When President Donald Trump launched his deportation campaign last January, he had the American public at his back. Under Joe Biden, unauthorized border crossings had soared to record levels — and threw America into a nativist mood. In November 2024, a CBS News/YouGov poll found 57 percent of Americans expressing support for “a national program […]

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Snap blocked 415K+ Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns its implementation has “real technical limitations”  —  Social media platform says there are still ‘real technical limitations to accurate and dependable age verification’

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The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage for the physically demanding work  —  Record demand for fiber-optic cables means drillers, linemen and splicers pull in soaring pay at projects nationwide

Humanoid robots — actually useful ones, the kind you might encounter in day-to-day life — have long been the territory of science fiction, not reality. But their sci-fi ubiquity makes them an understandably tantalizing prospect, and “embodied AI” — AI given a physical system — is already making a difference in the world. Could this […]

When you picture a virtual reality headset user, you're probably not picturing someone like Sherry Dickson. At 69, the snowy-haired, retired elementary school teacher hops into her Meta Quest headset five days a week, for roughly 60 to 90 minutes at a time. She's not attending live concerts or watching immersive films. Dickson, a fitness […]