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Multiple product recalls, device bans, and AI tensions hit tech industry this week
16 Jul 2025 03:54 GMT
Alienware M16 laptops reportedly catching fire
Reports are circulating on Reddit and Dell’s own support forums about Alienware M16 laptops catching fire or producing smoke. A Reddit user claims to have tracked 17 individual cases involving electrical …
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Texas Social Media Law Will 'Bulldoze' Speech, Tech Group Says
15 Jul 2025 10:44 GMT
… online speech," the tech-funded policy group Chamber of … ages, and then deploy filtering technology to block "harmful… year -- one by the tech industry groups NetChoice and … The American Civil Liberties Union, Wikipedia, Student Press Law Center and …
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Astronomer Says the Object Approaching Us From Beyond the Solar System Is Not What We Think
16 Jul 2025 16:27 GMT
Earlier this month, astronomers were thrilled to spot an interstellar object — only the third of its kind ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system on an extremely unusual trajectory and at a breakneck velocity.
While we're only …
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Hackster Classroom for Teachers and Parents: Getting Started with Robotics – Part 1
16 Jul 2025 13:13 GMT
There’s something enchanting about making something that moves on its own. Programming even the smallest robot gives a lot of satisfaction when it whirrs along as commanded (or not). This makes them ideal for motivating learning about topics ranging from …
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Tesla Demands Privacy From Public Officials, NA Sales Chief Departs
16 Jul 2025 01:50 GMT
… Bob Woodward, but according to Wikipedia, he first heard it from … seems to come with the tech bro territory, as Jeff Bezos … arrogance of Musk and his tech bro confreres who take the …
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Cloudflare wants Google to let sites block AI without losing search visibility
11 Jul 2025 01:38 GMT
… undermine that balance.
Big Tech and AI chatbot ventures … Even robust infrastructure projects like Wikipedia, engineered to handle billions … can be avoided.
As technology evolves at breakneck speed … in comparison to Big Tech lobbying power, enforcing reasonable …
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A new playbook to sway Trump: Influence the influencers around him
10 Jul 2025 20:44 GMT
… without so much as a Wikipedia page.
That's why … in this space use proprietary technology to mine public data from … AI and behavioral data. As technology advances, the industry is quickly …
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Radical Retro Cans
10 Jul 2025 17:23 GMT
… into sound. According to Wikipedia:
The recording, part of … that a convergence of technologies, including vacuum tube … 1876, after which telephone technology quickly advanced. For example, … headphones are triumphs of technology, but retro headphones ooze …
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Giant Ethiopian dam promises greater flood control and water management
09 Jul 2025 23:35 GMT
… in Ethiopia, but neither the technology nor the financial resources existed … Prime Minister Office Ethiopia/Wikipedia)
The gated spillway operates with … the boundaries of dam construction technology and highlighting the project’s …
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The backup battery choice you didn’t know you had: li-ion, or vanadium flow?
09 Jul 2025 13:33 GMT
… diagram
Flow battery diagram; via Wikipedia.
If you’re not familiar … with flow batteries, the Wikipedia page is a great first … li-ion batteries are proven tech, but the Gen X-ers …