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Apple must pay iPhone owners to settle a lawsuit over delayed and missing AI features.
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Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for June 7, No. 826.
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Commentary: We could get our first glimpse at software features for the rumored foldable iPhone Ultra at WWDC 26, and I'm stoked.
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NEW RESOURCES Ohio Attorney General: Yost Unveils Statewide Crime and Sentencing Data Dashboard. "The Ohio Crime Statistics Dashboard, now accessible on the Attorney General's website, compiles felony arrest and sentencing data dating […]
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Google has just signed a $30 billion AI computing power deal with SpaceX.
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 Most underwater robots lose contact with the surface the moment they descend. But a new antenna technology, borrowed from the physics of medical implants, is rethinking how submarine machines talk to each other - and to us.
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You can remove weird suggestions and help elevate the content you actually want to watch.
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With colorful signage depicting corporate greed and pollution, AI data center protesters staked out Microsoft's annual Build conference.
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Plus all the details on Monstropolis and the new Muppets-themed roller coaster.
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The S26 Ultra might seem exciting but the older S25 Ultra is almost as good and costs a lot less.
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Here's what Apple is expected to introduce at WWDC 2026 for the next version of its Mac operating system.
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California's attorney general Rob Bonta launched a probe into the deal shortly after it was announced.
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 Earlier this month, the Artemis II astronauts took the ultimate roadtrip: a flyby of the Moon, on which they brought the entire world along.
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Space Systems, Engineering
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The 3-in-1 handheld device offers cooling and heating therapy elements.
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It'll be available for PC and mobile, and maybe Nintendo Switch down the line.
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The memo also prevents companies from altering AI models being used by the military without prior approval.
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This week's science news.
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Baseus' Bowie MC2 open buds are easily one of the top budget clip-on models, delivering surprisingly good sound and voice-calling performance.
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Avoid these router placement mistakes to boost your home network speed without buying new equipment.
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Just because you're looking for a cheap phone doesn't mean you should accept a poor phone experience.
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Unjected and PureBlood.Dating are hosting in-person meetups—and have transformed the dating landscape into a political battleground over bodily autonomy.
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 I admit, I'm usually more drawn to rugged pickups and 4x4 SUVs than most other four-wheeled machines. But every now and then, along comes a hatchback that gets me drooling. Toyota's latest GRMN Corolla hot hatch just got me reaching for a towel.
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 Apple is now selling refurbished versions of the Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch SE 3 at discounted prices.
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Apple's 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference is just days away, and it's going to be an interesting event because it will give us a look at Apple's AI plans. We'll see how Apple is going to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the months to come with an AI version of Siri and new AI features for its apps.
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 Apple has yet to finalize whether its upcoming foldable iPhone will be available in black, according to a questionable new rumor.
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 Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has published his WWDC preview ahead of Monday's keynote, and while almost all of the iOS 27 features he covers have already made the rounds, there are a couple of details worth highlighting.
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Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots to take over human researchers' most laborious, time-consuming tasks.
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 iOS 27 is rumored to be focused on bug fixes and performance improvements, and this should result in "longer battery life," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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I asked career chefs and professional grillmasters about the biggest blunders home cooks make when firing up the grill. Here's what they said.
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Live from San Francisco, we compiled all the biggest news from Microsoft's annual developer conference. This is how Microsoft sees the future of AI computing.
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With colorful signage depicting corporate greed and pollution, AI data center protesters staked out Microsoft's annual Build developers conference.
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With just your eyes, remote and a few minutes, you can make any TV look even better, including all models from LG, TCL, Samsung, Sony and more.
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 You know the story. Clouds of dust and gas collapse to form stars like our Sun, around which the swirling maelstrom of debris slowly coalesces into a system of planets.
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NEW RESOURCES Forth: California Expands CalHeatScore API to Give Residents Early Extreme Heat Alerts. "Governor Newsom announced a new API that delivers live, ZIP-code level heat-risk data from CalHeatScore to developers, weather […]
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But as some reviewers have noted, the boosts from DLSS aren't always as impressive in real life as they are in marketing materials. And it's often less powerful systems—like gaming laptops—that see the most modest benefits. So, I decided to test it out myself.
Here are my Nvidia DLSS 4 results on a gaming laptop. Keep reading for the exact laptop I used and the various gains (or lack thereof) I saw in a handful of different high-profile games.
The laptop I used for these tests
When Nvidia boasted about the awe-inspiring eight-fold improvement in Cyberpunk 2077 performance, those tests were done under ideal conditions. According to the fine print, it was achieved on a PC with an RTX 5090 at 4K resolutions with all the graphical bells and whistles turned on, and in DLSS performance mode.
But that's far from your typical gaming PC. Most modern gaming PCs are budget laptops—like the Lenovo LO
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A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted: the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! It was detected July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Most known comets orbit the Sun and are bound by the gravity of the solar system ... but this object came from far beyond the pull of our Sun, traveling 137,000 miles per hour from another star. Now, scientists are racing to get a good image of it, in the hopes it can answer big questions like: What is the universe like where this comet is from? Is the solar system we live in unique?
Want us to cover more space news? Tell us by emailing shortwave@npr.org! We'd love to know what you want to hear from us.
Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave at plus.npr.org/shortwave.
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The Yutu-2 image of the ‘mysterious hut'. (CNSA/CLEP/Our Space)The mysterious Chinese "moon cube" is no longer a mystery. The big reveal: it's a rock that doesn't even have the shape of a cube. National rover Yutu2 discovered the object - which appeared to be a gray cube looming above the lunar horizon - in early December. China's National Space Administration (CNSA) dubbed it the "mystery hut," playfully speculating that the cube could be an alien house or a spaceship. The news called it the "moon cube".
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