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Tesla stock drops 29% in first quarter as global dominance wanes

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Tesla shares plunged 29% in the first quarter, the worst period for the stock since the...
Tesla shares plunged 29% in the first quarter, the worst period for the stock since the end of 2022 and the third-steepest quarterly drop on record.Investors are concerned about auto sales as the company faces increased competition from China and disruptions in Europe.According to data from S3 Partners, Tesla shorts...

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Kia recalls over 427K Telluride SUVs because they might roll away while parked

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Kia is recalling more than 427,000 of its Telluride SUVs due to a defect that may...
Kia is recalling more than 427,000 of its Telluride SUVs due to a defect that may cause the cars to roll away while they’re parkedNEW YORK -- Kia is recalling more than 427,000 of its Telluride SUVs due to a defect that may cause the cars to roll away while they're parked.According to documents published by the Nati...

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Xiaomi releases electric car $4K cheaper than Tesla's Model 3

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Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said the standard version of the SU7 will sell for 215,900 yuan...
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said the standard version of the SU7 will sell for 215,900 yuan ($30,408) in the country — a price he acknowledged would mean the company was selling each car at a loss.Tesla's Model 3 starts at 245,900 yuan in China.Lei claimed the standard version of the SU7 beat the Model 3 on more than 90% of ...

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Microsoft Building $100B 'Stargate' to Transport OpenAI into the Future

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Microsoft is drawing up plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, allegedly named “Stargate,” to power...
Microsoft is drawing up plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, allegedly named “Stargate,” to power OpenAI’s next generation of artificial intelligence systems, according to a report from The Information Friday. Stargate is reportedly the fifth and final phase of Microsoft and OpenAI’s plan to build several su...

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Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse

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For the past twenty or so years, my friend Chad and I have gone to Las...
For the past twenty or so years, my friend Chad and I have gone to Las Vegas for the first weekend of the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament. Memory often fails when it comes to gambling, but I believe the only year we’ve skipped was 2020, when COVID-19 shut down the tournament a week or so before the scheduled tipoff. ...

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Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days

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Keeping Rotary Alive: Mazda's Rotary Engine in the Age of the Electric Car

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Mazda recently released a vehicle powered by a rotary engine, its first since the discontinuation of...
Mazda recently released a vehicle powered by a rotary engine, its first since the discontinuation of the RX-8 in 2012. The MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV, released in November 2023. (© Mazda) Rather than using its rotary engine to power the vehicle directly, the MX-30 R-EV uses the engine to drive a generator. The electricit...

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Reddit shares plunge 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close

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Reddit shares are plummeting after experiencing a rally stemming from the social media company's IPO last...
Reddit shares are plummeting after experiencing a rally stemming from the social media company's IPO last week.Shares closed Thursday at $49.30, falling below their closing price on Reddit's first day of trading last week on the New York Stock Exchange. Earlier this week, Reddit disclosed in a corporate filing that ...

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The Subreddit Roasting Your Kid's Hilariously Awful Name

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The Reddit community r/tragedeigh is probably not a place you want to see screenshots of your...
The Reddit community r/tragedeigh is probably not a place you want to see screenshots of your social media posts or text messages ending up—especially if you have children.Here’s what makes a good post “tragique,” as they like to call it: It must be about a given name that’s either been deliberately misspelled to ma...

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Amazon spends another $2.7B on Anthropic

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Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAmazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade...
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAmazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race. The tech giant said it will spend another $2.75 billion backing Anthropic, a San Francisco-based startup that's widely viewed as a front...

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Elixir's Impact: Shaping the Evolution of Erlang

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IntroAndrea Leopardi: Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of GOTO Unscripted that we're in Copenhagen at...
IntroAndrea Leopardi: Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of GOTO Unscripted that we're in Copenhagen at GOTO Copenhagen 2023. I'm Andrea Leopardi. I'm from Italy. I'm a member of the Elixir team. Elixir is a functional language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine, and I'm here with Francesco Cesarini.Fran...

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The AI Doomers Have Infiltrated Washington

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A determined group of new age ideologues who believe artificial intelligence will become conscious and wipe...
A determined group of new age ideologues who believe artificial intelligence will become conscious and wipe out humanity are having an increasing amount of influence over U.S. AI policy.This week, a State Department funded report declared that AI posed an existential threat akin to nuclear weapons—and even recommend...

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Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat

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Meta has lots of data through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, but that’s not enough for them....
Meta has lots of data through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, but that’s not enough for them. Court filings unsealed last week allege Meta created an internal effort to spy on Snapchat in a secret initiative called “Project Ghostbusters.” Meta did so through Onavo, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service the comp...

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An AI robot is destroying sick tulips in Dutch bulb fields

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Stop Your Car from Spying on You

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Being proved right isn't always fun. Just weeks after my warning in the March issue that...
Being proved right isn't always fun. Just weeks after my warning in the March issue that our modern high-tech cars are tracking us and sharing data with manufacturers, cops, and parties unknown, came a report of soaring auto insurance premiums because of snitching vehicles. The consequences get worse from there. For...

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The Internet Was Better When It Was Terrible

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Facebook Is Filled with AI-Generated Garbage–and Older Adults Are Being Tricked

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As AI-generated content proliferates online and clutters social media feeds, you may have noticed more images...
As AI-generated content proliferates online and clutters social media feeds, you may have noticed more images cropping up that invoke the uncanny valley effect—relatively normal scenes that also carry surreal details like excess fingers or gibberish words.Among these misleading posts, young users have spotted some o...

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Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device

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Key takeaways Bioengineers at UCLA have invented a thin, flexible device that adheres to the neck...
Key takeaways Bioengineers at UCLA have invented a thin, flexible device that adheres to the neck and translates the muscle movements of the larynx into audible speech. The device is trained through machine learning to recognize which muscle movements correspond to which words. The self-powered technology could serv...

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Spain's High Court orders block on Telegram app as a precautionary measure

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The ruling came after a complaint by media organisations that the platform was allowing its users...
The ruling came after a complaint by media organisations that the platform was allowing its users to upload content without their permission. ADVERTISEMENTSpaniards have been left without access to the instant messaging app Telegram, at least for the time being, after Spain's High Court ordered it to be blocked as a...

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Astronomers Demand Radio Silence at Moon's Far Side; Resistance May Be Futile

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In the current era of spaceflight, the Moon is arguably the place to be. International space...
In the current era of spaceflight, the Moon is arguably the place to be. International space agencies and private companies alike are racing to the lunar surface, hoping to establish a permanent presence on Earth’s natural satellite that would propel them to farther celestial pitstops. All that increased activity on...

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The IRS Has an Answer to TurboTax

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Sam Altman's Reddit stake worth over $600 million after first day pop on NYSE

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Reddit mascot Snoo is seen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as...
Reddit mascot Snoo is seen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as Reddit begins trading in New York on March 21, 2024. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty ImagesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he has no equity in the $80 billion artificial intelligence startup he co-founded in 2015.His Reddit ownership is anoth...

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How Rustls (Rust TLS) fights to stay faster than OpenSSL

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Rustls is a modern Transport Layer Security (TLS) library written in Rust, with the aim of...
Rustls is a modern Transport Layer Security (TLS) library written in Rust, with the aim of replacing non-memory safe alternatives such as OpenSSL. The TLS protocol is used to provide secure communications, typically between a web server and a client. TLS was previously called Secure Socket Layer (SSL). It ensures th...

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Reddit power users balk at chance to participate in IPO

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Following the lead of companies like Airbnb and Rivian, Reddit is inviting some users to participate...
Following the lead of companies like Airbnb and Rivian, Reddit is inviting some users to participate in its upcoming IPO. Reddit moderators told CNBC that they're declining the offer, citing lingering tensions with management and concerns over the company's business."It doesn't really feel like Reddit is necessarily...

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