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Hurdle game on a smartphone

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give


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Eric Fung left California to AI startup in Tokyo
  • Eric Fung grew up in New York City and moved to Silicon Valley to build startups.
  • He went on to open restaurants in California before moving to Japan last year to start an AI company.
  • He's adjusting to Japanese work culture and settling into Tokyo life with his wife.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eric Fung




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YouTube is paying Trump millions as part of the settlement.

Four and a half years after YouTube banned Donald Trump's channel in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the Alphabet-owned company agreed today to pay the president $24.5 million — money that will go to build a new ballroom at the White House.

Trump sued after his channel was shut down shortly after his followers stormed the Capitol in the wake of his election defeat by Joe


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Amazon’s Echo Spot is an excellent smart alarm clock that’s currently $30 off.
Amazon’s Echo Spot is an excellent smart alarm clock that’s currently $30 off.

Amazon recently announced that its fall Prime Day sale — once again dubbed Prime Big Deal Days — will kick off on Tuesday, October 7th, and run through October 8th. While you have a few weeks to get your wishlist in order, the retailer isn’t waiting for the main event to roll out the savings. Amazon has already


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Alphabet will pay President Donald Trump $22 million as part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought against the company over the suspension of various YouTube accounts following the January 6 riot at the US capital, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The suit includes other plaintiffs whose YouTube channels were banned that will split an additional $2.5 million in settlement



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YouTube has settled a lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against the company in 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump filed sweeping lawsuits against Google-owned YouTube, Meta (then Facebook), and X (then Twitter) after he was suspended from the platforms, and now all three companies have settled with the president.

YouTube will pay $24.5 million, with $22 million going



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Jesse Williams stars as Daniel De Luca in Amazon Prime's "Hotel Costiera."
  • Jesse Williams stars in Prime Video's new series "Hotel Costiera," set in Positano, Italy.
  • Williams told Business Insider that after "Grey's Anatomy," he has a checklist of criteria for taking roles.
  • His criteria include positive representation and learning something new.

Millions of viewers


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Senate Bill 53, the landmark AI transparency bill that has divided AI companies and made headlines for months, is now officially law in California. 

On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act,” which was authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA). It’s the second draft of such a bill, as Newsom vetoed the first version — SB 1047 —


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Sometimes when a device fails, it fails in spectacular fashion. Daniel Rotar, who leads the ZONEofTECH YouTube channel, posted on X today that the battery on his Samsung Galaxy Ring began swelling while he was wearing it. "I cannot take it off and this thing hurts," he wrote. A few hours later, Rotar posted again that he had gone to a hospital and received help to remove the smart ring. He also


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