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When your kid starts showing a preference for one of their stuffed animals, you’re supposed to buy a backup in case it goes missing. I’ve heard this advice again and again, but never got around to buying a second plush deer once “Buddy” became my son’s obvious favorite. Neither, apparently, did the parents in Google’s […]
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After 33 years, Bernardo Quintero decided it was time to find the person who changed his life — the anonymous programmer who created a computer virus that had infected his university decades earlier. The virus, called Virus Málaga, was mostly harmless. But the challenge of defeating it sparked Quintero’s passion for cybersecurity, eventually leading him […]
With December just around the corner, how about some new desktop wallpapers to welcome the last month of the year — and the holiday season, if you’re celebrating? Our latest edition of monthly wallpapers has got you covered. Enjoy! As the year winds down, many of us are busy wrapping up projects, meeting deadlines, or […]
A reader asks: My question is about the potential troubles coming. Let’s say the market goes down 20% or even 30%. Would I be happy? No. But, investing for more than 12 years already (mostly DCA) – I am thinking about this kind of decline as a “time travel” back two or three years back. […]
For years, Google has enforced a restriction on changing the @gmail addresses it hands out when signing up for a new account. Apart from email, that’s the address you use to log into any Google service, like YouTube, so many of us have been stuck with old identities we’d like to move on from. Fortunately, […]
from the it-causes-real-problems dept It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various requirements to verify your age before you can create a social media account. Age-verification laws may sound straightforward to some: protect […]
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority On the whole, 2025 was a pretty good year for Android phones. Some brands stepped up with more respectable update policies, a variety of manufacturers now offer phones with absolutely gigantic batteries, and top-end devices have a crazy amount of horsepower. It’s not all sunshine and roses, though, as […]
Upgrading to the Switch 2 is a big step forward, thanks to the larger screen, new features and improved performance. But shifting to a new console naturally raises the question of what happens to all your games and save data on the one you already have. Thankfully, Nintendo has built a clear System Transfer process […]
The key to R1’s success was distillation, a technique that makes AI models more efficient. It works by getting a bigger model to tutor a smaller model: You run the teacher model on a lot of examples and record the answers, and reward the student model as it copies those responses as closely as possible, […]
