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To stop wildfires, residents in some Greek suburbs put their own money toward early warning drones (abcnews.go.com)

FTC loses again, Microsoft is now clear to close the Activision-Xbox deal in the US (www.windowscentral.com)

tl;dr from the article:...

MIT develops a motion and task planning system for home robots (techcrunch.com)

What do you think are the biggest limitations to robots in the home? Privacy concerns, limited utility, inability to overcome simple obstacles, price or something else?

Mercedes-Benz says “ja” to Tesla’s EV charging connector (www.theverge.com)

Mercedes adopts Tesla’s EV charger.

After Suspending Its Self-Driving Cars, Cruise Takes Steps to Win Back Trust (www.nytimes.com)

Slashdot Summary...

Gogoro batteries power this tiny urban electric car - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices - Google Security Blog (security.googleblog.com)

cross-posted from !googlepixel !android...

A Discussion of Mastodon's Potential Growth Needs (erinkissane.com)

The title I have assigned this article is intentionally boring. The article’s body goes out of its way to not provide simple summaries, silver bullets, or otherwise give a single size fits all answer to everything. The author actually gave it a fun title that, I felt, did a slight disservice to their overall point, but hey, we...

Tech Workers Coalition onboarding meeting - Thursday Sep 20th, 5pm PT - Register now! (us02web.zoom.us)

Claude 2 [new AI model released by Anthropic] (www.anthropic.com)

Claude 2 is a new AI model released by Anthropic that improves upon Claude 1.3 with better performance, longer responses, and larger input and output capabilities. Claude 2 scored higher on various tests and evaluations compared to Claude 1.3, indicating improved coding, math, and reasoning skills. Anthropic has worked to make...

Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)

Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes

Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them? (apnews.com)

The Age of the Grift Shift (tante.cc)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5323962...

Everything announced at today's Apple event: iPhone 15, USB-C, Apple Watch Series 9 and more (www.engadget.com)

Say USB-C five times fast....

How to talk to an AI (wapo.st)

An ordinary human’s guide to getting extraordinary results from a chatbot like ChatGPT...

China's widening iPhone curbs roil US technology sector - Reuters (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from !apple...

Samsung's 4 nm process node achieves yield rates of 75 percent (www.techspot.com)

So long, Calibri: Microsoft has settled on a new font for its Office apps (arstechnica.com)

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 (blogs.windows.com)

nice update for canary today. tl;dr:...

Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" launched (mastodon.online)

Textual words from them:...

Converting Your Twitter Archive to Markdown, and t.co links to original URL (matthiasott.com)

Once your archive is on your machine, you will have a browsable HTML archive of your tweets, direct messages, and moments including media like images, videos, and GIFs. This is nice, but it also has a few flaws. For one, you can’t easily copy your Tweets somewhere else, for example, into your website because they are stored in...

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