Redesigned interfaces, new features and artificial intelligence are meant to enhance the experience, even if the changes can be confusing at first.
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Google Street View Captures a Man Loading a Bag Into a Trunk. Arrests Follow.
The image, from northern Spain, showed a man with a white bag in the trunk of a car. The National Police said it helped them solve a missing-person case.
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Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model
It’s been a really busy month for Google as it apparently endeavors to outshine OpenAI with a blitz of AI releases. On Thursday, Google dropped its latest party trick: Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, which is a new AI model that uses runtime “reasoning” techniques similar to OpenAI’s o1 to achieve “deeper thinking” on problems...
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As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank
Another company has publicly cut ties with Broadcom’s VMware. This time, it’s Ingram Micro, one of the world’s biggest IT distributors. The announcement comes as Broadcom eyes services as a key part of maintaining VMware business in 2025. But even as some customers are reducing reliance on VMware, its trillion-dollar owner is laughing all the...
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New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 times faster than in the real world. Researchers can also use an AI agent to generate 3D physics simulations from text prompts. The accelerated simulation means...
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A new, uncensored AI video model may spark a new AI hobbyist movement
The AI-generated video scene has been hopping this year (or twirling wildly, as the case may be). This past week alone we’ve seen releases or announcements of OpenAI’s Sora, Pika AI’s Pika 2, Google’s Veo 2, and Minimax’s video-01-live. It’s frankly hard to keep up, and even tougher to test them all. But recently, we...
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Supreme Court Fast-Tracks TikTok Case in Face of Jan. 19 Deadline
The company and its Chinese parent invoked the First Amendment in urging the justices to step in before a deadline to sell or be shut down.
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Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs
Arm and Qualcomm’s dispute over Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips is continuing in court this week, with executives from each company taking the stand and attempting to downplay the accusations from the other side. If you haven’t been following along, the crux of the issue is Qualcomm’s purchase of a chip design firm called Nuvia...
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Call ChatGPT from any phone with OpenAI’s new 1-800 voice service
On Wednesday, OpenAI launched a 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) telephone number that anyone in the US can call to talk to ChatGPT via voice chat for up to 15 minutes for free. The company also says that people outside the US can send text messages to the same number for free using WhatsApp. Upon calling, users hear...
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Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules
Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied with disclosure protocols intended to protect state secrets, people with knowledge of the matter said.