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Apple's Vision Pro offically launched last week.
  • Videos appearing to show drivers using the Vision Pro at the wheel are circulating online.
  • The sightings have alarmed some road safety experts.
  • Apple's user guide for the headset says to avoid using "it while operating a moving vehicle."

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Adrienne Bergthold sent her son, Jasper, to a school called the Arts and Ideas Sudbury School.
  • I decided to send my son, Jasper, to a K-12 school called the Arts and Ideas Sudbury School.
  • The school is based on a philosophy that allow kids to make their own decisions about education.
  • It has no grades, tests, or homework.

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Yandex, often described as Russia’s Google, has sold its domestic businesses at a knock-down price. Bloomberg reports the search and services giant, now headquartered in the Netherlands, has handed off its Russian operations for 475 billion rubles ($5.2 billion) in cash and shares. The new owners include the management group, as well as Russia’s biggest domestic energy company, Lukoil, and Russian



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Neuralink
Musk said last week Neuralink's first patient was recovering well.
  • A progress report on the first human implanted with a Neuralink chip is due soon, Elon Musk said.
  • Musk hoped the results would show the patient was able to control technology with their thoughts.
  • The first human patient was implanted with a product called Telepathy last week, Musk said.

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A destroyed tank in Izium, Ukraine, on January 28, 2024.
  • Russia is drafting hundreds of thousands of recruits to launch major assaults in Ukraine.
  • But it's not producing enough weapons to equip them all, per military experts.
  • The Institute for the Study of War said that Russia likely can't sustain a greater mobilization.

Russia isn't making enough weapons to arm the potential



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Have you ever talked about a product, and then suddenly got an ad for it on your phone? We’ve all been there, and then skeptically looked over our shoulders for the advertiser lurking in the shadow. But there’s no one there, so we all simply conclude that our phone must be listening to our conversations. You wouldn’t…

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Microsoft is teaming up with media website Semafor on a new project that uses ChatGPT to aid in the creation of news stories, The Financial Times has reported. It's one of several journalistic collaborations Microsoft is set to announce today, and follows a New York Times lawsuit filed against the software giant and its partner, OpenAI, for copyright infringement.

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The UK government, AI companies, and creative organisations have failed to reach consensus on a proposed code that would set clear guidelines for the training of AI models on copyrighted material. For almost a year, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has been consulting with companies including Microsoft, Google DeepMind, and Stability AI as well as various art and news organisations like the



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This photograph shows a poster promoting a Paris residents vote on creating special parking fees for SUVs in Paris on February 4, 2024
“More or less SUVs in Paris?” reads the above poster, which encouraged Parisians to vote on the matter on Sunday, February 4th. | Photo by THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images

Parisians have voted to triple parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road safety, air pollution, and climate change. The proposals were narrowly approved



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The biggest podcast in the world makes many people furious, but it’s still the biggest podcast in the world. Now, Joe Rogan has signed another deal with Spotify for his eponymous The Joe Rogan Experience show, this one worth an estimated $250 million. The deal allows the streamer to distribute Rogan’s podcasts on additional platforms, including a video version for YouTube, but it also includes a