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1Password is making it easier to find passwords based on your location

A new home tab option in 1Password provides faster access to saved passwords based on your location. | Image: 1Password 1Password introduced a new feature today that will make it easier to find the login, password, or access code you’re looking for, based on where you’re using the app. It will now let you add a specific physical location to items , and they’ll automatically appear in the new Nearby section of the app’s home tab, depending on how close you are to that spot. The password manager already makes it easy to quickly access frequently used or favorited passwords on the mobile app’s home tab without searching. But both of those sections can get cluttered if you have a long list of passwords you regularly access. The addition of location data will help ensure only the most relevant passwords are presented when opening the mobile app — like your health card at the doctor or travel documents at the airport — minimizing the need to scroll through a long list or remembering exac...
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NASA is making sacrifices to keep the Voyager mission alive

It’s been 47 years since the twin Voyager spacecraft started their historic mission. Having travelled through interstellar space, farther from Earth than any other human-made objects, their nuclear batteries are depleting — but NASA is taking measures to squeeze as much life out of the aging probes as possible. The Voyagers’ radioisotope power system loses around 4 watts each year, so to preserve power, NASA engineers have been shutting down some of the science instruments carried by each probe. Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment was turned off on February 25th. When the low-energy charged particle instrument aboard Voyager 2 is shut down on March 24th, both spacecraft will have three out of the ten identical science instruments they launched with remaining operational. “Electrical power is running low,” said Voyager project manager, Suzanne Dodd. “If we don’t turn off an instrument on each Voyager now, they would probably have only a few more months of power before we wou...

DuckDuckGo is amping up its AI search tool — but will still let you leave it behind

DuckDuckGo has big plans for embedding AI into its search engine. The privacy-focused company just announced that its AI-generated answers, which appear for certain queries on its search engine, have exited beta and now source information from across the web — not just Wikipedia. It will soon integrate web search within its AI chatbot, which has also exited beta. DuckDuckGo first launched AI-assisted answers — originally called DuckAssist — in 2023. The feature is billed as a less obnoxious version of tools like Google’s AI Overviews , designed to offer more concise responses and let you adjust how often you see them, including turning the responses off entirely. If you have DuckDuckGo’s AI-generated answers set to “often,” you’ll still only see them around 20 percent of the time, though the company plans on increasing the frequency eventually. “We’d like to raise that over time,” Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO and founder of DuckDuckGo, told The Verge . “That’s another major area that...

Latest Turing Award winners again warn of AI dangers

Andrew Barto (left) and Richard Sutton (right) have won the 2024 Turing Award. | Image: Association for Computing Machinery Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence training techniques are using the spotlight to shine concern on the dangers of rushing AI models out for public consumption.  University of Massachusetts researcher Andrew Barto and former DeepMind research scientist Richard Sutton warned that AI companies are not thoroughly testing products before releasing them, likening the development to “building a bridge and testing it by having people use it,” according to The Financial Times .  The Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” carries a $1 million prize and was jointly awarded to Barto and Sutton for developing “reinforcement learning” — a machine learning method that trains AI systems to make optimized decisions through trial and error. Google’s senio...

Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s

The new Digg looks a lot more like 2025 than 2005. | Image: Digg Sometime last fall, Kevin Rose started thinking seriously about Digg again. A smidge over two decades ago, he’d launched a social and link sharing website that, for years, was known as “the homepage of the internet.” Since then, Digg had been through several owners and many pivots , Rose had gone on to several other careers, and the internet had moved on. Rose had thought about building something like Digg again, and had even been approached to buy back the domain and website a few times, but the timing had never been right. This time, though, things started to click. Rose and a group of what he calls “brainstorming partners,” which included Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, design and product exec Justin Mezzell, and even folks like Blogger and Twitter cofounder Ev Williams, started to talk about whether AI might be able to help them build a better social platform. “I would call Alexis up and we would chat,” Rose s...

Volvo’s ES90 is a high-riding electric sedan with 434 miles of range

No word on when the ES90 will make it to the US. | Image: Volvo Volvo has pulled back the curtain on its upcoming ES90 electric sedan with 434 miles of range and a tech stack that includes Nvidia’s powerful Drive AGX Orin computer in a dual setup. Volvo has been trickling news out about the ES90 over the past several weeks, but today’s announcement includes our first full look at the sedan and a full rundown on its specs, including an 800-volt architecture for fast charging and the aforementioned Nvidia system-on-a-chip. The ES90 boasts Volvo’s longest range, fastest charging speed, and most advanced computing system of all its vehicles. The sedan will arrive with 700km of range (434.9 miles) based on the generous WLTP standard. (The EPA rating is likely to be less.) The ES90 will come in three different variants. There’s the base model with a single motor mounted on the rear axle, with 245kW (329 horsepower) of power output and 354 lb-ft of torque. The dual-motor all-wheel dr...

The future of BMW is being built at a battery factory in Germany

BMW is developing its Gen6 batteries at a factory in Landshut. | Image: BMW While other automakers rethink their plans as the global appetite for EVs slows down , BMW is vowing to stay the course. The German automaker says it still plans to offer an EV in every vehicle segment across all of its brands, including Mini and Rolls-Royce. And most importantly, BMW is investing billions of dollars in new battery technology, including a new controller it calls the “Energy Master.†  As the political winds shift, BMW hopes doubling down on EV technology can allow it to take the lead from Tesla, fend off the coming tidal wave of Chinese EVs, and grow its market share.  Last March, BMW announced its Neue Klasse , the new all-electric architecture that will underpin its future EVs. As the company continues to trickle out details of the new technology , it invited a group of journalists to Munich last month to show off its newly developed battery cells, the Energy Master cont...