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An anonymous reader shares a report: It would be perfectly reasonable to expect Amazon's digital assistant Alexa to decline to state opinions about the 2024 presidential race, but up until recently, that assumption would have been incorrect. When asked to give reasons to vote for former President Donald Trump, Alexa demurred, according to a video from Fox Business. "I cannot provide responses that endorse any political party or its leader," Alexa responded. When asked the same about Vice President Kamala Ha
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"If I had enough money to do it, which I don't, I'd buy it in a heartbeat," Cuban said of buying Fox News. Read more ›
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The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards had some great moments, like Candice Bergen's dig at JD Vance. It also had some cringeworthy ones. Read more ›
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Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said demand for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max has been "lower than expected" since the devices became available to pre-order in the U.S. and dozens of other countries on Friday. Kuo said his data is based on a "supply chain survey" and shipping estimates listed on Apple's online store. Kuo estimated that sales of all four iPhone 16 models reached about... Read more ›
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The survey's findings will be presented to Google next month. So get your answers in now. Read more ›
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Dmitry "Goodwin" Lysakovsky and Sergei "Ernest" Gritsai recorded a video saying that their commander had sent them to die after they argued with him. Read more ›
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Ariel Sophia Bardi spent the beginning of her career traveling the world, but took on a full-time desk job in her mid-30s. Read more ›
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Candice Bergen made a jab at JD Vance at the 2024 Emmys, drawing parallels to vice president Dan Quayle's comments on her show "Murphy Brown." Read more ›
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"The Bear" and "Shōgun" were among the most-nominated shows at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards. Here's a full list of the 2024 Emmy winners. Read more ›
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Following over three months of beta testing, iOS 18 will finally be widely released to the public this Monday, September 16. The update will be available in the Settings app under General → Software Update on the iPhone XS and newer. Below, we have highlighted eight key new features included in iOS 18, and Apple shared a complete list of new features and changes last week. Note that Apple Intelligence... Read more ›
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"President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity," Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. Read more ›
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Apple's latest iPhone will be hitting stores and deliveries in a few days. Learn what you need to know to find the best preorder deals. Read more ›
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Former McKinsey consultant Sarvesh Rajagopal lived in the Middle East and Europe, before moving back to India in May. Read more ›
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Trump lashed out at Taylor Swift in a Truth Social post on Sunday, days after she publicly endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Read more ›
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Achieving your fitness goals doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. Keeping track of your progress will be crucial, but not everyone needs to drop hundreds of dollars on the best smartwatches out there. The average affordable tracker might offer just the right tools to help kickstart your health journey, like a heart rate monitor, sleep quality data and so on. And, after testing a number of affordable fitness trackers,... Read more ›
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JD Vance repeated claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating pets. Ohio's GOP governor called the claim "garbage." Read more ›
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September 17's full moon will be a supermoon and a harvest moon. A partial lunar eclipse will also happen the same night. Read more ›
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The Eufy Smart Lock E30 doesn't have a catchy name, but it's loaded with features that make it easy to control your front door, including Matter support. Read more ›
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Billionaire Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison said he expects AI surveillance systems to reach a point where all citizens are under constant watch. Read more ›
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"I figured he was either dead or in prison by now," says the charging officer in Ryan Routh's 2002 arrest, who spoke with WIRED Sunday. Read more ›
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Police recovered a stolen Winston Churchill portrait that had been swapped out with a forgery and gone unnoticed for months. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable. Music industry publication Mix spoke with the people in charge of backing... Read more ›
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Ford is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car's historical location and other data, according to a patent application published late last month. The Record: "In one example, the controller may monitor user dialogue to detect when individuals are in a conversation," the patent application says. "The conversations can be... Read more ›
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Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks revealed at a Goldman Sachs conference that the company has been using AI in game development, including for "Dungeons & Dragons" and "Magic: The Gathering," and plans to integrate AI further into gameplay, despite previously banning AI-generated content. "Inside of development, we've already been using AI," Cocks said. "It's mostly machine-learning-based AI or proprietary AI as opposed to a ChatGPT approach. We will deploy it significantly... Read more ›
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Two astronauts, billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, completed the world's first private spacewalk outside a SpaceX capsule, testing new spacesuits and procedures in a risky mission that pushes the boundaries of commercial spaceflight. Reuters reports: The astronauts on the Polaris Dawn mission went one at a time, each spending about 10 minutes outside the gumdrop-shaped Crew Dragon capsule on a tether, as Elon Musk's company again succeeded... Read more ›
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Annapurna Interactive's entire gaming staff has resigned from the company following a leadership dispute, according to a Bloomberg report. From a report: The report, which IGN can confirm based on conversations with our own sources, states that Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary had recently been in negotiations with Annapurna founder and billionaire Megan Ellison to spin the gaming segment off as its own company. However, Ellison eventually pulled out of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from InsideEVs: General Motors is joining forces with EVgo, one of the biggest electric vehicle charging operators in the United States, to build 400 ultra-fast DC chargers nationwide to support the growing number of battery-powered cars hitting U.S. roads. To be clear, these are individual stalls, not charging stations. However, the two companies describe the new locations as "flagship destinations" which will feature 350-kilowatt... Read more ›
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Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee and reverting back to its existing seat-based subscription model, albeit with a price increase for Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise users. From a report: The engine maker introduced the controversial levy around a year ago. Initially, the Runtime Fee sought to charge developers a per install tariff once projects had passed certain milestones. It was a decision that left many users reeling, resulting in... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Employees' negative daily emotions and lack of well-being can ultimately hurt worker engagement -- and the economy, according to a new report released this week. Gallup, in its "State of the Global Workplace," estimates that low employee engagement costs the global economy $8.9 trillion, or 9% of global GDP. The report includes findings from its latest annual World Poll, which surveyed 128,278... Read more ›
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wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Microsoft on Tuesday raised an alarm for in-the-wild exploitation of a critical flaw in Windows Update, warning that attackers are rolling back security fixes on certain versions of its flagship operating system. The Windows flaw, tagged as CVE-2024-43491 and marked as actively exploited, is rated critical and carries a CVSS severity score of 9.8/10. Redmond's documentation of the bug suggests a downgrade-type attack similar... Read more ›
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Earlier today, Sony unveiled the $699.99 PlayStation 5 Pro -- a mid-generation upgrade model for the PlayStation 5 that requires a separate $79.99 disc drive if you want to play your physical games. As The Verge's Jay Peters writes, the announcement "may have marked the beginning of the end for game console disc drives." From the report: Microsoft is clearly eyeing the discless direction with Xbox as well. The more... Read more ›
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