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Four50 Grill in North Battleford has amazing burgers - and very filling, you won't need supper after these. The one across is their D'Wiesen burger is filled with saurkraut, swiss cheese, and sausage all on a toasted pretzel bun, with onion rings. The closer one is a spicy pickle burger with a side of Buffalo chicken poutine. It's very yummy, but your daily sodium intake will skyrocket haha.

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Donald Trump narrowly won the 2024 presidential election, securing the smallest popular vote margin for a victor in modern U.S. history, with just 1.6% over Kamala Harris.

Despite his win, Democrats performed unexpectedly well in down-ballot races, flipping Senate seats in swing states Trump carried and maintaining the House balance.

Republicans lack a clear mandate as Trump’s plans for deportations, ending birthright citizenship, political retribution, and tariffs clash with voters’ hopes for economic relief.

There’s likely to be backlash as voters realize the gap between what they wanted and what Trump plans to deliver.

This is so that it’s easier to plugin old and new consoles without having to go on my hands and knees to Plug and unplug consoles.

Niantic, the company behind the extremely popular augmented reality mobile games Pokémon Go and Ingress, announced that it is using data collected by its millions of players to create an AI model that can navigate the physical world. 

In a blog post published last week, first spotted by Garbage Day, Niantic says it is building a “Large Geospatial Model.” This name, the company explains, is a direct reference to Large Language Models (LLMs) Like OpenAI’s GPT, which are trained on vast quantities of text scraped from the internet in order to process and produce natural language. Niantic explains that a Large Geospatial Model, or LGM, aims to do the same for the physical world, a technology it says “will enable computers not only to perceive and understand physical spaces, but also to interact with them in new ways, forming a critical component of AR glasses and fields beyond, including robotics, content creation and autonomous systems. As we move from phones to wearable technology linked to the real world, spatial intelligence will become the world’s future operating system.”

By training an AI model on millions of geolocated images from around the world, the model will be able to predict its immediate environment in the same way an LLM is able to produce coherent and convincing sentences by statistically determining what word is likely to follow another.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22264797

Android 16 DP1 adds a new feature called Even Dimmer that lets the screen be dimmed below the lowest level of the brightness slider.

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The FDA found bacteria-contaminated water and mold at a facility making Tom’s of Maine toothpaste.

Dangerous bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Paracoccus yeei, were found in water and some toothpaste batches.

These bacteria can cause serious infections. No recalls have been issued, but the FDA has requested action from the company.

Colgate-Palmolive is working with the FDA, adding safety measures, and says its products remain safe.

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A jury awarded $98 million to the family of Botham Jean, a Black man fatally shot in his home in 2018 by former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger.

The jury found Guyger acted with “malice” and awarded $60 million in punitive damages and $38 million in compensatory damages.

Guyger, who was off-duty and mistook Jean’s apartment for her own, was convicted of murder in 2019 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Jean’s family called the verdict a message on racial bias and police accountability.

On Monday night, a large metal sheet fell from the roof of AT&T Stadium to the playing field.

We published this recent thread about it:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113450097776800819

Here's an older thread about Cellebrite Premium's capabilities:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112826067364945164

Here's a newer thread of Magnet Forensic's Graykey, although we only talked about the Pixel part where they have fewer capabilities than iPhones because of a feature we proposed which was shipped in April 2024 for Pixels and their approach being heavily impacted by it:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113510735324941340

Ravens kicker Justin Tucker made clear Wednesday that no one is more upset about his uncharacteristic struggles than him: "Believe me when I say nobody takes it more personally than I do, nobody is more affected than me when I miss the kick."

On the heels of selling a piece of the team to Tom Brady and Richard Seymour, Raiders owner Mark Davis is shaving off even more of the equity in the franchise.

Changes in version 150:

• update max supported version of Play services to 24.46

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 149) is available through the Git commit log between the releases (only changes to the gmscompat_config text file and config-holder/ directory are part of GmsCompatConfig).

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release.

GmsCompatConfig is the text-based configuration for the GrapheneOS sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer. It provides a large portion of the compatibility shims and sets the maximum supported versions for Play services and the Play Store.

Changes in version 131.0.6778.81.0:

• update to Chromium 131.0.6778.81

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 131.0.6778.39.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.