Following Elon Musk’s xAI’s move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday said that the company formerly known as Twitter will soon offer the Grok chatbot to more paying subscribers. In a post on X, Musk announced Grok will become available to Premium subscribers this week, … Read more
Every week, Cynthia George connects with her granddaughter and great-grandson on video calls. The 71-year-old retiree reads the news on her MSN homepage and googles how to fight the bugs coming from her drain in Florida’s summer heat. She hunts for grocery deals on her Publix app so that her food stamps stretch just a … Read more
Maria Diaz/ZDNET With the April 15 tax deadline hot on our heels, it’s time for all honest and upright US citizens to prepare and submit their taxes. I’d been busy collecting all my tax forms and documents showing my income, expenses, and other items. In most cases, that’s not too difficult since banks, investment firms, … Read more
Texas residents can no longer access Pornhub — without a VPN. As of Thursday, when people in Texas try to access any of the porn sites owned by Aylo, formerly MindGeek, they’ll instead see a long message in opposition to age verification laws. Laws requiring age verification on adult entertainment sites have already gone into … Read more
Not everything is bigger in Texas it seems … ’cause the porn selection just got a heck of a lot smaller — with Pornhub blocking access to would-be users in the Lone Star State. The porn giant’s not allowing users to hop on its site because of a new age verification legislation signed into law … Read more
MDaaS Global, a Nigerian health tech company that operates a network of tech-enabled diagnostic centers across the country, has secured $3 million in pre-Series A funding. The round was led by Aruwa Capital and Newton Partners, the latter of which was the lead investor in the health tech’s $2.3 million seed extension in 2021. MDaaS … Read more
Play video content TMZSports.com Ryan Garcia wants his family and fans to know he is alive and “okay” … but his current situation is far from pleasant — claiming he has been stripped of access to his phone, Instagram and finances. TMZ Sports has obtained a video statement from King Ryan himself … where he … Read more
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A rural Pennsylvania county and its elected officials may have to pay the state elections agency hundreds of thousands of dollars to reimburse it for legal fees and litigation costs in a three-year battle over allowing outsiders to examine voting machines to help former President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud. … Read more
Image: tomeqs (Shutterstock) Android 15 preview is out today for developers, and with it comes the latest version of Google’s Privacy Sandbox, which killed third-party cookies just last month. The new OS will also make available extensions to give more control for a device’s camera so it can be used to its full capabilities, and … Read more
VENICE — On the banks of the Grand Canal, smartphone-wielding tourists jostled for position, capturing the elegantly masked figures of Carnival. The tourists scrummed with commuters for precious space aboard Vaporetto water buses. “Let me through!” barked one elderly Venetian, claiming a seat amid a sea of foreigners. Nearby, city sanitary workers roamed the streets, … Read more