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AI-generated images are already all over the internet, and now magazines are getting in on the act, too. Los Angeles magazine recently released its special election issue featuring mayoral candidates Nithya Raman and Spencer Pratt posing for the cover. The choice seems obvious—local political candidates for an election issue—except the cover did not actually feature Raman and Pratt, but rather AI-generated versions of them. As a whole, the cover looks like an obvious AI-generated collage, with Raman leaning into Pratt, and the flag of Ghana next to a burning landscape of Los Angeles in the background. “The cover is fake.…

All change for your inbox.NurPhoto via Getty ImagesNow you can “wee what matters most,” Google told Gmail users last week. With the new AI inbox first announced in January, users can essentially put Gemini in charge to “to help you better manage and stay on top of your inbox.”“Today, 3 billion users rely on Gmail to connect and get things done,” Google says. But email is a comms platform. Getting things done may involve sending emails, but until now the inbox hasn’t actually been “getting things done” itself. Forbes‘Never Google’—Save These Phone Numbers Before You TravelBy Zak DoffmanThat all now…

For years, Apple has put a lot of effort into providing users with ways to extend their iPhone’s battery life. But while iOS slowly introduced more battery-management features for iPhone, Apple’s other big battery-powered device, the MacBook, was left behind.  Lately, that’s changed. Today, Apple’s laptops, particularly those running macOS 26, offer numerous battery and charging management features that aim to keep your MacBook’s battery lasting as long as possible. Best of all, they work whether you have the most powerful MacBook Pro or Apple’s most affordable laptop, the MacBook Neo. Here’s how to extend battery life: Turn on Low…

Formula 1 data use and consumption has exploded in the past two years. (Photo by Mario Renzi – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images)Formula 1 via Getty ImagesImagine streaming 130 million songs in a single weekend. Or binge-watching 162,500 hours of 4K Netflix. Or reading the entire Library of Congress, 32 times over, in just three days. That’s basically the equivalent of how much data Formula 1 moves every single race weekend.Two years ago, Formula 1 streamed roughly 500 terabytes of data between its trackside technical center and its UK broadcast hub on race weekends. Today that number is up…

It was a bad week for AI’s public image. The concept was booed on mention at several commencement speeches, tarnished a literary prize, drove more layoffs, and tangled local politics in a number of data-center squabbles. A hyped new book about AI’s impact on “truth” was dragged for including fake quotes made up by AI. Pope Leo XIV’s forthcoming encyclical will concern “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” Vatican News reported. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen something intensify this quickly,” mused one of the researchers behind a recent poll from Stanford University and the University…

It is abundantly clear now that we have one of the biggest cinematic success stories of 2026 in the form of Obsession, the highly scored horror film among both critics and audiences that is about to hit two extremely impressive milestones.The key here is “word of mouth.” Obsession already did well its opening weekend, putting up $17 million domestically, arriving in third place behind only blockbusters like Michael and The Devil Wears Prada 2. But after that? Obsession immediately started winning the box office every weekday, and now, that leads into this weekend.Obsession appears to be on the verge of…

The old adage goes that during a boom, the companies that profit most are the ones selling the picks and shovels. This January, even as consensus had largely settled around the idea that an AI bubble exists, something even Sam Altman acknowledged last August, Blackstone called investing in the “picks and shovels” of AI a “generational” opportunity. The safer bet, we’re told, lies not in the models themselves but in AI’s physical infrastructure: data centers, chips, and electricity. “The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians,” declared a January headline in Wired. Of the major players in artificial…

Six-gill shark swimming in for an inspection of the Eye-in-the-Sea (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesThere are sharks — like the sleek reef sharks people plaster on beach warning signs or the torpedo-shaped great whites of documentaries — and then… there are sharks. Sharks like the frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), that look less like an animal and more like a fossil that had accidentally wandered into the modern world with its eel-like body and rows of needle-like teeth that sit exposed in a permanent grin. Those do not look like the…

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Many of the softest housing markets, where homebuyers have gained the most leverage over the past four years since the pandemic housing boom ended, are located in Southern and Mountain West regions. Many of those areas were home to the nation’s top pandemic boomtowns, which experienced significant home price growth during the pandemic housing boom, stretching housing prices beyond local income levels. Once pandemic-fueled domestic migration slowed and mortgage rates spiked, markets like Punta Gorda, Florida, and Austin faced challenges as they had…

The Miura and Temerario define the beginning and current destination of Lamborghini’s supercar production.LamborghiniOne brand defined the modern supercar: Lamborghini. This isn’t to say that the cars Ferrari and even Jaguar were making at the time weren’t brilliant too. But the Lamborghini Miura introduced the DNA of the supercar that persists to this day: mid-engined and the most bonkers, racing grade performance available at the time. In the era of the EV, however, should supercars be going all electric? I asked Lamborghini CEO and President, Stephan Winkelmann, and drove a Miura plus the company’s latest Temerario to understand the evolution.Lamborghini’s…