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Thursday August 1, 2024. 02:20 AM
Taco Bell's parent company, Yum! Brands, announced today that the fast-food chain will expand its Voice AI technology to 'hundreds' of chains around the country by the end of the year. A global expansion of the service will follow. Fortune reports: Right now, more than 100...
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I've already claimed my spot for fun fun fun in the fluffy chair in anticipation for the season 2 premiere of Squid Game on December 26, 2024. From the synopsis: Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 remains determined to find the people behind the game and put...
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The results of Los Angeles' 12-month guaranteed income pilot program show that it was 'overwhelmingly beneficial (source may be paywalled; alternative source),' reports the Los Angeles Times. The program, which involved giving L.A.'s poorest families cash assistance of...
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Scumbags go for the jugular A ransomware attack against blood-donation nonprofit OneBlood, which services more than 250 American hospitals, has 'significantly reduced' the org's ability to take, test, and distribute blood.…
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Donald Trump's idiotic comments saying Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly 'turned Black' did not go over well with Karine Jean-Pierre during a White House press conference today. In fact, the astonished press secretary called the ex-president's reptilian remarks...
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Italian app developer Bending Spoons has bought file-sharing platform WeTransfer, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday, as the Milan-based tech company presses ahead with a string of deals for software firms. From a report: The deal, for which financial...
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28-year-old mowed down in US state where cars ordinarily aren't allowed to operate autonomously Washington State Patrol investigators have found that the Tesla involved in the death of a motorcyclist on Friday, April 19, 2024 was operating in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode.…
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28-year-old mowed down in US state where cars ordinarily aren't allowed to operate autonomously Washington State Patrol investigators have found that the Tesla involved in the death of a motorcyclist on Friday, April 19, 2024 was operating in Full-Self Driving (FSD) mode.…
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Malaysia plans to introduce an internet 'kill switch' law in October, Law Minister Azalina Othman Said has said. The legislation aims to boost digital security by granting authorities power to block online content, though specifics remain unclear. Said emphasized the need...
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Wednesday July 31, 2024. 11:56 PM
Goldin Finance 117 is a 2,000-foot 'ghostscraper' located in Tianjin, China. Construction began on the building in 2008 but, after several stops-and-starts, ended in 2015 just shy of the building's completion. Now, Goldin Finance 117 is the world's tallest abandoned...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A group of researchers said they found that vulnerabilities in the design of some dating apps, including the popular Bumble and Hinge, allowed malicious users or stalkers to pinpoint the location of their victims down to...
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Calculating angular velocity and the moment of inertia isn’t quite as hard as competing in the 2024 summer Olympics gymnastics tournament—but it’s pretty darn tough.
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Regulators found that Amazon is responsible for defective products sold by its third-party vendors—which include flammable pajamas, faulty carbon monoxide detectors, and hair dryers that could electrocute you.
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Small stay of execution in 'exceptional circumstances' promised as lawsuits start to fly As the DigiCert drama continues, we now have a better idea of the size and scope of the problem – with the organization's infosec boss admitting the SSL/TLS certificate revocation...
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Mobile game developers have voiced increasing frustration with Apple, citing reduced payments, delayed compensation, poor communication, and inadequate support, particularly with the Apple Vision Pro. Apple Insider reports: In February, game developers began expressing...
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For forty years, Mary Jacobs, 77, of Newmarket, England has collected bedpans. 'I used to help out at the jumble sales in the Newmarket Salvation Army hall,' she told Suffolk News. 'I saw a slipper bed pan come in and I bought it for 50p and that was the start, I just...
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Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims Dozens of Russia-affiliated criminals are right now trying to wrest control of web domains by exploiting weak DNS services.…
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On Saturday morning, police noticed a driver not wearing a seatbelt and pulled over the vehicle. They then observed the passenger, 41-year-old Lauren Riley, messing with something on the floor of the car. The police report that they spotted drug paraphernalia and began to...
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Trump's interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago today was a total disaster, a disaster the likes of which we've never seen before in the history of our country. Sullen, slumping, and sour faced, the orange snowflake complained about...
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McDonalds reported its first decline in sales since the Covid pandemic, and Starbucks is suffering a similar fate, inasfar as they are both vastly profitable companies with customer-gouging margins learning the limits of consumer unthrift. Starbucks sales dropped 3%...
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