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• Last year, my daughter and I took several trips to tour nine colleges.
• At first, she was shy and awkward on the tours, but I watched as she came out of her shell.
• In between tours, we had fun and bonded, which was important before she goes off to college.

When our daughter was born in 2006, the last thing on my mind was

• Apple introduced "Stolen Device Protection" for users with iPhones updated to iOS 17.3.
• The feature adds extra biometric security for sensitive actions taken outside of "familiar spaces."
• Activating the protection would make it harder for thieves to access critical security

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an inquiry into the billion-dollar AI deals of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Anthropic on Thursday. Throughout the inquiry, cloud providers must disclose details about the nature of their partnerships and investments with AI startups. Of particular interest is the…

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Being a woman online is scary. In the digital world, as in the real world, harassment and abuse affects women and people of marginalised genders every day.

What happened to Taylor Swift this week is a prime — and terrifying — example. AI-generated, pornographic images of Swift went viral on X (formerly Twitter), with one such post garnering over than 45 million views. Outraged fans quickly

If you’ve still not had a chance to experience a real, large gaming OLED display, then jumping in front of Alienware’s AW3225QF QD-OLED monitor is akin to submerging your eyes in a warm bath of color. It’s a pleasant feeling, the kind of thing you hope to get from an ultra-premium device. Like a massage, the first…

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The EnVision mission to Venus was officially adopted by the European Space Agency on Thursday, which means the organization has committed to getting the spacecraft Venus-bound by the early 2030s.

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• A Ukrainian drone operator said the skies over Kharkiv are swamped with drones.
• There are so many of them that "nobody knows how to advance," Gleb Molchanov told The Guardian.
• Their overwhelming use has made conventional NATO policy "pretty much obsolete," he said.

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• A viral video shows a lion cruising around Pattaya, Thailand, in an open-top Bentley.
• The woman who owns the lion was charged with possessing a controlled wild animal without permission.
• Owning lions is not illegal in Thailand, but it does require the right documentation.

Police arrested a woman in Thailand whose pet lion was captured on

Welcome to another installment of Gizmodo’s Animal Crime of the Week. Last week, we admired the trash-stealing parrots of Australia. This week features a bitey, cake-stealing iguana that added injury to insult by giving its victim a nasty, rare infection.

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Google appears to be readying a version of its popular Chrome browser for Windows on Arm. X (formerly Twitter) user Pedro Justo spotted a native version of the browser for Windows 11 Arm-powered devices in the latest nightly builds of Chrome in the Canary channel.

Google’s release of a Chrome Canary version for Windows on Arm is a surprise, and we

• The US economy may be about to relive the "roaring '20s," according to Ed Yardeni.
• "We're in the early stages of a productivity growth boom," the veteran strategist told Bloomberg.
• His comments come with the economy expanding at a stronger-than-expected pace and the S&P 500 trading at an all-time high.

Veteran market strategist Ed Yardeni thinks the US economy

Apple is making major changes to the App Store in Europe in response to new European Union laws. Beginning in March, Apple will allow users in the EU to download apps and make purchases from outside its App Store. These changes are already being stress-tested in the iOS 17.4 beta.

Developers will be able to take payments and distribute apps from outside the App Store for the first time. Apple will