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• A jury awarded sisters $18 million in damages from an insurance company after their home was flooded.
• The sisters sued American Reliable after being offered just $5,000 for repairs.
• According to their attorney, the house was unliveable, with the heating system destroyed.

The home of two California

Google I/O 2024 is right around the corner, so here's what you should expect from the highly anticipated live stream.

We thought OpenAI was going to announce a search engine ahead of I/O 2024, but as it turns out, the company, instead, released a faster model called "GPT-4o" that's free for all ChatGPT

• Russian troops appear to be creating a "buffer zone" in northeast Ukraine, military experts said.
• The goal is likely to stop Ukraine from carrying out cross-border raids on Russian towns, they said.
• Earlier this year, the Kremlin pledged to do everything it could to

• Bumble ran an ad campaign that appeared to make fun of celibacy as an alternative to dating. 
• The billboards bore the message, "You know full well a vow of celibacy is not the answer."
• Bumble removed the ads and vowed to make donations to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Dating app Bumble is in hot water ov

Apple’s new iPad Pro is one of the most divisive (and thinnest) devices the company has made in years. Sure, it’s an undeniable feat of engineering and thinner than an iPod nano. Apple squeezed a new M4 chip and “tandem” OLED panel into its latest flagship tablet.

The new OLED enables more brightness and improved HDR performance compared to the old iPad Pro—standard screen brightness is up to 1

• A livestream portal installed in Dublin and New York had to temporarily close after reports of inappropriate behavior.
• Some enjoyed the portal: they shared videos of themselves dancing and uniting with loved ones.
• But others used it to flash their naked body parts, show pornographic videos, and mock 9/11.

A large

• A Vegas restaurant hosted a free "Bluey" event. Both kids and their parents were left disappointed and angry.
• The titular character was played by a member of staff "in Bluey pajamas."
• The event led to a barrage of criticism online. "False advertising at its finest," one person wrote.

A restaurant in Las Vegas hosted what parents described as an

• Elon Musk is umimpressed with OpenAI's new AI model.
• The Tesla CEO said the company's demo of its new AI model, GPT-4o "made me cringe."
• Musk has been openly critical of OpenAI, a company he co-founded but left in 2018.

Elon Musk is not impressed with OpenAI's latest offering.

The billionaire slammed the company's demonstration of its new AI model called

• The White House has announced it will impose tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese goods.
• The new measures target Chinese electric vehicles, with those tariffs rising from 25% to 100%. 
• Fears that a wave of cheap Chinese EVs could upend the US market are growing.

Joe Biden has hiked tariffs on Chinese electric cars as he looks to protect the US auto industry from a

• Russia is believed to be using North Korean missiles and shells in its invasion of Ukraine. 
• North Korean shells are often defective and blow up before being fired, reports claim. 
• South Korean intelligence said Monday it suspects the weapons may date from the 1970s. 

Russia is using North Korean artillery shells in

This last big Apple release was such a doozy that you’d be forgiven for only paying attention to the siren call of a new OLED iPad. I’ve had the chance to get intimate with these new tablet products and accessories, and believe it or not, it’s not the ultra-luxury, uber-expensive tablet that’s made me the most…

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