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Amazon’s Panos Panay announced Alexa Plus last week, representing a renewed focus on software for the company’s troubled consumer electronics division. The biggest surprise at Amazonâs press conference last week was the lack of hardware announcements. Traditionally, Amazon announces dozens of new gadgets at its events, but this time, Amazon spent 70 minutes talking about…
It may look a little like a Surface Pro, but if you squint you’ll notice it’s not boring. The beefy Windows gaming tablet is back, and itâs done two things I thought impossible. It made me respect integrated graphics, and it convinced me a Windows tablet can be fun. The Asus ROG Flow Z13 is…
President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post late Friday night that he will “be signing a complete pardon” of MLB’s all-time hit king, Pete Rose. Rose died last year before ever seeing himself make the Hall of Fame; writers have never been given the option to vote for him, as the Baseball Writers…
Fitness legend Jillian Michaels weighed in on the Department of Government Efficiency’s waste-cutting efforts, saying she’s “horrified” by the list of apparent waste. DOGE under Elon Musk has claimed it’s uncovering billions of dollars in government “waste, fraud and abuse,” and is seeking to continue federal audits and firings. “If I were to play devil’s…
The country’s top weather and climate monitoring agency has become the latest target of layoffs within the federal government, according to Democratic lawmakers speaking out against the Trump administration. At least 880 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the country’s national weather service, were fired Thursday, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said in…
IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER: – Amazon rolling out AI-driven Alexa+ service – Simon Cowell warns AI ‘shouldn’t be able to steal’ human talent – Would you hop on this driverless electric city bus? RAMPING UP ALEXA: Amazon revealed Wednesday it will be rolling out an Alexa+ service infused with artificial intelligence. NOTHING FOR FREE: The “America’s…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul put a wrench in a City University of New York (CUNY) constituent college’s plans to fill a “Palestinian Studies” professorship posting that would have allegedly peddled antisemitic and anti-Israel discourse with topics like “apartheid,” “settler colonialism,” “genocide” and more. “Governor Hochul has directed CUNY to immediately remove this job posting…
Fired pipeline worker Lynn “Bugsy” Allen shared that he is optimistic President Donald Trump will bring back the Keystone XL Pipeline project and help families “prosper.” On his first day in office, former President Joe Biden issued an executive order revoking Trump’s permit to expedite the pipeline’s approval, which would have brought oil down from…
The American people did not re-elect President Donald J. Trump to continue the failed Biden-Harris policy of “as much as it takes for as long as it takes” for the Ukraine war. On the contrary, President Trump campaigned on ending the killing and resolving the conflict, and he received a broad political mandate for this…
Vice President JD Vance defended President Donald Trump and his administration’s foreign policy agenda Friday during a tense exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — inserting himself into a spotlight rarely seen by vice presidents. Trump and Vance sparred in the Oval Office Friday with Zelenskyy amid negotiations to end the war in Ukraine —…