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Elon Musk’s X is at war with the old Twitter.com — and it's creating an opportunity for scammers

X owner Elon Musk has made it no secret that Twitter, the former name of the social media company he bought for $44 billion in 2022, is no more....

10.04.2024 8

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The maker of a 'fire extinguishing ball' complains it shouldn't be compared to an actual fire extinguisher

The Thai manufacturer of the Elide Fire Extinguishing Balls, a product that claims to activate automatically in case of a fire and release fire...

02.04.2024 20

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Microsoft is splitting up Office and Teams as the antitrust hot seat gets hotter

Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office are breaking up, opting for a separate life that will make both its competitors and European regulators...

01.04.2024 10

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Apple will soon be able to update iPhones still in their unopened boxes, report says

If there’s any company obsessed with perfection, it’s Apple. So, of course, it makes complete sense that the company would create a new device...

29.03.2024 3

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A Boston Dynamics Robot dog took bullets for humans and K9s in a real world scenario

The Massachusetts State Police claim one of the members of its bomb squad has gone above and beyond in the line of duty and taken bullets for the...

28.03.2024 4

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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a new photo-sharing app

When former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer unveiled the promotional images for her new photo-sharing app, Shine, on Tuesday, I thought I was looking at one...

28.03.2024 4

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Apple users keep getting annoying password reset requests in phishing scheme

Apple users are being targeted by an elaborate and annoying phishing scam that aims to change their password and lock them out of their devices,...

28.03.2024 4

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Lego asked the cops to please stop sticking Lego heads on suspected criminals' faces

A police department in California that started obscuring its suspects’ faces with Lego heads will cease the practice after the toy company...

27.03.2024 10

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Don't use AI to identify mushrooms or you might die

If frolicking in the woods foraging for wild mushrooms is on your bucket list, by all means, go forth. But when the time comes to determine whether...

26.03.2024 6

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Elon Musk's X is working on a new TV app and apparently this is what it looks like

I spent a lot of time watching YouTube on my TV, so you can imagine my surprise when app researcher Nima Owji shared an early look at X’s upcoming...

25.03.2024 5

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Steve Jobs memorabilia like a signed Apple business card and even a movie ticket just sold for a lot

Although Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died more than a decade ago, his presence still looms large in the fandom around tech, making ordinary items that...

23.03.2024 5

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Dell is telling remote workers they can't get promotions, report says

Michael Dell, the CEO of the technology company that bears his surname, has long been an advocate of remote work and not so long ago called it “the...

19.03.2024 7

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Someone actually gave Stanley cups a CT scan to find out where the lead is located

A CT scan of Stanley’s viral Quencher cup has confirmed what the company has been saying all along: There’s only lead at the bottom of the cup....

19.03.2024 3

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A Shein customer was sent human blood and a can of beans with her order — and went right to TikTok

A customer is using TikTok to force Shein and FedEx to explain how they allowed a glass vial of human blood and a can of Goya beans to be inserted...

18.03.2024 1

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Some crypto dudes raised $650,000 to put a weird puppy meme on the Las Vegas Sphere

There will come a time when a giant meme of a Shiba Inu puppy with a hat will take over the Las Vegas Sphere. All it took was hundreds of thousands of...

15.03.2024 30

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ChatGPT can be kind of racist based on how people speak, researchers say

A new paper found that large language models from OpenAI, Meta, and Google, including multiple versions of ChatGPT, can be covertly racist against...

11.03.2024 3

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Elon Musk made X audio and video calls automatically show your IP address. Here's how to turn that off

X owner Elon Musk is dreaming of a world where people ditch their cell phones and instead make audio and video calls on the social media platform....

06.03.2024 7

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Google is about to purge the AI spam littering its search Results

Google says it will begin cracking down on AI-generated content created solely for the purpose of gaming its systems and ranking high in Google Search...

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Microsoft’s Copilot AI told a user that 'maybe you don’t have anything to live for'

AI chatbots are nothing like the all-knowing and manipulative supervillains we see in movies, according to the companies behind them, at least....

04.03.2024 6

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AI music generation could be coming next

The era of bad robot music is upon us. Adobe is working on a new AI tool that will let anyone be a music producer — no instrument or editing...

04.03.2024 1

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Klarna's CEO said its AI can do the same work as 700 people

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski bragged on Tuesday that his company’s new OpenAI-powered customer service chatbot was doing the work of 700...

28.02.2024 5

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Apple Vision Pro's latest headache comes from cracks appearing out of nowhere

Imagine splurging $3,500 on a new Apple Vision Pro headset only to discover a few weeks later that your very expensive device now has a crack on the...

27.02.2024 5

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Elon Musk tweeted at Microsoft's CEO for some basic tech support

Billionaires: They’re just like us. That’s what Elon Musk reminded us when he started using X, the social media network that he bought for $44...

27.02.2024 3

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AT&T is giving customers a $5 credit for the big service outage

AT&T is sorry for the recent outrage that left some customers without service for up to 12 hours. To make up for it, the company will give those...

26.02.2024 6

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Reddit is afraid that a subreddit could wreak havoc on its IPO

Beware the apes, Reddit told the world in its IPO documents, though not in such explicit terms. Put simply, the company warned potential investors...

26.02.2024 20

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A man is suing Powerball after he was wrongly told he won $340 million

A D.C. resident is suing the Powerball lottery system and the D.C. Office of Lottery and Gaming after a technical error left him without a prize of...

21.02.2024 8

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Don't put your wet iPhone in rice, Apple says

Saving a wet iPhone by putting it in a bowl or bag of uncooked rice has been a popular go-to rescue methods for years, with the logic being that the...

20.02.2024 20

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GPT is not a thing to trademark, the Feds tell OpenAI

Ever since OpenAI debuted its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, effectively piquing the world’s interest in the technology and setting off an AI...

19.02.2024 3

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An Air Canada chatbot lied to a passenger about bereavement discounts

A Canadian tribunal has ruled that Air Canada must pay damages to one of its passengers for misleading advice given by its customer service chatbot,...

16.02.2024 20

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Lyft stock just went on a wild ride — all because of a typo in its earnings report

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that typos can be embarrassing and frustrating. They can also, as ride-sharing company Lyft found out on...

14.02.2024 5

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United Airlines had to ground a whole fleet of planes because of an old law about the 'No Smoking' sign

After causing a stir by mysteriously grounding its new Airbus A321neo planes on Monday, United Airlines wants people to know the decision has nothing...

13.02.2024 3

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A crowd set a Waymo self-driving car on fire in San Francisco

A crowd in San Francisco vandalized a Waymo self-driving car with no passengers on Saturday night, breaking its windshield and setting it ablaze. Once...

12.02.2024 7

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Want to call Elon Musk? That'll cost you $8

Elon Musk is still trying to make X audio and video calls happen, even though, like the infamous “fetch,” we all know it’s not going to happen....

09.02.2024 20

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Microsoft's gaming layoffs violated promises it made in acquiring Activision, feds say

The Federal Trade Commission isn’t happy with the outcome of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, telling a court on...

08.02.2024 6

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A Waymo driverless car didn't see the person on a bike it hit, company says

One of Waymo’s driverless cars collided with a cyclist in San Francisco this week because it apparently didn’t see the human until it was too...

08.02.2024 7

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Don’t wear an Apple Vision Pro while driving, Pete Buttigieg says

Viral videos of people driving while wearing Apple’s Vision Pro have horrified the public in recent days and forced the White House to come out and...

06.02.2024 6

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A Tesla driver used an Apple Vision Pro while cruising on Autopilot. He says he got arrested

A video of a Tesla owner using the new Apple Vision Pro headset while using the car’s assisted driving features, essentially letting the vehicle...

05.02.2024 6

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