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Uber and Nuro plan to start fully autonomous testing later this year.

Its parent company Aylo says age-verified iOS users in the UK will now be able to fully access the adult website.

Make and mod your own accessories if you've already got the gamepad.

The proposed settlement is the result of a class action lawsuit filed in California.

This five-year deal is one of many circular agreements keeping the AI sector afloat.

The AI assistant is no longer coming to consoles and will be removed from the Xbox mobile app.

Both remakes were already released on Steam and the macOS App Store.

European law requires large platforms to offer alternative feeds.

iPads and Macs are also expected to embrace external options for generative AI.

State investigators found a chatbot that claimed it had a medical license and could write prescriptions.

Activision Blizzard seems to be focusing on next-gen platforms.

The company also updated Gemini for Home for those in an early access program.

Well, that was fast.

OpenAI is deploying GPT-5.5 Instant to all users starting today.

The class action suit concerns unauthorized scraping by Llama AI.

This is the upgraded smart assistant's debut on a non-Amazon device.

The feature is also coming to desktops soon.

The virtual event will showcase some of the biggest changes to the OS in years.

CEO Brian Armstrong blamed a downturn in crypto markets.

It's another stacked lineup, with Mixtape also among the games joining Microsoft's subscription service

QyTw0, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, is now valued at €325 million (approximately $380 million) after raising a €25 million angel round ($29 million). It's a sign

Wonder wants to turn its robotic kitchens into AI-powered “restaurant factories,” letting anyone spin up a virtual food brand with a prompt.

The Silicon Valley AV startup has not started driverless testing yet.

SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers' agents use to a select few like Nvidia's NemoClaw.

The company is making a big bet that the swiping model is outdated and most matches never turn into actual dates. The company wants to fix that by redesigning profiles, changing how people interact, a

Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.

Lucid Motors pulled its guidance for the year, as it navigates swelling inventory and a companywide cost-cutting measure.

As some of the biggest VCs in crypto start to consider funding AI startups, a16z crypto's new fund will stay the course.

With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.

Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of his Beverly Hills hotel Tuesday morning ahead of his appeara

VW Group's stake will continue to grow under the $5.8 billion joint venture with Rivian.

By bringing messaging to the web, Threads is aligning its desktop experience more closely with competitors like X and Bluesky.

Arnell joins Gebbia’s National Design Studio under Trump to unify UX across 27,000 federal sites and streamline how Americans use government services.

According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character.AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and also fabricated a serial number for its state medical license.

The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor.

PayPal is pitching an AI-led turnaround, tying automation and restructuring to $1.5 billion in savings as it cuts jobs and works to modernize its tech stack.

Etsy's new native app within ChatGPT aims to be a conversational shopping experience for users.

The cybersecurity company says it's seen thousands of infection attempts, and at least a dozen successful hacks after users installed malicious versions of the popular Windows software.

The data breach at education tech giant Instructure includes students' private data, according to a sample of the allegedly stolen data seen by TechCrunch.

The visual analysis system is now operating in select countries, but Meta says it's working toward a broader rollout.

Students from a Mississippi school banded together to prevent their bus from crashing after their driver blacked out from an asthma attack. What do you think?The post Middle Schoolers Prevent Bus Cras

PHILADELPHIA—Attempting to remain calm while the massive green creature gyrated on top of the dugout, a terrified Adolis García reportedly asked teammates Tuesday if anyone else could see the Phillie

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I used to struggle with my finances. Every month I’d stress out about how I was going to make rent, pay the bills, and still have something to set aside for my future. I must have read every article a

WASHINGTON—In a troubling discovery that has public health researchers on high alert for a wider outbreak, a team of Georgetown University epidemiologists announced Tuesday that they had confirmed the

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Amidst rising costs and concerns about long-term prospects, more young Americans are forgoing traditional higher education paths in favor of vocational schools. The Onion lays out the costs and benefi

Everyone thought it was strange that the least attractive of the sisters was the first to be married, but no one expected the officiant to announce it.The post Lucy Hastings and Sebastián González app

NEW YORK—In a chaotic scene that sent rising stars, supermodels, and A-list actors scattering, the Met Gala ended abruptly Monday night after Anna Wintour’s parents reportedly got home early. Accordin

DANIA BEACH, FL—Reversing its company-wide shutdown after the sudden influx of capital, Spirit Airlines resumed business Monday after its CEO Dave Davis reportedly found a nickel on the ground. “This

WEST PALM BEACH, FL—Emerging from the procedure after hours of touch-and-go treatment, doctors attending to Rudy Giuliani said Monday that the former New York City mayor was now in liquid but stable c

Matt Smith makes a lot of good points in his article about no longer chaining things in JavaScript. Just those first two code samples in the post say a lot, but stick around for all the samples and le

:nth-child supports the keyword `of` in the argument which can be super useful on it's own. Combo that with a :has() selector to do some pretty wild stuff!

TanStack Form offers a powerful solution for handling form complexity in React. It emphasizes strong typing, performance, and detail management.

While AI for codegen is manageable, integrating AI into team workflows presents more challenges, such as maintaining quality long term and managing technical debt.

Let's acknowledge that gap in AI-generated code between code that works and code that is production-ready. It's you.

A nice essay from Cam Pedersen. Clay breaks. A lot. My first few attempts collapsed on the wheel. One piece cracked in the kiln. I dropped another walking to my car. But nobody cries about it, you jus

Hand-writing/maintaining a sizes attribute is just not going to happen. This is the way.

If you have any shared styles across multiple shadow DOMs (imagine 20 custom button components), a Constructable Stylesheets is just way more efficient.

A radio button is this: Paul Hebert took at fair look at how Shadcn turns that into 45 lines of code and three imports, which in turn uses Radix which is 215 lines of code and 7 more imports. But do y

An experimental API let's us put HTML within those opening and closing canvas tags and render it to the canvas, while remaining interactive. Lots of possibility here!

Armed groups’ extortion and turf wars in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada threaten Indigenous communities and tourism boom.

Eye-watering prices reflect demand to watch the World Cup in the US, Infantino says, amid criticism from fans.

The average price of petrol in the United States has reached $4.48 per gallon, according to AAA.

German official says US-Europe relationship is being tested as opposition MP says Berlin is 'not neutral'

Shopping centre fire kills at least eight people in Iran

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett says some individuals will be arrested and charged.

A game-high 27 points by LeBron James were not enough for LA Lakers to upset Oklahoma City in Western Conference semis.

Authorities say the cell was planning 'targeted assassinations against high-level government officials'.

Mehdi Taj says cohosts US must ensure the Iranian military and IRGC are not 'insulted' during the FIFA World Cup.

Women's tennis stars say players 'deserve to be paid more' in prize money at Grand Slam tournaments.

Trump pauses US 'Project Freedom' operation in Strait of Hormuz, citing progress towards Iran agreement.

Violence in the remote state not only endures, but has mutated and deepened though assailants remain officially unnamed.

Suwayda has emerged as a new Captagon hub in Syria, triggering Jordanian strikes and a regional security crisis.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Beijing for talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

US military releases video of strike on alleged drug boat

Surging jet fuel prices are prompting carriers to slash their flight schedules, casting a cloud over summer travel rush.

Couples marry in tents in Gaza as war, displacement, and soaring prices strip weddings of joy.

Israeli Foreign Ministry says that four-day visit to Panama and Costa Rica will deepen ties with partners in the region.

Donald Trump has reignited his public attacks on Pope Leo, claiming he supports Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.

Iran's foreign minister meets his Chinese counterpart one week before President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing.

The pro-European Union coalition of Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan has collapsed after a vote of no confidence.

Donald Trump has said that the US military operation guiding ships through the Strait of Hormuz will be paused.

Three people have died since the outbreak in April, while two crew members on board the ship require urgent care.

Demonstrators rallied in Louisiana and Tennessee against against redistricting.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says ceasefire with Iran remains in place despite growing tensions in Hormuz Strait.

The president made the announcement in a social media post just hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio had affirmed the newly created mission, which bore little connection to the original justific

Trump officials and their Venezuelan allies have promised a new era of accountability to unlock Venezuela’s immense oil wealth. But the country’s oil industry remains a black hole.

The president is trying to ratchet up the economic pressure on Tehran, but Iran’s government is unlikely to make a deal without a big, face-saving compromise.

Known as C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS, the comet will be visible to stargazers using a telescope in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

With his triumph in West Bengal state elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has moved closer to his dream of an opposition-free India.

A New York Times reporter joined a group of cyclists on a route meant to break down Cape Town’s lingering racial and economic barriers.

The governments have no official diplomatic or military ties. But a loose network led by company executives and volunteers is bridging some of that gulf.

Officials say competition between the countries is healthy. But tensions are mounting over energy quotas, regional conflicts and their different visions for the Middle East.

The Spanish government will receive the vessel. The World Health Organization said human-to-human transmission may have played a role in the outbreak.

Dozens more were injured in the explosion, which appeared to be one of the country’s deadliest in recent years.

France must decide what to do with two orcas marooned at a deserted marine park: move them to another park, or release them into an open-water sanctuary.

Israel has failed to arrest a wave of violence against Palestinians, prompting military officials to urge the government to intervene.

A growing number of men across the continent say they are being promised jobs in Russia, only to be forced into the war. Some go as mercenaries, but many more are drawn unwittingly.

Lee Chun Ho lost four members of his household in last November’s apartment-tower blaze. He’s now telling an investigative committee what contractors ignored.

Four years of battle in Ukraine is taking a toll on neighboring Romanians. Even if the war has not crossed the border, drones have done so.

The Lebanese-Australian artist almost lost his Venice Biennale commission after he was accused of supporting terrorism. Reinstated, he is arriving in Venice showing not one but two works.

Dynamic ticket pricing has made this year’s tournament the most expensive in history, pushing Argentine fans to extremes.

Argentine fans have flocked to previous World Cups by the tens of thousands, but the high cost of attending this year’s event is creating a new challenge. Tariq Panja, a global sports correspondent fo

After 42 years of slavery, Josiah Henson escaped to Canada, where he wrote a memoir, founded a school and led others to freedom. But his home long bore the name “Uncle Tom,” to the offense of many.

China’s top diplomat also warned against the restarting of hostilities as he met with Iran’s foreign minister. The U.S. has urged China to pressure Iran to reopen the waterway.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is attempting to raise Japan’s profile at a time when China’s clout is rising and doubts about the United States are spreading.

The White House is turning to rhetorical leaps as President Trump tries to put the biggest political crisis of his presidency behind him.

Since the family of rodent-borne infections were identified in the 1950s, they have turned up all over the world.

At least 12 people were killed in Zaporizhzhia, one of the highest tolls from a single attack so far this year. The cities of Dnipro and Kramatorsk were also attacked.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s appointment of Louise Arbour, a former Supreme Court justice, as governor general, sends a message beyond Canada.

President Trump said a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would “remain in full force.” The shift came after the defense secretary said U.S. efforts to free trapped vessels would continue.

The president seems to be searching for a silver bullet to end the war. There might not be one.

A British judge on Tuesday ordered a delay in a civil trial set for June after the police said they would reinvestigate criminal accusations against Mr. Tate.

The war in Iran has meant big profits for fossil fuel companies, prompting some lawmakers to call for a tax. But that would be easier said than done.

Violence flared in the waterway on Monday after President Trump said the United States would help guide stranded ships. It’s not clear exactly how the plan is working.

Ford Motor has written off $20 billion in electric vehicle investments but says it is forging ahead with an electric pickup that will sell for $30,000 next year.

The sudden death of a curator, the surprise participation of Russia and an unconventional U.S. entry are heating up the art world Olympics, which begins previews Tuesday.

An industrial policy of subsidies and import restrictions laid the foundations for China to become almost as dominant in wind turbines as in solar panels.

While Chinese robotics companies like Unitree are all in on humanoid robots, South Korean company Neubility is opting for a more utilitarian, rolling form. They tapped industrial design firm BKID to d

"The act of reaching for a door handle, often our first tactile encounter with a building, becomes a sensory moment in its own right," writes manufacturer FSB. They should know; the German firm has be

We all know about hostile architecture/defensive urban design, which is meant to discourage citizens from engaging in a particular activity. Typically we think of horizontal surfaces festooned with pr

MVE‑Collection is a Paris-based design studio that creates furniture and objects from reclaimed materials and construction‑site waste. They created these Brique furniture pieces: They're made of recla

This eye-catching side table relies on tensegrity. It's made of pipes, joints and thin rope. "It sways," the creator writes, "but is surprisingly stable." The table is by PipePipeDIY, a strange Instag

This aluminum staircase, installed in a home in northern Italy, is by Italian fabrication shop Studio Def.It was designed to disappear:"The main request by our client, an airline captain, was to desig

Here's what we looked at this week:Restel, by industrial designer Monica Graffeo, is a furniture piece inspired by traditional hay rakes. Hi-tech, designey food storage: B!POD's food vacuum system. Un

Konstantin Grcic's THING_04 is a rotomolded disc made from 100% post-industrial polypropylene. What's it for? Grcic has been on a kick for providing seating out of industrial materials. THING_04 is si

These days, household appliances are not designed to be easy to repair, nor recycle. The "Design for Disassembly" class at the Institute of Industrial Design at Austria's FH Joanneum University of App

This post took a wrong turn in Albuquerque and just arrived in the publishing queue, here's what we looked at *last* week:An industrial design classic: The Bic 4 Color Pen from 1970. Over five decades

This simple Tombo Hanger, by Japanese studio Drill Design, perfectly captures the spirit of Enzo Mari's Autoprogettazione. For the uninitiated, industrial designer Mari's book presented simple furnitu

While New York is known as "The City That Never Sleeps," Sibiu in Transylvania is known as "The City Where Houses Don't Sleep." There, the steeply-pitched roofs of the houses often feature, well, eyeb

Visitors to the Nice Côte d'Azur Airport, and the Die Neue Sammlung design museum, will spy an unusual seating surface: This SurfBench, whose linked seat slats react to the sitter's motions. The bench

How many types of holes do you see on a daily basis? British industrial designer Sebastian Bergne pays homage to his favorite types with this card set. Everyday Holes are a set of six cards showing

Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh designed this Kvarnhuset ("Mill House") in 2000, as a small vacation getaway. There's a highly unusual detail you can just about make out:The downspout is open on one s

In this age of crisis, technology is pulling us apart. At its best, journalism can bring us together again, writes Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine VinerI have a confession to make. It has taken me

The funniest comedy on British TV is back. Its stars talk about scruffiness, mortifying encounters with the public and why they’ve loved each other for two decadesIn a north London TV studio, there’s

The newly found belief Mikel Arteta’s side have shown has now carried them into the Champions League finalThere is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Arsenal,

Scottish and Welsh nationalism will be further radicalised if Reform UK sets the tone of debate over inclusion in the British stateKeir Starmer has neither a heartland nor a stronghold. That is the pi

Jet fuel has doubled in price since the start of the war on Iran. How bad will the disruption get and could this accelerate the route to jet zero?What happens to flights if the world runs out of oil?

Will Reform take Sunderland, or the Greens take Hackney? Can Plaid Cymru take a historic victory in Wales, and will Labour be forced into third place in Scotland? We examine the possible outcomes for

US president says he is pausing US effort to guide stranded vessels out of the strait of Hormuz but blockade remainsDonald Trump announced he is pausing ‘Project Freedom’, the US effort to guide stran

Leader of administration says not enough has been done to guarantee the safety of the public as evacuation of three passengers expected shortlyBack to the hantavirus-hit cruise ship, it looks like the

Green leader said he hosted fundraisers for the Red Cross but accepts he should not have described himself as a spokesperson for itZack Polanski has rejected suggestions that he is “the new Jeremy Cor

Plans to be included in king’s speech will allow tougher action against proxies for foreign powers such as IranUK politics live – latest updatesOffenders who commit antisemitic attacks backed by forei

French publication Le Monde says Laure Ferrari ‘dodged’ question when quizzed over property purchase in ClactonNigel Farage’s partner, Laure Ferrari, has refused to confirm how she paid for a house in

FCA focuses on marketing, misleading ads, unfair exit fees and people being signed up without their permissionThe City regulator has launched a review of claims management companies amid concerns that

Wastewater from nearly 40,000 people and businesses pumped straight into sea as territory still has no treatment plantRaw sewage from nearly 40,000 people and businesses is being pumped straight into

Objection after museum removes word ‘Palestine’ from list of countries of ancient Levant and Egypt and from some explanatory panelsThe Palestinian ambassador to the UK has called for Foreign Office in

Michael O’Leary says his airline is forced to divert average of one flight a day because of disruption from passengersAirports should be banned from serving alcohol to passengers before early morning

Politicians and pundits in the UK are fuelling a moral panic around “the Muslim vote." Once seen as a reliable base for the Labour Party, the Muslim community’s growing support for independent candida

Nigel Farage’s party sees local elections as showcase for a sleeker approach borrowing from an unlikely sourceNigel Farage was midway through his walkabout of Waltham Abbey when a hunting horn loudly

Just 19% of Germans approve of the chancellor’s leadership – with some of his comments causing offence amid spats with the White HouseFriedrich Merz’s first steps as German chancellor proved to be a s

Stagehands poured Coca-Cola on the floor, Ewan McGregor waved his lightsaber, and people did unspeakable things with the film’s Oscars at the post-awards-ceremony party. Director Baz Luhrmann, Jim Bro

Products that strike the right balance of wearable coverage with adequate sun protectionThere are two things I invariably reach for at this lovely time of year: a trench coat and tinted sunscreen. The

As we approach a milestone in Guardian setting, here are some treats from the archiveThe Guardian is approaching its millionth cryptic clue. There is, of course, no overall database that will let us k

Taking on its US rival in Britain is expected to lead to ‘collateral damage’ for UK retailers“We’re here to shake up the UK e-commerce market,” says Matthew Nobbs, the UK boss of Joybuy which is spear

When I became pregnant, all I wanted was a healthy baby. Discovering I would be having a son gave me a new perspective on the narratives around masculinityAt the 20-week ultrasound, because of the bab

Bargains are disappearing and the cost of gadgets such as MacBooks and PS5s is rising as AI competes for memory chipsThe end of the cheap laptop, the bargain phone and affordable games consoles may be

Europe punished Russian billionaires over the war in Ukraine. It should do the same to those abetting an ecocidal regimeThe ecological disasters of the US-Israel war with Iran are already bad enough.

It’s an annoying choice: either lug around a heavy tome or try to remember when the paperback version is coming outRecently, readers have been all a-flutter over the publication of Patrick Radden Kee

As a kid I would do his voice, put on my dad’s work shirt and host my own nature documentaries in the backyardSee more of Jess Harwood’s cartoons here Continue reading...

The alleged conflict between the pair began on a film set and has been disastrous for everyone involved. Apart from the lawyers, naturallyLadies, gentlemen, cineastes: our long nightmare is over. The

A Swedish firm’s pursuit of the product testing company Intertek suggests investors’ price expectations are yet to be shifted by the Iran warIt was a bad day for the FTSE 100 index on Tuesday – down 1

Zia Yusuf’s mad idea of building migrant detention centres exclusively in areas that vote Green works a treatIt’s a classic from the Donald Trump playbook: everything’s been going a bit tits up, so yo

Decades of advice on what to eat and what not to might have been missing one key ingredient, according to new researchReduce your calories. Eat more vegetables. Limit soft drinks and junk foods. For y

A landmark ruling set back the right Congress granted – of racial equality in electoral opportunity – to keep Republicans in powerIn the late 19th century, after Reconstruction, US federal protections

The rising number of private renters in Britain have for too long put up with chronically insecure tenancy agreements and poor conditionsThe defining trend in British housing in recent decades has bee

Readers respond to articles in the wake of the Golders Green stabbings and suggestions that pro-Palestinian protests could be bannedBanning protests will not make Jews safer (Some pro-Palestinian prot

John Marriott and Michael Pyke respond to a report on a UCL study on classes grouped by abilityAs a retired modern foreign languages teacher, I read your report with interest (Teaching in classes grou

ChatGPT's default model has been updated to GPT-5.5 Instant, a model that brings accuracy improvements with fewer hallucinations, especially in areas like medicine, law, and finance, according to Open

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will let users set third-party AI services as the default for Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools and Image Playground, reports Bloomberg.Apple has signed a

Apple will pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of false advertising and unfair competition after the personalized Siri features it promoted when launching the iPhone 16 were

Apple has removed more desktop Macs from its online store as the global memory shortage continues. Mac mini models with 32GB and 64GB of RAM are no longer available for purchase, nor is the M3 Ultra M

Apple today released new firmware for the AirPods Max 2. The firmware is version 8E258, up from the prior 8E251 firmware that was released just ahead of when the ‌AirPods Max 2‌ launched.It's not clea

Following a few steep discounts on the iPhone Air last month, we're now tracking a new all-time low price on the iPhone Air MagSafe Battery on Amazon. You can get the accessory for $59.99, down from $

In a letter sent to Apple's CEO Tim Cook and hardware engineering chief John Ternus this week, nine members of U.S. Congress from Maryland expressed "serious concern" regarding Apple's decision to clo

The iPhone 18 Pro will reportedly carry over the same anodized aluminum finish introduced with the iPhone 17 Pro, despite concerns from some users about its durability. According to the Weibo leaker k

Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, Meta will potentially be able to see the contents of all messages between us

watchOS 26.5 fixes two Apple Watch bugs, according to Apple's release notes for the update, which is expected to be released next week.Apple fixed bugs in the Messages and Workout apps:• Fixes an issu

iOS 26.5 includes three new features for iPhones, according to Apple's release notes for the update, which is expected to be released next week.As discovered during beta testing, iOS 26.5 enables end-

This year, Mother's Day lands on Sunday, May 10, and we're tracking quite a few offers from some of the best Apple-related accessory companies, as well as steep discounts on Apple products at Amazon.

Apple this week held the inaugural Spring Forum for its Manufacturing Academy in East Lansing, Michigan, gathering hundreds of U.S. manufacturers at Michigan State University to demonstrate how busine

The standard iPhone 18 and the lower-cost iPhone 18e are said to share components, according to the leaker known as "Fixed Focus Digital," as further evidence that Apple is narrowing the gap between t

OpenAI is said to be fast-tracking development of its first "AI agent phone," with the company now aiming to mass produce the device as early as the first half of next year, according to industry anal

For the rumored 20th-anniversary iPhone, Apple continues to test a solid-state haptic button system that will replace traditional mechanical buttons and enhance the uninterrupted look of the device's

Apple has held "exploratory" talks with Intel and Samsung about manufacturing the main processors for its devices in the United States, reports Bloomberg ($).Apple is said to have had early-stage talk

Apple today filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court, asking for a stay on App Store fee calculations while it waits to hear whether the Supreme Court will weigh in on the latest developm

T-Mobile's Starlink satellite connectivity is now available for T-Mobile users who are traveling in Canada and New Zealand.T-Mobile users have previously had access to cellular connectivity through ro

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is coming in iOS 26.5, Apple confirmed today. The feature is listed in Apple's iOS 26.5 release notes.Apple says end-to

I feel about luggage carousels the same way I feel about head lice: avoid at all costs. These are the best carry-on suitcases for those who never want to check a bag again.

Looking for the best bed frame? Our top recommendation is the Classic Bed from Thuma, but we’ve got options for all budgets and tastes.

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The voice actors from the original film have returned for the sequel—and not everyone is happy about it.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: OpenAI President Greg Brockman concluded his testimony on Tuesday, where he largely rebutted Elon Musk's account of the early years of the startup and ne

Apple has agreed to a proposed $250 million settlement over claims that it misled iPhone buyers about the availability of Apple Intelligence and its upgraded Siri features. The settlement would cover

Coinbase is laying off about 700 workers, or 14% of its workforce, as CEO Brian Armstrong says the company is restructuring to become "lean, fast, and AI-native." Engadget reports: Armstrong claimed h

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI lab from providing its technology to the US and Israeli m

Gartner says some VMware customers may find it cheaper to move certain Linux VM workloads to IBM mainframes than to adopt Broadcom's new VMware licensing, especially for fleets of hundreds of Linux VM

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The Academy has clarified that only human-performed acting and human-authored writing are eligible for Oscar nominations. The Oscars will not ban AI tools broadly, but says it will judge films based o

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The Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order to create a working group that could review advanced AI models before public release. The shift follows concerns over Anthropic's

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will imp

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would a

Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform

The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third

Nearly a year after rolling out Threads direct messaging to everyone on mobile, Meta is finally bringing the feature to the web. Meta says it's "testing" DMs on the web now, but plans to make the feat

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoni

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant imp

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history"

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The BBC’s Nawal Al-Maghafi has been piecing together what happened on 8 April 2026, after one of the deadliest chapters in the country’s recent history.

Airlines have removed nearly two million seats from flights over the month, data from Cirium shows.

The Princess of Wales will go to Italy next week on her first official overseas engagement for more than three years.

A mesmerising mix of results are expected after candidates make their final pitches, our political editor writes.

The move comes after a series of arson attacks at Jewish sites, as well as a double stabbing.

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OpenAI president Greg Brockman spoke during the second week of a month-long trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman.

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Claims from last year said the tech firm’s advertising of Apple Intelligence fooled iPhone buyers.

Kim Ju Ae's evolving fashion is one of the signs that she is being groomed as North Korea's next leader.

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The Spanish star delights fans as she brings her highly anticipated Lux tour to the UK.

People in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky say they have been cut off from fresh supplies of food or medicine for months.

The US president said the operation has been paused after starting on Monday.

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President Donald Trump raised hopes of an agreement between the US and Iran after days of escalation.

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The UK government says it is in "discussions about supporting potential bids" to host the Olympics and Paralympics in the 2040s.

The director of public prosecutions has told prosecutors in England and Wales to bring charges more quickly.

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England fly-half Zoe Harrison says the introduction of smaller balls for this autumn's WXV Global Series is "the worst decision someone has ever made".

Bayern Munich's attack of Harry Kane, Luis Diaz and Michael Olise has hit 100 goals this season. With the second leg of the Champions League semi-final with PSG coming up, BBC Sport compares the two f

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Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.

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State says chatbot claimed to practice medicine, gave invalid license number.

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Google's smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp.

SEC alleged Musk's late disclosure cheated Twitter investors out of $150 million.

We tour Ford’s top-secret Electric Vehicle Development Center in California.

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The Dutch road authority will ask other EU regulators to approve the driver assist.

DHS targeted a man who hadn't entered the US for years for criticism of ICE operations.

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The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay.

2026's Formula 1 championship now looks far from a foregone thing.

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OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started.

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Samsung's latest flagship phone has a built-in Privacy Display and comes with an S Pen stylus.

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Google I/O likely won't feature much Android news.

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The ten most-streamed movies of the month include everything from sports drama 'Marty Supreme' to fashion-classic 'The Devil Wears Prada.'

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The new Echo Show 11 is now compatible with most smart home systems without needing a hub.

Instagram is cracking down on "unoriginal" content.

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Are humans just LLMs in meat suits? Arturo Nereu doesn't quite think so, but in a recent essay, he lays out the uncomfortable parallels between how large language models work and how he experiences hi

TL;DR: The ultimate project management tool, Microsoft Project Professional 2024: Lifetime License for Windows, is available now for $54.97 (MSRP $1,129.99) until May 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT.Level up in t

Try to keep the idea of a white bear out of your head. Daniel Wegner's 1987 experiment is now showing up in a critique of one of the most recognizable AI writing tics, the LinkedIn-saturated "It's not

A new paper in Nature Communications, covered by Ian Sample at the Guardian, claims a single 25mg dose may leave behind anatomical changes in the wiring itself, still visible 30 days on.Researchers at

This Friday, May 8, Meta will turn off end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. The feature, added as opt-in in 2023, is being yanked because almost nobody used it — or at least, that's the official e

Newly released 3D scans of the RMS Titanic wreck site reveal a sprawling debris field where everything from delicate tableware to massive machinery lies scattered across the ocean floor, presenting an

Jeff Bezos may be looking to unload his record-setting sailing yacht Koru after discovering that a 417-foot floating monument to excess is, inconveniently, too large to dock in many of the places bill

I never thought I'd see the day when HowToBasic, the unhinged YouTube chef most famous for adding an artery-clogging amount of raw eggs to the smoldering detritus he calls his food, went vegan. Not a

A nearly destroyed Nintendo 3DS gets a meticulous second life in this restoration video, and watching it is ASMR-level satisfying. The careful disassembly of wafer-thin circuit boards, the lineup of d

Rejoice! It feels like it's taken way longer than it should, but the Steam Controller — the first of three brand-new hardware ventures Valve announced last year — is finally here. The price is a full

Cardboard Wars is the best fan-made Star Wars creation since Troops. The 52-minute Star Wars parody on YouTube is a worthy successor to Spaceballs and Hardware Wars. Cardboard Wars tells the entire st

This collection of photos celebrates trees growing on the sides of buildings, through small cracks, and in one case, straight out of a narrow slit in a brick wall. The trees aren't struggling — they l

Pam Bondi and the U.S. Department of Justice appear to be engaged in a carefully choreographed bit of procedural maneuvering: after declining to comply with a subpoena while in office, Bondi is now se

Magnified Sand is Robert Maronpot's ongoing microscopic photography project. He photographs individual sand grains up close, revealing shapes and colors that are completely invisible to the naked eye.

Cursor Camp is a wholesome little website where you and everyone else visiting appear as small cursors. There's no chat, no usernames, no profiles — you can only interact by moving around the screen a

A retired Federal Bureau of Investigation employee is suing the Knoxville Police Department after she was arrested for DUI, jailed overnight, and forced to install an ignition interlock despite toxico

This video discusses how the 2019 fire that almost destroyed Notre-dam "saved" it. In addition to all the interesting things the restoration taught us about the building, it evidently also provided th

Real, stable genius Donald Trump is again touting his cognitive test results, this time describing a question involving a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a squirrel. The problem is this example that d

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For the first time in half a century, humans visited the moon. If they did not land on it, that's coming soon, but they took a lot of photographs on the most epic sightseeing tour ever. The entire set

USB-C was supposed to make things easy. But standardizing the connector didn't solve the problem of what the hardware was good for, not least the cables. And now they all look the same, making it a ga

Supposedly to be found on the Springfield, Missouri Facebook Marketplace, this unusual vintage Dell laptop has an Intel Core 2 duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and Windows XP. Justifying

TL;DR: Babbel teaches real-world language skills (built by actual linguists, not AI) with lifetime access for $159 using the StackSocial code LEARN.Most of us have tried to learn a new language at lea

The Typeframe PS-85 is a cyberdeck crafted by Jeff Merrick, inspired by Epson portable computers and the design language of 1979 science fiction-horror classic Alien. In the movie, the MU/TH/UR comput

This lightning compilation video captures what happens when the atmosphere turns volatile. A storm rolls in, looking routine, and then, suddenly, a tree is vaporized, a building is on fire, and the po

"Police do say they've seen the bear climb at least three different trees."A large black bear wandered into Hansen Dam, a patch of green space that, from a bear's perspective, looks exactly like the k

The Obama Presidential Center marked Star Wars Day with a quick, playful video. Leaning into the internet's favorite unofficial holiday with a wink to the galaxy far, far away, they used the opportuni

Facing record-low levels in the Colorado River system, federal water managers are deliberately holding back water in Lake Powell to keep its hydroelectric turbines running even as downstream Lake Mead

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