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If you were holding out on buying the WH-1000XM5 because it lacked multipoint LDAC support, well now may be a good time to get one.

Iran shuts down biggest e-com company after female employees seen without hijab::undefined

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says::Alphabet’s Google violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday.

A software project started in 1984, widely used in hundreds of OSes for four decades, with a distinctive X as it’s logo and an equally distinct URL 🙄...

This is one of the few videos I’ve watched that has stayed on my mind for days. I’ve been exploring this space myself, and I really think the perspective presented here is the real future. All the stupid media and push back in this space seems like a big campaign to try to salvage OpenAI and Google’s massive investments in...

Scientists accidentally capture metals ‘healing’ themselves::Materials scientists witnessed metals—in this case copper and platinum—undergoing the process of ‘intrinsic self-healing.’

First price rise since 2011....

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One year in, U.S. climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technology:: In less than a year the Inflation Reduction Act has prompted investment in a massive buildout of battery and eletric vehicle manufacturing across the states.

That’s still only 0.034% of its market cap, it would simply be a slap on the wrist even if they lose.

Researchers find ‘backdoor’ in encrypted police and military radios::The TETRA standard is used in radios worldwide. Security researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in the underlying cryptography and its implementation, including issues that allow for the decryption of traffic.

Leaked messages show Amazon will force a ‘voluntary resignation’ on employees failing to relocate near their team ‘hubs’::undefined

Can we discuss how it’s possible that the paid model (gpt4) got worse and the free one (gpt3.5) got better? Is it because the free one is being trained on a larger pool of users or what?

Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo::The Fed’s goal is to connect 9,000 financial institutions nationwide.

The backdoor, known for years by vendors that sold the technology but not necessarily by customers, exists in an encryption algorithm baked into radios sold for commercial use in critical infrastructure.