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Perspective | It’s not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse
Most of what you see at first on Amazon is now an ad.
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UK government bans new Chinese security cameras
Government departments are told to stop installing cameras made by Chinese firms on "sensitive sites".
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Mercedes is charging $1,200 a year for faster acceleration
Mercedes is the latest manufacturer to lock auto features behind a subscription fee, with an upcoming “Acceleration Increase” add-on that lets drivers pay to access motor performance their vehicle is already capable of. The $1,200 yearly subscription improves performance by boosting output from the motors by 20–24 percent, increasing torque, and shaving around 0.8 to 0.9 seconds off 0–60 mph acceleration when in Dynamic drive mode (via The Drive).
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How Crested Geckos Rafted From Australia
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How to test if we're living in a computer simulation
There may be ways to check if our universe is just simulated entertainment for an advanced, alien species.
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The best Twitter alternatives
The best alternatives to Twitter include some sites you may have never heard about and one or two you have. Let's discuss
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“Just a bunch of idiots having fun”—a photo history of the LAN party
An interview with Merritt K, chronicler of a crucial, awkward time in PC gaming.
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Binance has a plan to save crypto—if it’s not too late
Few were prepared for the dramatic collapse of crypto exchange FTX on November 11. The incident has left hundreds of thousands of customers without access to their funds, and the ripple effects have wiped billions of dollars from the market, as well as casting doubt over the integrity of other crypto companies.
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Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps
Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that’s today powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others.
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iPhone 15 Could Feature Titanium Chassis With Curved Rear Edges
According to Twitter user @ShrimpApplePro, the back edges of the iPhone 15 will be rounded to create a new border, similar to the bottom edges on the case of Apple's latest 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models. For reference, the iPhone 14 models use a flat-sided design with squared off edges that harkens back to the iPhone 4. The last model to sport curved edges was the iPhone 11.
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Apple silicon supports the ancient Intel 8080 through a secret extension
Apple revealed its first custom processor, the Apple M1, during an event in November 2020. The chip was met with high praise for cramming loads of power into a tiny space. Apple's M1 led people to wonder if SoCs were the future of computing. Due to switching to an ARM architecture, Apple had to figure out a way to allow M1 Macs to use programs that were designed with Intel-based Macs in mind.
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Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed: easily replace Twitter, Instagram and YouTube
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The Collapse of Carvana, the "Amazon of Used Cars", Continues
Online used-vehicle dealer faces a mountain of financial and legal challenges.
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A plot twist for video game novels: As TV shows ascend, books fade
Even as TV and streaming services are snapping up video game IP, their popularity in the literary world is waning.
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This new technology aims to detect early-stage Alzheimer's
A team of researchers is developing a "dual-mode brain-sensing device" that detects Alzheimer's disease (AD) quickly and effectively, a new report has said.
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Engineers designed a new nanoscale 3D printing material that can be printed at a speed of 100 mm/s
A new nanoscale 3D printing material developed by Stanford University engineers may provide superior structural protection for satellites, drones, and microelectronics. An improved lightweight, a protective lattice that can absorb twice as much energy as previous materials of a similar density has been developed by engineers for nanoscale 3D printing.
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The Only Way the U.S. Can Win the Tech War with China
The tech war between China and the U.S. over advanced semiconductors is rapidly heating up, but the U.S. needs allies to win
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FTX launches strategic review, seeks court relief to pay critical vendors
Collapsed crypto exchange FTX said on Saturday it has launched a strategic review of its global assets and is preparing for the sale or reorganisation of some businesses.
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Impetuous, Unpredictable, Ruthless, Autocratic, Vindictive: Is Elon Musk the New Donald Trump?
Before Donald Trump was permanently banned from Twitter in early 2021, his mantra seemed clear: occupy as much of the Internet as possible by tweeting about everything, all the time. Whatever the topic, the important thing was to tweet about Donald Trump. The former president of the United States couldn’t help but give his opinion, create slang or simply hammer home his vision of society.
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Epic says more than half of all announced next-gen games are made on Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine 5.1 is being released on Tuesday.
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Never Completely Dutch: Flemish Writers in the Land of Freedom
Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country.
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Google settles “Location History” lawsuit with 40 states, will pay $392 million
Google also promises to change the Location History settings again.
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E-bike batteries have caused 200 fires in New York: ‘Everyone’s scared’
Delivery workers grapple with danger after dozens injured in blazes that can spread quickly and suddenly
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Cryptocurrency Solana Collapses in FTX Scandal
The token is the first big victim of the abrupt implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
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Sad Elon Musk Says He's Overwhelmed In Strange Interview After the Power Went Out
Musk is now even busier than he already was now that he has taken over Twitter — and that kind of pressure is clearly getting to him.
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Meta Cancels Development of Health and Messaging-Focused Smartwatch
Meta has scrapped the development of its health and messaging-focused smartwatch, in an abrupt end to the company's plans to directly compete with the Apple Watch. Employees were reportedly told on Friday that work on its smartwatch project would be halted as part of a cost-cutting effort that will involve structural changes to the company.
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Two fifths of people have chronic pain by their 40s, with consequences for later life
Chronic pain is widespread among those in their mid-40s in Britain, with those who experience it more likely to report pain, poor health - including COVID-19 infection - and joblessness later in life, according to a new study by researchers at UCL and Dartmouth College, US.
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Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies
An experimental therapeutic cancer vaccine induced two distinct and desirable immune system responses that led to significant tumor regression in mice, report investigators from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Think twice before pouring your "heart and soul" into a corporate job
In a call with workers at Meta on Wednesday, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees, “You’ve really put your heart and soul into this place,” before laying off roughly 11,000 people. Meta is joined by a number of other tech companies doing massive layoffs this year, and the trend serves as a stark reminder that your company, no matter how much you give, won’t always love you back.
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Twitter Could Go Bankrupt, Elon Says
Twitter is going to Hell in a handbasket. Wait no — that’s a dumpster. Oh look, it’s full of money. Aaannnnd it’s on fire. Apparently, things at the birdsite aren’t going so great. Actually, the so-called “microphone of the masses” is in pretty bad shape. Bad enough that genius-billionaire investor Elon Musk is reportedly telling his staff (more of whom he says he intends to lay off) that bankruptcy is now on the table.
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