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Google is expanding AI Overviews, the feature that summarizes answers to complex questions from the web and presents them at the top of traditional search results, to six more countries — India, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil and the United Kingdom — from Thursday with support for local languages as well as English.

That’s less than three months after AI Overviews launched in the United States



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Google updated its AI Overviews to include a right-hand link display and launched the feature in six new countries.
  • Google released an update to AI Overviews that makes it look more like rival OpenAI's SearchGPT prototype.
  • AI Overviews now include a right-hand link display and in-text links for easier site visits.
  • Google still differs from OpenAI in its approach to publishers and



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I covered the Paris Olympics for almost three weeks and left disappointed.
  • I attended the Paris Olympics as an event organizer and writer, as I did for the 2020 Tokyo Games.
  • Tokyo spoiled me and raised my expectations for Paris, but I left early feeling underwhelmed.
  • The lack of AC, limited transportation shuttles, and hard water disappointed me in Paris.

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Mark Zuckerberg commissioned a statue of his wife Priscilla Chan in a nod towards Roman art. The internet likes it.

One thing about Mark Zuckerberg is that man wants to be a Roman emperor so badly.

The Meta CEO recently commissioned a giant sculpture of his wife, Priscilla Chan, saying in an Instagram caption that he's "bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife."

The statue, made by Daniel Arsham, presents Chan midstride in green with a flowing silver cloak. It is beautiful, but it is



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The Plucky Squire has been one of my most anticipated games ever since it started popping up in showcases a couple of years ago. It was delayed out of 2023 and into this year, unfortunately, but the long wait to play it is almost over. Publisher Devolver Digital and developer All Possible Futures have revealed that The Plucky Squire is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo



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A puddle in Orikhiv, Ukraine.
  • Russian troops in Ukraine are likely facing water shortages, the UK's Ministry of Defence has said.
  • It likely comes as the result of Russian strikes on utility infrastructure, the MoD said.
  • Some troops have now resorted to taking water from "stagnant puddles," the department added.

Russian troops fighting in Ukraine are likely facing water



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Jennie Zeiher is a frequent flyer, but she was beginning to distrust the process.

It was about 95 degrees Fahrenheit that day, June 10, in Athens, Greece, as she, her husband, and two sons boarded their flight.

Zeiher recalls their pilot announcing over the speaker that the tarmac-bound Qatar Airways plane had an electrical issue.

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The Federal Trade Commission has announced a new rule that should theoretically make online user reviews of products more useful.

In a press release, the FTC announced a finalized set of guidelines aimed at taking down fraudulent or misleading product reviews on the internet. Among the things that will be prohibited once the rule goes into effect are paid reviews and those generated by artificial



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The author, not pictured, cooked dinner for his son.
  • My wife is the cook in our family; I was forced to take on the role when she went back to school.
  • I got really good at making a few meals, like tacos.
  • My son and I bonded in a way we weren't able to before Guy Night.

One day, almost two years after our first son was born, my wife announced plans to take night classes to complete