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ByteDance’s next-gen AI model can generate clips based on text, images, audio, and video
Big Tech's race to leapfrog the latest AI models continues with the launch of ByteDance's next-gen video generator. In a blog post, ByteDance - the China-based...
Amazon’s Send to Alexa Plus makes the Kindle Scribe feel more like a productivity device
Amazon's rolling out a new "Send to Alexa Plus" feature to the latest Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft owners starting February 12. The feature lets yo...
This $7,999 robot will fold (some of) your laundry
If you have a spare $7,999 (plus a $250 deposit), hate folding laundry, and happen to live in the Bay Area, one-and-a-half-year-old startup Weave has the robot...
HP ZBook Ultra G1a review: a business-class workstation that’s got game
Business laptops are typically dull computers foisted on employees en masse. But higher-end enterprise workstation notebooks sometimes get an interesting enough...
6 GOP reps defy Trump to block Canadian tariffs. And, student loan defaults rise
Six House Republicans joined Democrats to successfully block Trump's Canadian tariffs. And, roughly a million borrowers defaulted on their federal student loans...
ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Minneapolis was not the war zone I expected to find. Depending on who you are and where you live, things can seem, for a few fleeting moments, almost normal, li...
Highguard’s developer lays off ‘most’ of its staff just over two weeks after launch
Highguard, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty, launched just over two weeks ago, but developer Wil...
Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger
Since the xAI-SpaceX merger announced last week, which combined the two companies (as well as social media platform X) for a reported $1.25 trillion valuation -...
iOS 26.3 makes it easier to switch to Android
On Wednesday, Apple released its latest iOS 26 update, which includes a new process for switching from an iPhone to an Android phone, as previously reported by...
Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs
Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents' electricity bills. The company said it would pay hig...
Why I wish I hadn’t bought my Samsung OLED TV
In June 2024, in a dusty TV shop empty of customers save myself, my wife, and my kids, I stared deep into the LG C3 and Samsung S90C. I went back and forth betw...
Aurora says it will ‘triple’ its driverless truck network
Aurora, the driverless truck firm founded by former members of Google's pioneering self-driving car team, is branching out. In advance of its quarterly earnings...