From The Verge: Garmin announced a new smart band today designed to track “advanced fitness and wellness features” without a screen to eliminate distractions and push its battery life to up to 10 days between charges. Similar to competing products like the Whoop 5.0 and Google’s recently announced...
From PC Mag: A federal judge has paused Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery after a coalition of 12 states challenged the merger over possible violations of antitrust laws.
The lawsuit, filed last week, argues that a merger between two of Hollywood’s five biggest studios...
From PC World: Over the weekend, Microsoft released an unscheduled Windows 11 update, identified as KB5121767 for users on versions 24H2 and 25H2. The patch is intended to resolve an issue that’s occurring on a limited number of devices following the latest Windows updates.
Microsoft highlights...
From The Verge: AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million (about $629 million) fine for violating Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) rules by failing to prevent illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products from being sold on the e-commerce platform. The European Commission ruled that AliExpress didn...
From PC Mag: For better or worse, AI has wormed its way into America's classrooms, and it will soon take the shape of a humanoid robot in New York.
A robotic teaching assistant named "Sally" could be heading to classrooms in New York this fall. Sally is set to have a "lifelike appearance" with...
From CNET: Advertisers have steadily ramped up the use of AI tools in creating ads you see when perusing the internet. In response to this trend, Google announced a new feature on Thursday that’s geared toward helping people identify when an ad was made using generative AI.
In Google’s My Ad Center...
How many ways are there to do something? A few years ago, I went to Dallas, Texas for a work trip. One of my friends decided to make the trip at the same time so he can stay with me in my hotel -- which is conveniently a suite with multiple bedrooms -- for free. Now, the problem with flying non-stop from Calgary to Dallas is expensive for the distance traveled. American Airlines is the only airline that flies this route, so they charge about...
From PC World: If you’re still using an older version of Windows 10, you may soon encounter problems synchronizing your files with Microsoft’s cloud storage service, OneDrive. Neowin reports that the company will be discontinuing OneDrive’s support for older versions of Windows 10 soon.
Microsoft...
From PC Mag: A ransomware attack has halted milk production at Fairlife, a Coca-Cola brand known for its high-protein dairy drinks.
“As a result of the incident, production operations at Fairlife in the United States are temporarily suspended,” the Chicago-based company announced on its website....
From CNET: A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a bug in Apple's iCloud Hide My Email tool that appeared to reveal users' real email addresses to anyone who wanted to find them. On Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed in California, Alvarez v. Apple Inc., accusing Apple of false advertising, fraud and...
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