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CNET’s key takeaways Laptop prices are on the rise — and the more they increase, the better Acer’s Aspire 14 AI looks. The Acer Aspire 14 AI is available for $500 at Costco and $628 at Amazon.The Intel Lunar Lake CPU offers good performance for the price and long battery life.The display and design won’t wow you.When I reviewed it in April, it cost $700 at Costco and was the cheapest Copilot Plus PC I had reviewed. Fast-forward two months, and a Labor Day deal has brought that price down to $500 at Costco, making it the cheapest Copilot Plus PC I’ve…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of “Wednesday.” Things are looking up for the Addams family. “Wednesday” Season 2 opened with its heroine (Jenna Ortega) having just mastered her psychic ability before pushing it too far and losing it altogether, a problem she hadn’t managed to solve by the end of Part 1. Instead, she lands herself in a coma after liberating the Willow Hill asylum and getting thrown out of a window by Tyler (Hunter Doohan). When she wakes up, she has a new spirit guide — surprise! It’s Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie), the…

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome says he is “relieved to be heading home from the hospital” following his crash in southern France last week. The 40-year-old Briton posted a picture on X of him holding the hand of his daughter and thanked the Sainte-Anne Toulon military hospital where he had surgery. Froome was airlifted to hospital after sustaining five broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a lumbar vertebrae fracture in the training crash near Toulon. His wife Michelle later told The Times, external that Froome’s injuries were “obviously a lot more serious than some broken bones”.She said the…

Everywhere we turn, we are reminded of the rapid advances that artificial intelligence (AI) is making. As the technology continues to evolve, it raises an important question: Can we really trust it?Trusting AI can mean many things — from letting it recommend a TV show to watch to relying on it for medical advice or putting it in charge of your car. On Aug. 29 we shared a poll asking Live Science readers where they stand on AI’s trustworthiness — and 382 people responded.At the time of writing, the results show that only 13% believe they can trust AI and…

Israel targeted a prominent local landmark, the Mushtaha Tower, a day after a military spokesman said it was in control of almost half the city.

‘Black Widow’ represented an unfortunate turning point for the MCUMarvel Studios When the history books are written they will leave little doubt about which movie triggered the decline in popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). That honor goes to 2021’s Black Widow and, to be fair, the odds couldn’t have been stacked much higher against it. It was Marvel Studios’ first movie following Avengers: Endgame which claimed the crown of being the highest-grossing film in history with total takings of $2.8 billion. Those big boots were made even harder to fill by the fact that Black Widow was a…

Around half a million writers will be eligible for a payday of at least $3,000, thanks to a historic $1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit that a group of authors brought against Anthropic. This landmark settlement marks the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright law, but this isn’t a victory for authors — it’s yet another win for tech companies. Tech giants are racing to amass as much written material as possible to train their LLMs, which power groundbreaking AI chat products like ChatGPT and Claude — the same products that are endangering the creative industries,…

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of a mid-level solar flare on Jan. 12, 2015. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Solar Dynamics Observatory hide caption toggle caption NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Solar Dynamics Observatory Beautiful yet dangerous solar flares that erupt from the sun could be as hot as 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, researchers say. That’s more than six times hotter than solar physicists previously believed, according to a new report in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Alexander Russell, a physicist with the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, called that temperature “a crazy number” that he and his…

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