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Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have finally won the Prop 22 gig worker battle
Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash workers in California will remain independent contractors after the state’s Supreme Court...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: all the biggest trailers and news
With massive panels scheduled for both Thursday and Saturday, Marvel Studios seems ready to hype up...
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Video game performers to go on strike
After a year and a half of negotiations, SAG-AFTRA has called a strike of all video...
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Apple’s AirTags are on sale for $23.99 a pop, matching their all-time low
Over the past month or so, we’ve seen a flurry of new Bluetooth trackers, from Motorola’s...
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WhatsApp now has 100 million monthly users in the US
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today on his WhatsApp channel that WhatsApp now has 100 million...
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Overwatch 2 opens the door to a return for 6v6
A couple of years into the Overwatch 2 experience, player angst has reached a point where...
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There’s a blender hidden inside this insulated travel cup
Nutribullet’s new Flip incorporates a blender into an insulated stainless steel tumbler that looks no larger...
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Runway’s AI video generator trained on thousands of scraped YouTube videos
Runway trained its AI text-to-video generator on thousands of YouTube videos and pirated films, according to...
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Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side
Bing’s new search experience puts AI-generated answers front and center while pushing traditional search results to...
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AMD is slightly delaying its Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs ‘out of an abundance of caution’
AMD was set to launch its new Zen 5 processors on July 31st, including the 16-core,...
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World of Warcraft developers form Blizzard’s largest and most inclusive union
More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to...
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The incredible shrinking, stretching iPhone
We’ve already heard rumblings about an iPhone Slim model taking the place of the iPhone Plus...
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Here are the best iPad deals right now
While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon...
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Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google
Apple Maps is finally available on the web. Through a beta that launched on Wednesday afternoon,...
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What we know (and don’t know) about Kamala Harris and tech policy
Vice President Kamala Harris is all but certain to become the Democratic presidential candidate. She was...
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Herman Miller now offers plant-based leather on its iconic lounge chair
Can you finally feel guilt-free about buying an iconic piece of furniture that starts at $6,395?...
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One of the rarest NES games of all time goes up for auction
Starting tonight, Goldin will be auctioning off one of the rarest Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges of...
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America’s long Street Fighter drought ends with a win at Evo 2024
Evo 2024 wrapped up late Sunday night with Victor “Punk” Woodley beating Adel “Big Bird” Anouche...
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My iPad runs Windows XP now, and it’s all I ever wanted
Apple recently approved a new emulator app called UTM SE that enables your iPhone or iPad...
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Biden gives states billions of dollars for EV chargers, heat pumps, and other green tech
With the US facing the prospect of another four years of former President Donald Trump rolling...