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Category: Emerging Tech
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AI Expert Delays Timeline for Humanity’s Possible Destruction
AI Expert Delays Timeline for Humanity’s Possible Destruction A leading artificial intelligence expert has revised earlier warnings about the existential risks posed by advanced AI systems, suggesting that humanity may have more time than previously feared to prepare for potential dangers. While the updated assessment offers cautious relief, it also reinforces the urgency of responsible…
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Scaling Beyond Our Roadmap With Networked Quantum Computers
Why the Future of Quantum Computing Depends on the Power of Connection For years, the quantum computing roadmap has been painted as a race toward building bigger and more stable quantum processors: more qubits, better error correction, lower noise, and longer coherence times. But as we inch closer to the physical limits of what a…
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When the Internet Coughs: Inside the Cloudflare Outage That Broke Half the Web
On 18 November 2025, a major disruption at Cloudflare — one of the world’s most important internet infrastructure companies — ripple-effected across a large swathe of the web. Websites and services powered by Cloudflare began returning “internal server error” pages, 5xx HTTP status codes, and other errors, temporarily taking down popular platforms like ChatGPT, X…
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Windows Turns 40 — The 20 Best (and Worst) Moments in Windows History
Few products in tech have shaped modern computing as profoundly as Microsoft Windows. In November 1985, Microsoft introduced Windows 1.0 — a graphical layer running on top of MS-DOS that would quietly plant the seed for the world’s dominant operating system. Forty years later, Windows is still everywhere: on desktops, laptops, workstations, servers, kiosks, ATMs,…
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A Seismic Shift in Computing — and It’s Not AI
1. The Premise: Why the Next Computing Revolution Isn’t About AI For the past several years, most of the conversation in technology has centered around AI — large language models, generative AI, and so on. But while AI is transformative, the next wave of disruption in computing is not just about smarter software: it’s about…
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The Apple Watch SE is down to under $190 ahead of Black Friday
The Deal Several deal trackers note that the Watch SE (2nd Generation, GPS, 40 mm) has dropped to around $190 (down from its usual ~$249 US) ahead of the 2025 Black Friday season. PhoneArena+3Gizmodo+3Prevention+3 For example, one site says: “Thanks to its latest round of markdowns, the Apple Watch SE (2nd Gen) is just $190,…
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Apple Inc.’s New AI Dataset — A Deep Dive into Pico-Banana-400K
1. What is the Dataset? Apple has released a dataset called Pico‑Banana‑400K, containing approximately 400,000 curated image pairs (original photo + edited photo) designed for text-guided image-editing tasks. (Apple Machine Learning Research) The dataset is organized around a taxonomy of 35 edit types, spanning from basic photo swaps (colour/lighting adjustments) to more creative transformations…
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IBM says conventional AMD chips can run quantum computing error correction algorithm
IBM says it has successfully executed a key quantum computing error-correction algorithm on hardware made by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) — specifically on a type of FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) manufactured by AMD. (Investing.com) Some of the key claims: The algorithm runs in real time on the AMD hardware. (Yahoo Tech) It operates about…
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