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News about Android is being relegated to a side show at Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, next month. On Monday, the company announced it would share information about the latest updates coming to the Android ecosystem at an upcoming virtual event called “The Android Show: I/O Edition,” airing on May 13. The decision to move the Android portion of Google I/O to its own separate event ahead of the start of I/O suggests this year’s developer conference could be even more AI heavy than usual. AI news and updates were already taking up an increasingly longer portion of the…
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday. When ChatGPT users search for products, the chatbot will now offer a few recommendations, present images and reviews for those items, and include direct links to webpages where users can buy the products. OpenAI says users can ask hyper-specific questions in natural language and receive customized results. To start, OpenAI is experimenting with categories including fashion, beauty, home goods, and electronics. OpenAI is rolling out the feature in the default AI model for ChatGPT, GPT-4o, today for…
CNN — Canadians hit the polls on Monday in an election overshadowed by tariffs, economic uncertainty and annexation threats from the United States. Voters will decide whether to grant Prime Minister Mark Carney a full four-year mandate or give the Conservative Party a turn at the wheel after more than nine years of Liberal Party government. Canadians began casting their ballots in the country’s easternmost province, Newfoundland and Labrador, at 8:30 a.m. local time (7 a.m. ET) Monday. Canada’s uneasy relationship with the US has deeply influenced the tenor of this year’s campaign. US President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canadian…
LAHORE: Quetta Gladiators looked much more compact than Peshawar Zalmi in all departments here Sunday night at the Gaddafi Stadium as the former recorded a comprehensive 64-run win to boost their campaign in the Pakistan Super League. The way an animated Mohammad Amir trapped Zalmi captain Babar Azam in front of the wicket as his team looked to chase 179, showed how well prepared Gladiators were for the game. If their top five batters made useful contributions, their fast bowlers, particularly Faheem Ashraf (5-33), were spot on. The win lifted Gladiators, who recorded their second consecutive win of this PSL…
Nike faces a $5 million lawsuit following the shutdown of its RTFKT NFT platform, with “Crypto Kicks” NFTs plummeting from $8,000 to just $16—a devastating 99.8% loss. The high-profile collapse has triggered legal action across multiple states, as former NFT holders accuse the athletic wear giant of executing a “rug pull” after acquiring RTFKT in December 2021 only to announce its closure three years later.Key TakeawaysAustralian investor Jagdeep Cheema leads a $5 million lawsuit against Nike, alleging the company sold “unregistered securities” in violation of consumer protection laws in New York, California, Florida, and Oregon.Technical failures in April 2025, including…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek plans to open source portions of its online services’ code as part of an “open source week” event next week. DeepSeek will open source five code repositories that have been “documented, deployed and battle-tested in production,” the company said in a post on X on Thursday. Code repositories are storage locations for software development assets, and typically contain source code as well as configuration files and project documentation. “As part of the open-source community, we believe that every line shared becomes collective momentum that accelerates the journey,” the company wrote. “Daily unlocks are coming soon. No…
TikTok users have been in full panic mode in the midst of President Donald Trump’s ongoing game of chicken with tariffs and the U.S. economy. Now, the conversation has finally reached a boiling point over … handbags? Trump’s tariffs mean an astronomical consumer burden on everything from wedding dresses to coffee to clothing to cars....
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Remember when ConstitutionDAO tried (and failed) to buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution? Well, now there’s a project aiming to do much the same with a nuclear bunker.The creators of doomsday-themed Solana project Meatbags hope to purchase a nuclear bunker built during the Cold War in Rutland, England. To do this, 100,000 Billionaire Bunker...
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The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) must hold a license preapproval lottery for 648 social equity applicants hoping to enter the state’s forthcoming adult-use marketplace, a judge ordered on April 4. Minnesota Second Judicial District Court Judge Stephen L. Smith ruled that the cannabis regulatory authority has a legal duty that the law “absolutely...
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