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An anonymous reader shares a report: Sometime earlier this month, Apple updated a section of its website that discloses how it collects and uses imagery for Apple Maps' Look Around feature, which is similar to Google Maps' Street View, as spotted by 9to5Mac. A newly added paragraph reveals that, beginning in March 2025, Apple will be using imagery and data collected during Look Around surveys to "train models powering Apple products and services, including models related to image recognition, creation, and.
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Trump says his executive order "slashes unnecessary regulations that targeted beautiful, clean coal." Read more ›
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Trump said that GOP lawmakers were undermining tariff talks with other countries. "Even the concept of it hurts your negotiation," he said. Read more ›
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Donald Trump tried to calm markets as traders continued to digest his sweeping tariffs. Read more ›
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"All I did is say, 'If you don't build your plant here, you are gonna pay a big tax. 25, maybe 50, maybe 75, maybe 100%,'" Trump said of TSMC. Read more ›
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The luxury travel industry has stayed relatively strong. For agencies like Kensington, family travel and private villas present growth opportunities. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump’s tariffs haven’t only demolished trillions in wealth and raised the chance of a global recession. They’ve also led some prominent Trump supporters to wonder whether they made a huge mistake. Trump supporters ranging from mega-investor Bill Ackman to anti-vax influencer Alex Berenson have expressed remorse about their decision to support Trump in […] Read more ›
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Donald Trump has been angry about trade for nearly half a century — and throughout all that time, he’s kept on making the same complaint. The problem, he says, is that the US has trade deficits with other countries. He believes that, if we buy more from a country than they buy from us, the […] Read more ›
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In Ezra Klein and Derk Thompson’s new book Abundance — which maybe you’ve heard of — they tell the story of Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian American scientist whose work ultimately led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. When the research center she was working for in Hungary lost its state funding in the early 1980s, Karikó […] Read more ›
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India's commerce minister said the government has to be "convinced" BYD will "play by the rules" before the EV maker can entering its market. Read more ›
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The internet's small business owners are coming to understand what Trump's tariffs mean for their bottom line. Read more ›
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As Elon Musk's political power grew, so did the movement against his company. Here's a play-by-play look at how the Tesla Takedown protests unfolded. Read more ›
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Nothing confirmed that it will launch the first Pro phone for its CMF sub-brand on April 28. The company teases that this will be “a fresh take” with a new design. The sub-brand has two generations of TWS buds and smartwatches already, but so far only one phone – the CMF Phone 1. So just about anything it releases will be a fresh take, especially if it’s targeting a new... Read more ›
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Alphabet's Waymo sells a miniature, 1:43 scale model of its Jaguar I-PACE robotaxis, along with pins and clothing. Read more ›
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The gadgets we buy and regularly update are about to get more expensive. It's time to keep the stuff you already have running longer. Read more ›
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Rachel Cohen, who quit Big Law firm Skadden over its response to Trump's executive orders, said she asked her parents if her decision to quit was fair. Read more ›
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For the past month, President Donald Trump has been stalking the richest universities in the world like a horror movie serial killer picking off a group of frightened teenagers one by one. Why aren’t they using their multibillion-dollar endowments to fight back? The spree started in early March, when the administration announced it was holding […] Read more ›
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In an executive order on Tuesday, the president outlined the two changes — raising tariffs on China to 104% and increasing the de minimis tariffs. Read more ›
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Microsoft is pushing businesses to shift away from perpetual Office licenses to Microsoft 365 subscriptions, citing collaboration limitations and rising IT costs associated with standalone software. "You may have started noticing limitations," Microsoft says in a post. "Your apps are stuck on your desktop, limiting productivity anytime you're away from your office. You can't easily access your files or collaborate when working remotely." In its pitch, the Windows-maker says Microsoft... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader CyberSlugGump shares a support article from AT&T, writing: On June 17th, AT&T will stop supporting email-to-text messages. That means you won't be able to send a text message to an AT&T customer from an email address. You can still get in touch with AT&T customers using SMS (text), MMS, and standard email services. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [...] The study, led by researchers at Brown University, found that the wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had death rates 35 percent lower than the wealthiest Americans, whose lifespans were more like the poorest in Northern and Western Europe -- which includes countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.... Read more ›
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Scientists "demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers" at America's National Institutes of Health (or NIH), reports the Washington Post. But the results were published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday — "the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs..." The treatment approach is still early in its development; the personalized immunotherapy regimen shrank tumors in only about a quarter of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Europol has shut down one of the largest dark web pedophile networks in the world, prompting dozens of arrests worldwide and threatening that more are to follow. Launched in 2021, KidFlix allowed users to join for free to preview low-quality videos depicting child sex abuse materials (CSAM). To see higher-resolution videos, users had to earn credits by sending cryptocurrency payments, uploading... Read more ›
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A joint investigation found that at least five popular VPN apps on the App Store and Google Play have ties to Qihoo 360, a Chinese company with military links. Apple has since removed two of the apps but has not confirmed the status of the remaining three, which 9to5Mac notes have "racked up more than a million downloads." The five apps in question are Turbo VPN, VPN Proxy Master, Thunder... Read more ›
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Apple rushed five planeloads of iPhones from India to the U.S. in just three days to beat new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, Times of India reported Monday, citing sources. The urgent shipments during the final week of March aimed to avoid the 10% reciprocal tariff that took effect on April 5. The stockpiling will allow Apple to maintain current pricing temporarily. "The reserves that arrived at lower duty... Read more ›
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U.S. stock markets suffered their worst day since the Covid pandemic after Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs, triggering a global selloff and wiping out $470 billion in value from tech giants Apple and Nvidia. From a report: The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 6%, while the S&P 500 and the Dow dropped 4.8% and 3.9%, respectively. [...] Meanwhile, the US dollar hit a six-month low, going down at least 2.2% on... Read more ›
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The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, "But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the direction he wanted to go..." Starliner had flown to within a stone's throw of the space station, a safe harbor, if only they could reach it. But already, the failure of... Read more ›
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"The third James Bond novel was published on this day in 1955," writes long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger. Film buff Christian Petrozza shares some history: In 1979, the market was hot amid the studios to make the next big space opera. Star Wars blew up the box office in 1977 with Alien soon following and while audiences eagerly awaited the next installment of George Lucas' The Empire Strikes Back, Hollywood was... Read more ›
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