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A lawsuit alleges that Perplexity's AI search engine secretly shares entire user conversations, including sensitive financial and health information, with Google and Meta through hidden ad trackers to boost revenue. Even users in "Incognito Mode" have their chats and personal identifiers shared with these tech giants without disclosure or consent.
Samsung's Color E-Paper displays let retailers instantly update signs via mobile app, eliminating printing. These ultra-thin displays create 2.5 million color shades and last weeks per charge.
AI data centers are consuming massive amounts of RAM to power their operations, causing memory prices to skyrocket sevenfold over the past year and dramatically affecting consumer electronics. Raspberry Pi boards have been hit...
NASA's Artemis II astronauts encountered an unexpected challenge during their historic moon mission when Commander Reid Wiseman had to contact Mission Control for tech support to fix Microsoft Outlook issues on his Surface Pro...
BitKiln is a professional image conversion tool that transforms regular photos into pixel art and ASCII art with advanced controls typically unavailable in standard converters. The software offers comprehensive editing features...
Tesla's cheaper Model Y and Model 3 versions failed to boost sales, with first-quarter deliveries of 358,023 vehicles missing analyst expectations and threatening the company's 50% annual growth target.
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Dutch developer Niels Leenheer created a fully playable version of Doom using only HTML divs and CSS transforms, with thousands of div elements representing walls, floors, and enemies in 3D space. JavaScript handles the game...
Amazon is acquiring satellite company Globalstar to boost its 180-satellite internet constellation against SpaceX's 10,000-satellite Starlink network. Amazon faces deployment delays but has secured airline partnerships starting...
Researchers at Prince Sultan University developed CLAK, an AI-powered navigation system that enables drones to fly accurately without GPS or cameras using only LiDAR, barometric, and inertial sensors. The system targets...
A robot dog that walks with just six servo motors is turning heads not for its complexity, but for its elegant simplicity. Inventor James Bruton has designed a four-legged robot that mimics canine movement using an ingenious...
NASA successfully launched Artemis II, sending four astronauts on humanity's first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo, marking a historic 10-day lunar test flight. The mission features the first woman and person...
Anthropic is developing "Conway," an always-on AI agent that expands beyond their current chat interface. Conway would feature an extension system for third-party add-ons, external webhook support, Chrome integration, and the...
YouTuber PortalRunner experimented with running a computer without RAM by testing various alternatives including using an SSD as swap space and repurposing graphics card memory, but both approaches proved too slow for gaming. The...
SpaceX has filed confidentially for an IPO that could launch as early as June, targeting a massive $1.75 trillion valuation and seeking to raise up to $75 billion. This would make it the largest public offering in history, more...
In a 1994 interview while at NeXT, Steve Jobs shared profound advice about rejecting the notion that people must simply accept the world as it is. Jobs emphasized that everything around us was created by people no smarter than...
Over 100 Baidu robotaxis suddenly stopped mid-journey on busy Wuhan roads Tuesday night due to a system malfunction, stranding passengers in active traffic lanes and forcing some to exit vehicles independently. This marks China's...
Opera Neon's MCP Connector lets AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude control browser sessions directly, navigating websites, filling forms, and capturing screenshots without copying data between applications.
Cling 2.0 provides ultra-fast fuzzy file searching on macOS, scanning millions of files in under 100ms using an in-memory filesystem index with instant discovery and hotkey actions.
Apple's iOS 27 will feature a redesigned Siri powered by Google Gemini AI, enabling ChatGPT-like conversations. The update includes a dedicated Siri app and support for multiple third-party AI assistants.
Tesla's robotaxis aren't fully autonomous—human operators in Austin and Palo Alto can remotely steer the vehicles up to 10 mph when automated systems fail, unlike competitors who only provide guidance.
Major technology companies including Linear, OpenAI, Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Microsoft are all converging on building the same type of product: autonomous coding agents that can take goals and complete knowledge work...
Apple's upcoming iPhone Fold will introduce three design firsts for the company. The device will feature a hole-punch front camera cutout instead of the Dynamic Island, made possible by replacing Face ID with Touch ID due to...
During Apple's 50th anniversary celebrations, CEO Tim Cook reflected on Steve Jobs' lasting influence, stating Apple remains "definitely still his company" and that he thinks about the late cofounder often, especially regarding...
A new animatronic Olaf robot at Disneyland Paris suddenly collapsed during a performance in the newly opened "World of Frozen" area, losing its carrot nose in the process. The incident was captured on video and quickly went viral...