New AI listens to every prison call to identify speakers
A Texas company has begun selling corrections agencies an artificial intelligence system that listens to prison phone calls. It works out who is speaking, whether or not the speaker wants...
Best gaming monitor deal: Alienware 34-inch curved ultrawide monitor for $300
SAVE $50: As of July 28, the Alienware 34-inch curved ultrawide gaming monitor (AW3425DWM) is on sale for only $299.99 at Amazon. That's $50 off its current list price and...
Meta and BlackRock form a $14bn venture to build an El Paso AI data centre
Meta has folded its half-built El Paso data centre into a joint venture with BlackRock, formalising a structure that keeps most of a $14bn project off its own books. Under...
Free Lego Darksaber: Buy the N-1 Starfighter, get this Star Wars set free
FREE GIFT: Until July 31, buy Lego's The Mandalorian's N-1 Starfighter and get The Darksaber ($29.99 value) for free. Get a free Darksaber set ($29.99 value) through July 31, while...
the power isn’t there yet
Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country has tried to write into law. The demand...
Man rolls downhill in giant water balloon in glorious slow motion
The Slow Mo Guys' giant water balloon series is the gift that keeps on giving.There have been many, many iterations of this format over the years, but the ingredients remains...
Apple’s incoming CEO wants to build on the company’s film and TV run
John Ternus has spent 24 years engineering Apple’s hardware, and when he takes over as chief executive on 1 September, he inherits a company defined by iPhones and silicon rather...
Best coffee deal: Take 44% off the Bosch 300 Series espresso machine
SAVE $400.02: The Bosch 300 Series Auto Espresso Machine is on sale for $498.98 at Amazon, down from the list price of $899. That's a 44% discount that matches the...
ZuriQ raises $25.5M to scale its 2D quantum architecture
ZuriQ, a Swiss quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, has raised $25.5 million in a seed round to scale the trapped-ion processors it is building on a new...
Logan Paul’s hunt for a Pokémon card that doesn’t exist, explained
It's only been a few months since Logan Paul's $16 million Pikachu Illustrator Pokémon card sale set a record, but he's already on the hunt for something more valuable.The controversial...