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ISPs are fighting to raise the price of low-income broadband
Internet service providers are objected to the lower rates they need to offer lower income customers if they want to obtain government funds from a new Internet access program.
ISPs are fighting to raise the price of low-income broadband
Internet service providers are objected to the lower rates they need to offer lower income customers if they want to obtain government funds from a new Internet access program.
X's Grok chatbot is misleading voters about the presidential election
Grok's AI chatbot claims that President Biden's name must stay on the ballot in nine states, a claim that is categorically false.
Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results
Microsoft is beginning previews of its Bing generative search, which will insert AI-powered summaries above the usual results.
Police in Scottsdale, AZ will start using drones as first responders
Arizona police departments announced they will use special first responder drones on emergency calls.
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ISPs are fighting to raise the price of low-income broadband
Internet service providers are objected to the lower rates they need to offer lower income customers if they want to obtain government funds from a new Internet access program.
X's Grok chatbot is misleading voters about the presidential election
Grok's AI chatbot claims that President Biden's name must stay on the ballot in nine states, a claim that is categorically false.
Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results
Microsoft is beginning previews of its Bing generative search, which will insert AI-powered summaries above the usual results.
Police in Scottsdale, AZ will start using drones as first responders
Arizona police departments announced they will use special first responder drones on emergency calls.
GM shelves the autonomous Cruise Origin shuttle van
General Motors has indefinitely delayed the autonomous Cruise Origin shuttle van. Cruise will now focus on making the next-gen Chevy Bolt.
Boeing and NASA engineers have wrapped up ground tests on the Starliner thruster
Engineers from Boeing and NASA have spent much of the last month running ground tests on a Starliner Reaction Control System (RCS) thruster to get a better idea of what went wrong during the active Starliner’s flight in early June.
NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally uncovered pure sulfur crystals on Mars
NASA scientists say pure sulfur has been found on Mars for the first time after the Curiosity rover inadvertently uncovered a cluster of yellow crystals when it drove over a rock.
Police arrest a teenage boy in connection with the MGM Resorts ransomware attack
Police in the UK arrested a 17-year-old teenage boy in connection with the 2023 ransomware attacks on MGM Resorts.
Another 'missing link' black hole discovered near the center of the galaxy
A research team in Germany discovered one of the rarest black holes in the universe.
Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study
Meta is letting a group of researchers examine Instagram data to determine if there's a link between social media and the state of a teenager's mental well-being.
The European Space Agency will follow a skyscraper-sized asteroid as it flies past Earth
A spacecraft will follow the asteroid Apophis as it nears Earth in 2029.
Anthropic's Claude chatbot is now an Android app
The Claude AI chatbot from Anthropic is now available as an Android app.
Three senators introduce bill to protect artists and journalists from unauthorized AI use
The US Senate bill would prohibit unauthorize use of content to train or create AI content and authorize the FTC to go after offenders.
A new spacesuit design can recycle astronauts’ urine into purified, drinkable water
A new design for a spacesuit shows how astronauts could recycle their urine during space walks with an attached filtration system.
Joby Aviation says it completed a 523-mile test flight of a hydrogen-powered air taxi
Joby Aviation says it completed a 523-mile test flight of a hydrogen-powered air taxi. The company suggested that it points toward a future of emissions-free regional air travel.
Report finds most subscription services manipulate customers with 'dark patterns'
A pair of reports from two global consumer protection groups explored the widespread use of dark patterns to sway customer actions.
Elon Musk escapes paying $500 million to former Twitter employees
X Corp won a dismissal in a class-action lawsuit that sought $500 million in unpaid severance for thousands of former Twitter employees.
Environmental groups accuse Amazon of ‘distorting the truth’ in latest clean-energy claim
On Wednesday, Amazon claimed that it reached its goal of sourcing all its energy from clean energy sources in the past year. But environmental experts warn that the company is “misleading the public by distorting the truth.”
Google brings passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program
Google users who enroll in the Advanced Protection Program can now opt to use a passkey for their logins.
Google will give users free dark web monitoring
Google's dark web report feature will be available to every Google user at the end of the month.
