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What is Roomba’s legacy after bankruptcy?
In the Spotlight Tariffs and cheaper rivals have displaced the innovative robot company
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SiriusXM hopes a new Howard Stern deal can turn its fortunes around
The Explainer The company has been steadily losing subscribers
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AI griefbots create a computerized afterlife
Under the Radar Some say the machines help people mourn; others are skeptical
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Metaverse: Zuckerberg quits his virtual obsession
Feature The tech mogul’s vision for virtual worlds inhabited by millions of users was clearly a flop
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Trump wants to build out AI with a new ‘Tech Force’
The Explainer The administration is looking to add roughly 1,000 jobs
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The robot revolution
Feature Advances in tech and AI are producing android machine workers. What will that mean for humans?
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Facial recognition: a revolution in policing
Talking Point All 43 police forces in England and Wales are set to be granted access, with those against calling for increasing safeguards on the technology
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Australia’s teen social media ban takes effect
Speed Read Kids under age 16 are now barred from platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Reddit
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Separating the real from the fake: tips for spotting AI slop
The Week Recommends Advanced AI may have made slop videos harder to spot, but experts say it’s still possible to detect them
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Texts from a scammer
Feature If you get a puzzling text message from a stranger, you may be the target of ‘pig butchering.’
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Inside a Black community’s fight against Elon Musk’s supercomputer
Under the radar Pollution from Colossal looms over a small Southern town, potentially exacerbating health concerns
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Blackouts: Why the internet keeps breaking
feature Cloudflare was the latest in a string of outages
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Poems can force AI to reveal how to make nuclear weapons
Under The Radar ‘Adversarial poems’ are convincing AI models to go beyond safety limits
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Has Google burst the Nvidia bubble?
Today’s Big Question The world’s most valuable company faces a challenge from Google, as companies eye up ‘more specialised’ and ‘less power-hungry’ alternatives
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