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Is the Slate Truck too minimal for its own good?
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How the Amazon Echo learned to talk — and listen
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A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll
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Buy two Nintendo Switch games, get $30 off at Target
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My dream pair of AR gaming glasses needs to have these nine features
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Really, you made this without AI? Prove it
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Super Meat Boy 3D makes suffering fun
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Anker’s Nebula P1 projector is the portable sound king
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Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude by making subscribers pay extra
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NASA did eventually solve Artemis II’s Outlook glitch
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OpenAI’s AGI boss is taking a leave of absence
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Lenovo Legion Go 2 suddenly costs $650 more as RAMageddon lays waste to gaming hardware
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The best iPad deals you can get right now
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Mercedes adds steer-by-wire — and a dang steering yoke — to the EQS
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Anker’s small, five-port travel adapter is down to its best price yet
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