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Italy’s plan to buy Starlink data deals a serious blow to European space network

"We are strong if we remain united and defend our infrastructure." Elon Musk raises a glass at the Atreju convention in Rome, Italy, on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. The annual...

After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages

If you lost service but only 9 cell towers went down, you won't get...

Intel fills out Core Ultra 200 laptop chips with hodgepodge of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX will all fall short of Copilot+ compatibility. The new...

Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 PCs this year

The carrot of "new features" and the stick of "no more updates for your...

Instagram users discover old AI-powered “characters,” instantly revile them

But the social networking giant still has big plans for AI content across its...

Galaxy Z Fold & Z Flip 6, Watch Ultra, and new Ring are Samsung’s AI carriers

Samsung's spec-bump products get coated in Galaxy AI lacquer for their showing. Samsung, much like every large tech company on this planet, led its Galaxy...

Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release

Amazon giving refunds for business bot, will focus on home version instead. Amazon is bricking all Astro for Business robots on September 25. It first...

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years

Google's 2030 "Net zero" target looks increasingly doubtful as AI use soars. Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48 percent in the past five years...

Alzheimer’s scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M scheme

The work underpinned an Alzheimer's drug by Cassava, now in a Phase III trial. A federal grand jury has indicted an embattled Alzheimer's researcher for allegedly...

Meta defends charging fee for privacy amid showdown with EU

EU finding that Meta’s subscription option violates DMA could impact many sites. Meta continues to hit walls with its heavily scrutinized plan to comply with...

Brussels explores antitrust probe into Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI

EU executive arm drops merger review into US tech companies’ alliance. Brussels is preparing for an antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s $13 billion investment into OpenAI,...

T-Mobile users enraged as “Un-carrier” breaks promise to never raise prices

FCC gets 1,600 complaints; users blast "deceptive advertising aimed at seniors." In 2017, Kathleen Odean thought she had found the last cell phone plan she...

Google Translate just nearly doubled its number of supported languages

This includes common languages like Cantonese and lesser-known ones like Manx. Google announced today that it has added support for 110 new languages to Google...

NASA will pay SpaceX nearly $1 billion to deorbit the International Space Station

The space agency did consider alternatives to splashing the station. NASA has awarded an $843 million contract to SpaceX to develop a "US Deorbit Vehicle."...

YouTube tries convincing record labels to license music for AI song generator

Video site needs labels’ content to legally train AI song generators. YouTube is in talks with record labels to license their songs for artificial intelligence...

Verizon screwup caused 911 outage in 6 states—carrier agrees to $1M fine

Verizon initially failed to remove a flawed update file that caused two outages. Verizon Wireless agreed to pay a $1,050,000 penalty to the US Treasury...

Microsoft risks huge fine over “possibly abusive” bundling of Teams and Office

Microsoft vows to make more changes facing EU fine over Teams bundling. Microsoft may be hit with a massive fine in the European Union for...

Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

But most Microsoft account sign-in workarounds for Windows 11 continue to work. One of Windows 11's more contentious changes is that, by default, both the...

iOS 18’s drive-formatting option shows how far iPhones have come for power users

The beta's Files app lets you format external drives in APFS, exFat, and FAT. Apple has added the ability to format external drives in iOS...
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