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JLab’s new Bluetooth speaker doubles as supersized headphones: what JLab’s Blue XL says about the next wave of personal audio JLab has built its reputation on small, practical audio gear — earbuds you can toss in a pocket, over-ears that don’t ask for a second mortgage, and controls that are more “good enough” than fussy […]

After a federal judge ruled that Meta isn’t an illegal monopolist in the Federal Trade Commission’s long-running case, the FTC announced it will appeal. That sounds like a procedural footnote — agencies appeal losses all the time — but this one matters because it sits at the crossroads of (1) how courts define markets in

One of the stranger incentives in modern tech policy is the research paradox: the companies that do the most internal work to measure harms can end up looking like the worst actors, simply because they have the most data — and because that data can leak, be subpoenaed, or be unsealed in court. That paradox

A headline like “sixteen AI agents built a C compiler” sounds like either a magic trick or the start of a sci‑fi plot. In reality, it’s something more interesting: a glimpse of how software engineering is changing when you can treat an AI model not as a chat partner, but as a workforce — a

Self-driving systems live and die by one question: what happens next? Sensors tell an autonomous vehicle what the world looks like right now — camera frames, lidar point clouds, radar reflections, GPS and IMU measurements. But safe driving is anticipation: predicting how pedestrians might move, whether a cyclist will merge, how a car might drift