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In May 2025, the Google Photos app got an incredible feature: the ability to manually create photo stacks. Google Photos has long automatically created stacks of similar-looking pictures, helping to ...

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North Carolina lawmakers filed a bill in April that would prevent bots from being created to buy event tickets. That bill never became law. But much of it ended up in the 634-page state budget, which ...

On Sunday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doubled down on the shocking warning he issued earlier this month to businesses that use AI, taking it a step further this time. Companies that rely wholly on ...

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