The email also asks the Zuckerbergs to, “ideally stop—but at a minimum give us extended breaks from—the acquisition, demolition and construction cycle to let the neighborhood recover from the last eight years of disruption.”At this point, the email requests that the family “abide by both the letter and the spirit of Palo Alto” by complying with city code about residential buildings.Specifically, it asks the Zuckerbergs to get a use permit for the compound’s school and to hold “a public hearing for transparency.” It also asks the family to not expand its compound any further. “We hope this will help us…
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Google recently claimed that the iPhone was less safe than an Android smartphone, which can be filed under Mandy Rice-Davies Applies, or MRDA for short. Some Apple aficionados, not me, I should hasten to add, were probably laughing when Google then confirmed a bunch of scams facing their users. Such…
TfL, to its credit, has made many efforts over the years to try to deal with the problem of hot tunnels, including attaching cooling panels to tunnel walls. The panels, which circulate water to remove heat from the air, were deployed in a trial in 2022, though they are not…
This is an unusual kind of leak, one given by NetEase itself, which has previewed what appear to be the next pair of Marvel Rivals heroes, Gambit and Rogue.Sharp-eyed fan and ex-leaker Miller noticed that very, very faintly in the background of the last batch of Marvel Rivals patch notes,…
“If you had to point to one reason [crypto prediction markets] are able to come back to the US, you have to point to the Trump administration,” says Zach Hamilton, founder of crypto startup Sarcophagus, in an interview with WIRED. “Donald Trump. I mean, that’s it.”Even before the arrival of…
During their last quarterly investors webinar both Seagate Technology and Western Digital focused up their exabytes shipped hard disk drive storage capacity and their revenue and profits. However, they did not provide information that they have done in past quarters that would give investors important operational information such as the…
While Microsoft didn’t offer a specific forecast for its AI capital expenditures for the next quarter or coming year, the company’s chief financial officer, Amy Hood, said that the company’s total spend will “increase sequentially, and we now expect the fiscal year 2026 growth rate to be higher than fiscal…
Coca-Cola dropped a new batch of AI-produced ads, with a list of caveats a mile long. The beverage giant received pushback for its AI ads last year and took great pains to say that 100 people worked on the new AI ads, a number that they claim is on par…
Even the best artificial intelligence agents are fairly hopeless at online freelance work, according to an experiment that challenges the idea of AI replacing office workers en masse.The Remote Labor Index, a new benchmark developed by researchers at data annotation company Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS),…
Before today’s Quordle hints and answers, here’s what you missed on Monday:Hey, folks! Hints and the answers for today’s Quordle words are just ahead.How To Play QuordleFor any newcomers joining us, here’s how to play Quordle: Just start typing in words. You have four five-letter words to guess and nine…
Note: Make sure to complete today’s NYT Connections before reading further! We’ll be getting into spoilers for today’s game pretty quickly. If you need some help to complete the grid, you can find my NYT Connections hints and answers column for today on my author page (I’ll update this with…
The project is environmentally sustainable in other ways. More than 95 percent of its electricity comes from offshore wind turbines. Overall, the designers estimate that this reduces energy consumption by 22.8 percent. Huang Dinan, president of Shenergy Group, another of the project’s contractors, noted that the East China Sea offers…
After the Amazon’s huge Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 price drop, Samsung and other retailers have launched a raft of new offers and discount codes that slash the price of most of the company’s smartphones.This story was updated on November 1st with a new Samsung voucher code. Last week, Samsung…
US president Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance.Zhao, widely known as CZ, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering laws and US sanctions. The plea formed part of a sweeping deal with the US Department of Justice, under which Binance was…
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