Acer Predator Helios 16S AI Review: Great Performance, Annoying Crashes

The keyboard features four-zone color backlighting, tunable through Acer’s extensive PredatorSense system, which controls everything from battery charging details to ...
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Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls

WIRED copublished an investigation this week with The Markup and CalMatters showing that dozens of data brokers have been hiding ...
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Decoding Palantir, the Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley

This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually ...
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AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

Getting clones taken down can be an exhausting process for developers. Small studios have less time, energy, and resources to ...
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REI Co-op Base Camp 6 Review: All-Weather, All-Season Family Tent

When my wife and I had kids, one of the first things we did was get a bigger tent. Fifteen ...
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RFK Jr. Is Supporting mRNA Research—Just Not for Vaccines

One of the targeted recipients, Tiba Biotech, had a $750,000 contract with BARDA that was slated to end October 30. ...
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Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories

“AI is expensive. Let’s be honest about that,” Anand says. Growth vs. Safety In October 2024, the mother of a ...
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WIRED Roundup: Unpacking OpenAI’s Government Partnership

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the week’s news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump’s tariffs to ...
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