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The Nintendo Switch 2 is out – here’s everything you need to know
It’s the first major console launch in five years, so is it worth forking out for? From new tech to add-ons, our guide will help you decideSince its announcement in January, anticipation has been building for the Nintendo Switch 2 – the followup to the gaming titan’s most successful home console, the 150m-selling Nintendo Switch. Major console launches are rarer than they used to be; this is the first since 2020, when...
Published on: June 05, 2025 | Source:
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Over $1 billion in federal funding got slashed for this polluting industry
The clean cement industry might be facing the end of the road, before it ever really got rolling. On Friday, the US Department of Energy announced that it was canceling $3.7 billion in funding for 24 projects related to energy and industry. That included nearly $1.3 billion for cement-related projects. Cement is a massive climate…
Published on: June 05, 2025 | Source:Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong is ready to invest in CRISPR baby tech
Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s ready to fund a US startup focused on gene-editing human embryos. If he goes forward, it would be the first major commercial investment in one of medicine’s most fraught ideas. In a post on X June 2, Armstrong announced he was looking for…
Published on: June 05, 2025 | Source:At Bitcoin 2025, Crypto Purists and the MAGA Faithful Collide
Trump’s inner circle has taken over one of the biggest crypto conferences in the world—drowning out protests from diehard bitcoiners who believe their “nerd money” shouldn’t be political.
Published on: June 05, 2025 | Source:How to Build Your First SLM
Train a small language model to sound like you—without breaking the bank.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 05, 2025 | Source:Elon is right. Trump’s excessive spending may bankrupt the United States.
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Published on: June 05, 2025 | Source:The Ultimate List of All AI Tools to Make Money Online in 2025
Updated for creators, freelancers, and solopreneurs who want to turn AI into income—no tech degree required.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Build and Scale on GCP: A Terraform Blueprint for a Serverless App (Cloud Run + SQL) Behind a…
Build and Scale on GCP: A Terraform Blueprint for a Serverless App (Cloud Run + SQL) Behind a Global Load BalancerContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Trump family disown debut of crypto wallet: ‘I know nothing about this project!’
Latest spat appears to stem from fight between president’s sons and Bill Zanker, longtime Trump business partnerA splashy website featuring an illustration of Donald Trump, looking buff and pumping his fist in the air, appeared online on Tuesday. The image is the logo of one of Trump’s digital currencies, and the website claims to be the “Official $Trump Wallet”, hawking a product that would allow customers to buy and...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Peers vote to defy government over copyright threat from AI
Government suffers fifth defeat in House of Lords over plans to allow AI companies to use copyrighted material Defiant peers have delivered an ultimatum to the government – calling on it to offer artists copyright protection against artificial intelligence companies or risk losing a key piece of legislation.The government suffered a fifth defeat in the House of Lords over controversial plans to allow the AI companies...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot
Social media platform claims firm used bots to access content, without requesting consent, to train ClaudeThe social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access the social network’s content despite being asked not to do so, and...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:100,000 UK taxpayer accounts hit in £47m phishing attack on HMRC
MPs on Treasury committee hear that those affected were being contacted and would face ‘no financial loss’ HM Revenue and Customs has lost 47m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard.Two senior civil servants at the tax authority told the Treasury committee on Wednesday that 100,000 people had been contacted, or were in the process of being contacted, after their...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Trumpworld Is Fighting Over ‘Official’ Crypto Wallet
The President's sons are feuding with the organization behind the Trump memecoin, as both parties claim to be involved in launching Trump-affiliated crypto wallets.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Perplexity’s CEO Sees AI Agents as the Next Web Battleground
Aravind Srinivas says agents need access to apps and claims that letting OpenAI take control of Chrome would be a disaster for the open Web.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Janet Anderson: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The actor and writer provides a crash course in queer comedy, from Cole Escola to Trixie and KatyaGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTo reduce all the funny things I’ve seen in my time on the internet into 10 things is like reducing the Library of Alexandria to a Post-it note. And I need you, gentle reader, to know that these 10 things do not define my humour, but reflect the expanse of my research into stupid...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for AI and math The modern world is built on mathematics. Math lets us model complex systems such as the way air flows around an aircraft, the way financial markets fluctuate,…
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Nintendo’s Switch 2 is the upgrade of my dreams – but it’s not as ‘new’ as some might hope
The long-trailed console offers sturdier hardware, improved graphics and seamless online functionality. But it’s more of an update than a revolutionLaunch week is finally here, and though I would love to be bringing you a proper review of the Nintendo Switch 2 right now, I still don’t have one at the time of writing. In its wisdom, Nintendo has decided not to send review units out until the day before release, so as...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Facing a Changing Industry, AI Activists Rethink Their Strategy
As power over artificial intelligence concentrates in a handful of companies, a new report urges advocacy groups to expose the technology’s connection to broader economic struggles.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:The Race to Build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System Is On
President Donald Trump has proposed building a massive antimissile system in space that could enrich Elon Musk if it materializes. But experts say the project’s feasibility remains unclear.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Google DeepMind’s CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfish
Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we’ll need to radically change how we think and behave.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Demis Hassabis Embraces the Future of Work in the Age of AI
The CEO of Google's DeepMind says systems as smart as humans are almost here—and that the job market will undergo "scary" changes.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:What’s next for AI and math
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of themhere. The way DARPA tells it, math is stuck in the past. In April, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off a new initiative called expMath—short…
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:What to do if your email account is stolen – and how to stop it happening again
A hacked or compromised account can be a nightmare. But with these tips, it need not be the end of the worldEmail accounts have become more than a longstanding method of communication, morphing into the centre of your digital world as the user login for hundreds of services from shopping to socials. So when you forget your password, your email gets stolen or hacked, it can be a total nightmare.Here’s what to do if the...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Surface Laptop 13in review: Microsoft’s cheaper, more compact Windows 11 machine
Cut-down version of top Windows 11 AI notebook offers premium experience in smaller and less expensive packageMicrosoft’s latest Surface Laptop is smaller and cheaper, managing to condense most of what is great about its larger siblings into a more compact frame without compromising too much on power.The Surface Laptop 13in joins the current seventh-generation Laptop 13.8in and 15in that were launched in the summer...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Noughties nostalgia trends on TikTok as fans revisit music and TV favourites
Older series from Vampire Diaries to Skins are among the most popular on the platform as decade enjoys a revivalIt is the social media platform that likes to see itself as being on the cutting edge of the latest youth culture and setting the latest trends for others to follow. But across music, television and observations on British daily life, something more familiar is trending on TikTok – a new generation of...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Pornhub owner to suspend site in France in protest at new verification law
Parent company Aylo criticizes requirement that adult website visitors must confirm age with credit card or ID documentFrench visitors to the adult sites Pornhub, Youporn and RedTube will on Wednesday be greeted with a message denouncing the country’s age verification requirements, the company said on Tuesday.Parent company Aylo, in reaction to a French law requiring adult sites to take extra steps to verify that their...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:How I Went from 0 to 5,000 Newsletter Subscribers and Made $1,200/Month
I always wanted to grow an audience but hated the grind of social media.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Optimizing Blockchain Development with Enso and its Shortcuts Feature
Blockchain has been a transformative technology, but the complexity of developing cross network applications is still a big challenge.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Taking Word Wheel to another two levels | Brief letters
From excellence to genius | Effortlessly superb | Time flies | Describing misogyny | Unwanted AmericanismsI note that you have changed the achievement levels of your Word Wheel puzzle in the print edition, expanding from three (average, good and excellent) to five (beginner, good, brilliant, superb and genius). I appreciate the promotion from excellence to genius that this implies, but tend to the opinion that you have...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:MPs accuse Apple and Google of profiting from rise in phone thefts
Firms defend security features after police tell committee 80,000 phones were stolen in London in 2024MPs have accused Apple and Google of profiting from multimillion-pound phone-snatching operations that police say are masterminded by organised crime gangs in Britain, Algeria and China.In 2024, 80,000 phone devices of all kinds were stolen in London alone, up a quarter from 64,000 in 2023. The devices had a street...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:The best water flossers, tested: seven models for that dentist-clean feeling
Floss without the faff with our expert-tested water flossers, from travel-size models to countertop jets• The best electric toothbrushes, testedThere isn’t much I miss from my pre-Invisalign “gappy teeth” days, but it was far more difficult for food and plaque to get stuck in the gaps – something I took for granted at the time. Using floss between my pre-braces teeth was easy, but ultimately pointless, like using a...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:AI, bot farms and innocent indie victims: how music streaming became a hotbed of fraud and fakery
Fraudsters use fake artists to juice royalties from streaming services – but real musicians are getting blamed. Might they be better off without Spotify et al?There is a battle gripping the music business today around the manipulation of streaming services – and innocent indie artists are the collateral damage.Fraudsters are flooding Spotify, Apple Music and the rest with AI-generated tracks, to try and hoover up the...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Will AI wipe out the first rung of the career ladder?
Generative AI is reshaping the job market, and it’s starting with entry-level rolesHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, I’m wondering what my first jobs in journalism would have been like had generative AI been around. In other news: Elon Musk leaves a trail of chaos, and influencers are selling the text they fed to AI to make art.New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drug‘One day I...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Video stars: the booming VJ scene localising Hollywood films for Ugandans
Part-interpreters, part-comedians, video jockeys translate and contextualise western movies for audiences at homeOn a recent Saturday afternoon in an informal settlement in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, dozens of young men sat on benches in a dark shack to watch a bootlegged version of the Hollywood comedy-horror film The Monkey.As the English-language action unfolded on the screen, a voiceover translation in the Bantu...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:The Download: reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy use, and Caiwei Chen’s three things
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Four reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy usage Two weeks ago, we launched Power Hungry, a new series shining a light on the energy demands and carbon costs of the artificial intelligence…
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