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Engadget NFC Forum wants to bundle age verification and payment receipts in tap-to-pay The NFC Forum envisions a future wherein one tap is all you need for multiple actions at once, including paying for purchases, getting loyalty point and receiving digital receipts.

Yahoo Life Shopping 'Like a hot knife through butter': This mini chain saw is $40 for 4th of July Put those bulky power tools away: This handy helper weighs in at under 3 pounds and it's 50% off right now.

Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own Claude. Unveiled on Monday, Anthropic's program will dole out payments to third-party organizations that can, as the company puts it in a blog post, "effectively measure advanced capabilities in AI models." "Our investment in these evaluations is intended to elevate the entire field of AI safety, providing valuable tools that benefit the whole ecosystem," Anthropic wrote on its official blog.

TechCrunch Space: Star spangled Read my story from last week on the causes of Starliner's additional delay and what it might mean for Boeing's Starliner program. The indisputable story of the week is the massive $843 million contract NASA awarded to SpaceX to develop the vehicle that will deorbit the International Space Station. There are scant details about the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle, as it's being called, but one NASA official did say it would be based on "Dragon heritage" hardware.

Yahoo Sports USMNT holds the fate of Berhalter's job vs. Uruguay, England finds a way to survive Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros discuss if Gregg Berhalter's job is on the line when the USMNT faces off against Uruguay, England's national team finding a way to survive in the Euro and the mess that is Mexcio's national team.

Midjourney is creating Donald Trump pictures when asked for images of 'the president of the United States' The tests show that Midjourney's guardrails to prevent users from generating images of Trump and Biden ahead of the upcoming US presidential election aren't enough — in fact, it's really easy for people to get around them.