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Cambridge, MA - January 24: Gated entrance on the campus of Harvard University. | Photo: Getty Images
After years of legwork, Harvard researchers canceled plans to test a controversial theory for cooling the planet by sending sunlight-reflecting particles up into the atmosphere. Now, members of an independent advisory committee tasked with addressing ethics and safety concerns are sharing what they learned from the ill-fated project.
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Mistral AI releases content moderation API powered by its Ministral 8B language model. The ā¬6 billion-valued European AI startup has backing from tech giants Nvidia and Microsoft. The European artificial intelligence powerhouse Mistral AI has announced the release of its new content moderation API, marking a step in its mission to deliver sovereign AI solutions.... Read more Ā» Read more āŗ
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Donald Trump's proposed tariffs could raise car prices, impacting US and European automakers such as General Motors, Volvo, and Jaguar Land Rover. Read more āŗ
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Elon Musk praised Apple's new hearing aid feature for AirPods, despite his rocky history with the tech giant. Read more āŗ
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Notre Dame Cathedral is set to reopen on December 7, more than five years after a fire devastated parts of the building. Read more āŗ
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From 3rd January 2025, Riot Games will ban content creators for bad "off-platform conduct". Read more Read more āŗ
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Chrome may soon let you know if a website is worth doing business with straight from the URL bar. Read more āŗ
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Learn the best way to handle these annoying pests from an expert entomologist. Read more āŗ
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Amazon has some excellent Black Friday deals on our picks for best smart speakers. There's a range of Amazon products on sale, including the Echo Pop, which is available for $18, down from $40. The 55 percent discount brings the Amazon Echo Pop to a record-low price. Amazon launched the Echo Pop in May 2023 as a new entry-level option for Alexa-powered devices. It features a 1.95-inch front-facing speaker which... Read more āŗ
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After over 10 years of wearing my natural curls, I've gone straight again, and this viral gadget is the reason. Read more āŗ
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If you thought Breath of the Wild was big, wait until you experience Tears of the Kingdom. | Image: Nintendo Significant discounts on first-party Nintendo Switch games can be notoriously difficult to come by, particularly on landmark titles like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. However, that trend seems to be shifting with Black Friday, as last yearās Game of the Year contender has dropped to just $30... Read more āŗ
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A mockup of the Earth selfie from YouTuber Mark Rober. | Screenshot: Mark Rober The stunt escalation on YouTube may have reached new heights with Mark Roberās offer to snap anyoneās selfie with the planet Earth using a satellite heās launching into orbit with the help of Google and T-Mobile. Rober is a former NASA engineer who made a name for himself on YouTube by glitter bombing porch pirates, creating... Read more āŗ
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Apple today announced that a new stop-motion animation featuring Wallace & Gromit will be projected onto London's Battersea Power Station this holiday season. The festive, six-minute video will be shown every day from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. from today until New Year's Eve. It is free to watch, and reservations are not needed. Apple is promoting the animation as part of its latest "Shot on iPhone" campaign. Aardman, the... Read more āŗ
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A little over week after Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's launch, developer GSC Game World is back with the post-apocalyptic shooter's first patch, promising over 650 fixes for Xbox and PC. Read more Read more āŗ
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Tom King became a counterterrorism officer in the CIA after 9/11. He quit to focus on being a father, using the opportunity to turn his cover into his career. Read more āŗ
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Taylor Swift's self-published "The Eras Tour Book" was released exclusively at Target on Black Friday. Read more āŗ
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Black Friday crowds aren't what they used to be, but shoppers still turned out at brick-and-mortar stores in large numbers this year. Read more āŗ
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Looking to upgrade your skincare routine with a little LED light? Score these fantastic masks (and other LED gadgets) while they're on sale. Read more āŗ
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If you're a first-time HSN buyer, a special Black Friday promo code nets you $20 off the workhorse kitchen tool. Read more āŗ
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The Verge
Kristen Radtke / The Verge Bluesky feels like the big winner right now. Iāve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. Iāve felt the platform has always had promise, especially with features like feeds with custom algorithms and the ability to let users pick their own moderation filters. But for a long while, it didnāt have the critical mass of users that I could follow... Read more āŗ
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Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the currently nonexistent Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. Now, before it even gets rolling, he has begun singling out individual government employees he says are emblematic of the governmentās bloat and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X. Earlier this week, as first... Read more āŗ
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge These days, Black Friday isnāt so much a single-day shopping holiday as it is an ever-expanding, monthslong event that often begins as early as October. The 24-hour deal blitz that once was the focus of newspaper headlines and mobs outside of stores is no more, which makes knowing when and where you should be spending your cash all the more confusing. Luckily, weāre here... Read more āŗ
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Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage Musically speaking, Iād say Drake lost the tit-for-tat feud this year between himself and Kendrick Lamar, which culminated in Lamarās hit song āNot Like Us.ā But Drake (real name: Aubrey Graham) doesnāt seem to want to accept defeat that easily. In a petition filed in New Yorkās state Supreme Court on Monday, Drake is accusing Universal Music Group ā the label thatās represented him for his... Read more āŗ
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Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge Youād think Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and its wide-reaching Supercharger network, would already know about the workings of the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program that has dedicated $7.5 billion to building a national charging network. However, he needed Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to chime in on X yesterday to stop some Republican leaders from spreading misinformation about the program.... Read more āŗ
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Image: Elen Winata for The Verge From noise-canceling earbuds to robot vacuums and 4K OLED TVs, there is already plenty on offer. Continue readingā¦ Read more āŗ
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Photo by Liam James Doyle for The Verge One Amazon influencer makes a living posting content from her beige home. But after she noticed another account hocking the same minimal aesthetic, a rivalry spiraled into a first-of-its-kind lawsuit. Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator? And what if that vibe is basic? Continue readingā¦ Read more āŗ
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A still from a video generated by OpenAIās Sora. | OpenAI OpenAI first teased its text-to-video AI model, Sora, back in February and hasnāt provided any meaningful updates on when it will be released since then. Now, it looks like some artists leaked access to the model in protest of being used by the company for what they claim is āunpaid R&D and PR.ā On Tuesday, a group of Sora... Read more āŗ
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Image: Elen Winata for The Verge From noise-canceling earbuds to robot vacuums and 4K OLED TVs, there is already plenty on offer. Continue readingā¦ Read more āŗ
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images Microsoft says it isnāt using customer data from its Microsoft 365 apps to train its AI models. The clarification addresses reports circulating online in the last few weeks claiming Microsoft required Word and Excel users to opt out of training the companyās AI systems. The confusion arose from a privacy setting in Microsoft Office that toggles āoptional connected... Read more āŗ
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