Those AI-generated ducks on X are part of a racist MAGA lie

A racist lie about Haitian immigrants, spread by former president Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance, is now disseminating widely through memes on X. 

In an email blast sent out Monday, the Trump campaign claimed that 20,000 Haitian immigrants had taken over Springfield, Ohio, where they were “decapitating ducks” and “kidnapping residents’ pets.” The story has already been debunked: It originated with a one-off arrest that was picked up and amplified by MAGA in

‘No one is above the law’: Google loses long-running EU antitrust battle

Google lost its final legal challenge on Tuesday against a European Union penalty for giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results, ending a long-running antitrust case that came with a whopping fine.

The European Union’s Court of Justice upheld a l

This Tony Fadell-backed startup uses AI to separate trash from recyclable treasure

Cities around the world separate recyclable waste from other trash at material recovery facilities, but operators often have little real-time insight as to what’s passing through their plants.

Now, a U.K.-based startup called Greyparrot is using artificial intelligence and computer vision to quickly determine what’s passing along each conveyor belt in

Apple has to pay Ireland $14.4 billion. Here’s why

Apple lost a long-running court battle with the European Union on Tuesday, resulting in the company being forced to pay 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in back ta

80% of the information we generate becomes ‘dark data.’ This is how to bring it to light

According to NASA, “matter” is any substance that has mass and occupies space. But there’s more to the universe than the matter we can see. Dark matter and dark energy are mysterious substances that affect and shape the cosmos, and scientists are still trying to figure them out. 

What if we were to look at the amount of data created over the last two decade

Would Trump’s extreme tariff plan help or hurt Elon Musk?

The car companies that Elon Musk most respects are from China, as the Tesla CEO explained in January when discussing his company’s financial results with Wall Street analysts.

“The Chinese car companies are the most competitive car companies in the world,” Musk remarked. “I think they will have significant success outside of China depending on what kind of tariffs or trade

The viral months-long Royal Caribbean cruise is finally coming to an end

“There’s gonna be mutiny. There’s gonna be blood. Someone is going overboard, I want to watch,” raves TikTok creator Marc Sebastian. The clip, posted in December 2023, has since gained more than 1.3 million likes. “Bravo, where are you?” he asks. But he’s not talking about a hot new reality TV show—he’s referring to a cruise ship that was set to sail for 274 nights at

A company you’ve never heard of wants to upend the streaming dongle business

Synamedia’s Senza is the dumbest streaming device I’ve ever used. It only costs about $10, and the hardware alone isn’t capable of much more than loading a video stream from a bare-bones menu system.

But that’s the point. Synamedia, which mainly offers content protection and other services to streaming providers, is trying to rethink the streaming box by moving all the smarts to the cloud. In a nod to cloud gaming services such as

What a crewless Starliner capsule return means for NASA and Boeing, according to a former commander of the ISS

Boeing’s crew transport space capsule, the Starliner, returned to Earth without its two-person crew right after midnight Eastern time on September 7. Its remotely piloted return marked the end of a fraught test flight to the International Space Station that left two astronauts,

‘Tadpole water’ is the latest TikTok wellness trend. Does it work?

“Drinking my tadpole water, hoping to get snatched by Thursday,” posts one TikTok user in a clip viewed 1.4 million times. For those worried, she is not about to down a glass of frog larvae. Rather a viscous mixture of water, lemon juice, and chia seeds, dubbed the latest weight-loss hack. 


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