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I tried the Looki L1 AI camera – and I might just have signed my brain away

One of the biggest concerns about AI is how lazy it appears to be making us. If my children don’t know an answer to a question, then they tell me to “search it up”. They’re mortified if I ask them to find the answer in a book or wait till they can next speak to their teacher. I get the temptation. Why bother waiting or putting in the hard work when you can summon ChatGPT or Alexa to give…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

More fun with a friend: Important tips for e-bike riding with two passengers

One of the most underrated superpowers of electric bikes is the ability of many models to carry more than one person. Add a passenger kit and suddenly an e-bike stops being a solo commuter and starts acting like a genuine car replacement, passengers and cargo included. It’s the same reason two-up scooters and motorcycles (those with a second passenger seat and foot rests) punch above their…
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DefenseNews

Epic Fury has Navy rethinking carrier deployment tempo

With the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford en route home from what has become the longest U.S. Navy float since Vietnam, the service is reconsidering how to sustain a wartime fighting force. That’s according to Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Perryman, who addressed service needs and quality of life concerns at a forum hosted by Military Officers Association of America this…
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ComputersNews

I stopped chasing OLED laptops for one reason: Glare

The most expensive laptops often have vivid, beautiful, high-resolution OLED panels that look fantastic. But those OLED screens are almost always glossy, and that means they suffer from glare and reflections. Out in the real world, I prefer matte IPS displays—they don’t…
ComputersNews

pCloud online backup review: An affordable lifetime of secure files

pCloud greatly resembles services like Dropbox and OneDrive in its implementation, with Windows Explorer integration and full web-browser functionality. That said, it’s also a bit easier to get up to speed with than those others. pCloud is also touted as uber-secure. I even like its lifetime pricing, as opposed to the usual monthly rate. Let’s cover that first. After our original review…
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