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AI Film at Tribeca Raises Ethics Questions About Trauma
29 May

AI Film at Tribeca Raises Ethics Questions About Trauma

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Tribeca's AI Film Problem: When Cheap Tools Meet Real Trauma A 75-minute film about the Iranian government's mass killing of protesters is premiering at Tribeca this month. It cost $2,000 to make. No cinematographer was hired. No actors performed. No director spent months in the field or interviewed survivors. Instead, the entire project was generated using AI tools—text-to-video, voice synthesis, the works. And here's the thing that should make us uncomfortable: a major film festival said yes. Dreams of Violets, created by first-time filmmakers Ash and Prooya Koosha, isn't being premiered in some emerging-tech showcase or a VR corner. It's…
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NASA’s Moon Problem: The Real Cost of Betting on Blue Origin
29 May

NASA’s Moon Problem: The Real Cost of Betting on Blue Origin

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NASA's Moon Problem: What the New Glenn Explosion Really Exposes A rocket exploding on the pad is bad. A rocket exploding on the pad when two of the most consequential space programs of the next decade are counting on it is a different category of problem entirely. per TechCrunch, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during testing at Launch Complex 36 in Florida — a dramatic hardware failure that lands at arguably the worst possible moment for Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company. NASA's lunar ambitions under Artemis are already running behind, and Amazon's Kuiper constellation is staring down SpaceX's Starlink with…
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01 Dec

Anker’s Laptop Power Bank is $32 off for Cyber Monday, its biggest discount yet

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Anker’s portable charger is about the size of a soda can and can charge multiple devices for less than $90. If you’re planning to head out of town for the holidays, now is a good time to stock up on chargers so that your devices don’t die in transit. Lucky for you, we’ve already rounded up some of the best charging accessory deals available for Cyber Monday, with Anker’s Laptop Power Bank being one of them. Right now, you can buy the versatile gadget from Amazon, Best Buy, and Anker for $87.99 ($32 off), which matches the all-time low we…
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30 Nov

Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages

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Morrow County, Oregon is home to mega farms and food processing plants. But it’s also home to several Amazon data centers. And now, some experts believe, that combination is leading to an alarmingly high concentration of nitrates in the drinking water that is driving up cancer and miscarriage rates in the area. Rolling Stone’s exposé details how Amazon, despite not using any dangerous nitrates to cool its data centers, is accelerating the contamination of the Lower Umatilla Basin aquifer, which residents rely on for drinking water. It’s a combination of poor wastewater management, sandy soil, and good old physics that…
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30 Nov

My favorite Cyber Monday TV deals from Samsung, Sony, and others are up to 50% off

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Black Friday might have passed, but that doesn’t mean the holiday deals are gone. You can still find low prices on excellent TVs, streaming devices, and soundbars through Cyber Monday. I’ve found the best of these deals to level up your home theater setup, and make sure that your holiday season (and every day after) is filled with the best picture and sound quality for your space. Cyber Monday usually offers great deals on products from last year, as retailers attempt to clear their inventory, but this year there’s also amazing pricing — more than I’ve seen in the past…
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30 Nov

The 201 Black Friday deals you can still get

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Black Friday is technically a thing of the past, but many of the best deals we told you about yesterday — including deep discounts on the AirPods Pro 3, the Pixel Watch 4, and the latest Kindle Paperwhite — are still kicking for now. In some cases, gadgets are out of stock at certain stores, or certain configurations are tougher to find at this point. You don’t have to worry, though, as we’ve confirmed that every deal below is both in stock and selling at a great price. Below are the results of our weeks spent sifting through deals and…
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29 Nov

Anker’s handy little 3-port charger is just 35 bucks

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Is there anything quite like the satisfying snap of folding prongs? Earlier this year, I decided to level up my travel game and invest in a charger to bring on trips, rather than raiding my desk outlets every time I packed. I needed a multitasker, something that could power my MacBook Air, charge my phone, and accommodate the random USB-A cord I always seem to need for some reason (I’m looking at you, electric toothbrush). That multitasker turned out to be Anker’s Prime 67W charger, and I haven’t looked back since. Anker Prime Charger (67W) The 67W Prime charger includes…
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The best gaming headset I tried this year is $60 off for Black Friday
29 Nov

The best gaming headset I tried this year is $60 off for Black Friday

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Earlier this year, I reviewed the Fractal Scape, a wireless gaming headset made for PC (also compatible with Switch 2) that really wowed me. Frankly, I wasn’t expecting much in this debut headset from a company known mostly for making PC cases, but it’s one of the most thoughtfully-designed models that I’ve tried recently. If you’re in the market for an elegant headset that sounds great and docks to recharge (keeping cable clutter to a minimum on your desk), I suggest checking out the Black Friday special on the Scape. The discount on these initially brought them down to $169.99,…
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29 Nov

The Fujifilm X Half is on sale for what it should have originally cost

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Fujifilm knows how to commit to a bit. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Fujifilm’s unusual X Half elicited a lot of feelings from photographers when it came out earlier this year — from “That looks like so much fun,” to “Wait, it costs how much?“ Its $849.95 list price felt way too high for what is, by all accounts, a fun, unserious little point-and-shoot. But its $649 sale price? Much easier to stomach. The X Half comes with a 1-inch sensor, a fixed 32mm-equivalent f/2.8 lens, and a whole lot of nostalgia-inducing features, designed to make it feel…
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29 Nov

You can pick up 32GB of DDR5 RAM with a whole PC for $999 for Black Friday

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It’s nowhere close to the fastest pre-built, but it’s a good deal during a time when components aren’t as cheap as they usually are. | Image: iBuyPower If you were hoping for a huge deal on RAM during Black Friday, well, stop being silly. Depending on the RAM kit you want, buying it right now might be too costly to justify, an unfortunate trend that my colleague Sean Hollister recently pointed out. You can either wait out this period of surge pricing, or if you’re jumping into PCs for the first time and want to play games at 1080p, get…
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