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Ditch the Power Bank: HMD’s Amped Buds Redefine Wireless Earbuds with On-the-Go Phone Charging

In a world increasingly reliant on our smartphones, battery anxiety is a constant companion. But what if your everyday earbuds could alleviate that stress? HMD, the innovative smartphone maker, has unveiled the Amped Buds, a game-changing set of wireless earbuds featuring a charging case that doubles as a portable phone power bank. This ingenious design,… […]

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Honor’s $10 Billion AI Gamble: A Bold Leap or a Risky Bet?

Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 witnessed a significant declaration from Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor: a $10 billion investment in artificial intelligence over the next five years. This ambitious “Honor Alpha Plan” signals a clear intent to transition from a mere smartphone vendor to an “AI device ecosystem company,” a move that could reshape the…

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MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns

Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive dataUK MPs have raised concerns about the government’s contracts with Palantir after an investigation published in Switzerland highlighted allegations about the suitability and security of its products.The investigation by the Zurich-based research collective WAV and the Swiss online magazine Republik

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Google Introduces A2UI (Agent-to-User Interface): An Open Sourc Protocol for Agent Driven Interfaces

Google has open sourced A2UI, an Agent to User Interface specification and set of libraries that lets agents describe rich native interfaces in a declarative JSON format while client applications render them with their own components. The project targets a clear problem, how to let remote agents present secure, interactive interfaces across trust boundaries without

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Should we turn the internet off?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue worldThe internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy – from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face

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Extremists are using AI voice cloning to supercharge propaganda. Experts say it’s helping them grow

Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideologyWhile the artificial intelligence boom is upending sections of the music industry, voice generating bots are also becoming a boon to another unlikely corner of the internet: extremist movements that are using them to recreate the voices and speeches of

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Anthropic AI Releases Bloom: An Open-Source Agentic Framework for Automated Behavioral Evaluations of Frontier AI Models

Anthropic has released Bloom, an open source agentic framework that automates behavioral evaluations for frontier AI models. The system takes a researcher specified behavior and builds targeted evaluations that measure how often and how strongly that behavior appears in realistic scenarios. Why Bloom? Behavioral evaluations for safety and alignment are expensive to design and maintain.

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A tape measure, a metal detector and a spirit level: 25 surprisingly useful things you can do with your phone

While many use our phones predominantly to doomscroll, smartphones have a range of little-known functions that could make life better and easier – from heart monitoring to even developing camera filmOur smartphones are magical things – far more than dopamine drip providers and a way to keep in touch with friends and family. Using the

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‘Help! I need money. It’s an emergency’: your child’s voicemail that could be a scam

Steps to help combat fraud in which criminals use AI-generated replica of a person’s voice to deceive victimsThe voicemail from your son is alarming. He has just been in a car accident and is highly stressed. He needs money urgently, although it is not clear why, and he gives you some bank details for a

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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3: A Hybrid Mamba Transformer MoE Stack for Long Context Agentic AI

NVIDIA has released the Nemotron 3 family of open models as part of a full stack for agentic AI, including model weights, datasets and reinforcement learning tools. The family has three sizes, Nano, Super and Ultra, and targets multi agent systems that need long context reasoning with tight control over inference cost. Nano has about

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