Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos

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Earlier today, Apple issued a fix in iOS and iPadOS 17.5.1. Patching buggy software is a good, normal thing. But that’s not the issue here. The issue is that the fix “addresses a rare issue where photos that experienced database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they

Billionaire Dan Snyder funded a movie about Trump. Now he's reportedly furious it's not flattering.

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Dan Snyder (left) and Donald Trump (right.)

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  • Billionaire Dan Snyder funded a biopic about Donald Trump, Variety reports.
  • "The Apprentice," a movie about Trump's early business years, premieres at Cannes on Monday.
  • Now Snyder is getting lawyers involved because the movie isn't positive about Trump, Variety reports.

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Surface Laptop Copilot+ hands-on: Quietly powerful

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The Surface Laptop has always been a bit of an anti-revolutionary device. After Microsoft struggled to make a splash with its original Surface tablets, it was created as a more mainstream option for less courageous consumers. It simply a Windows laptop, albeit a well-designed one. 

The same is true for the new Copilot+ Surface Laptop: It doesn't look very unique at first, but spend a bit of time

Meet the Mars family, heirs to the Snickers and M&M's candy empire, who avoided the limelight for years

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The Mars family — including Jacqueline Mars and her granddaughters, pictured here — is worth an estimated $117 billion as of February 2024, Forbes estimates.

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  • The Mars family has a net worth of $117 billion and helms the candy empire Mars Inc.
  • That makes them America's second-richest family, according to a 2024 Forbes ranking.
  • They're known for keeping to themselves, but in recent
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OpenAI is ‘in conversations’ with Scarlett Johansson over the ChatGPT voice that sounds just like her

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OpenAI says it has been in touch with representatives for Scarlett Johansson after the company pulled one of the voices on ChatGPT for sounding too similar to the actress.

“We’ve been in conversations with ScarJo’s team because there seems to be some confusion. We want to take the feedback seriously and hear out the concerns,” says Joanne Jang, model behavior

Will AI-powered search change the way we use the internet? Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks so.

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In an interview with The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai discussed AI-powered search, a major topic at the founder's recent Google I/O developer conference.

At the event, Google announced a slew of new AI tools and models: Ask Photos, AI Agents, Project Astra, Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash, Nano, and AI Teammate, to name a few.

The most visible announcement for

Intel’s going inside AI PCs, too — its Lunar Lake chip is coming later this year

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Intel has revealed a release window for its Lunar Lake laptop processors. The new x86 chips will arrive in the third quarter of this year, and they’re designed to enable the new AI experience in Copilot Plus PCs.

Intel’s announcement coincides with Microsoft’s Surface and AI event, where Microsoft leaned on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips for