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Is a first gen Pixel Watch still worth it? You can get one for just $90 now
The Google Pixel Watch series has delivered increasingly better hardware every year, but even the first generation is still supported and, now, you can get one for as little as $90 – but should you? more…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:
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Best Noise-Canceling Earbuds for 2024
We've tested dozens of noise canceling earbuds, and these are the best models for loud environments.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Anthropic’s latest flagship AI might not have been incredibly costly to train
Anthropic’s newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of computing power. That’s according to Wharton professorEthan Mollick, who in an X post on Monday relayed a clarification he’d received from Anthropic’s PR. “I was contacted by Anthropic who told me […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:How to Rein in Identity Session Security Risk With CAEP
Addressing the complexities of session management in multi-IDP environments, the protocol offers a pathway to real-time security, proactive risk mitigation, and enhanced user trust.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:I'm writing about this cute cat plush so you play one of 2025's best games
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is one of my favorite games of the year, so you'll forgive me if I spend the next 300 words or so writing about a limited-edition plush the game's creator, Gareth Damian Martin, is producing with the help of crowdfunding platform Makeship. Starting today, you can pledge $30 to support Martin's campaign, and if enough other people do as well, everyone will get a cute cat plush sometime...
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:AI Tricksters Spin Up Fake DeepSeek Sites to Steal Crypto
The fake websites trick users into downloading and running malware that searches for personal information, especially anything related to cryptocurrency.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Perplexity launches $50M seed and pre-seed VC fund
Perplexity, the developer of an AI-powered search engine, is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund, CNBC reported. Although the majority of the capital is coming from limited partners, Perplexity is using some of the capital it raised for the company’s growth to anchor the fund. Perplexity reportedly raised $500 million at a […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Best Internet Providers in Springfield, Massachusetts
Although there aren't many internet provider options in Springfield, we found the best fast and affordable plans in the area.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:'Fortnite' Added a Fake Crypto Token—And Degens Turned It Into a Solana Meme Coin
Fortnite added a fake “crypto coin” into the game to buy black market items—then degens launched a real one on Solana that quickly crashed.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Apple is fixing a voice dictation bug that substitutes ‘Trump’ for ‘racist’
Apple has acknowledged a peculiar bug with the iPhone’s dictation feature that briefly displays “Trump” when someone says the word “racist.” The Verge has been unable to reproduce the issue, but it picked up attention on Tuesday after a video demonstrating the strange substitution went viral on TikTok and other social media. The company provided […]
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Apple’s rumored smart home doorbell may feature MagSafe
A Bloomberg report last year revealed that Apple has been working on a new smart doorbell to compete with . Although the device is still in the early stages of development and won’t come to the market anytime soon, a new rumor suggests that Apple’s doorbell will feature MagSafe. more…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Amid a Musk-led overhaul, the FAA starts doing business with SpaceX
The Federal Aviation Agency has started testing Starlink terminals for upgrades to the networks that manage airspace, creating the latest conflict of interest between the US government and Elon Musk. The FAA posted (fittingly on the social network Musk also owns) that it is testing a Starlink terminal in Atlantic City, NJ, and two terminals in Alaska. The post claims that the department had been considering using the...
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:What are GFCI outlets? Plus 6 things you should never plug into one
These 65-year-old safety devices can be a source of inconvenience if you misuse them. They can also save your life.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:6 Of The Most Useful Camping Gadgets You Can Buy In 2025
It can be difficult to tell at a glance if a piece of camping tech will work for you or if it will be a waste of money. We've found some we think are worth it.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:The 65-inch LG G4 OLED TV is on sale with a nearly $1,000 discount
The 65-inch LG G4 OLED 4K TV is our top pick among the best OLED TVs, so you wouldn't want to miss this chance at an almost $1,000 discount from LG itself.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Wednesday’s Stacked SpaceX Launch Is Sending Groundbreaking Science to the Moon and Beyond
The Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to blast off on February 26 will contain a lunar robot, lander, and satellite, as well as a mission to an asteroid. Watch it live right here.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Best Pellet Grill of 2025
Add rich, smoky flavor to your grill game with a great pellet grill smoker.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:This 3-in-1 charger is a must-have accessory for Pixel owners - and it's on sale
If you're looking for a single wireless charger for all your Google devices, this 3-in-1 set from Phelinta brings a lot of bang for your buck.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:DOGE has an official ‘acting’ administrator, and it’s not Elon Musk, White House confirms
Amy Gleason is named as the acting administrator of DOGE, amid ambiguity over Elon Musk's role. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:ISPs get handed another L trying to end New York’s cheap internet law
Supreme Court has slammed the door on the broadband industry's challenge to New York's broadband law.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Asteroid's Chance of Smacking Earth Drops Dramatically. Here's What to Know
NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon on Twitch — slowly
On Tuesday afternoon, Anthropic launched Claude Plays Pokémon on Twitch, a livestream of Anthropic’s newest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, playing a game of Pokémon Red. It’s become a fascinating experiment of sorts, showcasing the capabilities of today’s AI tech and people’s reactions to them. AI researchers have used all sorts of video games, from […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Ubiquiti launches three new 10G cloud gateways for next-level networking
Ubiquiti continues to be a leader in the enterprise networking industry with three new 10-gigabit UniFi Cloud Gateways designed to future-proof networks. In the last five years, the company has been on a roll with new products and services; these new gateways are a prime example. I’ve had great experience over the years with Apple fleets and UniFi networking, so let’s take a look at each of them. more…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Non-Human Identity Security in the Age of AI
It is not a coincidence that non-human identities (NHIs) have come into focus recently while AI-powered tools and autonomous agents are rapidly being adopted. In fact, this is partially what is driving the explosion of NHIs in the enterprise. This has sparked a lot of research and conversations about machine identity and governance. Like human users of systems, NHIs, such as AI agents, bots, scripts, and cloud...
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:A Nobel laureate on the economics of artificial intelligence
For all the talk about artificial intelligence upending the world, its economic effects remain uncertain. But Institute Professor and 2024 Nobel winner Daron Acemoglu has some insights. Despite some predictions that AI will double US GDP growth, Acemoglu expects it to increase GDP by 1.1% to 1.6% over the next 10 years, with a roughly…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:This is your brain on movies
The cerebral cortex contains regions devoted to processing different types of sensory information, including visual and auditory input. Now researchers led by Robert Desimone, director of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and colleagues have developed the most comprehensive picture yet of what all these regions do. They achieved this by analyzing data collected as…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Laser imaging peers deeper into living tissue
Metabolic imaging is a valuable noninvasive method for studying living cells with laser light, but it’s been constrained by the way light scatters when it shines into tissue, limiting the resolution and depth of penetration. MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than doubles the usual depth limit while boosting imaging speeds, yielding…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Tiny tubes wrap around brain cells
Wearable devices like smart watches and fitness trackers help us measure and learn from physical functions such as heart rates and sleep stages. Now MIT researchers have developed a tiny equivalent for individual brain cells. These soft, battery-free wireless devices, actuated with light, are designed to wrap around different parts of neurons, such as axons…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:From climate-warming pollutant to useful material
Although it is less abundant than carbon dioxide, methane gas contributes disproportionately to global warming. Its molecular structure of single carbon atoms bound to four hydrogen atoms makes it a potentially useful building block for products that could keep this carbon out of the atmosphere, but it’s hard to get it to react with other…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Studying the uninvited guests
Microbes that gobble up or break down environmental toxins can clean up oil spills, waste sites, and contaminated watersheds. But until his faculty mentor asked him for help with a project he was working on with doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2009, Eric Alm had not thought much about their role in a very…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:The poetry of data
Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in high school English. If anything, they’re more likely to call to mind your statistics class. Flip through the pages of her poetry chapbook Power Point and you’ll see charts, graphs, and citations galore. One poem visually documents maternal mortality rates and women’s unpaid…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:The man who reinvented the hammer
A trip to Walmart. An aging German shepherd. A cheap disposable camera. These are just a few of the seemingly mundane things that have sparked the relentlessly imaginative mind of Kurt Schroder ’90, leading to some of his groundbreaking inventions. “I just can’t stop doing it,” he says, with a chuckle and a tiny trace…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Recent books from the MIT community
Differential PrivacyBy Simson L. Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05MIT PRESSS, 2025, $18.95 Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US into a Manufacturing PowerhouseBy Colleen A. Dunlavy, PhD ’88 POLITY BOOKS, 2024, $29.95 The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of NatureBy Alan Lightman, professor of the practice of the humanitiesPANTHEON, 2024, $36 The Path…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:An environmentally friendly alternative to plastic microbeads
The tiny beads added to some cleansers and cosmetics are one source of the long-lasting microplastics that threaten the environment. But MIT researchers have found a way to address the problem at its source: replacing them with polymers that break down into harmless sugars and amino acids. Particles of this polymer could also be used…
Published on: February 25, 2025 | Source:Days After DOGE Lands at the Agency, the FAA Says It’s Testing Starlink Equipment in Its Systems
It's yet another sign that Elon Musk is at the center of the new Trump government.
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