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• Hinge users complain it ‘isn’t the same’ app Zohran Mamdani met his wife on
• Yann LeCun, a Pioneering A.I. Scientist, Leaves Meta
• Will AI mean better adverts or ‘creepy slop’?
• This New Hotel Reservation Scam Is Fooling People Who Use Sites Like Booking.com
• Could ‘the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman’ be an AI avatar?
• AI Commissioner | Comedy Sketch | Particle6
• Americans’ Social Media Use: 2025
• The Mission to Preserve Traditional Table Olive Recipes
• Adopt an Olive Tree
• Voices Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages: Jean Armour Polly, Net-Mom
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• Doodle for Google 2025–26 contest opens for submissions
• Meet 3 UMSI entrepreneurs gearing up to pursue full-time ventures
  
  

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• Nomophobia: the irrational fear of being without a mobile phone
• The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound.
• No car? No problem. Internet Roadtrip offers unique online travel experience
• Human-AI coaching models boost weight loss
• Your Samsung smart fridge may have ads on it now, because of course it does
• Roblox meets 'Bake Off' with new competitive baking game
• Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them
• Can anyone become an influencer? Three people with zero followers find out
• New California law aims to hold driverless car companies accountable for traffic violations
• Researchers detail 6 ways chatbots seek to prolong ‘emotionally sensitive events’
• UMSI launches mentorship program matching students with successful alumni
  
  

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• Media Forensics Hub launches updated “Spot the Troll” quiz
• Slop added to Cambridge Dictionary, as AI redefines language
• WindowSwap
• Radio Garden
• Judge rules Google can keep Chrome, but must share some search engine data with rivals
• Japanese Cities Use Social Media to Teach Tourists Manners
• Know Before You Go – Visit Kanazawa
• Replika
• I went on a date with my AI dream guy. Then I cried over shrimp
• Dating an AI: How Much Is It Really Happening?
• Multi-language audio – YouTube Blog
• These weather apps actually care about your privacy
• AI Darwin Awards
• Tired of cookie consent pop-ups? You soon may see less of them
• UMSI convenes scholars and industry leaders to shape human-centered AI
  
  

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• World’s first robot Olympics held in China (Quartz)
• AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service (CNN)
• Versailles statues can now talk to visitors with AI (New York Times)
• Instagram’s new map feature raises privacy concerns (CBS News)
• Boston Public Library digitizes archives with OpenAI (NPR)
• ‘Tradwife,’ ‘delulu,’ and ‘skibidi’ among new Cambridge Dictionary words (Sky News)
• 10 surprising things your smartphone camera can do (MakeUseOf)
• Texas A&M researchers map U.S. power outage hot spots (Texas A&M)
• Interactive power outage map (Netlify app)
• Focus Friend app overtakes ChatGPT on App Store (Lifehacker)
• Pomodoro Technique (Wikipedia)
• How to minimize distractions in Chrome (HowToGeek)
• School of Information launches two new AI courses open to all U-M undergraduates

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• “Click to Cancel” rule to make canceling subscriptions easier blocked by court
• Noom wants to be 'the Duolingo of health'
• Robo-Bunnies Are the Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida
• The 7 Best Puzzle Games You Can Play in Your Browser
• ‘The postcard craze’ of historic Michigan: More than 60K postcards digitized at U-M Clements Library
• Say hello to the new emoji coming in Unicode 17.0
• New emojis are coming to iOS 26 soon
• This ancient Hungarian abbey is fighting an infestation of book-eating beetles
• Hugging Face introduces open-source desktop robot for $299
• Imginn Lets You Browse Instagram Pages Without an Account
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• We Made This Film With AI. It's Wild and Slightly Terrifying
• AI thinks like us? UMSI researchers unveil new model to predict human behavior

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• Ars Technica: Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates
• Microsoft PC Health Check app
• QZ: Every iPhone model timeline
• The Verge: WhatsApp ads rollout
• Engadget: US House bans WhatsApp
• YouTube: Neccolo video on Grow a Garden
• NYT: Grow a Garden record
• NiemanLab: Social media overtakes TV
• BBC paywall announcement
• Vatican News: Pope Leo on AI
• Mashable: Labubu craze
• Norwegian SciTech News: Predicting tech adoption
• LiveScience: Weird technologies that never took off

UMSI: New minor in human-centered AI

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• Paul Tudor Jones: AI poses an imminent threat to humanity in our lifetime (YouTube)
• Using AI to Write Fake Summer Reading Lists (NPR)
• How to Save Your Smartphone’s Battery Life (Pocket)
• Pocket’s Read-It-Later App Will Shut Down in July (Android Central)
  Remove These Preinstalled iPhone Apps (Lifehacker)
• How to Turn Your Old iPhone Into an Alarm Clock (Engadget)
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• The Food-Scanning App Yuka Is Worrying Big Brands (WSJ)
• Agatha Christie’s Classic BBC Mysteries Get an AI Update (NYT)
• Agatha Christie Teaches Writing (BBC Maestro)
• YouTube’s Pause Ads Are Causing Ad Fatigue (Marketing-Interactive)
• YouTube TV Ad Spend Surges While Mobile Growth Slows (Tubefilter)
• Duolingo Deletes TikTok After AI Backlash, Returns With Strange Message (Fast Company)
• Merriam-Webster Hops on the Wordle Train With New Daily Puzzle Game (Digital Trends)
  Revealed (Britannica Games)
• Most of Us Will Leave Behind a Large Digital Legacy When We Die – Here’s How to Plan What Happens to It (The Conversation)
• Internet Archive (Main Site)
• An Inside Look at How the Internet Archive Saves the Web (BBC Reel)

UMSI Student Hamza Naveed Among 50 Selected Nationwide for Google Summit (UMSI)

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• Service update: Original & large size download limitations on free accounts
• Meta Tries to Revive Friendships With a Facebook Revamp
• Bringing the Magic of Friends Back to Facebook
• The machines are rising—but developers still hold the keys
• The Most Common Names in Every Country
• Google’s AI Overviews may be hurting click-through rates
• You’ve Read Misinformation About the Switch 2 — Here Are the Facts
• Your TikTok personality data could help science
• UMich study shows how generative AI could use personality to combat vaccine myths
• Nile Berry on Penn Station
• Moynihan Train Hall
• See how a Michigan town moved 9,100 books—one by one

UMSI team’s XR classroom tool takes top prize in campus-wide James A. Kelly Learning Lever competition

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• AI Beats Humans at Meme Humor, but the Best Joke Is Still Human Made
• Black History Month: Red Hat Partners, Griot Grits Preserve Family Histories with AI
• These Scientists Are Building a Cat Database to Understand Why They Act Like That
• Drugstores, Pixel-Sensitive Data & Social Media Companies
• Sesame Voice Assistant, AI Glasses & Oculus Insights from Brendan Iribe
• Mike McCue and the Surf Browser on the Decentralized Internet
• A Vital Link to Local News
• Fires, Wars and Bureaucracy: The Tumultuous Journey to Establish the U.S. National Archives
• Everything You Need to Know About Robotaxi Driverless Vehicles
• Video Game Music at the London Soundtrack Festival
• YouTube Video: “I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
• Everything You Need to Know About “Maybe Happy Ending” on Broadway

Archiving Nation's Wild Heart: UMSI Students Expand Access to Yellowstone's History

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• Harvey Weinstein thanked more than God
• How many episodes should you watch?
• John Oliver’s content moderation episode isn’t just funny, it’s absolutely accurate
• Turn old phones into remote controls for streaming
• AI opens endless doors in fashion
• How wearables for wildlife are unlocking the secret knowledge of animals
• Google’s Career Dreamer uses AI to help you explore job possibilities
• Generate maps of Europe showing translations of English words
• Voice of America Centre changed to Voice of Mexico Center on Google
• MapQuest enters its villain arc, hands you the keys to geography
• Microsoft to retire Skype on May 5
• Best video call apps to replace Skype

Global leaders in tech and AI join UMSI Advisory Board

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