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This is a story about serendipity and probability.

Nicole He met Arnaud De Bock while waiting in line for the bathroom at a GDC developer party in 2019. She was giving a talk on voice technology in art and games based on her work as a creative technologist, her portfolio filled with interactive projects like the True Love Tinder Robot, Garden Friends, ENHANCE.COMPUTER and Soylent Dick. De Bock was



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A group of Olympians who've collapsed while crossing the finish line. Pop stars dancing in ecstasy. The array of films, seen from another row of seats, watched on an airplane. On X, these photos are all dubbed "Renaissance paintings" due to their varying degrees of resemblance to the work of 15th century Italian masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. 



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Peloton is in something of a financial rut lately, and we all know what companies do when that happens. They take it out on consumers. To that end, the exercise machine maker just announced it will be charging a $95 “used equipment activation fee” to anyone who buys one of its machines on the secondhand market, according to a report by CNBC.

The company made this announcement in its Q4 2024



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Kamala Harris’ strategy to reach young voters will see her debut on Twitch tonight, where she’ll be streaming her Democratic nomination acceptance speech. The new kamalaharris Twitch channel features a similar bio to the vice president’s accounts on X, TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms: “Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her



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The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is closing an investigation from 2022 into the GM-owned robotaxi company. The agency was looking into Cruise vehicles that stopped unexpectedly, including three times where they were struck from behind.

From the report (included in full below):

Based on ODI’s analysis of immobilization data, the



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Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was among the people who were on The Bayesian yacht as it capsized. Rescuers found his body Thursday.
  • Mike Lynch won an unexpected jury acquittal after a dramatic 12-year legal saga.
  • HP accused him of cooking the books of his company, Autonomy, to make it seem worth billions more.
  • He finally won — and



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The recovery operation continues after Mike Lynch was confirmed dead in the superyacht disaster near Sicily.
  • The tech tycoon Mike Lynch died in a yacht sinking near Palermo, Italy.
  • An investigation is underway, with experts questioning how the state-of-the-art yacht sank.
  • One expert said the $40 million yacht should have been "unsinkable."

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Today, divers recovered the body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch from the wreckage of his family’s superyacht Bayesian, which sunk off the coast of Sicily on Monday.  Lynch — sometimes referred to as “Britain’s Bill Gates” — was holidaying in Sicily with his family and friends when disaster struck. An intense storm caused the Bayesian to capsize, plunging it to the bottom of the Mediterranean