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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeting US President Joe Biden on his arrival at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on October 18, 2023.
  • President Joe Biden privately called Benjamin Netanyahu an "asshole" three times, per NBC News.
  • Biden has tried to talk Netanyahu into agreeing to a cease-fire in Gaza, sources told the outlet.
  • But the Israel prime minister is



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A video of Elizabeth Warren saying Republicans shouldn’t vote went viral in 2023. But it wasn’t Warren. That video of Ron DeSantis wasn’t the Florida governor, either. And nope, Pope Francis was not wearing a white Balenciaga coat.

Generative AI has made it easier to create deepfakes and spread them around the internet. One of the most common



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Mattie Franklin (Celeste O’Connor), Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson), Anya Corazon (Isabela Merced), and Julia Cornwall (Sydney Sweeney) in Columbia Pictures’ MADAME WEB.

The good news is Madame Web is not the worst Spider-Man spinoff. (That would be Morbius.) It’s not even the worst action movie I've seen this month. (That'd be Argylle.) And it's far from the worst superhero movie of last year. (The Flash sucked.) However, Madame Web is still far from good. 

Part of the problem is it plunges into the inexplicable pitfalls the superhero genre has forced on female



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Detroit, Michigan skyline.
  • Basel III proposals would cripple commercial property financing, MBA CEO Bob Broeksmit said. 
  • The proposed regulation would require banks to maintain more capital to protect against loan losses.
  • "Basel III could be the end of bank real-estate finance as we know it," Broeksmit said. 

Proposed rules that would require bank lenders to maintain a



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The long-rumored refresh of Tesla's Model Y might not happen in 2024 after all.

This is according to the folks behind Tesla app Teslascope, who claim they've obtained the talking points sent to Tesla employees by the company itself.

The talking points are apparently specifically designed to qualm customers' fears about buying the Model Y just before the (officially unannounced) refresh happens.



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The Flipper Zero digital multi-tool already has tons of uses, from hacking to controlling home systems. Now it can even play games, thanks to a partnership with Raspberry Pi. This comes in the form of a new add-on for the device, appropriately called the Video Game Module.

The module is powered by the Raspberry Pi-developed RP2040 microcontroller and it can run games programmed in C, C++ and



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“The game industry is out of step with contemporary media in terms of LGBTQ representation, and it is failing its LGBTQ customers.”

This sentiment has felt true for years, and now the statistics in GLAAD’s first annual gaming report prove it. The media watchdog and LGBTQ advocacy group today published GLAAD Gaming: The State of LGBTQ Inclusion in Video Games, offering a comprehensive breakdown of



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Nvidia is releasing an early version of Chat with RTX today, a demo app that lets you run a personal AI chatbot on your PC. You can feed it YouTube videos and your own documents to create summaries and get relevant answers based on your own data. It all runs locally on a PC, and all you need is an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU with at least 8GB of VRAM.

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The ability to remember the past—to learn from our mistakes—is perhaps one of humanity’s greatest survival advantages. But as crucial as memory is to our daily lives, it’s far from perfect.

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