The Guardian - US Updates from the F1 GP race in MelbourneLando Norris takes lead back from Max VerstappenAny thoughts? Email JoeySome interesting developments coming out of Albert Park as the cars get a first look at the sodden circuit – plenty of cars taking the...
The Guardian - US At least 31 people killed in strikes on Sana’a and Sa’ada on Saturday, says Houthi-run health ministryDonald Trump said he ordered a series of airstrikes on Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, on Saturday, promising to use “overwhelming lethal force” until...
The Guardian - US The arrival of four astronauts will allow Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return to Earth after nine months on the International Space StationA SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) early on Sunday in...
The Guardian - US AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids’ school lunches. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking overWay back in 2023, Andrej Karpathy, an eminent AI guru, made waves with a striking claim that “the hottest new...
The Guardian - US Photographer Chantal Pinzi travelled the globe to take shots of female skateboarders who defy cultural norms, including this one of Asha GondFor the past few years the Italian photographer Chantal Pinzi has been documenting the rebel spirit of...
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The Guardian - US Virtually unknown in the west, Ne Zha 2 is the world’s highest-grossing animation at £1.6bn – outdoing Inside Out 2 – just weeks after its releaseJust a few years ago, the biggest star of the Chinese box office was a brave army commander. Last...
Hack-A-Day Photo-printing kiosks are about as common as payphones these days. However, there was a time when they were everywhere. The idea was that if you didn’t have a good printer …read more
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New York Times - World East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.
New York Times - World Housekeepers from East Africa suffer beatings, starvation and sexual assault in Saudi Arabia. Here’s what else we learned about the cross-border trade in domestic workers.
New York Times - World Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a kamikaze mission during World War II.
The Guardian - US Rightwing campaign propelled by tech billionaire accuses General Services Administration’s 18F of being a far-left cellNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Federal employees in a...
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The Guardian - US Chaotic weekend sees blizzard warnings in midwest, wildfires in southern plains and dust storms in TexasViolent tornadoes ripped through parts of the US, wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a monster...
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The Guardian - US Ukrainian president maintains his troops are still fighting in Russia’s Kursk region and warns that Moscow is ‘doing everything’ to prevent a ceasefire. What we know on day 1,117See all our Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...
New York Times - World The rally on Saturday in the capital, Belgrade, came as protests have spread to towns around the country and have drawn increasingly insistent calls that President Aleksandar Vucic step aside.
Daring Fireball CNBC story from 2016: At a recent public appearance at the Utah Tech Tour, in a conversation moderated by Utah’s Senator Orrin Hatch, Apple CEO Tim Cook pointed out that Microsoft had tablets on the market decades before Apple. Cook emphasized...
Hack-A-Day Ever wanted to produce nitrogen fertilizer like they did in the 1900s? In that case, you’re probably looking at the Birkeland-Eyde process, which was the first industrial-scale atmospheric nitrogen fixation …read more
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Daring Fireball From Apple’s support documentation: You can generate a report of requests your iPhone has sent to Private Cloud Compute. Go to Settings, then tap Privacy & Security. Tap Apple Intelligence Report, then choose a report duration for the last 15...
Techcrunch In this week’s episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, veteran VC Aileen Lee was direct about a major consequence of the recent boom-and-bust cycle: many companies stuck in limbo aren’t just struggling to regain their footing after raising too...
The Guardian - US British No 1 defeats defending champion 6-1, 0-6, 6-4Draper to face Holger Rune after he beat Daniil MedvedevOf the four previous times that Jack Draper and Carlos Alcaraz had stood across the net from each other, half had ended with a distraught...
Daring Fireball In an item earlier this week observing that Swift Assist, the most ambitious Xcode-related Apple Intelligence feature shown at WWDC last year, not only hasn’t yet shipped but still is not in beta, I wondered whether Apple actually demoed it live...
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New York Times - World A gang with roots in a Venezuelan prison, the criminal group was at the center of President Trump’s order invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
The Takeout For vegetarians, fast food has improved a lot in recent years. However, there is still one chain that serves many more vegetarian options than its competitors.
Techcrunch Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country in which the startup hopes to one day commercialize. Joby, which went public in 2021 via special purpose acquisition merger, did...
Apple Insider Apple appears to be expanding its pool of partner companies supplying data for Apple Maps, as it has now released an app especially for firms to contribute updated information.A screenshot of the new Surveyor app on an iPhone 15.Just as it did with...
Daring Fireball Jay Peters, last month for The Verge: Google’s next I/O developer conference will take place on May 20th and May 21st, the company announced today. The event will be “open to everyone online” and will include “livestreamed keynotes and...
BBC - Europe The collapse of a station canopy that killed 15 people has galvanised anger towards the government.
Hack-A-Day The WebUSB standard is certainly controversial. Many consider it a security risk, and, to date, only Chromium-based browsers support it. But there is a workaround that is, ironically, supposed to …read more
New York Times - World Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, he pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging democratic ones to distribute farmland.
Daring Fireball Jess Weatherbed, reporting for The Verge: iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the latest...
Engadget According to Deadline, Humans writers Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent are working on an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1953 novella, The Variable Man. The show is being produced by Motive Pictures in a partnership with Electric Shepherd...
How To Geek Earth's "evil twin" hides many secrets under its opaque atmosphere.
The Geek Games Prior to the release of Gladiator II, rumors swirled around Russell Crowe possibly reprising his iconic role as Maximus. A recent revelation confirms that an early draft of the script indeed featured a brief flashback with Crowe, but this...
New York Times - World Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you.
How To Geek It's time for a crash course in Japan's most famous export.
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The Geek Games The actress behind Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn has voiced deep concern about Sony’s use of generative AI technology. Ashly Burch openly criticized PlayStation’s recent AI-driven recreation of her iconic character, emphasizing the threat this trend...
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Gizmodo Formula 1 is finally back. Make sure you're set up to watch the 2025 Australian Grand Prix in the best way possible.
The Takeout Whether made with hard or soft shells, tacos can actually be easily reheated without being soggy, but there is a trick to it.
Engadget The lunar eclipse this week had many of us gazing up at the night sky to marvel at the red-tinged moon, and now we can see what that eerie effect looked like from the other side thanks to images captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander. From the...
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9to5 Mac Following the Thursday announcement, Google is widely rolling out the latest Gemini models, including 2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental), to the web, Android, and iOS apps. more…
Gizmodo Looks like Disney's putting its live-action faith in the Lilo & Stitch remake and taking the chance to highlight its social media impact.
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The Geek Games Sony hasn’t made a big announcement about it, but classic PlayStation games are now available via cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal. This exciting feature is still in beta testing and exclusively accessible to PS Plus Premium subscribers. ...
Digital Tends SpaceX chief Elon Musk says the Starship rocket will put Tesla’s Optimus robot on Mars in 2026, followed by human landings that are likely to happen in 2029.
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Hack-A-Day We talk about quantum states — that is, something can be at one of several discrete values but not in between. For example, a binary digit can be a 1 …read more
The Geek Games Daredevil Returns to Battle a Corrupt Crime Boss Turned Politician in New Series The post Daredevil: Born Again Episodes 1–3 – Daredevil Returns to Battle a Corrupt Crime Boss Turned Politician in New Series appeared first on theGeek.games.
Techcrunch Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the company’s cloud. Ars Technica reports that on Friday, Amazon sent an email to customers who have...
The Takeout Don't give up hope on your favorite steakhouse chain just yet. These are some steakhouse chains that really turned things around and made a comeback.
The Geek Games Half-Life 2 RTX will be released free of charge, and the graphical overhaul is simply breathtaking. A recent comparison by Digital Foundry reveals this RTX-enhanced edition has nearly the quality and feel of a full-fledged remake. Fans can check...
9to5 Mac Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Remind Me Faster is a nice companion app for...
Jalopinik Why not spend some your hard earned money on a V8-powered custom buggy that makes a claimed 400 horsepower and is also titled for street use?
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The Takeout The Takeout once ranked nine American fast food chains when it came to their signature burgers. Here's the one that made the bottom of the list.
Techcrunch GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments. Many of...
Techcrunch GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the news as it happens — and we’re expecting a healthy dose of announcements. CEO Jensen Huang will give a...
Daring Fireball Michael Tsai: Swift Assist was supposed to arrive in 2024, but it never even appeared in a beta. Apple hasn’t announced that it’s postponed or cancelled. It’s not even mentioned in the release notes. Apple announced two AI-powered features...
Gizmodo Disney's keeping the Percy Jackson train a-going with another season that'll adapt 2007's The Titan's Curse.
Truthout The move comes after hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses more than doubled last year in the US.
MacRumors Apple this week said that it plans to add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to the Messages app in future iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS software updates, and that news actually has some additional implications. As noted by...
Daring Fireball Katie Notopoulos, writing at Business Insider (Apple News+ link): It’s possible that this strident defense is backfiring — creating a “Streisand Effect” that’s publicizing the book even more. Notopoulos isn’t one to pull punches or hedge,...
New York Times - World The Kremlin is pressing an offensive to take back its land in the Kursk region, while prolonging negotiations over a proposal by Washington and Kyiv.
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Engadget As of March 28, Amazon Echo models that were previously able to process Alexa requests locally will no longer do so, instead sending those voice recordings to the cloud. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the change to The Verge after a Reddit user...
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New York Times - World A fire set by gangs at the country’s largest public hospital underscores long-simmering problems in Haiti, which is heavily dependent on international aid.
Daring Fireball Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter: After more than a year of speculation, Apple TV+ has ordered a fourth season of its Emmy-winning comedy Ted Lasso. The pickup comes after co-creator and star Jason Sudeikis closed a deal to reprise his role...
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The Takeout Ranch dressing is a favorite, but whether store bought or your famous homemade recipe, you may wonder if you should be freezing the leftovers.
Techcrunch Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving. CEO Jay Graber...
MacRumors While the so-called "iPhone 17 Air" is not expected to launch until September, there are already plenty of rumors about the ultra-thin device. Overall, the "iPhone 17 Air" sounds like a mixed bag. While the device is expected to have an...
9to5 Mac Yesterday, Apple announced that it will be supporting RCS Universal Profile 3.0 in “future software updates.” While this does have one large benefit of bringing end-to-end encryption to iPhone users using RCS, it has a number of other benefits that...
The Takeout Eating gluten-free can be a challenge, especially when going grocery shopping. These are some common mistakes people make when shopping for gluten-free food.
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The Geek Games NINTENDO NEWS – Analysts say that while the next generation of the Big N’s hardware will not disappoint, the public will not switch to it in a hurry. The Nintendo Switch 2 will soon be fully unveiled by the Japanese company, with a dedicated...
Digital Tends Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Tab S10 FE series tablets will reportedly hit buyers with a price hike, while serving one less camera and no iterative memory upgrade.
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Techcrunch Welcome back to Week in Review! I’m Karyne Levy, TechCrunch’s deputy managing editor, and I’ll be writing this newsletter from here on out. Thrilled to be here! This week we’re checking out everything at SXSW; Waymo’s expansion into Silicon Valley;...
MacRumors Apple has not confirmed if its delayed personalized Siri features were anything more than conceptual when they were announced during the WWDC 2024 keynote last year, but they reportedly exist internally in at least a semi-usable way by...
Digital Tends Here are three underrated shows on Netflix you need to watch in March, including a prison thriller, a teen sitcom, and a sports drama.
Hack-A-Day Ever pried apart an LCD? If so, you’ve likely stumbled at the unassuming zebra strip — the pliable connector that makes bridging PCB pads to glass traces look effortless. [Chuck] …read more
The Takeout Although Guinness beer made in Ireland and America are the same, some claim they taste different and there's a fascinating reason why.
The Takeout While curbside pickup can be a convenient way to do grocery shopping, it has some drawbacks that may make you wonder if it's worth the perks.
BBC - Europe Military chiefs will meet on Thursday to discuss practical plans to ensure Ukraine's security.
The Geek Games TECH NEWS – Gabe Newell’s company is rumored to be moving beyond the Steam Deck and other handheld PCs with its Linux-based operating system later this year. We may be close to being able to install SteamOS on our desktop computers. Valve has...
Apple Insider If you own an Echo smart speaker, it will soon lose a key privacy feature — and be replaced with cloud processing of all voice commands.Amazon will soon disable users' ability to process voice requests on-device.Users of Amazon's Echo smart speaker...