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Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War has broken another record: it’s become the fastest movie to cross the $1 billion mark at the global box office, overtaking the prior record-holder, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

If you have your phone close at hand, open up emojiscavengerhunt.withgoogle.com and see how far you can get. As the URL suggests, it’s an emoji scavenger hunt — a new AI experiment created by Google that shows how the company’s machine learning tools can be used to make fun little games. In this case, you have to use your phone’s camera to find objects that match emoji within a time limit. Each one you find increases your time.

In today’s adorable-and-I’m-not-crying-you’re-crying news, NDTL reports that an engineer in New Delhi named Milind Raj saved a puppy using a drone he equipped with a giant claw.

Google will implement new transparency rules concerning US election ads this week. In a blog post, Google Senior Vice President Kent Walker says that anyone who wants to purchase election ads in the US will now be required to prove that they’re a US citizen or resident by providing a “a government-issued ID and other key information.”

While everyone was watching Infinity War last weekend, I ended up streaming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I’ve missed most of the core Avengers saga, but there’s still a lot of fun to be had watching the more disconnected films in the MCU. Guardians is particularly accessible, thanks to how completely removed it is — and just how tonally it feels like its own thing.

Mother’s Day is next week and if you haven’t gotten anything for your mom yet, you’re cutting it pretty close. If she’s an athlete, a Samsung Gear Sport smartwatch is a great choice, and for a limited time you can get one for $70 off, plus a free strap. A smart home device like an Echo Show or a robotic vacuum is always a great option as well — bonus points if you set it up for her. Plus, the internet’s favorite pressure cooker / slow cooker, the Instant Pot, is on sale for $109.99 (usually $149.99).... Читать дальше...

Even at the weakest and most embattled moment in its history, Facebook still seems inescapable. It’s impossible to leave, as Sarah Jeong detailed last week, and it seems even harder to fix. Facebook has rolled out products like Clear History to deal with data privacy complaints and new ad transparency measures to deal with influence campaigns. But so far, no one’s suggested anything that will make it any easier to leave Facebook or to pare back its role in our lives. If your complaint is that Facebook is simply too powerful... Читать дальше...

For a company as big and sprawling as Google, an annual developer conference can feel overwhelming. And, frankly, it is. Google offers a dizzying number of services and dabbles in almost every consumer tech industry under the sun, not to mention the 7 billion-plus user core internet products it owns and operates. But the company has a measured tempo when it comes to Google I/O, and we’ve come to understand how it prioritizes certain products over others come May every year.

Update May 5th, 8:35AM ET: United Launch Alliance successfully launched its InSight lander this morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, which will now head off to Mars to conduct its mission when it arrives in November 2018.

Back at CES in January, Kia teased an upcoming Niro EV crossover that boasted a Chevrolet Bolt-rivaling 238 miles of range. While that concept also had 5G connectivity and a new infotainment system with gesture controls that didn’t seem bound for production, the Niro EV itself is destined for showrooms.

Apple today admitted that some iPhone 7 and 7 Plus models running iOS 11.3 or later may have a bug that disables the microphone during phone calls, MacRumors spotted through a leaked document. The few users with the affected devices may see their speaker button grayed-out when making calls or video chatting through FaceTime. The issue seems to only affect phones running that version of iOS or versions after 11.3.

Ross Douthat, a man who is somehow regularly published by The New York Times, recently shared an editorial in which he responded to the growing phenomenon of men murdering women because they don’t feel like they’re getting laid enough by thoughtfully stroking his goatee and conducting a thought experiment about the “redistribution of sex.” Among the non-incel factions of the internet, it has not gone over well.