Ikea’s New Smart Home Gear Is Taking Over My House
…While some of this gear has been available for a little while, much of the lineup—like the newest light bulbs and smart plugs—is new. These are now some of the…
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Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Look Hell-Bent on Disruption
…Nvidia has built a highly developed AI platform around CUDA because of its use in data centers. Bringing that AI processing prowess to local PCs could mean AI performance that pulls far…
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
…For the better part of a decade, US lawmakers have heard the same alarms about the dangers of commercially available location data that the Pentagon did—from the same intelligence assessments, from…
Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow
…A federal jury in Colorado last year found that he had defamed Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems director, and ordered Lindell and his media platform, FrankSpeech, to pay $2.3…
Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
…Where I am disappointed is that I had hoped when I helped set it up that you’d have other platforms buying into it by this stage. You hoped that other platforms…
Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…Maven Smart System—the software platform built by Palantir that brought together disparate battlefield and other data on a digital map and displayed AI detections that could be deployed in targeting—was…
Finally, Some Affordable Laptops That Won’t Fail You in College
…It regularly alternates between $600, $830, and $1,000, but there's often a deal available that makes it an affordable device. There's also the 2026 model, which comes with the…
The Screenmaxxers Who Spend Every Waking Hour on Their Phones
…But Diaz has sought friendships online since the 1990s, when that meant availing herself of tools like Internet Relay Chat and bulletin board systems. “I’ve always felt screens, phone or otherwise…
The Best Chromebooks Are Doing Their Best to Course Correct
…Not only do these laptops tend to have better specs, they also have a more open software platform that far less limiting than Chrome OS. But if you're willing to be…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…anything out.” Privacy advocates argue that by embedding face recognition into a mass-market wearable platform, Meta could normalize a capability it previously pulled back amid privacy concerns. “You're setting norms…