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4 Best Alexa Speakers I’ve Tested (2026)
I’ve rounded up the best smart speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the popular Echo Dot to the newest Echo Studio.
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OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.
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There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year
Apple is expected to announce several products at its September event next week—including a folding phone—but the iPhone 18 might not be among them. It would be a first for the company.
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Scientists Put Caterpillars in an Ultraquiet Chamber to Learn How They Hear Without Ears
The research could do more than help unlock the mystery of caterpillar hearing. It could also help make microphones better.
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The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See
The main action took place at Geneva Watch Days, but others dialed in remotely to make sure it wasn't just a Swiss party.
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Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
The studio released an official catch-up list ahead of December’s release. We have easy links to watch every one of the movies so you can get up to speed.
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XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
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After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
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OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
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Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
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Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
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Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
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Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools
The Home Depot Labor Day sale goes hard on grills and tools. Here are our recommendations on what to buy—and what to ignore.
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Casio ‘CasioNaut’ G-Shock GMC-2500 GAC-2500 Series: Price, Specs, Availability
In what appears to be a follow-up to the mighty “CasiOak,” the rugged Japanese watch brand is expected to release an all-new luxury homage.
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Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced infrastructure acting as the engine of continuous intelligence, powering real-time services while…
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Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
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“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.