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HarperCollins has agreed with an unnamed AI tech company to let the company use some nonfiction titles to train its models, 404 Media reports, but only if authors opt-in to having their books be used for training. Some authors are currently suing companies like OpenAI, accusing them of copyright infringement for training AI models on their works...
The liquid hydrogen-powered GR Corolla H2 Concept. | Image: Toyota
Toyota is pushing hydrogen-powered vehicle technology forward with a liquid hydrogen system design that includes a self-pressurizer to save escaping gas and reuse it as fuel to increase engine efficiency.
Toyota introduced a liquid system in the GR Corolla H2 Concept in 2023, which keeps hydrogen at -253 degrees...
The US Department of Energy headquarters building on February 9th, 2024, in Washington, DC. | Photo by J. David Ake / Getty Images
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”...
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Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins.
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Dbrand’s Circuit Board skins could make it easier to find your devices in the dark. | Image: Dbrand
Dbrand’s latest gadget skins capitalize on our curiosity to peek inside our electronics. Its new Circuit Board collection, created in collaboration with LinusTechTips, features a complex pattern that looks like a functional PCB because the pattern was created with the assistance of...
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Google might be preparing to make big changes to its laptop and tablet hardware by making the software on its Chromebooks resemble what you’d find on a tablet. One report from Android Authority suggests that Google has a “multi-year project” in the works for migrating ChromeOS to Android, while a second one from the same outlet indicates Google...
Sleep trackers, earbuds, and smart beds. | Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge
Sleep tech is more than tracking. Here are the best gadgets I’ve tested that help you fall asleep, stay asleep, or wake up earlier.
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DoorDash now lets you import a grocery list from Apple’s Reminders app to make it easier to buy groceries on the app. To use the feature, while shopping on DoorDash, look for a button to import a list in the app and select the list you’d like to bring over. (You can also paste a list, if you prefer.) DoorDash will then offer suggestions for...
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It was morbid curiosity that made me tune in to Netflix’s live boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson on Friday night. The stream ran into technical issues, and the fight itself was slow and ponderous. But there was something else that kept me watching: all of the jokes flying on Bluesky.
That kind of real-time social...
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Substack still isn’t profitable despite attracting big names in the independent writer world, whose newsletters and blogs rake in a massive digital subscriber base for the platform. Hamish McKenzie, one of Substack’s founders, told The New York Times that it could choose to be profitable but is focusing instead on “investing in and continuing to grow the...