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Google bets on Gemini to remake search
Google is tying new Gemini-powered agents to search and a fresh smart glasses push, aiming to close the AI gap with Anthropic and OpenAI while keeping users inside its own ecosystem.
2026-05-20
Two cruise passengers under Nebraska quarantine
Nebraska health officials say two cruise passengers linked to a hantavirus outbreak are under legal quarantine in a hospital isolation unit while federal teams trace other contacts.
2026-05-20
Plex Turns Lifetime Into a $750 Status Symbol
Plex is tripling the cost of its lifetime pass to $750, leaning into scarcity, FOMO and price anchoring while pushing most users toward recurring subscriptions.
2026-05-20
Travel
Entertainment
Eye-Level Party Levels Every Guest
An Oakland event used custom foam platforms to equalize guests’ height, turning a casual party into a live experiment in status, posture and eye contact.
2026-05-04
Why Nintendo Keeps Super Mario Galaxy Movie Racing
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto argues the rapid pace of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie mirrors game design, trading character pauses for dense visual action to hold broad, impatient audiences.
2026-05-03
Letterboxd Owner Quietly Tests the Exit Door
Letterboxd’s controlling investor is exploring a stake sale, forcing the film-focused social platform to weigh new ownership, fresh capital and the risk of losing its loyal cinephile identity.
2026-04-27
Animal
Technology
Android 17 Beta shifts screen recording focus
Android 17 QPR1 Beta 3 changes screen recording so the menu now highlights recording the last-used app by default, signaling a tighter push on privacy and cleaner captures.
2026-05-20
Wear OS 7 puts live updates on your wrist
Wear OS 7 brings Live Updates to the wrist, turning compatible watches into real‑time hubs for deliveries, sports scores, and notifications without constant phone checks.
2026-05-20
Google bets on AI agents and smart glasses
Google revives glasses and recasts search as a factory for autonomous AI agents, signaling a shift from query results to task execution for mainstream consumers.
2026-05-20
Car
Health
Heart protection demands far more exercise
New research argues that serious protection against heart attack and stroke begins around 560–610 weekly minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise, far above current public guidelines.
2026-05-20
Ebola exposure sends U.S. surgeon to Germany
An American missionary surgeon exposed to Ebola in Congo has been evacuated to Germany for monitoring, while his wife and four children remain under observation in Congo.
2026-05-20
US Physician Caught in Deadly Crossfire of Ebola Outbreak
An American missionary surgeon in Congo likely contracted Ebola while operating on a patient with presumed gall bladder disease, exposing the blind spots of frontline infection control.
2026-05-20
Delicacy
ACGN
Maryland confirms imported measles case
Maryland health officials confirmed an imported measles case in a Baltimore-area resident who traveled abroad and are tracing contacts and urging MMR vaccination.
2026-04-20
Five surreal sci-fi anime for a Pragmata mood
Pragmata’s eerie, low-orbit isolation has clear cousins in five surreal sci-fi anime that mix cosmic dread, fragile humanity and brutal visual imagination.
2026-04-19
Capturing Affection Through Lenses
2024-04-03