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China’s BYD is selling more electric cars than Tesla::BYD overtook Tesla to become the world’s biggest electric car company in the final quarter of 2023.

Vizio settles for $3M after saying 60 Hz TVs had 120 Hz “effective refresh rate” | Vizio claimed backlight scanning made refresh rates seem twice as high.::Vizio claimed backlight scanning made refresh rates seem twice as high.

Over 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway were electric in 2023::New figures released by the Norwegian Road Federation say 82.4 percent of new cars sold in the country last year were electric, up from 79.3 percent in 2022. Tesla, Toyota, and Volkswagen were the most popular brands, with Tesla’s Model Y making up almost a...

Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed....

‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5%::Asset manager Fidelity has marked down its investment in Musk-owned X by 71.5% from the original valuation of shares.

Amazon marketplace crackdown has sellers searching for legal help | Clean-up drive has led to some small businesses having their accounts suspended::Clean-up drive has led to some small businesses having their accounts suspended.

US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is ‘firing on all cylinders’::The US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is “firing on all cylinders” according to the head of the…

Cox Distances Itself From Claim It Spies On Users Via Phones, Cable Box Mics::For years, the cable industry has dreamed of a future where they could use your cable box to actively track your every behavior using cameras and microphones and then monetize the data. At one point way back in 2009, Comcast made it clear they were...

Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older...

SpaceX accused of unlawfully firing staff critical of CEO::A US labour agency says the employees sent an open letter to SpaceX executives, detailing workplace concerns.

Introduction In the healthcare landscape, the integration of AI-driven technologies has revolutionized patient care and engagement. Among these innovations, ChatGPT, an advanced conversational AI, emerges as a transformative tool reshaping the dynamics of interactions between patients and healthcare providers. Enhance your...

Reddit’s cofounder said that at first the company felt like ‘a homework assignment that got out of hand’ rather than a business::Reddit’s cofounder Steve Huffman said in its early days he filled up most of the site with content using different accounts until it got more users.