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đď¸ On this day in 1979 the Sony Walkman was first released, marking its 46th anniversary The Sony Walkman is now an icon of the 1980s, eliciting nostalgia for the âgood old daysâ of owning music, rather than renting it. Affection for the device is now universal, but that wasnât always the case⌠The sudden rise of headphone wearing pedestrians - spurred by Sonyâs lightweight headsets (17% the weight of others) - caused unease about an unfamiliar new world quickly coming into view. Some said it
A troubling new trend is crystallizing in the tech industry. A company at the forefront of AI development lays off thousands of its human employees, then encourages them to seek comfort from the very technology supplanting them. Itâs the automation of suffering, and itâs happening now. This week, Matt Turnbull, an Executive Producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing, became a case study. Following Microsoftâs decision to cut thousands jobs from its gaming division, Turnbull took to LinkedIn. With
As the Kamen Rider franchise nears the end of its current series Gavv, Toei and Ishimori Productions already wants fans to think ahead. On Saturday, the company unveiled a first look at the tokusatsu giantâs next installment, Kamen Rider Zeztz. Per the logline, the show is set âin a world shaped by the dreams we see in our sleep.â The titular Zeztz âenters peopleâs dreams as an agent on a missionâ to âbring a bold new form to the battle.â While we donât see any Inception-style antics in the pre
Garmin is the gold standard for smartwatches for athletes and the fÄnix series is firmly at the top of their line. If you donât have to spend over $1,000 on the latest version, the Garmin fÄnix 7X Pro Sapphire Solar is an amazing second choice and itâs a team favorite in our editorial staffâs athlete corps. For Prime Day early, Amazon is losing all its margin and pricing this watch at 40% off, and brings the cost down to a mere $599 from its usual $999. This is the all-time low for this model,
There's still time to claim part of GameStop privacy settlement. Have you bought something from video game retailer GameStop in the past five years? Did you have a Facebook account when you did so? According to an email I received awhile back, that includes me. If it includes you as well, you can claim your own piece of a brewing settlement from the company, and you've still got a few weeks to do so. Last month, GameStop agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it o
Your brain works differently when you're using generative AI for a task than when you use your brain alone. Namely, you're less likely to remember what you did. That's the somewhat obvious-sounding conclusion of an MIT study that looked at how people think when they write an essay -- one of the earliest scientific studies of how using gen AI affects us. The study, a preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed, is pretty small (54 participants) and preliminary, but it points toward the need for
Companies have struggled to adopt the right AI tools as the technology evolves at a far faster pace than their slow sales cycles. Corporate credit card company Brex is no different. The startup found itself facing the same issue as its enterprise counterparts. The upshot: Brex completely changed its approach to software procurement to ensure they wouldnât get left behind. Brex CTO James Reggio told TechCrunch, at the HumanX AI conference in March, the company initially tried to assess these
In Brief Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers â adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback. Nikkei Asia reports that when examining English-language preprint papers available on the website arXiv, it found 17 papers that included some form of hidden AI prompt. The paperâs authors were affiliated with 14 academic institutions in eight countries, including Japanâs Waseda University and South Koreaâs KAIST
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A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate AI music hoax says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it's been "too fascinating" to turn away from. A man using the pseudonym Andrew Frelon posed as the spokesperson for a band called The Velvet Sundown â which he later said he had no involvement with â creating a media frenzy that propelled the AI-assisted "band" to a million monthly listeners on Spotify. He spoke with CBC News over the phone Friday on condition that his r
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Photograph released by the Colombian Navy press office showing an unmanned semi-submersible, known as a Low Profile Vessel, between two Colombian Navy vessels, July 2, 2025. The Colombian navy on Wednesday announced its first seizure of an unmanned narco-submarine equipped with a Starlink antenna off its Caribbean coast. The vessel was not carrying drugs, but the Colombian navy and Western security sources based in the region told AFP they believed it was a trial run of an unmanned vessel by a
At least 27 people, including nine children, are dead in central Texas after flash floods struck suddenly on the morning of the Fourth of July holiday. After a storm in which a monthâs worth of rain fell in some regions in just a few hours, officials say they rescued more than 850 people from the floods over Friday and Saturday. A number of people were still missing as of Saturday afternoon, including 27 young campers from a Christian girlsâ camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River. Some local
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now In the past decade, companies have spent billions on data infrastructure. Petabyte-scale warehouses. Real-time pipelines. Machine learning (ML) platforms. And yet â ask your operations lead why churn increased last week, and youâll likely get three conflicting dashboards. Ask finance to reconcile performance across attribution systems, and
This week, we heard some news from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo about Apple entering a new segment of the laptop market. The company is reportedly working on a new MacBook at a lower starting price point than the MacBook Air, and itâll apparently pack the A18 Pro chip found in iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. While a cheaper MacBook is certainly a welcome add, the question truly stands: will Apple do it properly, or will it serve as another decoy model? Rumor refresh To quickly recap, the cheaper
Weâre likely going to see yet another version of AirPods Pro this September, alongside the launch of the iPhone 17 lineup. Despite the current set of AirPods Pro coming up on nearly three years old, I donât think that those in the market to buy new AirPods should necessarily waste their time waiting for a potentially upcoming model. AirPods Pro 2 keep getting better Even though we should get a new pair of AirPods Pro in the coming months, that hasnât stopped Apple from continually making this
One of the greatest questions of the modern age is: Is it cake? As in: Is it an espresso machine, or cake? Paint can, or cake? Air fryer, or � Millions of viewers have watched rapt as TikTok bakers slice or bite into inedible-looking objects with fluffy, frosting-filled innards ⌠or have tuned into Is It Cake?, the aptly named Netflix show. Why? As a form of entertainment, this kind of visual trick is hardly new. For centuries, artists have delighted in fooling us into thinking one material is
If youâve been hankering for some Chainsaw Man in anime form, MAPPA is taking the shonen anime to theaters with the upcoming Reze Arc movie. During this weekendâs festivities at Anime Expo, the studio unleashed a new trailer show how much love, death, and caranage await Denji and the gang in September. Set after the animeâs first season, things kick off with Denjiâs boss Makima finally agreeing to go on a date with him. Just as heâs reeling from getting to achieve another facet of normal life,
In Brief A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Googleâs AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of âmisusing web content for Googleâs AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss.â It also says that unless theyâre willing to disappear from Google searc
Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for life on Mars. The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mars Desert Research Station, or MDRS, invited CNBC to shadow one of its analog crews on a recent mission. "MDRS is the best analog astronaut environment," said Urban Koi, who served as health and safety officer for Crew 315. "The terrain is extremely similar to the Mars terrain
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman got a taste of his own medicine when he went on the New York Times' turf and tried to twist the newspaper's copyright lawsuit against it. As flagged by PG Gamer, the live recording of the NYT's "Hard Fork" podcast â hosted by journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, and featuring as guests Altman and OpenAI's chief operating officer Brad Lightcap â was testy from its start. Almost immediately upon sitting down on the "Hard Fork" stage, the CEO came out punching. "Are yo
Billionaire tech moguls aren't the only ones doomsaying about artificial intelligence layoffs. CEOs across a range of industries are now jumping on the bandwagon, saying it's no longer a matter of "if," but "how many" jobs AI will take. A recent survey by the Wall Street Journal explored just how pervasive the automation idea is throughout a number of industries, and execs aren't pulling any punches. For example, CEO of Ford Motor Company Jim Farley recently predicted that AI "is going to repl
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Summer should be about relaxation, not scrubbing your pool. Thankfully, Beatbotâs AquaSense 2 Ultra â powered by HybridSense AI pool mapping and eco-friendly ClearWater technology â is now seeing massive Prime Day savings. Get the Beatbot AquaSense 2 Ultra for $2,839 ($711 off) The AquaSense 2 is already one of the best pool cleaners you can buy, but itâs constantly getting better, too. Need a clean pool quickly? The AquaSense 2 Ultraâs newly added AI Quick
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This week, we heard some news from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo about Apple entering a new segment of the laptop market. The company is reportedly working on a new MacBook at a lower starting price point than the MacBook Air, and itâll apparently pack the A18 Pro chip found in iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. While a cheaper MacBook is certainly a welcome add, the question truly stands: will Apple do it properly, or will it serve as another decoy model? Rumor refresh To quickly recap, the cheaper
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 . If youâre considering updating your kitchen setup, first check out the best Prime Day kitchen deals we could find from Amazonâs sale. Engadget editors and reporters have tested and reviewed a whole bunch of kitchen tech and Amazonâs annual July sale is a great time to save on many of t
I think the AI industry is facing a handful of urgent problems itâs not addressing adequately. I believe everything I write here is at least directionally true, but I could be wrong. My aim isnât to be definitive, just to spark a conversation. What follows is a set of expanded thoughts on those problems, in no particular order. Disclaimer: Not everyone in AI is as bad as Iâm making them sound. Iâm flattening a wildly diverse field into a single tone, which is obviously reductive. People are dif