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Melania Trump made a rare public appearance at the Republican National Convention.
  • Melania Trump attended the fourth night of the Republican National Convention.
  • The former first lady wore a skirt suit in a classic Republican red.
  • She has made infrequent public appearances since Trump announced his 2024 campaign.

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Google has confirmed in a teaser video that its upcoming line of smartphones includes a new foldable model. The company called the Pixel 9 Pro Fold a "foldable phone built for the Gemini era" in its promo tweet, and it even focused on its gen AI chatbot in the video. Similar to the non-foldable Pixel 9 Pro, this model also has a prominent camera bump. Its lenses are arranged vertically near one



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Donald and Melania Trump met in 1998.
  • Donald and Melania Trump met in 1998 and dated on and off until getting married in 2005.
  • In 2006, Melania gave birth to their son, Barron, who is Donald's fifth child. 
  • The couple was the center of attention when Donald was president from 2016 to 2020.

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Montana Sen. Jon Tester called for President Biden to drop out of the presidential race.
  • Montana's Sen. Jon Tester is the second Democratic senator telling President Biden to quit the race.
  • "I've never been afraid to stand up to him when he is wrong," the senator said. 
  • He joins the rising chorus of voices in the party urging Biden to drop out.  

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Top Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, believe they may be close to convincing President Joe Biden to end his 2024 campaign, according to reports.
  • In public, President Joe Biden has so far shot down calls to end his campaign for a new nominee.
  • But top Democrats reportedly believe Biden is privately becoming more receptive to the idea.
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Bangladesh is experiencing a complete internet shutdown as its government attempts to clamp down on widespread student protests that have resulted in the deaths of at least 32 people, according to AFP. The unrest is centered around the country’s quota system that requires a third of government jobs to be reserved for relatives of veterans who had fought for Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan



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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has blasted Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass price increases in a filing to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Microsoft revealed last week that it’s increasing PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate prices, and planning to launch a new Game Pass Standard tier soon without day one access to



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A widespread Xbox Live outage lasting several hours has now been resolved. The issue prevented players from signing into their accounts and downloading or playing online games. “Users should once again be able to sign in, matchmake and complete purchases,” Xbox Support said on X at 11.24PM ET. “Thank you for sticking with us!”

Xbox had earlier confirmed



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Many moons ago, back in 2013, we learned that Hollywood royalty Steven Spielberg had teamed up with Microsoft to create a live-action Halo television series. It took about ten years for the vision to finally come to fruition, but the show has now been canceled by the Paramount+ streaming service after a mere seventeen episodes. The first season aired in 2022 and the second earlier this year. We



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Meta has decided to not offer its upcoming multimodal AI model and future versions to customers in the European Union citing a lack of clarity from European regulators, according to a statement given by Meta to Axios. The models in question are designed to process not only text but also images and audio, and power AI capabilities in Meta platforms as well as the company’s Ray-Ban smart glasses.

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Google has bought itself the title of “official AI sponsor for Team USA,” and when the 2024 Olympics broadcast starts on July 26th, you will be reminded of that frequently. NBCUniversal’s partnership with Google will put many of the company’s AI-powered features front and center during the event.

The broadcast will include