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Honorable Mentions Photograph: Kat Merck Sutra Heat Guard Blowout Cream for $24: I love Sutra’s IR2 hair straightener, so I had high hopes. This thick and almost fragrance-free cream is meant to protect up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit and reduce drying time, but my hair felt dried out after use. Mane Temp Check for $26: […]
Billy Woods has one of the highest batting averages in the game. Between his solo records like Hiding Places and Maps, and his collaborative albums with Elucid as Armand Hammer, the man has multiple stone-cold classics under his belt. And, while no one would ever claim that Woods’ albums were light-hearted fare (these are not […]
Nearly two years ago, Motional was at an autonomous vehicle crossroads. The company, born from a $4 billion joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, had already missed a deadline to launch a driverless robotaxi service with partner Lyft. It had lost Aptiv as one of its financial backers, prompting Hyundai to step up […]
Last month, reports of Asus’ hyper-expensive ROG Matrix RTX 5090s being recalled started popping up, with the company saying that “product optimizations and enhancements” were in order. At the time, the leading theory pointed toward subpar liquid metal application on the GPU core, as called out by Roman ‘der8bauer’ Hartung, which has now been confirmed […]
from the so-you-say dept This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is David with a comment about the murder of Renee Good by ICE: Kristi Noem is right about one thing: It was an act of domestic terrorism. Indeed. And that is the main purpose of ICE as it is currently being […]
In preparation for the release of An Elegant Puzzle, I set up the page to subscribe to my newsletter on January 20th, 2019, heavily inspired by Julia Evans’s approach. I didn’t know anything about releasing a book, but Brie Wolfson coached me through it, and having a newsletter to tell folks about the book seemed […]
Robert Triggs / Android Authority I’m old enough to remember a time before Spotify heralded the golden age of music discovery. Even the early beta catalog gave me access to far more music than I could ever hope to fit on my iPod Nano, and, more importantly, made discovering new artists and exploring new genres […]
If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you’re not alone. Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, initially reported that there was a data breach revealing the “sensitive information” of 17.5 million Instagram users. Malwarebytes added that the leak included Instagram usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and more. However, Instagram […]
Taking AI pilot programs into production From this successful example, several lessons can be learned. First, unstructured data must be prepared for AI models through intuitive forms of collection, and the right data pipelines and management records. “You can only utilize unstructured data once your structured data is consumable and ready for AI,” says Cealey. […]
Jan 10, 2026Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Financial Crime Europol on Friday announced the arrest of 34 individuals in Spain who are alleged to be part of an international criminal organization called Black Axe. As part of an operation conducted by the Spanish National Police, in coordination with the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office and Europol, 28 […]
