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Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board of Bluesky, the decentralized social media...
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board of Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform he helped start. In two posts today, Bluesky thanked Dorsey while confirming his departure and adding that it’s searching for a new board member “who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts ...
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Tesla plans to charge some Model Y owners to unlock more range

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The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks tonight — here’s how to see it

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If you’ve got clear skies and want an excuse to get away from town, the Eta...
If you’ve got clear skies and want an excuse to get away from town, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower is roughly at its peak and should be going strong tonight. Made up of remnants of Halley’s Comet that the Earth passes through, this annual shower is active from April 15th to May 27th and can show up at a rate of about...
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A speedrunner’s quest to (re)build the perfect N64 controller

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A good video game speedrun is a marvel to witness. You watch players fly through your...
A good video game speedrun is a marvel to witness. You watch players fly through your favorite games, hitting impossible jumps and finding shortcuts you never knew existed. It makes you see a familiar game in a whole new light. If you’ve never watched a speedrun, check out this world-record run through the original ...
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Better Siri is coming: what Apple’s research says about its AI plans

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It would be easy to think that Apple is late to the game on AI. Since...
It would be easy to think that Apple is late to the game on AI. Since late 2022, when ChatGPT took the world by storm, most of Apple’s competitors have fallen over themselves to catch up. While Apple has certainly talked about AI and even released some products with AI in mind, it seemed to be dipping a toe in rathe...
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The best new browser for Windows

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 36, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 36, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, hello, I’m thrilled you found us, the Installerverse loves you, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I missed you all last week! I was at a friend’s bachelor part...
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The newest Star Wars Acolyte trailer seems to reveal the show’s big bad

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Disney’s newest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, is just a month away on Disney Plus, and...
Disney’s newest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, is just a month away on Disney Plus, and the newest trailer for it hints that the show will pull on a thread that Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi tugged on back in 2017: Is the Jedi order actually all that good? Set well before the events of the Star ...
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ChromeOS gets better multitasking and Wi-Fi traffic prioritization

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The latest version of ChromeOS (M124) is out with a couple of nice upgrades, including faster...
The latest version of ChromeOS (M124) is out with a couple of nice upgrades, including faster split screen setup and a new web traffic prioritization feature. The update brings other updates with it as well, like a settings UI refresh and updated gesture controls.Judging from screenshots published by 9to5Google, the...
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The Boys’ season 4 trailer is bloody and a little bubbly

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Luminar, maker of lidar for autonomous driving, lays off 20 percent of its workforce

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Luminar, which makes lidar sensors for autonomous driving systems, announced today plans to lay off 20...
Luminar, which makes lidar sensors for autonomous driving systems, announced today plans to lay off 20 percent of its workforce amid a broader restructuring of its production process. The company, which just announced shipments of its next-generation laser sensors to Volvo, said that it will transition to an “asset ...
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Environmental journalism is under attack

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Attacks against environmental journalists have risen dramatically across the world, according to a report released by...
Attacks against environmental journalists have risen dramatically across the world, according to a report released by UNESCO to commemorate World Press Freedom Day.UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists surveyed 905 journalists across 129 countries. Between 2009 and last year, more than 70 percent of...
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Here’s the letter from 14 senators slamming TSA facial recognition in airports

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The TSA’s been planning to expand facial recognition to a whopping 430 US airports over the...
The TSA’s been planning to expand facial recognition to a whopping 430 US airports over the next several years — but a bipartisan group of 14 senators is now challenging that. Facial recognition “poses significant threats to our privacy and civil liberties, and Congress should prohibit TSA’s development and deployme...
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More details emerge about Apple’s plans for AI in iOS 18

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has made it clear that AI features are coming soon, and a...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has made it clear that AI features are coming soon, and a new report from AppleInsider offers more details about what we might see in the next version of iOS. One of the big focuses will be on Siri, which will reportedly gain the ability to analyze and summarize texts within the Messages app.Apple...
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Tesla’s Supercharger layoffs couldn’t have come at a worse time

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Bounced emails. Stalled projects. Delayed adapters. These are the immediate effects of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s...
Bounced emails. Stalled projects. Delayed adapters. These are the immediate effects of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “absolutely hard core” approach to cost cutting, which has resulted in at least 500 layoffs from the company’s Supercharger business, including the division’s top executive, Rebecca Tinucci.The timing couldn’...
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Helldivers 2 will require Steam players to link to a PSN account

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Hisense is launching a $999 CanvasTV as a cheaper rival to Samsung’s Frame

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Hisense is launching the CanvasTV, a matte television designed to display artwork and photos, letting it...
Hisense is launching the CanvasTV, a matte television designed to display artwork and photos, letting it blend in with the rest of your decor when not in use. If it sounds similar to The Frame by Samsung, that’s because it is — but the difference is that the CanvasTV’s starting price is several hundred dollars cheap...
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The conspiracy theory behind Florida’s lab-grown meat ban

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Wednesday banning the sale of lab-grown meat in...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Wednesday banning the sale of lab-grown meat in the state. The legislation is a clear handout to the state’s cattle industry: the state’s commissioner of agriculture said it was about protecting “our incredible farmers and the integrity of American agriculture.” But DeS...
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AT&T Turbo will boost your service for $7 per month

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AT&T has a new optional feature for some of its plans. It’s called Turbo, and for...
AT&T has a new optional feature for some of its plans. It’s called Turbo, and for $7 per month, it provides “better speed and stability” for a line of service by upgrading your data plan to “performance data.” AT&T pitches it as an add-on to help with demanding applications, like gaming. Okay, but what exactly is “p...
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Apple’s earnings show that, yeah, it’s really time for some new iPads

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Less than a week ahead of its much-anticipated iPad hardware event, Apple shared its Q2 2024...
Less than a week ahead of its much-anticipated iPad hardware event, Apple shared its Q2 2024 earnings today, and the numbers paint a predictable picture for the increasingly dated tablet line. iPad revenue fell substantially yet again (by 17 percent year over year) amid the longest-ever wait for new models — somethi...
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Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now

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If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-popular AirPods. Since...
If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-popular AirPods. Since Apple launched the third-gen AirPods at the end of 2021, we’ve seen the starting price of the second-gen, entry-level model consistently dip below $100. And now that the second-gen AirPods Pro have been on the market for ...
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FCC asks for more money to help telecom providers replace Huawei and ZTE gear

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The Federal Communications Commission is asking for more funding to help internet service providers rip and...
The Federal Communications Commission is asking for more funding to help internet service providers rip and replace equipment made by Huawei and ZTE. In a letter to Congress, FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel says the government has only allocated $1.9 billion to reimburse providers, which is $3.08 billion less than the...
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Seagate’s 2TB Xbox Storage Expansion Card gets its best discount yet

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If your main gaming platform is the Xbox Series X or S and you have a...
If your main gaming platform is the Xbox Series X or S and you have a particularly deep library, bring it in for a hug. The markups on its proprietary storage cards are exorbitant, but regular discounts are starting to make them a little more affordable. For example, Seagate’s 2TB Storage Expansion Card is on sale f...
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When notifications pick the wrong time to remind us of something

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My breaking point with promotional emails and desktop alerts finally happened a few weeks ago. I...
My breaking point with promotional emails and desktop alerts finally happened a few weeks ago. I woke up at 7AM to an automated Legacy.com email with my friend’s death-a-versary in the subject line. The email itself was annoying enough, but what it said made it a cold, thoughtless annoyance: “Being remembered matter...
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy broke labor laws by saying workers are “better off” without a union

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor laws when making “coercive statements” about unions during interviews conducted...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor laws when making “coercive statements” about unions during interviews conducted in 2022, a judge for the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Wednesday. The ruling, which stems from a complaint filed in October 2022, cites three instances in which Jassy commented negatively ab...
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