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Microsoft is discontinuing production of its HoloLens 2 headset, according a report from UploadVR. The company has no plans for a follow-up device, telling customers this will be the last chance to purchase the headset before stock runs out. At launch, it was advertised as a device for enterprise consumers, so it never really entered the mass market. The move isn’t that surprising, considering Microsoft scrapped plans for a HoloLens 3 headset back in 2022. We’re waiting for the official line from the compan
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In 2017, Amazon launched the Echo Spot only to discontinue it two years later. This year, Amazon brought it back with new features and a fresh look. The 2024 edition is also $50 cheaper than its predecessor. But that $80 price tag is cut even more in a sale ahead of Prime Day. Right now, you can get the Amazon Echo Spot for just $45 — a 44 percent discount.... Read more ›
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's third season is here, but its Steam debut has failed to entice players back to the game. Read more Read more ›
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The Xbox team is currently dealing with a number of network issues, which are affecting player sign-in, game launching and the ability to join parties. Read more Read more ›
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Nintendo has issued a copyright strike against a YouTube channel that reviews emulation handhelds. Read more Read more ›
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Google is expanding Gmail’s summary cards, the service’s AI-driven contextual snippets extracted for things like incoming packages. Starting today, they’ll include cards for purchases, events, bills and travel. In addition, a new Happening Soon section will live at the top of your inbox, showing upcoming time-sensitive cards. The company says it’s making the changes because “email habits have continued to evolve.” The new Happening Soon section will deliver “timely” summary... Read more ›
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Amazon's five day return-to-office mandate aligns with its leadership principles, according to former exec John Rossman. Read more ›
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This February, NVIDIA released a one-stop graphical adjustments app in beta, succinctly named the NVIDIA App. The app isn’t a direct replacement for the existing GeForce Experience app since it also lets you install other NVIDIA apps like GeForce NOW (cloud gaming) and NVIDIA Broadcast (improved streaming experience), which GeForce Experience isn’t capable of. However, the latest NVIDIA App updates are slowly attempting to combine the two experiences into one,... Read more ›
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After working at Starbucks, I've determined the Pumpkin Spice Latte and pumpkin-cream-cheese muffin are trendy seasonal items for good reasons. Read more ›
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SpaceX launched its mission to rescue the two Starliner astronauts — but it didn't go entirely according to plan. Read more ›
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Low-cost carrier Wizz Air said it expects passengers to fend for themselves on new long-haul Airbus A321XLR routes, where even water costs extra. Read more ›
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Hackers are targeting people's cryptocurrencies with obfuscated infostealers hidden in Python packages. Read more ›
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This past weekend, X owner Elon Musk elevated a false right-wing talking point about immigration, claiming Democrats were fast-tracking citizenship applications to rig elections in the party’s favor. “If even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible, that would be about 2 million […] Read more ›
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Audio engineer and YouTuber Theo Browne explains why, despite being a self-proclaimed "Apple fanboy," he doesn't recommend the AirPods Max. Read more ›
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I decided to move out of the dorms and live on my own in an apartment. I gained a lot of confidence and independence, but it was so expensive. Read more ›
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Sergey Brin, the billionaire Google cofounder, may be selling his 73-meter-long superyacht. She's listed for $30 million and can sleep 18 guests. Read more ›
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Workers, community members, and business owners clean up debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Marshall, North Carolina, on September 30th, 2024. | Photo: Getty Images Tropical storms take many more lives than officially recorded, according to a sobering study published today in the journal Nature. It comes as people across the Southeastern US scramble to find loved ones in the wreckage of Hurricane Helene. The average tropical storm... Read more ›
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The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections. Read more ›
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The Windows 11 24H2 rollout formally removes support for Wordpad as Microsoft formally adds in its deprecated feature, ending its 28 years of product lifespan. Read more ›
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Well-known electronics repair website iFixit today shared an AirPods 4 teardown video that offers a look inside Apple's latest wireless earbuds. Specifically, these are the entry-level AirPods 4 without active noise cancellation (ANC). Unsurprisingly, iFixit said AirPods remain a "nightmare to take apart," with the earbuds earning a lowest-possible 0/10 score on iFixit's reparability scale. The teardown does not reveal any major internal differences between the AirPods 3 and AirPods... Read more ›
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It’s always beautiful when two lonely corporations find one another. DirecTV has reached an agreement to acquire Dish Network, according to reporting by The New York Times. This would create a global behemoth in the satellite TV space. It would also provide some financial armor for the struggling Dish Network. The company’s in debt to the tune of billions of dollars because, well, satellite TV isn’t exactly a growth industry... Read more ›
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2426, a new law that requires digital marketplaces to make clearer to customers when they are only purchasing a license to access media. The law will not apply to cases of permanent offline downloads, only to the all-too-common situation of buying digital copies of video games, music, movies, TV shows or ebooks from an online storefront. The Verge spotted the development, which could... Read more ›
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Verizon mobile customers reported widespread outages across the US on Monday. Starting at around 9:30AM ET, hundreds of thousands of people flagged issues with their mobile service on Downdetector, which tracks user-submitted outage reports. The volume of reports spiked at almost 105,000 at 11:20AM, but were still reaching almost 59,000 at 12:52PM. Many folks claimed they were unable to make or receive calls or exchange text messages. Those with an... Read more ›
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On September 5, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a lawsuit against Snap. Torrez claimed that Snapchat has become a platform rife with sexual exploitation, child grooming and other dangerous behaviors. That legal complaint was heavily redacted, but today, Torrez announced in a press release that he has filed an unsealed complaint, which goes into detail on how Snap allegedly knowingly created an environment that exposed children to sexual... Read more ›
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It's not just you — the PlayStation Network is currently experiencing issues, kicking people off their matches and crashing games around the world. Based on Downdetector reports, the issue started shortly after 8PM Eastern time tonight, September 30. Sony Interactive Entertainment has yet to release a statement about the problem, but it has updated the PlayStation Network status page to show that several of its services are down. Users can't... Read more ›
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Buyers that paid at least $93,990 to be among the first to own (and beta test) Tesla's Cybertruck are finally getting a key, promised feature: Full Self-Driving (FSD). Several people on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum — including an Angeleno who posted a video — say that it has finally arrived in early access to select users, Electrek reported. After Tesla promised that FSD would arrive to Cybertrucks in September,... Read more ›
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The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Meta with a $101.5 million (€91 million) fine after wrapping up an investigation into a security breach in 2019, wherein the company mistakenly stored users' passwords in plain text. Meta's original announcement only talked about how it found some user passwords stored in plain text on its servers in January that year. But a month later, it updated its announcement to reveal... Read more ›
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The UK's last coal plant will sigh out its final pollutants Monday before shutting down for good and officially ending the country's century and a half of coal production. Nottinghamshire's Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last of its kind following Britain's 2015 commitment to close all coal power plants by 2025. Ratcliffe was originally scheduled to shut down in 2022 but stayed open after Russia invaded Ukraine and Europe entered a... Read more ›
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Mira Murati has departed OpenAI, where she had been the chief technology officer since 2018. In a note shared with the company and then posted publicly on X, Murati said that she is exiting "because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration." Murati gained additional visibility as a face for the AI company when she briefly assumed CEO duties in November 2023 when the... Read more ›
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Ford is looking to take some of the sting out of EV charging by offering a free home charger. The automaker will even send out a technician to install it at no cost to you if you buy or lease a retail Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning or E-Transit between October 1 and January 2. However, Ford may opt to extend the program if it proves successful. (Ford Pro fleet customers... Read more ›
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