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Apple’s picked a very fitnessy way to mark a decade of smartwatches
April 24th, 2025 marks 10 years of Apple Watches. April 24th will be the 10th anniversary of the day the first Apple Watch shipped to customers. A decade is a major milestone in the gadget world, but you won’t see a lot of anniversary-themed fanfare to mark the occasion. Instead, Apple is dubbing the 24th…
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Katy Perry is going to space with Blue Origin
Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, and the four other women on Blue Origin’s NS-31 flight. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is preparing to put pop singer / songwriter Katy Perry into space, along with five other women: former NASA scientists Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen, journalist Gayle King, journalist and Bezos fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and film producer…
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DOGE’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data
Tech buzzwords are clanging through the halls of Washington, DC. The Trump administration has promised to “leverage blockchain technology” to reorganize the US Agency for International Development, and Elon Musk’s DOGE has already unleashed an internal chatbot to automate agency tasks—with bigger plans on the horizon to take over for laid-off employees. The executive order…
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A vision for the future of automation
The manufacturing industry is at a crossroads: Geopolitical instability is fracturing supply chains from the Suez to Shenzhen, impacting the flow of materials. Businesses are battling rising costs and inflation, coupled with a shrinking labor force, with more than half a million unfilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S. alone. And climate change is further intensifying…
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5 Lessons Learned Building RAG Systems
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is one of 2025’s hot topics in the AI landscape.
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The Download: the dangers of DOGE, and how to blow up an asteroid
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. DOGE’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data —Steven Renderos is the executive director of Media Justice Tech buzzwords are clanging through the halls of Washington, DC. The Trump…
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TraderTraitor: The Kings of the Crypto Heist
Allegedly responsible for the theft of $1.5 billion in cryptocurrency from a single exchange, North Korea’s TraderTraitor is one of the most sophisticated cybercrime groups in the world.
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Smishing Triad: The Scam Group Stealing the World’s Riches
Millions of scam text messages are sent every month. The Chinese cybercriminals behind many of them are expanding their operations—and quickly innovating.
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Could MCP supercharge the agentic AI revolution?
Agentic AI is frequently touted as the next wave of innovation set to transform how businesses interact with customers and suppliers. Gartner predicts that by 2029, the technology will resolve 80% of common customer service issues resulting in a 30% reduction in operational costs. But a key challenge for providers and vendors is connecting LLMs…
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Why It’s Impossible for Most Small Businesses to Manufacture in the US
American companies that make everything from keychains to mattresses say Chinese manufacturing is superior, and tariffs won’t be enough to shift production to the United States.