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CNET

Best Buy’s membership program offers a great many perks, including exclusive savings. Right now, there are Membership sales on several popular products, bringing Plus and Total members the opportunity to nab top tech at astounding prices.

The Verge

If you’re disappointed that the only AI model that will integrate with Apple devices so far will be ChatGPT, it sounds like you won’t have to wait long for that to change. Apple will announce “at least” one other deal — to add Google Gemini, too — this …

Scientific American

Large language models lack emotion and self-consciousness, but they appear to generate reasonable answers to moral quandaries. By Dan Falk. Moor Studio/Getty Images. Artificial Intelligence. In 1691 the London newspaper the Athenian Mercury published …

CNET

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest, yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: Get you there …

Variety

Meta introduced the model in November 2023, offering EU users two options: pay a monthly fee for an ad-free experience or continue using the platforms for free with personalized ads. However, the Commission argues …

www.nature.com

Leveraging unsupervised machine learning algorithms, we extracted participant-specific prototypes and embedded responses in two-dimensional space to quantify prototype-based distortions in individual memory traces. Our findings reveal robust and …

The Verge

Samsung also announced several other updates to its smart home platform, including app design improvements, new device control options, a hub backup option, shareable routines, and the gamification of its SmartThings Energy feature.

Fortune

What the Commission is doing to Meta is essentially data-protection enforcement through antitrust means. The DMA’s rules reflect the increasing tendency of tech antitrust regulators to treat piles of data like the moat- …

The New York Times

Thierry Breto, wearing dark-rimmed round glasses, speaking with one hand raised. Thierry Breton, the European commissioner who helped draft the Digital Markets Act, said the law was intended to …

Medscape

TOPLINE: More time spent exposed to screens is associated with a higher risk for myopia in children and adolescents; the use of computers and televisions appears to have the most significant effects on eye health.