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80-year-old George Lucas appeared this week at a 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back, reports CNN — and finally gave a good explanation for why Yoda speaks the way he does. "He explained that it came about in order to ensure that the little alien's usually profound messages really landed with audiences."
"Because if you speak regular English, people won't listen that much," Lucas said at the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival, per Variety . "But if he had an accent, or it's really hard to unde
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TikTok recently began experimenting with an in-app meditation feature that encouraged teens to "wind down" after 10PM. Now, the company is making the feature official for all users and turning it on by default for all teens under the age of 18. With the change, teens will hit a full-screen "guided meditation exercise" when attempting to scroll after 10PM. The prompt is apparently something you can opt to ignore, but... Read more ›
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The final arc of the 'Star Wars' series gave us the endings we needed—and knew where to leave some stories open. Read more ›
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The bill, which Republicans will be working to pass over the next several weeks, is the centerpiece of Trump's legislative agenda. Read more ›
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"The appearance of impropriety, or worse, is too great," Rep. Mike Lawler of New York wrote. Read more ›
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CarPlay Ultra, Apple's next-gen dashboard integration, just debuted in Aston Martin models. Read more ›
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Topping the list for the fourth year in a row is Apple, according to Kantar BrandZ. ChatGPT and Chipotle also made the list for the first time. Read more ›
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The texts were displayed to jurors in a Manhattan courtroom where Sean "Diddy" Combs is fighting sex-trafficking and racketeering charges. Read more ›
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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick called 'Grand Theft Auto VI' the 'most-anticipated entertainment property of all time' in an earnings call Thursday. Read more ›
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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says outdated air traffic control systems are to blame for slower flights, such as Atlanta to New York. Read more ›
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Microsoft today shared a new ad on YouTube with the tagline "we're faster than a Mac." In the video, Microsoft says the top-end Windows PCs with Copilot+ branding are up to 58% faster than the previous-generation MacBook Air with the M3 chip, based on Cinebench 2024 multi-core CPU benchmark results. The ad is citing old figures that were reported on all the way back in May 2024, so take that... Read more ›
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Watching the behavior of our tech overlords has answered questions I'd never thought to ask. How do you NDA an army of baby mamas? Is there anything more embarrassing than impersonating Benson Boone? (Also, who is Benson Boone?) And now, the latest: how long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of […] Read more ›
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As AI cheating rises, Reid Hoffman expects teachers to turn to tests such as oral exams that force students to understand a subject more deeply. Read more ›
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In a legal filing, advertisers sued by X said the suit was an attempt to use the courthouse win back business it lost. Read more ›
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You might want to prepare for things to pay more at Walmart. The company’s CFO, John David Rainey, told CNBC that the Trump administration’s tariffs are “still too high” and that consumers could see higher prices “likely towards the tail end of this month, and then certainly much more in June.” “We’re wired for everyday […] Read more ›
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Hulu's "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" is back for season two, featuring new cast member Miranda McWhorter, Taylor Frankie Paul's former best friend. Read more ›
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The billionaire's social media site is awash in extremist content from sanctioned terrorist groups, a report claims. Read more ›
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Apple is revising its infotainment integration in the form of CarPlay Ultra, an improved variant built on customization for both drivers and automakers. Read more ›
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Orbitalworks' Pathfinder mouse is a lightweight modular mouse that comes with a box full of pieces you can use to. Read more ›
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TikTok will interrupt teens’ feeds with guided meditation after 10PM. The platform has been testing the feature with a “wind down” prompt, but now it’ll show the notification with guided meditation by default to all users under 18. TikTok’s wind-down prompt initially only played calming music to remind teens to take a break from the […] Read more ›
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Nvidia's latest RTX 6000 Pro has been benchmarked by two outlets. On average, the GPU is allegedly 10-15% quicker than a stock clocked RTX 5090. Read more ›
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Qatar is gifting Trump a $400 million luxury 747 to serve as a temporary Air Force One, but experts warn that retrofitting it to meet presidential security standards could take years, cost hundreds of millions more, and risk national security due to potential embedded surveillance. The Register's Iain Thomson reports: The current VC-25s aren't just repainted 747s. They're a pair of flying fortresses that must be capable of allowing the... Read more ›
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Facing deep staffing cuts, the IRS plans to lean heavily on AI to maintain tax collection efforts, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stating that smarter IT and the "AI boom" will offset reductions in revenue enforcement staff. The Register reports: When asked by Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) whether proposed reductions in the IRS's IT budget, along with plans to cut additional staff, would affect the agencies ability to collect tax... Read more ›
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Software firm 37signals is completing its migration from AWS to on-premises infrastructure, expecting to save $1.3 million annually on storage costs alone. CTO David Heinemeier Hansson announced the company has begun migrating 18 petabytes of data from Amazon S3 to Pure Storage arrays costing $1.5 million upfront but only $200,000 yearly to operate. AWS waived $250,000 in data egress fees for the transition, which will allow 37signals to completely delete... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Education giant Pearson suffered a cyberattack, allowing threat actors to steal corporate data and customer information, BleepingComputer has learned. Pearson is a UK-based education company and one of the world's largest providers of academic publishing, digital learning tools, and standardized assessments. The company works with schools, universities, and individuals in over 70 countries through its print and online services. In a statement... Read more ›
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Amazon's Audible is expanding its audiobook offerings by giving select publishers access to its AI-powered production tools that will let them more easily convert books into audiobooks with over 100 customizable AI voices to choose from. It will also launch an AI translation tool in beta later this year to help publishers translate and localize audiobooks into multiple languages, with both automated and human-assisted options. The Verge reports: Audible says... Read more ›
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President Trump on Thursday attacked a law signed by President Joe Biden aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling the effort "racist" and "totally unconstitutional" and threatening to end it "immediately." The New York TimesL: Mr. Trump's statement was one of the starkest examples yet of his slash-and-burn approach to dismantling the legacy of his immediate predecessor in this term in office. The Digital Equity Act, a little-known effort to... Read more ›
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Chungin Lee used ChatGPT to help write the essay that got him into Columbia University — and then "proceeded to use generative artificial intelligence to cheat on nearly every assignment," reports New York magazine's blog Intelligencer: As a computer-science major, he depended on AI for his introductory programming classes: "I'd just dump the prompt into ChatGPT and hand in whatever it spat out." By his rough math, AI wrote 80... Read more ›
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Fast Company's "AI Decoded" newsletter makes the case that the first "killer app" for generative AI... is coding. Tools like Cursor and Windsurf can now complete software projects with minimal input or oversight from human engineers... Naveen Rao, chief AI officer at Databricks, estimates that coding accounts for half of all large language model usage today. A 2024 GitHub survey found that over 97% of developers have used AI coding... Read more ›
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Philips has launched a new initiative called "Philips Fixables," offering free, officially drafted 3D-printable replacement parts to encourage self-repair and sustainability. The program is initially available in the Czech Republic but aims to expand over time. Tom's Hardware reports: This is a new idea, so only one component is available right now for download. The piece happens to be a 3mm comb for one of their shavers, but Philips assures... Read more ›
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Just days after a radar and communications outage at Newark Liberty International Airport, the FAA confirmed a second incident on May 9 that disrupted radar and radio contact for 90 seconds due to a telecom failure at Philadelphia TRACON. "As of 12:30PM ET, FlightAware stats showed 292 total delays for flights into or out of Newark, which is also experiencing delays due to runway construction," reports The Verge. From the... Read more ›
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