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EBay is running a Memorial Day sale that lets you save 20% on thousands of products when you use the coupon MEMORIALDEALS at checkout. Among other things that brings the price for a refurbished pair of refurbished Bose QuietComfort noise-cancelling wireless headphones down to $165. Meanwhile you can pick up a new pair for $229 […]
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The future of search comes at you fast.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google used to be all about the 10 blue links, but that was then, and this is now. You have to scroll farther than ever to get to the links in Google search results, and now this trend is being taken to its ultimate conclusion. At I/O, the company has announced a major expansion of AI Mode search, which heralds a new era for its signature product. There are big changes coming, some of which will start rewriting the web sooner than you think.
The past several years at Google have been marked by an all-consuming obsession with generative AI. It has invaded your search results as AI Overviews, but Google has made it clear at I/O 2025 that AI Overviews was just practice. AI Mode is the game. Everyone at Google is acutely aware of this shift—at the end of the I/O keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai showed a cheeky AI counter graphic that tracked how many times speakers had mentioned "AI" and "Gemini." But Google is serious about AI in general and AI search in particular.
To that end, the AI Mode search that debuted a few months ago as a Labs experiment is graduating to the main Google search page for everyone, and it's available to everyone. It's not the default way of searching the web, but it seems like only a matter of time before that happens. According to Pichai, people search more and enter longer, more complex queries in AI Mode, which is exactly the kind of search AI is good at handling.
$6.5B acquisition of Ive’s firm puts him in charge of moving OpenAI “beyond screens.”
On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that former Apple design chief Jony Ive and his design firm LoveFrom will take over creative and design control at OpenAI. The deal makes Ive responsible for shaping the future look and feel of AI products at the chatbot creator, extending across all of the company's ventures, including ChatGPT.
Ive was Apple's chief design officer for nearly three decades, where he led the design of iconic products including the iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and Apple Watch, earning numerous industry awards and helping transform Apple into the world's most valuable company through his minimalist design philosophy.
"Thrilled to be partnering with jony, imo the greatest designer in the world," tweeted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman while sharing a 9-minute promotional video touting the personal and professional relationship between Ive and Altman.
Shrinking down to size boosted clownfish survival rates up to 78 percent during heat waves.
Pixar's Finding Nemo immortalized the colorful clownfish, with its distinctive orange body and white stripes, in the popular imagination. Clownfish, like many other species, are feeling the stress of rising temperatures and other environmental stressors. Fortunately, they have a superpower to cope: They can shrink their body size during dangerous heat waves to substantially boost their odds of survival, according to a new paper published in the journal Science Advances.
“This is not just about getting skinnier under stressful conditions; these fish are actually getting shorter," said co-author Melissa Versteeg, a graduate student at Newcastle University. "We don’t know yet exactly how they do it, but we do know that a few other animals can do this too."
Many vertebrates have shown growth decline in response to environmental stressors, especially higher temperatures. Marine iguanas, for example, reabsorb some of their bone material to shrink when their watery habitat gets warmer, while young salmon have been known to shrink at winter's onset. This can also happen when there is less food available. And social factors can also influence growth. When female meerkats, for example, are dominant, they have growth spurts, while a disruption in their social status can cause stunted growth in male cichlids
Android was first developed to be an operating system for smartphones, but over the years Google has added support for tablets, smart TVs, and other devices. Now the company is also planning to bring a desktop mode to Android. While this could come in …
Android was first developed to be an operating system for smartphones, but over the years Google has added support for tablets, smart TVs, and other devices. Now the company is also planning to bring a desktop mode to Android. While this could come in handy if Google eventually decides to replace ChromeOS with Android, it […]
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Verizon wants to escape promises it made in exchange for merger and spectrum.
Verizon petitioned the Trump administration to let it lock phones to its network for longer periods of time, making it harder for customers to switch to other carriers.
There are two rules that require Verizon to unlock phones more quickly than other major carriers. Verizon agreed to both rules and gained significant benefits in return—first in 2008 when it purchased licenses to use 700 MHz spectrum that came with open access requirements and in 2021 when it agreed to merger conditions in order to obtain approval for its purchase of TracFone.
The Biden-era Federal Communications Commission last year proposed a 60-day unlocking requirement that would apply to all wireless providers, which would have made AT&T and T-Mobile follow the same unlocking timeframe as Verizon. But now that the FCC is chaired by Republican Brendan Carr, it's looking to eliminate telecom regulations instead of making them stricter. Verizon sees this as an opening to seek an end to its unlocking obligations.
The Bosgame M5 AI is a small desktop computer with a powerful AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Strix Halo processor featuring a 16-core, 32-thread CPU, Radeon 8060S integrated graphics with 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, and an NPU that delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI perfo…
The Bosgame M5 AI is a small desktop computer with a powerful AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Strix Halo processor featuring a 16-core, 32-thread CPU, Radeon 8060S integrated graphics with 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, and an NPU that delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance. Available for pre-order from the Bosgame website for $1699, […]
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Microsoft Intune ermöglicht die sichere und effiziente Verwaltung von Microsoft-, Apple- und Google-Geräten in Unternehmensumgebungen. Dieser Onlineworkshop zeigt, wie IT-Teams das Gerätemanagement optimal umsetzen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Microsoft)
Microsoft Intune ermöglicht die sichere und effiziente Verwaltung von Microsoft-, Apple- und Google-Geräten in Unternehmensumgebungen. Dieser Onlineworkshop zeigt, wie IT-Teams das Gerätemanagement optimal umsetzen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Microsoft) Über 250 Verkehrsmittel, eine dynamische Spielwelt und mehrere geografische Zonen: Urban Games hat Transport Fever 3 angekündigt. (Aufbauspiel, Spiele)
Über 250 Verkehrsmittel, eine dynamische Spielwelt und mehrere geografische Zonen: Urban Games hat Transport Fever 3 angekündigt. (Aufbauspiel, Spiele) Calls for a more ambitious climate goal are rising as Earth hits several tipping points.
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Sea levels in some parts of the world could be rising by as much as 8 to 12 inches per decade within the lifetime of today’s youngest generations, outpacing the ability of many coastal communities to adapt, scientists warned in a new study published this week.
The research by an international team of sea level and polar ice experts suggests that limiting warming to 2.7° Fahrenheit (1.5° Celsius) above the pre-industrial temperature—the Paris Climate Agreement’s target—isn’t low enough to prevent a worst-case meltdown of Earth’s polar ice sheets.