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These firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burstThe amount of debt held by data centres is measured in the tens of billions of pounds.
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Get in the spirit with these horrors from YouTube
Rather than recommend a single horror film or an unsettling album for our final installment of spooky season recs, I present you with a small selection of creepy, disturbing, and just plain weird videos from YouTube. There's a little something for everyone here. Whether you're a
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Keyboards of The Verge
What is a keyboard if not the original brain-computer interface? You can tap on a touchscreen or talk to the computer, but if your work involves getting information out of your head and into the computer, you're probably spending a lot of time using a keyboard. We've written abou
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Binance CEO says 90 percent of stolen assets have been ‘replenished’
After hackers stole a shocking $6.3 billion from Binance customers in a record-breaking crypto heist, the company's CEO says that 90 percent of the funds have been replaced, and the company plans to cover the remaining 10 percent as well. Binance is covering the stolen funds dire
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Happy Pikmin Day Eve
This morning, Nintendo announced that tomorrow, November 1st, would be the first annual Pikmin Day. As part of the short Pikmin Day Direct, Shigeru Miyamoto shared new info about Pikmin 4 for the Switch 2, as well as an update for the mobile app Pikmin Bloom, and announced the He
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I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face - and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. But I won't be buying one, because we have Muse Charm at home. It [
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Windows 11 tries new shortcuts for Xbox gaming mode and search
The latest Windows 11 Insider build adds some powerful new search features and quick settings while in Xbox mode. The Xbox shortcuts let you control things like Bluetooth, WiFi, and power settings without having to exit gaming mode. The search improvements are quite comprehensive
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Best Buy is bundling a $100 gift card with touchscreen MacBook Pro preorders
While the new touch-enabled MacBook Pro with the PROLED XDR screen is available for preorder across a few major retailers, Best Buy is sweetening the deal by including a $100 gift card. The gift card will be automatically added to your cart when you preorder one of Apple’s highes
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Vic Mensa can’t live without the Voice Memos app
Vic Mensa is one of those people who has done so many things that it's hard to remember where you were first introduced to him. Was it his debut mixtape Innanetape, which finally hit the major streaming services for the first time in September? Or maybe his house-influenced singl
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Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-laggedA long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.
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The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?
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Why North Korea's 'elite' hackers are the prime suspect in major Binance hackIf the accusations are true, the record-making heist shows how powerful suspected North Korean hackers have become.
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Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain deathThe space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.
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Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking petsUSDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.
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Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart"For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."
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Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centersBoom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
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Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hoursIt's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
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Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his jobPeople who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
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US tech stocks see sharp falls as AI spending nears $1tnShares in Intel continue to fall while the tech-heavy Nasdaq opens at its lowest level in more than two months.
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Google value plunges by $500bn as its own AI search hits ad salesGoogle spooked investors so badly that its stock hit a six-month low, after it revealed its AI own search summaries were affecting ad revenue.