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In October, Apple caved to pressure from the Trump administration and removed ICEBlock â and similar apps which crowdsourced the location of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement activity â from its App Store. Apple's stated rationale? The apps could "be used to harm law enforcement officers." But armed-to-the-teeth ICE officers donât need protection from civilians. Apple had that exactly backward.That became impossible to ignore on Wednesday, when ICE agent Jonathon Ross... Read more âș
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Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple's and Google's app stores. The fact that it hasn't happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley's leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are [âŠ] Read more âș
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"What happened to the police body cameras?" one Uber driver in Minnesota asked a Border Patrol agent. Read more âș
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X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. The Elon Musk-owned platform accuses music publishers of colluding with the NMPA to "coerce X into taking licenses to musical works from [âŠ] Read more âș
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A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing. Read more âș
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Amazon is making a return, of sorts, to physical retail via plans to build a big-box retail store in the Chicago suburbs, The Information reports. The 225,000-square foot retail space will open in Orland Park, Illinois, and give the company the opportunity to sell more than just groceries after it closed most of its physical bookstores and gift shops in 2022.The new store will offer in-store shopping, but also act... Read more âș
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The president uses digital media to get his message across â but he really loves old media like newspapers and cable TV. Read more âș
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Billionaireâs xAI start-up lacks adequate safeguards, say experts, but many AI models are trained on troubling material Read more âș
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Hi readers, this has been a breakneck news week. Hereâs one big story that shouldnât get lost in the shuffle: After Venezuela, President Donald Trump [âŠ] Read more âș
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OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy, a SoftBank-backed data center developer thatâs building a site for the Stargate project. As part of the investment, the companies have agreed to work together on data centers using designs developed by OpenAI, according to a Friday ... Read more âș
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One of the issues holding Auracast back from wider mainstream use is some companies' lack of support for the Bluetooth technology - Apple being a prime example. With iOS having 58 percent of the market share in North America and nearly 28 percent worldwide, a decision by Apple to enable native Auracast support would potentially [âŠ] Read more âș
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The first video I saw of the Minneapolis shooting was bad enough. Shortly after I saw it, I had the terrible realization that there were multiple people in the clip holding their phones up - another angle was bound to surface. Within minutes, a second video was all over social media, and it was even [âŠ] Read more âș
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Get a lifetime of pro-level mobile scanning with iScanner for just $27.99 with code FLASH through Jan. 11. Read more âș
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How much alcohol should you drink? The US government now vaguely, in effect, says just donât drink too much. And what qualifies as too much? Well, thatâs up to you. As part of the new federal dietary guidelines released this week, the Trump administration eliminated the previous specific recommended limits on alcohol consumption â two [âŠ] Read more âș
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"We're in the singularity. We're at the top of the roller coaster, and it's about to go down." Read more âș
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The small screen meets the big screen. Read more âș
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Just because you're renting doesn't mean you can't have some smart devices in your home, and these devices are perfectly suited for apartments. Read more âș
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Charlie Brooker's series will return to Netflix for another round of (inevitably) eerily timely episodes. Read more âș
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We just gave the Lego Smart Brick our Best In Show award at CES 2026, and I wanted to stop by The Lego Group's suite to get a last glimpse before I left Las Vegas. To my surprise, the company showed off one more feature I didn't see during my first demo, perhaps the most [âŠ] Read more âș
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DHS has accused a Minneapolis Hilton franchisee of canceling ICE agent reservations. Hilton's corporate headquarters says the incident doesn't reflect its values. Read more âș
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Live tourism creates temporary tourism corridors, but the real opportunity is permanent infrastructure â aviation networks, visa liberalization, and booking platforms â that enables circulation whether or not Taylor Swift is on tour. Read more âș
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The $2.7 billion deal to take members-only club operator Soho House private is in jeopardy after a key investor said it can't come up with the money. Read more âș
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Have you been following the year's aviation news? Itâs time to test yourself with the airline portion of our Skift 2025 Travel News Quiz. Read more âș
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While U.S. carriers have not flown to Venezuela in years, airspace restrictions following strikes in the region are leading airlines to cancel flights to popular tourist destinations in the Caribbean. Read more âș
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Luxury travelers no longer want more. They want less. Less noise, less friction, less sameness. The hospitality industry is scrambling to adapt in five ways. Read more âș
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Thailandâs tourism numbers for 2025 are proof that the industry is not immune to shocks. Thailand can recover. But recovery will come from steady fixes, not slogans. Read more âș
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As more destinations consider climate-linked tourism fees, Hawaiiâs legal battle could set a national precedent. Read more âș
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President Trumpâs proposal to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes has drawn a mixed response from vacation rental industry experts, most of whom said the practical impact would hinge on how any legislation defines both âinstitutional investorsâ and âsingle-family homes.â Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that achieving the American Dream of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Hilton removed a Minneapolis Hampton Inn from its franchise network after the hotel refused service to federal law enforcement officers again in a video posted online. Hilton said the hotel violated its nondiscrimination policy. Read more âș
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