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We Did the Math: Trump Mobile Is a Bad Deal for Consumers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 02:00:00

When the Trump Organization announced its new Trump Mobile cell service and gold colored T1 phone -- complete with an American flag on the back -- it raised a lot of questions. While most of them focused on the numerous mistakes and typos on the Trump Mobile site -- some of which have been fixed -- other errors and questionable policies, like calling RAM storage, not identifying the handset's processor or the fact that you can't get a refund for the T1 phone raised several flags for us. Even the

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OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-26 07:10:58

OpenAI researchers say they’ve discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas,” according to new research published by the company on Wednesday. By looking at an AI model’s internal representations — the numbers that dictate how an AI model responds, which often seem completely incoherent to humans — OpenAI researchers were able to find patterns that lit up when a model misbehaved. The researchers found one such feature that corresponded to toxic behavior i

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Waymo cars are coming to New York, but with a driver behind the wheel

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-09-26 11:59:02

Residents of New York City will soon start seeing Waymo cars cruising the avenues. But at least for now, a human will be in the driver's seat. Alphabet 's self-driving car unit announced on Wednesday that it plans to drive vehicles manually in New York, marking the first step toward potentially cracking the largest U.S. city. Waymo said it applied for a permit with the New York City Department of Transportation to operate autonomously with a trained specialist behind the wheel in Manhattan. "W

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T-Mobile is ruining almost all of its plans with new taxes and fees charges

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-26 10:05:36

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile will reportedly start charging taxes and fees on top of its tablet, smartwatch, and hotspot plans. Previously, these plans were still available with taxes and fees included in their monthly prices. The change is said to take effect as early as today, with wording on T-Mobile’s website suggesting they’re already rolling out. Earlier this year, T-Mobile made a pretty significant change (read: downgrade) to its unlimited plans. After almost a decade

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T-Mobile’s new prepaid plans look great on paper, but is there a catch?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-26 10:42:39

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T‑Mobile is shaking up its prepaid offerings with three plans, ranging from $40 to $60 per month for one line. The new plans largely look like an upgrade, but there are a few possible catches around prioritization and family discounts. The new plans look similar to what you’ll find from other prepaid plans based on T-Mobile’s network, though whether they are better or not remains unseen until we know a bit more. Earlier this year, T-Mobile unveiled its ne

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Don't Let Sneaky Subscriptions Ruin Your Budget. Americans Spend More Than $1,000 a Year on These Services, CNET Survey Finds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 10:45:00

Cole Kan/CNET Looking for ways to cut back on your budget? Start with your subscriptions. Think about how much you're paying monthly for your Netflix, Amazon Prime and Instacart subscriptions alone. The costs can quickly add up. CNET's second annual subscription survey found that the average US adult spends $1,080 per year on subscriptions -- averaging to $90 per month. Even more alarming, US adults are wasting nearly $200 a year on unused subscriptions. With prices remaining high and tariffs

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This AI Model Never Stops Learning

wired.com Will Knight 2025-09-26 11:00:00

Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to learn from experience. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now devised a way for LLMs to keep improving by tweaking their own parameters in response to useful new information. The work is a step toward building artificial intelligence models that learn continually—a long-standing goal of the field and something that will be crucial if machi

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Google tests real-time AI voice chats in Search

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-26 11:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google is building Search Live into AI Mode, allowing you to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with the company’s AI chatbot right from its search engine. The test, which is rolling out now to Labs users in the US, currently doesn’t support camera-sharing, but Google plans to add the capability in the “coming months.” Search Live lets you in

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Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-26 11:00:00

Google is rolling out the ability for users to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with AI Mode, its experimental Search feature that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions. With the new Search Live integration, users can have a free-flowing voice conversation with Search and explore links from across the web. Users will be able to access the feature by opening the Google app and tapping the new “Live” icon to ask their question aloud. They will then hear an AI-generated audio respon

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Waymo has set its robotaxi sights on NYC

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-09-26 11:59:04

Waymo said Wednesday it has applied for a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City, the Alphabet company’s first step in a sticky regulatory process to bring its robotaxis to U.S.’s largest city. Waymo applied for a permit with the New York City Department of Transportation to operate its self-driving Jaguar I-Pace vehicles with a human safety operator behind the wheel in Manhattan. New York’s autonomous vehicle demonstration or testing permit requires a human driver to be able t

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Demystifying Multi-Modal AI

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-26 13:00:39

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way in understanding language, recognizing images, and interpreting sound—but what happens when it can do all of that at once? That’s where Multi-Modal AI steps in: a new frontier where machines learn to process and combine information from different types of input—like text, images, audio, and video—just as humans do. What Is Multi-Modal AI? Multi-modal AI refers to systems that can understand and reason across multiple forms of data. For example, a sin

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Sensor Tower acquires Playliner to expand mobile games data

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-09-26 15:11:47

Digital analysis and app data company Sensor Tower announced today that it has acquired Playliner, a mobile games Live Ops data provider, for an undisclosed sum. According to Sensor Tower, this will expand its analytical capabilities within the mobile gaming space, as Playliner can provide details on how such games maintain audiences and evolve over time. This is Sensor Tower’s second such acquisition, the first being Video Game Insights earlier this year. Playliner tracks and analyzes Live Ope

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Bogong Moths Are First Bugs Known to Use Stars for Long-Distance Travel

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-26 15:05:10

Every spring in the Southern Hemisphere, Bogong moths migrate up to 621 miles (1,000 kilometers) from southeast Australia to spend the summer in cool caves in the Australian Alps. At the beginning of the fall, they fly back to their breeding grounds and die. Each moth undertakes the two-way journey only once in its life—so how does it know where it’s going? A team led by David Dreyer, a visiting research fellow in sensory biology at Lund University, suggests that Bogong moths may use the starry

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Mint Mobile Offers 50% Off Its Unlimited Plan and a Galaxy S25 Ultra for Less Than Samsung’s Selling It For

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-09-26 15:18:54

There really shouldn’t be a huge need to provide incentive for switching from one of the supersized Big Mobile carriers to Mint Mobile, where you get access to the nation’s largest 5G network for amazingly low prices. But, as if their summer promotion offering all of their plans for just $15 per month wasn’t enough, now they want to give you a crazy deal on a brand-new device. See at Mint Mobile For a limited time, Mint Mobile is offering new customers huge discounts on new devices like the Sa

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Best Internet Providers in Fremont, California

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 15:00:00

What is the best internet provider in Fremont, California? CNET recommends AT&T Fiber as the best internet provider in Fremont. It’s the only fiber-optic option in the area with symmetrical speeds, no equipment fees and steady pricing. AT&T also offers the fastest internet in Fremont with speeds of up to 5,000Mbps. Plans start at $55 per month. For the cheapest internet, RobinsonHSS offers a $25 per month plan, but it only provides 10Mbps speeds, so it may not be fast enough for households loo

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Klarna Enters the Suddenly Bustling MVNO Space With Mobile Phone Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 15:02:00

Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later financial services company, is introducing a mobile phone plan the company says it will promote to its 25 million US customers. Klarna is partnering with Gigs, a San Francisco company that provides MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) services, allowing companies to create their own wireless brands. MVNOs seem suddenly popular: in the last week, the Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile with its own gold phone on the way and the popular SmartLess podca

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Check your bank account — you may have some surprise money from the 2021 T-Mobile data breach

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-26 19:03:25

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Kroll is distributing payments as part of a $350M settlement for T-Mobile’s 2021 data breach, which affected over 76 million US users. Most users are getting either $56.54 or $226.19, but we’ve spotted reports for receipts going up to $375. Those eligible for over $600 are allegedly being asked to fill out a W-9. Only those who filed valid claims in 2022/2023 will receive their share of the settlement. If you’re a T-Mobile customer and you just received m

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The first Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 handheld is here, complete with a shocking 10,000mAh battery

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-26 19:21:56

AYANEO TL;DR The AYANEO Pocket S2 is the first device with a Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 chipset. The standard model has a 8,000mAh battery, with the Pro model upping that to 10,000mAh. It’s available for pre-order now, with shipping expected to start at the end of July. AYANEO is the most boutique brand when it comes to Android gaming handhelds, and its latest release doesn’t pull any punches. The AYANEO Pocket S2 is now available on Indiegogo, and it sports the latest chipset, an upgraded design,

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Garmin’s new sleep tracker offers a week of battery life

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 19:23:50

Sleep tracking is nothing new in Garmin’s fitness watches, but the company’s latest wearable is a dedicated smart sleep band. The Index Sleep Monitor offers week-long battery life with continuous pulse ox tracking for monitoring your blood oxygen saturation while you sleep. Garmin’s tracker is worn on the upper arm — which should hopefully make it more comfortable — where it tracks a variety of metrics: skin temperature; light, deep and REM sleep stages; and variations in your heart rate and br

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What Is Lemon8 and Could It Be Banned With TikTok? What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 19:15:03

We're back again: The 75-day extension President Trump gave TikTok this spring is over on Thursday. If TikTok's parent company ByteDance doesn't find a US-approved buyer or if the deadline isn't extended, the app could be banned for US users. But it's not just TikTok on the line -- Lemon8, TikTok's sister app, could also be affected. Lemon8 is owned by ByteDance, the same parent company that owns TikTok. It's one of the top Lifestyle apps in Apple's App Store, and it has more than 10 million do

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Dell 32 Plus QD-OLED Review: HDR and OLED Dream

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-09-26 19:00:00

Speaking of that bottom bezel, you’ll notice the camera dead center below the screen—normally a very odd place for a webcam. But that’s because this camera isn’t for Zoom calls. Instead, it’s for tracking your head in 3D space to create the monitor's claims of “spatial audio.” Using beamforming technology, the speakers can create virtual surround sound in compatible games and movies. It’s not perfect, but it can add an extra immersive element. (It only works with one person at a time.) While th

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Even Klarna is launching a mobile phone service now

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-26 19:05:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later service, is launching a mobile phone service. The $40 per month phone plan is launching in the US in the “coming weeks,” offering unlimited 5G data, calls, and texts on AT&T’s network — making it yet another MVNO in an increasingly crowded space. MVNOs, or mobile virtual network operators, are companies that sell phone

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The whiplash of covering Summer Game Fest 2025 in LA

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-09-26 19:45:00

I love going to Summer Game Fest. It’s a rare opportunity to connect with my colleagues and friends in person, as well as listen to developers talk about why they make their games. In some ways, this year’s SGF gave me everything I love about the event. But while I was comfortably ensconced in a happy bubble, the escalating conflict between demonstrators protesting against immigration raids and the Los Angeles Police Department cast a dark and soul-shaking pall that could not be ignored. Everyt

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Amazon Offers This 15.6″ Portable Monitor for Less Than It Was on Prime Day, Already Selling Out Fast

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-26 23:10:55

There are lots of ways to add a bit more utility to your tech life. You can get power banks, you can look for additional batteries and memory upgrades, or you can add another screen to your setup. That last one can make a big difference if you’re looking to get one for a desk that doesn’t move, but it’s a lot harder if you’re after something that works on the go. See at Amazon Well, if you want a bit more flexibility, then a portable monitor could be the answer you’ve been searching for. Right

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Leica is launching its own 35mm film

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-09-26 23:43:20

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Leica has announced the first 35mm film produced under its own name, Monopan 50. It’s an ultra-fine grain black-and-white film, and will cost $10 per 36-exposure roll when it goes on sale on August 21st. Leica says that the new film is produced in Germany, though wouldn’t name a manufacturer when asked. The specs, right down to every curve of the spectral sensitivity chart,

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VanMoof’s co-founders have a new e-bike coming from Raleigh

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-09-26 23:51:04

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Ties and Taco Carlier, who founded VanMoof as an alternative to Big Bike, are working for Accell Group, the Dutch cycling giant responsible for over a dozen bicycle brands including Batavus, Sparta, Carqon, and Raleigh. According to multiple sources, the first e-bike, developed for the Raleigh brand and pictured above, is nearing comple

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Intel to cut as many as 10,000 factory jobs, one of its largest-ever layoffs

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-27 03:02:00

What just happened? Intel is preparing to lay off as much as one-fifth of its factory workforce in a move that will reshape one of the company's core business units. The layoffs, set to begin in July, are expected to affect more than 10,000 employees worldwide, marking one of the largest workforce reductions in Intel's history. In a memo to employees, Intel Manufacturing Vice President Naga Chandrasekaran acknowledged the gravity of the decision. "These are difficult actions but essential to me

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How Trump Mobile Compares to Other Cheap Phone Plans (That You Can Actually Get Now)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-27 03:00:00

When the Trump Organization announced its new Trump Mobile cell service and gold colored T1 phone -- complete with an American flag on the back -- it raised a lot of questions. While most of them focused on the numerous mistakes and typos on the Trump Mobile site -- some of which have been fixed -- other errors and questionable policies, like calling RAM storage, not identifying the handset's processor or the fact that you can't get a refund for the T1 phone raised several flags for us. Even the

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Mortgage Rates and the Federal Reserve: Everything to Know Before Today's Decision

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-27 03:15:03

The Fed's interest rate decisions impact mortgages, but the relationship isn't straightforward. Tharon Green/CNET Later today, the Federal Reserve is expected to extend a pause on interest rate cuts for a fourth consecutive time this year. While mortgage rates could see some volatility, many economists expect them to stay relatively flat until the economic picture changes. Average rates are likely to stay in the 6.75% to 7.25% range unless the Fed signals multiple cuts and backs up their polic

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 02:15:46

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI medi

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We Did the Math: Trump Mobile Is a Bad Deal for Consumers

OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

Waymo cars are coming to New York, but with a driver behind the wheel

T-Mobile is ruining almost all of its plans with new taxes and fees charges

T-Mobile’s new prepaid plans look great on paper, but is there a catch?

Don't Let Sneaky Subscriptions Ruin Your Budget. Americans Spend More Than $1,000 a Year on These Services, CNET Survey Finds

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Bogong Moths Are First Bugs Known to Use Stars for Long-Distance Travel

Mint Mobile Offers 50% Off Its Unlimited Plan and a Galaxy S25 Ultra for Less Than Samsung’s Selling It For

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Klarna Enters the Suddenly Bustling MVNO Space With Mobile Phone Service

Check your bank account — you may have some surprise money from the 2021 T-Mobile data breach

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Intel to cut as many as 10,000 factory jobs, one of its largest-ever layoffs

How Trump Mobile Compares to Other Cheap Phone Plans (That You Can Actually Get Now)

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