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Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’
Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 - and that word is 'slop.' The dictionary-maker defines 'slop' as 'digital content of low quality tha...
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The Meta Quest 3S is $50 off and is bundled with a $50 gift card and game
If you’re looking for a last-minute gift for a gamer, you’re in luck. Both Best Buy and Target are offering the 128GB Meta Quest 3S VR headset for around $249 $...
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Stack Overflow users don’t trust AI. They’re using it anyway
Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on the show in 2022, one month before ChatGPT launched. W...
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I tested a 5K monitor that’s over $1,000 less than Apple’s Studio Display: It’s good enough
If you’re on a budget, you could do a lot worse than this 5K monitor, which has 217 PPI. Most people know at least two things about 5K monitors: they look great...
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Musicians are getting really tired of this AI clone ‘bullshit’
William Basinski says the current system is “a mess.” | Image: Getty Images for Prada 'Not ideal.' 'Completely unacceptable.' 'Shameless.' 'Predatory.' 'Some bu...
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Kindle app now answers questions about the book you’re reading
The tool avoids spoilers by drawing answers from the pages you’ve read so far. Amazon has launched a new AI feature in the Kindle app that gives spoiler-free an...
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Feeding the machine
When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire softwa...
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Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided last week
Starlink satellites with solar arrays deployed. | Image: SpaceX A collision in space was narrowly avoided last week when a newly deployed Chinese satellite came...
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Who is Picea Robotics, Roomba’s new owner?
The 3i S10 Ultra is the flagship robot vacuum from Picea, the company that will own iRobot. iRobot, the owner of the Roomba robot vacuum, has filed for Chapter...
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iRobot files for bankruptcy
After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following issuing warnings earlier this year that it was...
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You need to listen to Sudan Archives’ violin opus for the club
My introduction to Sudan Archives was the song 'Nont for Sale' from her first EP Sink in 2018. I've been a die-hard fan ever since. With each album, she finds n...
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Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting
Grok's track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Aus...