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Brenda Stolyar

Apple iPad Pro (M4, 2024) Review: Powerful Yet Premature

Beautifully designed and endowed with abundant horsepower, the iPad Pro may not be fully realized until the software catches up.

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Demetrius Bell

Paul Skenes' MLB debut was unforgettable for the most unexpected reason

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Anything can happen on any given day at a baseball stadium. Just ask the Pirates and the Cubs and they'll tell you.

For the first time in years, the eyes of the baseball world were actually firmly focused on what was going on at PNC Park in Pittsburgh this past Saturday night. While a divisional weekend tilt between the NL Central-leading Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates would usually be enough to get some people to fill the seats in that...

The Verge

Lauren Feiner

RFK Jr. sues Meta for ‘election interference’ after it temporarily removed a campaign video

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Independent presidential candidate and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing Meta for allegedly violating the First Amendment and engaging in “election interference” because it removed a video about him.

The lawsuit is not likely to advance far, considering that the First Amendment bars the government — not companies — from censoring speech. Plus, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act...

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David Pierce

The new Apple iPad Air is great — but it’s not the one to get

The iPad Air is an excellent iPad — and that’s all. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge

The iPad Pro is a beast. The two-year-old iPad is more compelling than ever. So what is the Air even for anymore?

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David Pierce

Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: the best kind of overkill

Apple’s latest high-end tablet is a marvel of hardware design still in need of the software and accessories to really make it sing. But wow is it fun to use.

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Mashable

First discount alert: the Beats Solo 4 headphones just got a $50 price drop

SAVE $50: The brand-new Beats Solo 4 wireless headphones just got their first discount ever. As of May 13, snag a pair for only $149.95 instead of $199.95 and save 25%.

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Fast Company

Reuters

‘We never got paid’: SpaceX contractors call out unpaid bills

For SpaceX, the roughly $2.5 million in liens is tiny compared with the size of its business.

SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk‘s space venture rapidly expands its rocket and satellite business across the Lone Star state.

Fast Company

Jessica Bursztynsky

Cruise’s autonomous vehicles return to Phoenix—this time with safety drivers

Cruise faced intense pressure last year after a number of incidents showed vehicles stopping suddenly or obstructing emergency responses.

Cruise is bringing supervised autonomous driving back to Phoenix this week, more than six months after the company pulled all of its self-driving cars off of the road following regulatory scrutiny.

ESPN.com

Adrian Wojnarowski and Dave McMenamin

Sources: Lakers to start talking with candidates

The Lakers are expected to start contacting coaching candidates in the coming days, with an initial concentration on sitting assistants and ex-head coaches with whom they have less familiarity.

ESPN.com

Sources: Lions signing Goff to $212M extension

The Lions are signing quarterback Jared Goff to a four-year, $212 million contract extension that includes $170 million guaranteed, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday.

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Matt Reynolds

Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It

PauseAI protests are underway in London, New York, San Francisco, and across the globe. Its members have wildly different opinions on what the group should do next.

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Michael M. Grynbaum

The Trump Trial on Cable TV: Play-by-Play and Drawings on an iPad

With no cameras recording Donald Trump’s criminal trial, anchors and producers are improvising to animate dramatic moments like Michael Cohen’s testimony.

The Verge

Ash Parrish

Square Enix plans to ‘aggressively pursue’ multiplatform game releases

Image: Square Enix

Everybody’s getting bitten by the multiplatform bug; now, it’s Square Enix. In its earnings report released earlier today, the publisher shared plans to increase profits, stating that it will “aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy that includes Nintendo platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs.”

Right now, Square Enix’s biggest games, like Final Fantasy XVI and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, have been restricted to the PlayStation, with PC releases for...

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Apple finally adds iPhone alerts for third-party Bluetooth trackers

Apple and Google collaborated on the new Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers industry standard. | Image: Apple

A new industry specification devised by Apple and Google to address the safety risks of Bluetooth tracking devices is now live. Apple announced this week it has implemented alerts for unknown third-party Bluetooth trackers in iOS 17.5, following Google starting to roll it out across Android devices running 6.0 and higher last December.

The Detecting Unwanted Location...

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Emilia David

Melinda French Gates to leave the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Photo by Noam Galai / Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative

Melinda French Gates has stepped down from her position as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

French Gates, who will officially leave on June 7th, will continue her philanthropy elsewhere, to the tune of $12.5 billion. The money stems from an agreement with her ex-husband, Bill Gates, and does not come from the foundation’s endowment. In her X post, she says she will focus on programs “on behalf of...

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Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon

Dallas' new deep threat and Boston's new defensive groove: Keys to pivotal Game 4s

The Celtics bounced back in Cleveland, while the Mavs got another win closer to an upset of the top-seeded Thunder. What lies ahead in Monday's Game 4s?

Fast Company

Reuters

What marijuana reclassification could mean for medical research

The U.S. pot sector could see an influx of medical research funding from healthcare investors amid renewed interest from pharmaceutical firms.

The U.S. pot sector could see an influx of medical research funding from healthcare investors amid renewed interest from pharmaceutical firms, should a proposal to reclassify cannabis as a lower-risk substance be approved, industry experts said.

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Will Knight

OpenAI's GPT-4o Model Gives ChatGPT a Snappy, Flirty Upgrade

Prepare for ChatGPT to get more emotional. OpenAI demonstrated upgrades that make the chatbot capable of snappier conversations and showed the AI helper picking up on and expressing emotional cues.

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