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Like every athletic endeavor, running is complicated. We’re not all professional athletes, with every minute dedicated to improving and preserving our physical performance. We have small children and dogs and sometimes don’t get a lot of sleep. We have work schedules and sometimes drink alcohol and squeeze in a run …

Ahead of Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, Trump is already boosting conspiracies that the event is being “rigged” in favor of Harris. In recent days, Trump has promoted a number of baseless conspiracies claiming that ABC News, who will host the …

As ever, additional rumors have popped up in the days leading up to the event. Among the more interesting of recent vintage (all Apple Watch-related): The Apple Watch Series 10’s blood pressure monitoring is not coming to the Watch Ultra 2, and there are limited Apple Intelligence features for the …

WhatsApp, the most popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app in the world with more than two billion users, allows users to exchange pictures and videos that disappear soon after opening. But a bug in how WhatsApp implements its so-called “View Once” feature in its browser-based web app allows any malicious recipient …

Companies’ data architecture today looks nothing like it did 20 years ago, but monitoring and tracing tools haven’t followed suit, making it difficult for engineering teams to identify the root cause of errors and latency issues.  Israeli developer Eden Federman thinks the solution is distributed tracing, a more advanced observability …

The SMB-focused bookkeeping, accounting and finance startup finally has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding and secured a $150 million credit line, TechCrunch is the first to report. The financing comes just seven months after the fintech company announced it had raised $10 million in funding, …

Google argues that it faces fierce competition from Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and others. It further contends that customers benefited from each of the acquisitions, contracts, and features that the government is challenging. “Google has designed a set of products that work efficiently with each other and attract a valuable customer …

But X also makes it clear the onus is on the user to judge the AI’s accuracy. “This is an early version of Grok,” xAI says on its help page. Therefore chatbot may “confidently provide factually incorrect information, missummarize, or miss some context,” xAI warns. “We encourage you to independently …

It’s been an infamous year for software updates gone wrong. But what’s the worst-case scenario for a buggy update? Sonos may be trying to find the answer as its mobile app update continues to derail its best laid plans. In its most recent earnings call, the company announced that it …

The lack of Avengers is one of the glaring problems with the Multiverse Saga movies and TV shows. It’s a big MCU plot hole that Marvel had to explain off-stage. There are no Avengers in the MCU right now, as they pretty much disbanded after the events in Endgame. Marvel …