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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better
The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day.
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Adrienne Murray meets the team using technology to preserve a historic warship in Sweden.
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The only AI glossary you’ll need this year
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important …
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Palantir boss spends $200m on privacy as surveillance revenue soars
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has spent over $200 million assembling a portfolio of secluded estates, a stark contrast to the booming sur…
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Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code
Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovere…
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The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun
The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week …
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The man who built Pegasus now sells governments the antidote, and Latin America is buying
Dream, the Israeli AI cybersecurity startup that tripled its valuation to $3 billion this year, is expanding into Latin America. T…
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The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
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Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep
Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But tea…
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The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more
The $149 Dune keyboard can be a meeting controller at least and a script-executing keypad at best.
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The Chevy Silverado EV is one of the best electric trucks ever built, so why is nobody buying it
General Motors sold roughly 14,000 Chevrolet Silverado EVs in the United States and Canada last year, according to GM Authority sa…
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North Korea-linked npm packages impersonate Rollup polyfill tools to steal developer secrets
Security researchers at JFrog have identified a set of malicious npm packages linked to North Korean threat actors that impersonat…
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Tesla launches the six-seat Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US at 61,990 dollars
Tesla has launched the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the United States and Puerto Rico, a stretched, six-seat version of the world’s b…
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Chevy built an All-American EV truck. Why is nobody buying it?
The Chevy Silverado EV is a solid first draft of an EV pickup truck. Here's what could make it better.
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Parents warned not to publicly share children’s images amid AI abuse risks
The NCA says there is a growing threat of children's images being used to create child abuse material.
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The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market
The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration…
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Europe is coming for loot boxes, and the games industry is bracing
The video-game industry is bracing for a wave of European rules. They could limit what children play, and cost the sector billions…
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Investors sue Oracle, say it hid how shaky the OpenAI deal was
The strain inside the AI boom’s biggest infrastructure bet has reached a courtroom. Oracle’s own investors are suing, saying the c…
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Weave’s $7,999 Isaac 1 bets home robots don’t need legs or fingers
The robot butler has been five years away for about twenty years. Weave Robotics thinks the trick is to aim lower. Its new home ro…
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SAP freezes hiring to fund AI push amid share price slide
Europe’s largest software company is diverting resources away from general recruitment and travel toward artificial intelligence, …
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The other Dyson empire, measured in acres
Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferr…
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The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets
The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer el…
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