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After getting caught sending an intern in ill-fitting jeans out to snoop on a Middlesbrough practice session ahead of an EFL Championship playoff match, Southampton has been booted from the promotion playoff final. During the league's independent disciplinary panel's investi...

Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.

The software, called Delulu, is marketed specifically to streamers and lets them easily transform into other people including George Floyd, Jeffrey Epstein, and other streamers.

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You never know the value of the idea unless you execute it. If you never roll the dice, you never know if you hit the jackpot or come up empty. But even in a game of luck, there are skills and strategies that skew the game in your favor. Today, we will explore the relations...

On the eve of about 8,000 jobs being cut, employees are cashing in on headphone stipends and other perks while they still can.

Jesmyn Ward  learned the term "respair" — the recovery of hope after despair — in 2020, shortly after her partner died suddenly. Her new book, ‘On Witness and Respair,’ is an essay collection on grief, motherhood and survival. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about writing through painful things and why she returned to her native Mississippi. Her previous National Book Award-winning novels are ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ and ‘Salvage the Bones.’  

Also, jazz critic Martin Johnson reviews an album from Tomeka Reid. 

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The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais did not surprise anyone who has been paying attention. The 6-3 ruling on April 29 effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, allowing states to dismantle majority-minority districts and clearing the way for a wave of mid-decade redistricting already underway in Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, and […]

The post The Response We Really Need to the Supreme Court’s Gutting of the VRA appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Working families are struggling to afford groceries, gas, rent, and healthcare — taxpayers should not be forced to bankroll political revenge tours and payouts for Donald Trump and his cronies.

I’m fine with unified Mac toolbars that have a few buttons in the title bar, but some apps take this too far, introducing friction in just figuring out how to drag a window around. There should probably be at least 50% of the window title bar available in the middle for average-width window sizes.

Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers”. I’m sorry, what?!

Late last week, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners of its 2026 Short Story Prize. The quintet will move on to a final round of judging ahead of the grand prize announcement on June 30, though we can probably count out Caribbean regional winner Ja...

No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan forgiveness. No UBI for average Americans. But reparations, treason forgiveness, and UBI for the Jan 6th insurrectionists & criminals who attacked Congress. Got it, got it, got it.

Sometimes I’ll switch Codex to Extra High and /fast. Yesterday for a long-running task (45 minutes) I came the closest to depleting tokens, hitting about 40% remaining for the first time. Must’ve been how Claude users feel, living on the edge all the time. 🤪

Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.

Here's your first look at smart glasses coming from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Google and Samsung's XR platform.

The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.

Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.

Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.

Apple may not be a fan of vibe coding, but Google is leaning in. On Tuesday, Google announced that anyone

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