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[ad_1] A Bluetooth smartwatch makes your daily routine smarter and more convenient. You can check calls, texts, and app notifications directly from your wrist, no need to pull out your phone all the time. Most smartwatches also come with built-in fitness features. They track your steps, heart rate, calories, sleep patterns, and more, helping you…
[ad_1] Google agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the State of Texas on Friday to settle two lawsuits accusing it of violating the privacy of state residents by tracking their locations and searches, as well as collecting their facial recognition information. The state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, who secured the settlement, brought the suits in…
[ad_1] In recent days, iPhone apps have been changing. The Kindle app now lets people buy books directly from its site. Spotify is offering users free trials. And Patreon, a subscription service, is letting people pay creators more money. The changes are an early look at how a recent court ruling could transform the shopping…
[ad_1] Fifteen states sued the Trump administration over its declaration of an “energy emergency,” arguing that there is no emergency and that the order instructs regulators to illegally bypass reviews of fossil fuel projects, potentially damaging the environment. The president’s Jan. 20 executive order, “Declaring a National Energy Emergency,” directed federal agencies to speed up…
[ad_1] It was a moment of religious reflection, perhaps a rare one, in a Washington federal building. Lee Zeldin, the first Jewish administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, on Thursday affixed a mezuza — a parchment scroll inscribed with Jewish prayers, encased in a small rectangular case — to the door frame of his wood-paneled…
[ad_1] The Trump administration is considering several executive orders aimed at speeding up the construction of nuclear power plants to help meet rising electricity demand, according to drafts reviewed by The New York Times. The draft orders say the United States has fallen behind China in expanding nuclear power and call for a “wholesale revision”…
[ad_1] Mexico has initiated legal proceedings against Google after the technology company altered the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” on its mapping service for users in the United States,reported The Guardian. President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Friday that the lawsuit has already been lodged, although she did not specify…
[ad_1] A massive asteroid nearly the size of a stadium will pass safely by Earth on May 9, and space enthusiasts can follow its journey in real time. The object, asteroid 612356 (2002 JX8), measures around 950 feet (290 metres) in diameter and is not a threat, as per NASA. The Virtual Telescope Project will broadcast the…
[ad_1] The blazar BL Lacertae, a giant black hole with jets, facing the earth, have made scientists curious about how X-rays are generated in such extreme conditions for a while. NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer or IXPE now might have been able to solve the mystery. By a collaboration with radio and optical telescopes and…
[ad_1] In September 2006, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, described what made his social network special. “Facebook is about real connections to actual friends,” he wrote in a company post. Two decades later, that description is at the center of a landmark antitrust trial against Mr. Zuckerberg’s social networking empire, now called Meta,…
