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This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. A judge in Nevada has ruled that “tower dumps”—the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers—is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still use the evidence they obtained through this unconstitutional search. Cell towers record the location of phones near them abou
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It has been investigated for fudging similar data in the past. Tesla is facing a proposed class action suit over allegations that it has been speeding up odometers so its vehicles will fall out of warranty faster, according to a report by Reuters . This would make it easier for the company to get out of paying for repairs. Nyree Hinton, the plaintiff in the case , alleges that Tesla odometer readers are designed to change with energy consumption, driver behavior and mysterious predictive algor
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is paying software company Palantir $30 million to provide the agency with “near real-time visibility” on people self-deporting from the United States, according to a contract justification published in a federal register on Thursday. The tool would also help ICE choose who to deport, giving special priority to “visa overstays,” the document shows. Palantir has been an ICE contractor since 2011, but the document published Thursday indicates that Palantir want
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Inside a secretive set of buildings in Santa Barbara, California, scientists at Alphabet are working on one of the company's most ambitious bets yet. They're attempting to develop the world's most advanced quantum computers. "In the future, quantum and AI, they could really complement each other back and forth," said Julian Kelly, director of hardware at Google Quantum AI. Google has been viewed by many as late to the generative AI boom, because OpenAI broke into the mainstream first with Chat
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17 Apr, 2025 At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web. We want to deliver a search experience that prioritises human needs, allowing you to explore the web effectively, privately, and without manipulation. We evaluate new technologies not for their acclaim but for their true potential to support our mission. Since its launch, Kagi Assistant has been a favorite for many users as it allows access to world top large language models, grounded in Kagi Search, all in one place in one beau
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You’ll be laughing it up like a fuzzball of another kind when you see this trio of Hasbro Star Wars figures up close—all somewhat inexplicably linked by their glorious manes. In Tokyo, Japan for Star Wars Celebration, Hasbro just wrapped up showing fans what’s coming for its Star Wars action figures, and to celebrate, io9’s got your first look clean and up close at three of those reveals. Carrying on the Black Series’ latest update to the classic A New Hope cast, we’ve got your looks at the new
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In this exploratory study, we have demonstrated that the subjective experiences triggered by circular breathwork bear a close resemblance to those evoked by psychedelics across experiential domains such as ego dissolution, unity and bliss. By tracking physiological and experiential dynamics throughout a breathwork session, we were able to show that while this effect appears to be partially supported by general context (including evocative music and social support), the physiological changes asso
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Plans for Pacific Rim‘s TV show, which some may have forgotten was even in development, are shifting from concept to reality, as the series has officially found a home on Amazon. As reported by Variety, Legendary Television and Amazon MGM have secured a deal to develop the series, written and executive produced by Eric Heisserer, known for Shadow and Bone, for Prime Video. The streamer has caught the mecha bug, having gained streaming rights for the fourth Neon Genesis Evangelion anime rebuild
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Netflix’s Devil May Cry anime has become the epitome of early aughts edge thanks to its fittingly bold choice to infuse the soundtrack with iconic emo and nu-metal acts like Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, and Evanescence. Now, the symbiotic relationship between the show and its music has taken on new forms because the music video for Evanescence’s latest track is giving fans a first look at what its titular demon-killing hero will look like in the show’s upcoming second season. Scattered throughout E
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Presented by NVIDIA The AI revolution is accelerating driven by billion-parameter reasoning models needed to develop agentic and physical AI. As NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang shared in his GTC keynote, the move from training to full-production inference is causing AI compute demand to skyrocket as data centers worldwide transform into AI factories designed to churn out millions of user queries efficiently and effectively. To meet this $1 trillion opportunity, NVIDIA at GTC unveiled major
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One of the more heated exchanges from the original Pop the Balloon or Find Love—a wildly popular YouTube show through which eligible Black singles ruthlessly assess each other’s attractiveness face-to-face—should have culminated with a lesson in humility. Aaron, a 29-year-old plumber whose deal breakers included “being promiscuous” and “non-cleanly” had just finished insulting a woman for having too much hair on her arms when fellow contestant Kailah cut him down to size. “You kinda look like
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We knew Twisted Metal season two was coming this summer, and we even got a trailer back in February. But now we know exactly when the Anthony Mackie-starring video game adaptation is arriving: the demolition derby chaos returns to Peacock July 31. With the news came this teaser. It’s short, but as Quiet herself says, “you gotta admire the showmanship.” Mackie’s co-stars include Stephanie Beatriz, Joe Seanoa, Will Arnett, and Anthony Carrigan. In a statement released earlier, writer-showrunner-
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. In Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps, everyone sees Reed Richards and his family as heroes capable of protecting the planet from any threat. But the film’s latest trailer makes it seem like the team’s first big villain might be a little more than they can handle. Everyone in the world of First Steps knows the tale of how Reed (Ped
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is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Perplexity’s AI voice assistant will reportedly play a significant role in the upcoming Motorola Razr expected to be announced April 24th, Bloomberg reports. The news comes after Motorola posted a teaser video of the Razr on social media last week, showing the foldable device animate into the word AI. Perplexity is also working with T-Mobile’
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A hot potato: Tesla is being sued over allegations it alters the odometers of customers' cars. According to the lawsuit, the automaker does this to increase the money it makes on repairs, avoid warranty obligations, and force customers to purchase warranty extensions early. Nyree Hinton brought the suit after he bought a 2020 Tesla Model Y in December 2022 with 36,772 miles on the clock, which meant it was still covered under the 50,000-mile warranty. The California financial analyst says he h
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A lot of folks will have you believe that pod-style coffee brewers are the devil, meant only for folks with no taste and even less time. But sometimes you just want a dang cup of coffee and you want it right now! I’m on the hunt to find pod-style coffee brewers worth the space they take up on the counter, and my favorite that I’ve tried so far is the Bruvi BV-01. I love a French roast or a pour-over as much as the next girl, but sometimes I just want my coffee right now. I’m no stranger to coff
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Adolphe Yvon’s painting of the battle at Solferino ( Public domain ) On a June day near Solferino, a town in what’s now northern Italy, something depressingly common happened. Two European armies clashed in combat, and thousands of men lost their lives. The Battle of Solferino was considered an important event at the time — it was the biggest European battle since the Napoleonic Wars, and it paved the way for the establishment of an independent Italy — but it’s faded from public memory outside
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Tesla has been accused of manipulating the odometers in its cars to avoid repair responsibilities and warranty agreements. As The Street reports, a class-action lawsuit filed in February claims that Tesla has been trying to dodge warranty-related obligations by intentionally overstating the distances its vehicles travel. The plaintiff, a man in California who bought a used 2020 Model Y with 36,772 miles, noticed an "abnormal spike in average daily miles driven" — despite a "consistent driving
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Buckle up, nerds: NASA is building the first quantum gravity sensor for space—a suitcase-sized instrument that could soon be measuring everything from subterranean water to hidden reserves of petroleum, all by watching how clouds of atoms act under the force of gravity. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), along with several partners, are developing the project, dubbed the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder (QGGPf). As its name indicates, QGGPf is a gravity gradiometer, wh
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In Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth's 1953 sci-fi classic "The Space Merchants," governments have been replaced by powerful corporations that have privatized nearly every corner of the globe. Thanks to overpopulation on all of the other continents, Antarctica has become a resort colony, chock full of tourists, equipment-rental companies, and violently invasive advertisements. It's a powerful novel — though one that was never meant to be taken as a suggestion. Unfortunately, a growing tourist i
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home > jokes > Pachydermic Personnel Prediction This does the rounds on the Net, usually under the title Hunting an Elephant in the 90s , with no attribution. My thanks to Reynir Stefánsson for telling me of its source. Stop Bit, Byte , p404, September 1989 Peter C. Olsen A bold new proposal for matching high-technology people and professions Over the years, the problem of finding the right person for the right job has consumed thousands of worker-years of research and millions of dollars i
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There are loads of shower filters on the market. There are a couple of key components to assess while you're shopping to make sure you choose the right model for you. Some filters will not fit your specific needs. Here's what to look for when buying a filter. Filtering capabilities Different types of filters work better to remove different contaminants and sediment, so when you're looking for the best shower filter, you'll want to check out what's in your water and decide what's most important
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Google has made it clear that the Assistant era is over . The company has been hard a work replacing Assistant with Gemini on phones, but the change is also expected to come to headphones, smartwatches, tablets, and cars. We found evidence of the tech giant preparing for the swap on Wear OS devices back in January. However, Google Assistant won’t just disappear from Wear OS smartwatches; Fitbit smartwatches are also losing the virtual assistant, and that change will start soon. On the Fitbit co
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The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social networking services” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the case in late 2020. While it was initially thrown out by the judge, he let an amended version move forward after the governme
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Reddit users recently discovered that some Galaxy AI features are only available in China. This includes Social Composer, Ask AI, Touch Assistant, and Samsung Assistant. Of these four features, Social Composer is the only one I’d rather not see in more regions, as it would worsen the quality of social media platforms. Generative AI features are generating a lot of excitement right now, and Samsung has perhaps the best selection of AI-powered features
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With tariffs creating rollercoaster rides of price uncertainty, two telecoms companies are trying to bring a little certainty to our budgeting in the form of fixed-price deals … Verizon’s three-year price lock Verizon says it promises not to raise myPlan and myHome prices for three years, and customers don’t need to do anything to qualify. Verizon is the first and only carrier in the industry offering new and existing customers a three-year price lock guarantee on all myPlan and myHome networ
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What has emerged is less a grand unified theory of how a creative idea originates and unfolds in the brain and more an ever-growing list of powerful observations. We can first divide the human creative process into phases, including an ideation or proposal step, followed by a more critical and evaluative step that looks for merit in ideas. A leading theory on what guides these two phases is called the associative theory of creativity, which posits that the most creative people can form novel con
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic launched major upgrades to its Claude AI assistant today, introducing an autonomous research capability and Google Workspace integration that transform the AI into what the company calls a “true virtual collaborator” for enterprise users. The expansion directly challenges OpenAI and Microsoft in the increasingly competitive market for AI productivity tools. T
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You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to a specific agenda and radio talk show hosts) may indicate that they’d like to have an argument, but they’re actually engaging in connection, noise, play acting or a chance to earn status. It can be fun to be in opposition, to harangue or even to use power to change someone’s position. An argumen
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