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How whale urine benefits the ocean ecosystem
A humpback whale urinating near Hawaii. Credit: Lars Bejder/NOAA A humpback whale urinating near Hawaii. Credit: Lars Bejder/NOAA Scientists have long understood that microbes, zooplankton, and fish...
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New study finds that AI search tools are 60 percent inaccurate on average
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism recently studied eight AI search engines, including ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Perplexity Pro, Gemini, DeepSeek Search, Grok-2 Search, Grok-3 Search, and Copilot....
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Authors Put a Spotlight on Meta’s BitTorrent Leeching Activity
In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. Meta is among a long...
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Seagate hard drive scammers figured out how to compromise FARM metrics
A recently updated report by Heise online found that fraudsters are still finding ways to pass off used Seagate hard disk drives as new. Emails from deceived buyers sharing their unfortunate purchase...
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X’s globe-trotting defense of ads on Nazi posts violates TOS, Media Matters says
Media Matters for America (MMFA) has a plan to potentially defuse Elon Musk’s “thermonuclear” lawsuits filed so far in three cities around the world, which accuse the nonprofit media watchdog...
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Leaked GeForce RTX 5060 and 5050 specs suggest Nvidia will keep playing it safe
Nvidia has launched all of the GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs that it announced at CES, at least technically—whether you’re buying from Nvidia, AMD, or Intel, it’s nearly impossible to find any of these...
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OpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API
The AI industry is doing its best to will “agents”—pieces of AI-driven software that can perform multistep actions on your behalf—into reality. Several tech companies, including Google, have...
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Pocket Casts makes its web player free, takes shots at Spotify and AI
“The future of podcasting shouldn’t be locked behind walled gardens,” writes the team at Pocket Casts. To push that point forward, Pocket Casts, owned by the company behind WordPress, Automattic Inc.,...
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Microsoft’s next-gen gaming strategy: A handheld, a PC-like Xbox, or both?
Windows Central claims to have heard from sources that Microsoft plans to launch its long-teased handheld device before the end of 2025, likely as a reference device for Windows-based handheld gaming...
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Despite everything, US EV sales are up 28% this year
With all the announcements from automakers planning for more gasoline and hybrid cars in their future lineups, you’d think that electric vehicles had stopped selling. While that might be increasingly...
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Google’s new robot AI can fold delicate origami, close zipper bags without...
On Wednesday, Google DeepMind announced two new AI models designed to control robots: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. The company claims these models will help robots of many shapes and sizes...
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D-Wave quantum annealers solve problems classical algorithms struggle with
Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they’ll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can...
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Lip-Bu Tan Takes Over as Intel CEO
In a big announcement today, Intel announced that Lip-Bu Tan will be taking over as CEO starting March 18, 2025 The post Lip-Bu Tan Takes Over as Intel CEO appeared first on ServeTheHome.
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Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play
Researchers have discovered multiple Android apps, some that were available in Google Play after passing the company’s security vetting, that surreptitiously uploaded sensitive user information to...
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New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will pick up where Pat Gelsinger left off
After a little over three months, Intel has a new CEO to replace ousted former CEO Pat Gelsinger. Intel’s board announced that Lip-Bu Tan will begin as Intel CEO on March 18th, taking over from...
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EPA accused of faking criminal investigation to claw back climate funds
On Wednesday, a ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee accused the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of “misusing law enforcement” to claw back climate funds and...
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Sonos’ streaming box is reportedly canceled. Good riddance.
Sonos has canceled plans to release a streaming box, The Verge reported today. The audio company never publicly confirmed that it was making a streaming set-top box, but rumors of its impending...
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Large study shows drinking alcohol is good for your cholesterol levels
Drinking alcohol is bad in many ways; raising a glass can raise your risks of various health problems, such as accidental injuries, liver diseases, high blood pressure, and several types of cancers....
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PSA: Firefox urges users to update now to prevent add-on issues
A Mozilla root certificate will expire on March 14, 2025, potentially breaking add-ons, DRM-protected content like streaming services and other Firefox features. To avoid issues, users must update to...
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Chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan is Intel’s new CEO
Intel’s board has appointed former Cadence CEO Lip-Bu Tan as its new leader. An industry veteran, Tan has vowed to restore the fortunes of the once-dominant chip giant. Read Entire Article
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