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Cast your mind back to the end of last year, and you may remember we reported that a group of volunteer modders had united to develop an online mode for Rockstar's Bully (also known as Canis Canem Edi...
Across tech, pressure on workers to perform comes as leaders wait for AI bets to pay off. Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Big Tech firms like Amazon and Meta are doubling down on worker oversight and p...
It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articl...
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Elon Musk's X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It's...
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Skytech Gaming is offering a fantastic deal on a powerful 4K-capable gaming PC during a month when prebuilt prices are constantly on the rise. Right now you can pick up this Skytech O11 Vision AMD Ryz...
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has just dropped details of its latest patch, Into the Unjust: 5.0.2., which introduces a new mission type: Commando, the Redacted Regiment Warbond, and "important upd...
Nintendo has released an update for Pokémon Legends: Z-A , with some handy item adjustments and a list of bug fixes for the game's Mega Dimension DLC. The Switch and Switch 2 Pokémon adventure has tod...
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...
Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-cofounder-reveals-tons-recent-231500103.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695747 Points: 9 # Comments: 2...
HP is offering one of the lowest prices I can find right now on a gaming laptop that can run games just as well as a desktop PC. The OMEN MAX 16 RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop drops to just $1,449.99 when ...
Yuval Noah Harari was a speaker at the 2026 World Economic Forum Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images The author of "Sapiens" Yuval Noah Harari said AI is going to cause two crises for every c...
You don't see many 20,000mAh power banks priced under $20, but there is one deal available that just popped up today. Amazon has dropped the price of the CUKTECH 20,000mAh 45W Power Bank for $16.31 af...
FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam said regular humanoid robots aren't sufficient for his warehouses. AP Photo/Eric Risberg FedEx's CEO said regular humanoid robots won't make the cut for work at his warehouse...
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The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and bl...
The US just lowered Taiwan's tariffs in exchange for a massive domestic chipmaking promise, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday . Under the deal, tariffs on goods from Taiwan will decrease f...
Vay's vehicle operation center has eight driving stations for remote drivers. Lloyd Lee/BI Vay calls itself a "driverless car" rental service that wants to be cheaper than hailing an Uber. The...