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Only Half of Americans Went To a Movie Theater In 2025, Study Finds – Slashdot
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A Pew Research Center survey found that only 53% of U.S. adults went to a movie theater in the past year, while 7% said they've never seen a movie in a theater at all. "The findings reflected a...
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Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch | TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain–computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is building rival efforts through two startups: NeuroXess, which develops implantable BCI systems, and a...
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What is XMoney, Elon Musk’s new digital payments platform?
Elon Musk is planning to launch a new payments platform, called XMoney, in beta form to select users in April.In announcing a planned partnership between XMoney and Visa more than a year ago, then X CEO Linda...
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New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots
Young adults growing up in the attention economy — preparing for adult life, with social media and...
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Using AI to Deepen Understanding, Not Just Generate Solutions
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Meta didn’t buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web | TechCrunch
When news broke Tuesday morning that Meta bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it may have left some people scratching their heads. What on earth would Meta — an ad-supported company — want with a social network...
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Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing it to the...
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Tech Life – I pretend to be OnlyFans models online – BBC Sounds
Available for over a yearBehind some OnlyFans models making money from chatting to paying subscribers is the unseen human labour people who pretend to be the models and chat on their behalf. We speak to a woman in the...
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YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue | TechCrunch
YouTube has hit some impressive numbers in 2025.According to new estimates from research firm MoffettNathanson— as reported by The Hollywood Reporter— the platform pulled in a staggering $40.4 billion in ad revenue, which is more than Disney, NBC,...
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Start-up is building the first data centre to use human brain cells
Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the...
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and teen daughter fire new pistols at shooting range, images show
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter fired pistols during an inspection...