AI is everywhere, and it’s starting to alter our relationships in new and unexpected ways—relationships with our spouses, kids, colleagues, friends, and even ourselves. Although the technology remains unpredictable and sometimes baffling, individuals from all across the world and from all walks of life are finding it useful, supportive, and comforting, too. People are using …
A few days ago, Microsoft manifested something that had been a long time coming: forced installation of the new Outlook app on Windows 10 PCs by way of the February 2025 mandatory update. This is the next step in Microsoft’s push to make the new Outlook commonplace. Previously, Microsoft had emphasized that there was no …
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Image: Matheus Bertelli, Pexels OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman wrote a social media post with an update on the roadmap for ChatGPT. In it, he explained that they’ve halted the launch of its upcoming o3 reasoning model to instead focus more on a streamlined yet monolithic version of GPT-5. “We want AI to ‘just work’ for …
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YouTube TV users may soon need to get their fix of Tracker, Matlock, Elsbeth, and other CBS shows elsewhere thanks to yet another carriage dispute. Subscribers to YouTube TV just got a warning that CBS, CBS Sports Network, Comedy Central, MTV, and other Paramount-owned stations will go dark after February 13—today—if the two sides fail …
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Image: Beelink These days, you can get pretty powerful computers for cheap. They’re called mini PCs and they’re a great option when you want daily driver performance without needing a full-blown gaming rig. Right now, this Beelink SER8 mini PC is only $479 on Amazon, the best price we’ve seen for it. That’s a solid …
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The waveform of the recording. From SOSUS to wind farms Back in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, this kind of sonic technology was deeply important to the military, which used the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) to track things like Soviet submarine movements. (Think of Hunt for Red October spy games here.) Using underwater beamforming and …
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DOGE and Musk face three more lawsuits over “brazen ransacking” of private data. People hold signs at a “Save the Civil Service” rally hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees outside the US Capitol on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Credit: Getty Images | Kent Nishimura The US DOGE Service’s access to the …
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In an interview with Ars Technica last week, Zach Holbrooks, the executive director of the South Plains Public Health District (SPPHD), which includes Gaines, said that the area has a large religious community that has expressed vaccine hesitancy. Additional cases likely Pockets of the county have yet lower vaccination rates than the county-wide averages suggest. …
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Apple is also adding the ability to subscribe to Apple TV+ through both the Android and Google TV apps using Google’s payment system, whereas the old Google TV app required subscribing on another device. Apple TV+ is available for $9.99 a month, or $19.95 a month as part of an Apple One subscription that bundles …
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On November 9, he called a local suicide prevention hotline in Skagit County and said he was going to “shoot up the school” and had an AR-15 for the purpose. In April, he called the local police department—twice—threatening school violence and demanding $1,000 in monero (a cryptocurrency) to make the threats stop. In May, he …
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