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While not quite Apple’s most powerful tablet, the iPad Air is still the best choice for most customers. Its blend of nearly iPad Pro-level specs and features with more accessible pricing made it one of Engadget’s top iPad picks for 2024. If you’ve been eyeing a new model and don’t want to spend a fortune, you can snag the latest iPad Air at Best Buy for a record-low $450 (usually $600).

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The Federal Reserve won't want to appear as though it's playing favorites around election day.
  • The Fed won't cut rates until after the 2024 election, Santander's chief economist told Bloomberg.
  • That's because inflation is likely to remain stubborn and cutting rates closer to the election date could be controversial.
  • "I don't think they want to

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You can now generate images with Bard, Google's AI chatbot.

Today, the company announced Bard's new text-to-image capability that's powered by Imagen 2, Google's latest diffusion model. With this release, Google also shared that any image created with Imagen 2 — on Bard or Google's other generative AI tools — will have digital watermark called SynthID.

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Google is adding generative AI to Maps. The feature's in early access and only available for certain areas and for select Local Guides members, but it looks to be an interesting use of the technology. Basically, the tool allows you to speak to the app using natural language to discover new places in your hometown or when traveling throughout this great country of ours.

Here’s how it works. Ask the



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Google is bringing generative AI to — where else? — Google Maps, promising to help users find cool places through the use of large language models (LLM).

The feature will answer queries for restaurant or shopping recommendations, for example, using its LLM to “analyze Maps’ detailed information about more than 250 million places and trusted insights from our



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Snap gave up on its Pixy flying selfie camera drone after just four months, but it turns out the company sold under 71,000 drones — and now the company is recalling every one of those drones because their batteries pose a fire hazard. Yes, the entire drone is being recalled, not just the removable battery, likely because



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  • Moody's Analytics currently predicts that Biden will narrowly win reelection in November.
  • One of the key points for their model is an expectation that gas prices will remain largely stable.
  • The economists caution a slight surge in prices could shift expectations towards a Trump victory.

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  • There's an "AI Cloud" future that excites investors.
  • Then there's a legacy "Cloud 1.0" business that AWS has dominated for years. 
  • So far, Microsoft is winning the "AI Cloud" future. 

The cloud industry is splitting into 2 distinct parts.

There's the "AI Cloud" future, where Nvidia GPUs and large language models form