Yelp adds AI-powered scores to business pages

The crowd-sourced review site Yelp unveiled a new feature that uses AI and customer reviews to rate common facets of nightlife and food-related business. The new Review Insights feature is available now on the iOS version of the Yelp app, according to the company’s official blog. Review Insights aggregates customer reviews and feeds them into a large language model...

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Trump’s DOJ obtained more private communications from third-parties including Apple

A new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) secretly obtained the phone call and text message records of 43 congressional staffers, two members of Congress in 2017 and 2018 and members of the news media. DOJ prosecutors obtained call and text logs from telecommunications companies and third-party...

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GM ends support for Cruise robotaxis

GM is giving up on its Cruise robotaxi subsidiary. The company announced today that it will fold Cruise into its own in-house technical team. Under the new strategy, this single unit will focus for now on developing advanced driver assistance programs, and in the future on fully autonomous personal vehicles. GM acquired Cruise in 2016. However, the robotaxi brand...

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Despelote is dribbling its way to the Nintendo Switch

Wanna go outside and kick the ball around? The soccer story game Despelote is coming to the Nintendo Switch in early 2025. The game was previously announced for PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC. Despelote is a story-driven game about people and the emotional spirit and camaraderie of football. You play as a plucky 8-year-old kid named Julián from...

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Google’s DeepMind GenCast: AI Revolutionizes 15-Day Weather Forecasting

Google DeepMind has introduced GenCast, an AI-powered weather forecasting model that achieves unprecedented accuracy for predictions up to 15 days in advance. Designed specifically for Earth’s geometry, GenCast generates probable future weather scenarios by analyzing recent weather data and patterns learned from historical data spanning 1979 to 2018. In tests comparing GenCast to the industry-leading Ensemble Forecast System (ENS),...

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