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Millions of Reddit users face a blackout over pricing revolt
Thousands of Reddit communities are planning a widespread blackout that will impact millions of users. The revolt comes in response to proposed charges for third-party app developers, which they claim will make the social media platform inaccessible for a significant proportion of users.
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Is there really something wrong with the iPhone 14 Pro battery?
As iPhones get more powerful, they need a battery that can hold up. Apple should arguably be making batteries that can handle the power-sucking features of the newest iPhone iterations, but users are reporting that all is not well. Though we've heard whispers of the issue before, there's an active Twitter thread running right now that seems to confirm the problem.
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The Wiretap: A Nintendo Switch Helped Rescue A Missing Teenager 500 Miles From Home
Last August, Jane, a 14-year-old from Norfolk, Virginia, went missing for two weeks. Her worried family, who put out urgent pleas to local media, were baffled by the girl’s disappearance. An introvert and a homebody, Jane (whose real name Forbes is choosing not to reveal as she is still a minor) had showed no sign she was considering something drastic, her parents told investigators.
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The AI Revolution and The New Roaring '20s
In 2023, predictions about artificial intelligence (A.I.) have spanned from utopian dreams to apocalyptic nightmares, and attempts to identify comparable moments in history range from the development of the atomic bomb to the ancient discovery of how to control fire.
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Apple's new iOS 17 will warn you if someone tries to send unsolicited nudes
Apple's new iOS 17 has a feature that will warn people when someone attempts to send them unsolicited nudes. Apple said in a press release that the Sensitive Content Warning would help adult users avoid seeing unwanted nude images and videos. The company would not get access to the content as processing for the new feature occurred on the user's device, the press release added.
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Why millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
Millions of storage devices are being shredded each year, even though they could be reused. "You don't need an engineering degree to understand that's a bad thing," says Jonmichael Hands. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Circular Drive Initiative (CDI), a partnership of technology companies promoting the secure reuse of storage hardware. He also works at Chia Network, which provides a blockchain technology.
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YouTube will stop removing false presidential election fraud claims
YouTube is reversing its policies on election misinformation. Starting today, YouTube will stop removing content that “advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections,” according to a blog post published on Friday.
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Amazon’s Ring doorbell was used to spy on customers, FTC says in privacy case
In the agency’s latest effort to hold big tech accountable, the company agreed to settle the privacy violations for $5.8m
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High-tech pen paints healing gel right into wounds
Most wound dressings simply cover the injury and perhaps also kill harmful bacteria. The PAINT system goes much further, as it incorporates a pen that could one day allow doctors to paint a gelatinous healing ink right into wounds. Its name an acronym for "portable bioactive ink for tissue healing," the PAINT technology is being developed by scientists from China's Nanjing University.
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National Eating Disorders Association takes its AI chatbot offline after complaints of 'harmful' advice
An eating disorder prevention organization said it had to take its AI-powered chatbot offline after some complained the tool began offering “harmful” and “unrelated” advice to those coming to it for support. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), a nonprofit organization aimed at supporting people impacted by eating disorders, said on Tuesday that it took down its chatbot, dubbed “Tessa,” after some users reported negative experiences with it.
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Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20 million-a-year bill for Apollo
Reddit is an enormously popular website, but the official design has always needed some reworking. This is even more true of the mobile experience, which didn't have a mobile app until 2016, and even then, not everyone's a fan of it. The site's popularity rose partly thanks to third-party developers filling in the gaps with pre-existing and better mobile apps.
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A former Google exec warned about the dangers of AI saying it is 'beyond an emergency' and 'bigger than climate change'
A former Google officer has weighed in on the debate around AI and warned that it is a bigger emergency than climate change, in an an episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast released Thursday. Mo Gawdat, previously chief business officer at Google X — the company's division for ambitious projects known as "moonshots" — spoke with podcast host Steven Bartlett about whether AI is sentient, its impact on jobs, and how he believes the government needs to regulate the industry.
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The “death of self-driving cars” has been greatly exaggerated
Seven years ago, hype about self-driving cars was off the charts. It wasn’t just Tesla CEO Elon Musk—who has been making outlandish predictions about self-driving technology since 2015. In 2016, Ford set a goal to start selling cars without steering wheels by 2021. The same year, Lyft predicted that a majority of rides on its network would be autonomous by 2021.
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BMW adds games to the 5 series
BMW has announced a new in-car gaming feature available on its 5 series automobiles that allows users to use smartphones as a controller for software running on in-car screens. The German automaker billed the feature as a way to play "so-called casual games" to pass the time while waiting for an electric vehicle to charge – while the vehicle is stationary, of course.
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WhatsApp finally lets you fix typos in sent messages
WhatsApp is rolling out a long-overdue feature to all users. Starting today, you'll be able to edit messages that you have already sent. You'll need to act fairly swiftly, as you'll have a 15-minute window to correct a mistake or drop in an emoji you initially forgot to include.
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Microsoft and Goldman Sachs to drive web3 adoption with AI
Microsoft is in league with Goldman Sachs and other tech giants to develop a blockchain "network of networks." The project is likely to propel crypto adoption.
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Apple patent reveals Apple Pencil could gain an Acoustic Resonator that will allow it to be found via the 'Find My' App
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to adding Apple Pencil to Apple's list of devices that could be a part of "Find My" devices service. Currently Apple Pencil is not on Apple's list of devices that could be tracked but will in the future, according to today's patent.
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This PC fits in your pocket and uses a revolutionary cooling system backed by Intel, Qualcomm
Popular mini PC vendor Zotac has launched the ZBox PI430AJ, the first device we’ve come across that uses the AirJet, a solid-state active cooler, from Frore Systems. The tiny PC, which was unveiled at Computex, has a retail price of $499 (around £400 / AU$755) and uses two AirJet Mini cooling chips to cool an Intel Core i3-N300MHz CPU with a 7W TDP (and eight efficiency cores), 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM but no SSD; this is a barebone system aimed squarely at businesses.
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Tesla plummets 50 spots in a survey of the US's most reputable brands. It's now No. 62 — 30 places below Ford.
Tesla Motors scored higher in the trajectory and vision categories, but lower in character, trust, and citizenship on the 2023 Axios Harris Poll.
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Netflix Launches Paid Sharing in U.S., Will Start Blocking Users With Unauthorized Passwords
If you’re sharing your Netflix password with someone who doesn’t live with you, get ready to pay up — it will cost $7.99 per month extra to add another user to your account. On Tuesday, Netflix said it is launching its crackdown on illicit password sharing to its biggest market, the U.S., angling to squeeze a bigger chunk of change from customers who share their logins with friends and family outside their household.
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