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In ���Dune: Part Two,��� filmmaker Denis Villeneuve realizes a lifetime dream 02/09/2024 12:34pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Denis Villeneuve doesn���t feel like he came back to Arrakis for ���Dune: Part Two.��� In his mind, he never left. The sequel, which opens in theaters on March 1, is the culmination of a six-year filmmaking journey, preceded by 40 years of dreaming about it. And it���s one th Before 'swipe right, swipe left,' see what Tinder's inventors had in mind 02/09/2024 09:45am • The popular dating app Tinder launched in 2012, but a look at Tinder's original patent application from years earlier reveals the app's signature "swipe right, swipe left" almost didn't happen. Filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Dec.19, 2008, Patent No. 8,566,327 B2 made no mentio Indian town sets a curfew and orders police to shoot violators after deadly clashes over a mosque 02/09/2024 08:44am • LUCKNOW, India (AP) ��� Authorities in a northern Indian town imposed an indefinite curfew and ordered police to shoot violators after clashes over the construction of a Muslim seminary and a mosque left at least five people dead and more than 150 injured, officials said Friday. The violence Thursda Data Doctors: Protecting yourself through DNS 02/09/2024 07:29am • Q: A friend told me I should change my DNS settings from what my ISP provides for faster speeds and better security. Is this true? A: DNS, which stands for Domain Name Service, is a vital element of Internet infrastructure because it serves as a de facto traffic cop every time we type in a web ad VeriSign: Q4 Earnings Snapshot 02/08/2024 04:24pm • RESTON, Va. (AP) ��� RESTON, Va. (AP) ��� VeriSign Inc. (VRSN) on Thursday reported net income of $265.1 million in its fourth quarter. On a per-share basis, the Reston, Virginia-based company said it had profit of $2.60. Earnings, adjusted for pretax gains, came to $1.92 per share. The internet inf Maryland judges' personal information protected under bill passed by Senate after fatal shooting 02/08/2024 11:51am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland judges would be able to shield their personal information online to prevent hostile people from tracking them down, under a bill the state Senate passed Thursday in response to the fatal shooting of a judge in his driveway. The Senate voted 43-1 for the Judge Andr Microsoft's Nadella woos Indian developers to the company's AI tools 02/08/2024 06:20am • BENGALURU, India (AP) ��� Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged in a speech to more than a thousand Indian computer code developers on Thursday that they use the company's artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products. Speaking in Bengaluru, India���s ���Silicon Valley,��� Nadella not Tour to offer bulk of new money to 36 top players in equity ownership plan 02/07/2024 06:37pm • The PGA Tour plans to make $750 million of initial grants from its new cash-flush PGA Tour Enterprises to 36 top players determined by their career, their last five years on tour and how much attention they have brought to golf. Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a memo to players Wednesday that $180 Movie Review: A village in Bhutan learns about democracy and teaches us, too, in ���Monk and the Gun��� 02/07/2024 12:36pm • ���Why are you teaching us to be so rude?��� the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in ���The Monk and the Gun.��� It���s a question both poignant and biting, because the ���teaching��� this woman is resisting is something much of the outside world considers a basic human right From Uber Eats' 'Friends' reunion to Bud's Clydesdales, here are the buzziest Super Bowl ads so far 02/07/2024 10:46am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� If you watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, you no longer have to wait until the big game to see what advertisers have in store for viewers. Many companies now release ads ahead of the game in the hope of capitalizing on the buzz that builds as the game approaches. They hope t There was no meet cute for 'One Day' stars Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod 02/07/2024 09:01am • LONDON (AP) ��� There was no meet cute for Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall. The British actors star as Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, two students who meet by chance in 1988, on the last day of university in ���One Day,��� the new Netflix series based on David Nicholls' bestseller. What could have been a UN rights body warns of 'pattern of harassment' against Imran Khan's party ahead of election 02/06/2024 11:56pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� The United Nation's top human rights body warned Tuesday of a ���pattern of harassment��� against members of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan���s party ahead of this week's parliamentary election. During a news briefing in Geneva, Liz Throssell, spokesperson for the UN H GM's troubled robotaxi service faces another round of public ridicule in regulatoryhearing 02/06/2024 08:57pm • General Motors' troubled robotaxi service Cruise on Tuesday endured a public lashing from a California judge who compared the company to the devious TV character Eddie Haskell for its behavior following a ghastly collision that wrecked its ambitious expansion plans. The withering comparison to the t The Census Bureau halts changing how it asks about disabilities following a backlash 02/06/2024 03:52pm • The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday halted plans to change how it asks people about disabilities after facing a growing backlash. Advocates for disabled people had argued that proposed changes to disability questions on the bureau's American Community Survey would artificially reduce their numbers by Why now is a crucial time to pay off credit card debt 02/06/2024 11:54am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� For Americans who lacked savings prior to the pandemic, financial stress is rising. A combination of inflation, increased interest rates, and the end of pandemic-tied relief, such as the moratorium on student loan payments, has led to record credit card debt, experts say. In the f