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Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify,” a smartphone app that uses biometric identification, including facial recognition. The lawmakers said facial recognition remains unreliable and warned that real-time surveillance could have a chilling effect on constitutionally protected activities.
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Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats. Read more ›
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Millions of Americans just witnessed a killing. On Wednesday, scattered amid social media’s banal ephemera — tired memes, partisan agit-prop, and celebrity gossip — appeared a video of a young man speaking into a microphone, then recoiling from a gunshot to the neck. For hours, this snuff film was impossible to escape, the atrocity autoplaying […] Read more ›
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Apple TV+ has renewed its highly entertaining Isaac Asimov adaptation for another round of psychic warfare, galactic power grabs, and cosmic mysteries. Read more ›
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Authorities said a "high-powered, bolt-action rifle" was recovered in a wooded area near the university where Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday. Read more ›
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The tribute to the Steven Spielberg classic opens September 14 and runs through July 26, 2026, at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, CA. Read more ›
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Charlie Kirk, 31, observed the Jewish Sabbath. It was a little detail buried near the bottom of one of the many profiles published since news broke that the conservative leader was killed on Wednesday. Every week from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday, Kirk would turn off his phone, spend time with his wife […] Read more ›
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Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Read more ›
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If you haven’t seen the video of a bullet killing Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah, you’re one of the lucky ones. When most people opened X, Instagram, YouTube, or any other platform on Wednesday afternoon, the gore was there waiting for them. This was by design. While images of graphic violence have […] Read more ›
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Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules. Read more ›
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Conservative media figures are rethinking security protocols after Charlie Kirk's shooting. Outdoor political events are being reconsidered. Read more ›
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Charlie Kirk's success as a communicator, fundraiser, and political organizer cemented him as a member of President Donald Trump's inner circle. Read more ›
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's relationship with the royals is strained. On Wednesday, Harry saw King Charles for the first time in over a year. Read more ›
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The iPhone 17 Pro launches next week, offering 25 changes and improvements over its predecessor from last year. Here's everything that's different between the two generations. The iPhone 17 Pro introduces an aluminum unibody design, the A19 Pro chip, a new front-facing camera with Center Stage, and a 48-megapixel telephoto camera. Beyond these headline features, how much of an improvement does the iPhone 17 Pro really offer? This guide breaks... Read more ›
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Spending on data center construction in the US was up 40% in June, Bank of America Global Research says. Read more ›
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In a statement to press, DC said "posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC’s standards of conduct." Read more ›
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Sam Altman's appearance on Tucker Carlson prompted Musk to weigh in on a whistleblower who died in Nov. 2024. Read more ›
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I loved my magnet high school, but it forced me to be perfect. I want my daughter to enjoy high school and not be overwhelmed with school work. Read more ›
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Figure Technology, the blockchain-based lender co-founded by former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, jumped 44% in its opening trade after raising $787.5 million in an initial public offering. Figure, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker FIGR, started trading Thursday at $36 per share, above its IPO price of ... Read more ›
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The case for the Mars Sample Return mission has never been more clear. Read more ›
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Charlie Kirk, one of America’s leading conservative activists and a close friend of President Donald Trump’s son Don Jr., has been murdered. We do not yet know who did, or why. We do not know how the Trump administration will respond. What we do know, however, is that there are good reasons to be afraid. […] Read more ›
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Judge William Alsup has rejected the record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic has agreed to for a piracy lawsuit filed by writers. According to Bloomberg Law, the federal judge is concerned that the class lawyers struck a deal that will be forced "down the throat of authors." Alsup reportedly felt misled by the deal and said it was "nowhere close to complete." In his order, he said he was "disappointed that... Read more ›
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Nintendo has just won another major battle in its longstanding war against piracy. Earlier this summer, a US federal court ruled in favor of Nintendo in a lawsuit against Ryan Daly and the Modded Hardware website. The site was known for selling devices that allowed users to get around Nintendo's piracy protections, including the popular MIG Switch flashcart that lets buyers play official Nintendo games without the need for a... Read more ›
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Stop me if you've heard this one before: over a half-decade of rumors, infrequent teases and affirmations that something is on the way, only for fans to impatiently bide their time and the thing to eventually arrive with very little advance warning. No, I'm not talking about Hollow Knight: Silksong this time. Spotify is finally rolling out a lossless option that offers higher-quality music streaming. Best of all, the company... Read more ›
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Surprising absolutely no one, Apple has unveiled the new iPhone 17 series, including the iPhone Air, which CEO Tim Cook said freed the company up to make the Pro handsets the most Pro ever. Here at Apple Park, I was able to take a high speed hands-on demo of the iPhone 17 Pro, and made a beeline for the new Cosmic Orange model. I'm already very taken with the way... Read more ›
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Vodafone made a commercial starring an AI avatar posing as a real lady. This is interesting because Vodafone is a major global brand and not a fly-by-night TikTok company using a ridiculous deepfake of Jackson Galaxy to sell cat toys. The tells in the commercial are obvious and what one would expect. The AI avatar's hair is a bit off, which ruins the charade that this is a real person.... Read more ›
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In an absolute shocker, an early September Apple event included the official reveal of the iPhone 17. Who could have seen that coming? Arguably the biggest change this time around — in the most literal sense — relates to the size of the display. At 6.3 inches, it's larger than the iPhone 16's 6.1-inch screen. Sorry to iPhone users with smaller hands and anyone else who is fed up of... Read more ›
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Anthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit piracy lawsuit brought by authors and publishers. The settlement is the largest-ever payout for a copyright case in the United States. The AI company behind the Claude chatbot reached a settlement in the case last week, but terms of the agreement weren't disclosed at the time. Now, The New York Times reports that the 500,000 authors involved... Read more ›
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As the Pumpkin Spice approaches, it’s time for a bunch of new iPhones. Welcome to a special edition of the Engadget newsletter, breaking down everything Apple announced in the last 24 hours. What’s notable this year is, of course, the iPhone Air. Launching alongside the base iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, it’s an intriguing new flavor of iOS. The iPhone Air: It’s a brave choice to... Read more ›
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It's September 2025, and things are looking peachy keen. Sure, the US job market has taken a nosedive. And yeah, only one in four Americans believes they have a good chance of improving their standard of living. But hey, Tesla's board has proposed a pay package that could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. What really matters is that someone is having a good time, right? Tesla's board laid... Read more ›
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Today's Apple event isn't just about iPhones and smartwatches. The company also announced the long-anticipated refresh of the AirPods Pro earbuds. The AirPods Pro 3 arrive a full three years after the company released the second-gen earbuds. This is a serious upgrade with updated audio drivers and plenty of high-tech bells whistles, like active ANC and the ability to play spatial audio. Apple says these earbuds offer the best ANC... Read more ›
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