Published on: 2025-05-14 21:19:00
A hot potato: There were worrying reports yesterday that Waymo is considering using footage from its vehicles' interior cameras to train AI models and sell ads to riders. Now, the robotaxi company has responded, announcing that it has "no plans" to use the data for targeted ads. Researcher Jane Manchun Wong wrote in an X post that, according to an unreleased version of its privacy policy, Waymo is working on generative AI training using interior camera data associated with a rider's identity.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:03:00
A hot potato: In another example of the impact AI is having on jobs, Shopify's CEO has issued a warning to the company's managers: show that AI can't do the job better than a human before hiring new workers. Shopify previously laid off staff after it started using generative AI to complete some customer support tasks. Like many CEOs, Shopify boss Tobi Lütke has a passion for using AI in the workforce. In an internal memo to employees sent last month titled AI usage is now a baseline expectation
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:46:00
Why it matters: Laptop variants of Nvidia's RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070 have recently appeared in benchmarks, store listings, and on Nvidia's website, but information regarding the 5060 and 5050 remains scarce. Although laptops featuring the company's upcoming entry-level GPUs haven't emerged on Western storefronts, Chinese retailers have offered clues regarding their VRAM configurations. Razer, LG, and Lenovo have presented early glimpses at the upcoming RTX 5060 and 5050 laptop graphics
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:08:56
Ripple on Tuesday said that it's agreed to buy prime brokerage firm Hidden Road for $1.25 billion, in the crypto startup's biggest acquisition to date. Founded in 2018, Hidden Road offers clearing, prime brokerage and financing services across foreign exchange, digital assets, derivatives, swaps and fixed income. It currently clears more than $3 trillion annually across markets with over 300 institutional customers, including hedge funds. The acquisition marks one of the largest deals in the d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:00:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Enterprises are spending time and money building out retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. The goal is to have an accurate enterprise AI system, but are those systems actually working? The inability to objectively measure whether RAG systems are actually working is a critical blind spot. One potential solution to that challenge is launching today with the debut
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 20:00:00
You might think that such AI companionship bots—AI models with distinct “personalities” that can learn about you and act as a friend, lover, cheerleader, or more—appeal only to a fringe few, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. A new research paper aimed at making such companions safer, by authors from Google DeepMind, the Oxford Internet Institute, and others, lays this bare: Character.AI, the platform being sued by Garcia, says it receives 20,000 queries per second, which is about a f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:10:00
For several years now, Texas-based company Colossal Biosciences has been in the news for its plans to re-create woolly mammoths someday. But now it’s making a bold new claim—that it has actually “de-extincted” an animal called the dire wolf. Dire wolves were large, big-jawed members of the canine family. More than 400 of their skulls have been recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in California. Ultimately they were replaced by smaller relatives like the gray wolf. In its effort to re-create the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:19:02
TL;DR ANBERNIC has revealed its first device of 2025, the RG-557, featuring a large AMOLED display. It’s the most powerful device the company has ever released, emulating Wii U and upscaled PS2 games with ease. No word on pricing or release dates, but it may be packing the Snapdragon G2 Gen 1 processor. ANBERNIC has been suspiciously quiet this year after releasing a whopping 12 devices in 2024. Today the company finally announced its first device of 2025, and it looks like it might be a powe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:00:08
Anyone else feel like half the time their phone rings these days it's spam? Sometimes there's an alert before you even pick up, but other times it takes being in the call to know. Well, Google is now making it easier to do the latter, adding in-call scam detection to the Pixel Watch. The new AI-powered feature gives a loud beep at the start of the call and every couple minutes afterward. It will give a notification, beep and vibration in cases where a scam is very likely. You can dismiss the no
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:30:53
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released the administration's revised policies for the use of AI in federal agencies. As Reuters notes, it has altered Biden-era guidelines and has rescinded orders by the previous administration related to safety over the technology's use. The Trump administration said it's shifting towards a "forward-leaning, pro-innovation and procompetition mindset" instead of maintaining and "pursuing the risk-averse approach" of Biden's government.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:53:38
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 . You can get one for just $20 right now. Whether you're planning a long vacation or just want more peace of mind, a security camera can make a big difference in your life. Now, our choice for best budget security camera is half off, making safety all the more accessible. You can pick u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:00:00
Wahoo Fitness Wahoo kicked off its next generation of cycling tech with the launch of its upgraded flagship bike computer, the Elemnt Ace, in December 2024. Now, the company is rounding out its lineup with new third-generation versions of its mid-range and entry-level models, alongside its first-ever bike radar. Also: The best Garmin watches you can buy: Expert tested Leading the new releases is the Wahoo Elemnt Roam 3, which features a 2.8-inch anti-glare display with glove-friendly touch co
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ARBITRAGE AND EQUILIBRIUM IN THE TEAM FORTRESS 2 ECONOMY Arbitrage is the holy grail of every trader. The dream of buying low and selling high (for this is what arbitrage is all about) is the driver of all commerce but also its own worst enemy: for as everyone is trying to pursue it, the potential for arbitrage disappears. And when it does disappear totally, we have equilibrium (the holy grail of the economists). One of the problems of living in the analogue world is that these concepts (e.g.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 20:22:23
We’re a few years into a supposed artificial intelligence revolution, which could and should have been about reducing mundane tasks and freeing everyone up to do more interesting things with their time. Instead, thanks to the bloodthirsty nature of modern capitalism and an ideological crusade being waged by the tech industry, we’re now facing a world where many people’s livelihoods–like video game developers–are under direct threat. These tumultuous times are of course being reported on everywh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 22:03:23
5 min read I’m thrilled to share that Cloudflare has acquired Outerbase . This is such an amazing opportunity for us, and I want to explain how we got here, what we’ve built so far, and why we are so excited about becoming part of the Cloudflare team. Databases are key to building almost any production application: you need to persist state for your users (or agents), be able to query it from a number of different clients, and you want it to be fast. But databases aren’t always easy to use: de
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Less htmx is More October 02, 2024 It’s been two years since I wrote my first production webservice with htmx. Two years is not a very long time, but early indicators suggest that the software projects I’ve written with htmx are a much better experience for users, and orders of magnitude easier to maintain, than the software projects they replaced. They are likely to remain useful for longer than anything else I’ve ever written (so far). Pretty good! Like any new tool, especially a tool that
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 21:32:48
LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News Installation Install this plugin in the same environment as LLM. llm install llm-hacker-news Usage You can feed a full conversation thread from Hacker News into LLM using the hn: fragment with the ID of the conversation. For example: llm -f hn:43615912 ' summary with illustrative direct quotes ' Item IDs can be found in the URL of the conversation thread. Development To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 22:23:02
What if, rather than banning advertising outright, we taxed it instead? Photo by Jo San Diego on Unsplash [ED: This is one that I’ve been ruminating on for a while. I have a lot of thoughts about a post-advertising/post-algo-driven-feed world. Ping me if this kind of thing interests you. I’d love to chat: 0/5 hats.] What If We Taxed Advertising? I recently read “What If We Made Advertising Illegal?“ at Simone.org (which generated considerable HackerNews discussion). It makes a bold case: adv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:15:07
It seems like new tablets have been dropping like rain lately, each one trying to one-up the other. As the tech wars escalate, however, so do the prices, and if you’ve been watching the news over the past week, this might not be the time for big splurges. So when Amazon keeps the price of the 10th Gen iPad just a buck above its all-time low, that’s a deal worth jumping on. This 30% off deal brings you the 10th Gen iPad in its maxed-out 256GB form to you for just $350. It’s a savings of $150 off
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:50:20
Your quest for the ultimate portable charger ends here. The Anker 737 Power Bank won’t be a drag on your carry-on bag, backpack, or briefcase, but it will power up a MacBook and 2 other devices at the same time, and during this limited-time Amazon deal that cuts 41% off its price, it’s just $88. Everything about the Anker 737 Power Bank is impressive. It’s roughly the size of a soda can and weighs only a pound and half, yet it packs a massive 24,000mAh punch with two USB-C and one USB-A ports.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 21:35:04
The 2025 Ford Maverick remains the sole compact pickup truck on sale in North America—and it’s been a smash success since it launched, with Ford adding a third shift at its plant to meet the demand. That suggests not every American pickup buyer needs something the size of Ford’s F-Series, which remains the best-selling vehicle line in the US after four decades. In particular, the Maverick made headlines in 2022 by offering a hybrid version that returned a 37 mpg combined EPA rating—against 26 m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 22:30:00
When I got married 14 years ago, my three high school best friends pooled together and bought me a KitchenAid stand mixer. It’s a beautiful heirloom, and I think about my friends whenever I’ve made batches of chocolate chip cookies over the years. Like most home stand mixers, it’s a planetary mixer—the blades rotate around a fixed point. Properly cared for, a nice planetary mixer will last forever. But it often doesn’t feel like it when you’re making 4,000 batches of pizza dough and clinging to
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Most soundbars also offer optical audio inputs for older TVs without HDMI ARC support, but you'll want to check to make sure (or you could just upgrade to a new TV too!). We recommend sticking to soundbars with HDMI ARC at a minimum. It's a much simpler connection, and it's the minimum requirement for sending 3D audio formats that use height channels like Dolby Atmos or DTS:X. Most soundbars support wireless streaming via Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth. Higher-quality models may also provide spare HDMI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:04:57
Meta is broadening Instagram restrictions that prevent minors from being exposed to inappropriate contact and content, bringing those protections to Facebook and Messenger and adding new limits for teenage Instagram users. After introducing “Teen Accounts” to Instagram in September — which automatically make younger users’ accounts private and restrict them from accessing certain features — Meta has announced that “similar” protections are now available on Facebook and Messenger. This comes as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:57:56
In most ways, Nintendo’s Switch 2 is exactly what we wanted: a Switch, only better. Nintendo has an occasional tendency to follow its best and most successful consoles with some of its weirdest ideas – Wii U, anyone? — but this time seems to have stayed the course in the best way. Still, this is Nintendo, so there are a few oddities in this console. On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk about all the best and worst things about the Switch so far. (I should say: one of the very worst things
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:00:00
Dark kitchens– also referred to as ghost kitchens, cloud kitchens, or virtual kitchens– often receive criticism for their food quality. Sizl, a cook-to-order delivery service based in Chicago, seeks to change this perception by delivering meals made with fresh ingredients in around 30 minutes flat. The company announced its recent $3.5 million seed round on Tuesday, at a $12 million post-money valuation. Unlike typical dark kitchens, which serve as shared spaces for various restaurants, Sizl s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:00:00
Plenty of materials — from sulfur and sodium to manganese and organic molecules — have tried to topple the ubiquitous lithium-ion battery. And, so far, they’ve all failed. Organic batteries, which are built from some of the most abundant chemicals here on Earth, including carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, has been perhaps the most frustrating failure. They should be cheaper than today’s batteries that use metals. Yet no one has been able to crack the organic battery. Until now, perhaps. A young s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:08:36
A founder who has carved out a name for himself building products to help restaurants connect better with would-be diners has raised $50 million for his latest startup: a new take on the idea of customer loyalty. Blackbird Labs has built a payments-meets-loyalty-meets-blockchain platform for restaurants to grow repeat business while reducing some of the friction around transactions. Now, with with some 1,000 restaurants signed up, CEO Ben Leventhal said Blackbird plans to use the money to launc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 08:15:00
What just happened? Apple's flagship iPhone has remained at a starting price of $999 since the launch of the iPhone X in 2017, but that streak of price stability may end. Analysts predict that new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration could force Apple to raise prices dramatically, with the iPhone 16 Pro Max potentially seeing a $350 increase, if not more. This anticipated price hike has sparked a frenzy among consumers, who rushed to Apple stores to purchase devices before costs climb. A
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Meta expands restrictions for teen users to Facebook and Messenger 42 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Meta is expanding Teen Accounts - what it considers its age-appropriate experience for under 18s - to Facebook and Messenger. The system involves putting younger teens on the platforms into more restricted settings by default, with parental permission required in order to live stream or turn off image protections for messages. It was first introd
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