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Amazon is ending support for older Kindles and Kindle Fires

Amazon has announced that starting on May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier will "no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content via the Kindle Store," Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke wrote in an email to The Verge. Users will still be able to read books […]

Downed U.S. Airman Rescued From Iran

A U.S. Air Force officer who went missing after his fighter jet was shot down over a remote area of Iran has been rescued, with the CIA having developed a deception plan to buy time for the high stakes operation. What do you think?

The post Downed U.S. Airman Rescued From Iran appeared first on The Onion.

Schumer Thanks Mamdani as Deliverista Hub Finally Opens

Delivery workers celebrate with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-Manhattan) the opening of a Deliverista Hub at City Hall Park,

The idea came to Sergio Gustavo Ajche in the darkest days of the pandemic, when food delivery was in high demand and rest stops for delivery workers were scarce. Ajche, who lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, was working in Lower Manhattan when he spotted an abandoned newsstand just outside City Hall.  “I saw this one and […]

The post Schumer Thanks Mamdani as Deliverista Hub Finally Opens appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls  —  Google announced two new additions to Google Photos for all Android users, and they've already begun rolling out.

Human bodies aren’t ready to travel to Mars. Space medicine can help.

Editor’s note, April 7, 2026, 5:10 pm ET: The Artemis II mission is conducting experiments that may radically advance our understanding of space medicine. The findings of A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response (AVATAR) experiment could help us create personalized medical kits for astronauts, and the Artemis Research for Crew Health & Readiness (ARCHeR) study will […]