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A Brooklyn physical therapist killed while riding a scooter to work didn’t want to get a second car for his commute, even with two young children at home, his heartbroken wife said Tuesday. Ilya Perloff, 41, collided with a minivan while riding his electric standup scooter in Marine Park, his wife, Melissa Perloff, learned through a phone call as she drove their daughters to a Chanukah party on Long Island on Sunday. She found out later that he had died. “We only have one car,” the victim’s tearful wife, a public school teacher, said. “He didn’t want a second car.…

A 65-year-old woman was bashed repeatedly in the head with a laptop on a Manhattan subway train after she struck up a conversation with her attacker, leaving her hospitalized, cops said Tuesday. The NYPD released photos of the suspect on the train in the Dec. 9 attack and asked the public’s help identifying him and tracking him down. The victim was chatting with the assailant on an uptown W train approaching the Rector St. station in the Financial District when he suddenly pulled a laptop from his backpack and bludgeoned her with it multiple times in the head about 10:20…

Most open-world games are set as soon as players start the game. There may be changes in towns based on how the story progresses, but for the most part, change happens because of the player. There aren’t many games with evolving worlds that happen without the player’s input, but the following are some good examples. Related 10 Open-World Games That Let You Build a Life Instead of Saving the World If saving the world isn’t your cup of tea or seems too stressful, take a break with these cozy open-world games. Some changes are more obvious than others, and there…

An experimental orchestral project in Brazil aims to convert Bitcoin price data into live music, after receiving approval to raise funds through one of the country’s tax-incentive programs for cultural initiatives.According to Brazil’s Federal Register, the authorization allows the project to seek up to 1.09 million reais ($197,000) from private companies and individual donors for an instrumental concert that uses financial data to generate music, drawing on concepts from art, mathematics, economics and physics.The publication does not specify whether any blockchain or onchain infrastructure will be used in the performance. The performance will take place at the country’s federal capital,…

Donald Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein were back in focus Tuesday following the latest document dump by the Justice Department, which included a host of references to the president and communications between prosecutors remarking he’d traveled on the serial sex offender’s plane “many more times” than believed. The remark was made in January 2020 by a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, writing to an unknown recipient under the subject line “Epstein flight records.” The exchange came around five months after Epstein was found dead in a lower Manhattan jail cell following his arrest on sex trafficking charges,…

A group of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and “Bad Blood” author John Carreyrou, is filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated copies of their books. If this sounds familiar, it’s because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the judge ruled that it was legal for Anthropic and similar AI companies to train on pirated copies of books, but that it was not legal to pirate the books in the first place.…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. ServiceNow — Shares of the software company fell nearly 3% after it said it would acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75 billion . The deal, which should close next year, will bolster ServiceNow’s cybersecurity offerings. Mining stocks — With prices of gold, silver and copper hitting fresh record highs , mining stocks were rallying in midday trading. Freeport McMoRan , Foran Mining and Taseko Mines all were up nearly 3%. Novo Nordisk — The drugmaker jumped 8% after its GLP-1 pill received approval from the Food and Drug Administration. “As the…

The former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution. After spending the last six years running Sunshine, a photo-sharing and contact-management startup with little success, the storied tech leader has shuttered the company to launch Dazzle, a new startup focused on building the next generation of AI personal assistants. While Mayer is not yet sharing specifics about Dazzle’s functionality, she has revealed that the new company has raised an $8 million seed round at a $35 million valuation. The round was led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Greycroft,…

Amazon is expanding its AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ with new capabilities. The company announced on Thursday that it’s adding four new integrations to the service that will allow the assistant to work with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp starting in 2026. These additions allow customers to book hotels, get quotes for home services, and schedule salon appointments, among other things. With Expedia, customers can compare, book, and manage hotel reservations, or tell Alexa their preferences to get personalized recommendations. (e.g. “Can you find me pet-friendly hotels for this weekend in Chicago?”) The new services join Alexa+’s existing integrations with Fodor,…

Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they’ve mostly been restricted to text. Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to those chats with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image. Called Lemon Slice-2, the model can create a digital avatar that works on top of a knowledge base to play any role required of the AI agent, like addressing customer queries, helping with homework questions, or even working as a mental health support agent. “In the early days…