Matthew McConaughey tries a new approach to fighting AI misuse: trademarking himself
The trademarks, granted over the last few months, also include a seven-second clip of McConaughey standing on a porch and a three-second clip of him sitting in front of a Christmas tree, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
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FCC kills Verizon's 60-day phone unlocking rule after massive fraud spike
The revision effectively removes an unlocking timeframe unique to Verizon among major US carriers. Previously, the company was obliged to make both prepaid and postpaid devices unlockable after just two months, well before the standard one-year industry benchmark. Regulators said that despite being designed to protect consumer choice, the 60-day...
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As New Jersey enacts cellphone ban in schools, survey shows what teens actually think
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a "bell to bell" cellphone ban in schools last week – one of his final acts before leaving office.
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The Ryzen 7 5800X3D Revisited, Four Years Later
We revisit the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and 5700X3D to see how they hold up in modern games, updating our benchmarks and comparing them against today's CPUs across multiple generations.
Researchers beam energy from a moving aircraft to test space solar power
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Forward-looking: Beaming solar energy from space could address several drawbacks of today's ground-based solar technology. Organizations around the world are developing ways to deploy orbital solar farms in the coming decades – including a Virginia-based company that recently beamed energy to solar panels from an airplane.
The successful test is a proof-of-concept for Overview Energy's plans to deliver solar energy to Earth from satellites
Scientists develop nanophotonic material that changes color, texture, and shape on demand
The Stanford team created a metasurface from a polymer previously used in solar panels and printable electronics. They found that the material swells when it comes into contact with water, but it can also revert to its original state when exposed to other liquids, such as solvents.
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AI researchers are now studying LLMs as if they were living organisms
Large language models have grown so vast and complex that even the people who build them no longer fully understand how they work. A single modern system contains hundreds of billions of parameters – numbers so massive that, printed out, they would carpet entire cities. That opacity has become a...
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Enthusiast proves it is possible to operate a PC inside a freezer, but not really worth the hassle
The YouTuber started with modest – some would say heavily dated – hardware including an Intel Core i7-9700K CPU and a GTX 1070 GPU. For cooling, he went with a chest-style deep freezer and modified it with extra insulation around the lid to help keep outside air from getting inside.
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Hilarious viral video shows driverless delivery vans causing chaos on Chinese streets
Videos trending on Chinese social media show self-driving delivery vans running amok on city streets – plowing through wet concrete, driving on shoulders and embankments, speeding along potholed roads, blocking traffic, rolling over barriers, and crashing into other vehicles. One clip even appears to show a driverless van speeding on...
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Global PC shipments jumped 9.6% to 76.4M units in Q4 2025, annual shipments grew 8.1% YoY
Lenovo finished the quarter as the top PC manufacturer with 19.3 million units shipped, good for 25.3 percent market share. HP captured second place with 15.4 million PC shipments, or 20.1 percent of the pie. Dell placed third with 11.7 million units shipped in Q4, accounting for 15.4 percent market...
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