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A charter plane crashed at a remote radar site in Alaska on Thursday, killing all eight people on board, the U.S. military said. In a statement, the U.S. Air Force said, "These individuals were dedicated professionals carrying out a vital mission in a demanding environment." An investigation is now underway. NBC's Morgan Chesky reports for TODAY.
Vox - 1 day 6 hours agoLike many people, I have a contentious relationship with the Memories feature on my iPhone, the AI-powered nostalgia machine that serves up photos and slideshows from deep in your camera roll, either reminding you of a beautiful day at the beach or surfacing an old photo of your ex. About once a month, for whatever reason, my iPhone reminds me of the time my phone got stolen. The Memory is a glitchy, fragmented one an auto-generated slideshow of my first few years living in New York. But because...
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Air and Space - 1 day 6 hours agoA new book by historian Nathaniel Philbrick makes the case that the James Marshall's 1848 discovery set in motion events from the Civil War to the rise of Silicon Valley...
NPR - 1 day 8 hours agoA multistate lawsuit against Meta is putting a growing question in the spotlight: How does social media affect young people, and can its use become addictive?...
Companies collect and profit from our personal data every day, but most of that value never makes its way back to consumers. Verb CEO Cyrus Beschloss explains how his company aims to give users control of their information and the ability to earn money from it.
Did you mix something up? Maybe you're just "hallucinating."...
Does AI actually belong in an art museum?...
GeekSpin - 2 days 22 min agoA federal court has granted final approval to a $700 million settlement resolving a multistate antitrust lawsuit that accused Google of maintaining an illegal monopoly over how it ran the Play Store. The lawsuit went after the tech giant’s grip on Android app distribution and in-app payments, where the company was taking up to 30% per […] Read the original article here: Google forced to send refunds to millions of Android users...
The app lets users create six-second looping videos and hosts more than two million classic videos.
China's latest humanoid robot just edged out the fastest human on record at least on paper. Robotics firm Unitree has unveiled Superman, a bipedal bot that, in a demo video, clocks a top speed of about 28.3mph and pulls off a standing jump of two meters. That speed slightly...
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Air and Space - 2 days 2 hours agoNo written records mention a fight in this specific part of Vienna at the time of the men's deaths. But the brutal nature of their injuries, particularly to the pelvis area, indicates that these individuals died on the battlefield...
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Air and Space - 2 days 5 hours agoOn August 23, 1944, a test flight over the village of Freckleton, located in northwest England, ended in disaster, claiming the lives of 61 people, including 38 students between the ages of 4 and 6...
A snake almost killed by a cancerous tumour has been saved after what's been called a world-first treatment - originally for humans.
Vox - 2 days 6 hours agoA Flock camera recording on July 9, 2026, in Jefferson, Georgia. | Kevin D. Liles for the Washington Post via Getty Images Have you been hearing a lot about Flock recently? You're not alone: The surveillance company has put 120,000 cameras on roads in every US state except Alaska, and people are mad about it online, at city council meetings, and out in the world, where the cameras have become the target of vigilante vandalism . Flock's automated license plate readers cameras that scan the...
Vox - 2 days 6 hours agoA physician in Italy dons a VR headset before performing surgery. | Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images If you're like me, and you grew up in a house where your mom refused to let you get a video game console, because she believed sitting and staring at a TV was bad for you, you might think of video games as antithetical to health. And there is plenty of research about the ways in which gaming too much can harm your physical and mental well-being. I don't think anyone would argue that eight hours...
The size of New York's tech talent workforce surpassed the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time as tech companies lay off workers, a new report from CBRE shows.
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