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The Energizer brand is all about long-lasting power, and that has clearly figured into the design of a series of Energizer EnergyBook laptops that have been announced by French design company Avenir Telecom.Avenir has been making cellphones, chargers and cables with the Energizer brand. Now its first foray into laptops includes batteries that have so much power they’re not likely to be allowed on many flights.The company  hasn’t yet released pricing or even weight information on the laptops, but it says that largest of its three laptops, the EnergyBook Pro Ultra, has a four-cell 13,000 mAh/192Wh battery that can offer…

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Apple is, for many, synonymous with technological excellence. It might not always be first to market with a brand new consumer product, but when its version drops it’s unbeatable. Nowhere is that less true, however, than with the Vision Pro.Beautiful yet uncomfortable, powerful yet lacking in software to really take advantage of it, packed with interesting features that bloat the price to an absurd $3,499 / £3,499 / AU$5,999. It impressed at launch but long-term users came to realize it was not the Apple product of tomorrow many hoped it might be.Apple dropped the ball, and while there have been…

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Anthropic has a new chief technical officer, former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil. Patil started at the company earlier this week, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as Chief Architect. As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company’s product-engineering team into closer contact with the infrastructure and inference teams. As CTO, Patil will oversee compute, infrastructure, inference, and a variety of other engineering tasks. In the chief architect role, McCandlish will work on pre-training and large-scale model training, extending much of his previous work.…

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The early hours of Black Ops 7 Beta have landed some players (myself included) in a pickle, where the game crashes at launch, resulting in the error code 0x3. This error code isn’t new if you have played older Call of Duty titles. It’s a standard error code that appears if you’re trying to play from the Xbox app on PC and the game crashes. Thankfully, there are a few solutions to try if you encounter the problem. How to solve the ‘game has crashed’ error in Black Ops 7 Beta There can be multiple reasons why Black Ops 7…

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You may have seen those privacy screen protectors that limit the viewing angles of the phone’s (or laptop’s) screen so that you can see it head on, but people off to the side can’t peek over your shoulder. Samsung seems to have figured out how to achieve the same functionality without a special screen protector – and, more importantly, the feature can be toggled on or off as desired. Initially spotted inside One UI 8.5 code, the Privacy Display feature is described as such: “Limits screen visibility from side angles to protect your privacy in public.” Now, X user Ach…

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Rumors of Samsung’s long-awaited XR headset launch are picking up steam again, as there are reports that folks will be able to preregister for the headset on October 15 – ahead of an October 22 launch.Now, all rumors should be taken with a pinch of salt. That’s especially true here, as we had recently heard that Samsung’s tech would see its debut at the end of September, but we do know that Project Moohan will launch this year based on Samsung’s previous promises – so eventually a prediction of its release date will come true.Either way, this report comes via…

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Comet, an AI-powered web browser built to take on Google Chrome, is now available free, the AI search company Perplexity said in a statement Thursday.The browser was previously limited to subscribers to Perplexity Max and Pro. Comet no longer requires a subscription. Unlike a traditional web browser, Comet has an AI assistant built in. It can be called at any point to answer questions about the page being looked at and can use its agent to click on the page and accomplish tasks for the user. Perplexity said Comet users were asking more questions than they had asked the company’s…

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Francesco Carta Photographer/Moment via Getty ImagesFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeaways Most Americans aren’t using AI as a news source.Those who do don’t fully trust the information. AI still struggles to accurately summarize or represent news.AI is changing — and in some cases, eliminating — a lot of jobs, but it isn’t taking over journalism just yet, according to the latest findings from Pew Research. While the technology has infiltrated industries like accounting, banking, software engineering, and customer service, it’s having a harder time delivering news than it has fixing code. Also: Chatbots are…

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