Google expects to spend $75 billion this year on the AI race

Google parent company Alphabet expects to invest “approximately $75 billion” in capital expenditures in 2025, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai in Alphabet’s Q4 2024 earnings release. Capital expenditures have become a hot topic as of late as big tech companies race to build infrastructure to support their growing AI ambitions, and today’s…

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Hacked on social? Here’s what to do next

The chances of your Instagram, X, Facebook, Amazon, Threads, Rumble, Twitch or other accounts getting taken over by spammy bots and data-stealing thieves have never been higher. So, don’t sit there all smug, thinking, “Oh, Kim, that could never happen to me!” Freebie alert: I’m giving away my latest ebook, “50 Smart Ways to Use AI”…

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You can grab a year of Peacock Premium for just $30

You can stream movies like The Wild Robot, Conclave, Oppenheimer, and more on Peacock. If you’d like to catch up on Oscar-nominated films like The Wild Robot ahead of the awards show next month, you might want to check out Peacock’s latest promotion.   Through February 18th, new and lapsed subscribers can get one year of…

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ICE arrests under President Trump continue in migrant ‘sanctuary’ cities

President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration continues with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials making several criminal arrests over the last week in left-leaning “sanctuary” cities, including Philadelphia, Boston, Denver and Washington, D.C. ICE agents conducted a worksite enforcement operation at a car wash in Philadelphia that led to the arrest of seven…

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Threads now lets you share your custom feeds

Threads will now let you share the custom feeds you’ve created, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday. This means other users can pin your custom feed to their homepage, giving them access to the same stream of curated content. Threads first rolled out custom feeds in November, which you can use to track your…

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