Category: everydayblog
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The University of Toronto has attracted several U.S. professors amid turmoil between American higher-education institutions and the Trump administration. Source link
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The third and final season of the industry-defining Squid Game confidently delivers each new round of the deathly games with spectacularly brutal aplomb — but its attempts at worldbuilding are disappointingly tired and uneven. Some of Squid Game’s most interesting dynamics from the first two seasons — the politics among the masked guards, the organ-harvesting…
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The ruling left unsettled the question of whether children born to immigrants without full legal status in the United States are entitled to automatic citizenship. So what happens now? Source link
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For years, Meta’s trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. But apparently, Meta has decided to try training its AI on the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. On Friday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook users trying to post something on…
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As A-listers gather in Venice to celebrate the union of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, the couple is following a familiar playbook of how to control the message. Source link
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Universal and Blumhouse’s first M3gan feature came out of nowhere with a premise so ridiculous and campy that it was hard not to be at least a little intrigued. Equal parts Child’s Play and Small Wonder, M3gan was undeniably silly with its story about an AI-powered doll who sang Sia’s “Titanium” and danced around as…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Group of 7 had agreed that penalties related to a 2021 “global minimum tax” deal would not apply to American companies. Source link
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After quietly pausing the rollout of Google Photos’ AI-powered “Ask Photos” search tool, Google is now expanding access once again and making some improvements to the feature. Google’s Gemini AI models power Ask Photos so that you can ask complex questions to help you find photos. But earlier this month, a member of the Google…
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The couples who exchanged vows in May 2004 helped usher in a period of profound change, leading to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right. Source link
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“Maybe you could organize your plants like this,” my friend’s text message said, with an attached photo of white pots of plants floating midair in front of a huge, sunny window. As a newbie plant collector, I do need to organize my growing collection of flora, but not like this — the photo was AI-generated…