FCC bans foreign robots and inverters over China fears
The United States has moved to block new imports of foreign-made robots and power inverters. Officials fear a hostile power could spy through them, or switch them off from afar....
PSN, Xbox outages show why a disc-free future would suck
It happened two times in two weeks: First Sony's PlayStation Network, then Microsoft's Xbox experienced significant outages. Monday's Xbox outage was particularly galling for users, since many Xbox games these...
1,134 AI staff ask the US for a way to pace AI
More than a thousand of the people building the most powerful AI want a way to slow it down. On Tuesday, 1,134 employees of the leading AI companies signed a...
Own Microsoft Office for your Mac for a single $42.97 payment
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021 for a one-time $42.97 through Aug. 9 (reg. $219) and enjoy Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote for years....
ChatGPT now refuses to copy an author’s style
Ask ChatGPT for a chapter in the voice of Stephen King and it now says no. It offers instead to write something with “the hallmarks of atmospheric, character-driven horror and...
Hot Zuko edits are taking over TikTok after ‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’
When Avatar: The Last Airbender premiered on Nickelodeon in 2005, no one could have predicted that nearly two decades later, one of its characters would still be one of the...
Anthropic says leaked Claude chats worked as intended
Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers’ conversations with Claude. Some held medical records. Some held company files and children’s phone numbers. The...
New humanoid robot Gene.01 has skin that can feel your touch
A new humanoid robot debuted this week with a sensor-laden layer of "smart skin" designed to feel exactly where and how hard it's being touched...for industrial safety, of course.The robot,...
Italy backs €500m for the company that owns AOL
Bending Spoons has agreed a €500m loan facility guaranteed by the Italian state. The guarantee comes from SACE, Italy’s export credit agency, which is wholly owned by the Ministry of...
Apple launches ‘Upgrade’ program for leasing Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch
Last month, Apple tragically raised the prices on many of its devices, largely thanks to the industry-wide memory shortage known as RAMageddon. This month, it's giving consumers some relief. Sort...