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Boeing reportedly considers selling off its space business

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Kelly Ortberg, who took over as Boeing CEO in August, is weighing the sale of the...
Kelly Ortberg, who took over as Boeing CEO in August, is weighing the sale of the company’s space division as part of an attempt to turn things around, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The plans, which are reportedly at an early stage, could involve Boeing offloading the Starliner spacecraft and i...
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Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely

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When video game scholars want to study games that are no longer on sale, they sometimes...
When video game scholars want to study games that are no longer on sale, they sometimes have to drive many hours to do it legally — and that won’t be changing anytime soon. The US Copyright Office has just denied a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives and museums temporarily lend indiv...
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Air taxis: the latest on the flying electric cars bringing the Jetsons dream to life

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Apple reportedly tests an app to manage blood sugar

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Apple has long been rumored to be working on noninvasive blood glucose monitoring. Now, a Bloomberg...
Apple has long been rumored to be working on noninvasive blood glucose monitoring. Now, a Bloomberg report says the company tested an app that helps people with prediabetes better manage their condition.Citing anonymous Apple sources, Bloomberg notes the app required Apple employees to validate they were prediabetic...
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Bezos reportedly killed the Washington Post’s Kamala Harris endorsement

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The Washington Post’s editorial page had drafted an endorsement of Kamala Harris for president when its...
The Washington Post’s editorial page had drafted an endorsement of Kamala Harris for president when its owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, intervened to cancel its publication, The Washington Post reports. In its place, The Post ran a bizarre column by its current publisher (and former Rupert Murdoch henchman) Will L...
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All the news about Scout Motors, a classic SUV brand gone electric

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Scout Motors, the classic off-road brand from the sixties, has been reborn as an electric vehicle...
Scout Motors, the classic off-road brand from the sixties, has been reborn as an electric vehicle company and is building a new SUV and pickup truck. The pioneering Jeep rival was brought back to life by Volkswagen in 2022 after the German automaker acquired Scout in 2020 (when it merged its commercial trucking comp...
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8BitDo’s first smartphone controller has Hall effect joysticks and triggers

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8BitDo has announced its Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller, the company’s first gamepad that attaches directly to...
8BitDo has announced its Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller, the company’s first gamepad that attaches directly to smartphones and mobile devices using an expanding clamping mechanism. It’s available for preorder now for $49.99 and is expected to be released on November 29th, 2024.The Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controlle...
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Google open-sourced its watermarking tool for AI-generated text

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Google’s SynthID text watermarking technology, a tool the company created to make AI-generated text easier to...
Google’s SynthID text watermarking technology, a tool the company created to make AI-generated text easier to identify, is now available open-source through the Google Responsible Generative AI Toolkit, the company announced on X. “Now, other [generative] AI developers will be able to use this technology to help the...
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Dodge Chargers with semi-solid-state batteries may hit the road in 2026

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Stellantis says it will put a “demonstration fleet” of Dodge Charger Daytonas on the road by...
Stellantis says it will put a “demonstration fleet” of Dodge Charger Daytonas on the road by 2026, equipped with solid-state battery technology that’s lighter, more energy-dense, and could eventually make for cheaper EVs. The company calls the demo fleet a “key next step” toward making solid-state EVs that you can a...
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Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales

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Tesla reiterates plan to launch ‘more affordable’ EVs in early 2025

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On the heels of its highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing robotaxi event, Tesla published its third...
On the heels of its highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing robotaxi event, Tesla published its third quarter earnings report, in which it reiterated its plan to launch a “more affordable” electric vehicle in the first half of 2025. “In order to continue accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable ene...
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Apple will let everyone set new default phone and messaging apps with iOS 18.2

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When Apple said that iPhone owners in the EU would be able to set new default...
When Apple said that iPhone owners in the EU would be able to set new default apps for things like calling and messaging, it sounded a lot like only people in the EU would get that option. That’s not the case, though: a note on Apple’s developer website states that all users worldwide can set new default apps for ca...
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Apple is preparing an M4 MacBook Air update for early next year

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Windows 11 updates now install significantly faster and use less CPU

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Microsoft has made Windows Update significantly faster in its latest big update to Windows 11. Version...
Microsoft has made Windows Update significantly faster in its latest big update to Windows 11. Version 24H2 started rolling out earlier this month with lots of useful improvements, but now Microsoft is revealing this big update also reduces install time, restart time, and even CPU usage for monthly Windows updates.M...
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Amazon Prime members can now save on gas

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Amazon Prime members are getting a new perk: extra savings at the pump. By linking your...
Amazon Prime members are getting a new perk: extra savings at the pump. By linking your Amazon account with BP’s loyalty program, you’ll be able to save 10 cents a gallon whenever you fuel up at a participating BP or Amoco station. Incidentally, it’s a discount much like the one Walmart offers at Exxon stations thro...
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An investigation exposes data brokers using ads to help track almost any phone

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An investigation conducted by a data privacy group has revealed a vast tracking network that can...
An investigation conducted by a data privacy group has revealed a vast tracking network that can follow the movements of a person’s phone, according to reports from 404 Media and Krebs on Security. The people-tracking service, called Locate X, reportedly lets users follow a device using its mobile advertising identi...
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Elon Musk sued for using AI-generated Blade Runner imagery at robotaxi event

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Though it remains very unclear whether any of the self-driving vehicles demoed at Tesla’s We, Robot...
Though it remains very unclear whether any of the self-driving vehicles demoed at Tesla’s We, Robot presentation will ever actually make it to market, one of the production companies behind Blade Runner 2049 thinks Elon Musk ripped off their copyright for the event, and are taking him to court.Today, Alcon Entertain...
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The best instant cameras you can buy right now

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Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across...
Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant came...
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iRobot’s budget-friendly Roombas add a self-emptying option

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The new Roomba Combo 2 Essential and Roomba Vac 2 Essential include a dock for self-emptying...
The new Roomba Combo 2 Essential and Roomba Vac 2 Essential include a dock for self-emptying their dirt bins — a feature missing from the budget-friendly Essential robovacs that iRobot introduced six months ago. The 2-in-1 Combo 2 features both vacuuming and mopping capabilities for $424.99 and is slightly more expe...
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Amazon says it ditched plastic air pillows

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Amazon says that it has gotten rid of plastic air pillows at its warehouses.“As of October...
Amazon says that it has gotten rid of plastic air pillows at its warehouses.“As of October 2024, we’ve removed all plastic air pillows from our delivery packaging used at our global fulfillment centers,” the e-commerce giant said in an October 9th blog post. It’s a welcome change following years of pressure from env...
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One-third of DHS’s border surveillance cameras don’t even work

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The House Committee on Homeland Security is looking into Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) surveillance network...
The House Committee on Homeland Security is looking into Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) surveillance network in the wake of a report that nearly one-third of the agency’s cameras along the US-Mexico border don’t work. Privacy advocates say this is just the latest instance of expensive border surveillance infr...
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Streamer’s apology for racist rant exposes the rot in streaming culture

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Last week, top Twitch streamer Zach Hoyt, better known as Asmongold, went on a racist rant...
Last week, top Twitch streamer Zach Hoyt, better known as Asmongold, went on a racist rant against Palestinians, expressing apathy for the relentless military campaign against them that has claimed over 40,000 lives, many of them children. “I don’t give a fuck,” he said. “They’re terrible people.”Hoyt is known for h...
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Qualcomm’s new mobile chip is the 8 Elite

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Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has gone and done...
Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has gone and done it again. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the company’s newest high-end smartphone SoC, and like the laptop chips it borrows its “Elite” name from, it comes with a new Oryon CPU. The company says that this shift enables faste...
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Tesla’s Cybertruck range extender just became an even worse deal

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