April 21, 2025

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy

3The leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data. Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bilirakis, and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) sent a letter Thursday to the genetic testing company’s interim CEO Joe Selsavage asking a number of questions about how 23andMe will handle customer

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Best console deal: Get the Nintendo Switch OLED Model for under $250 at Woot

SAVE $39.01: As of April 17, get a refurbished Nintendo Switch OLED Model with White Joy-Con at Woot for $249.99, down from its usual price of $289.99. That’s a discount of 18%. The Nintendo Switch 2 is on the horizon, but the original Switch is still a great console that’s worth investing in. It has

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18 Best Apple Watch Accessories (2025): Bands, Chargers, Cases, and Screen Protectors

If you have an iPhone, there’s a good chance you also have an Apple Watch. We’ve rated it the best smartwatch and the best fitness tracker for iPhone owners. It dominates the smartwatch category. It’s also one of the easiest Apple products to accessorize, even if you might not need to (I’ve never cracked an

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Robots run a half marathon, slowly

It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the first world’s first humanoid half-marathon on Saturday, with 21 humanoid robots competing alongside thousands of humans. Bloomberg reports that the winning robot, Tiangong Ultra, was built by the

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The End of Fragmented Automation

Image: hoangpts/Envato Elements The trajectory of enterprise technology has often been marked by fragmentation. In the past, the rapid expansion of data platforms led to a fragmented ecosystem as vendors rushed to support various data types and tools. For instance, organizations often manage structured data with relational databases like MySQL or Oracle, semi-structured data with

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New foldable iPhone details leak, including alleged camera, Touch ID info

Another week, another round of rumors about a foldable iPhone. While new Apple iPhone “leaks” arrive on a near-weekly basis, evidence is growing that a folding iPhone is coming soon, now bolstered by new reports about its camera and use of Touch ID. Via 9To5Mac, Korean blog yeux1122, which covers chatter from Chinese social media

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An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a common workflow for programmers who use multiple devices. When the user contacted Cursor support, an agent named “Sam” told them it was expected behavior under a new policy. But no such policy

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Read what Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook execs said about Instagram before buying it

The first week of the Meta antitrust trial brought new revelations about how the company formerly known as Facebook approached the competitive threat posed by Instagram in the early 2010s. The U.S. government is accusing Meta of violating competition laws by acquiring companies like Instagram and WhatsApp that threatened the Facebook monopoly. If lawyers for

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Microsoft Releases Largest 1-Bit LLM, Letting Powerful AI Run on Some Older Hardware

Microsoft researchers claim to have developed the first 1-bit large language model with 2 billion parameters. The model, BitNet b1.58 2B4T, can run on commercial CPUs such as Apple’s M2. “Trained on a corpus of 4 trillion tokens, this model demonstrates how native 1-bit LLMs can achieve performance comparable to leading open-weight, full-precision models of

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Windows 11 Pro | Mashable

TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just A$24 (through April 27) and upgrade your PC with advanced security and productivity tools. What you get with your lifetime license to Windows 11 Pro: Enjoy a lifetime license with no recurring fees or subscriptions Work smarter with snap layouts, virtual desktops, and

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