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Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor::Qualcomm made big claims with its Snapdragon X Elite platform and Oryon CPU, but the company proved it to the press last week with a special benchmarking session where we could witness just how powerf

‘Qantas can’t guarantee flights’, airline says, after allegedly selling 8,000 flights that were already cancelled — arguing what it did was reasonable and that “airlines can’t guarantee specific fl…::Qantas has launched its legal defence in the ACCC "“ghost flights”" case — allegedly selling 8,000 flights...

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The four-legged robot was armed with an M72 shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket launcher in testing by the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command and scientists with the Office of Naval Research.

Tech bros’ attitude to female colleagues stuck in dark ages::Research sheds light on attitudes holding industry back

The Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia is one of the most brutally obvious signs of America’s public health crisis. The so-called “open air drug market” in the middle of the country’s sixth most populous city is where hundreds of people use drugs, some of whom are unhoused, usually without being arrested by the...

YouTube fumbles NFL Sunday Ticket streaming | “You pay all this money for streaming services…”::“You pay all this money for streaming services…”

An unequal approach

AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather::The real risk of AI isn’t that it’ll kill you. It’s that a small group of billionaires will control the tech forever.

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Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said....

Meta has 30 days to stop using the name

New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe::More than 38 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Ontario as of Oct. 8, with 23,002 reports of adverse reactions, an incidence of 0.06 per cent, Public Health Ontario says

Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago::undefined

Supreme Court wades into social media wars over free speech::Three major issues on the role of social media in society are before the Supreme Court, with oral arguments in the first two cases taking place this week.