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• Media Forensics Hub launches updated “Spot the Troll” quiz
• Slop added to Cambridge Dictionary, as AI redefines language
• WindowSwap
• Radio Garden
• Judge rules Google can keep Chrome, but must share some search engine data with rivals
• Japanese Cities Use Social Media to Teach Tourists Manners
• Know Before You Go – Visit Kanazawa
• Replika
• I went on a date with my AI dream guy. Then I cried over shrimp
• Dating an AI: How Much Is It Really Happening?
• Multi-language audio – YouTube Blog
• These weather apps actually care about your privacy
• AI Darwin Awards
• Tired of cookie consent pop-ups? You soon may see less of them
• UMSI convenes scholars and industry leaders to shape human-centered AI
  
  

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• World’s first robot Olympics held in China (Quartz)
• AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service (CNN)
• Versailles statues can now talk to visitors with AI (New York Times)
• Instagram’s new map feature raises privacy concerns (CBS News)
• Boston Public Library digitizes archives with OpenAI (NPR)
• ‘Tradwife,’ ‘delulu,’ and ‘skibidi’ among new Cambridge Dictionary words (Sky News)
• 10 surprising things your smartphone camera can do (MakeUseOf)
• Texas A&M researchers map U.S. power outage hot spots (Texas A&M)
• Interactive power outage map (Netlify app)
• Focus Friend app overtakes ChatGPT on App Store (Lifehacker)
• Pomodoro Technique (Wikipedia)
• How to minimize distractions in Chrome (HowToGeek)
• School of Information launches two new AI courses open to all U-M undergraduates

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• “Click to Cancel” rule to make canceling subscriptions easier blocked by court
• Noom wants to be 'the Duolingo of health'
• Robo-Bunnies Are the Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida
• The 7 Best Puzzle Games You Can Play in Your Browser
• ‘The postcard craze’ of historic Michigan: More than 60K postcards digitized at U-M Clements Library
• Say hello to the new emoji coming in Unicode 17.0
• New emojis are coming to iOS 26 soon
• This ancient Hungarian abbey is fighting an infestation of book-eating beetles
• Hugging Face introduces open-source desktop robot for $299
• Imginn Lets You Browse Instagram Pages Without an Account
• Imginn
• We Made This Film With AI. It's Wild and Slightly Terrifying
• AI thinks like us? UMSI researchers unveil new model to predict human behavior

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