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"ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition
5 February 2026 @ 8:54 pm
Senator: ICE and CBP "have built an arsenal of surveillance technologies."
Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites
5 February 2026 @ 7:32 pm
Microsoft won’t explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites.
Watch Kanzi the bonobo pretend to have a tea party
5 February 2026 @ 7:07 pm
“Kanzi is able to generate an idea of this pretend object and at the same time know it’s not real.”
Bad sleep made woman's eyelids so floppy they flipped inside out, got stuck
5 February 2026 @ 6:55 pm
Never underestimate the value of a good night's sleep.
Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android "very soon"
5 February 2026 @ 6:06 pm
AirDrop came to the Pixel 10 last year, and more Android phones will join the party in 2026.
OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads
5 February 2026 @ 5:46 pm
Sam Altman calls AI competitor "dishonest" and "authoritarian" in lengthy post on X.
This black hole "burps" with Death Star energy
5 February 2026 @ 4:02 pm
Dubbed "Jetty McJetface," the tidal disruption event's energy keeps getting brighter and should peak in 2027.
NASA changes its mind, will allow Artemis astronauts to take iPhones to the Moon
5 February 2026 @ 3:46 pm
"We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments."
Tesla slipped behind VW in European EV sales last year
5 February 2026 @ 3:16 pm
Electric vehicle sales increased by 29% in 2025, even as overall sales grew 2.2%.
Steam Machine and Steam Frame delays are the latest product of the RAM crisis
5 February 2026 @ 2:22 pm
Valve says it still hopes to ship both devices "in the first half of the year."