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President Donald Trump is trying to smooth things over with South Korea after his administration arrested hundreds of workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia earlier this month. Just hours after reports indicated that South Korea would open a human rights investigation into the detention of Korean employees, Trump said he doesn’t “want to frighten off” foreign investment into the US — something he has made a priority during his second administration.On September 4th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on the electric vehicle battery plant operated by Hyundai and LG Energy Solutions, detaining nearly 500 workers, including around 300 workers from South Korea. ICE officials claimed the workers overstayed their visas or weren’t permitted to work in the US, according t...

So, I don’t want to speak about the specifics of the lawsuit, but I can speak to our philosophy here, which is, look, we want a healthy ecosystem. The 10 blue links serve the ecosystem very well, and it was a simple value proposition. We provided links that directed users free of charge to billions of publications around the world. We’re not going to abandon that model. We think that there’s use for that model. It’s still an important part of the ecosystem.But user preferences, and what users want, is also changing. So, instead of factual answers and 10 blue links, they’re increasingly wanting contextual answers and summaries. We want to be able to provide that, too, while at the same time, driving people back to content, valuable content, on the Internet. Where that valuable content is...

Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, and more without needing an additional Microsoft 365 Copilot license.“Copilot Chat is secure AI chat grounded in the web—and now, it’s available in the Microsoft 365 apps,” explains Seth Patton, general Manager of Microsoft 365 Copilot product marketing. “It’s content aware, meaning it quickly understands what you’re working on, tailoring answers to the file you have open. And it’s included at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 users.”While this free version of Copilot will rewrite documents, provide summaries, an...

Liquid Glass is a neat party trick. The new design system, which was built for nearly all of Apple’s products and is rolling out this week, is built on the idea that interfaces should be three-dimensional: in the world of Liquid Glass, buttons and menus sit on top of whatever you’re doing or looking at, changing color and refracting digital light like they’re physical objects. It’s meant to feel like glass does in the real world. It’s visually very impressive, and it all kind of works! You install it, you spend a minute fast-scrolling to see the buttons change, it’s very well done.I’ve been using Liquid Glass, in Apple’s various betas, across a number of devices for the last couple of months. The system has actually gotten vastly better even in that short time: the menus that were once ...

Things are looking bright for those who want to nab a great TV in 2025 at a substantial discount. There’s usually a great deal happening on a mid- or high-end TV from LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, or Amazon’s own Fire TV brand — even if the biggest discounts remain reserved for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Amazon Prime Day, and during the lead-up to the Super Bowl.Right now, there are a number of discounted 4K TVs to choose from, spanning a wide variety of prices, sizes, and feature sets. Whether you want a secondary screen for the bedroom or a high-end OLED that’s built to provide the ultimate gaming or cinematic experience, we’ve picked out the best TV deals.The best 4K TV deals for most peopleSamsung’s Q8F is available for an all-time low of $599.99 ($150 off) at Amazon and Best Buy for the...

Coeur artificiel Aeson, contre l'insufisance cardiaque biventriculaire, de chez Carmat, Bois-d’Arcy (Yvelines), 16 janvier 2024. LAURENT GRANDGUILLOT/REA « Ce cœur-là, il bat bien mieux que celui que j’avais avant.  » Patrick Boitelet, qui parle au téléphone depuis son salon, est soulagé. Il a bien cru que sa vie s’arrêterait cette fin novembre de 2024, lorsque sa cardiomyopathie dilatée s’est brutalement aggravée. Admis à l’hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou (AP-HP), à Paris, le quinquagénaire a besoin d’une greffe cardiaque en urgence, mais aucun greffon n’est disponible. « La docteure Anne-Céline Martin est venue me voir dans ma chambre en soins intensifs, raconte-t-il. Elle m’a dit qu’on entrait dans une impasse et qu’il allait falloir ...

If you’ve been running out of storage on your PC or PS5, or you just want an SSD that’s faster than what you have, here’s a great deal: the PCIe Gen 5-compatible 990 Evo Plus M.2 SSD from Samsung is selling at a bargain today, with its 2TB and 4TB versions selling for $99.99 and $199.99, respectively, at B&H Photo. If you want to hop on this deal before the prices go back up, you have until the end of the day. The correct price will be reflected at checkout.Even if you don’t have a PCIe Gen 5 rig, complete with the latest motherboard, processor, RAM, and GPU, you can still benefit from the 990 Evo Plus. That’s because all Gen 5 SSDs are backwards compatible with PCIe Gen 4 systems, meaning that it’ll work in PCs with available M.2 slots and PlayStation 5 consoles alike (although, in...

La course au cœur artificiel, lancée dans les années 1960, se poursuit aujourd’hui. Parmi les concurrents du futur se trouve un dispositif métallique, en titane, le Bivacor. Une rupture technologique radicale. Car ce cœur ne ressemble plus du tout à un cœur. Son créateur, Daniel Timms, un ingénieur australien dont le père souffrait d’insuffisance cardiaque, a imaginé une prothèse à flux continu, sans pouls. Il s’est associé au Texas Heart Institute, à Houston, référence mondiale de la chirurgie cardiaque. L’ambition est claire : développer un cœur artificiel permanent. « Les prothèses flexibles comme celle de Carmat, avec des valves qui s’ouvrent et se ferment, battent un million de fois par semaine. L’usure est inévitable. Le Bivacor n’a qu’...

Elon Musk is responding to the unprecedented pay package proposal from Tesla’s board of directors by increasing his stake in the company. Musk bought $1 billion in Tesla stock through an irrevocable trust on September 12th, according to a regulatory filing released Monday. Tesla shares were trading up over 5 percent on the news, pushing the company’s value into positive territory for the year.It was Musk’s first open-market purchase of Tesla stock in over five years, according to Bloomberg. He offloaded more than $20 billion of the company’s shares in 2022, which was the year he acquired Twitter. Other Tesla executives have similarly sold off some of their shares this year, including several board members.The purchase comes more than a week after Tesla’s board proposed a pay package tha...

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Hank Green, the cofounder of Complexly, where we make SciShow, Crash Course, and a bunch of other educational YouTube channels. I’m back in the Decoder guest host chair for another couple of episodes while Nilay is out on parental leave.Today, I’m talking with Digitas CEO Amy Lanzi, who runs a major marketing and ad agency. You might remember Amy; Nilay interviewed her for Decoder live at an event in New York City almost a year ago. But Nilay, who runs what might be called the last website on Earth, has a very different perspective on the world of digital marketing than I do. So, as a career YouTuber, I had a lot of questions for someone in a position like Amy’s.I’ve been making videos on the internet for close to two decades now, and all the while...