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Honor’s Robot Phone Has a Gimbal-Powered Camera for Vloggers
You hear it often: Smartphones have plateaued. A small boost to battery life here, a minor camera upgrade there—our glass slabs don’t seem to change all that much from year to year. That’s exactly the kind of sentiment Honor wants to counter with the Robot Phone, which has a motorized camera that pops up out…
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Trump’s new orders on child vaccines are even more dangerous than they seemed at first
No one can claim to have been surprised by the executive order President Trump issued Monday calling for a radical transformation of childhood vaccination practices in the U.S. After all, Trump has been beating the anti-vaccination drum for years. His secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is an established anti-vaccine activist.…
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This influencer runs 6 miles every night. He’s also a hamster.
Mollie, a 10-month-old pet hamster in the Netherlands, probably runs a lot more than you. We know this because, a few weeks ago, a Dutch physicist named Thijs — who owns Mollie — rigged up the rescued hamster’s running wheel to Strava, a popular app that runners use to log their miles. Thijs found that…
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House Republicans hammered for hoarding accused abuser’s cash: ‘Disgusting and abhorrent’
Rep. Max Miller’s campaign cash is turning into a headache for more than a dozen fellow Republicans this midterm season, as Democrats seize on the Ohio congressman’s unreturned donations as a political weapon. The embattled lawmaker’s Dependable Conservative Leadership PAC has sent more than $70,000 to 16 GOP incumbents in tight races this cycle, according…
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Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s new vision for AI: Personal intelligence for all
Mark Zuckerberg wants AI for all, not just a few. In the last month, there has been heated debate in Silicon Valley and Washington over whether advanced artificial intelligence is too dangerous to be freely available as an open-source model for anyone to download and use, and whether its development should thus be locked down…
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Rosie O’Donnell’s shows off woke ink to remember nonbinary child’s ‘they’ pronoun — then immediately calls teen ‘she’
Rosie O’Donnell showed off a fresh tattoo she got to help remember her nonbinary teenager’s “they/them” pronouns — just to repeatedly refer to the child as “she” while discussing her woke ink. O’Donnell, 64, told Amy Poehler on her “Good Hang” podcast Tuesday that she got the word “they” tattooed on her left wrist because…
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Jenna Ortega confesses she went ‘all day’ without eating or drinking on set as child star
Jenna Ortega would “go all day” without eating or drinking as a child star. The actress explained to Esquire in a new interview, published Wednesday, that she was so “grateful and excited” to be on set that she put her “game face on” at all times. “I wasn’t asking for a sip of water,” the…
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Orange County has some of the highest income growth in America, survey shows
Despite the economic angst and billionaire exodus, California has been recording some of the highest income growth in the country. Surprisingly, a recent survey of metropolitan areas showed that Silicon Valley didn’t lead the state, but Anaheim, Irvine and Santa Ana were near the top. A study by financial advising company SmartAsset of the 94…
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Loser candidate Trump crony predicted to be next Supreme Court justice
President Donald Trump will choose a fast-rising loyalist the next time a vacancy opens up on the Supreme Court, a legal expert predicted Wednesday. The 80-year-old president promoted White House staff secretary Will Scharf to take over as White House counsel, making him the latest in the line of his personal attorneys to be handed…
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This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
Even as the digital components of so many life-critical systems have proven susceptible to cybersabotage—cars, medical devices, even water utilities and power grids—the computer systems of airplanes have, thankfully, remained uniquely inaccessible to hackers. But one group of academic researchers has spent years testing a different, devious approach to aviation cybersecurity. Perhaps, they suggest, a…