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These rechargeable and battery-powered toothbrushes take the guesswork out of oral hygiene.

Kristen DiMercurio went viral on TikTok when she revealed she was probably the voice of your Bluetooth speaker … and your headphones … and that gadget how-to video … and your insurer’s call center.

Subscribers can now organize their conversations with the AI assistant into neat little folders.

Georgina Quach / Financial Times: Barclays, Monzo, Lloyds, and other major UK banks join Amazon, Google, Match, Meta, BT, and Three in committing to live data sharing in a UK fraud clampdown  —  Industry-led initiative promises to beat existing scam-monitoring systems  —  Britain’s biggest banks, technology and telecoms companies …

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Eric and Donald Trump Jr.’s American Data Centers plans to merge with Hut 8’s American Bitcoin and take a 20% stake, aiming to create the world’s largest miner  —  A business led by two of the president’s sons will invest in American Bitcoin, a new mining company controlled […]

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders  —  The company, which uses artificial intelligence to develop new treatments, now counts the venture capital firm Thrive Capital as a backer.

It’s tricky to predict precisely what the impacts of climate change will be, given the many variables involved. To predict the impacts of a warmer world on plant life, some researchers look at urban “heat islands,” where, because of the effects of urban structures, temperatures consistently run a few degrees higher than those of the […]

From the stylish Evercade to the old-school Sega Genesis Mini, these machines will have you bleeping, blooping, and blasting back to the good old days.

This pellet smoker took the fear out of making restaurant-quality meat.

Bethan Staton / Financial Times: Many LinkedIn users put part-time job-level effort to maintain their pages; LinkedIn: 85% of FTSE 100 CEOs have a presence on the platform, up from 12% in 2023  —  More users are chasing high follower counts as the professional network expands its reach  —  Soon after lawyer Paul Verrico posted […]

Barbers have stubbornly stuck to the corded Peanut for decades. The new Li is the first argument for ditching the cord.

Ernie Smith / Tedium: Apple’s current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups  —  Whether it was trying to or not, Apple exposed a huge flaw with its pitch to professional video editors with a new Severance promotional video.

Bloomberg: Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers, having fallen out of step in an industry transformed by the embrace of Donald Trump  —  Vitalik Buterin was long viewed as the wunderkind of the cryptocurrency world.  —  The gawky, playful founder of Ethereum …

If you tend to wake up sweating no matter the season, hop under these cooling sheets so that you can, you know, actually sleep.

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications.

I’m filing my 2024 taxes with nine different documents across three states. I tested popular tax services to see which best helped me untangle my tax mess.

Bloomberg: A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity  —  inZOI, a new life-simulation video game, gets more realistic and more multicultural  —  Most people have fantasized about inhabiting someone else’s life.

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Dyna Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots to help businesses automate repetitive tasks like chopping food, emerged from stealth with a $23.5M seed  —  When Instacart acquired Lindon Gao’s self-checkout shopping startup, Caper AI, for $350 million in 2021, it marked a big win …

Manish Singh / India Dispatch: Bernstein: AI could erode India’s $350B services export sector as AI replaces entry-level engineers at “higher precision and speed” at a fraction of the cost  —  AI subscriptions replace Indian engineers at “higher precision and speed”  —  For decades, India’s economic promise …

As a college student in Serbia with a passion for math and physics, Ana Trišović found herself drawn to computer science and its practical, problem-solving approaches. It was then that she discovered MIT OpenCourseWare, part of MIT Open Learning, and decided to study a course on Data Analytics with Python in 2012 — something her school […]

OpenAI just unveiled a new subscription tier called ChatGPT Pro. Users can pay $200 a month for almost unlimited access to ChatGPT’s tools, and an exclusive new AI model.

Next year, you won’t need to download yet another app to use an EV charger from an unfamiliar brand. Most of the major EV makers and charging networks are on board.

Thelma, Gladiator, and Kinds of Kindness are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.

Victoria Song / The Verge: Oura rolls out Symptom Radar, a feature that tries to detect early signs of sickness using biometrics like heart rate variability, to Oura Ring Gen 3 and 4  —  At the height of the covid-19 pandemic, many wearable companies rushed to see if their devices could detect early signs of […]

Greg Otto / CyberScoop: US intelligence reports: online terrorist network 764 is using techniques normally used for financial crimes, such as SIM swapping, to commit child sextortion  —  The child sextortion group 764 and the global collective of loosely associated groups known as “The Com” are using tools …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: US SEC filing: xAI raised $6B, bringing its total raised to $12B; it was reportedly aiming for a $50B valuation  —  xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.  —  Investors gave a minimum of $77,593 …

A US ban on exporting high-end chips used for AI development to China doesn’t seem to have affected Tencent, as researchers have found signs of the tech giant using the chips well after the ban was put in place

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT. Then he saw the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, which opened this fall for a selection of classes. “Now, instead […]

People struggling with their mental health are more likely to browse negative content online, and in turn, that negative content makes their symptoms worse, according to a series of studies by researchers at MIT. The group behind the research has developed a web plug-in tool to help those looking to protect their mental health make […]

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A study of digital healthcare startups found that successful firms avoided prototypes early.

These seven principles help PE firms turn talk into action.

They’ve racked up millions of views on Instagram, but these products aren’t coming to a store near you.

Inspired by her own experienced of abuse, Nighat Dad fights for women’s social and digital rights in Pakistan and beyond.

Our favorite WIRED-tested giftable gadgets for everything from water and coffee to wine and cocktails.

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: A look at the logistics network of Amazon, Walmart and Target for same-day or next-day delivery; Walmart says it now offers same-day to 86% of US households  —  Retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target have figured out that if they get you your online order today, you will probably […]

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources: AT&T, JPMorgan, and Dunkin’ pull ads from Twitch after a controversial group of livestreamers alleged that Twitch is promoting antisemitic content  —  – Exiled contributors mount campaign that includes edited clips  — Their targets are pro-Palestinian streamer and Twitch staffers

Reuters: Meta plans to invest $10B to build a data center in Louisiana, in what would be its largest data center in the world, and expects work to start in December  —  Facebook-parent Meta (META.O) said on Wednesday it plans to invest $10 billion to set up an AI data center in Louisiana …

A robotic wheeled rat that was trained with AI learned how to play and fight with real rodents – and could one day offer companionship to lab rats

Car design is an iterative and proprietary process. Carmakers can spend several years on the design phase for a car, tweaking 3D forms in simulations before building out the most promising designs for physical testing. The details and specs of these tests, including the aerodynamics of a given car design, are typically not made public. […]

The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it’s already turning up victims.

Researchers hacked several robots infused with large language models, getting them to behave dangerously—and pointing to a bigger problem ahead.

The ChatGPT maker is the latest AI giant to reveal it’s working with the defense industry, following similar announcements by Meta and Anthropic.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Amazon is rolling out a Buy with AWS button that software companies can add to their websites as a way for customers with AWS accounts to pay for services  —  In 2022, Amazon introduced the Buy with Prime button, allowing premium subscribers to make purchases using their Amazon account even when […]

Financial Times: xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate more than 1M GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its facility in Memphis  —  Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire’s xAI aims to catch up with rivals

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: First impressions of Amazon Nova LLMs: they are competitive with Google Gemini, among the cheapest available, and may position Amazon as a top model provider  —  Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference.  The new model family is called Amazon Nova …

In a unique demonstration of brain implants that incorporate living cells, the devices were able to connect with the brains of live mice

A bird-inspired robot called RAVEN can walk, hop and jump into flight, an ability that could help people develop fixed-wing drones that can take off and land anywhere

The latest weather forecasting AI model from Google DeepMind can beat the leading providers more than 97 per cent of the time, and it is quicker and cheaper to run

Dry river channels and lake beds on Mars point to the long-ago presence of a liquid on the planet’s surface, and the minerals observed from orbit and from landers seem to many to prove that the liquid was ordinary water.  Not so fast, the authors of a new Perspectives article in Nature Geoscience suggest. Water is […]