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The webcam is 1080p, which is solid, though we’re seeing a lot of premium laptops move to 5-megapixel or even 12-MP sensors like Apple’s new MacBook Air (M4). I did encounter one serious problem—flickering during video calls. The camera worked fine, but every time I started a video call, it would flicker to black every few seconds. Lenovo seemed convinced …

Image: World Nuclear Association In a significant move to address global energy challenges, Amazon, Google, and Meta recently joined forces with other large energy-intensive users to advocate for a substantial increase in nuclear power capacity. The coalition is calling for a tripling of global nuclear energy production by the year 2050, aiming to bolster energy security, meet escalating demand, and …

The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy “consumer alert.”

In her first briefing as White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt said she was “committed to telling the truth from this podium every single day.” Moments later she announced that the new administration had blocked a $50 million contract for condoms in Gaza. “That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money,” she said. It was also a preposterous claim, improbable …

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority We often overlook how essential power is — until it suddenly disappears. That’s when the panic sets in, when you realize you’ve forgotten to keep your phone and laptop charged, while wondering how long the food in your fridge will last. Whether from expected, but still annoying, rolling power outages, or from far more severe …

The Guardian: Q&A with Reid Hoffman on making people AI-curious through his new book Superagency, writing with AI, why AI “gloomers” are wrong, tech’s DEI rollback, and more  —  The co-founder of LinkedIn and Democrat donor remains confident that AI can be good for all of us – if its introduction is handled in the right way

Billed as the “world’s most portable pizza oven,” the Gozney Tread is an adventure-ready, ruggedized gas-powered beauty. It is the smallest of the hugely impressive Gozney range, and the second most affordable behind the original Roccbox. It joins an ever-evolving selection of home pizza ovens that have transformed our ability to cook proper pizza—we’re talking everything from Neapolitan, Chicago-style, New …

Image: serhiibobyk/Envato Elements OpenAI is expanding its controversial stable of AI voices to include agentic models. Agentic models are the hot trend in generative AI, enabling two-step processes such as asking an AI to buy plane tickets or change a customer’s order. Specifically, the new models include: Gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, both of which are speech-to-text models. Gpt-4o-mini-tts, a text-to-speech model. …

An arbitration ruling bars author Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her memoir tarnishing Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg with what the social media giant says are lies.

NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could take scientific experiments to the moon on a lower budget than the agency could. Last year, that was a bad bet. The first NASA-financed spacecraft missed the moon entirely. The second landed but fell over. But this month, a robotic lander named Blue Ghost, built by Firefly Aerospace …