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Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users...

Today, the Firefox 157 update will roll out a redesign of the web browser across desktop and mobile platforms. The team that made it hopes it will help expand the browser's audience beyond...

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Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034

We are mere days away from the launch of Googlebooks, the long-awaited Android laptops that Google hopes will compete with macOS and Windows. But what of Chromebooks? There have been hints that Google...

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Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"

Since 2024, Microsoft has tried to sell “Copilot+ PC.” The marketing initiative was aimed at making it easy for people to know which Windows systems were approved to run AI-accelerated workloads...

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F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app...

Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but there are other ways to get apps. F-Droid bills itself as a community-driven source for free and open source Android apps, but...

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Robots make combat airdrops, clear mines as Ukraine defeats Russian pincer

Ukraine’s military robots are dropping from heavy drones in airborne assaults behind Russian lines as other robots clear mines ahead of advancing Ukrainian infantry. The wheeled ground robots are...

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Review: Apple's hyper-pricey M5 Ultra Mac Studio made me into a vibe coder

This spring, Apple made it official: The Mac Pro is dead. When Apple was using Intel processors and AMD GPUs, the idea of an expandable and upgradeable tower made sense. But Apple Silicon chips bring...

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Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits

Disney+ got its fourth price hike in four years today. Hulu prices also went up. Disney+ and Hulu’s respective standalone, ad-free plans (which also support 4K and HDR) are each increasing 13 percent...

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XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them

Wildfire detection from space and firefighting drones featured among the finalists honored in the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition. Although no team walked away with either of the two grand...

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YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year

The annual Made on YouTube event has just wrapped up, offering an early look at the features you can expect to come to Google's dominant online streaming platform in the coming months. Yes, there's...

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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update. Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea,...

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Adobe Premiere finally brings powerful video editing to Android, and it's free

Video editing has never been Android's strong suit. While Apple has long offered iMovie for iPhone and iPad, Google has never had a comparable offering. Adobe is now stepping up to fill this feature...

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Dyson’s most overengineered gadget may have a waterproofing problem

There's always a danger in over-complicating products. Simple is so often best. The apocryphal story of NASA spending millions crafting a space pen while Soviet cosmonauts used a pencil is often cited...

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Military milestone: Ukrainian naval drone sinks Russian kamikaze drone boat

In the world’s first clash of the drone boats, a Ukrainian naval drone destroyed a Russian explosive drone boat using a remote-controlled machine gun turret. This comes as the war in Ukraine has...

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Apple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough

The new Mac mini is the kind of Mac upgrade Apple has done a million times. It’s the same design as before but with new guts. These play-it-safe updates aren’t very exciting, but they’re also usually...

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Googlebooks launch October 4 starting at $899—here are the five models you...

Google is ready to take a swing at laptops... again. The company has had a lot of success in phones, but it has struggled to parlay that into an effective strategy for larger screens. Chromebooks have...

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Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data

Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United...

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macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review

Apple Intelligence is back, baby! That's right: Two years after its initial launch, Apple is giving its generative AI features their first significant upgrade, along with a new version of Siri that the...

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Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots

China leads the world in churning out humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs that also happen to be the most affordable on the market—and Unitree Robotics’ founder Wang Xingxing is arguably one of...

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AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed

For years now, the major frontier AI labs have all been acting as if they're in an all-out, winner-take-all race with control of world-changing machine superintelligence (or at least market-changing...

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"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up

In the badlands of Chakwal, in north-central Pakistan, Bestway Cement is transforming plots of dry earth and olive and peach groves into a forest of solar panels. Its efforts will add 6.34 megawatts of...

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