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How to turn off your iPhone 14

If you've ever struggled with how to turn off your iPhone 14, you've come to the right place.

We spend so much time with our phones on and glued to our hands, it's understandable if you've never figured out how to even turn it off. But don't worry, it's very easy to do.

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Fast Company

Clint Rainey

Vivek Ramaswamy spent $3.3 million to buy 8% of BuzzFeed. How much damage could he do with that stake?

It may be a small fraction of the company, but activist investors in Apple and ExxonMobil have accomplished a lot, with a lot less.

Wall Street has countless stories of investors acquiring stakes in companies for which they seem like very bad fits—Bill Gates investing in Waste Management, America’s leading garbage company; Warren Buffett getting into American Airlines, Delta, United, and Southwest a few years after calling the airline business a “death trap.” Yet Republican...

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Watch A TV Show Per Decade And We'll Guess Your Favorite Condiment

IDC what people say, mayo is elite.

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JoJo Siwa Said She Was Drunk In Chaotic 21st Birthday Videos: "I Got Punched In The Face"

JoJo got buck-wild for her 21st birthday.

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43 Reliable Problem-Solving Products That You Should Trust

I get it, trust is hard, but this bottle-emptying cap and electric mug warmer won't let you down.

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Elon Musk's X will soon remove public likes

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is preparing for yet another change under its owner Elon Musk that seemingly no user has asked for.

According to X's Director of Engineering Haofei Wang, Musk's social media platform is preparing to remove public "likes" from users' profile page. This means that X users will no longer be able to browse what posts other users have liked.

"Yeah, we are making likes private," Wang said on X in response to a post by MacRumors researcher Aaron Perris.

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NYT > Home Page

Aaron Boxerman, Emma Bubola and Michael Levenson

Spain, Norway and Ireland Recognize Palestinian State, Further Isolating Israel

The moves, while largely symbolic, were welcomed by Palestinians and denounced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called them “a prize for terrorism.”

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"Working With Celebs Was Fun, But Wore Off Quickly": 19 People Exposed The Realities Of "Glamorous" Jobs

"I was told I had the job millions would dream of. The truth is, I was underpaid, overworked, and at my boss's beck and call."

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The Verge

Emilia David

Truecaller and Microsoft will let users make an AI voice to answer calls

Illustration: The Verge

Caller ID company Truecaller will let users create an AI version of their voice to answer calls.

Truecaller is an app that identifies and blocks spam calls that some people prefer over their phone’s default system. Now the service will let users with access to its AI Assistant to record their voice. The company partnered with Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech, which will learn from the recorded clip to generate an AI version of the user’s voice.

“This...

The Verge

Sean Hollister

Nvidia will now make new AI chips every year

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Nvidia just made $14 billion worth of profit in a single quarter thanks to AI chips, and it’s hitting the gas from here on out: Nvidia will now design new chips every year instead of once every two years, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

“I can announce that after Blackwell, there’s another chip. We’re on a one-year rhythm,” Huang just said on the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.

Until now, Nvidia’s produced a new...

The Verge

Wes Davis

NASA’s Psyche mission fires up its futuristic electric engines

Image: NASA

NASA has turned on the electric Hall thrusters of Psyche, a spacecraft that’s now gently motoring toward a metal-rich asteroid embedded in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. The agency says Psyche is in “full cruise” mode now, six months after launching on October 13th, 2023, on a conventional, explodey SpaceX rocket.

On the way, NASA used Psyche to test laser-based deep space communications. The craft shot a communications laser back at the Earth from close to 10...

ESPN.com

Todd Archer

Dak not fretting on deal: 'I don't play for money'

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott says he's letting his business people handle his contract talks with the team while he focuses on playing.

Mashable

iOS 18 may bring these new emoji to iPhone, including this ‘baggy eyes’ one

Tired of using the same set of emoji? Great news. There may be more soon.

On its website, the Unicode Consortium (a non-profit organization that, among many other things, decides which emoji make it onto people's phones) posted some samples of the next batch of emoji that could come to iOS and Android soon.

As BGR pointed out, the most likely launch period for these is early next year, based on historical precedent.

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NYT > Home Page

Jodi Kantor, Aric Toler and Julie Tate

Supreme Court Justice Alito’s Beach House Displayed ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag

The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.

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Kensington Palace Says Kate Middleton Won't Return To Work Just Yet

The Princess of Wales revealed on March 22 that she had been diagnosed with an unspecified kind of cancer.

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What's Your Persona In Your Friend Group? Syle An Outfit To Find Out

Mom jeans don't necessarily mean you're the "mom friend"!

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