Getty Images Banning phones in schools is not linked to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental wellbeing, the first study of its kind suggests. Students’ sleep, classroom behaviour, exercise or how long they spend on their phones overall also seems to be no different for schools with phone bans and schools without, the…
The Trump administration is asking agencies to convert the government’s top tech positions from titles reserved for career feds to roles that political appointees can occupy. The Office of Personnel Management sent out a memo on Tuesday recommending that agencies redesignate any chief information officer positions reserved for career senior executive service employees to SES…
AWS, Microsoft, Google, Others Make DeepSeek-R1 AI Model Available on Their Platforms By John K. Waters 02/04/25 Leading cloud service providers are now making the open source DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model available on their platforms. The Chinese startup generated intense interest for its ability to leverage more efficient processing and reduce compute resource consumption, which…
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Reddit has temporarily banned the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk complained about the community. The subreddit is with a message from Reddit stating that the community has been banned for 72 hours due to “a prevalence of violent content.” The popular subreddit is known for posting funny tweets and memes from X. On Monday, an…
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A teardown video of the Galaxy S25 Ultra reveals that the phone still has a charging coil similar to the one used in previous models to charge their battery-powered S Pen. The S Pen included with the S25 Ultra does not require charging since it lacks Bluetooth features…
AppleCare+ drops prepaid options | Logo Credit: Apple Just days after it was rumored to happen, Apple has officially killed off prepaid multi-year AppleCare+ plans — at retail locations, at least. On Sunday, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman announced on X that Apple would be shifting its AppleCare+ extended warranty program to a subscription model. Gurman postulated…
A compact neutrino detector has successfully identified antineutrinos at a nuclear power plant, marking a significant advancement in particle physics. Unlike conventional detectors that require massive infrastructure, this device weighs less than three kilograms. Despite its size, it effectively detected antineutrinos emitted from a nuclear reactor in Leibstadt, Switzerland. The experiment, which lasted 119 days,…
In the early years of the Cold War, the U.S. government embarked on a sweeping purge of federal employees deemed “security risks.” While the more widely known Red Scare targeted suspected communists, a concurrent yet lesser-known crackdown known as the Lavender Scare led to the mass dismissal of gay and lesbian federal workers, especially within…
Tom Gerken Technology reporter Getty Images Australia has banned DeepSeek from all government devices and systems over what it says is the security risk the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup poses. DeepSeek stunned the world in January when it unveiled a chatbot which matched the performance level of US rivals, while claiming it had a…
