Published on: 2025-07-14 14:02:07
Mark Klein, the former AT&T employee who helped expose the fact that the National Security Agency was spying on vast amounts of internet traffic in the U.S. during the mid-2000s, has died, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Klein’s cause of death was not released. Klein was an internet technician for AT&T in San Francisco and had recently retired when he read a New York Times article in late 2005 about mass surveillance of Americans being conducted by the NSA. The article didn’t c
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Scientists may have found an important clue as to how a recently deceased woman named Maria Branyas Morera lived to the age of 117. Among other things, Branyas appeared to possess a particularly unusual gut microbiome. Scientists at the University of Barcelona led a study examining Branyas’ longevity, the results of which were reported earlier this month by the Spanish media outlet Ara. According to the researchers, Branyas had a microbiome that closely resembled the kind typically found in an
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Meta and Mark Zuckerberg don’t want you to read the book Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. It’s a memoir from Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams that details the company’s attempts to enter China and how desperately weird its C-suite is. An arbitrator gave Meta a favorable ruling this morning, following an emergency meeting. The ruling says that Wynn-Williams can no longer promote the book and that she must, as best she can, halt its publication. Careles
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Aix Marseille University in France has said that 40 U.S. scientists have “answered the call” it put out earlier this month offering safe harbor to fleeing Americans. Scientists in the U.S. under the Trump regime are facing a sudden loss of funding and stricter regulations on speech and areas of research. According to Aix Marseille University President Eric Berton, some of them will find a home in France. In a press release about its “Safe Space for Science” initiative, the University announced
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The Aperol spritz is one refreshing cocktail that ain't going anywhere anytime soon, but that doesn't mean we can't innovate on the sparkling summer sipper made from the bitter apéritif, Prosecco and sparkling water. Doladira is French and sports has a similar flavor profile to Italian Aperol and Campari but with less sugar and notes of rosemary and plum in addition to tart rhubarb and bitter gentian. It may be a little harder to track down than the others, but that -- plus a really cool bottle
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Texas Instruments says it has shrunk the size of the smallest microcontroller unit in its industry with a new MCU the size of a black pepper flake. The MCU packaging is only 1.38 square millimeters in size and is part of the company's Arm Cortex line of embedded designs. TI says the product is aimed at small products including medical wearables, earbuds, stylus pens and electric toothbrushes. The product includes a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter and has 16KB of flash memory and 1KB of SRAM
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Our sleep experts have been rolling around and sleeping on different beds for years. Having tested approximately 350 mattresses from dozens of brands, our team has a good grasp on mattress firmness levels. Even with our strategic testing processes and extensive experience, our assessments have been solely subjective -- until recently. Brought to life by CNET Labs' tech experts Bryan Adams, Jared Hannah and Steve Conaway, our proprietary Mattress Smasher 9000 machine offers an objective way to d
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The US Environmental Protection Agency is throwing out fuel economy regulations that were planned to go into effect from 2026 through 2032. The new regulations would have required automakers to sell many more electric vehicles than they currently do, although due to lobbying, the previous administration softened the rules to allow for more plug-in hybrid EVs alongside battery EVs. This was widely expected to happen; the first Trump administration was tireless in its attempts to roll back vehicl
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OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race. Currently, courts are mulling whether AI training is fair use, as rights holders say that AI models trained on creative works threaten to replace them in markets and water down humanity's creative output overall. OpenAI is just one
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Google is continuing its quest to get more people to use Gemini, and it's doing that by giving away even more AI computing. Today, Google is releasing a raft of improvements for the Gemini 2.0 models, and as part of that upgrade, some of the AI's most advanced features are now available to free users. You'll be able to use the improved Deep Research to get in-depth information on a topic, and Google's newest reasoning model can peruse your search history to improve its understanding of you as a
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Today Sony is announcing the development of a new type of TV display that uses individual RGB LEDs for its backlighting. While Sony currently sells high-end Mini LED TVs alongside OLED models, this new system could combine many of the best qualities of both, and I recently got to see it in action at the company’s Tokyo headquarters. I’m not yet convinced that this tech, which for now Sony has given the somewhat unwieldy name of “General RGB LED Backlight Technology,” will be the best panel solu
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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. Lexus is updating its RZ electric vehicle lineup and introducing new versions that include a simulated manual gearbox and a steer-by-wire system. The top-of-the-line 550e F Sport includes a “Interactive Manual Drive” system that gives the driver the feeling of shifting like a manual gas car “by synchronizing acceleration and deceleration with
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is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. There are a lot of “simulator” games out there that gamify everything from driving your own big rig to running your own Japanese convenience store. Some of them hit, like the one about being a goat which is on its third iteration. And some of them hit like PowerWash Simulator which is getting a sequel slated for release late
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A rush of agentic AI solutions is hitting the enterprise market, and now one of the bigger players in automation has scooped up a startup in the space in hopes of taking a bigger piece of that market. UiPath, as part of its quarterly results report last night, said it had acquired Peak.ai, a startup out of Manchester that builds “decision-making” pricing and inventory management AI solutions for companies in retail and manufacturing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but sources familiar wi
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In a new policy proposal, OpenAI describes Chinese AI lab DeepSeek as “state-subsidized” and “state-controlled,” and recommends that the U.S. government consider banning models from the outfit and similar People’s Republic of China (PRC)-supported operations. The proposal, a submission for the Trump Administration’s “AI Action Plan” initiative, claims that DeepSeek’s models, including its R1 “reasoning” model, are insecure because DeepSeek faces requirements under Chinese law to comply with dem
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Meghan Markle is launching a new podcast entitled “Confessions of a Female Founder,” which will hear the duchess talking about her entrepreneurial journey. It will also feature talks with other female founders about the reality of building a business, according to People magazine. The show will premiere April 8th on Lemonada Media and will have eight episodes. “I’ve been having candid conversations with amazing women who have turned dreams into realities, and scaled small ideas into massively s
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As a paranoid journalist, I am an enthusiastic user of Apple’s opt-in “extreme protection” feature, Lockdown Mode. Apple launched Lockdown Mode in 2022, and since then the security feature is considered a must-use for dissidents in corrupt countries, human-rights defenders in oppressive regimes, and journalists speaking truth to power. Lockdown Mode is designed to switch off some features in iPhones, iPads, and Macs, with the goal of reducing the likelihood that hackers armed with sophisticate
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Forward-looking: An Australian man has become the first person in the world to leave a hospital with a total artificial heart implant, marking a significant milestone in heart failure treatment. He lived with the device for over 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March – the longest recorded survival with this technology. The patient, a man in his 40s from New South Wales, received the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) during a six-hour procedure at St. Vincent's Hos
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The big picture: iRobot, best known for its Roomba brand of robotic vacuum cleaners and floor mops, was a pioneer in the early days of home autonomy. For a while, the Roomba name itself became synonymous with robotic vacuums and many erroneously thought it was actually the company's name. Now, iRobot has warned investors that it might not survive the next 12 months as it continues to explore the possibility of a sale or a strategic partnership. iRobot's success spawned a whole new industry, and
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Shantanu Narayen, Chairman and CEO of Adobe Systems addresses the gathering on the first day of the three-day B20 Summit in New Delhi on August 25, 2023. Adobe shares dropped 13% following the company's quarterly earnings report, as investors fretted over lingering growth concerns and the software maker's artificial intelligence monetization strategy. The selloff came despite better-than-expected results, which included adjusted earnings of $5.08 per share and $5.71 billion in revenue. That su
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In a partnership with SuperScale, Aethir argued that it drives stronger user acquisition for game companies. Aethir’s decentralized cloud gaming infrastructure empowers gaming studios with alternative publishing solutions that allow them to avoid using commercial app stores that charge hefty service fees. Aethir operates decentralized GPU cloud infrastructure, obtaining GPUs that are underutilized in exchange for Web3 tokens that compensate the companies with the extra GPUs. Some app stores ta
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Supercade was Van Burnham’s ode to the golden age of video games — a big coffee table book that captured the visual history of games from 1971 to 1984. Now that golden age is getting a refresh as Burnham’s Supercade book is heading toward a reissue, thanks to a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. As of last night, the campaign had raised $50,347 of its $34,000 goal. More than 259 people have backed it, with 19 days to go in the campaign. The reissue of Supercade, which illustrated an
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Google announced it is leveling up its multiplatform game offering in time for the Game Developers Conference next week, with graphics improvements leading the way. In a press call, Matthew McCullough, VP of product management for Android at Google, said the team is stepping up its multiplatform gaming offering with exciting news dropping at GDC. He said Google has more than two billion monthly active players. “We’re bringing users more games, more ways to play your games across devices, and i
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The news: Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability to be more dexterous, work from natural-language commands, and generalize across tasks. All three are things that robots have struggled to do until now. Why it matters: The team hopes their work could usher in an era of robots that are far more useful and require less detailed training for each task. Incorporating
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is increasing prices on legacy plans by $5 per line starting April 2, though not all plans are affected. Impacted customers are now starting to receive notifications. Plans with a true Price Lock Guarantee won’t be impacted, but those under the newer Uncontract Promise may see increases. Customers can either pay the increase, switch to another T-Mobile plan, or change carriers — with options like Mint Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, or Google Fi o
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google announced a bevy of new features, tools, and programs ahead of the latest Game Developers Conference (GDC) to make bringing PC games to Android easier than ever. These include first-class support for the Vulkan graphics API, new partnerships to improve Vulkan support, enhancements to frameworks and tools to identify bugs in Android games, and more. The company also announced a pilot program that helps developers throughout the whole process of b
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TL;DR Google Play Games on PC has offered access to a limited selection of Android titles for your Windows computer. Now Google is making all Android games available on PC by default, though developers will still be able to opt out. A new badge system will communicate to users whether apps have been tested for PCs yet, and what their compatibility looks like. Gaming on phones has come a long way since the days of Snake, and today’s best mobile games can be so compelling that you’d be forgiven
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Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play Games on PC now offers custom controls across games. There’s also a new sidebar that lets you make quick adjustments during gameplay. Multi-account and multi-instance support are coming this month. Android offers a solid game library that you can enjoy on your Android flagship. However, many users also want to play the same games on their PC. Google offers the ability to play Android games on a Windows PC directly through the Google Play G
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google has announced that it’ll now offer native computer games in the Play Games app for PC. These native PC titles will join a wide variety of Android games in the app. There’s been no shortage of failed PC game stores, though, as Steam continues to be the preferred storefront for most users. Google has offered a Play Games app on PC for a few years now, allowing people to run Android games on their computers. The search giant wants to step things u
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Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority With the days getting longer and warmer, you might be in the market for a new smartwatch for your fitness journey or other adventures. The Apple Watch Series 10 impressed us mightily in our review, and there’s never been a better time to buy it than today, with the wearable down to just $299. Apple Watch Series 10 (42mm, GPS) for $299 ($100 off) The 25% price drop is a rare show of generosity from Apple and is available on all three colorways of the device. I
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