Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken made his remarks after some European leaders called on President Biden to lift the restrictions he has imposed on Ukraine’s use of U.S. weapons.
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The new What If…? experience for Vision Pro is a win-win for Marvel and Apple. But it’s not built for—or accessible to—everyone.
Kino app’s custom recording settings. | Image: Lux
Lux’s Halide app is popular among photographers for its approachable pro-level features, and now it’s launching Kino, a dedicated video capture app for iPhones with a similar focus on supporting the features professionals look for.
Where Halide was designed to take advantage of Apple’s RAW photography support on newer iPhones, Kino is targeting the iPhone 15 Pro’s support for ProRes videos encoded in the Log format. If you...
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Meta says it cracked down on propaganda campaigns on its platforms, including one that used AI to influence political discourse and create the illusion of wider support for certain viewpoints, according to its quarterly threat report published today. Some campaigns pushed political narratives about current events, including campaigns coming from Israel and Iran that posted in support of the Israeli government.
The networks used Facebook and...
The Watcher is quite large. | Image: Disney
Besides watching movies, there’s not all that much to do with Apple’s Vision Pro once you get over the novelty. That’s why I was eager to try Disney and Marvel’s new What If…? An Immersive Story experience / TV show / video game… thing that’s available on May 30th. The companies promised a mixed reality show that would “push the boundaries of technology.” But what I experienced, while very pretty to look at, ended up...
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After finishing second in the Monaco Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri sat down with SB Nation to talk McLaren’s turnaround, his strengths as a driver, and if there will truly be an F1 title fight
To say the last calendar year has seen a stunning turnaround for McLaren in the Formula 1 world would be an understatement.
After eight races in 2023 McLaren sat near the bottom of the Constructors’ Championship with just 17 points, their best...
American Cade Cowell is the only player in the U.S.’ current Olympic player pool that does play professionally in either Europe or the United States. | Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports
It might be way too early to tell, but talent playing domestically is definitely where collective heads are at
It’s been nearly two decades since the United States men’s national team fielded an Olympic roster.
The drought of missing four straight was quenched on Wednesday upon the release of...
Tommy Fleetwood meets with the media ahead of the 2024 RBC Canadian Open. | Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images
On the other side of Nick Taylor’s Canadian Open win last year was Tommy Fleetwood, who reflected on that ‘Ryder Cup-like’ experience.
Tommy Fleetwood had a front-row seat for Nick Taylor’s epic 72-foot eagle putt that etched his name into Canadian glory.
When that now-famous putt dropped, Taylor became the first Canadian to win his country’s national open in 69...
The best Days of Play deals at a glance: Best console deal PS5 Digital Edition (slim model) $399.99 at PlayStation (save $50) ...
SAVE $55: As of May 29, the new 11-inch, space black Apple iPad Pro (M4, 256GB, WiFi) is on sale on Amazon for just $944 — its lowest price since launch.
Opens in a new window ...Former OpenAI executive Jan Leike announced on Tuesday that he has joined Anthropic, OpenAI's Amazon-backed rival. Leike resigned from OpenAI less than two weeks ago, publicly criticizing the company for prioritizing "shiny products" over essential "safety culture and processes."
SEE ALSO: OpenAI's Altman and Brock address high-profile resignationLeike posted on X, expressing his enthusiasm for his new role at Anthropic. Interestingly, he also...
In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum in Moscow may be accomplishing much the same thing all by himself.
A plant still under construction in Mesquite, Texas, will soon turn out 30,000 artillery shells each month, roughly doubling current U.S. output.
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Two ex-Facebook employees founded the nonprofit Integrity Institute to clean up tech platforms. Now it’s reeling amid fights on Slack and one founder’s resignation after an external HR investigation.
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It’s a scheme that “reads like it’s ripped from a screenplay,” according to one Commerce Department official. Thirty-five-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang allegedly helped run an international botnet that deployed VPN programs to infect more than 19 million IP addresses around the world.
After distributing malware through programs such as MaskVPN and DewVPN, Wang allegedly operated the botnet and sold...
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Discord wants to steer its app back to gaming, and it’s rolling out an app redesign to help make that happen. The new look features reworked group messages, voice chats, video calls, and more.
In a message to users, Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company realized it needs to narrow its focus from “broadly being a community-centric chat app” to a service that “helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.”...
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Samsung is under investigation after two employees were hospitalized following exposure to X-rays on May 27th, South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) announced. The exposure took place at Samsung’s Giheung chip plant, about 25 miles south of Seoul, writes CNBC.
The two employees were exposed while using a machine that blasts materials with X-rays in order to analyze them. Both showed “abnormal symptoms” due to...
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Sony Interactive Entertainment has pulled a controversial interview with Neil Druckmann, head of The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog.
Last week, Sony published a (now archived) Q&A with the Last of Us creator about the “Evolution of Storytelling.” In the interview, Druckmann spoke about the role of AI in game development, the impact of new technologies on storytelling, advice for new creators, and his hopes for a dream...