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When Andrew Gounardes needed help rallying support for two social media bills he’d introduced in the New York State Senate earlier this year, he knew who to call: Mothers Against Media Addiction.
The New York-based nonprofit parental advocacy group had caught Gounardes’ attention even before it officially launched in March, thanks to its founder, Julie Scelfo, whom a colleague had introduced Gounardes to earlier that year. “It was a match made in heaven,” said Gounardes, a Democrat.
He found a kindred spi
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A Massachusetts couple claims that their son's high school attempted to derail his future by giving him detention and a bad grade on an assignment he wrote using generative AI. Read more ›
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As a part of today’s Android 15 update for Pixel devices, which also happens to be a Pixel Feature Drop, Google has released a list of bug fixes that are included. The list isn’t as big as we have seen from some quarterly updates, but there are still close to 20 fixes that touch on … Continued Read the original post: 19 Bug Fixes Included in Android 15 Pixel Update Read more ›
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Vice President Kamala Harris is proposing an expansion of student-loan forgiveness programs to recruit healthcare workers to rural areas in the US. Read more ›
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From Arnold Schwarzenegger to "Fuller House" star Candace Cameron Bure, here's a list of celebrities who have spoken about their Republican values. Read more ›
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Apple today announced a significant update to the iPad mini, featuring the powerful A17 Pro chip and support for the company's new Apple Intelligence system. The refreshed tablet maintains its compact 8.3-inch design while offering substantial performance improvements and new capabilities. The A17 Pro chip brings a 30% boost in CPU performance and a 25% increase in GPU performance compared to the previous generation, according to Apple. The new iPad... Read more ›
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Anthony Levandowski, who cofounded Google's self-driving car program, highlights Tesla's data advantage over Waymo. Read more ›
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Apple's Beats brand and Kim Kardashian have teamed up for a third time on special-edition colors of a Beats product, this time featuring the recently relaunched Beats Pill speaker in new Light Gray and Dark Gray hues. After months of celebrity teases, the Beats Pill made a comeback in June with a variety of feature and audio improvements over previous models to deliver a premium audio experience in a portable... Read more ›
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Gunn's own rescue pup Ozu helped shape the portrayal of Krypto the Superdog in next summer's DC Studios release. Read more ›
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Microsoft says that the undeletable 8.63GB cache is actually freed up already; the reason it appears on the Disk Cleanup app is a "reporting error." Read more ›
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Apple is reportedly going to add digital car key support in the Wallet app for some Volvo, Polestar and Audi vehicles. Currently, Apple’s digital car key support list includes vehicles from Kia, BMW, Lotus and several other manufacturers. The digital car key function allows iPhone and Apple Watch owners to access, lock or start vehicles just by holding the device near the vehicle’s NFC reader. The Wallet app must also... Read more ›
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USDA didn't have a list of products for consumers to avoid during the initial recall of 10 million pounds of chicken last week. Read more ›
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The Starbucks employees said plain brewed coffee can be a waste of money, but a salted-caramel mocha and sweet-cream cold brew are worth it. Read more ›
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In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two fierce rivals, Intel and AMD jointly announced the formation of a new x86 advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) moving forward, an important consideration given both the potential addition of new features and the various x86 simplification efforts already underway. Read more ›
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EA and Bioware have detailed the PC requirements for Dragon Age: The Veilgard. Read more Read more ›
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I was impressed by the $84,000 CLE450 Cabriolet's powerful mild-hybrid engine, luxurious cabin, and great tech. Read more ›
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Archiving an app is so much better than uninstalling apps and then reinstalling them. Read more ›
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Vietnam will convert all its networks to IPv6, under a sweeping digital infrastructure strategy announced last week. From a report: The plan emerged in Decision No. 1132/QD-TTg -- signed into existence by permanent deputy prime minister Nguyen Hoa Binh -- and defines goals for 2025 and 2030. By 2025, the nation intends to connect two new submarine cables -- an important local issue. Earlier this year, internet speeds slowed when... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, Aravind Srinivas’ phone rang. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, wanted to dish with Srinivas—CEO of Perplexity, an artificial intelligence–powered search engine startup—on the biggest competitor they had in common: Google. Days earlier, Google had announced several upgrades to Gemini, its generative AI model, and Nadella wanted to know: Was Srinivas impressed with how much text Gemini could handle in a single prompt? How did the capabilities of OpenAI,... Read more ›
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You certainly can’t accuse Wall Street of being taken in by a glitzy presentation, at least not this week. Elon Musk’s big robotaxi reveal on Thursday night went down like a lead balloon with investors today. Tesla shares fell 9%, while shares of Uber, whose business is theoretically at risk from a Tesla robotaxi, rose nearly 11% to $86. That puts Uber stock a few dollars above where it was... Read more ›
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When Andrew Gounardes needed help rallying support for two social media bills he’d introduced in the New York State Senate earlier this year, he knew who to call: Mothers Against Media Addiction. The New York-based nonprofit parental advocacy group had caught Gounardes’ attention even before it officially launched in March, thanks to its founder, Julie Scelfo, whom a colleague had introduced Gounardes to earlier that year. “It was a match... Read more ›
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When it comes to recruiting and retaining artificial intelligence researchers, OpenAI has faced tougher competition this year from old and new rivals. Now it’s facing pressure from a very recent former employee: ex-chief technology officer Mira Murati.Murati, whose last day was Friday, October 4 and now is as an advisor to the company, has been speaking with OpenAI employees about potentially joining her next venture, though she hasn’t disclosed exactly... Read more ›
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An overriding question for artificial intelligence developers is whether they can generate enough revenue to offset the high costs of compute and talent. But their own AI helpers can also cut costs. Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of model developer Anthropic, said the startup’s developers have been using its Claude chatbot to help them code. It can’t fully replace engineers and needs “some coaching,” but many Anthropic developers have dramatically... Read more ›
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Marketing software vendor HubSpot has struck a deal to buy Cacheflow, which sells a billing product for businesses, for roughly $100 million, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. The acquisition, which could be announced as soon as Friday, will help HubSpot expand its ... Read more ›
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Could a breakup be good for Google? The gang had a lot to debate and discuss. Plus, Jessica recaps The Information's WTF. Enjoy! Apple Spotify YouTube Read more ›
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In September, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made waves when he announced a plan to sharply reduce the number of managers at the internet giant, partly to combat the bureaucracy creeping into its culture. It turns out Jassy’s plan will affect far fewer managers than some outside the company had expected. Amazon’s efforts to cut back the number of managers at the company will apply only to its corporate employees, not... Read more ›
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company would release Robotaxis costing less than $30,000 in 2026, though he stopped short of promising the vehicles would be fully autonomous, describing them as “highly optimized for autonomous transport.” Musk also said the company would sell $20,000 humanoid ... Read more ›
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Sierra, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding led by growth-stage investor Greenoaks Capital, according to two people who have examined the deal. The new financing will at least triple the company’s valuation, which was $1 billion in a funding round in January, one of the people said, adding they expected the valuation to surpass $4... Read more ›
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