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America’s Favorite Pickup Truck Goes Electric
Ford’s F-series trucks make up the best-selling vehicle line in the U.S. Can its new F-150 Lightning compete with Tesla in the E.V. market?
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Adblocking People and Non-adblocking People Experience a Totally Different Web
I’ve been browsing the web with an adblocker for so long that I’d totally forgotten about the existence of ads being spliced into video content. Ah, silly me.
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Epic largely lost to Apple, but 35 states are now backing its fight in a higher court
Epic Games may have largely lost its major lawsuit against Apple, but it’s not going out without a fight — and it has some major support in its corner. Soon after the Epic Games v. Apple ruling was issued, Epic appealed, and on January 27th, a large number of organizations filed amicus briefs in support of Epic’s battle, including a coalition of 35 state attorneys general, Microsoft, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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Joni Mitchell removes music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s podcast
Mitchell says she stands "in solidarity with Neil Young."
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Netflix begins production on The Witcher season 3
It's the nature of the beast, isn't it? Although fans have only just seen season two of Netflix's The Witcher, they're already counting down to the day they get to watch more. It was in December that we heard the scripts for season 3 were "almost done", so naturally it wasn't going to be long until production started once again.
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Apple's Tim Cook offered liver to dying boss Steve Jobs
Apple chief executive Tim Cook offered a part of his liver to a dying Steve Jobs, according to a new book due to be released this month. The book, Becoming Steve Jobs, excerpts of which have been published online, throws light on life inside Apple as it grew into one of the world's most powerful technology companies.
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Facebook and Google accused of ‘secret deal’ to carve up ad empire
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and his counterpart at Google, CEO Sundar Pichai, secretly struck a deal in 2018 to carve up the digital advertising market between the two tech giants.
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98-year-old Holocaust survivor reaches younger generations on TikTok: "I will tell my...
Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert has shared her stories from the Auschwitz death camp for decades. Now, with the help of her great-grandson, she is amassing followers on TikTok as users flock to learn more.
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YouTube CEO hints at potential NFT features
A few viral YouTube videos have already been sold as NFTs.
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A Fun-Sized Holographic Display Could Become Your Affordable Portal to the Metaverse
Los Angeles-based Portl makes 'holoportation' devices that allow people to beam themselves in their 3D form from thousands of miles away. Now, with its new device called Portl M, the company wants to let you access the metaverse without the hassle of specialized glasses or headsets.
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Here’s how bad the chip shortage is, according to the White House
"Nearly every major semiconductor producer" weighed in
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Google doesn’t need Apple to solve its messaging problem
The eternal ‘green bubble’ debate has been waging for years, but recently it’s hit another high (or low, depending on how you see it)
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A former Amazon delivery contractor is suing the tech giant, saying its performance metrics made...
A former Amazon delivery contractor is accusing the tech giant of squeezing her with performance metrics to the point where she couldn't turn a profit. Ahaji Amos is suing Amazon, claiming among other things that it misrepresented how much money she could make as an Amazon Delivery Service Partner, according to a lawsuit filed in a North Carolina court Monday and first reported by Protocol.
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NFTs Are, Quite Simply, Bullshit
NFTs are emblematic of capitalism’s growing retreat from productive activity — and the wealthy’s desire to extend their dominion into the digital ether. They’re worse than useless.
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Vodafone warning as network plans 3G shutdown affecting 670,000 customers
The mobile phone provider's 3G service was launched 17 years ago, and has seen nearly 500 billion minutes worth of calls - but 5G is over 10 times more energy efficient.
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The People in Intimate Relationships With AI Chatbots
Replika users say that it's all too easy to form a meaningful – even romantic – attachment to your AI friend. Lal is five foot six. She has carrot-coloured hair and blue eyes framed with heavy-rimmed glasses. She wears a black shirt and skinny jeans and avoids eye contact, shuffling nervously in her Converse.
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Ozzy Osbourne’s NFT project shared a scam link, and followers lost thousands of dollars
Tweets from Osbourne himself inadvertently sent followers to a phishing scam.
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The frantic metaverse land grab is likely to persist in 2022 as investors realize virtual real...
The mad dash for virtual land is likely just beginning. Real estate sales in metaverses like Decentraland and the Sandbox — where plots have sold for millions of dollars — are likely set to continue at a brisk pace before peaking in May, though interest will remain high even after, according to predictive analytics firm NWO.ai.
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Polish researchers invent anti-smog sound cannon
In a battle against Poland's constant smog, scientists are testing out a new "cannon" that uses soundwaves to push toxic particles higher into the atmosphere to allow residents to breathe.
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An X-ray glow suggests black holes or neutron stars fuel weird cosmic ‘cows’
A brilliant blast from a galaxy 2 billion light-years away is the brightest cosmic “Cow” found yet. It’s the fifth known object in this new class of exploding stars and their long-glowing remnants, and it’s giving astronomers even more hints of what powers these mysterious blasts.
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When should someone trust an AI assistant’s predictions?
MIT researchers created a method that helps humans develop a more accurate mental model of an artificial intelligence teammate, so they have a better understanding of when they should trust the AI agent’s algorithmic predictions.
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Biden predicts Russia will invade Ukraine
President Joe Biden predicted Wednesday that Russia will invade Ukraine, just as the United States launched a fresh effort to resolve the standoff.
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Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human
Automation is reaching more companies, imperiling some jobs and changing the nature of others.
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Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)
I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.
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The iPhone 13's noise cancellation is gone and not coming back
Apple confirms the removal of the Phone Noise Cancellation accessibility feature on its newest phones.
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Linux malware sees 35% growth during 2021
The number of malware infections on Linux-based IoT (internet of things) devices rose by 35% in 2021 compared to the previous year's numbers. The principal goal was recruiting devices to be part of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.
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A Science Journalist’s Journey to Understand AI
As a teenager, I discovered a worn copy of the book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter on a bookshelf at home. It still had a computer punch card in it that my Mom had used as a bookmark, back when she briefly worked as a
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Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows
The email details the scope of the former administration's attempts to tamper with the count, including pressuring the Census Bureau to alter plans for protecting privacy and producing accurate data.
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The metaverse is money and crypto is king – why you'll be on a blockchain when you're...
For the metaverse to work, people need to own their virtual bodies and possessions and be able to spend money. The same cryptographic technology behind bitcoin will make that possible.
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Walmart Plans to Sell Virtual Goods, Create Cryptocurrency and NFTs
Walmart files applications seeking trademarks for digital currency, software to manage cryptocurrency and other digital assets and for online retail services.
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