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Apple Watch credited with helping police locate kidnapped Texas woman
Police in Selma, Texas are crediting the Apple Watch with helping them locate a kidnapped woman. As reported by Fox San Antonio, the kidnapped woman used her Apple Watch to call for help, and police were able to use a cellular ping to track her.
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Building Earth's largest telescope on the far side of the moon
NASA engineers are planning a robotically constructed kilometre diameter radio telescope that will fit in a giant crater and study radio waves from the big bang.
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This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes
The company is rolling out a patch for the vulnerabilities, which allowed one researcher to break into a car in 90 seconds and drive away.
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Chipmaking is being redesigned. Effects will be far-reaching
The global semiconductor business is becoming at once more diverse and more concentrated. This brings opportunities—and risks
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Apple’s 2021 MacBook Pros will reportedly bring back the SD card slot
Apple may be undoing its most controversial laptop change.
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Alphabet gives up on balloon-powered internet
Alphabet's Loon is no more. Loon was launched in 2013 as one of Google's moonshot projects — experimental ventures which try to solve big problems — and was turned into an independent company in 2018. The idea was to provide internet access to areas that are remote or have poor infrastructure using balloons that sail at about 65,000 feet of altitude. And though Loon did have some success in those nine years — mostly in providing emergency access to areas that were struck by catastrophe — it is now shutting down.
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Massive Apple VR leak reveals headset price, release window
A new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple's first VR headset will cost well over $900 and have a chip faster than the M1 Mac.
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Malware found on laptops given out by government
Suspicious files contacting Russian servers are thought to have been found on devices given to schools.
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Microsoft Files Patent to Create Chatbots That Imitate Dead People - IGN
Microsoft has filed a patent that would allow the company to digitally revive deceased loved ones as chatbots, using the individual's personal information.
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President Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
Opinion: Jessica Rosenworcel, who's been pro-net neutrality for years, has been named the Federal Communications Commission's acting chairwoman.
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A Site Published Every Face From Parler's Capitol Riot Videos
Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.
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Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia
The tech giant says it will remove its main search function from Australia if it passes a new law.
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House oversight head asks FBI to investigate Parler
A number of Jan. 6 rioters have been charged after posting their activities that day to Parler and major social networking sites popular in the U.S.
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Tucows Downloads is retiring after hosting freeware and shareware for nearly 3 decades
Once upon a time when the web was young and trustworthy sites for downloading Windows software were hard to find, TUCOWS emerged and quickly became a top destination for folks looking for the latest versions of freeware and shareware applications, eventually adding support for Linux, Mac and a handful of other operating systems.
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Judge Refuses To Reinstate Parler After Amazon Shut It Down
U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein sided with Amazon, which argued that Parler would not remove posts from its site that threatened public safety in the wake of the riots on the Capitol.
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Twitter locks account of Chinese Embassy in U.S. over 'dehumanization' of Uighurs in tweet | CBC News
Twitter has locked the account of the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. for a tweet that defended China's policies in the Xinjiang region, which the U.S. social media platform said violated the firm's policy against "dehumanization" of a group of people.
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Microsoft invests in $30 billion driverless car company Cruise
Investment pits Microsoft against Google sibling Waymo.
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Alibaba's Jack Ma makes first live appearance since October in online meet
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma met 100 rural teachers in China via a live video meeting on Wednesday morning, in the businessman's first appearance since October.
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Tesla is hiring people to handle complaints people tweet at Elon Musk
The CEO may no longer be the company's customer service department on Twitter.
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Synthetic cornea helped a legally blind man regain his sight
A legally blind 78-year old man has regained his sight after being the inaugural patient to receive a promising new type of corneal implant.
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