YouTube Music and Spotify want synthetic hosts to curate your playlists. Their awkward banter and bogus song trivia are ruining the vibe.
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This AI Tamagotchi Turns Everyday Objects Into Needy Virtual Pets
A Carnegie Mellon student’s tiny E Ink gadgets, called OATs, give houseplants, skateboards, and dumbbells expressive personalities to nudge you toward better habits.
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SpaceX returned its Starship rocket on Saturday—but there's a catch
It felt like stepping into the future.
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Where was Nvidia’s security team?
Nvidia’s security chief quietly left in August, and now that CEO Jensen Huang has stepped down over his relationships, including one with an executive at a company suspected of funneling chips to China, a former intelligence officer says it’s the kind of leak that runs everyday conversations, which most corporate security teams are poorly equipped to catch.
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Watch SpaceX successfully execute the first ‘chopstick’ catch of Starship
After aborting a planned catch of Starship Flight 15's booster, SpaceX successfully captured Starship with its "Mechazilla" launch and catch tower for the first time. The company has performed 'chopstick' catches of its boosters before, but this is the first time the maneuver has successfully been executed on the Starship vehicle itself. SpaceX CEO Elon […]
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Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang
The petition had attracted more than 115,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon.
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Tesla opens Cybercab pre-orders ‘for personal use,’ with geo restrictions and a $299 monthly fee
Even Elon Musk said the monthly fee is "too high."