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I never liked playing darts, but I did a complete 180 with this auto-scoring system. This gadget has ignited my newfound love of the old pub favorite. It’s a light ring with four hi-def cameras that slots onto your board. Connect with the DartCounter app via Wi-Fi and you get effortless automatic scoring with an announcer calling your points and telling you what you need to check out.I’ve been testing the Target Darts Omni Auto Scoring System for the last few weeks, playing locally on my own and with family, and playing the odd match online. It’s a pricey system,…
This week, the financial world woke up to a reality that many in the ivory towers of traditional publishing and data services thought was still a decade away. Anthropic, once seen as the “safety-first” academic sibling of the AI world, has officially taken the gloves off. By launching a specialized, agentic AI tool for legal departments—specifically targeted at automating the high-volume, low-margin “grunt work” of contract reviews and NDA triaging—they didn’t just release a product; they released a predator. The ripples in the stock market were less like a splash and more like a tsunami. Major incumbents like Relx (the…
(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) OpenAI is placing a bigger bet on the Seattle region, signing a massive new lease in Bellevue as the ChatGPT-maker expands near the headquarters of two key corporate cloud partners. The company is taking an additional ten floors at City Center Plaza in downtown Bellevue, boosting its footprint to 296,000 square feet, according to sources familiar with the matter. OpenAI previously occupied two floors in the building. It’s one of the largest AI company leases in the region. The San Francisco-based company now has room for more than 1,000 employees at the office, based…
Chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. is in talks to raise more than $350 million from investors, Reuters reported today. The deal is expected to be led by Vista Equity Partners. That’s notable partly because the private equity firm has until now invested solely in enterprise software companies. Its reported change of focus may be motivated by this week’s broad selloff in software stocks. Reuters’ sources said that venture capital firm Cambium Capital and Intel Corp. will also contribute to the round. The chipmaker reportedly plans to invest up to $150 million. The valuation that SambaNova could receive in the round…
From Silicon Valley to the U.N., the question of how to assign blame when AI goes wrong is no longer an esoteric regulatory issue, but a matter of geopolitical significance.This week, the United Nations Secretary-General posed that question, highlighting an issue that is central to discussions about AI ethics and regulation. He questioned who should be held responsible when AI systems cause harm, discriminate, or spiral beyond human intent.The comments were a clear warning to national leaders, as well as to tech-industry executives, that AI’s capabilities are outpacing regulations, as previously reported.But it wasn’t just the warning that was remarkable.…
It’s been just over a week since TikTok — in the United States — transferred into the hands of new owners. And it’s been a mess ever since.At the government’s urging, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance sold the app to a mostly American group of investors, including the software business giant Oracle (founded by Trump ally Larry Ellison), MGX (an Abu Dhabi-based company also involved in Trump crypto ventures) and the private equity firm Silver Lake.But since the new owners took control, the app has seen major outages and malfunctions, claims of censorship and uproar over its updated terms of service.Today,…
Amazon warns it will spend $200bn on AI and infrastructure. Markets freak out. Shares crater, leaving investors asking if vision is ahead of reality. Amazon’s stock has been punched lower after the company laid out plans to spend $200 billion this year on infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence, chips, robotics, and more. Investors did not cheer. They sold first and asked questions later. The share price dropped roughly 9–10%, wiping out hundreds of billions in market value in a matter of hours. This plunge rarely happens without a reason, and here the reason is straightforward. The scale of this investment…
Understanding Neanderthal development and cognition reveals how their brains evolved, learned, and adapted, shedding light on the depth of their intelligence.Different brain growth trajectories compared to modern humans.Fossil reconstructions of Neanderthal children show that their brains grew at different rates and followed distinct developmental paths, which may have influenced how neural circuits were organized and when cognitive skills matured.High visual and bodily energy demandsTheir larger eyes and powerful musculature required significant brain resources for processing visual input and controlling movement, meaning a greater proportion of their cognitive budget was dedicated to sensory and motor functions.Evidence of care for the sick…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 06, 2026Malware / IoT Security Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a gateway-monitoring and adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) framework dubbed DKnife that’s operated by China-nexus threat actors since at least 2019. The framework comprises seven Linux-based implants that are designed to perform deep packet inspection, manipulate traffic, and deliver malware via routers and edge devices. Its primary targets seem to be Chinese-speaking users, an assessment based on the presence of credential harvesting phishing pages for Chinese email services, exfiltration modules for popular Chinese mobile applications like WeChat, and code references to Chinese media domains. “DKnife’s attacks target a wide…
Disney+ subscribers in some European countries have lost access to advanced HDR features like Dolby Vision, TechRadar and FlatpanelsHD report. The issue was first spotted by German Disney+ subscribers on Reddit, but currently also impacts subscribers in Portugal, Poland, France and the Netherlands, according to FlatpanelsHD.”Dolby Vision support for content on Disney+ is currently unavailable in several European countries due to technical challenges,” Disney said in a statement. “We are actively working to restore access to Dolby Vision and will provide an update as soon as possible. 4K UHD and HDR support remain available on supported devices.”If the issue is…