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A Chaotic Night at U.C.L.A. Raises Questions About Police Response
Nearly two weeks after a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, was attacked by counterprotesters, university officials still have not explained why security officers stood by for hours while the attack was…
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The Gamma app brings PS1 emulation to the iPhone
iPhone users without a penchant for jailbreaking can finally enjoy the blocky polygons and shifty textures of the original PlayStation with Gamma, a free PS1 emulator that hit the iOS App Store last night. Gamma…
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Woman Made Her Home Inside a Grocery Store’s Rooftop Sign, Police Say
A woman found living in the rooftop sign of a grocery store in Michigan had set up the small space to call home with flooring, a Keurig coffee maker and a computer, the authorities said.…
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OpenAI could debut a multimodal AI digital assistant soon
OpenAI has been showing some of its customers a new multimodal AI model that can both talk to you and recognize objects, according to a new report from The Information. Citing unnamed sources who’ve seen…
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Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band
For decades, Munch’s Make Believe Band at Chuck E. Cheese has performed for countless birthdays, end-of-season Little League parties and other celebrations. There’s been Chuck E. Cheese and Helen Henny on vocals, Mr. Munch on…
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Gaze upon Dell’s leaked Qualcomm X Elite-powered laptops
They unsurprisingly look like laptops — albeit with overall slimmer profiles. The most interesting model is Dell’s new XPS 13 9345, which seems to be a sleeker rebirth of the XPS 13 Plus from 2022.…
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A Solar Storm Hitting Earth May Make Northern Lights: What to Know
A dramatic blast from the sun set off a geomagnetic storm in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday that is expected to make the northern lights visible as far south as Alabama and Northern California and could…
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GameStop will buy and sell rare Pokémon cards — but it doesn’t want to catch ‘em all
GameStop, the used video game retailer that’s become increasingly associated with other kinds of speculative investments, wants to cash in on the resurgent card collecting craze — staffers have told Pokébeach, Polygon, and The Verge…
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How Pro-Palestinian Students Pushed Trinity College Dublin to Divest
Discontent over the war in Gaza had been building for months at Trinity College Dublin, but what had been a rumble last week suddenly became a roar. News broke that Trinity had demanded a heavy…
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Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses?
For now, the lab version has an anemic field of view — just 11.7 degrees in the lab, far smaller than a Magic Leap 2 or even a Microsoft HoloLens. But Stanford’s Computational Imaging Lab…