The British actor was 86. He achieved pop-culture stardom as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

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Dream stay alive with dominant win, push WNBA Finals to Game 7

Hispanic voters have helped drive the early voting numbers, which appear to outpace overall turnout for previous elections in some battleground counties.

Jack Grealish is left out of Everton's Carabao Cup tie with Newcastle United on Thursday "due to a breach of club discipline".

Jack Grealish is left out of Everton's Carabao Cup tie with Newcastle United on Thursday "due to a breach of club discipline".

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This popup has been a constant gripe of mine for years. I almost NEVER want to allow this permission and there is no system setting to disable it globally and prevent the popup from interrupting your typing, etc. This tiny swift app I built will autoclose it in 1/4th of a second and leave behind a little notification that it did so. Would love to hear feedback!

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Kevin T has been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.

General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The agreement, which resolves a complaint from a coalition of 36 US attorneys general, requires GM to limit the driving data it collects and obtain "express consent" from drivers before collecting their information.

The allegations surround GM's now-discontinued Smart Driver program, which collected data about driving habits, including acceleration, braking, and trip length. GM allegedly passed this information to data brokers, enabling insurance companies to purchase the data …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Why the Falcons' rushing attack has cooled — and how to fix it

The city’s Hispanic majority, news media reach and air links to Latin America have made it an ideal base for politicians escaping their home countries.

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Georgia’s Connor Tomlinson goes beyond ‘Love on the Spectrum’ with new girlfriend

Lord Leveson says MI5 lying to multiple courts was as "serious as anything" he has dealt with.

Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The new file editing capabilities are available starting today for all Gemini users, and while PDF previews/editing works on both the web and mobile, all other file formats are only in the web version for now.

Google added support for generating and downloading files in Gemini earlier this year, but now you can tweak those files without leaving the Gemini app. Google says you can expand documents to edit them in full-screen mode and highlight text in files to ask Gemini questions or prompt …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293879

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Tensions have risen between the United States and Cuba as the Trump administration tries to force the island’s Communist government to make drastic changes.

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The brother of the singer's late personal assistant said she would not have wanted the items to be sold.

Where Georgia high school football teams rank nationally ahead of Week 11

The Lib Dems claim Farage "attempted to shove" their South Devon MP but a Reform source accuses the party of "lying".