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You can use your old laptop to make a smart home hub
An old netbook can automate the devices that otherwise aren't interested in talking to one another.
How to properly clean your laptop fan
Start with the vents before you reach for a screwdriver.
Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat
Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode...
TikTok will pay Alabama $100 million to settle social media addiction lawsuit
TikTok has settled Alabama's social media addiction lawsuit before it was supposed to go to trial.
OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’
As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The...
Polymarket Pushes New York Dispute Into Federal Court
New York has sued Polymarket over its event contracts, alleging the company runs an illegal gambling business without a state gaming license, and Polymarket answered by pulling the case into federal...
Why NVIDIA’s most powerful GPU is so rarely sold to consumers
NVIDIA's $16,000 RTX PRO 6000 can beat the RTX 5090, but gamers aren't who it's built for.
Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?
Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years...
You can check your Samsung Galaxy’s health with a built-in test
If your Samsung phone is acting strangely, you can test just about any element of the phone's hardware using this test.
Control Resonant is a great game — it’s even better when you read everything
In Control Resonant, the entire world is at stake. But that didn't stop the diligent employees of the Federal Bureau of Control from filing reams of paperwork, and it didn't stop me from reading...