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NASA is teaming up with Microsoft to create an AI chatbot designed to make it easier to access and understand scientific data about the Earth. The tool, called Earth Copilot, will be able to answer questions about our planet by condensing NASA’s wide swath of geospatial information into easy-to-digest responses.
To create the tool, NASA is integrating AI into its data repository, allowing Earth Copilot to refer to this information when answering questions, such as “What was the impact of
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Research uncovers significant chatbot review bias in online retail ratings. Study shows chatbot review bias leads to inflated scores and shorter feedback. The growing phenomenon of chatbot review bias is undermining the reliability of online shopping platforms, according to groundbreaking research from European business schools. The systematic distortion in customer feedback could have far-reaching implications... Read more » Read more ›
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Elon Musk's Twitter/X alters its terms of service on November 15. In theory, they allow him to feed your tweets to his AI, Grok. Read more ›
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"I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here," Goldberg said. Read more ›
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It's not a joke: The Onion, the satirical news outlet, has purchased Alex Jones's Infowars at auction. The sale has the support of Sandy Hook victims. Read more ›
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Stephen King announces he's leaving X/Twitter just a day after dispelling rumors of being banned from Elon Musk's app. Read more ›
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Bluesky has rapidly gained users as people say they're departing Elon Musk's X after the US election. It reported outages on Thursday. Read more ›
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According to professional chefs, everything from bacon and sausage to doughnuts and cinnamon rolls can be made in an air fryer for breakfast. Read more ›
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Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to “end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor for good”... Read more ›
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When reality becomes stranger than satire, maybe the satirists can teach us something. The Onion confirmed on Thursday that its parent company bought Infowars, the disgraced purveyor of Sandy Hook misinformation and vendor of pseudoscience supplements. The Onion posted on Bluesky that it plans to transform the rebooted Infowars into “a very funny, very stupid website.” The Onion says it received the blessing of the families of the victims of... Read more ›
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With iOS 18, Apple introduced a feature that causes the iPhone to reboot every three days, security researchers have confirmed (via TechCrunch). In a demo video, security researcher Jiska Classen proved that an iPhone left untouched for 72 hours will automatically restart, and Graykey manufacturer also Magnet Forensics wrote a blog post about the feature. After a reboot, an iPhone is more difficult to break into with the forensic tools... Read more ›
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The fringe right-wing website run by Alex Jones is expected to shut down imminently. Read more ›
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Putting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the Department of Heath and Human Services would fulfill Donald Trump’s promise to let him “go wild on health.” Read more ›
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A group of state attorneys general and the DeFi Education Fund filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and its five commissioners alleging the regulatory agency was overstepping its bounds in bringing enforcement actions against crypto exchanges. Read more ›
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quonset shares a report from CNN: Between August 2022 and January 2024, hundreds of swatting calls were made across the country targeting religious institutions, government offices, schools, and random people. Authorities were finally able to track down the criminal, Alan Fillon, who entered the plea to four counts of making interstate threats to injure the person of another, the US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida said in... Read more ›
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Called Daisy, or "dAIsy," the voice-based AI mimics a senior citizen to hold meandering conversations with phone scammers. Read more ›
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The Sonos Arc Ultra is a fantastic sounding soundbar, and while it might be expensive, I've found a few more extra features that make it worth the investment. Read more ›
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to "make America healthy again." But what does that actually mean? Here's everything he promises to do. Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have made clear — including through stated policy positions and chosen campaign surrogates — that his administration intends to bar trans athletes from playing on school sports teams that match their gender identity. “The president bans it,” Trump said at a Fox News event in Georgia last month. “You […] Read more ›
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Amazon's Haul feels like a cheaper, crummier version of the cheap and crummy Temu. That might change, but for now, I was disappointed. Read more ›
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Today we have with us the new 2024 Mac mini, which features a new design and the latest Apple M4 processor. The new Mac mini is an incredibly small computer, measuring just five inches in length and breadth while being just under two inches tall. The design is just over an inch bigger than the latest Apple TV 4K model, which is incredible when you consider the Mac mini is... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election. That’s according to a stat-tracking site put together by Bluesky developer Jaz, using the Bluesky API. The platform, which rests on the decentralized AT Protocol, added about a million new users in the last week. Bluesky COO Rose... Read more ›
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Image: Freevee Amazon is going to shut down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. The service’s content has already been migrated over to Prime Video and new episodes of Freevee shows will be available to people who don’t pay for Prime, Deadline reports. The brand will be phased out “over the coming weeks,” Deadline says. Freevee originally launched out of Amazon-owned IMDb in 2019 as IMDb Freedive and... Read more ›
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Apple Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 with Quantec Room Simulator | Image: Apple Apple today announced some minor updates to Logic Pro for both the Mac and the iPad, including the ability to search for plug-ins and sources and the addition of more analog-simulating sounds. In Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1, you can now reorder channel strips and plug-ins in the mixer and plug-in... Read more ›
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The first part of Wicked, starring Ariana Grande (left) and Cynthia Erivo (right) will arrive in theaters on November 22nd. | Image: Universal Pictures Barbie producer Mattel has issued an apology after customers spotted its Wicked edition dolls listed an adult website on the packaging. The toy merchandise mistakenly directed customers to the homepage of the Wicked Pictures pornographic movie studio, instead of the correct WickedMovie.com URL. “We deeply regret... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images If you want to preserve the existing version of Lil Jon’s “Get Low” in your brain, maybe don’t listen to this cover T-Pain made with Mark Zuckerberg — excuse me, Z-Pain. Their version transforms the “Get Low” I got down to at all my school dances into a song with a much slower tempo complete with an acoustic guitar. Trust me, I... Read more ›
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The Zefiro is a tiny USB-C MIDI controller that can be played like a wind instrument. | Image: Kickstarter An Italian startup called Artinoise has created an unusual USB-C accessory for mobile devices that turns them into playable musical instruments. The Zefiro looks like a flash drive or a tiny vape, but by gently blowing into one end, it can be used to play simulated instruments with even less skill... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The Tesla Cybertruck was recalled for the sixth time this year — and the fix won’t involve an easy software update. Tesla voluntarily issued a recall for approximately 2,431 Cybertrucks manufactured between November 6, 2023 and July 30, 2024. The issue is related to something called the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, or MOSFET, in which the inverter has the potential to stop creating... Read more ›
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Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images The New York Times’ tech employees, who are behind Wordle and Connections among other games and features, will go back to work on Tuesday following a weeklong strike. In a statement published on Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild said union members will “march into the office together in the morning as a symbol of what’s to come for The Times.” The... Read more ›
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The interior of the Hyundai Ioniq 6. | Photo by Patrick George for The Verge Hyundai, a company that has been just as guilty in the past of spreading the touchscreen scourge in cars as any other, has been course-correcting lately, putting more buttons and knobs into its cars. The reason isn’t surprising: people hate touchscreens, at least for certain essential controls like HVAC systems, and they told Hyundai so.... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge For months now, there have been rumors about a smart home display Apple is supposedly working on. Now Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says the display will be wall-mounted and control smart home devices, attend video calls, and more, similar to the Amazon Echo Hub, and works on its own but requires an iPhone to complete the initial setup. The iPad-like device, which will reportedly be... Read more ›
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