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Coinciding with Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google is highlighting a number of new accessibility features across its software and enhancements to others that were already part of Android. First is a significant upgrade to Android’s Lookout tool, which helps people who are blind or have low vision find out more information about their surroundings



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I'll get straight to the point: there's no "off" button for Google's new AI Overviews feature. There is instead a "Web" button, buried in the "More" section of Google's familiar row of buttons that look sort of like folder tabs, along side things like "Images" and "News."

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It’s raining space junk. Just one month after NASA admitted that a piece of trash tossed from the International Space Station (ISS) crash-landed through a home in Florida, a massive piece of space debris ended up on a farm in Canada.

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The historic Morris-Jumel Mansion in New York City.
  • Built in 1765, Morris-Jumel Mansion is the oldest surviving residence in Manhattan.
  • George Washington spent time there during the Revolutionary War, and Aaron Burr married its owner.
  • I visited the mansion, now a restored museum, and felt like I stepped back in time.

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Amazon and Harvard University have created a “quantum network” that transmitted an entangled photon from one quantum computer to another over 35 kilometers of fiber-optic cable.

Researchers from Harvard and Amazon’s AWS Center for Quantum Networking put a set of nodes around the Boston area to build a network capable of “efficiently



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The Margaritaville at Sea Paradise ship.
  • CDC officials failed Margaritaville at Sea Paradise on a surprise health inspection.
  • The ship scored 83 points, below the 86 needed to pass, with 65 issues noted.
  • Margaritaville at Sea told BI some issues have been resolved and it's seeking a reinspection.

On May 1, CDC officials boarded Margaritaville at Sea, a Jimmy-Buffet-themed ship