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Alex Cranz / The Verge : Meta is good at making VR hardware but is ignoring its core gamer audience, as it's not clear the company realizes that games are driving its VR business   —  Meta seems very committed to making hardware to usher in a whole new world and racing away from the games that drive its VR business.

EXCLUSIVE: Casey DeSantis, wife of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis , and their two children were all smiles at the rodeo on Friday ahead of the governor’s speech in Houston. The governor spoke at the annual Harris County Lincoln Reagan Dinner at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Friday night. His team told Fox News Digital that the sold-out event was the highest raising, and most attended in the dinner's history. According to reports, the event was met with limited protests outside by progressives demonstrating against DeSantis’ education policies. Before the speech, the Florida first lady and her two children, 6-year-old Madison DeSantis and 4-year-old Mason DeSantis, spent the afternoon at the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo — which bills itself as the largest livestock show in the world — meeting with rodeo officials and enjoying the animals. RON DESANTIS REVEALS HIS PLAN TO ‘MAKE AMERICA FLORIDA’ Photos exclusively provided to Fox News Digita...

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : Bing Chat appears to have a hidden Celebrity mode, in which the chatbot answers questions while impersonating Biden, Trump, Tom Cruise, and other famous people   —  A secret Bing Chat ‘Celebrity’ mode allows users to instruct the AI to impersonate celebrities, answering questions and talking like the person it imitates.

Spiritual adviser and bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson officially declared her candidacy for president on Saturday, launching a 2024 Democratic primary challenge against President Biden. "The status quo will not disrupt itself… that's our job," Williamson said at her campaign kickoff event at Washington D.C.’s Union Station. "We know that this country is plagued by many challenges now, not the least of which is hatred and division, which is greater than any of us have experienced national life. It is our job to create a vision of justice and love that is so powerful that it will override the forces of hatred and injustice and fear," Williamson said in her speech. Williamson, who called for reparations and a Department of Peace as part of her unsuccessful long-shot campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, becomes the first Democrat with a national following to primary challenge the 80-year-old president.  BIDEN DRAWS FIRST DE...

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said on Friday that the success of a strict new asylum restriction proposed by the Biden administration will depend on its political will to "defy their open borders base," just as the administration faces a furious backlash from the left over the proposal. Cornyn led a delegation of six Republican senators to the south Texas border and was asked about the new rule introduced last month by the Biden administration, which when implemented will automatically make migrants ineligible for asylum if they have crossed illegally and failed to claim asylum in another country through which they have passed. While left-wing critics have painted the move as similar to the Trump-era transit ban — a comparison the administration has rejected — Republicans have been cautious in offering support, with some immigration hawks expressing concern about the loopholes through which that ineligibility can be challenged. GOP SENATORS TOUR SOUTHERN BORDER IN TEXAS, SAY...

Kate Park / TechCrunch : Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator Una Brands raised a $30M pre-Series C, following a $30M Series B in September 2022, bringing its total funding to $100M+   —  Una Brands, a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing …

Rebel Wilson has learned that when it comes to rules, Disney does not play around.  The actress revealed on "The Daily Show with Hasan Minhaj" that she was banned from Disneyland for an unauthorized selfie. "I did get banned from Disneyland for 30 days because I took a photo inside a secret bathroom, which is illegal at Disneyland," Wilson shared with a laugh. She continued, "I got officially banned for 30 days. They called me up and said, 'Rebel what 30 days did you not want to come to Disneyland because you’re away filming a movie or something?' And I was like, 'Oh, well, June would be fine.'" The Disneyland Park and Resort did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. REBEL WILSON LAUNCHES NEW DATING APP, ALLOWING FOR 'SEXUAL FLUIDITY': YOU DON'T HAVE TO 'TICK A BOX' Wilson did not elaborate on what she meant by "secret bathroom," but in the interview, it was clear she was a D...

EXCLUSIVE: The entire Alaska congressional delegation met privately wi th President Biden at the White House Thursday evening, imploring him to approve a massive oil drilling project in their state, Fox News Digital has learned. Biden's meeting with the delegation — Republican Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski and Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola — comes as his administration is putting the final touches on a highly-anticipated decision on how to move forward on the so-called Willow Project in the National Petroleum Reserve located in North Slope Borough, Alaska. The Department of the Interior is expected to issue the decision sometime next week. "I can tell you what I certainly emphasized, but very broadly speaking, this decision on Willow is a huge test for the Biden administration on so many issues that they claim to care about," Sullivan told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday. "Of course it's critically important to Alaska, but it's critically ...

Gisele Fetterman, wife of Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetteman , said that her advice to married women communicating with their husbands it to "ignore him when he’s speaking." "You just have to be really confident in your truth," she said of dealing with people who disagree with you, and offered similar advice to married women . "Then you just, like, ignore him when he’s speaking."  Gisele Fetterman spoke to the Los Angeles Blade in December, but the former Pennsylvania second lady's comments resurfaced on social media this week. MYSTERY SWIRLS AS FETTERMAN CO-SPONSORS LEGISLATION WHILE HOSPITALIZED FOR DEPRESSION: ‘VERY UNUSUAL’ The Blade reported that Gisele Fetterman's marriage with the senator "operates with the unspoken understanding that Gisele is always right when there are differences of opinion." The interview also detailed the Fetterman's involvement in the LGBTQ community and when the now-senator officiated wedd...

Wall Street Journal : Internal documents detail efforts by Tether Holdings and Bitfinex to maintain access to the banking system by using shadowy intermediaries and shell companies   —  Tether Holdings and related crypto broker obscured identities, documents show  —  In late 2018, the companies behind …

Heidi Klum's husband Tom Kaulitz is suspicious about the couple's dogs' cause of death. Tom and his brother Bill Kaulitz spoke about the death of their three dogs in a new episode of the podcast, "Kaulitz Hills - Senf aus Hollywood." Tom Kaulitz and Klum lost their 15-year-old German short-haired pointer and their 4-year-old Irish Wolfhound in the same month. Bill's bulldog also passed away in February. The timing of all three dogs' deaths led the families to become suspicious. HEIDI KLUM SHARES REVEALING KISSING SELFIE ON FOURTH ANNIVERSARY WITH HUSBAND: ‘LOVE OF MY LIFE’ "Stitch is also at an autopsy, where we hope to learn a few more things," Bill said in German on the podcast, per People magazine. "Sadly, we also had to think about whether it might be the case that everything is connected." Tom added, "It's so sad that you have to think that there is someone who wants to harm you so much that he kills your animals. ...

Catherize Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas keep things exciting on the golf course.  The "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" star admitted he has to take off his pants and "whip it out" if he loses to his wife. "The rules are I have to whip it out if I don’t hit it past the ladies’ tees, which I manage most of the time," Douglas confessed to The Guardian. EVANGELINE LILLY RECALLS MAKING MICHAEL DOUGLAS A PROVOCATIVE PROPOSAL "But there have been times when we’re playing alone and [I] have to give her a little show because we are competitive. But only when I play with my wife." Zeta-Jones, however, doesn't discriminate when it comes to making men drop their pants on the golf course.  During an appearance on "The Graham Norton Show," the "Chicago" actress joked, "it’s not just my husband, it’s any man I play with." The 53-year-old immediately caused an uproar from the audience after her racy comment. "I...

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch : Ford launches Latitude AI, a subsidiary run by former Argo AI employees, to focus initially on commercializing a hands-free, eyes-off driver assistance system   —  Ford has launched a wholly owned subsidiary — staffed by hundreds of former employees of Argo AI — that will initially focus …

The judge overseeing the racketeering and gang case against Atlanta rapper Young Thug and others has ordered an investigation into the leak of a video that shows a state's witness offering information in exchange for leniency. Jury selection in the high-profile trial began nearly two months ago and is likely to continue for several more months, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville, on Wednesday reminded prosecutors and defense attorneys that certain evidence must be kept secret until the trial, the newspaper reported. "It affects everyone’s right to a fair trial," the judge told attorneys. "I don’t know who did this but if this pertains to you, please amend your ways. You’re playing a very dangerous game with your six-digit bar number." SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK, STANDS BY PRINCE ANDREW, SAYS SHE WAS 'THE MOST PERSECUTED WOMAN' IN THE ROYAL FAMILY The trial for Young Thug and 13 others is e...

Police who responded to the pro-Trump storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, can sue former President Trump in court, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The DOJ made the announcement in a filing before a federal appeals court. It pertains to efforts by two U.S. Capitol Police officers and 11 Democratic lawmakers to sue Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riots, alleging psychological damage. Attorneys with the DOJ's civil rights division wrote in the filing that a president's protected speech "does not include incitement of imminent private violence." "Presidents may at times use strong rhetoric. And some who hear that rhetoric may overreact, or even respond with violence," the DOJ wrote Thursday, according to the Intercept. PA JURY ACQUITS PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST MARK HOUCK ON CHARGES OF OBSTRUCTING ABORTION CLINIC ACCESS "Just as denying First Amendment protection to incitement does not unduly chill speech in general, denying absolute imm...

President Biden on Thursday unveiled a "sweeping" plan to go after COVID-19 pandemic aid fraudsters who stole billions of taxpayer dollars, and to help victims who lost their benefits to identity thieves. The White House proposes to spend $1.6 billion on a three-pronged crackdown investigating and prosecuting systemic pandemic fraud , developing new tools to prevent identify theft, and providing resources to victims who not only lost the aid they needed, but also may have had their credit scores deteriorate or face tax liabilities through no fault of their own.  "There's no question when the Biden administration walked in the door, we inherited a historic degree of fraud due to the pandemic programs designed and administered at the onset of the pandemic," said Gene Sperling, a senior adviser to the president who is coordinating the implementation of Biden's COVID-19 relief law. Sperling told reporters on a conference call that the White House coordinated...

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk : Coinbase, Circle, Paxos, Crypto.com, Bitstamp, Cboe, and Gemini suspend business operations with Silvergate, which reported being “less than well-capitalized”   —  Silvergate's clients Coinbase, Circle, Paxos, Crypto.com, Bitstamp, Cboe Digital Markets and Gemini said they will suspend business with the bank.

Once a senior member of the British royal family herself, Sarah Ferguson has been subjected to scandal, criticism and judgment. For this reason, the Duchess of York, affectionately known as Fergie, believes judging her former nephew Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle amid their rift with the royal family would not be appropriate. "I don't believe that any single person has the right to judge another person. I'm not in a position myself to make any judgments," she told People magazine. "I have been judged all my life, and I have no judgment on the Sussexes." SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK, STANDS BY PRINCE ANDREW, SAYS SHE WAS 'THE MOST PERSECUTED WOMAN' IN THE ROYAL FAMILY Fergie's support is timely, coming just a day after it was reported that Prince Harry and Meghan were asked to leave their royal digs at Frogmore Cottage so another family member, Prince Andrew, could move in. A spokesperson for the couple's Archewell Foundation told ...

Ricou Browning, known for his role as the Gill-Man , has died at the age of 93. The actor passed away Monday surrounded by his family, the actor's son Ricou Browning Jr. confirmed to Fox News Digital. His daughter also confirmed his death. "He had a fabulous career in the film industry, providing wonderful entertainment for past and future generations," Kim Browning told The Hollywood Reporter. STARS WE'VE LOST IN 2023 Browning was known for his role as the Gill-Man in "Creature from the Black Lagoon." The film also featured Julie Adams and Richard Carlson as two characters embarked on a research expedition of the Amazon. Browning described the costume as "cumbersome at first. When I first put it on, it seemed awkward and clumsy," per THR. "But once I got into the movie, I forgot I had it on. I became the creature." Browning reprised the role with "Revenge of the Creature" and "The Creature Walks Among Us." C...

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak in Wuhan, China. "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Wray told Fox News in an interview that aired Tuesday. "Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab."  "I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that's unfortunate for everybody," he added. Wray said the FBI has specialists who focus on "the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses like COVID, and the concerns that they [are] in the wrong hands [of] some bad guys, a hostile nation state, a terrorist, a criminal." ANOTHER US ...

Zeynep Geylan / CryptoSlate : Robinhood launches a standalone Robinhood Wallet app globally on iOS, with Polygon and Ethereum network support, and says an Android app is coming later in 2023   —  Crypto exchange platform Robinhood's wallet application launched on the iOS application store on Mar. 1, according to the announcement published on the Robinhood blog.

A Republican-proposed overhaul of how Ohio oversees K-12 education and decision-making on academic standards, model curricula and school district ratings has cleared a Senate committee and could be put to a vote by the full Senate as soon as Wednesday. Oversight of the state’s education department would shift to a director appointed by the governor, instead of the State Board of Education and the superintendent it elects. The bill would also rename the Ohio Department of Education as the Department of Education and Workforce, and transfer many of the state school board’s powers to the department’s new director. That director, as well as the deputy directors for the newly created divisions of Primary and Secondary Education and Career Technical Education, would also have to be OK'd by the state Senate. OHIO REPUBLICAN TAKES STEPS TO LAUNCH SENATE CHALLENGE AGAINST VULNERABLE DEMOCRAT SHERROD BROWN IN 2024 This proposal isn't new. A similar bill failed to get enough votes in...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI launches ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans and priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among early adopters   —  To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement.

Jon Fingas / Engadget : Qualcomm and Thales unveil the certification of the first commercially deployable iSIM, putting eSIM-like functionality directly into the phone's main processor   —  Never mind eSIMs — your next phone might have a more advanced way of connecting to your carrier.

NEVER MISS A MOMENT —  Check out the latest news on campaigns and politics at FoxNews.com WINDY CITY WOES : Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight candidates in the mayoral race Tuesday as the city selects its next leader. Lightfoot's record on crime is a top concern, and polls have shown her support waning in recent months. Read more from Fox News' Timothy Nerozzi: Chicago mayoral election: Polls open as Lightfoot faces 8 challengers, with crime top of mind GREEN OR RED? GOP goes after Biden administration cabinet member for working with a green energy group that has ties to China. Read more from Fox News' Thomas Catenacci: Top Republican raises alarm on Biden energy secretary's work with China-connected group pushing gas stove ban ORE-GONE: A campaign to have rural eastern Oregon effectively secede from the blue state and join more conservative Idaho is gaining steam as leaders from both states express support for relocating the border between them. Read mor...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Typeface, which offers generative AI tools for marketing, emerges from stealth with $65M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, M12, and Menlo Ventures   —  Typeface, a startup developing an AI-powered dashboard for drafting marketing copy and images, emerged from stealth this week with $65 million …

Funding is being directed to help stock Alaska food pantries as part of a broader effort to address a state backlog in processing food stamp benefits. Major delays by the state in processing applications for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program have heavily impacted rural parts of Alaska where food costs are high and food pantries rare, and strained food bank resources across the state, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The state has attributed the processing delays to staffing shortages, a 2021 cyberattack that disrupted online services, an outdated system and a flood of recertification applications. Gov. Mike Dunleavy redirected about $1.7 million previously earmarked for food security efforts to help address the current need, and state health officials worked with food bank leaders to determine the best use of the funds, Alaska Department of Health Commissioner Heidi Hedberg told reporters Monday. The money is intended to go toward the bulk purchase of food to ...

Financial Times : US-based MKS Instruments, a little-known but key chip equipment supplier, says a “ransomware event” on “production-related systems” will cause delays into March   —  US-based MKS Instruments says attack would cost at least $200mn in lost or delayed sales

He is a man of many talents – including being a hairstylist to his young son. Matthew McConaughey was photographed cutting his son Livingston's hair in a new Instagram photo shared by his wife Camila Alves McConaughey. In the shot, McConaughey can be seen hard at work chopping the locks off his youngest child's head, using appropriate barber scissors while Livingston, 10, sits in a salon chair. The couple's eldest child, Levi, 14, who is the spitting image of his father, looks on while his father gets to work. WHY MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY TOOK HIS CHILDREN TO A VIEWING OF A YOUNG UVALDE VICTIM "Then this happened," the Brazilian model captioned the photo, with a chunk of Livingston's blonde highlighted locks on the floor. McConaughey and his wife have been married since 2012. They also share daughter Vida, 13, together. The couple rarely speak about or post their children, choosing to raise their family in Texas, away from the limelight. Last year, Alves M...

FIRST ON FOX: Democrat Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown was fundraising in Hollywood, California, over the weekend while residents of East Palestine, Ohio, are still dealing with the effects of the toxic chemical spill affecting the Buckeye State. Brown, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, took part in a Hollywood Hills fundraiser on Saturday according to an Instagram post from one of the co-hosts of the event. "If you know me you know I have been a big fan of Sherrod’s for years !! (sic)" said Jill Goldman, who formerly served on Obama´s National Finance Committee and is a former Obama appointee. "Sherrod is a progressive champion who wins in a tough state like Ohio because Ohioans know he fights for them in the workplace." PETE BUTTIGIEG GETS ‘F’ GRADE FROM EAST PALESTINE’S CONGRESSMAN: ‘HE HASN’T SHOWN UP’ "His Dignity of Work message enables him to reach those Trump voters even though he has been pro-choice his whole career, gets an F from the NR...

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple has restarted work on an iPhone SE 4 with a 6.1" OLED screen and an Apple-designed 5G modem; Ross Young: China's BOE will supply the display   —  Apple has restarted development of a fourth-generation iPhone SE with a 6.1-inch OLED display and an Apple-designed 5G chip …

The unlikely awards season juggernaut " Everything Everywhere All at Once " marched on at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, and even gathered steam with wins not just for best ensemble, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan but also for Jamie Lee Curtis. The SAG Awards, often an Oscar preview, threw some curve balls into the Oscars race in a ceremony streamed live on Netflix's YouTube page from Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. But the clearest result of the SAG Awards was the overwhelming success of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's madcap multiverse tale, which has now used its hotdog fingers to snag top honors from the acting, directing and producing guilds. Only one film ("Apollo 13") had won all three and not gone on to win best picture at the Oscars. JAMIE LEE CURTIS THANKS ‘NEPO BABY’ STATUS FOR STARDOM WHILE ACCEPTING SAG AWARD: ‘THIS IS JUST AMAZING!’ After so much of the cast of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" had already be...