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Rani Molla
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Senior correspondent @sherwood.news. Tech and charts. https://sherwood.news/author/rani-molla/
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I hung out in Elon Musk’s company town. Its playground is always broken. The school is accepting just a fraction of the students it was supposed to because they didn’t build a big enough well. And you can buy any canned beverage imaginable but can’t recycle them. sherwood.news/power/the-re...
The revenge of the company town: Elon Musk, the new Baron of Bastrop
The billionaire is using the sheer force of his will and wealth to reshape an area in the Lone Star State — whether the locals like it or not....
sherwood.news
1Password should be called 1Password 1Billion Times
Musk says Tesla will have no safety drivers in “parts of Austin” this year
Just 12% of Teslas pay for FSD
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We tried the new Live Translation feature that Apple has heavily marketed. It turns out to be optimized for Spanish as spoken in Spain (pop. 49 million) as opposed to Latin America or the Caribbean (663 million), which makes it kind of a disaster to use in the U.S. And that's just one problem. Alas.
Lost in AirPod Translation
Apple promises to put an AI interpreter in everyone’s ears. It couldn’t even help me order tamales.
www.theatlantic.com
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Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement."

(Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.)
www.wired.com/story/owning...
Anyway, if a streaming company would like to keep me on retainer for future naming consults, DM me for my venmo
Exactly!
1) Either add or take away “+”
2) Charge a gazillion dollars
3) Repeat
1) Either add or take away “+”
2) Charge a gazillion dollars
3) Repeat
I think I’m in the wrong industry
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NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones.

TOSV president said the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.
ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones  | TechCrunch
The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.
techcrunch.com
You get less for more!
In case you were wondering, the new Model Y cost more than the old Model Y would have with the federal tax credit sherwood.news/tech/tesla-u...
Tesla unveils cheaper Model Y and Model 3
The company announced a $39,990 Model Y today....
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Cameos are Bitmoji for millennials. I’m now a cringe boomer.