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    GM faces ban on selling driver data that can be used to raise insurance rates

    With 40,000 auto deaths a year in the USA alone, all cars should be geolocated like this and GPS speed limited.
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    GM patents EV that can charge and power stuff simultaneously

    I want a PHEV to go camping in, and as a backup to live in if I can't afford rent. This would be great to run the heat in winter or AC in summer while connected to shore power for charging.
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    Intel’s Core Ultra 200S CPUs are its biggest desktop refresh in three years

    I'm a big Thunderbolt user, and after the TB5 announcement last fall, I waited to buy a new laptop thinking I'd have options in the spring. But yeah, as spring turned into summer with nothing, I just gave up waiting. Thunderbolt is marquee tech for Intel, and the lack of TB5 is a huge ball drop.
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    Archive.org, a repository storing the entire history of the Internet, has been hacked

    I know archive.org as a place to go look for copies of old web pages that are taken down for whatever reason, but why do people even have accounts there? And why 31 million people?
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    Pixel 9 phones: The Gemini AI stuff, reviewed

    It feels like we're being fed AI with a shovel and I really question how many people actually want this crap? Maybe I'm the weirdo, but I sure as hell don't. And it's certainly not enough to make up for all the privacy issues I now have with Google products.
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    “So tired”: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ prices increase by up to 25 percent in October

    I was always split between TV and gaming, but so many shows just dragged on and on with no real plan or story arc, I ended up just drifting away from TV altogether. Sounds like they're pushing others to follow.
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    New app releases for Apple Vision Pro have fallen dramatically since launch

    Re: AR vs VR, same problem, minor difference in implementation. Nausea is hard to fix because when your eyes send signals to your brain, it expects certain corresponding inputs from the fluid in your ears, and that doesn't happen. Eyestrain is hard to fix because when your brain sees objects...
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    New app releases for Apple Vision Pro have fallen dramatically since launch

    I've owned the OG Oculus Rift, Samsung Odyssey, Quest 2, Rift S, and HP Reverb (current), and spend free time stitching giant 360 photospheres for VR. Which is to say, I love VR as much as anyone, but I still think it's going to fail. It's just too clunky to get in and out of, strains your eyes...
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    New app releases for Apple Vision Pro have fallen dramatically since launch

    From a coding perspective, building good 3D spatial computing apps is hard. Compared to regular phone apps, it's a much greater challenge for smaller indy devs to create VR apps. The fact they have "2,000" apps is actually rather impressive - to the point where I'm already forced to wonder how...
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    Elon Musk rushes to debut X payments as tech issues hamper creator payouts

    I don't give a crap how great the X financial platform is, there's just no way in hell I'm letting that man profit off my money.
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    The urban-rural death divide is getting alarmingly wider for working-age Americans

    I'm guessing you're being down-voted for perceived fat shaming, but I came here to say it's actually a well established fact that urban people walk a lot more, and that contributes to a whole host of positive health outcomes.
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    Here’s our comprehensive, in-depth guide to viewing the total solar eclipse

    Not everyone owns a car to make a long drive to that path. Not everyone has time off work. And rectifying those things is far (far) from one of the "lowest effort things you can do in life". Car ownership is very expensive, and a bad investment to boot. Check your privilege.
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    Google reshapes Fitbit in its image as users allege “planned obsolescence”

    Hey Google, does it have Blockchain? Cuz that's about how much I want AI. Like, seriously, stop jumping on bandwagons and do some actual work. Go make the product not suck. Go spend, like, 5 minutes in your darn forum reading all the complaints. I had to switch to Garmin to be able to get...
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    Musk claims Neuralink patient doing OK with implant, can move mouse with brain

    Left: Imagine the taste of mustard. Right: Imagine singing Hanson's "MMMBop". Up: Imagine receiving oral sex. Down: Imagine cutting off your finger. Patient: "How do I relocate my start menu to the top of the screen?"
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    Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

    Their next-gen Rust-based Servo browser engine was their only viable strategy to really compete for browser market share over the long term, and, after killing that off, all of this is just one giant protracted death spiral.
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    Review: Framework’s Laptop 16 is unique, laudable, fascinating, and flawed

    Could anyone besides Apple please ship a laptop with four to six USB4/Thunderbolt-compatible ports. PLEASE. I thought there was a chance here, but sadly, no.
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    OnePlus 12 gets $800 US release along with the interesting $500 OnePlus 12R

    I was interested in a 12R until I saw Reddit posts showing gaps in the case that OnePlus was supposedly filling with glue.
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    Samsung may charge users for Galaxy S24 AI features after 2 years

    Most those criticisms apply to Android, and when the major alternative for comparable hardware is, what? Apple? They're worse. Any company that doesn't allow me to install whatever I want (be that porn or Skype) on my hardware (eg sideload apps) is an absolute non-starter.