If youre not fortunate enough to be in Paris for the Olympics this month, the second best way to watch the games is through a Meta Quest 3 headset, where you can watch Peacocks coverage of Olympic events in either a virtual theater or on a augmented reality screen. You can stream everything Peacock is offering from its app on the Quest 3, and that means a ton of live events, archived competitions, re-caps, highlight collections, and more. How to watch the Paris Olympics on Meta Quest 3Heres how to watch the Olympics in virtual reality with a Meta Quest 3:Navigate to the Meta Horizon Store.Search for PeacockDownload and install the Peacock appSign in or sign up: Peacock's premium plan is $7.99 a month and includes ads. Ad-free Premium Plus is $13.99 a month.Once the Peacock app is open, Olympics coverage should be front and center. Click the "Olympics" tab and go to town. Meta Quest 3 128GB + Link Cable $566.09 at Amazon $578.99 Save $12.90 Get Deal Get Deal $566.09 at Amazon $578.99 Save $12.90 How good is Olympics coverage on the Meta Quest 3?I gave Peacock's Olympics coverage a spin this morning, and I enjoyed having a floating window streaming coverage of the preliminary rounds of a sport I know nothing about while doing real life thingsthe Olympics are great background entertainment for household chores. Here's what it looks like when you watch women's rugby while doing your laundry, for instance: Credit: Stephen Johnson - Peacock The full-screening room experience is great for my favorite use of VR video: lying in bed and projecting video onto the virtual ceiling. This more-lazy-than-sitting-on-the-couch style of watching things may turn out to be the killer app of virtual and augmented reality, and the Olympics are your opportunity to give it a try. Another use for the VR Olympics is being able to watch a different sport than everyone else in the house. You can slip on some headphones and project equestrian events right on top of the TV that's showing gymnastics, and still be (kind of) hanging out with your wife and watching the Olympics "together." Sadly, Peacock's VR coverage of the Olympics is limited to 2D streams of the content that's available on their app, so it doesn't take full advantage of the possibilities of VR with immersive, 3D, sideline coverage of Olympic events or anything like that. Here's hoping for something like that for 2028.

Onion dip is a dangerous thing. It distracts you with its creamy, cool, umami-forward wiles, and before you know it, you wake up covered in chip salt with your partner accusing you of selfishly eating eight ounces of dip. Well I have good and bad news. If youre a lover of onion dip, theres a contender for the most umami-packed dip, and it's made with mushroom duxelles. The bad news is it wont solve your sharing issues.The reason this dip is so dang flavorful is because it combines the umami powers of onions and builds upon it with a heavy dose of mushrooms. Mushrooms arent a typical ingredient for dips but it makes a lot more sense once theyve been transformed into duxelles. Usually the only time duxelles make an appearance in my kitchen is when Im making mini beef Wellington dumplings (or when I Wellington anything, really).What is duxelles?Making duxelles is an easy way to get a robust and savory meal component. Duxelles is composed of finely minced mushrooms, shallot, herbs, and garlic that are sauted in a bit of butter until all of the moisture has evaporated and youre left with a deeply fragrant, concentrated, mushroom mixture. Its not something youd really eat all on its own (but you could, and Id support you), but more of a component; it makes other things better. Where beef Wellington is concerned, you spread the duxelles out in a layer before adding the tenderloin, and in the end it adds an extra savory boost in every slice. But duxelles is such a versatile mixture, it shouldnt be imprisoned forever in relation to beef Wellington. Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann How to make mushroom duxelles dipTo kick off your duxelles discovery, why not turn it into dip? I make the duxelle in a relatively traditional manner for this recipe. The only thing I modify is the shallot. Normally youd use a small shallot for a pound of mushrooms, but I swap it out for half of a large sweet onion. I was looking to combine the powers of onion dip with duxelles, so I figured, why not caramelize some onions straight into the mixture? Onion dip is better when it has more onions in it anyway.This recipe is straightforward, and thats because building complex flavors doesnt mean that the method has to be difficult. Once the mushrooms and onions have cooked out all of their water (this can take up to 20 minutes), cool the mixture and then mix it into an equal parts mixture of cream cheese and plain yogurt. Add a packet of onion dip (theres no shame in a salty seasonings shortcut), and stir until thoroughly combined.Although you could skip the onion dip seasoning packet and still have an exquisite duxelle dip, I like what onions and mushrooms accomplish when they join forces. As with any dry dip mix, wait at least a few hours for the dry ingredients to hydrate in the dip before eating. Use this dream dip for crackers, chips, and pita bread, tuck it into an omelette, or stir it into hot pasta.Mushroom Duxelles Dip RecipeIngredients:1 tablespoon olive oil3 tablespoons butter8 ounces cremini mushrooms, minced large sweet onion, minced1 clove garlic, minced teaspoon salt1 sprig thyme4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature cup plain yogurtA ounce packet dry onion dip1. In a large skillet, add the oil and butter and melt it over medium-low heat. Add the minced mushrooms, onion, and garlic, along with the salt. Stir and cook the mushrooms down until the water has released. Add the thyme. Continue cooking until the mixture has reduced in size and the water has evaporated. Set it aside to cool. Discard the thyme sprig.2. Mix the cream cheese and yogurt together in a large bowl. Add the mushroom duxelles and the dry onion dip seasoning packet. Stir it all together. This dip is rather thick, so if you like the dip to be looser, add more yogurt. Cover the dip and let it sit in the fridge for a few hours, or overnight, to fully hydrate and settle in. Serve with chips.

Windows 11's File Explorer isn't everyone's cup of tea, but that doesn't mean it's devoid of useful features. As it happens, File Explorer isn't only for exploring files on your PC, but your Android device as wellif you know how to set it up.Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is now rolling out the ability to see your Android device in File Explorer on your PC. When enabled, you'll be able to browse all your Android folders and files, which includes actions like:Opening filesCopying Android files to your PCCopying PC files to your Android deviceRename filesMove filesDelete filesThis is made possible through the Link to Windows app, which lets you pair your Android device with your PC, so you can reply to texts, take calls, and view Android notifications from your computer.Accessing Android files from your PCIn order to try this feature out on your device, your phone needs to be running Android 11 or newer. You also need to be running the beta version of the Link to Windows app (version 1.24071 or higher), as the current public version of the app won't work. You can download the beta version from the APKMirror link here. On the Windows side of things, you need to enroll your PC in the Windows Insider Program (any of the four Insider Channels will work here), and you need to berunning Windows 11.Make sure Link to Windows is set up and connected on your phone. (You can follow the instructions in our article here for setup help.) Once all these are in place, go to your PC and head to Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Mobile devices, then choose Manage devices. Make sure your phone is enabled, then enable the toggle next to Access in File Explorer. Microsoft says if you don't see this toggle, the feature hasn't rolled out to you yet. Credit: Microsoft As this feature is still in testing, there are some bugs and issues to watch out for. Microsoft says when you delete phone files on your computer, they are sent to a new Recycle Bin folder on the phone, where they'll be deleted after five days. (The system will tell you it lasts for 30 days, so be aware you don't have that long before these files are deleted.) In addition, Microsoft says deleted files in this new Recycle Bin may not appear on your PC.Finally, you may notice some actions you take on your PC might not sync back to your phone. If so, log out of your Windows account on your PC, then log back in.

Running and cycling app Strava has a ton of features that help you find new running routes, including segments, the route builder, and the global heatmap. Earlier this summer, Strava began offering a weekly heatmap. Its great for finding trails and routes that are popular at a given timebut it may reveal information that is more private than what you thought Strava users could see.Using the weekly heatmap, I was able to browse the map, select a neighborhood that looked like it had one active runner, and find that persons name and where they lived. To be clear, this person is a stranger to me, and I chose the neighborhood randomly; it took a matter of minutes to find this information. If you live in a big city, you may not have to worry about this, but if youre in a rural or suburban area, you might want to check your privacy settings. More about those settings below, but first I want to explain whats going on with the new map.What is Stravas weekly heatmap?Strava offers a number of mapping tools that help you to find places to run or ride. Only paid subscribers can zoom down to street-level views.As Strava explains here, the weekly heatmap is updated each week, combining data from activities (like runs and bike rides) whose visibility is set to Everyone.There has long been a global heatmap as well, but that only tells you what routes are popular in general. The weekly heatmap gives you a real-time view of where people are going now. For example, I could see using this in icy or muddy seasons to see which trails in the county park are still navigable despite the weather.The problem is that if you browse to less-populated areas, like many rural and suburban areas, theres a pretty serious privacy issue: if youre the only person who has been running in your neighborhood lately, your tracks will be the only ones that show up on the weekly map. (On the global map, by contrast, they would blend in with everyone who runs those roads throughout the year.)How the weekly heatmap can make your lonely running routes stand outHeres what I mean. Lately Ive been running almost daily, and most of my runs occur in the neighborhood around my house. When I saw the weekly heatmap feature, I immediately zoomed in on a nearby park to check out popular trails. But when I panned back to the area where my house is, my own personal running routes stood out in cloudy blue lines.This is very different from what the global heatmap shows. My running slightly darkens the lines on the global heatmap, but another person wouldnt be able to pick out my personal running habit just from looking at them.The weekly heatmap is another story, though. It looks like I and probably one other person share a favorite couple of roads in my neighborhood. Sometimes I run laps up and down a certain road; that road glows brighter than the rest.Zooming out, I can see other neighborhoods where theres pretty clearly one person with a favorite route. I can even toggle between the global heatmap and the weekly one, and make observations like the person who runs [route A] has been running it a lot lately, but their neighbor who seems to start and end at [place B] hasnt been active. Do I know these people? Not at all. But I think I know at least one of their names.Heatmaps + Local Legends may reveal more than you intendedThe weekly heatmap gets particularly invasive when combined with another of Stravas main social features: Segments. A segment is a bit of a route that has a title and a leaderboard. Say theres a challenging hill in your area; maybe someone decided it deserved a leaderboard, so they create a segment named Neighborhood Hill that goes up that hill.With Stravas map tool, you can click on a segment and see who has the fastest time, and also who is the Local Legendthe person who has run it the most often in the past 90 days.So, as an experiment, I panned around the map and picked a neighborhood far from mine with what looked like a route run frequently by one or at most a few people: a thin, cloudy blue line over just a few roads, without any activity on other nearby roads.I then asked the map to show me segments in that same area, and sure enough the route included a named segment. I clicked the segment, and it turns out only three people have run that segment in the past 90 days. Two of them ran it once; the other has run it repeatedly.That last personthe Local Legendis likely to be the one who ran that blue cloudy route (or collection of routes) over the past week. I looked at the endpoints of that cloudy line, and figured there was a good chance that the LL (as Ill call them) lives in one of the houses nearest one of those endpoints. To satisfy my curiosity, I looked at the countys real estate records for houses on that street. And whaddaya know, one of the houses at the end of that cloudy blue line is owned by a person with the same first and last name as our Local Legend.I wouldnt have been able to get that kind of precision with just the global heatmap, or just the segments. I may have been able to guess that the LL lived nearby, but I wouldnt have had any clue which road, much less which house, to look up. But the weekly heatmap led me right to their house.How to remove your data from the weekly heatmap Credit: Strava/Beth Skwarecki If your account is completely locked down, with everything set to private, your data isnt being used here. But if you have portions of your runs or rides visible to everyonewhich is necessary if you want to compete on segmentsyour data is part of the weekly heatmap. Here are some ways to change that:Strava says that activities set to only you or followers are excluded from the map. However, these activities are not eligible for segment leaderboards. (You can read Stravas explanation of the privacy settings here.)Strava also allows you to automatically hide the start and end points of your activities. This would let you run from your house to a nearby park, and the portion of the run in the park would be public while the portion near your house would not. Read here about how to set that up. Again, the private portion does not appear on the weekly heatmap and will not be eligible for segment leaderboards. Hiding start and end points will help to avoid the scenario above, where I was able to track down a person to a specific house. But it doesnt change the fact that a stranger could figure out that you run a certain route often.Another partial solution is to change your name and profile picture so that they dont contain any identifying information. This will also make it harder for your friends to recognize you on Strava, so not everybody will want to do that (the social activities are part of the point of Strava).Finally, theres a setting that will remove your data from the global and weekly heatmaps. (Its too bad they dont have those as two separate settings.) Go to Settings, and then Privacy Controls, and scroll to Map Visibility. There is a checkbox labeled Contribute your activity data to de-identified, aggregate data sets. Uncheck that.And, yes, Strava considers this information to be de-identified even though it is, in at least some cases, trivial to link it back to your name. Such is the nature of big data sets: they contain small, identifiable pieces, far more often than the people who collect the data may realize. The Census Bureau, for example, deliberately adds noise (variation) to data sets it releases publicly, as a form of disclosure avoidance. This is a known problem in large data sets, but so far Stravas main method of avoiding disclosure is to ask users to change their privacy settings if they dont want to be included. Thats not good enough, in my opinion, but at least now you know where to find those settings.

Garbage disposals are all about conveniencein theory. Not having to scrape their dinner plates into the garbage like an animal might not seem all that crucial, but the people who have them (roughly half the homes in the U.S. have one installed) are pretty happy about that. Theres also an environmental argument in their favor, having to do with the amount of methane generated by food scraps in landfills versus treating those scraps in properly-equipped wastewater systems.In practice, however, the benefits of a garbage disposal dont go much beyond convenience, and even that is much more limited than you think, especially over the long haul. In fact, garbage disposals can cause more problems than they solve, and youre probably better off without one. Garbage disposals are finickyYes, the biggest benefit of a garbage disposal is time-savinginstead of having to scrape your dishes separately into the garbage or compost, you just scrape them into the sink, grind it all up, and get on with your day.Except, of course, you have to be careful about what you put down your garbage disposal. Garbage disposals are super finicky, and theres a long list of stuff you shouldnt put down there, including random items like eggshells and celery? Once you start listing all the things youre never supposed to put into your garbage disposal, you have to start to wonder just how convenient they actually are.(If you dont want to put your food scraps in the garbage, forget the garbage disposal and consider composting instead.)Garbage disposals require constant maintenanceGarbage disposals arent magic black holes where all your culinary and food waste sins vanish. Theyre actually pretty delicate things that require constant maintenance. They can jamand do, a lot, which can find you jamming a broom handle into your disposal at midnight after a party, cursing the day you ever installed the damn thing. In order to keep your running smoothly, the short list of things youre supposed to do on a regular basis includesSharpening the bladesCleaning the unitRunning and flushing it regularlyDeodorizingAnd thats just to keep the unit functioning. And that maintenance is worth it, because if your disposal breaks, itll cost an average of about $500-600 to replace it, and $100-$250 to repair it.Garbage disposals stress infrastructureDepending on the age of your homes plumbing and the condition of your local wastewater processing system, your garbage disposal can cause huge problems. Our countrys wastewater processing infrastructure is not exactly robust, generally speaking, which is why some municipalities prohibit garbage disposals (they were actually banned in New York City until 1997). One plumbing professionals description of the process of using your garbage disposal makes it clear why they put so much stress on both your homes plumbing and your towns resources:Imagine a giant ready-mix concrete truck filled with a slurry of sand, small rocks and water. Drop the chute and discharge this mix into a 12-inch-diameter city sewer. If you dont add a significant volume of clear water immediately after dumping the sand and gravel into the sewer pipe, the pipe will start to choke off.While some areas have wastewater systems that can handle the slurry created by garbage disposals, for many its a constant stress on the sewage and water processing systems. And theres another potential problem thats been linked to garbage disposals: Fatbergs.Because were scraping food waste into garbage disposals, fat and grease enters the wastewater, where it builds up, sort of like cholesterol in your arteries, forming clogs that eventually stop sewage flow dead. A few years ago Seattle, Washington traced sewage backups to fatbergs, and garbage disposals were determined to be one of the biggest contributors to the problem. Admittedly, this is largely due to people using their disposals improperlybut it stresses just how limited these devices really are.Garbage disposals waste waterFinally, garbage disposals waste water. Their effective operation requires wateronce the scraps are ground up, you need to flush it into your pipes, and then into the sewer system. You should be running the water before you start the disposal, and let it run until about 30 seconds after the grinding is finished.Thats all water going to waste, of courseabout 2 to 5 gallons each time you run the disposal. If youre running your disposal once a day, thats 14-35 gallons every week. We already waste about 95% of the water we use every day, and having a garbage disposal just exacerbates that problem.

I've been pushing the concept of time boxing to better manage your day and be more productive for a while now, but the world of time management methods is vast. When searching for just the right technique, you might even run across the term "time blocking" and think it's the same as time boxingbut it's not. They do each have their uses, however. Here's the difference between the two approaches to time management and when you should use each. What is time boxing?Time boxing is a way to take on tasks that involves setting aside a fixed period of timea "box"to work on it. You only work on it for the duration of time you've allotted yourself, then you're done, at least for a while and until you set aside another box of time for it. You use this when you need to focus on something, whether it's a routine task you schedule for a certain time every day, week, or month. Time boxing creates a space for you to completely commit yourself to just one task, engaging in deep work and avoiding distractions until your time is up. Think of it like a heavy-duty Pomodoro technique: Where Pomodoro asks you to work for 25 minutes and take a break before getting back at it, time boxing asks you to work for however long you want or need, but understand that when the time is up, you're done. In both cases, you know respite is coming, so you focus and work hard to get to the end and accomplish as much as you can in the allotted time. Time boxing is especially handy for resource-heavy work that has some kind of deadline, but it's on you to schedule the time boxes correctly from now until when the deadline occurs. What is time blocking?Time blocking is used when you have a variety of tasks to take on and need to schedule your day precisely. Often, these tasks are unrelated, coming from your professional, home, academic, and social lives. Your day is full of duties and activities related to all the areas of your life, so your calendar should reflect that and make time for all of it. Using time blocking, you block out the time you'll spend on each task, usually in a calendar or planner, and stick to it, using educated guesses to estimate how long each will take within your schedule. The most important part of time blocking is sticking to the schedule you create, which can include time boxing, since you may need to cut a task short if its time is up in your schedule and it's time to move on to another one. You time block everything you need and want to do, plus all your breaks, downtime, and everything in between. Your entire calendar or planner should be filled with blocks, which are visual reminders of exactly how long you have to do each task. Make sure to include blocks for things you enjoy, like watching a favorite show or meeting up with friends, as these act as rewards for getting everything else done. Using this system also allows you to see exactly how much time you really have for those pursuits. If there's something special coming up, like a concert, game, or date, always block that into the time blocking calendar the minute you plan it, so you can build your blocks around it, too. When should time boxing and time blocking be used?Use time boxing when you have a longer-term project to work on or one that never really expires, like a presentation that's due at work in a week or for cleaning your house. The idea here is that you should set aside a certain time, like 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., to work on something consistently, so when the time rolls around, you're in the habit of focusing entirely on the thing you are working on. Time boxing is more about habit-building, training yourself to focus deeply on one thing at a pre-determined time so you really get into it and start to do it regularly at that time. You can time box answering all your emails from 9 to 9:30 every morning, for instance, or cleaning your living room every Thursday at 6 p.m. Time blocking should be used when you are juggling a lot of things and want to make sure they all get done. You should use a calendar, like your Google Calendar, to outline every single second of your day. Schedule the time boxes you use for checking and responding to your emails, cleaning, working on your kids' activities, seeing your friends, and even taking your lunch or 15-minute work breaks. Every part of your calendar should be filled up so you always know what you're supposed to be doing and exactly how long you have to do it. They work together, in a way, since, as I said, you end up time boxing when you're time blocking, but time blocking is less about building a habit and more about building a routine. The longer you do it, the better you'll get at it. You might realize, two weeks in, that you don't need a full hour for checking inventory every Tuesday afternoon, so you can cut that back to 45 minutes and block something else into that spare 15. You may realize you need more than an hour to plan out your meals for the week on Sunday nights. You can tinker with the time blocks until you have just the right amount of space for everything. Then, just get to work. Your calendar tells you exactly what you need to be doing, so it's on you now to focus only on that task, stay distraction-free, and grind it out.

Google has rolled out updates for Search with the intention of making explicit deepfakes as hard to find as possible. As part of its long-standing and ongoing fight against realistic-looking manipulated images, the company is making it easier for people to get non-consensual fake imagery that features them removed from Search.It has long been possible for users to request for the removal of those kinds of images under Google's policies. Now, whenever it grants someone's removal request, Google will also filter all explicit results on similar searches about them. The company's systems will scan for any duplicates of the offending image and remove them, as well. This update could help alleviate some of the victim's fears if they're worried about the same image popping up again on other websites.In addition, Google has updated its ranking systems so that if a user specifically searches for explicit deepfakes with a person's name, the results will surface "high-quality, non-explicit content" instead. If there are news articles about that person, for instance, then the results will feature those. Based on Google's announcement, it seems it also has plans to school the user looking for deepfakes by showing them results that discuss their impact on society.Google doesn't want to wipe out results for legitimate content, like an actor's nude scene, in its bid to banish deepfakes from its results page, though. It admits it still has a lot of work to do when it comes to separating legitimate from fake explicit images. While that's still a work in progress, one of the solutions it has implemented is to demote sites that have received a high volume of removals for manipulated images in Search. That's "a pretty strong signal that it's not a high-quality site," Google explains, adding that the approach has worked well for other types of harmful content in the past.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/google-makes-it-easier-to-remove-explicit-deepfakes-from-its-search-results-130058499.html?src=rss

If you're a dedicated Google Maps user like me, then you know its not perfect. But, Google is now announcing some improvements with a range of new features for Maps and Waze. One of the things I find most exciting is the additional guidance on entering buildings and where to park. In the coming weeks, Maps will start lighting up the destination and entrance to it as you approach, so you (hopefully!) don't have to circle it three times in the dark.Google is also now making it easier to report incidents while using Maps, increasing the size of these icons so you can share quickly and safely while on the go. You can also tap to confirm a previously reported incident after approaching it.Waze is getting three updates, including new camera alerts. Now, Waze will be able to alert you if a camera is approaching and tell you what it's monitoring, whether it be speed, seat belts or accurate carpool lane use. Waze will also notify you if there's a traffic event nearby or close to one of your starred locations. You can then send an alert to a friend or family member. Both of these updates are rolling out now on iOS and Android. Rounding out Waze's updates is the ability to get navigation guidance even when your phone is locked. This feature will launch globally on Android soon, while it will arrive on iOS in the fall.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/google-maps-will-show-you-where-to-enter-your-destination-130021496.html?src=rss

Meta has explained why its AI chatbot didn't want to respond to inquiries about the assassination attempt on Trump and then, in some cases, denied that the event took place. The company said it programmed Meta AI to not answer questions about an event right after it happens, because there's typically "an enormous amount of confusion, conflicting information, or outright conspiracy theories in the public domain." As for why Meta AI eventually started asserting that the attempt didn't happen "in a small number of cases," it was apparently due to hallucinations.An AI "hallucinates" when it generates false or misleading responses to questions that require factual replies due to various factors like inaccurate training data and AI models struggling to parse multiple sources of information. Meta says it has updated its AI's responses and admits that it should have done so sooner. It's still working to address its hallucination issue, though, so its chatbot could still be telling people that there was no attempt on the former president's life.In addition, Meta has also explained why its social media platforms had been incorrectly applying the fact check label to the photo of Trump with his fist in the air taken right after the assassination attempt. A doctored version of that image made it look like his Secret Service agents were smiling, and the company applied a fact check label to it. Because the original and doctored photos were almost identical, Meta's systems applied the label to the real image, as well. The company has since corrected the mistake.Trump's supporters have been crying foul over Meta AI's actions and have been accusing the company of suppressing the story. Google had to issue a response of its own after Elon Musk claimed that the company's search engine imposed a "search ban" on the former president. Musk shared an image that showed Google's autocomplete suggesting "president donald duck" when someone types in "president donald." Google explained that it was due to a bug affecting its autocomplete feature and said that users can search for whatever they want anytime.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/meta-explains-why-its-ai-claimed-trumps-assassination-attempt-didnt-happen-120002196.html?src=rss

Google has responded to allegations it censored searches about Donald Trump after Elon Musk baselessly claimed the company had imposed a search ban on the former president. Google explained the bugs in its autocomplete feature caused the issues. But Musks tweet, viewed more than 118 million times, has forced the search giant to publicly explain one of its most basic features.Google added that the strange suggestions for president donald were due to a bug that spanned the political spectrum. It also affected searches related to former President Barack Obama and other political figures. Mat SmithThe biggest stories you might have missedThe Senate just passed two landmark bills to protect minors onlineI really want to like Star Wars OutlawsThe best soundbars in 2024You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here!Perplexity will put ads in its AI search engineAnd share revenue with publishers.Perplexity will start sharing revenue with some publishers as part of an advertising platform it plans to launch around the end of September. The Perplexity Publishers Program comes less than two months after the startup, valued at $3 billion, came under fire from Forbes, Wired and Cond Nast for allegedly scraping content without permission.Continue reading.Samsung tests its Galaxy Z Flip phones as police bodycamsA pilot scheme is expanding to 25 metro police departments across five states.SamsungA new blog post from Samsung highlights how law enforcement is adopting its Galaxy Z Flip series devices. The line of foldable mobile devices was part of a pilot program, two years ago, in Kimberling City Police and Indian Point Police in Missouri, to test how the phones might improve daily operations. According to Samsung, the program was the first time police used a foldable device as a bodycam. The foldables were customized in collaboration with Visual Labs, a company that repurposes mobile devices as body and dash cameras.Continue reading.This robot dog has a vacuum to clean up trashIt uses AI to pick cigarette butts up from Italys beaches.IITItalian scientists have built a quadruped robot that can identify litter and pick up the smaller bits with its leg-mounted vacuums. The group published a paper in Aprils Journal of Field Robotics on VEROs development. Discarded butts release toxic chemicals and microplastics into the ocean as they break down. Its also the second most common undisposed waste worldwide in areas that are hard to reach for most robots. VERO picked up 90 percent of the cigarette butts identified in testing.Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-google-dismisses-elon-musks-claim-that-autocomplete-interfered-in-the-election-111558485.html?src=rss