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Google expands Gemini's hands-free conversational capabilities to walking and cycling modes in Google Maps, available on iOS and rolling out on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/google-maps-now-lets-you-…

Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling | TechCrunch
When you're walking around and navigating with Maps, you can now ask Gemini questions like "What neighborhood am I in?" or "What are top-rated restaurants nearby?"

😲 Brazil’s governance style leads to controversial impacts
#brazil

Brazil's governance style leads to controversial impacts
The Federal Republic of Brazil has a constitutional system with an exceptionally strong executive branch where the president controls the budget process, wields a line-item veto and can initiate legislation by declaring ‘temporary laws’ (Medidas Provisórias) that force the legislature to consider its policy agenda. Congress has corresponding checks and balances, including the power to […]

Bijan Robinson’s Career Night Leads Falcons to Upset Win Over Rams https://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/football/100000010615063/bijan-robinsons-career-night-leads-falcons-to-upset-win-over-rams.html

Prince Andrew is to leave his home at Royal Lodge in Windsor after he was served with a formal notice to surrender the lease, Buckingham Palace has said.
King Charles has initiated a “formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew”,
who will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
Andrew did not object to the process, PA reported
Now, about Donald Mountbatten Trump...

Unzulässige Preiserhöhung: Amazons Berufung abgewiesen
Die Preiserhöhung bei Amazon Prime vom Herbst 2022 bleibt ungültig.  Der Konzern hat auch beim OLG Düsseldorf verloren.
https://www.

• 60 out of 100 times it’ll “sync” and freeze with all 4 LEDs on. The Wii U does a little beep but doesn’t show the controller and no inputs work.
• 38 out of 100 times the same thing will happen but with all LEDs off
  • You need to remove the batteries in order to take the wiimotes out of these states
• 2 out of 100 times the wiimotes actually connect, but show with 1 battery bar and almost no inputs go through (and the ones that do are extremely laggy, except for the power button)
  • The manual states that if this happens you can remove the batteries, wait 3 minutes and connect (without syncing) again. That does fixes it sometimes, but it really only worked once for each wiimote.
  • A truly successful connection only happens after the “low battery one”, and even then it seems to be hard to achieve for the first time.
    • Afterwards you’re supposed to be able to reconnect without syncing and then not encounter the issues anymore. That was true for the pink wiimote, but the blue wiimote had to be synced again. I spent quite a few hours trying and wasn’t able to get a successful connection.
    • If you connect the pink wiimote that was working when the other wiimote is in the 4 LEDs freeze state it’ll break the connection of the other one and make you need to sync it again
      • Now none of my aliexpress wiimotes are synced and idk when I’ll be able to sync them again

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Prince:
🎵 Lets Go Crazy
#Prince
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/track/prince-lets-go-crazy-drum-bass-remix-dj-chris-diablo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FMIVQPZg9cmMY8hPxAacD

Google launches Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds using Genie 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini, for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869726/google-ai-project-genie-3-world-mode…

Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs
Google is launching Project Genie, an app that lets users test its Genie 3 AI world model, and I got to test it.

ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of unjustifiable arrests
Government data shows that more than 60 percent of the people detained in at-large arrests since June did NOT have criminal convictions or pending charges.
-- even as authorities insist that immigration officers are focusing on violent criminals whom they describe as “the worst of the worst.”

ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of at-large arrests, data shows
The agency has moved away from focusing on arresting migrants at local jails to tracking them down in communities, a Washington Post analysis found.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shorts waiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
So when she came to town,
I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them.
I thought it'd be funny.
It turned out to be something else entirely.
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Paul Scheer (@paulscheer.com)
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.