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Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers features a contraption that slides Wallace out of his bed, downstairs to the kitchen, into his clothes, then fixes him some toast and jam. Joseph’s Machines thought it would be fun to reenact the sequence in real life, but as his video reveals, it took a lot of prep, trial, and error to get everything to work just right.
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If you purchased an Apple device in the last 10 years, you might be able to receive some of the money from the company’s recently settled spying lawsuit. The original lawsuit claimed Apple was capturing sensitive information with its Siri voice assistant without users’ consent, and sending it to third-party contractors. The company agreed to settle the case for $95 million in January 2025, and thanks to the new landing page for the settlement, there’s now a way to file a claim on your own.
To file a claim, you you need to have bought an "iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, iMac, HomePod, iPod touch or Apple TV" between September 17, 2014 and December 31, 2024, and believe Siri accidentally activated on your device during a private conversation. From the $95 million Apple is paying out, you can receive up to $20 per device you believe called up Siri, provided you swear under oath it happened.
You have until July 2, 2025 to file your claim. If you qualify for the settlement, you may have already been notified with information on your Claim Identification Number and Claim Confirmation Code. If you haven’t received either but believe the settlement applies, you’re free to submit a claim on your own.
Apple claims that Siri was designed with protecting users’ privacy in mind, and agreeing to share data to improve the voice assistant — through your device’s Privacy & Security settings — never uses audio recordings or transcripts for anything other than training. In the case of newer devices, voice data is processed locally anyway, so agreeing to share your data is supposed to be the only way Apple could ever access it.
Given the growing focus on AI, and the large amounts of data needed to train it, there’s good reason to be skeptical about where companies are getting their training material. Apple prefers to get its customers consent, but the company has turned to new sources to help its AI research along. For example, Apple recently disclosed that it will start using the images captured for its Street View-esque feature in Apple Maps to train its models.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/you-can-now-claim-your-piece-of-apples-95-million-siri-privacy-settlement-213020351.html?src=rssEngadget
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The officer couldn’t stop laughing 😂
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The way-too-good-to-be-playing-in-a-garage Middle Aged Dad Jam Band is back with another great cover. This time, they’re joined by Reno 911! alum Kerri Kenney-Silver, who lends her vocal talents to this spirited rendition of The Breeders’ track Cannonball. It’s a fun and energetic performance that’s sure to bring back good memories for ’90s kids.
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Hopefully, you’ve seen and are generally familiar with the original How to Train Your Dragon. If so, then you are in for a treat with a brand new trailer that was just released for its upcoming live-action remake.
The trailer, which is centered on the fact the film was filmed for and will be released in IMAX, is wildly epic. It soars through the mountains of Berk, blasting John Powell’s unforgettable score, and features not just the loving relationship between Toothless and Hiccup, but big scenes from the film’s final battle.
Those scenes in particular are very much geared toward fans of the original because anyone who hasn’t seen or doesn’t remember the original is going to look at them and be like “Oh, wow, so that’s what happens at the end of the movie.” So watch if you dare, but if you do, you are going to want to see this movie on the biggest screen possible.
Yes, those scenes versus that mountain of a dragon are from the end of the movie. And yes, Hiccup does fall into a billow of flames with Toothless going down to save him. Those are certainly spoilers. However, it’s everything before that which really grabs us in this trailer.
We get so much more of the Hiccup and Toothless relationship here. More of their playful beginnings, more of their mid-air bonding, and more of how that relationship changes not just Hiccup, but his Viking culture in general.
Look, if you know and love How to Train Your Dragon, odds are you are going to love this movie. It’s very, very similar. And, if for some reason you don’t know that original movie, wow. You are in for a treat. These films are incredibly special, which is why Universal is already working on a sequel to this one.
Written and directed by Dean DeBlois, How to Train Your Dragon stars Mason Thames, Gerard Butler, Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Peter Serafinowicz, and others. It opens June 13.
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Scalable systems live or die by schema clarity. That’s why most engineers now use database diagram tools to map, manage, and document their structures. But not all tools are built for modern, fast-moving teams. Here’s a look at the top database diagram tools making a difference in 2025.
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Laravel’s fillAndInsert() method combines the performance of bulk insertions with Eloquent’s model-level casting and attribute preparation. This feature eliminates the traditional speed-vs-functionality trade-off when working with mass data operations.
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Have you or a loved one lost your connection with the Drudge Report due to the overwhelming Left lean the news aggregator has taken as of recent?
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