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The Bridgewater Associates founder welcomed giving people some financial "wiggle room," but said no-strings cash payments may have negative outcomes. Read more ›
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Piranha Bytes, the Embracer-owned German studio behind the Gothic, Risen and ELEX series, has reportedly shut down. The embattled publisher Embracer had been seeking a buyer for Piranha Bytes as part of its vast and brutal swathe of cost-cutting that saw multiple studios shut and more than 4500 people lose their jobs - though ultimately was unsuccessful. Job losses at Piranha Bytes were first reported at the end of last... Read more ›
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It has finally happened. Microsoft’s text editor Notepad just got a spellcheck feature, more than 40 years after the software launched in 1983. For the history buffs, Ronald Reagan was still president in 1983 and Ghostbusters, then called Ghost Smashers, was an unmade script set to star Eddie Murphy. It was a long time ago. Microsoft just rolled out the new spellcheck tool to the Notepad app in Windows 11... Read more ›
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Apple has announced that its retail store at the Väla Centrum shopping mall near Helsingborg, Sweden will be permanently closed after July 13. The date was spotted by Michael Steeber, who writes a weekly newsletter about Apple retail. Apple Väla Centrum Apple in January told Swedish publication Feber that it would not be renewing its lease at the mall, but it did not provide a reason for the decision. At... Read more ›
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"The question of how to move forward has been well-aired for over a week now," Biden wrote in a new letter. "It's time for it to end." Read more ›
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Apple today added the lower-cost Apple Pencil with a USB-C port to its online refurbished store for the first time in select European countries, including Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. The refurbished model is discounted by around 15% in each country. For example, pricing is set at £69 in the UK, down from £79 brand new. Originally released in November 2023, the... Read more ›
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The Dance of the Dragons has finally, properly started ripping through Westeros in episode four of the HBO and Max Game of Thrones prequel. Read more ›
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The man was arrested after embezzling more than $3,000 from a non-profit and getting into a physical fight with this sons. Read more ›
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My clients always ask for under-the-radar luxury travel destinations that feel exclusive and not crowded by tourists. Here's what I tell them. Read more ›
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Image: FIA World Rallycross Championship After two seasons of all-electric racing, the World Rallycross Championship (or World RX) held its first mixed powertrain races between electric and internal combustion engine (ICE) cars this weekend in Höljes, Sweden. Unlike traditional point-to-point rally racing, rallycross puts those cars on a circuit, but with similar racing over dirt and gravel surfaces, as well as plenty of jumping and drifting through turns. There were... Read more ›
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A 70-year-old man lost almost $300,000 — all of his savings — to a scam. He feels older people are more vulnerable to online scams than ever before. Read more ›
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A startup founded by a CBE-winning fintech pioneer has seen its losses more than double year-on-year in 2023. Super Payments was founded by Samir Desai, a financial services trailblazer who co-founded... Read more ›
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All of the United States’ most important governing institutions are failing at once. Congress, of course, has long been barely able to function. Every year, it struggles merely to fund the rest of the government, and the risk that it will trigger a debt ceiling breach that would set the global economy on fire is […] Read more ›
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Gen Zers have ditched traditional flirting methods, and experts say it could have a positive impact on the dating landscape. Read more ›
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"House of the Dragon" sent Rhaenys and Meleys into battle. Eve Best broke down Rhaenys' death scene, and what dragon warfare really means in Westeros. Read more ›
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Johns Hopkins medical students with family incomes under $300,000 will get free tuition starting in fall 2024 to help reduce student debt loads. Read more ›
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Bitcoin's price briefly declined to $55,000 following the blockchain transactions. Read more ›
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Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of A16z say the US is threatening to derail startups at a time when it needs them most. Read more ›
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The RockYou2024 leak compiles 9,948,575,739 unique passwords in one place. Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that AI model training costs could jump to $100 billion as early as next year. Read more ›
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A developer has successfully booted a Linux system from Google’s cloud storage platform. After overcoming a multitude of hurdles, they managed to boot a storage-less laptop from Google Drive and thus create a Cloud-Native Computer. Read more ›
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These are some of the best Raspberry Pi projects we've featured over the last month, and we want to share them with you. Read more ›
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As AI companies increase their investments in infrastructure, their revenues are not growing that fast, financial analysts note, implying that AI could become a bubble. Read more ›
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Kioxia's latest 2Tb 3D QLC NAND enables the company and its partners to build ultra-fast SSDs with extremely high capacities in miniature form factors. Read more ›
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OpenAI announced that it China, including Hong Kong, will no longer have access to its API by next week. Home-grown LLMs are now taking steps to woo customers their way. Read more ›
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RTX Remix goes open source and gets yet more ambitious with AI features. Read more ›
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Software engineer Carl Riis has announced his first hardware project, dubbed EarlGreyTV. This is a Smart TV project that differentiates itself from the usual ‘idiot box’ dominating your living room by leveraging the wonders of Linux and Firefox, plus an old laptop. Read more ›
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A fresh account of AMD's failed attempt to merge with Nvidia offers insights not only into the GPU war, but also AMD's rise, fall, and rise again as a CPU and GPU manufacturer. Read more ›
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