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A Lawsuit Claims the 300-Dollar Ring Guesses Your Sleep Like a Coin Flip: Sleep Happens in the Brain, Not on a Finger

The company advertised 95 per cent accuracy in identifying sleep stages. The plaintiffs say that takes electrodes on the scalp,...

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TikTok Pays 400 Million Dollars for the Child Accounts It Could Not Find for Seven Years: the Settlement Contains No Admission of Guilt

The same company paid 5.7 million for the same violation in 2019 and promised to stop it. Seven years later...

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Three Million Teslas Are Being Recalled in China Over a Handle Nobody Can Find: the Solution Is a Sticker

Eleven manufacturers in China are recalling vehicles because the manual emergency handle is hidden where nobody looks for it. The...

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A Third of New Web Pages Are Written by a Machine: on .gov and .edu It Is One Percent, on .com Ten Times More

Every third page published after ChatGPT carries traces of having been assembled by a machine. On government and university addresses...

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Google Is Offering Publishers a Button After Taking Away Their Traffic: a Click on a Preferred Source Is Twice as Likely

The search engine that was for years the main door to the internet is now offering sites a button with...

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Stripe paid 7.5 billion dollars for a prompt router: the letter to investors says the singularity began on 1 January

A startup worth 1.3 billion in May sold for 7.5 billion in August. The founders alone take home more than...

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Waymo's new robotaxi is a Chinese minibus: the vehicle is split into two parts to clear American customs

The Ojai is open to all passengers in three American cities. Under the sensors sits a Geely platform, and 5,000...

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Apple Has Changed Its European Commissions for the Third Time: a Flat 5 Percent Outside the Store, but Developers Are Locked In for Twelve Months

Brussels fined it 500 million euros, Apple offered a scheme critics called malicious compliance. This is the third attempt in...

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OpenAI Released a Separate ChatGPT for Teenagers After 900 Million Users and a String of Lawsuits: the Protection Arrived Once the Lawyers Got Involved

For three and a half years the product ran with no protection for minors. It did not change after a...

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Apple Warned Users in 110 Countries That Someone Is Watching Through Their Phone: Among Them a Ukrainian Soldier Who Thought It Was a Scam

Apple sent warnings to 110 countries, and researchers say they have never seen numbers like these. One of those targeted...

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Google Is Taking the People, Not the Company: Relay Shuts Down and Its Founder Returns as a Chrome Vice President

No acquisition, no technology taken over, no service continued. Google is taking only the people, and the paying customers get...

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Amodei Admits People Do Not Trust the Industry: „They Always Suspect We Are Cooking Up a New Way to Scam Them”

An investor told the Anthropic chief executive to be a „more positive advocate” for his industry. The answer was sharper...

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