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A 1987 version of an Apple AI assistant, called Knowledge Navigator, is wildly similar to its newest Apple Intelligence

There's a scary version of AI where AI takes your job and/or destroys the planet. Then there's the version that's much more chill: AI as a personal assistant who helps you with your tasks — remembers things for you, finds stuff for you, helps you create presentations for work



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With Apple Intelligence features coming to older MacBooks, you shouldn’t feel the need to wait for Apple’s M4 chips. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

It’s not surprising that the M3 MacBook Air’s value is strengthening the longer it’s been out, but the laptop is becoming increasingly hard to overlook when compared to the 13-inch M2 model — especially since you can get a 1



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Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder in "Edward Scissorhands."
  • Johnny Depp revealed he beat Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Michael Jackson out for the titular role in "Edward Scissorhands."
  • The revelation comes from an untitled Tim Burton docuseries that world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
  • Depp's casting led to a decades-long collaboration with Burton on multiple iconic films.

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Cruise, General Motors’ beleaguered driverless taxi service, announced Tuesday that it will start testing again around Houston. Cruise announced that they would start with human taxi drivers behind the wheels of its cars before moving to “supervised autonomous driving with a safety driver behind the wheel in the coming weeks.”

The announcement from Cruise landed around the same time that General



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Side-by-side images of The Gold King Mine and Ghost Town.
  • On a recent road trip across the American West, I made a stop at The Gold King Mine and Ghost Town. 
  • The ghost town is part of the mining town of Haynes, Arizona.
  • Today, visitors can explore an impressive collection of old buildings, antiques, and automobiles. 

I will never turn down a visit to a ghost town.

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Nancy Strong's extensive travels include experiences like riding an ostrich in Africa.
  • Nancy Strong, 89, from Dallas, has visited no fewer than 92 countries worldwide.
  • She's been a travel agent for 50 years and says experiencing other cultures enriches your soul.
  • This month, Strong — who turns 90 in August — will fly to London for the 35th time in her life.

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Phil Coley and his family at their home in France.
  • Phil Coley moved from the UK to France with his wife after renovating a $29 four-bedroom house.
  • Their children were born in France in 2021 and 2023.
  • Coley, 55, shared his impressions of the country. He told Business Insider there are few negatives.

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Before Elon Musk acquired Twitter in late 2022, the social media platform had a robust developer ecosystem filled with third-party companies integrating it into their own products. Musk's Twitter, now known as X, is a vastly different environment for developers.

Case in point: As of Monday, June 10, 2024, all of the major video game consoles – Nintendo Switch, Sony Playstation, and Microsoft Xbox –



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Bethesda announced Doom: The Dark Ages at the Xbox Games Showcase over the weekend, and easily the most exciting addition to the franchise featured in the trailer is the Shield Saw. As the name suggests it's a shield. Which is also a chainsaw. Naturally, modders have already programmed the weapon into the original Doom.

Modder Craneo shared a clip on X yesterday showing how they were able to bring



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The Kia Sorento Hybrid.
  • Automakers and their suppliers have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in EVs.
  • Demand for EVs has slowed over the past year while consumer interest in hybrids has soared.
  • Kia says hybrids are an opportunity to get hesitant EV buyers into electrification. 

In recent years, global automakers and their suppliers have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in dev



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Apple WWDC 2024 kicked off on Monday.
  • Apple might've been late to the AI arms race, but its new offering stands out by prioritizing privacy.
  • On Monday, the company revealed the data it uses to train Apple Intelligence.
  • Privacy is hot topic and a big concern in AI, and Apple is addressing it head on.

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