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Lucid is making some changes. The luxury EV company said Tuesday that it was expanding its robotaxi deal with Uber - and nabbing some additional investment cash in the process. And it's naming a new CEO who hails not from the world of electric vehicles, but from a company that manufactures a different kind of mobility device



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A MIM-104 Patriot Surface-to-Air Missile System fires as part of a bilateral live-fire exercise with military members from the Royal Netherlands Ground-based Air Defense Command.
A Ukrainian Patriot unit is breaking from traditional air defense doctrine to save interceptors.
  • A Ukrainian Patriot unit commander said his crew is firing one interceptor per Russian missile.
  • It's a break from standard Patriot air defense doctrine, which calls for at least two interceptors per missile.
  • The shift in tactics could alleviate strain on Ukraine's low

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The author coaches women reentering the workforce after a career break.
  • I've seen many women minimize their experience after taking career breaks.
  • They often downplay unpaid work and apologize in interviews.
  • I help them reframe their skills and confidently own their value.

When I decided to leave my last position, I was tasked with finding my replacement.

One woman I interviewed


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Staatsburgh is about two hours from New York City.
  • Staatsburgh was the home of financier Ogden Mills and his wife, socialite Ruth Livingston Mills.
  • The Gilded Age mansion, completed in Dutchess County, New York, in 1896, features 79 rooms.
  • The Mills had tickets for the Titanic's second trip, which never happened since it sank in 1912.

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OpenAI has acquired Hiro Finance, a startup that offers AI-powered financial planning tools. As first reported by TechCrunch, fiscal terms of the deal, which was announced on Monday, were not disclosed by OpenAI. However, all signs point this to being an acquhire, with Hiro founder Ethan Bloch writing on LinkedIn that the company's product would stop working on April 20. Users have until May 13 to


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A software developer claims to have reverse-engineered Google DeepMind's SynthID system, showing how AI watermarks can be stripped from generated images or manually inserted into other works. A claim that, according to Google, isn't true.

The developer, going by the username Aloshdenny, has open-sourced their work on GitHub and documented his process, claiming all it required was 200



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Anbernic, one of the most prolific makers of handheld consoles and emulators, isn't


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A few years ago, during the absolute peak of the cryptocurrency craze, a somewhat surprising skeptic emerged. Most people know Ben McKenzie from his acting work on Southland or Gotham, or would recognize him instantly as Ryan Atwood from The O.C. While seemingly everyone else was buying Bitcoin, McKenzie decided to figure out what Bitcoin was actually all about. And, of course, he decided


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Samsung is raising prices across Galaxy Z Flip 7, Galaxy S25 FE, and Galaxy S25 Edge phones, as spotted earlier by Phone Arena. Though the base model of each phone is staying at the same price, devices with higher storage are now up to $80 more expensive:

  • Galaxy Z Flip 7 (512GB): $1,219.99 to $1,299.99
  • Galaxy S25 FE (256GB): $709.99 to $749.99
  • Galaxy S25 Edge (512GB) $1,219.99 to $1



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Amazon has made a deal to buy Globalstar's low-Earth orbit satellite network for $11.57 billion, snapping up its spectrum licenses, operations, and assets to combine with its upcoming Leo internet satellite constellation. Apple owned 20 percent of Globalstar, and as a part of the deal, Amazon will continue to support satellite services like Emergency SOS for iPhones and Apple Watches, and