Amazon brings Alexa+ to the UK In Brief Posted: 5:27 AM PDT · March 19, 2026 Image Credits:Amazon Amazon is bringing its new AI-powered conversational assistant, Alexa+, to the U.K., the first country to get the AI assistant outside of North America. The company is currently letting users in the U.K. try out Alexa+ for free via an early...

Happy Birthday, Apple! CNET Reminisces on 50 Years of Tech and EventsHappy 50th Birthday, Apple. On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne launched the Apple Computer Company (renamed Apple in 2007) to sell the Apple Computer 1 (Apple-I) -- without a monitor or keyboard. Now 50 years later, Apple has evolved into one of the world's largest companies with an extensive...

US' and Iran's options for ending war narrow the longer it goes onAmir AzimiBBC News PersianGetty ImagesFor weeks, the US and Israel have insisted that Iran's military capacity has been severely degraded. US President Donald Trump and his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, have repeatedly claimed that sustained strikes have crippled Iran's command structure and weakened its ability to respond. By...

Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them classified as “high-severity.” Most of the bugs have been fixed in Firefox 148 (the version released this February), although a few fixes will have to wait for the next release. Anthropic’s team used Claude Opus...

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