AI & RoboticsNews

DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

As its traffic continues to climb, alternative search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning into anti-AI sentiment with the launch of new browser extensions that allow users to set its no-AI search experience, noai.duckduckgo.com, as their default search engine. Once enabled, users will be directed to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search page, where there are no AI-assisted answers, no chat prompts, and fewer…
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NewsPhotography

This stunning abstract photography trick uses a secret ingredient that's hiding in your childhood toy box

While you can file playing marbles at school in the same memory drawer as hopscotch and riding around on your chopper bicycle, they do make a great subject for an abstract macro project. Don’t worry about braving cobwebs and setting off your dust allergy by scrabbling around in the attic looking for them, though. For some reason they are plentiful and cheap on Amazon, or even some toy shops if…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

This Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies (Updated)

For over a decade now, Tesla has sold a promise of vehicles that can drive themselves, even stating that every car it produced had all the hardware for self-driving. But after years of the company being unable to deliver, some owners want their money back. Ben Gawiser is one of those owners, who recently won a $10,600 judgment due to Tesla’s failure to deliver. But Tesla kept fighting to delay…
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DefenseNews

Army vet supports her Navy sister in tough hospital journey

“I went to Japan and I was ready to spend the next 20 years there,” Kayla Saska said, a former sailor describing her first duty station. “I loved it, the people, the culture.” Kayla, a high school athlete who scored well on the military entrance exams, excelled in…
DefenseNews

Poland spends $16.5 billion in EU-backed loans on heavy army weapons

WARSAW, Poland — The Polish Ministry of National Defence has awarded contracts worth around 60 billion zloty ($16.5 billion) to buy infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzers, military vehicles, and self-propelled wheeled mortars, among other weapons, to a group of local defense companies. The purchases will be bankrolled by the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE)…
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