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+9As Ajit Pai exits FCC, Charter admits defeat on petition to impose data caps
Charter cannot impose data caps until May 2023, won't ask Biden FCC to nix ban.
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+10Why the Hell Do They Still Make Car Alarms?
They add to noise pollution while failing to prevent car theft. It's time for them to go.
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+93-D video brings life-like perspective to Delphi murder scene
The new CrimeDoor app created an augmented reality video of the moments before Libby German and Abby Williams were killed.
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+20Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
Exclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles
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+6AirPods Max teardown makes Sony and Bose headphones look ‘like toys’
But they’re not perfect by any means.
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+7When Radio Stations Stopped a Public Figure From Spreading Dangerous Lies
When radio was king, many outlets chose to cease broadcasting Father Charles Coughlin's anti-Semitic sermons
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+20A man who says he threw away a hard drive loaded with 7,500 bitcoins in 2013 is offering his city $70 million to dig it up from the dump
James Howells, from Wales, threw away the hard drive containing the cryptocurrency in 2013. The trove, buried at a huge dump, is worth $275 million.
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+20Social-Media Algorithms Rule How We See the World. Good Luck Trying to Stop Them.
We’re still at the mercy of the algorithms. That needs to change, and it’s up to social-media companies to change it, writes columnist Joanna Stern.
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+17Elon Musk Swears He'll Send Humans to Mars by 2026. That Seems Impossible.
But if anyone can make it happen...
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+31DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time | ZDNet
DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.
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+16Hello Cultured Meat, Goodbye to the Cruelty of Industrial Animal Farming
Here’s a technology designed to rehumanize us, putting mankind’s brilliance and ingenuity in service to our gentler side.
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+6Forget foldable TVs. Transparent screens are the cool new tech trend
TVs seem to get bigger, slimmer and more connected each year. But now, in 2021, you can also see right through them.
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+21Blocked from social media, extremists discuss turning to radios to plan attacks, FCC warns
The US government is warning that groups could rely on radio equipment as an alternative to social media to plan future criminal activities.
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+13Why CES 2021 was filled with business laptops and Chromebooks
It was a year when practical concerns overtook cool new designs, mostly.
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+16Parler's website is back online, but app still not in stores
The chief executive of social media platform Parler, popular with American right-wing users but which virtually vanished after the U.S. Capitol riot, posted a brief message on the company's website. Parler's app, however, remains offline.
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+25Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook
Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.
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+31With no charger or expandable storage, the Galaxy S21 is more like the iPhone 12 in some of the worst ways
Commentary: Samsung dropping a few features makes sense, but there would be real courage in keeping at least some of them.
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+18How the price of Samsung Galaxy S phones changed over the years
If you think Samsung Galaxy S prices have only ever gone up from year to year, this might be surprising.
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+19These are the violent threats that made Amazon drop Parler
Be warned: this is ugly stuff.
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+19COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.
But there are lessons from the current crisis that should guide our response to the next one.