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“Fast charging” has become a catch-all term that can mean many different things. There’s USB PD, PPS and even SuperVOOC, which sounds like a limit break in a Final Fantasy game. All the jargon for different standards can be confusing. Fortunately, there’s less to worry about than that might suggest.

Usain Bolt’s 2009 world record for the 100-meter dash still remains unbroken at 9.58 seconds, but only if we’re talking about humans. During the second annual World Humanoid Robot Games that kicked off in Beijing on Saturday, the Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot completed the 100-meter dash in 9.39 seconds during a preliminary heat. Developed by…

Marketing is almost always a tad disingenuous, and Analogue’s FPGA-based recreation of the Nintendo 64 is no exception. Words matter, and while the Analogue 3D does indeed output 4K video, it’s not magically turning retro games into native 4K creations. The console’s HDMI signal can reach 3,840 x 2,160 pixels on a compatible TV, while…

The class action suit claims that Amazon never obtained consent from Twitch streamers to be used to train its AI models.

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“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of books, online articles, academic papers, and basically anything you can find on the internet. Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to…

If you’re in the market for a new router, Wi-Fi 7 promises a better user experience in congested environments. Since the Wi-Fi Alliance’s launched the new standard in early 2024, devices and routers with Wi-Fi 7 support have become more common. Like any new iteration, it comes with enhanced speeds and plenty of back-of-the-box buzzwords.

Apple’s courageous decision to drop the 3.5mm headphone jack in 2016 seems to have worked in the company’s favor. The AirPods are by far the most popular truly wireless earbuds globally. Competition has also caught up in terms of sound quality and features, and it’s generally pretty difficult to end up with a bad pair…

CarPlay is happily running Maps and playing music, and then suddenly, Siri stops listening. Maybe it does hear you but won’t answer. Or it responds in a subdued tone, and you begin to think the voice assistant has made the decision to mumble for the duration of the drive.