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AI companies may be gobbling up old books, and I really hope they aren’t destroying them
Secondhand booksellers have noticed a curious pattern over the past few months. Large orders are coming in for old…
Claude is getting ambitious with watermarking, and I can smell the problems from a mile away
Anthropic wants to make AI-generated text easier to identify, and on paper, I have very little reason to complain. The…
Apple’s latest refurb drop brings cheaper MacBooks, iPhone 16 Plus, and Apple Watches
Apple has added several new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro configurations to its Certified Refurbished Store, alongside…
I switched from Windows to Mac after 25 years, and it’s the trackpad that converted me.
I’ve been using Windows laptops for almost 25 years. In that time, I never once seriously thought of buying a MacBook…
I didn’t think fake shopping could trick my brain until I tried the viral dopamine websites
I spent some time in the internet’s fakest mall, filling a shopping cart with things I could not buy, hunting for…
LG wants to build humanoid robots, and NVIDIA is giving it the brains
With time, more and more legacy hardware companies seem to be racing to bolt a humanoid robot onto their roadmap. The…
Googlebook may use older Snapdragon chips to build more affordable laptops
Google has already confirmed that Googlebook will support more than one chipmaker, and a new leak may have revealed the…
U.S. courts will now make government use of spyware tools public
U.S. courts are set to begin publicly reporting how often federal judges authorize the government to use spyware and…
Google’s Gemini app adds a toggle to disable AI watermarks, with some exceptions
If you have ever generated an image with Gemini and gotten annoyed by that stamped-on watermark, Google finally heard…
Mark Rober’s new CrunchLabs mysteries turn reading into a hands-on STEM adventure
Mark Rober has spent years proving that science and engineering don’t have to feel like homework. His enormously…
Keychron made 96 blank keys somebody else’s problem
Keychron has built a 100-key macro pad for anyone who has ever looked at a keyboard and wished none of its buttons had…
Samsung is reportedly using Claude to speed up chip design
Samsung has reportedly turned to AI to speed up one of the slowest and most demanding parts of designing chips…
ChatGPT can now remember what users do on their Mac
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT a new way to understand how you actually work on your computer. Called Computer History, the…