Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement regarding claims that its voice assistant inappropriately spied on smartphone users. Plaintiffs claimed that the company’s Google Assistant platform began listening to them after it misheard conversations that sounded like its wake words. The suit argued that private information that Google Assistant shouldn’t have heard was then…
On your marks, get set, bake! Renowned TV chef Nigella Lawson is officially taking over from Dame Prue Leith as a judge on The Great British Bake Off. Prue announced that she was leaving the show last week after nine series, having replaced original judge Mary Berry back in 2017. Since then, fans of the…
Electrical grids appeared to have handled the storm over the weekend relatively well, but energy experts said the risk of more outages remained.
Marineland, a closed aquatic park in Ontario, had threatened to euthanize its whales after the government denied an application to send them to China.
A digging stick and a tiny tool of unknown purpose are among the oldest handheld wooden tools ever found. The objects, from 430,000 years ago, indicate early human ancestors were using wood for tools, weapons and maybe shelters. Our team was “so lucky, incredibly lucky” to have found objects like this, says paleolithic archaeologist Annemieke…
OpenAI’s co-founder and longtime president, Greg Brockman, didn’t just make a run-of-the-mill donation to the main pro-Trump super PAC — together, he and his wife Anna’s September 2025 donations equaled the largest of them all, totaling $25 million to “MAGA Inc.,” per a recent filing. The Brockmans’ donations made up nearly one-fourth of the six-month…
The Minnesota Timberwolves returned to the court Sunday a day after postponing their home game against the Golden State Warriors following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by a federal officer in Minneapolis the previous day. But it was anything but business as usual for everyone involved. “For the second time in less than…
DJ Mustard and his girlfriend Brittany Stroud enjoyed a baby sprinkle with close family and friends over the weekend. The private gathering took place at Baltaire Restaurant, where guests were treated to a family-style first course that included zucchini bread and a seasonal citrus salad. As for decorations, tables were set with menus that read…
Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.
In February 2007 the Supreme Court heard a case that hinged on about 15 minutes of video evidence from two police vehicles’ dashboard cameras: footage showed the front end of a police car as it pursued a driver in Georgia before it rammed into the back of the driver’s car, which subsequently crashed. The driver,…
