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Amazon left Roomba with a huge mess to clean up

Amazon backing out of its deal to buy iRobot due to regulatory issues may feel like a win for privacy advocates, but it could be a death knell for the Roomba robot vacuum as we know it. On the face of it, the objection from the European Commission that the deal was anti-competitive is cruelly…

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JBL’s retro-inspired Authentics speakers are on sale for nearly 25 percent off

I know that someone, somewhere, shares my thinking that the virtual assistants we’ve grown fond of are mortal enemies somewhere in a digital parallel universe. But JBL’s new line of Authentics speakers has warped everything I thought I knew about the ancient rivalry, allowing you to call on either assistant without toggling a setting. JBL…

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FTX says it will pay back customers

FTX says it will repay investors after the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse led to the loss of billions of dollars. During a court hearing on Wednesday, FTX lawyer Andrew Dietderich said the company expects to “have sufficient funds to pay all allowed customer and creditor claims in full.” The company will recompense customers based on the…

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‘Circle to Search,’ the all-AI way to Google, comes to Pixel 8 phones

Google is rolling out its “Circle to Search” feature to Pixel 8 phones today, bringing new ideas about how to gather information on the internet using AI. The feature, which is also available on Samsung Galaxy S24 phones, builds on Google’s multisearch tool that lets you combine image searches with words in the Google app….

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Epic preps its challenge to Apple’s “bad-faith” outside payments changes

Epic is not pleased with how Apple has responded to court orders. It thinks Apple’s new 27 percent tax on developers that link to non-Apple payment methods defies a court order to let developers provide those links and yesterday notified the court that it plans to lay out exactly how. To refresh, District Court Judge…

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Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra really is scratch resistant

During his video, JerryRightEverything tests the S24 Ultra’s durability by scratching the screen with different picks according to Mohs hardness scale — ranging from the softest materials at level one and the hardest at level 10. The YouTuber’s pick only started leaving scratches at level seven, but it didn’t create grooves in the glass that…

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Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: $999 is the main feature

Nvidia’s RTX 4080 Super is the third and potentially final of Nvidia’s refreshed 40-series GPUs. The RTX 4070 Super got a significant performance boost, the RTX 4070 Ti Super got a smaller bump, and the RTX 4080 Super barely gets faster at all. But it is $200 cheaper than the RTX 4080, which changes the…

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The Indiglo button let there be light

Long before the self-lit pixels of OLED phones illuminated our lives, there was a time many portable gadgets didn’t shine at all. Remember when the display of practically every Nintendo Game Boy was designed to be viewed by sunlight? Remember when it was tough to tell time with your average wristwatch after dark? In today’s…

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Microsoft’s gaming revenues overtake Windows thanks to Activision Blizzard

Microsoft just posted the second quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $62 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q2. Revenue is up 18 percent, and net income has increased by 33 percent. This is the first quarter Microsoft is reporting earnings as a $3 trillion company and…

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Elon Musk won’t get his $55 billion pay package after all

Elon Musk isn’t going to get that $55 billion pay package after all, a Delaware Court of Chancery judge has ruled. The ruling means Tesla’s board will need to come up with a new proposal. The ruling threatens Musk’s fortune if it makes it through an appeal, Bloomberg reports. Without the options in that package,…

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