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As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help

In recent years, people have been increasingly looking for new ways to form platonic connections, as loneliness and social isolation have become more prevalent. In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General went so far as to label this issue a public health crisis. Remote workers, who miss the everyday interactions found in an office, and younger

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Some humanoid robots can be hacked through voice commands, demonstration shows

Researchers are making headway in the “terrifying robot apocalypse” department. Yicaiglobal reported (via Interesting Engineering) that specialists from the Chinese cybersecurity research group Darknavy recently showed off a method of compromising commercial humanoid robots that has somewhat terrifying implications if used in a real-world setting. At GEEKcon in Shangai, the researchers took a commercially available

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Ricoh GR IV Review: Everyone’s Favorite Pocket Camera Gets Better

When I reviewed the GR III, I wrote about how much I liked snap focus mode, which allows you to set a predetermined focus distance regardless of the aperture. I set up my GR III to use autofocus when I half-pressed the shutter and snap when I quickly pressed, so that snap focus fired off

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Naware’s chemical-free weed killer tech could change how we treat lawns

Naware founder Mark Boysen first tried killing weeds with drones and a 200-watt laser. He’d been noodling on ideas for a startup with some friends, and thinking about how his family in North Dakota had lost three members to cancer, something they suspected may be related to chemicals in the groundwater. Finding a chemical-free way

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Manage Your Entire Freelance Workflow With Indy’s 9-Tool Dashboard

Indy helps freelancers simplify operations by integrating nine vital business tools and AI-driven workflow automation. The post Manage Your Entire Freelance Workflow With Indy’s 9-Tool Dashboard appeared first on TechRepublic. Source link

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Gaten Matarazzo on ‘SNL’s ‘Stranger Things’ shoutout, Dustin and Steve’s big fight, and why AI is ‘lame’

Gaten Matarazzo doesn’t quite believe Saturday Night Live star Jane Wickline’s claims that the Stranger Things kids are “the greatest threat to humanity right now.” During a Dec. 13 Weekend Update appearance, Wickline sang a song warning viewers that the Stranger Things child actors, now grown-up, would be using their influence to take over the

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Could You Use a Rowboat to Walk on the Seafloor Like Jack Sparrow?

But you already know about this, because Fg is what normies call an object’s “weight,” and for a given volume, weight depends only on the density. Now, if you dropped these blocks in a lake, obviously the styrofoam would float and the steel would sink. So clearly it has something to do with density. What

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How to track Santa Claus this Christmas Eve using AI

If you’re a parent with young children, then you’ll probably hear this a lot on Christmas Eve: “Where’s Santa right now?” With tracking tools like the NORAD Santa Tracker and Google’s Santa Tracker, everyone can know when Father Christmas will arrive. Plus, there are now some new AI tools to bring the holiday magic. Here’s

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When is ‘Bugonia’ streaming? Everything you need to know.

Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsWhat is Bugonia about?Is Bugonia worth watching?How to watch Bugonia at homeThe best Peacock streaming deals The dynamic duo that brought us Poor Things is back with another cinematic gem. Bugonia, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, is a conspiracy caper that plunges you into

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US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack

In 2026, the leaders of America’s (former) trading partners are going to have to grapple with the political consequences of tit-for-tat tariffs. A tariff is a tax paid by consumers, and if there’s one thing the past four years have taught us, it’s that the public will not forgive a politician who presides over a

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