Google Photos Returns Feature Quietly Removed From All Users
Google Photos is testing a new "Quick fix" menu that brings back the highly requested "Auto trim" video feature. PAUL MONCKTON
Google Photos is finally preparing to bring back a popular feature quietly dropped as part of the app's extensive 2025 video editor redesign.
What Google Removed — And Why Users Were Angry
Last year, Google Photos unexpectedly removed the “Auto Trim” feature that could automatically trim videos down to their most interesting moments in a single tap.
While Musk's Neuralink drills into skulls, China's BrainCo bets the future of brain tech is wearable
Brain-computer interfaces, a nascent technology, establishes a direct link between human minds and devices.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink, which uses implants in people's heads to compensate for disabilities, has become the poster child for so-called brain-computer interfaces (BCI). But some companies are betting that mass-market neural tech won't require opening the skull at all.
BCI works by processing brain signals and translating them into commands, allowing external devices to be controlled by thought.
Journalism In The 2100s
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What’s the state of journalism today? And what will it look like in the year 2100?
Maybe a much better question is: what will it look like in 2030?
Scanning the internet, I saw a lot of references to hyperpersonalized news and deepfakes. Then there’s this article with four competing scenarios for news generation and control of related media spaces.
Some takes are more doom-and-gloom than others, like this City Magazine piece that predicts “the end of news as we know it” by 2030. A survey from the Institute of Public Relations notes diminishing optimism among respondents, on the longevity of traditional journalism evolving from print media.
3 Quiet Signs Your Partner Chooses You Every Day, By A Psychologist
The strongest evidence of commitment rarely arrives as a grand declaration; it tends to show up, almost invisibly, in the ordinary texture of a Tuesday. getty
Popular culture has trained people to look for proof of love from your partner in its most dramatic form: the surprise gesture, the tearful anniversary speech, the public declaration meant to be witnessed by others. These moments are pleasant, but relationship researchers have long argued that they are poor predictors of whether a partnership will endure.
Apple skewers OpenAI's recruiting practices in bombshell lawsuit
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OpenAI has been on a recruiting tear, supercharging its headcount and yanking top AI talent from other tech companies. Now, Apple says the AI juggernaut has been playing dirty with its recruitment tactics.
The Cupertino tech giant accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets in a lawsuit filed Friday that also targeted its hardware outfit, IO, and two former Apple employees who worked at OpenAI. The lawsuit marks a dramatic escalation in the AI talent wars, where competition for elite engineers has become almost as fierce as the race to build smarter models.
The era of automated, AI-enabled ransomware is here getty
Sysdig’s Threat Research Team last week documented what is to be the first known agentic ransomware operation, known as JadePuffer, involving an AI-driven extortion chain against an exposed instance of LangFlow open-source code. JadePuffer, a ransomware style operation, used an AI agent to carry out much of an intrusion chain, from reconnaissance and credential work to lateral movement, database encryption and even ransom note generation.
Google's SensorFM Reveals Where AI Takes Wearable Health
Close-up of arm of a man wearing a Fitbit Versa smart watch displaying sleep tracking data, a recently expanded capability of several Fitbit products, San Ramon, California, September 12, 2019. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Getty Images
Google's new wearable foundation model was not built to make a smarter step counter. Trained on a trillion minutes of sensor data from five million people, SensorFM was built to replace the entire category of single-purpose health algorithms with one generalist model, and its results show exactly where the wearable industry is headed next: away from dashboards full of numbers, and toward an AI layer that interprets those numbers for you.
I toured the USS Arlington, an active US Navy warship. Here are the photos I was allowed to take.
As a resident of New York City, I'm used to walking through Hell's Kitchen and seeing an enormous warship floating in the Hudson River at the Intrepid Museum.
This time, however, it had company.
New York City hosted what organizers billed as "the largest maritime gathering in US history" on July 4, in honor of America's 250th anniversary, with visiting naval ships from around the world opening their gangways to the public.
I brought my dad to a work trip, and he forgot his passport. I flew without him.
I brought my dad to a work trip, and he forgot his passport. I flew without him.
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I was a Londoner and had recently accepted a job at a magazine in New York City. The new company paid for my father and me to fly to America so I could celebrate its relaunch, meet my editors, and search for apartments.
Trump purges Election Assistance Commission members, months before midterms
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press aboard the new Air Force One on July 8, 2026.
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President Donald Trump ousted the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, with less than four months before midterm elections, the White House confirmed Friday.
Democrats blasted Trump's gutting of the EAC, an independent federal agency that helps administer election funds, calling it just the latest example of Trump's efforts to subvert U.S. elections.