The real-life Lumon office from Severance is just one hour from New York City — and it’s open to the public

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting…

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Who bought this smoked salmon? How ‘AI agents’ will change the internet (and shopping lists) | Artificial intelligence (AI)

I’m watching artificial intelligence order my groceries. Armed with my shopping list, it types each item into the search bar of a supermarket website, then uses its cursor to click. Watching what appears to be a digital ghost do this usually mundane task is strangely transfixing. “Are you sure it’s not just a person in…

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Which Tech Giant Is Winning the Quantum Computing Race?

Tech giants Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are racing to develop a functional quantum computer. Each has released a prototype quantum chip with different approaches and potential applications. The field is rapidly evolving, but major hurdles remain before it becomes commercially useful. The quantum race is heating up. Tech titans Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft…

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Want to win in the age of AI? You can either build it or build your business with it

gremlin/Getty Images Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers interesting career opportunities to both technology whizzes and business mavens. Unlike previous types of technologies, there are two tracks one can pursue — either building AI or employing AI to build their businesses.   Recent research conducted by Aditya Challapally, Microsoft’s applied science lead, explores these two tracks to…

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I tested a Windows PC that outdoes the M4 Mac Mini in several ways – and it’s on sale

ZDNET’s key takeaways Minisforum’s AI X1 Pro is available now, on sale for $899. It’s a powerful mini armed with top-tier hardware for creators, programmers, and coders looking to interface with AI at lightning-fast speeds. Don’t count on relying on the device’s built-in speakers or mic, and it’s one of the chunkier minis. When Apple…

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