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The Verge Aug 24 Score 0.8146688180555556

Lenovo confirms Legion Go issues after gamers report bricked devices

When a company's software update turns your computer into a useless brick, should fixes be free? Framework, the modular computer startup, apparently thinks so. But it's not clear that computing giant Lenovo will go that far. Three weeks after a Redditor presen

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The Verge Aug 24 Score 0.8083308550925926

The cat-and-mouse game over 3D-printed guns has begun

The creator of the world's first 3D-printed gun claims he's developed a way to thwart government-mandated software meant to block 3D printers from making firearms. It's an opening volley in what's shaping up to be an evolving battle between regulators trying t

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The Verge Aug 24 Score 0.803638725462963

Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case over their rental listings partnership

The FTC and Zillow have announced a settlement that ends the case alleging that a 2025 "partnership" between Zillow and Redfin violated antitrust laws. The FTC had alleged Zillow agreed to pay Redfin to syndicate its listings, while Redfin would end its own ad

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The Verge Aug 24 Score 0.8031257625000001

Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback

Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state law

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The Verge Aug 24 Score 0.8016331699074075

The Witcher 4 developers target a 2028 release

CD Projekt Red is aiming to launch The Witcher 4 sometime in 2028, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a new video. CD Projekt Red has been working on its next mainline Witcher title for years and has shown videos of it, but now the studio is providing a

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MIT Technology Review Aug 24 Score 0.799172962962963

How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, s

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MIT Technology Review Aug 24 Score 0.7955530555555557

The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why Teaching a computer to use human language requires an inhuman amount of data.

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MIT Technology Review Aug 24 Score 0.7902752777777778

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don't know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child.  Now there are two.  Four sh

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