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3 things home depot wants from AI shopping agents

3 things home depot wants from AI shopping agents

Your AI agent is welcome at Home Depot, as long as it shows ID. That's the message from Angie Brown, the retailer's executive vice president...

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Mark Cuban's $6M sale taught him one rule about time

Mark Cuban's $6M sale taught him one rule about time

The day Mark Cuban sold his first company, he took off his watch and decided never to wear one again. A watch, he reasoned, meant he was working on...

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Resident Evil story could end within 10 years, producer says

Resident Evil story could end within 10 years, producer says

Resident Evil Requiem closed a 10-year cycle. The series' executive producer says the next one could close the story. In a chat with Japan's...

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Gemini eSIM setup: Google's AI may soon do it for you

Gemini eSIM setup: Google's AI may soon do it for you

Switching phones shouldn't feel like a negotiation with your carrier. Google may be working on a fix: a hidden Gemini connector that can handle...

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Chinese AI video models beat US rivals but lag on safety

Chinese AI video models beat US rivals but lag on safety

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Pro scored 3.84 out of 5 for visual quality. Google DeepMind's Veo 3.1 managed 3.47. OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro got...

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ESA weighs €10bn plan to launch its own European astronauts

ESA weighs €10bn plan to launch its own European astronauts

Every European astronaut who reaches orbit today does it on someone else's spacecraft. ESA director general Josef Aschbacher wants that to...

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Is Manni L. Perez really GTA 6's Lucia? What we know

Is Manni L. Perez really GTA 6's Lucia? What we know

More than 2,100 people watched Manni L. Perez's Instagram livestream at its peak. For 12 minutes, she never acknowledged the flood of comments...

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Touchscreen MacBook Pro launch: What to expect from Apple

Touchscreen MacBook Pro launch: What to expect from Apple

For years, Apple's answer to a touchscreen Mac was no. Steve Jobs reportedly called the idea "ergonomically terrible". On Wednesday,...

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Microsoft MAI-DxO beats doctors at diagnosis, study finds

Microsoft MAI-DxO beats doctors at diagnosis, study finds

Microsoft's AI got 83.2% of complex hospital cases right. Generalist physicians given the same cases got 36%. That's the headline from a...

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China launches 28th batch of internet satellites from Hainan

China launches 28th batch of internet satellites from Hainan

If you've lost count of China's internet satellite launches, you're not alone. Sunday's was the 28th group, lifting off at 10:03am...

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 gets 39GB Switch 2 patch

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 gets 39GB Switch 2 patch

A 39GB download sounds like it should swallow a big chunk of your Switch 2's storage. It doesn't. After the update, Call of Duty: Modern...

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Palantir CEO says neurodivergence could be an advantage in AI era

Palantir CEO says neurodivergence could be an advantage in AI era

There are two ways to know you have a future in the AI era, Palantir CEO Alex Karp told the TBPN podcast: get vocational training or be...

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Instagram Apple TV app launches: 3 things you can watch

Instagram Apple TV app launches: 3 things you can watch

On October 19, Instagram's App Store listing still showed support for only the iPhone and iPad. Four days later, your Apple TV could run it....

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Demand for AI engineers in China surges 1,523%

Demand for AI engineers in China surges 1,523%

A monthly salary of 65,000 yuan, paid 15 times a year, adds up to 975,000 yuan. ByteDance has advertised a salary of 975,000 yuan for one AI job....

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Block’s Dessa AI voice model learned to talk without text: Here’s how

Block’s Dessa AI voice model learned to talk without text: Here’s how

Dessa learnt to talk without ever reading a word. Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, says its new AI model was trained from scratch on...

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3 settings to stop Google personalised ads from Gmail data

3 settings to stop Google personalised ads from Gmail data

For years, Google's promise fit in one flat sentence: no personalised ads based on your Drive, Gmail or Photos content. Since October 16, that...

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WhatsApp tests new filter to find mentions, replies faster

WhatsApp tests new filter to find mentions, replies faster

The notification vanishes the moment you open WhatsApp. The message that tagged you in a busy group doesn't, but finding it can mean scrolling...

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What Is PHP, why is everyone talking about it?

What Is PHP, why is everyone talking about it?

PHP is behind a large part of the internet, but a serious security flaw in the programming language has suddenly brought it into the spotlight. The...

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YouTube custom feeds could finally fix your homepage

YouTube custom feeds could finally fix your homepage

You can now tell YouTube what to show you, in plain words. YouTube custom feeds let you describe a topic, a type of video or even a mood, and YouTube...

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WhatsApp reels shortcut adds 3 tabs: Recents, saved, liked

WhatsApp reels shortcut adds 3 tabs: Recents, saved, liked

You could already send Instagram Reels from WhatsApp, but you had to know where to look. The option sat inside the gallery picker's list view....

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Tesla, SpaceX merger could create $3.5tn giant

Tesla, SpaceX merger could create $3.5tn giant

Elon Musk says he feels like he's "tapping dance through a minefield". The reason: he can't take part in the talks over a Tesla...

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NASA competition model 2.0 cuts mission selection by 45%

NASA competition model 2.0 cuts mission selection by 45%

Getting a Discovery or New Frontiers mission from announcement to second-step selection currently takes NASA about 35 months. Under a new plan, called...

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Tesla app 4.62 adds iPad support in 2 columns

Tesla app 4.62 adds iPad support in 2 columns

Until now, opening the Tesla app on an iPad meant running the iPhone version on a bigger screen. Tesla's latest update changes that with a layout...

22.10.2026 10

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China's brain-computer interface market could reach $920m by 2028

China's brain-computer interface market could reach $920m by 2028

China's brain-computer interface market is projected to reach 6.14 billion yuan (US$919.88 million) by 2028, growing 17.7% a year from 2024,...

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Anthropic faces its next fair use test over song lyrics

Anthropic faces its next fair use test over song lyrics

Two federal judges in California have already tackled whether training AI on copyrighted work is fair use, and they didn't fully agree. On...

21.10.2026 20

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Trump calls for data center dividend for local communities

Trump calls for data center dividend for local communities

Data centres that were deeply unpopular became "extremely popular" once a financial deal was struck, Donald Trump says. On Wednesday, he...

21.10.2026 20

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ChatGPT Locked Chats: How to set up PIN Protection

ChatGPT Locked Chats: How to set up PIN Protection

Want to keep a ChatGPT conversation out of your regular chat history? The Locked Chats feature lets users hide selected discussions behind a...

21.10.2026 10

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ChatGPT Locked Chats add pin protection for private conversations

ChatGPT Locked Chats add pin protection for private conversations

ChatGPT users can keep selected conversations out of their regular chat history with Locked Chats, a feature that adds a four-digit PIN requirement...

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Cloudflare hits 10m developers, up from 7.4m

Cloudflare hits 10m developers, up from 7.4m

Cloudflare says well over 10 million developers now build on its platform, up from 7.4 million a quarter earlier. That's a jump of about 2.6...

21.10.2026 10

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Your phone may have malware: Here’s how you can check

Your phone may have malware: Here’s how you can check

Kaspersky blocked more than 1.99 million malware, adware and unwanted-software attacks on mobile devices in the second quarter of 2026, and that...

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WhatsApp tests new iPhone browser to open links inside app

WhatsApp tests new iPhone browser to open links inside app

WhatsApp first tested an in-app browser on Android in 2019. Now a WhatsApp in-app browser is taking shape on iPhone, and it wants to open every link...

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TSMC, Apple eye 1.4nm chips as costs surge ahead of 2028

TSMC, Apple eye 1.4nm chips as costs surge ahead of 2028

Each 1.4 nm wafer from TSMC is estimated to cost $45,000. That's about half as much again as a 2 nm wafer, which Digitimes put near $30,000. And...

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New plan would let Americans share in AI gains through stock accounts: Here's how

New plan would let Americans share in AI gains through stock accounts: Here's how

Berlin wanted looser emissions rules. Paris wanted a tighter label. On Friday, each got what it came for, and Chinese carmakers are the obvious...

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TikTok bans 3-hour Musk documentary account over 'violations'

TikTok bans 3-hour Musk documentary account over 'violations'

A three-hour, 52-minute documentary about Elon Musk has lost its TikTok account for good, and nobody will tell you which rule it broke. TikTok told...

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Why Mars looks blue in NASA’s unedited curiosity panorama?

Stand beside Curiosity at dawn, and you wouldn't see a red planet or a blue one. You'd see murky light-tan cliffs and almost no colour in...

17.10.2026 20

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What Anthropic's draft AI bill would let Washington block?

Fifty deaths or serious injuries, or $1 billion in damage. That's how bad a frontier AI model's risk would have to be before the government...

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Flying cars arrived before GTA 6, Tesla's new Roadster sparks meme

A car that flips itself in mid-air and a video game trailer were both released on the same evening. On Thursday, hours after Rockstar released the GTA...

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GTA 6 Jason and Lucia: 3 things Rockstar revealed

The American dream in GTA 6 isn't a mansion or a megayacht. According to Rockstar's head of narrative, "Maybe the American dream is...

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WhatsApp tests new way to request someone's location

You ask a friend, "Where are you?" on WhatsApp. They reply, "How do I send my location?" Now you're their tech support. This...

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Is AI ready to rewrite our understanding of physics?

Physicists went through 250 answers that AI models got "wrong" on physics benchmarks. Only 12 were genuine physics errors by the model....

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Astronomers identify possible first green star in 27 years of research

You'd expect a dead star to look white, and roughly 29 in 30 white dwarfs do. A team at the University of Warwick says the rest can glow pink,...

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What is Rockstar's next game after GTA 6? Execs respond

Eight years separate Red Dead Redemption 2 from GTA 6, and Rockstar's top developers say they don't want the next gap to be that long. The...

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Can Wall Street keep rogue AI out of its systems?

Bank of America hired 1,000 outside contractors to patch software flaws exposed by powerful AI models, and they haven't left. CEO Brian Moynihan...

15.10.2026 30

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Hubble data hints at planet born after its star died

For 27 years, roughly 100 chemical fingerprints sat unexplained in Hubble's data. Now astronomers at the University of Warwick think they point...

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AI agent hacks are 'early warning shots': Google DeepMind co-founder

Demis Hassabis thinks the AI hacking incidents you've read about this year are the small ones. The Google DeepMind co-founder told Ireland's...

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NASA spots mysterious V-shaped scar stretching 700 light-years across space

Picture a scar roughly 700 light-years long, carved into the X-ray sky by something nobody can identify. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has...

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Your AI shopping assistant may be quoting prices stores never posted

Ask a chatbot what something costs, and it will almost always give you a number. That's the problem. The habit is about to go mainstream. Adobe...

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Google Photos tests shared camera for group events upgrade

You know the post-party ritual. Everyone shot forty photos; nobody has the same ones, and the group chat becomes a slow-motion file transfer. Google...

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Space Jellyfish over Florida: What is that glowing cloud?

If you scrolled past a glowing, tentacled blob hanging over your social media, you weren't looking at a UFO. You were looking at a space...

14.10.2026 20

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UAE builds asteroid lander designed to crash into its target

The UAE has built an asteroid lander that engineers don't expect to survive its own arrival. After an eight-year trip of about 5 billion km, the...

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