Published on: 2025-05-09 14:28:38
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Amazon is showing off new AI technology this week, including its take on a more conversational voice model to better compete with things like Gemini Live and OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode and an update to its model that can generate video. The new Nova Sonic voice model handles real-time speech processing and AI voice generation for conversati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 20:31:00
Silver Lining: Nvidia has been significantly impacted by the tariffs introduced by Donald Trump on April 2. The company sources nearly all of its GPU products from TSMC and is likely to face price increases in the near future. However, according to market analysts, data center servers for AI workloads could partially avoid the new tariffs. The technology industry is still grappling with the aftermath of the new economic policy imposed by the US administration on its traditional partners and com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 20:30:46
Technology stocks declined Tuesday, erasing earlier gains after a broad market relief rally faded. The tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped more than 2%, wiping out an earlier gain of 4.6% at its highs. Apple dropped about 5%. Meta Platforms , Alphabet , Amazon were also lower Tesla . Microsoft and Nvidia hovered near the flatline. Markets rallied earlier in the session on optimism that the U.S. could negotiate deals to lower tariffs with some of world leaders. Those hopes faded on worries that negotiati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 19:21:44
As Americans fret about what their future looks like amidst Donald Trump's heightening trade wars, the people of China have a suggestion: get used to sweatshops. A wild AI-generated post depicting schlubby Americans toiling in dingy factories has gone viral on Chinese social media before leaking out onto US trending tabs. It pokes fun at Trump's so-called "reindustrialization" gambit to bring factories back to the US — and anyone foolish enough to believe the billionaire's policies will benefit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 20:01:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Wells Fargo has quietly accomplished what most enterprises are still dreaming about: building a large-scale, production-ready generative AI system that actually works. In 2024 alone, the bank’s AI-powered assistant, Fargo, handled 245.4 million interactions – more than doubling its original projections – and it did so without ever exposing sensitive customer data to a l
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Last year, Google started rolling out an incredible new feature for the Pixel Watch 3 : Loss of Pulse Detection. This first-of-its-kind smartwatch feature monitors your pulse and, if it sees a drop, causes the smartwatch to trigger a response. Many European countries and the United Kingdom have been using this for months now. However, it was only in March 2025 that Google received FDA clearance for the feature. Finally, today, Google is rolling out Loss of Pulse Detection to the Pixel Watch 3 i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 20:41:19
Back in December, the iPhone gained a new Image Playground app powered by Apple Intelligence, and that app just got a welcome upgrade in iOS 18.4 thanks to a newly added feature for image creation. Sketch completes trio of Image Playground styles Apple Intelligence is an umbrella term covering a wide array of different features. iOS 18.2 brought some of the most exciting features to date with ChatGPT integration, Genmoji, and Image Playground. If you’re into AI image generation, Image Playgro
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The next-generation handheld will cost $450 and be available on June 5. With Nintendo's April 2 Direct showcase over and done, we now know more about the Switch 2 than ever before, including its release date (June 5) and price ($450!). We're also keeping a close eye on how the recently-announced tariffs in the United States are affecting Nintendo's launch plans — the company has already paused pre-orders in the US that were set to take place on April 9. Thanks to Nintendo's January 16 teaser t
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Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Stream shows like Ted Lasso and Severance for only $3 per month. If you've been waiting for the right time to try Apple TV+, now may be your best shot. You can snag three months of access to one of our favorite streaming services for only $9. Apple TV+ includes highly rated original
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While the Nintendo Switch 2 had its splashy debut last week, including details about the hardware and launch games, there's still lots about the console that Nintendo has yet to clear up. For instance, the company hasn't gone into specifics about the CPU and GPU that are powering the Switch 2, other than to touch on the performance enhancements that they offer over the Switch (NVIDIA separately confirmed that the Switch 2 uses its Deep Learning Super Sampling tech). However, since last Wednesda
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Microsoft says the RansomEXX ransomware gang has been exploiting a high-severity zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System to gain SYSTEM privileges on victims' systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-29824, was patched during this month's Patch Tuesday and was only exploited in a limited number of attacks. CVE-2025-29824 is due to a use-after-free weakness that lets local attackers with low privileges gain SYSTEM privileges in low-complexity attacks that don't require user i
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ZDNET's key takeaways What the Sony Bravia X90L lacks in eye-popping specs, it more than makes up for in real-world picture performance and Sony upscaling technology, which delivers great video for movies, sports, cable, and streaming. Regarding the features you'll love for daily use, the X90L has an excellent remote that feels premium, is just the right size, includes backlighting, and has a good balance of just the right number of buttons The X90L also has Google TV built-in. The closest ri
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Using Token Sequences to Iterate Ranges There was a StackOverflow question recently that led me to want to write a new post about Ranges. Specifically, I wanted to write about some situations in which Ranges do more work than it seems like they should have to. And then what we can do to avoid doing that extra work. I’ll offer solutions — one sane one, which you can already use today, and one pretty crazy one, which is using a language feature we’re still working on designing, which may not even
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April 8, 2025 Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things, I'm completely rewriting the chapter on Logic Programming Languages. I originally showcased the paradigm with puzzle solvers, like eight queens or four-coloring. Lots of other demos do this too! It takes creativity and insight for humans to solve them, so a program doing it feels magical. But I'm trying to write a book about practical techniques
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Obituary for the greatest monument to logical AGI. After 40 years, 30 million rules, 200 million dollars, 2000 person-years, and many promises, Cyc has failed to reach intellectual maturity, and may never will. Exacerbated by the secrecy and insularity of Cycorp, there remains no evidence of its general intelligence.
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The race is on to deliver the most compelling package of specifications in a smartphone for under $500. Motorola is up next with the refreshed $400 Moto G Stylus update for 2025. It has many compelling features, including a built-in stylus and a massive battery. It also has fast charging through Motorola’s 68W TurboPower, which purports to charge the device fully in about 15 minutes. Motorola bills this as one of its smoothest Moto G Stylus devices in a long time. The built-in stylus pops out a
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After many years away in the wake of the Hobbit films’ releases, Lego’s Lord of the Rings line has firmly established itself as one of the brick maker’s annual treats, first delivering an incredible, lush replica of Rivendell in 2023, and then the daunting dark tower of Barad-Dûr last year. In 2025 Lego is taking to heart the lessons at the core of the films and embracing the finer parts of a quiet, peaceful life by visiting the Shire and the opening act of Fellowship of the Ring. But while hobb
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 20:00:00
The economic headlines are full of recession indicators, from tariffs and a potential trade war to wild stock market swings. With mortgage rates dipping slightly, some homebuyers are wondering if there might be a silver lining to a downturn -- namely, lower mortgage rates and home prices. I've worked in real estate for more than 20 years, and I've seen my share of market fluctuations, from boom times to full-blown crashes, like in 2008. When it comes to whether you should buy a home now, the ec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 20:11:00
Amid an escalating trade war between President Trump and China, expect to pay more for your next iPhone or Apple product -- a lot more, experts say. "Trump is playing hardball with China, which is unsettling on many levels," Patti Brennan, certified financial planner and CEO of Key Financial, said in an email. "As for Apple, expect the prices to double for their products." Trump announced yesterday an additional 50% tariff on goods imported from China, which would raise the total tariff rate o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 20:00:00
Slowly but surely, Apple TV+ has found its feet. The streaming service, which at launch we called “odd, angsty, and horny as hell,” has evolved into a diverse library of dramas, documentaries, and comedies. Now its library is so packed that we’ve declared it “the new HBO.” Curious but don’t know where to get started? Below are our picks for the best shows on the service. (Also, here are our picks for the best movies on Apple TV+.) When you’re done, head over to our guides to the best shows on N
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If the US is headed for a recession, or even if Americans think it might be, the amount of income they want to spend on monthly streaming subscriptions might see a dip, analysts tell WIRED. Last week, President Donald Trump rolled out a policy that places a blanket 10 percent tariff on goods coming from most of the US’s trading partners, plus additional hefty import duties on countries in key regions like Europe and Asia. Mostly, these costs will affect consumer products like cars and sneakers,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 20:00:44
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. A Tesla Supercharger station was severely damaged in a possible explosion in Lacey, Washington. The local police department is investigating the incident, along with the FBI, which has been probing a number of acts of vandalism involving Tesla. The Lacey Police Department said it received multiple calls of a “loud noise” a
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…the truth is China stopped being the low labor costscountry many years ago and that is not the reason to come to China from a supply point of view. The reason is because of the skill and the, the quantity of skill in one location, and the type of skill. It is like the products we do require really advanced tooling and the precision that you have to have in tooling and working with the materials that we do are state-of-the-art, and the tooling skill is very deep here. You know in, in the US, you
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Jeff Bezos is funding a secretive EV startup based in Michigan called Slate Auto that could start production as soon as next year, according to multiple sources and documents that link the billionaire’s family office to the startup. Slate, which took root in another Bezos-connected company called Re:Build Manufacturing, has been operating quietly since its founding in 2022. The company has hired hundreds of employees while in stealth — many of whom come from Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, an
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Last week, details emerged about an application that fintech giant Stripe had submitted for a U.S. banking license. There was a lot of chatter on X about whether this meant Stripe – already the largest privately valued fintech in the world – would now be adding bank to the list of descriptions of what it does. The short answer is: No. What is true is that this marks the first time that Stripe has applied for a banking license. But what may not be as clear is that the scope of the license is a
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A new company, Deep Cogito, has emerged from stealth with a family of openly available AI models that can be switched between “reasoning” and non-reasoning modes. Reasoning models like OpenAI’s o1 have shown great promise in domains like math and physics, thanks to their ability to effectively fact-check themselves by working through complex problems step by step. This reasoning comes at a cost, however: higher computing and latency. That’s why labs like Anthropic are pursuing “hybrid” model ar
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Editor's take: The list of deprecated features in the Windows ecosystem continues to grow, even as millions still rely on them daily. Occasionally, Microsoft has to tap the brakes on its phase-out plans – though it tends to attribute the shift to the vague catch-all of "user feedback." Microsoft recently announced it will postpone the deprecation of driver synchronization from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers. The company had planned to end support this month but reversed course af
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In brief: Midjourney recently launched a new version of its generative artificial intelligence program that makes it almost impossible to distinguish digital creations from real photos, especially when leveraging a clever prompt trick. Over on X, user Min Choi shared a series of images created with Midjourney v7 using a clever hack. By appending a generic camera filename to the input prompt, Choi was able to get the AI to spit out photo-realistic images time and again. According to Choi, these
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 21:08:12
Donald Trump's brutal tariff war is already rattling the global economy — and the resolve of business leaders everywhere. Look no further than the president's close ally and number one henchman Elon Musk, who the Washington Post reports has been personally begging Trump to reconsider behind closed doors. Over the weekend, Musk broke rank and railed against the architect of Trump's catastrophic tariff policy, advisor on trade and manufacturing, Peter Navarro. But Trump doubled down, threatenin
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