Author: Zach_Wilson
Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs
Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents’ electricity bills. The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges in order to cover 100 percent of the upgrades needed to connect its data centers to power grids. “This includes…
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Why I wish I hadn’t bought my Samsung OLED TV
In June 2024, in a dusty TV shop empty of customers save myself, my wife, and my kids, I stared deep into the LG C3 and Samsung S90C. I went back and forth between the two OLED screens for easily 20 minutes, happily paralyzed by the choice in front of…
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Aurora says it will ‘triple’ its driverless truck network
Aurora, the driverless truck firm founded by former members of Google’s pioneering self-driving car team, is branching out. In advance of its quarterly earnings report today, the company announced that a new software update would enable it to triple its driverless network to a total of 10 routes across the…
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Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri
Apple had been reportedly pushing to introduce some big changes to Siri with iOS 26.4, but now the company is planning to introduce them in later versions of iOS, including iOS 26.5 and iOS 27, Bloomberg reports. Nearly a year ago, Apple delayed planned features for Siri that would let…
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How to cancel Mullvad VPN
This is going to be one of the shortest articles in my series on how to cancel your subscriptions to the best VPNs. Unlike most providers, Mullvad VPN does not automatically renew an expired subscription unless you tell it to. Thanks to its unique pricing approach, cancelling Mullvad is the…
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Anthropic beefs up Claude’s free tier as OpenAI prepares to stuff ads into ChatGPT’s
Anthropic is upgrading Claude's free tier, apparently to capitalize on OpenAI's planned integration of ads into ChatGPT. On Wednesday, Anthropic said free Claude users can now create files, connect to external services, use skills and more. Anthropic added the ability for paid users to create files in September. Starting today,…
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