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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEMoltbook Was Pure AI TheaterWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ($)“As the hype dies down, Moltbook looks less like a window onto the future and more like a mirror held up to our own obsessions with AI today. It also shows us just how far we still are from anything that resembles general-purpose and fully autonomous AI.”COMPUTING’Quantum Twins’ Simulate What Supercomputers Can’tDina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum“What analog quantum simulation lacks in flexibility, it makes up for in feasibility: quantum simulators are ready now. ‘Instead of using qubits, as you would typically in a quantum computer, we just directly encode…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. DXRacer Martian Pro: One-minute reviewI knew the DXRacer Martian Pro would be one of the best gaming chairs I’ve ever sat in, and three months with it have only confirmed my suspicions.Why did I know this?I tried a similar chair at CES 2025 – one that can heat you up and cool you down thanks to built-in tech, and I have genuinely thought about it every week since then…

Setting up or adding to your smart home is meant to make your life easier. The great thing about a smart home is that you don’t have to buy all new appliances, devices, and gadgets to build it. You can use smart devices to turn old “dumb” appliances into smart ones. Of course, you can buy all new appliances and upgrade your home to be more modern. But the point is that you don’t have to. Smart home devices can turn your favorite appliances into ones you can control more easily and can provide a better return for your home.…

Instagram introduced the Close Friends feature for Instagram Stories back in November 2018, and last September, we learned that WhatsApp was developing that same feature for its users. Now we’ve learnt that WhatsApp is also working on a Custom Lists feature for status updates, giving its users more privacy control. This revelation comes from the folks at WABetaInfo, who discovered this under-development Custom Lists feature in beta version 2.26.5.11 of WhatsApp for Android. As the name suggests, Custom Lists allows WhatsApp users to create lists for different audiences who can see their status updates. For instance, you can create a…

Following the federal government’s wide-armed embrace of the tech, professional gamblers are flooding into prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. It’s not hard to see why: in January alone, trading volume on Kalshi almost hit $10 billion, $8.5 billion of which was tied to sports, according to new reporting by Bloomberg. That same month, Kalshi saw three million new downloads. The waters, in other words, are teeming with prey — and the sharks are moving in. No longer content to ply their trade on the predatory betting apps of yore — the FanDuels, DraftKings and BetMGMs of the app world…

There used to be a very easy way to deal with smartphone bloatware: you’d set up the device, find the folder of pre-installed games or apps you never asked for, and spend about 10 minutes deleting them. It was a bit of a tax on your time, but it was achievable.  However, in the age of the AI-powered phone, bloatware now has a much smarter face. It’s being sold as the headline feature, and while a lot of it is technically impressive, we’re fast reaching a point where the sheer volume of ‘help’ is starting to feel like the very…

This article lists some effective fixes for the “This program requires a graphics card and video drivers which support OpenGL 2.1 or OpenGL ES 2” error on Windows 11. This error occurs when launching some specific games. You cannot play the game until you fix this error. The complete error message is: This program requires […] This article This program requires a graphics card and video drivers which support OpenGL 2.1 or OpenGL ES 2 first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityOne prompt. Two minutes of research. $419.20 saved on a single purchase. Thanks, Gemini.I was ready to click buy and spend over two grand on a fancy fitness machine, but the price just seemed excessive. I love a good deal and always try to negotiate when buying big-ticket items, but you can’t negotiate with a website. Or can you?I turned to my good friend Gemini and asked if it knew any tricks I could use to save money on my purchase, and it delivered. It gave me a few good ones, one of which worked right…

The FCC has given SpaceX a time-limited waiver for 18-24 months, effective January 9, 2026 to increase KU band transmission. This immediately authorizes SpaceX to exceed equivalent power flux density (EPFD) limits for KU-band operations in the US, enabling higher transmission power from Gen2 Starlink satellites. This will be made permanent during the next 6-12 months. This directly supports increased beam overlap (up to eight beams per satellite in the same frequency and area), boosting network capacity and download speeds without requiring new user hardware. SpaceX can implement these power increases via software adjustments to existing satellites, potentially as soon…

If you’re going to upgrade your TV for the Super Bowl, this is the kind of deal that actually changes the experience, not just the number on the spec sheet. A 77-inch OLED is the “everyone on the couch can see everything clearly” size, and OLED is the tech that makes the biggest difference on broadcast-style content: strong contrast, clean highlights, and better-looking motion in fast action. Right now, the Samsung 77-inch S90F Series OLED (2025) is $1,999.99, which is $1,500 off the $3,499.99 compared value. The key detail is the deadline: the deal ends February 9, 2026, so this…