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Tech billionaire Elon Musk and conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair publicly feuded on X on Monday after she accused the world’s richest man of withdrawing childcare support and refusing to take a paternity test. Musk defended himself against those claims, saying he has given St. Clair more than $2 million and is open to a paternity test. “I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed,” Musk said in a post on X, responding that a court has ordered Musk to take a paternity test. “Despite not knowing...

Never mind blocking workarounds to sign in with a local account, just give us a straightforward choice in the installation process. Microsoft just blocked a popular workaround to install Windows 11 with a local account Some people like to avoid having a Microsoft account linked to the OS due to privacy (or other) concerns While alternative workarounds remain, it’s likely they could be cut off too – and Microsoft is very much going down the wrong path here Microsoft appears to be moving to block Windows 11 users who want to install the operating system using a local account, meaning...

Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic has been launched by the company as the latest addition to its lineup of cover materials for smartphones and other mobile devices. According to details shared by the New York-based company, the new Gorilla Glass Ceramic offers better drop performance on rough surfaces than other protective glass materials from competitors. The first smartphone with Gorilla Glass Ceramic protection will arrive in the coming months. Corning already provides Apple with the Ceramic Shield material used to protect iPhone displays from damage. Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic to Debut on Motorola Device The newly unveiled Gorilla Glass Ceramic is...

Hong Wang, an associate professor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, presenting her work on the Kakeya conjecture on March 10, 2025. Credit: David Song/NYU. ================================================================== Professors from NYU and the University of British Columbia have resolved the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions. Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a long-standing geometric problem known as the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions. This conjecture explores the minimal space required for a needle, or line segment, to point in every direction within a given space. The idea originates from a 1917 question posed...

Amazon MGM reported to pay Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson $1 billion to take over full creative control of James Bond. As The James Bond Dossier reported yesterday Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are to step down from 007, leaving Amazon to chart the course for the franchise. What wasn’t known until now was the price tag. Amazon, having already spent $8.5 billion acquiring MGM, has had to invest another $1 billion to remove the final obstacle—Broccoli and Wilson’s creative control. For over sixty years, the Broccoli name has been synonymous with Bond. Wilson, now 83, had long...

Last month, in an interview with Bari Weiss, venture capitalist and longevity researcher Bryan Johnson discussed "how not to die." While Johnson's theories on indefinite life extension are interesting, it was his comments about artificial intelligence that were more striking, "I think the irony is that we told stories of God creating us, and I think the reality is we are creating God ... in the form of superintelligence," he said. "If you ask yourself, 'What have we imagined God to be? What are its characteristics?' We are building God in the form of technology. It will have the same...

@IanCarrollShow BREAKING- The RFK jr blackmail story is breaking from multiple angles right now It’s bad. Even worse than I say in this video. Blackmail by… certain people… at the highest levels of American politics. Right now in 2025. Buckle up. It’s about to get weird.

Editor’s Note: Below is Grok, the chatbot for xAI that is available on X, answering the question about why xAI just acquire X. For those unfamiliar with how chatbot articles work, they take data available to them through their various datasets and compile what they believe to be “scholarly” or “journalistic” posts. They are rarely accurate, though they’re getting better. In this case, the article that Grok spit out is accurate… almost eerily so… ============================================================== On March 28, 2025, Elon Musk announced that xAI, his artificial intelligence company, had acquired X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, in...

Taco Bell is about to get an AI makeover from one of the biggest names in the game. Yum! Brands, the owner of Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut, announced it is teaming up with chip company Nvidia to bring the chip giant’s AI technology to its drive-thrus and restaurant operations — upgrading and expanding Taco Bell’s existing voice AI. According to Tuesday’s announcement, Nvidia’s AI software will be integrated into Yum’s in-house tech platform, enabling voice assistants to take orders more smoothly, smart cameras to track bottlenecks in real time, and AI analytics to help managers optimize operations. Yum...

This robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. (CREDIT: David Baillot/University of California San Diego) ============================================================================== In a nutshell * Scientists have developed a fully 3D-printed robot that can walk, climb, and even move across waterwithout the need for electronics. It uses pneumatic pressure to control movement, demonstrating a new approach to robot design. * The robot is created in a single 58-hour 3D-printing process, with no need for manual assembly. The entire structure, including its functional components, is printed as one cohesive unit, simplifying production. *...

Napster (Yes, that Napster) has just been sold for $207 million, leading an entire generation of people to simultaneously ask: "Wait, was Napster still around?" The popular and original mainstream illegal music file-sharing platform that caused absolute mayhem for record labels in the early 2000s was sold to tech company Infinite Reality on Tuesday for a whopping $200+ million figure, as the startup said that it hopes of transform the streaming service into a music Metaverse of sorts. What's wild about the whole thing is that Napster's website was shut down 24 years ago after being sued into oblivion by...

The atomic energy of betavoltaic batteries can power a variety of devices, from aerospace and robots to your future smartphone, for up to a century without recharging. ================================================================== In the world of batteries, duration is king. Whether nestled in the smallest wearable or providing back-up power for the electric grid, a battery that provides reliable energy for longer will always outlast the competition—figuratively and literally. The U.S. led the way in nuclear battery innovation over the past 70 years—and even developed the first battery that ran on nuclear radiation in the 1950s. But in the 21st century, China has become...

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Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday morning responded to the Trump DOJ’s move to exercise the State Secrets Privilege and gave lawyers for the deported criminal aliens until March 31 to file a response. On Monday evening, the Trump DOJ said it is exercising the State Secrets Privilege and informed Judge James Boasberg it will no longer provide him with any information related to deportation flights. The DOJ on Monday evening straight up told Boasberg you will get no more information related to the deportation flights and that’s the end of the story. The details about the deportation flights are none...

Tesla owners can activate a security measure on their vehicles called "sentry mode," which can help deter or even bust threats in the wake of widespread vandalism targeting Elon Musk’s electric car company. Sentry mode, when enabled, keeps the cameras and sensors of the vehicle powered on and ready to record suspicious activity that happens nearby. "Think of Sentry Mode as an intelligent vehicle security system that alerts you when it detects possible threats nearby," according to the Tesla Model 3 owner’s manual. Tesla vehicles with sentry mode activated will pulse the headlights, sound the alarm and display a message...

It’s become vogue on the right to trash electric vehicles. And, mostly, we’re right to. Most of them are garbage retrofits that rely on a garbage network of chargers which are made by garbage ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) manufacturers who have absolutely no idea what they are doing. What they are manufacturing is virtue-signaling, not cars with anything even remotely resembling good EV—or any other type of—engineering. And then there’s Tesla. There are EVs, and there are Teslas. And though they are both clearly electric cars, they are two completely different animals. This article aims to give you a permanent...

Way back in 2023, Andrej Karpathy, an eminent AI guru, made waves with a striking claim that “the hottest new programming language is English”. This was because the advent of large language models (LLMs) meant that from now on humans would not have to learn arcane programming languages in order to tell computers what to do. Henceforth, they could speak to machines like the Duke of Devonshire spoke to his gardener, and the machines would do their bidding. Ever since LLMs emerged, programmers have been early adopters, using them as unpaid assistants (or “co-pilots”) and finding them useful up to...

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California’s attorney general has urgently warned customers of 23andMe to purge their genetic data from the company’s databases over uncertainty where it may end up if the firm goes bankrupt. “Given 23andMe’s reported financial distress, I remind Californians to consider invoking their rights and directing 23andMe to delete their data and destroy any samples of genetic material held by the company,” AG Rob Bonta said in a statement Friday. The company had been synonymous with at-home genetic testing for more than a decade, providing more than 15 million customers with a wide range of personal health and ancestry data. Users...

Marine veteran and federal air marshal has been accused of scamming $70,000 worth of flights by faking military deployments. Dior Jay-Jarett, 29, used his job as an airline baggage handler to snag 130 flights after claiming military leave, according to prosecutors. jet first class to the likes of London, Las Vegas and Dublin, as well as travel standard class to Mexico and the Caribbean. then bragged on Facebook about a trip to Cabo San Lucas at the airline's expense. 'Out of the 13 countries I have visited this year so far, this has been my favorite solo trip,' Jay-Jarett finagled...