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Indians are discovering the thrill of shopping without paying

BBC News

You open FoodNeverComes, pick from 22 cuisines and start scrolling. You add a few dishes, watch the total climb and hit checkout. A tracker says a rider is on the way. Then you get a dummy AI-generated call from inside the site. He is outside your building, he says, but cannot find your street or door.


The Download: India's smart glasses menace and AI's trillion-dollar gamble

MIT Technology Review

Plus: hackers claim they've stolen data on almost all FBI employees. When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator wearing Meta smart glasses had recorded them surreptitiously. The mocking reel drew millions of views, along with transphobic abuse and AI-generated memes. Experts warn that many others will experience similar ordeals as smart glasses go mainstream. The risks are particularly acute in India, where covert recording and the circulation of images without consent are already pervasive. The bigger issue is that the smart glasses aren't just being used to turn ordinary people into targets of viral "pranks."


Google's latest Pixel drop will keep you more connected to your VIPs

Engadget

Google has revealed the new features coming to its Pixel devices this month, including an update to VIPs that will make them easier to reach. On Pixel 6 phones and newer, you can now see expanded widget options that you can use to quickly send a text or call your VIPs or favorite contacts straight from the home screen. You'll also get new notification badges where you can see if you've received an urgent message or if you have an unread one from a VIP in a glance. The company is expanding Scam Detection in-app and inside Messages, as well. In the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Singapore, India, Germany, Mexico, Japan and France, Scam Detection can now alert you if it spots potential fraudulent messages across chat apps in your notifications.


Nepal Cannot Stop the Floods. It Can Stop Them From Becoming Disasters.

TIME - Tech

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Best friends for decades - until a DNA test revealed they were sisters

BBC News

Theirs is a story straight out of a Bollywood film. Two Indian-born women in their 40s, adopted as babies by different families and raised near each other in the Netherlands, have now discovered they are biological sisters. Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, born in the early 1980s, were adopted from two different orphanages in the western Indian city of Mumbai within months of their birth. When they first met in their early teens at an event hosted by the adoption agency their parents had used, they were struck by the uncanny similarities in their appearance and mannerisms. Meena, now 43, remembers the day clearly.


BRICS summit opens in New Delhi amid wars, global tensions, tariffs

Al Jazeera

Is the war entering a new phase? The annual BRICS summit has opened in New Delhi, with China's President Xi Jinping, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian among those attending. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hosting the two-day meeting, the fourth time the country has hosted a BRICS summit. Expansion of non-Western cross-border payment channels and cooperation on artificial intelligence are also key items on the agenda. President Xi arrived in the Indian capital on Saturday morning, his first visit to the country in seven years as the two Asian giants seek to thaw relations.


Why a Divided BRICS Poses No Challenge to America

TIME - Tech

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Classic sitcom 'Friends' helps grad student endure 104 brain scans

Popular Science

Classic sitcom'Friends' helps grad student endure 104 brain scans'All times [are] a good time to watch'Friends,' right?' More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Joshita Majumdar before heading into the scanner (left). Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Noise unveils Master Buds Open with Sound by Bose. Everything we know.

Mashable

Look Up Back to School Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Trending Now Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Creator Playbook Switch Off Mashable Voices Safety Net Versus All Series Noise unveils Master Buds Open with Sound by Bose. India's top lifestyle brand is stepping into the open-ear arena, and it brought Bose with it. Soumya is a deals writer who covers consumer tech, shopping deals, and the products people use every day. With experience writing about everything from AI tools and software to smartphones and home gadgets, she enjoys breaking down product research into clear, useful recommendations. When she's not tracking deals, she's usually comparing products, digging through reviews, and figuring out what actually makes a purchase worth it.


Shoppers interact with Hong Kong's first robot shopkeeper

Al Jazeera

Humanoid robots have begun serving shoppers at convenience stores in Hong Kong. The robot, known as Xiaogai, can speak Mandarin, Cantonese and English. Woman beaten to death as bystanders watch in India's Gujarat