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PayPal launches iPhone NFC payments in Germany after EU forced Apple to open up
PayPal’s contactless wallet works with terminals that support Mastercard payments and is iPhone-only for now, so it won’t work on an Apple Watch, iPhone Ticker reports (via a machine translation). In December, a Norwegian payment app called Vipps became the first to take advantage of Apple’s changing ecosystem, nearly a year after Apple first announced it was opening up its…
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Bose Ultra Open Bluetooth Earbuds Are 30% off Right Now
Bose Ultra Open Earbuds The Ultra Open Earbuds deliver a breakthrough audio experience that brings together Bose OpenAudio and Immersive Audio technology. OpenAudio lets you enjoy your music and life with almost no sound leaks to the world around you, creating a private soundtrack for your life. Battery Life 7.5 hours (Immersive off) 48 hours standby Bluetooth 5.3 IP Rating…
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Open source AI hiring models are weighted toward male candidates, study finds – Computerworld
Asking these personas, which included luminaries ranging from Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler to Queen Elizabeth I and women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, to choose a candidate, resulted in an increase in female callback rate. However, invoking Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth I, Niccolo Machiavelli, or D.W. Griffith reduced the rate. And models for William Shakespeare, Steven Spielberg, Eleanor Roosevelt, and…
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How to open an unknown file on an iPhone
Have you ever received a file on your iPhone that just won’t open? Maybe someone sent you something by AirDrop or email, or maybe you downloaded it from Safari, and now you’re staring at a file with a weird extension that iOS doesn’t recognize. What can you do? Read on, ‘cause in this guide, I’ll walk you through how to…
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7 Open Source Apps for Windows You Should Be Using
Did you know that many of the tools you use every day have free, open-source alternatives that are just as good as—or even better than—their expensive commercial counterparts? Open-source software is built by communities of developers who believe in making tools accessible to everyone. It’s usually free, regularly updated, and more transparent than commercial software. Best of all, it puts…
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Nintendo Switch 2 preorders are open at GameStop (update: sold out)
Update, April 24th: Following a messy rollout, GameStop has sold out of its initial preorder inventory for the Switch 2. The standalone Switch 2 comes with a pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers, which magnetically attach to the console and feature Nintendo’s new “C” button — a shortcut that allows you to access Nintendo’s new in-game chat feature, GameChat. Inside the…
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InfoComm 2025 Best of Show Awards are now open for entries
InfoComm, the biggest audio-visual trade show aimed at professionals in this space, will soon be back in Orlando from 7-13 June. As with previous years, 2025’s event will play home to multiple AV industry stakeholders from around the world as they come together to showcase, celebrate, debate, and discuss the latest and greatest products, technologies and services this sector has…
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Open AI’s new models hallucinate more than the old ones – Computerworld
One of the biggest problems with today’s AI models is that they tend to simply make up answers when they don’t know what’s going on, something called hallucinations. You would think that the number of hallucinations would decrease over time, but according to internal tests from Open AI, the opposite is true. The o3 and o4-mini reasoning AI models produce…
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How to keep SMBs open for business – even when the power goes out – Computerworld
Internet outages are bad news for small- to medium-sized businesses. Point-of-sale systems won’t work when connections fail, meaning transactions can’t go through and revenue is lost until service is restored. And, as we know from the news, the situation is only getting worse with the increasing frequency of intense storms that tear down lines. SMBs know they can ill afford…
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Best Buy Switch 2 pre-order details — stores open at midnight plus how to get a $100 credit
Best Buy has confirmed its Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order deal. Hot on the heels of today’s Nintendo Direct event, Best Buy has announced it’ll offer gamers up to $100 in credits for every $150 you spend on Nintendo games and gear. (You can get a max of $100 in credits). Naturally, there are a few caveats. First, the credits exclude…
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