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Ford’s $28,000 Fathom EV nears production after $2 billion factory overhaul

Ford said today that its next-generation electric vehicle - recently dubbed Fathom - will go into production at the automaker's recently overhauled Louisville Assembly Plant in the…

Producer prices fell to 4.7% in July amid inflation concerns

Inflation, as measured by the producer price index, fell eight-tenths of a percentage point to 4.7% for the year ending in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Thursday…

Working on documents with your AI chat

Paul Graham said 20 years ago, “Look at something people are trying to do, and figure out how to do it in a way that doesn't suck.” We are doing this...…

Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak

Recall of jalapeño products spans 26 states, major retailers, a variety of foods.…

Taylor Farms recalls jalapeno products after salmonella outbreak

Food producer Taylor Farms is recalling sandwiches, sauces and dips across 26 US states after a salmonella outbreak.…

Apple has eight new products to unveil at September event: report

We’re one month out from Apple’s big September event, and a new Bloomberg report outlines eight new products likely to be announced.…

Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week

Tech companies are not modelling their own claims of the technology giving people more free time.…

AI won't kill the PM role. Same job, better tools

Generative AI is a powerful new tool. The core of the job remains exactly what it always was.…

Why do we assume everyone should be working?

I was talking to a friend of mine and I asked this. She said “of course everyone should be working, I mean, I’d like to be able to buy more stuff” In that statement though there re…

The two common household products you should never use to clean your patio — according to an expert

Avoid this common patio cleaning mistake…

Gemini Notebook tests a wild new way to bring your research to life

Two additional features are also in the works…

New AI models still reproduce racial and gender stereotypes in medicine

Relying on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health care also carries a risk that existing racial and gender stereotypes will be reflected in the medical content it […]…

Horolog – a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Reclaim.ai

Horolog places focus time, habits and tasks around the meetings you actually have — then keeps them there. It runs entirely on your own machine, against your own calendar, with whi…

LIV Golf’s product only mere background noise against tour’s unfolding drama

Welcome to the tumultuous world of LIV Golf, where the actual golf is mere background music (along with the ambient tunes playing through the speakers all over the course during pl…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’s freezing her eggs

The Democratic congresswoman, 36, said she made the decision to undergo the fertility procedure to “feel more in control of my life.”…

'I am a big roguelike guy, but also a fan of minimalism and elegance': Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story, guides us through the games in his Steam Library

The founder of Half Mermaid on classic adventure games, modern hacking sims, and his favourite screenwriting software.…

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

Microsoft Loop is an underrated productivity gem that you are not using

The unsung hero in Microsoft’s productivity suite…

Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work, calls request for extra days off "very dumb"

Bosworth gave his Victorian workhouse-style opinion on what employees should do with their free time from AI-related productivity gains at a July Q&A, reports Business Insider.…

Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer — handcrafted Rubylith mask shows 5,000 transistors and interconnect patterns of the fabled 2 MHz CPU

The same computing history artifact was previously pictured alongside Andy Grove, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore in 1978.…

As a regular NotebookLM user, here are 5 things I want from Gemini Notebook

As much as I like Gemini Notebook, the app formerly known as NotebookLM, I think these five features would make it even better.…

Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How

There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source.…

I built a Claude agent to manage my inbox — and it changed how I handle email

I used Anthropic’s advice to build a Claude inbox manager, here’s what happened.…

The Microsoft tool that makes complicated workflows easier is on sale for a flat $44.97

Microsoft Visio 2024 helps turn complicated information into clear, professional diagrams, from business workflows and organizational charts to network maps and floor plans. A life…

I went e-mountain biking in cougar country with the new Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 vs Garmin Instinct 3 — and the winner is clear

Samsung vs Garmin vs the cougars…

Meta CTO told employees AI gains should go into more work

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff that AI productivity gains should go into building more products, not more vacation. He called the question "very dumb."…

Things I learned about how people use AI after 1800 people

How to write production-quality code with AI

Madonna pays tribute to 'genius, otherworldly' producer William Orbit

The Queen of Pop worked with Orbit several times over the years, most notably on her genre-bending, Grammy Award-winning album Ray of Light.…

8 free Android productivity apps I can’t live without in 2026

I use plenty of apps across all my devices to get things done. Here are my current favorite free productivity apps you need to try.…

Everything you need from Microsoft Office without the subscription for $54.99

Get Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for Windows with a lifetime license for just $54.99 (MSRP $249.99). Skip Microsoft 365, avoid recurring payments, and own Word, Excel, P…

Madonna and Blur producer William Orbit dies aged 69

The British producer helped to reinvigorate Madonna's career and also worked with All Saints and U2.…

William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69

Musician’s projects included Madonna’s Ray of Light, Blur’s 13 and All Saints’ chart-topping singles Pure Shores and Black Coffee…

Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents

Announcing runtime instances in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—persistent, managed EC2 infrastructure for production AI agents with multi-agent collaboration, GPU support, and sessions l…

How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory

Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.…

Open source Cloud AI agents

Open source. Any model. Any device. Connect and go.…

Tracely – Turn AI agent production failures into CI regression tests

Production traces become regression tests. Tracely grades every agent run, clusters failures into issues, freezes them as hermetic cases, and blocks the PR that reintroduces them.…

There's now a $69 pair of shoes designed only for using the toilet

Sh*t Shoes are seven-inch platform heels meant only for sitting on the toilet, and they cost $69 to pre-order.…

iOS 27 hints at all-new Home product launching soon

iOS 27 includes hints about the iPhone Ultra, but it also points to an all-new Apple Home product likely launching soon: a security camera.…

Vision Pro is a niche product, but an incredibly valuable one in the right hands

Even Apple CEO Tim Cook has acknowledged that Vision Pro is a niche product. I’ve argued in the past that...…

Nikita Bier Is Leaving His Job as X’s Head of Product

If you use X, you've seen his posts.…

One $29.99 payment gets you a lifetime of PDF editing & converting

Get a lifetime AcePDF Converter & Editor license for just $29.99 (reg. $99.99) and handle nearly every PDF task without a subscription.…

How can a junior dev get better when they have to use AI in their job?

Claude has 4 built-in skills I use constantly — here’s how to find them

Discover four built-in Claude skills for creating Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs and PowerPoint presentations — and learn how to enable them.…

X's head of product is leaving the company one year after joining

Nikita Bier was the face of some of the platform's biggest changes.…

X product chief Nikita Bier is leaving after one year

A new era for X?…

I ditched my to-do list for a virtual pet app, and my productivity actually improved

It's like a Tamagotchi that makes me more productive.…

The 5 products Mashable readers are buying this week

The best of the best deals this week include a DJI drone, TCL TV, Samsung SSD, and more.…

A graded registry of scientific results produced by or with AI

A curated registry of scientific and mathematical results discovered by or with AI, graded on how each was verified and how much the AI actually did.…

3 things Obsidian can do that no other productivity tool can

Features that keep me hooked.…

Why AI is making work faster, not better.

Faster tools, slower progress: the productivity paradox of AI…

The AI dictation app everyone is talking about just got a powerful new Notetaker

Wispr Flow's new AI Notetaker knows who said what, can summarize meetings, research participants before meetings begin, and more.…

An AI Approach to Verified Production Cryptographic Libraries

Cryptographic code is critical infrastructure that must be correct, yet formally verifying production libraries remains difficult. Existing language-model proof systems solve isola…