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EngadgetA Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming bundle will soon be available in the US
The bundle is coming out this summer.
- Yahoo Sports
Winning in the margins: Knicks making most of playoff challenge opportunities
The Knicks have been more aggressive utilizing challenges early in games, and they led the league in total challenges and successful challenges during the first round of the NBA playoffs.
- Yahoo News
Miss Teen USA resigns days after Miss USA steps down. What's going on with the pageants?
This is the first time in 72 years that the Miss Universe Organization doesn’t have a Miss USA or a Miss Teen USA titleholder.
- TechCrunch
Apple's 'Crush' ad is disgusting
Apple can generally be relied on for clever, well-produced ads, but it missed the mark with its latest, which depicts a tower of creative tools and analog items literally crushed into the form of the iPad.
- TechCrunch
Lucid Bots secures $9M for drones to clean more than your windows
Lucid Bots came on the scene in 2018 with its Sherpa line of drones to clean windows in tall places, and now it’s back to take on more labor-intensive tasks. The Charlotte, N.C.-based company, which was part of Y Combinator's 2019 cohort, took on a new form as a robotics company with a thesis to build intelligent robots that are purpose-made to tackle the “dirty” jobs that people don’t want to do, Ashur said. “We started with a very simple problem, and in pursuit of wanting to make a dangerous job safer over the years, the true problem we're solving is this fundamental fact that people don't want to do jobs that are considered dull, dirty, dangerous or demeaning,” Andrew Ashur, founder and CEO of Lucid Bots, told TechCrunch.
- Engadget
Google DeepMind’s latest medical breakthrough borrows a trick from AI image generators
Much of the recent AI hype train has centered around mesmerizing digital content and the potentially dangerous ways it could disrupt society. But on the brighter side, an update to Google’s AlphaFold software could lead to new disease research and treatment breakthroughs.
- Yahoo Finance
Oil steadies on surprise inventory drop, but futures still down 8% from April peak
Oil has been on a downward trend since April. Falling stockpiles reversed earlier morning losses Wednesday.
- Autoblog
Pininfarina's latest one-off Battista is inspired by a one-off Lancia
Pininfarina unveiled a one-off Battista inspired by a one-off Lancia model from 1955. The EV features a specific two-tone paint job.
- Engadget
Apple's 2023 iMac drops to a record-low price
Apple's 2023 iMac has dropped to its lowest price to date, but you'll need to be comfortable having just 8GB of RAM.
- Engadget
iPad Pro 2024 vs. 2022: What’s changed
Apple updated its top-of-the-line tablets at its Let Loose event today. Our comparison lets you quickly glance at all the changes to the new model — big and small — to help you decide whether it’s worth the upgrade.
- TechCrunch
Apple's Final Cut Camera lets filmmakers connect four cameras at once
The latest version of Final Cut Pro introduces a new feature to speed up your shoot: Live Multicam. It's a bold move from Apple, transforming your iPad into a multicam production studio, enabling creatives to connect and preview up to four cameras all at once, al in one place. Final Cut Pro automatically transfers and syncs each Live Multicam angle so you can seamlessly move from production to editing.
- TechCrunch
Rad AI, a startup that helps radiologists save time on report generation, raises $50M Series B from Khosla Ventures
In 2017, Vinod Khosla told CNBC that the job "of the radiologist will be obsolete in five years." While the founder of Khosla Ventures later revised that timeline to as long as 15 years, he maintained that AI image recognition could soon diagnose disease on scans better than human doctors. Seven years later, radiologists are still required to interpret most scans (even if AI software helps them); the more immediate challenge is the shortage of these doctors in the United States and around the world.
- TechCrunch
Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men
Bias in AI image generators is a well-studied and well-reported phenomenon, but consumer tools continue to exhibit glaring cultural biases. The latest culprit in this area is Meta's AI chatbot, which, for some reason, really wants to add turbans to any image of an Indian man. TechCrunch looks at various culture-specific queries as part of our AI testing process, by which we found out, for instance, that Meta is blocking election-related queries in India because of the country's ongoing general elections.
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The 24 best gifts for the mom who says she has everything
We've got unique gift ideas for every kind of mom, whether she prefers something useful, fanciful or just fun.
- Yahoo Sports
NBA playoffs: Officials admit they flubbed critical kick-ball call in controversial final minute of Pacers-Knicks
Tuesday's last-2-minute report should be interesting.
- Yahoo Music
Quiz: Kendrick Lamar and Drake latest diss tracks go to the next level. How much do you know about the two rappers' history?
The back-and-forth has kept fans of both Lamar and Drake on the edge of their seats.
- Engadget
The latest 15-inch M3 MacBook Air is $150 off right now
The 15-inch M3 MacBook Air laptop is on sale right now for $1,150 instead of $1,300. This includes a sale discount of $100 and a coupon for $50.
- TechCrunch
Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe and why OpenAI is not a competitor
Last November, Adam D'Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry. The board of OpenAI — the $80 billion startup leading the AI bandwagon — had abruptly booted its CEO, Sam Altman, only to reinstate him just days later. D'Angelo was on the board that dismissed Altman... and he was (and remains) on the board that brought him back.
- Yahoo Finance
Disney steps up as Big Tech steps back: What to know this week
With the peak of first quarter earnings season in the rearview, stocks got back to their winning ways last week ahead of a slower calendar for corporate and economic news.
- TechCrunch
UnitedHealth data breach should be a wake-up call for the UK and NHS
The ransomware attack that has engulfed U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group and its tech subsidiary Change Healthcare is a data privacy nightmare for millions of U.S. patients, with CEO Andrew Witty confirming this week that it may impact as much as one-third of the country. As one of the largest healthcare companies in the U.S., UnitedHealth is well known domestically, intersecting with every facet of the healthcare industry from insurance and billing and winding all the way through the physician and pharmacy networks -- it's a $500 billion juggernaut, and the 11th largest company globally by revenue.