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It’s day 4 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s match-up was the biggest blowout we’ve seen yet with Google Maps taking 96 percent of the vote and eliminating Yelp from the tournament. Today, we have another David vs Goliath fight as Apple’s iMessage takes on…

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• Ukrainian soldiers report inconsistent training and combat abilities in Russian troops.
• Russia's strategy in Avdiivka apparently included alternating waves of trained and untrained forces.
• Despite the ineffectiveness of poorly trained troops

• Some Walmart shoppers may need to log into an app before they can use self-checkout.
• Self-service lanes in some locations are being reserved for Spark drivers or Walmart+ members.
• Target has also introduced limitations to self-checkout as retailers rethink the role of the tech.

You might need an app on your phone to use self-checkout during your next trip to Walmart — the lanes might be

Anyone who's ever faced the task of doing a full-house deep-clean knows the feeling of wishing you could delegate the task to anyone else. With robot vacuums and mops, that wish can actually come true.

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You can now build a website, images and all, using only prompts in Wix’s new AI website builder. Creating a website is free, but you’ll have to upgrade to one of Wix’s premium plans if you want to do things like accept payments or don’t want to be limited to using a Wix domain name.

Wix’s prices range from $17 per month for the Light plan, which comes with

Microsoft’s multiyear deal with French AI company Mistral signaled that the company wants longevity in the space.

The company invested €2 billion ($2.1 billion) into Mistral and announced it would bring Mistral’s newest AI model, Mistral Large, to Azure. But the investment into Mistral, mainly a developer of open-source AI models, doesn’t mean Microsoft lost

• Lauren Boebert did not attend a campaign event at a Colorado coffee shop last month.
• Boebert traveled to her home in another district to find out if her ex had discarded her belongings.
• According to The Washington Post, he'd told her he'd thrown her stuff into a pond.

Rep. Lauren Boebert was busy working out if

• Whole Foods is opening five new mini-stores in New York City.
• Called "Whole Foods Market Daily Shop," they'll be a fraction of the size of a normal Whole Foods.
• It's not the first time Amazon has tried to run a smaller grocery store.

If you hate waiting in long lines at Whole Foods when you just need a

Microsoft has announced its second games showcase of 2024 and this one is all about projects from its third-party partners. The second Partner Preview stream is set for March 6 at 1PM ET. It will run for around 30 minutes and feature more than a dozen new trailers from publishers including Capcom, Nexon and EA.

Three games have been confirmed for the showcase. We'll find out details about

An ambitious NASA project designed to test satellite refueling in space, known as OSAM-1, has been discontinued after significant technical, cost, and scheduling difficulties. The cancellation comes in the wake of an October 2023 report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General that cited “poor performance” by Maxar,…

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X, formerly known as Twitter, has already backed off its new policy that discouraged – but did not prohibit – anti-trans hate and harassment against transgender users on the platform, just days after rolling it out.

On Thursday, X updated its "Abuse and Harassment" policy to add a new section called "Use of Prior Names and Pronouns." According to this updated policy, a post would receive reduced