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Tyler Perry is so stunned by the capabilities of AI that he's halted his planned studio expansion.
  • The potential of AI convinced Tyler Perry to halt an $800 million expansion of his studios.
  • Perry made the decision after seeing OpenAI's tool Sora, which can create complex video scenes.
  • Perry warned that AI could threaten many jobs in the film industry.

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If you wanted a Ring Car Cam you’re too late. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Ring confirmed to The Verge that it has stopped selling its Ring Car Cam, a dashcam / security camera hybrid that records the road and the driver while in motion and acts as a security camera when a vehicle is parked. The product, which launched at CES 2023, has been hard to come by



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Things were looking good for Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander, which made a soft touchdown on the Moon on Thursday and became the first American lunar lander since Apollo in 1972. But on Friday evening, NASA and the private Houston-based company reported that Odie appeared to have landed askew and may be…

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Bobby Laurie shared ways passengers can save money on flights.
  • More than 55 million Americans traveled abroad in 2022 despite rising airfare prices.
  • Travel expert Bobby Laurie shared two ways travelers can save money on airfare.
  • Laurie suggested travelers search for the cheapest upgrades and not just the cheapest overall fare.

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By choosing to homeschool her kids, Terri Peters and her husband have been able to take them to places like Curaçao throughout the year while still completing their schoolwork.
  • I've been homeschooling my kids, who are 13 and 15, for the last four years.
  • One of the biggest reasons we decided to homeschool was our desire to travel more as a family.
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An F-16 fighter jet at the Volkel Air Base
  • A Ukrainian pilot training to fly F-16s said it was like upgrading from a Nokia to an iPhone.
  • He said the jets were "awesome" but had more complex electronic systems than Soviet-made jets.
  • The first F-16 fighter jets should be delivered to Ukraine this summer, according to Denmark.

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An outreach supervisor speaks to a person in a tent in Portland, Oregon.
  • Oregon is giving some of its homeless youth $1,000 a month.
  • The state's DHS says recipients report spending money on housing and food.
  • The program is among dozens nationwide trying to alleviate poverty with a guaranteed basic income.

Oregon has a severe homelessness problem.

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If you are a certain kind of cynical, Reddit’s S-1 filing sets off alarm bells. There’s the mention of r/WallStreetBets. (Five mentions in total, actually.) There’s the stockpile it’s amassed of Bitcoin and Ethereum. And there’s the program to give certain power users the option of buying stock before it debuts on the public market.

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A U.S. Army Soldier with Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, yells as he dry fires a Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle, Nov. 7, 2023, at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii.
A U.S. Army Soldier with Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, yells as he dry fires a Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle, Nov. 7, 2023, at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii.
  • The US Army would play a pivotal role should conflict arise in the Pacific, a top



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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
  • Nvidia's Q4 earnings smashed Wall Street's high expectations.
  • In a call with analysts, CEO Jensen Huang unpacked Nvidia's chips and software business.
  • Here are three fascinating things we learned. 

When Nvidia reported its earnings on Wednesday, it managed to exceed even Wall Street's high expectations.

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After promising to fix Gemini's image generation feature and then pausing it altogether, Google has published a blog post offering an explanation for why its technology overcorrected for diversity. Prabhakar Raghavan, the company's Senior Vice President for Knowledge & Information, explained that Google's efforts to ensure that the chatbot would generate images showing a wide range of people