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Wednesday May 7, 2025. 06:45 PM
Apple is 'actively looking at' revamping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, a seismic shift for the industry hastened by the potential end of a longtime partnership with Google. From a report: Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president...
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Pennsylvania newscasters debate whether the big bird caught on a Pennsylvania highway is an ostrich or an emu. ChattyG offers the following criteria for judging: Main differences between ostrich and emu: 1. Size: • Ostrich: Taller (up to 9 ft), heavier (up to 320...
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All good things come to an end, so it’s time to bag the furniture brand’s Sonos speakers before they disappear. The good news is that the very best of the bunch costs less than $20—and there’s no alternative once it’s gone.
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Modern Linux, vintage kernel Good news for those fond of crimson headwear – Fedora 42 is now an official distro on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).…
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Fortnite's Star Wars season has been stellar. The Force has overtaken Fortnite's island. The new map includes Rebel and First Order/Sith hideouts, and all the weapons have been replaced with blasters or lightsabers. X-wings and TIE-Fights take to the skies. Time to kill ...
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Google is teaming up with Range Media Partnerships on initiatives that support creative expression and explore the possibilities of technology through storytelling. The two initiatives, AI on Screen and 100 Zeros, will fund and co-produce films and TV projects that integrate ...
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The Drug Enforcement Administration has quietly ended its body camera program barely four years after it began, ProPublica reports, citing an internal email. From the report: On April 2, DEA headquarters emailed employees announcing that the program had been terminated...
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Should Apple have abandoned its lawsuit against Israeli mercenary spyware vendor NSO Group — the company it once described as, “21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.”...
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Police have apprehended the driver who attacked a motorcyclist. That this motorcyclist escaped with only a concussion is amazing. The video describes a situation where the auto driver had endangered the motorcyclist several times, eliciting the biker's response seen at the...
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Dynabook is back with a trio of new business laptops. These aren’t some wild experiments or overpriced ultrabooks pretending to be workhorses. Actually, the new Portégé X40-M Series 2, along with the Tecra A40-M and Tecra A60-M Series 2, bring practical hardware, solid...
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Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to 'juice engagement' by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead of providing actually useful insights. From a report: Systrom said the tactics represent 'a force that's hurting us,'...
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In preparation for the 2025 FIFA World Cup, couch enthusiast and one of the last people to see the Pope alive, Trump's tiny right-hand JD Vance is threatening international tourists. 'We will have visitors probably from close to a hundred countries,' he said at a White...
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United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts Air traffic controllers for Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey were horrified when all radar and radio equipment, including backup systems, failed last week, cutting communication with aircraft for 90...
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The Angled Sunbeam larva has an unusual defense mechanism. When it feels threatened, this larva extends two small, wiggling sprouts from its head. They look like dandelions, or little pom-poms. This is the cutest defense mechanism I've seen. This curious adaptation works as...
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With ten thousand trucks, around eight hundred million dollars in inventory, sitting around collecting dust as the glue weakens, why is Tesla still making Cybertrucks? Having produced over six thousand new trucks in Q1 of 2025 at its Austin Gigglefactory, Tesla seems unable ...
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Waymo's autonomous vehicles operating on Uber's platform in Austin are completing more trips per day than over 99% of human drivers in the market, according to Uber's Q1 2025 earnings report [PDF] released Wednesday. The fleet of approximately 100 autonomous Waymo vehicles,...
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The Debian project has the concept of essential packages, which provide the bare minimum functionality considered absolutely necessary (or 'essential') for a system to function. Packages tagged as essential, and the packages that are required by the set of essential...
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This kit lets you build custom-length power cables for a cleaner-looking pedalboard for your instrument.
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When an Ohio police officer pulled over a vehicle registered to someone with an active warrant, he probably thought the odds were high he'd find drugs. Officer Austin Branham surely did not expect to find a raccoon in the driver's seat holding a meth pipe. — Read the rest ...
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Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in Next Nutanix is moving beyond its hyperconverged roots by creating containerized versions of its data services and more external storage options, in ways that make it a better target for...
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