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Samsung's Bespoke Jet AI Ultra 2025 includes abilities to get alerts for incoming calls and texts. It's one of many home appliances embracing AI features.

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  • Technology

A new vacuum can alert you to incoming text messages. Why?

Home appliance companies are rushing to put AI into products. It's motivated by a few factors, including gathering data and creating a long-term customer relationship, experts say.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • James Doubek
August Lamm two years into her dumbphone journey in New York, July 2024.

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  • Technology

This former influencer gave up her smartphone. She says you should, too

August Lamm became an accidental influencer by posting pictures of her art online – until she reached a breaking point and got rid of her smartphone. Now, she's advocating for others to do the same.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • Anandita Bhalerao and
  • Andrew Mambo
The chaos surrounding TikTok in recent months has sent creators on the platform into an emotional spiral.

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  • Arts & Life

TikTok creators go from sadness and fear to...'whatever!' over app's future

It's been an emotional rollercoaster for TikTok creators over the past few months, with the app's future uncertain. But there are ways to decompress.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Traders work on the floor Monday at the New York Stock Exchange in New York.

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  • Technology

How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multitrillion-dollar market swings

What began as a misquoted Fox News interview led to a flood of false and misleading posts on X. Before it was corrected, stock markets rallied then plummeted again.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Attendees at a New York City event previewing the Nintendo Switch 2.

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  • Series: Join The Game

Trump's tariffs complicate the Switch 2 launch, says Nintendo of America president

Nintendo canceled U.S. preorders for the Switch 2 after President Trump announced sweeping global tariffs. We discuss the challenges facing the console release with Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser.

April 07, 2025
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By:
  • James Perkins Mastromarino
Microsoft Co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen pose for a portrait in 1984 in Seattle, Washington.

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  • Technology

Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything from the Altair to the Zune

The company helped launch the software industry and bring a computer to every desktop. Hit products like Windows and the Xbox became household names – but does anyone remember the Zune?

April 06, 2025
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By:
  • Monica Nickelsburg
The icon for the TikTok video sharing app is seen on a smartphone in Marple Township, Pa., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023.

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  • Technology

Trump extends TikTok's sell-by deadline again

On his first day in office, President Trump used an executive order to hit pause on the TikTok ban for 75 days. Now he's pushing back that deadline.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A 2024 file photo of TikTok's offices in Culver City, Calif. The popular social app's fate could be decided in the coming days as it seeks a buyer to comply with a federal law that it divest itself of Chinese ownership.

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  • Technology

As deadline nears, the White House considers leasing TikTok's algorithm from China

Ahead of a self-imposed April 5 deadline, the Trump administration is close to clinching a deal with Oracle to oversee TikTok's U.S. operations.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
The Signal app is seen on a smartphone is seen on a mobile device screen Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in Chicago.

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  • Politics

Judge orders government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike

A federal judge barred administration officials from destroying messages sent over the encrypted messaging app about the sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen's Houthis.

March 28, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
OpenAI's logo is on the screen of a mobile phone that's being held in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT.

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  • Business

Judge allows 'New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI to go forward

The legal fight could have far-reaching implications for the media and artificial intelligence industries.

March 27, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Lasers shine as part of an advanced atomic clock at NIST. Precise measurements of the colors of light emitted by atoms are essential to everything from atomic clocks to medical devices.

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  • Science

Trump cuts threaten a measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices

The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., (right), joined by Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, points to a chart displaying a text message by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a group chat that revealed U.S. military plans in Yemen to a journalist, at a House Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday in Washington.

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  • Politics

U.S. intel leaders are grilled again about the leaked Signal chat as more details emerge

The use of civilian software to discuss sensitive military and government matters came to light after a journalist from The Atlantic magazine said he was mistakenly added to a group chat on Signal.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
This 2018 image shows a 23andMe saliva collection kit used for DNA testing. The California-based company announced this week that it was going into bankruptcy.

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  • Technology

23andMe is filing for bankruptcy. Here's what it means for your genetic data

The California biotech firm said in a statement that it is hoping to find a buyer to address its ongoing financial struggles.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
President Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office on March 21. Days earlier, Hegseth shared details about overseas war plans in a group chat on Signal, an encrypted, open-source messaging app, according to <em>The Atlantic</em>.

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  • National Security

'Heads are exploding': How security experts see the Signal war-plan breach

The breach left military and intelligence experts asking the same questions as the public: Why would top U.S. officials use a free messaging app to discuss classified military plans?

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
The genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy.

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  • Technology

How to delete your 23andMe data after the company filed for bankruptcy

When the California biotech firm filed for bankruptcy, there was one looming question for customers: What's going to happen to my data?

March 25, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
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