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The Department of Transportation announced a new final rule last week that would require airlines to automatically refund passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed. There are some exceptions, but in general, it’s a huge win for passengers who are tired of airlines giving them the runaround. As…

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Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing you to rectify a “your” vs. “you’re” typo or other embarrassing errors. Snapchat is also getting emoji reactions, map reactions, and a new AI-powered reminders

• Beauty brand Youthforia is facing backlash for selling a dark foundation shade comparable to "tar."
• The brand was previously criticized for its foundation range being too light for deeper complexions.
• Youthforia has not commented on its new shade or the online criticism.

When content creator Golloria

• Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet's first quarter earnings surpassed Wall Street's estimates. 
• Execs credit some of the gains to their AI efforts, which they say help boost cloud revenue. 
• These cloud providers see AI as a key

Anthropic's Claude is arguably the best consumer-facing large language model at the moment, with its top-tier version having bested OpenAI's GPT-4 in at least one major benchmark test and on a popular LLM user evaluation site. So it's only natural that Anthropic would take advantage of the halo effect by releasing a Claude iOS app. 

After all, if Anthropic had kicked this can down the road a few

Health insurance provider UnitedHealth paid a multimillion-dollar ransom to hackers who broke into one of its subsidiaries, disrupting healthcare providers across the country for months, CEO Andrew Witty confirmed on Wednesday.

In a hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance, Witty said the decision to pay the $22 million

• A Duke University professor has won the ACM Prize in Computing for her work with algorithms.
• Amanda Randles creates virtual simulations that incorporate data from patients' wearable devices.
• Randles is also trying to make medicine

• South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem keeps hurting her chances to become Donald Trump's running mate.
• Two of the former presidents key allies trashed Noem recently.
• They were responding to how Noem disclosed in her memoir that she killed her own doh.

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It was inevitable, really: as soon as beloved childhood characters became fair game under public domain, they’d be seized upon by horror filmmakers... and eventually, the biggest headliners would square off. The world may not be ready for Mickey vs. Winnie, but it’s coming, and its creators promise gore galore.

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Just in case you’d like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a recent paper, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female’s uterus—a tactic not documented with any other mammal species to date.

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• The House passed a bill to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses.
• 70 House Democrats voted against it, including the longest-serving Jewish House Democrat.
• That's because the bill defines some criticisms of Israel as being antisemitic.

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