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Shut Up: Comment Blocker is a free extension that will hide comments so you do not have to be bothered by them. For your favorite sites where discussions can be more constructive - like MajorGeeks, for instance, you can set Shut Up: Comment Blocker for Chrome to show comments by default. [License: Freeware | Requires:
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 In Frank Herbert's Dune novels, water is so scarce on planet Arrakis that it's absolutely sacred to the desert-dwelling Fremen, who wear special 'stillsuits' that capture and recycle nearly all their body fluids. Now, a YouTuber has built one for real.
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Take $300 off the retail price of the Purple Restore Hybrid Mattress on Memorial Day 2024.
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Looking for the best internet service provider options in Louisville, Kentucky? AT&T Fiber is CNET's top pick, but there are several other options to consider.
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Sunglass lenses are made with different tints. Here's what each color means and when they might come in handy for specific activities.
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Dental experts say electric toothbrushes can give your teeth a better clean than manual ones. These are the best electric toothbrushes we've tested.
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NEW RESOURCES Government of California: New MentalHealth.CA.gov website helps Californians access support, provides Transparency on Proposition 1 & California's transformation of behavioral health. "Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced MentalHealth.CA.Gov, a new state […]
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Depending how fast an EV charger you need (or want), and your home's existing wiring capacity, you may need electrical work done.
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Boost your browsing privacy on the go with the best iPhone VPNs we've tested.
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NEW RESOURCES UK Government Natural England Blog: A new interactive website for our National Character Area profiles. "Today (14 May 2024) we are excited to be launching a new interactive website for […]
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Commentary: I tried out a 3D Project Starline call, and it felt like making eye contact with someone who wasn't actually there.
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Have private conversations and delete them like they never happened, right from your Notes app.
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VidCoder is a DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application for Windows that utilizes HandBrake as its encoding engine. [License: Open Source | Requires:
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The new M4 iPad Pro is really, really thin. That's inevitably going to make certain aspects of repairing the device even more difficult, which iFixit confirmed in a teardown published this weekend. But it does shine in one area — when it comes to replacing the battery, Apple made some seriously helpful changes.
"For the first time in an iPad Pro, we're able to remove the battery immediately after removing the screen," Teardown Tech Shahram Mokhtari wrote in a blog post. Mokhtari notes that "immediately is relative," as there are still some screws and brackets to remove before the battery can be taken out, and the video documenting the process shows it takes a bit of work to get to the pull tabs beneath the batteries, but the new setup still shaves hours off the process compared to earlier models.
"The fact that you can remove the battery without having to remove every major component inside this device is still a huge win for repair
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Improve YouTube! for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera adds many useful extras to augment your YouTube experience. It is designed to make YouTube tidier and more powerful than the default offering. Improve YouTube! allows you to change the YouTube player size, adds themes, auto HD Colors, playback speed control, and more. One nice feature is being able to turn off ads with the ability to whitelist your favorite channel subscriptions - like for MajorGeeks... [License: Open Source / Ad-Supported | Requires:
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It's easy to turn off the extra emoji and animations on FaceTime. Here's how.
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Save up to 50% off your first bag of coffee with our exclusive coupon code.
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Don't let inaccurate numbers discourage your wellness journey. Learn how to weigh yourself correctly.
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Slack trains machine-learning models on user messages, files and other content without explicit permission. The training is opt-out, meaning your private data will be leeched by default. Making matters worse, you'll have to ask your organization's Slack admin (human resources, IT, etc.) to email the company to ask it to stop. (You can't do it yourself.) Welcome to the dark side of the new AI training data gold rush.
Corey Quinn, an executive at DuckBill Group, spotted the policy in a blurb in Slack's Privacy Principles and posted about it on X (via PCMag). The section reads (emphasis ours), "To develop AI/ML models, our systems analyze Customer Data (e.g. messages, content, and files)
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Video game horses tend to play a fairly uncomplicated role, at least in mainstream titles. Like semi-sentient meat bicycles, they often exist as little more than a way to make the player travel faster, jump farther or occasionally defy the laws of physics. With the exception of Red Dead Redemption 2, an outlier beloved for its equine verisimilitude and breadth of riding-related activities, horses in video games are generally emotionless props, notorious for janky animations and unnatural anatomy.
That's fine for most players' needs, but for those who are drawn to certain games in part because they have horses, there's a lot to be desired. Especially since the alternatives — dedicated horse games — haven't proven to be much better. The genre is plagued with shoddy graphics, unoriginal storylines and drawn-out, repetitive caretaking tasks like hoof-picking. While horse games of the aughts, like the Barbie Horse Adventures series, sparked a lasting interest in the niche for a lot of young gamers, we've yet to really see what their maturation can look like for the now-adults still chasing that high.
The biggest actual horse game today, the decade-old MMORPG Star Stable Online, is distinctly tween-girl-coded. Suffice it to say, there's a hole in the market as big as a Clydesdale. But some extremely passionate developers are trying to change that.
Alice Ruppert, who runs
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 Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, but the fundamentals of how this influential new technology works can be confusing. Two of the most important fields in AI development are "machine learning" and its sub-field, "deep learning." Here's a quick explanation of what these two important disciplines are, and…
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We mischievously asked our reviewer to use nothing but this distraction-free keyboard computer with virtually no display for a whole week. Annoyingly, he loved it.
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 Cluvens' 2024 model J20 Gatling Workstation has broken cover and it is both bigger and stronger than the first model. Most importantly, it offers a fully adjustable three-screen computer workstation (with attitude) for just USD $4200.
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The best healthy meal delivery services make it easier to stick to better eating habits without the hassle. These are the top options available; all tested by our experts.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin hasn't flown a space tourism mission in more than 18 months.
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 Best Buy today has a large collection of discounted Beats headphones, headlined by the new Beats Solo 4 Wireless Headphones on sale for $149.99, down from $199.99.
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Sony used to be a fairly major player in the smartphone space, but its offerings never quite made a splash in the US. Despite that, the company has been pumping out yearly refreshes of its Xperia line of smartphones and the just-announced Xperia 1 VI looks like the perfect device for both amateur and professional photographers. Sony, after all, is no slouch when it comes to cameras.
The sixth-generation of the company's flagship smartphone is filled with so many camera-centric features that it could actually lure people away from rival iPhone and Pixel devices. There's a true optical zoom, AI-assisted autofocus and a telephoto camera for snapping macro shots.
This breaks down to three cameras on the back, in the form of a 24mm main c
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I love this thing, and I've got it attached to my desk for easy access. The meat of the kit is the iFixit all-metal, magnetic driver, which comes in a box with 64 of the most common bits necessary for repairing PCs, electronics, and pretty much anything smaller than a car. We're talking eleven different Phillips and flathead bits, another dozen Torx bits, another dozen for hex screws and bolts, and exotic square, gamebit, and tri-point bits for weird proprietary stuff like Nintendo controllers and consoles.
The magnetic top is great for organizing screws while you're working. On top of all that, you get a bit extender tool for those hard-to-reach spots and a cloth roll that holds bigger tools, including precision tweezers, pry tools, a suction cup, and even an anti-static wrist strap. It's everything you'll need to get a smartphone open and replace the screen. Except, well, a replacement screen.
It's a compact package full of high-quality gear, and barely a week goes by when I haven't reached for it for some kind of repair or tinkering. Go grab one for yourself, and maybe an extra for dad (Father's Day is a month away).
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EVENTS University of Washington: Media literacy coalition in California brings MisinfoDay, first developed in Washington state, to the Golden State. "Inspired by the annual MisinfoDay co-organized through a statewide partnership between the […]
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Health officials say there's very little risk to humans from the bird flu outbreak among dairy cattle, but there's still much they don't know. Here are four questions scientists are trying to answer.
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Loose cannon, always-looking-for-attention Elon Musk has again thrust himself into the public eye, this time by suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for breaching its founding agreement by turning the company away from its non-profit roots and cashing in on the billions of dollars available in the generative AI (genAI) gold rush.
At stake in the suit is Microsoft's $13 billion investment in the company. Musk claims that OpenAI was originally founded to share its wares with the world by open sourcing its technologies, something it abandoned thanks to the relationship with Microsoft.
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A new study looking at hearing loss finds that it's greater among people living in rural areas. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with audiologist Nicholas Reed, who co-authored the study.
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From tomorrow, the UK government is hosting the first global AI Safety Summit, bringing together about 100 people from industry and government to develop a shared understanding of the emerging risks of leading-edge AI while unlocking its benefits.
The event will be held at Bletchley Park, a site in Milton Keynes that became the home of code breakers during World War II and saw the development of Colossus, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer, used to decrypt the Nazi Party's Enigma code, shortening the war by at least two years.
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