apple Intelligenc

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Senators Warn DOGE’s Social Security Administration Work Could Break Benefits

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-09-29 14:32:32

Democratic senators have concerns that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could break the Social Security Administration’s tech infrastructure. In a new letter addressed to SSA commissioner Frank Bisignano, senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden say that DOGE’s plans to “hastily upgrade” Social Security IT systems could disrupt the delivery of benefits or result in mass data losses. The warning comes after WIRED reported in March that DOGE officials were planning to rebui

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Blackstone Griddle Air Fryer Combo Review: Silly, but Nice

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-09-29 23:10:12

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Apple’s updated parental controls will require kids to get permission to text new numbers

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-29 18:06:43

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple is introducing a suite of updated child safety features, including one that will give parents more control over who their kids can communicate with. The features are set to arrive with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, which will launch this fall. Children will now be required to get parental approval when they want to communicate

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Apple Home is expanding its energy management features

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-09-29 21:34:22

Apple’s smart home didn’t get a single nod during the WWDC keynote, but it turns out there are some interesting developments coming to the Home app around energy management. In a video posted to the Apple developer site this week, the company outlined its new EnergyKit framework, which allows developers to integrate energy data from Apple Home in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 to reduce or shift the electricity usage of their devices to prioritize cleaner and/or less expensive energy. So, for example, yo

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AirPods Pro 3 could be on the way

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-09-29 16:19:42

In Brief Apple didn’t unveil new hardware during Monday’s WWDC 2025, but we could still be getting updated AirPods soon. According to Steve Moser of MacRumors, the code for the developer’s beta of iOS 26 mentions the AirPods Pro 3 alongside mentions of AirPods Pro and AirPods Pro 2. This suggests that the AirPods Pro 3 could be coming soon, which would make sense, because the AirPods Pro 2 have been out for almost 3 years. Apple has also included phrasing like “AirPods Pro 2 or later” in some

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ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-29 16:30:00

Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study on Wednesday claiming that, in certain scenarios, his former employer’s AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down. In a blog post, Adler describes a series of experiments he ran on OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model, the default model available in ChatGPT, to test the AI’s tendency to favor its own self-preservation, even if it’s at the expense of a user’s safety. In one test, Adler instructed GPT-4

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Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging AI-related copyright infringement

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2025-09-29 17:34:39

In Brief Disney and Universal have sued generative AI platform Midjourney for allegedly training its art-generating and -editing models on their content without permission. Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming that Midjourney ignored their earlier requests to cease violating their intellectual property rights, according to The Wall Street Journal. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, includes dozens of examples of images generate

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Snapchat rolls out a new $8.99 Lens+ subscription tier

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-29 17:54:14

Snapchat on Wednesday announced the launch of a new Snapchat+ tier called “Lens+.” The new tier costs $8.99 per month and, as its name suggests, is centered around giving users access to exclusive Lenses and AR experiences. In addition to giving users access to the perks unlocked with the standard $3.99 per month Snapchat+ tier, Lens+ gives users the ability to use hundreds of Lenses that let you “play, create, and share Snaps” with others, the company says. “We’re starting with Lenses built b

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Wikipedia pauses AI-generated summaries pilot after editors protest

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2025-09-29 18:01:41

In Brief Wikipedia has reportedly paused an experiment that used AI to summarize articles on its platform after editors pushed back. Wikipedia announced earlier this month it was going to run the experiment for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed and chose to opt in, according to 404 Media. AI-generated summaries appeared at the top of every Wikipedia article with a yellow “unverified” label. Users had to click to expand and read them. Editors almost immediately criticize

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US government’s vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-29 18:36:03

In Brief A U.S. government website designed to inform the public about vaccines has been defaced and now hosts apparently AI-generated spam. The domain, which belongs to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), appears to have been hosting the same kind of content — mostly gay-themed and LGBTQ+ posts — since at least May 12, according to an archived version of the site. It’s unclear who is responsible for it, or what is the purpose of this defacement other than pushing AI-gener

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Fervo Energy lands $206M in financing to build massive geothermal power plant

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-29 19:31:35

Geothermal frontrunner Fervo Energy said Wednesday that it had secured $206 million in financing to continue work on a new power plant in Utah. The startup is developing what promises to be the largest enhanced geothermal power plant in the world. The initial phase of Cape Station is expected to come online next year and produce 100 megawatts of electricity, and a subsequent expansion set to open in 2028 will add another 400 megawatts. Enhanced geothermal, which runs deeper and hotter than tra

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Sam Altman-backed Coco Robotics raises $80M

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-29 20:40:15

In Brief Los Angeles-based Coco Robotics, a startup building last-mile delivery robots, announced it raised $80 million on Wednesday. The funding round included angel investors Sam Altman and Max Altman, both returning investors, in addition to VC firms like Pelion Venture Partners and Offline Ventures, among others. This brings the company’s total funding to more than $120 million. The company last raised a $36 million Series A round in 2021. Coco’s zero-emissions robots can hold 90 liters’

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Block shares plunge 18%, for worst day on market in 5 years after earnings miss

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-06-14 15:26:24

Block shares plunged 18% on Friday, their steepest drop since 2020, after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings that missed estimates and issued guidance for 2025 that failed to reassure investors. In its financial report late Thursday, Block reported earnings of 71 cents per share, falling short of the average analyst estimate of 87 cents, according to LSEG. Revenue of $6.03 billion also missed expectations of $6.29 billion. The company posted $2.31 billion in gross profit for the quart

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DOGE Staffer Known as ‘Big Balls’ Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-06-14 15:05:17

Look, sure it’s not ideal that decisions that the federal government is being gutted agency by agency, stripped of purpose, funding, and staffing by Elon Musk and a team of 20-something-year-old edgelords who were sourced from a network of tech bro crypto-fascists and boost the messaging of white nationalists in their free time, but at least none of them are directly related to anyone deeply involved in the intelligence apparatus of a foreign adversary. Now, let me take a big sip of water and ch

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What's Behind OpenAI's Recent Growth Spurt to 400M Weekly Users?

cnet.com Omar Gallaga 2025-06-14 15:59:00

ChatGPT maker OpenAI says more than 400 million people a week are now actively using its artificial intelligence tools, a jump from the 300 million it reported this past December. OpenAI touted the figure this week, also telling media outlets that it's doubled its number of paid enterprise users to 2 million since September, and that its developer traffic has also doubled in the last six months. The news may surprise people who expected the rise of China's DeepSeek AI model to disrupt the grow

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DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-06-14 07:30:00

This month, Andrew Bernier, a US Army Corps of Engineers researcher and a union leader, says that he has received a barrage of menacing messages from the same anonymous email account. Unfolding like short chapters in a dystopian novel, they have spoken of the genius of Elon Musk, referenced the power of the billionaire’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and foretold the downfall of “corrupt” union bosses. But the most eerie thing about the emails, which Bernier says began a

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