Tech & AI

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I’m a Beauty Writer, and These Are My 8 Favorite Products (2025)

In all my years of recommending products for work, I’ve received enough gear in the mail for three lifetimes. And sometimes I’ll try something great, but I don’t have a good place to tell people about it. Last year, I started receiving beauty boxes for our buying guide, and there were a few standout items

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Saudi’s BRKZ closes $17M Series A for its construction tech platform

Construction procurement is highly fragmented, manual, and opaque, forcing contractors to juggle multiple suppliers, endure lengthy negotiations, and deal with delayed payments. In Saudi Arabia, where trillion-dollar infrastructure and real estate projects are underway, these inefficiencies are even more pronounced. To address this, BRKZ, a Riyadh-based construction tech startup, offers a tech-enabled managed marketplace that

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7 Best Banks for Real Estate Investors Evaluated for 2025

The best banks for real estate investors provide banking accounts designed to streamline rental property operations. These banks offer business software integrations and low banking fees to help maximize profits from property investments. Additionally, they provide access to commercial real estate (CRE) lending solutions and include valuable features such as rent collection and cash flow

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How to unblock Pornhub for free

TL;DR: Unblock Pornhub from anywhere in the world with a VPN. The best service for unblocking porn sites is ExpressVPN. It’s still weird that more than a third of U.S. states have now introduced restrictions for online adult content. Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee were the latest States to enforce age verification laws, meaning that

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The Wild True Story Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

“I don’t know if it was stolen or not, but that’s the kind of nonsense that we can run into,” Eastland says, recounting the story. “I think at the end of the day, it could have been a lot harder.” Once he got the car from a used car lot in Riverside, he still had

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DeepSeek’s R1 reportedly ‘more vulnerable’ to jailbreaking than other AI models

The latest model from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that’s shaken up Silicon Valley and Wall Street, can be manipulated to produce harmful content such as plans for a bioweapon attack and a campaign to promote self-harm among teens, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sam Rubin, senior vice president at Palo Alto Networks’ threat

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Live Oak Bank Review: Services, Rates, and More

Live Oak Bank is a digital-first bank that provides tailored financial services for small businesses and entrepreneurs across various industries. Offering a range of products from high-yield business savings accounts to specialized small business loans, Live Oak Bank aims to help business owners access competitive rates, simplified banking, and a highly responsive customer service experience.

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$14 million ChatGPT Super Bowl ad is one big blob

When you think of ChatGPT, do you think of eerie crocodile swamp noises and amorphous blobs in a vast, empty, white space? Honestly? I kind of do. And apparently so does the advertising team that made ChatGPT’s Super Bowl ad. According to the Verge, the ad cost about $14 million. Mashable Top Stories ChatGPT’s ad

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KEF Q Series Concerto Meta Review: Sweet Sound All Around

I’ve yet to meet a pair of KEF speakers I didn’t like. The brand’s penchant for providing rigid and musical bass, a warm and smooth midrange, and effortless treble extension keeps wireless models like the LS50 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) and LSX (9/10, WIRED Recommends), and the wired R3 Meta (9/10, WIRED Recommends) among my favorites

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed

In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed. “The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most

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