Month: April 2026
Baidu’s robotaxis froze in traffic creating chaos
Numerous robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu froze in a major city on Tuesday, reportedly trapping passengers inside, stranding them on highways, and causing at least one accident in snarled traffic. Police in Wuhan confirmed receiving multiple reports of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopping in the middle of streets…
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Microsoft set to face another major UK probe – this time over cloud and software licensing, and if it should get ‘strategic market status’
CMA launches Strategic Market Status investigation into Microsoft software, could take nine months UK regulators are worried that the company is bundling its software together for an unfair advantage Microsoft has already reached an agreement with the CMA over cloud interoperability Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced it…
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I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend—Its Answers Were All Wrong
Want to know what our reviewers have actually tested and picked as the best TVs, headphones, and laptops? Ask ChatGPT, and it’ll give you the wrong answers. Source
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AI hasn’t killed the website but it has exposed weak content foundations
Claims that AI is making websites obsolete misunderstand where the real problem sits, because from a technical point of view AI still depends on structured sources of truth. Websites, APIs and content platforms remain the foundations that models draw from, and what AI is exposing is not the redundancy of…
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Invincible season 4 episode 5 just made a big change to one of the Prime Video show’s new heroes — and I can’t see everyone being okay with it
Invincible season 4 episode 5 is out now on Prime Video It formally introduces us to a new hero first teased in season 3 episode 7 Some fans might bristle over a big change that’s been made to them Invincible season 4 episode 5 has made its debut on Prime…
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How Apple accidentally destroyed the record business — and why I wish we’d stuck with iPods
50 years of Apple (Image credit: Future) We’re celebrating Apple’s 50th birthday with a week of content about the tech giant. It covers everything from personal recollections from our writers to the greatest — and worst — Apple gadgets as voted by you, and you can read it all on…
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