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Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
It’s been 17 years since I sat in on the iconic weekly search quality meeting in the Ouagadougou conference room at Google’s Mountain View campus. That Thursday morning, around three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives sat at a table or sprawled on the floor to discuss why certain search queries or categories didn’t yield…
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Transfer Soo-Jin Berry accepts smaller role at UCLA to be part of winning program
Soo-Jin Berry is grateful her name has inspired fans from the Korean community to connect with her. “For me, it’s just nice that I can represent something so much bigger than softball,” Berry said with a raspy voice after cheering on her UCLA teammates during the Bruins’ NCAA regional wins. “My name is Korean, so…
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CNN legend Jim Acosta comes after Trump with demand for compensation
A former CNN anchor has demanded that he be considered for compensation after President Donald Trump‘s Justice Department announced a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, according to The Daily Beast. In a Substack post on Thursday, Jim Acosta said he wants to apply for Trump’s slush fund and suggested he had a “pretty good case.” “Trump…
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GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign Oppose FCC’s Potential New LGBTQ ‘Warning Label’
GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, Advocates for Trans Equality and more than 40 other organizations submitted a public comment on Friday against a Federal Communications Commission proposal that would apply a warning label before family-focused shows that feature LGBTQ+ characters, arguing that such a label would be “unnecessary, unhelpful, and discriminatory.” “Together, we affirm that…
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Town Councilmember Goes Berzerk at Surveillance Camera Ban, Threatens to Outlaw Virtually All Modern Technology
Like data centers, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are incredibly unpopular with voters around the US. Plenty of local politicians are taking the hint, choosing to cancel controversial surveillance contracts with the granddad of ALPR companies, Flock Safety. In the tiny town of Bandera, Texas, however, one petty tyrant on the city council took personal…
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How Eric Lauer is trying to return to a better version of himself with the Dodgers
MILWAUKEE — Left-hander Eric Lauer strode up the bullpen mound at Petco Park as the Dodgers-Padres series finale Wednesday transitioned into the late innings. He had been available to provide length as a reliever, but the plan had been for him to throw either way, he said. The Dodgers didn’t end up needing him to cover innings,…
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Leaked Fetterman texts leave his own staff ‘incredulous’: ‘Your entire party hates you’
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) dismissed the Epstein files as a “nothing burger,” mocked concerns about healthcare affordability, and compared a nurse killed by ICE to Kyle Rittenhouse — all in private texts to staffers, according to a bombshell New York Magazine investigation published Thursday. The texts, obtained by reporter Alex Shultz, paint a portrait of…
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Teacher charged with having sex with student in school closet now accused of abusing 5 others, including girl
A Georgia science teacher already charged with having sex with a student in a classroom closet has now been accused of abusing five other teens, including a girl — allegedly having sex in a Hummer as well as at a golf course parking lot. Maris Nichols, 25, was re-arrested Thursday, nearly two weeks after she was…
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Matthew Perry’s assistant insists he could never say ‘no’ to late actor as he begs for lighter sentence
Matthew Perry’s former assistant Kenneth Iwamasa insisted he could not “simply say no” to the late actor when it came to his drug addiction. Iwamasa made the claim to a judge as he appealed for leniency at his upcoming sentencing hearing, scheduled on May 27, per TMZ. In new court docs obtained by the outlet on Friday,…
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Trump fans turn as Truth Social boast ignores plight of everyday MAGA
A social media boast by Donald Trump about a booming stock market early Friday morning was greeted with both alarm and anger by some of his supporters over the faltering value of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (NASDAQ: DJT) stock. The Wall Street Journal reported, “Investors around the world are in good spirits this…