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Santul Nerkar

How the Media Is Covering Justice Merchan in Trump’s Criminal Trial

Conservative outlets have criticized Justice Juan M. Merchan as politically motivated, while some liberal media organizations have praised him for muzzling Mr. Trump.

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Read a Transcript of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Interview With The Times

The Ukrainian president spoke to Times reporters in Kyiv for nearly an hour.

Fast Company

Steven Melendez

Khan Academy and Microsoft are teaming up to give teachers a free AI assistant

AI assistant Khanmigo can help time-strapped teachers come up with lesson ideas and test questions, the companies say.

Khan Academy’s AI assistant will now be free to K-12 teachers in the U.S., thanks to a new deal with Microsoft, the companies said Tuesday during Microsoft’s Build conference.

Fast Company

The Conversation

Cigar boxes to steel pontoons: What to know about the new floating pier delivering aid to Gaza

By 1941, testing had proved the design and the system were ready for mass production.

Palestinians in Gaza have begun receiving humanitarian aid delivered through a newly completed floating pier off the coast of the besieged territory. Built by the U.S. military and operated in coordination with the United Nations, aid groups and other nations’ militaries, the pier can trace its origins back to a mid-20th century U.S. Navy officer who collected discarded cigar boxes to experiment with a...

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Louise Matsakis

Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies

A new breed of online ad allows brands to pay Google to offer shoppers AI-generated images that show how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types.

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Paresh Dave

Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads

Google is set to start mixing ads into its new AI-generated search answers. It’s a test of how the company’s biggest revenue stream can adapt to the age of generative AI.

The Verge

Emma Roth

Comcast bundles Netflix, Peacock, and Apple TV Plus for $15 / month

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Get ready for yet another streaming bundle: Comcast is launching a new $15 per month subscription that combines Netflix, Apple TV Plus, and Peacock. The “StreamSaver” bundle will be available to Xfinity Internet and TV customers on May 29th — and it offers monthly savings of around $8.

If you do subscribe, expect to sit through some commercials, as the bundle includes Netflix’s ad-supported plan ($6.99 / month), Peacock’s ad-supported Premium plan ($5.99 /...

The Verge

Ash Parrish

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s new trailer is a dramatic call to arms

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With only a month until release day, there’s a new story trailer for Shadow of the Erdtree, and the Elden Ring lore hounds have their work cut out for them.

FromSoftware has been slowly teasing Shadow of the Erdtree and its story beats ever since the gameplay trailer was released back in February. All we knew then was the DLC would take place in the Land of Shadow and feature a bunch of new horrors straight from the slightly warped imagination of game director...

The Verge

Tom Warren

Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks

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Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically. Instead of Copilot sitting idle waiting for queries, it will be able to do things like monitor email inboxes and automate a series of tasks or data entry that employees normally have to do manually.

It’s a big change in the behavior of Copilot in what the industry commonly calls AI agents, or the ability for chatbots...

The Verge

Emilia David

Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures

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Microsoft announced a new version of its small language model, Phi-3, which can look at images and tell you what’s in them.

Phi-3-vision is a multimodal model — aka it can read both text and images — and is best used on mobile devices. Microsoft says Phi-3-vision, now available on preview, is a 4.2 billion parameter model (parameters refer to how complex a model is and how much of its training it understands) that can do general visual reasoning tasks...

The Verge

Emma Roth

Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them

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Microsoft Edge will soon offer real-time video translation on sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, and more. As part of this year’s Build event, Microsoft announced that the new AI-powered feature will be able to translate spoken content through both dubbing and subtitles live as you’re watching it.

So far, the feature supports the translation of Spanish into English as well as the translation of English to German, Hindi, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. In...

The Verge

Jess Weatherbed

Microsoft Teams is adding a Slack-favorite emoji feature

Microsoft is adding custom emoji to Teams. | Image: The Verge

Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Teams communications platform that enables users to upload their own custom emoji to use in reactions and messages. Announced during its Build developer conference on Tuesday, Microsoft says the new custom emoji will be available to try next month via the Teams public preview, with the goal of helping Teams users collaborate and express themselves “more creatively and...

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All the news from Microsoft Build 2024

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Expect a bunch of new developer tools to go along with Microsoft’s fresh Copilot Plus PCs announcement.

Continue reading…

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Wes Davis

How does the Microsoft Surface Laptop stack up to the MacBook Air?

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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop could be the most impressive laptop the company has ever made. It has a modern chassis with thin display bezels and a new Arm-based CPU that might just give Apple laptops a run for their money when it comes to performance. That’s no mean feat, considering Apple’s striking lead since 2020, but we won’t know how it compares until we get a Surface Laptop in hand. That didn’t stop me from diving deep on their specs to see how they...

The Verge

Sean Hollister

Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments

The Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows in a transparent shell; most if not all units will be black. | Image: Qualcomm

Excited for an era of long-lasting powerful Windows laptops with Arm chips and 45 TOPS for AI but would rather pay less and plug into the wall? Qualcomm has just revealed a Mac Mini-esque box that’s ostensibly just for developers.

The new $899.99 “Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows” houses the most powerful of Qualcomm’s lineup of Snapdragon X Elite chips — the one...

SBNation.com

James Dator

How ‘bout them Cowboys? The worst sports team in Dallas

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The Cowboys aren’t just bad these days, they’re inconsequential.

The mystique of the Dallas Cowboys is dead. Heck, unless you’re an old like some of us (myself included), you don’t ever remember the Cowboys being great — just overhyped. It’s gotten so bad that the once-proud denizens of the gridiron, America’s Team, are being totally lapped in success by the likes of the Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Texas Rangers, and Dallas Wings, all...

ESPN.com

Adam Teicher

Cops: Man doesn't want Rice charged for assault

The injured person in the alleged May 6 assault at a Dallas nightclub in which Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was reportedly a suspect has asked police not to file charges, according to police.

Wired Top Stories

Eric Ravenscraft

Blackmagic's Cinema Camera 6K Is Currently $1,000 Off

The full-frame Cinema Camera 6K is seeing a rare $1,000 price cut, bringing it down to just $1,575 for the camera body.

Wired Top Stories

Steven Levy

AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside

What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.

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