Workers using AI are finding that they need to spend time improving its output, new research finds Almost half say they have needed to make substantial corrections to AI-produced material Over a third believe checking the AI’s work takes longer than doing the task themselves Is AI taking up more time than it should? That seems to be general view of users of workplace AI, according to new research…
Ellen DiMauro / Semafor : Sources: Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8K by the end of this year, up from 4K today, and to 20K by the end of 2027, after raising $5B in debt this month — THE SCOOP — As Waymo expands into new cities with its self-driving cars, the company plans to use the $5 billion it recently borrowed to massively increase its fleet.
You Can See Everything has made it through its first weekend in theaters, and the internet is giddy. Since Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes opened in the U.S. on Oct. 16, viewers have sent it climbing Letterboxd’s rankings, called it one of the best films they’ve ever seen, and even started making the case for a Best Picture Os…
West End Girl Lily Allen is partnering with a UK sex toy brand to launch a collection of sex toys — including a polka dot butt plug. SEE ALSO: LELO just released its 2026 Couples Calendar and it's luxe AF Allen hand-picked and tested each of the six products in Lovehoney's Love, Lily collection , according to a press release shared with Mashable. It features: Heart Duo : A dual vibe that off…
Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday's puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Monday, October 19 (game #1729) . Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going…
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, October 19 (game #960) . Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle…
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, October 19 (game #1226) . Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever…
Your robot vacuum's microphone and camera are useful for more efficient cleaning, but it's vital to know how that information is stored and shared. Your robot vacuum's microphone and camera are useful for more efficient cleaning, but it's vital to know how that information is stored and shared.
The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a rash of safety incidents that have spurred concerns over the potential harms of their technology.
The changes have alarmed publishers and others with business accounts. The changes have alarmed publishers and others with business accounts.
Pennsylvania's health department issued a health alert Monday as cases of measles in pregnancy and, in turn, cases of congenital measles have continued to increase. Before the current outbreak—which continues to rage across the state—congenital measles cases hadn't been seen in decades, the department noted in its advisory. The alert included detailed clinical guidance for managing measles exposur…
Bloomberg : Sources: Eric Schmidt, who owns ~1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions in its Series A, is poised to have one of the largest windfalls from its IPO — Former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt owns around 1% of Anthropic PBC thanks to his early investment in the startup …
KNDS and S2M's REFURBOT show up at France's National Infantry Days as an "XXL robotic mule" for the Foreign Legion's 2nd REI, according to FOB REFURBOT uses the TOXO kit to turn retired armored vehicles into Unmanned Ground Vehicles, and was first shown in June 2026 as a 25mm-armed combat robot No payload, price, autonomy level, or contract has been published, and the vehicle remains a prototype f…
Cloudflare : Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unstructured data faster, more cheaply, and more accurately than normal LLMs — Today, we're announcing a preview of a new class of System One-style models: extraction models.
President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that Elon Musk's SpaceX shares for children will be given through Trump Accounts. Musk said earlier today that he would give one of his SpaceX shares to "every kid in America" sometime next year. Musk had thanked Trump Account booster Brad Gerstner for "helping enable this," and Trump appeared to confirm the plan in a post on Truth Social . Given the…
Don't tuck your router away in a corner, even if it is a bit of an eyesore. Don't tuck your router away in a corner, even if it is a bit of an eyesore.
Thanks to the popularity of card games like Pokémon , the trading card business has boomed into a multi-billion-dollar industry — and criminals want a piece of the action. Case in point, collectors who sent their valuable trading cards to PSA, or Professional Sports Authenticator, to get their cards graded were shocked to find an email in their inbox on Monday letting them know that t…
If your DDR4 desktop is stuck on 16GB or less, doubling up to 32GB is one of the simplest ways to smooth out gaming, multitasking, and heavy browser use. Currently, the Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4 RAM kit for $205 (was $316) at Newegg when you pair the discount code GTWF572 with Newegg's gift card deal ( buy for $200, get $230 ). Corsair’s Vengeance LPX has been a go-to DDR4 kit for PC builder…
Few elements of Silicon Valley’s culture are more cherished than its embrace of failure . Nobody looks askance at you for starting a company that doesn’t make it. Indeed, it’s widely regarded as a badge of honor, proving your willingness to make bold, risky bets and leaving you a smarter, more battle-tested veteran. And yet failed startups tend to be forgotten the moment their doom is sealed. Asid…
Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents that employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
SAVE $77.50: As of Oct. 19, Amazon has the Dyson Supersonic Nural on sale for just $372.49 (normally $449.99) in strawberry bronze/blush pink. That's a 17% savings and its lowest price of the year so far. Opens in a new window Credit: Dyson Dyson Supersonic Nural (Strawberry Bronze/Blush Pink) $372.49 at Amazon $449.99 Save $77.50 Get Deal at Amazon Retailers are slashing prices on Dyson hair care…
Live pilot program uses Kia’s PV5 electric vans Remote tele-operators return vehicles to a depot after use The technology is designed to ease the burden on large fleet operators Kia has launched South Korea’s first remotely operated car-sharing trial in the Pangyo Techno Valley region, allowing customers to have a vehicle delivered to their location without a driver. The company’s PV5 electric van…
Multi-link operation is a key part of Wi-Fi 7 routers. Multi-link operation is a key part of Wi-Fi 7 routers.
HP has quietly listed the EliteBoard G2a keyboard PC in the US and UK, from $3,028 to $4,191 for the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450 model with a 32Wh battery The underlying AMD Gorgon Point refresh adds just 100MHz over the G1a's Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350, with identical cores, cache, Radeon 860M graphics, and a 50 TOPS NPU Entry-level pricing has roughly doubled since the G1a's $1,499 debut as DRAM costs soar and H…
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg : The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients — The US Federal Trade Commission said it will allow Publicis Groupe SA to complete the $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp Holdings Inc …
The US is building more fossil fuel infrastructure than it has in a decade while renewable energy growth slows down, a new report shows. Electricity demand is also climbing faster than it has in more than a decade with more data centers, factories, and electric vehicles plugging into the grid. Despite those growing demands, the Trump administration has sought to hobble the wind and solar industrie…
CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition - when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they'd get from government bonds. Last Tuesady Chamath "SPAC King" Palihapitiya noticed the distressed debt , and also asked whether the AI buildout was a private credit bubble . Its shares are down more than 20 percent since Tuesday's…
John Koetsier / Forbes : Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … Want to make your dumb robot smart? $3 an hour is all it costs.
Watch Capturing Bigfoot online Watch Capturing Bigfoot on Amazon Prime Video (US/CAN) Use NordVPN to watch Prime from anywhere Rent or buy from October 20 in the US & Canada On 20 October 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed a mysterious ape-like figure strolling through Bluff Creek, Northern California. The grainy 16mm film went on to become the most famous Bigfoot 'sighting' in history –…
The Miles is a smart plug for your car. My 15-year-old daughter just got her learner's permit, so when I was pitched a new gadget tailored to teen drivers, I was intrigued. The Miles Plug is a small device that plugs into your car's OBD-II port and monitors location, driving habits, and vehicle health, along with emergency accident response and roadside assistance. The idea is that knowing all the…
What’s it really like to work at Anthropic? The AI company made headlines last month when an employee resigned , claiming the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” and that conversations about an AI-powered doomsday are par for the course among staff. Now Anthropic is pulling back the curtain on its own workplace with a new report on the impa…
Audiophile.fm now has an app for Android and iOS 26 or later, in addition to its web version It's a free streaming radio service, and all music is CD quality or hi-res No subscription needed, no account, and no in-app ads If you're looking for an audio alternative to ad-stuffed and/or expensive subscription music services, Audiophile.fm could be just what you're looking for. It's a free and ad-fre…
You can never have too many portable chargers, especially when they’re this discounted.
A Russian military satellite maneuvered in "extreme proximity" of a commercial Earth-imaging satellite in recent days in the first known example an unsanctioned rendezvous in low-Earth orbit, according to the orbital intelligence company LeoLabs. The Russian spacecraft, Kosmos 2612, "conducted a deliberate series of maneuvers toward ICEYE-X36, a US-operated commercial imaging satellite," LeoLabs s…
Kaspersky's VPN, Password Manager, Safe Kids, and My Kaspersky portal failed worldwide from October 11 to roughly October 14 The outage began hours after Ukrainian drones shut down Yandex's Vladimir data center, but no technical link has been shown between the two A viral post calling Kaspersky "practically dead" was wrong on database updates, lost passwords, and its Europe-only framing - the effe…
Travelers flying through the United Kingdom may soon be able to keep their passports stowed away while in transit—but only at select locations. The U.K. is deploying new contactless border control checkpoints at its 13 international airports, using the Seamless Gate system developed by global travel technology company Amadeus. Available for U.K. citizens, the new system will use facial recognition…
Over the weekend, images of burned-out cars and smashed-in store windows across France flooded social media, as hundred of thousands of protestors took to the streets . On Saturday, a fresh round of 3,000 “No Kings” events took place in the U.S. as Americans gathered in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., to encourage early voting, with many showing up at local precincts to cast their ballots ahea…
The Kindle Colorsoft is Amazon's cheapest color e-reader, and it just got a 2026 update. The new version is thinner and lighter than its predecessor, the Kindle Colorsoft (2024) , and features an edge-to-edge 7-inch color display. It's pricier than the black-and-white Kindle Paperwhite, and the color display shortens battery life, but these compromises are worth it for fans of graphic novels and m…
Apparently, "Hurry up" and "heyy bestieee" are both perfectly normal ways to start a conversation with ChatGPT . Whether you find that funny or a little unsettling probably depends on what you’ve been saying to your chatbot. A new social media trend has people asking ChatGPT to "Name 5 things I always say," then posting the answers. But the catchphrases are only part of the fun. You also get…
On Monday, a court granted the US government's request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets. In a court filing Sunday, US attorney Craig Missakian argued that Abdulrahman Alfozan must continue to be detained while the US makes its case that Alfozan brazenly spied on OpenAI, either for his own personal busine…