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Roblox is censoring chats with AI

Roblox is using AI to alter the content of chat messages on its platform in real time using a new feature rolling out today. Real-time chat rephrasing goes beyond the current filtering for banned language, which replaces certain words and…

Match Group COO out, as dating apps struggle to connect with Gen Z

Tinder-owner Match Group announced on Thursday that it will eliminate the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO), which means Hesam Hosseini will be out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant. The move comes as the…

Best Gravel Running Shoes (2026): Salomon, Adidas, Nike

A fairly new brand, Mount to Coast’s running shoe line up currently consist of the T1 ($180), which is a full-on trail shoe, and the H1, a lower-lugged versatile road to trail shoe that definitely fits the gravel shoe mold….

What to read this week: Poisonous People by Leanne ten Brinke

How can we spot if someone is lying to us?  There are no easy tells Margarita Young/Alamy Poisonous PeopleLeanne ten BrinkeSimon & Schuster It seems only fitting that a book about dark personalities opens with the case study of a…

Moss helped nab notorious grave-robbers

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It may always be beneath our feet, but moss has intertwined with human history for thousands of years. Indigenous cultures often harvested the plants…

Scientists just looked inside Darwin’s 200-year-old specimen jars without opening them

Scientists have found a way to study Charles Darwin’s original specimens from his famous HMS Beagle voyage (1831 to 1836) to the Galapagos Islands. Even more remarkable, they were able to examine the samples without opening the nearly 200-year-old jars…

Big tech companies agree to not ruin your electric bill with AI data centers

Today the White House announced that several major players in tech and AI have agreed to steps that will keep electricity costs from rising due to data centers. Under this Ratepayer Protection Pledge, companies are agreeing to practices that are…

Did Live Nation punish a venue by taking Billie Eilish away?

John Abbamondi had orders to let the CEO of Ticketmaster down easy. In April 2021, Abbamondi was the CEO of BSE Global, the company that ran Brooklyn arena the Barclays Center. BSE Global’s existing Ticketmaster contract would expire at the…

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go…

These $500 Windows Laptops Show the MacBook Neo’s Competition

Today, Apple announced its new budget MacBook. At $599, it looks seriously impressive. While I haven’t tested its performance, battery life, or display just yet, it may end up being hard to beat at that price based on some of…