OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed A.I. startup that's often in the news, is reportedly launching a search engine on Monday. Powered by its generative A.I. technology, the site takes direct aim at… Read the rest of the article: OpenAI said to be launching search engine on Monday, directly targeting Google's
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Rob Beschizza Google's Pixel 8a smartphone has a 6.1-inch 2400×1080 120Hz display, a $500 price tag, and a promise of 7 years of updates. This seems like good value for money, given… Read the rest of the article: Google Pixel 8a comes in abandoned house bathroom green
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Rob Beschizza Minisform's S100 Mini PC is a Windows 11 desktop PC the size of a phone. It has a 4-core Intel N100 CPU with Intel UHD graphics, 8GB of RAM and… Read the rest of the article: A Windows 11 PC the size of a phone
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Rob Beschizza Sony's Reon Pocket 5 is a wearable thermal device: a flat plastic contraption you can attach to your body to deal with excess heat or cold. The fan is much… Read the rest of the article: Reon Pocket 5: a wearable doohickey with a fan and a heater in it
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Rob Beschizza Lego's Retro Radio is a 906-piece beauty in teal, tan and off-white, complete with bakelite-style knobs and an antenna. It has a speaker but isn't a real radio. It can… Read the rest of the article: Lego's Retro Radio isn't really a radio but it does play tunes
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Rob Beschizza To promote its new iPads, Apple produced an ad titled "Crush" which depicts musical instruments, artwork and other wondrous human creations being crushed by an enormous hydraulic press, leaving behind… Read the rest of the article: Apple apologizes for upsetting "Crush" ad
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Rob Beschizza To promote its new M4-powered iPads, Apple released an ill-conceived ad that depicts musical instruments, art supplies and various objects representing human creativity being crushed by an enormous hydraulic press,… Read the rest of the article: Disturbing Apple ad shows human creativity crushed into perfect 5.3mm-thin shape
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Rob Beschizza Did you buy TSLA after Elon Musk got obsessed with buying Twitter? You're a dipshit. Did you buy TSLA because you thought Elon Musk's promises of self-driving capability were honest?… Read the rest of the article: Tesla under federal investigation, accused of knowingly misleading investors
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Rob Beschizza When Marjorie Taylor Greene's long-simmering attempt to dethrone House Speaker Mike Johnson finally began in earnest yesterday, its immediate failure pleased those among us who find her both a figure… Read the rest of the article: Rupert Murdoch's media empire turns against Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Rob Beschizza Many people expected abortion bans to result in wider problems for the healthcare industry, with rural hospitals, already on shaky financial ground, among the first to sound the alarm. New… Read the rest of the article: New doctors avoiding states with abortion bans
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Rob Beschizza The pinball revival is well under way. There's a Labyrinth pinball machine, a Pulp Fiction one, and now Ars Technica's Aurich Lawson reviews the latest: a John Wick pinball machine… Read the rest of the article: John Wick pinball machine
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Rob Beschizza Saudi Arabia is serious about building Neom, a futiristic "Line city" across the desert 105 miles long: the country's armed forces are permitted to kill anyone getting in the way… Read the rest of the article: Saudi forces permitted to kill anyone who resists eviction to make way for futuristic Line city—and have already started
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Rob Beschizza In this video, Povs Adventures uses an action cam to film water filling an ice cube maker inside a fridge and slowly, inexorably forming ice. Normally it would be pitch… Read the rest of the article: Exciting: watch water freeze inside an ice cube maker
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Rob Beschizza Charged Lemonade is a caffeine-infused drink you can get at Panera Bread. But not for much longer: two people have died after drinking it and the eatery is to "phase… Read the rest of the article: Panera Bread to "phase out" caffeine-infused Charged Lemonade after deaths
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Rob Beschizza A video posted by Switzerland's Federal Roads Office, FEDRO, shows how they resurface a road without stopping traffic: they put a temporary elevated highway over it and work in the… Read the rest of the article: How to resurface a road without stopping traffic
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Rob Beschizza Apple today announced the fourth-generation of its in-house silicon and a range of new iPads, thinner and brighter than ever, which show what the M4 do. Hardware ray-tracing in games!… Read the rest of the article: Apple shows off M4 chip and new iPads
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Rob Beschizza Cars used to have real bumpers on the outside, but now they have elaborately-molded ABS assemblies over them which crack if you look at them wrong and come packed with… Read the rest of the article: Fender benders now result in vastly expensive repairs
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Rob Beschizza Haley Blunt, 24, of Lake City, Florida, was charged last Wednesday with burglary after officers from the Lake City Police Department were dispatched to NW Hunstboro street there. One can't… Read the rest of the article: Naked Florida woman breaks into neighbor's house
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Rob Beschizza Deez-Nuts Kroll, 42, pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges in Wisconsin and was released on an $11,000 bond. Kroll, whose first name is listed in court records as "Deez-Nuts,"… Read the rest of the article: Wisconsin man named Deez-Nuts pleads not guilty to whatever he was charged with
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Rob Beschizza Fatih Arslan reports from the annual Braun Börse, a collector's fair held May 4 at the company's headquarters in Kronberg, Germany, "the perfect place for any Braun or Dieter Rams… Read the rest of the article: Design classics at the annual Braun collector's fair in Germany