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Zack Severino
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March 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Google acquiring part of HTC Vive engineering team to boost Android XR
Google acquiring part of HTC Vive engineering team to boost Android XR
To “accelerate” Android XR development, Google announced this evening that it “signed an agreement to welcome some of the HTC VIVE engineering team to Google.” more…
9to5google.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
January 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Someone needs to tell ABC that the ban goes into effect on the 19th, a Sunday and the Biden administration ends at noon on Monday.

Also the law is law, there's nothing to implement.

This is the only way it was gonna go
A US official says the Biden administration won't force TikTok to go dark in the country on January 19 and will leave it up to Trump to implement the law (ABC News)

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January 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
That's hilarious coming from China
China plans to probe whether the US gives its chipmakers an unfair advantage through grants or undercuts Chinese products illegally, escalating the chip war (Bloomberg)

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January 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
January 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
According to Kagan, TikTok is a search engine?
welp
January 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Cry more
January 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I'm as excited as the next guy about o3, but I feel like it needs to be said that it costs ~20 'a task'/a minute on ARC Prize and more importantly ~$2,000 to get 75% and ~$350,000 to get 87.5%

arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-...
OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub
OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.
arcprize.org
December 21, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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We are so - and I use this word advisely - fucked.
RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Hey TikTok, that's not how the law here works. Your buddy Trump can't just overturn the law
Filing: TikTok asks a US court to put on hold a law forcing a sale or ban of the app until SCOTUS can review it and the Trump admin can decide its position (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)

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December 9, 2024 at 3:45 PM
NBC commentators more pressed about trash being thrown on the pitch than about red card offences not being called
December 8, 2024 at 5:12 PM
All I'm gonna say is, if you thought this wasn't gonna happen you haven't been paying attention
TikTok faces a US ban if it is not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests (Jacob Gershman/Wall Street Journal)

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December 6, 2024 at 5:17 PM
No acknowledgement of all of the injuries. We literally had 1 cb for most of the second half
Tottenham's defeat by Bournemouth was their eighth defeat in their last 12 Premier League away matches.

Ange Postecoglou had a tense full-time exchange with fans — his team makes the same mistakes over and over again.

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December 6, 2024 at 5:16 PM
I thought news wasn't gonna paywalled? Look how quick that was
December 5, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Google Pixel 6, 7, and Fold will officially get two more years of Android OS updates
Google Pixel 6, 7, and Fold will officially get two more years of Android OS updates
Google has updated its policy around Android OS updates on its first two generations of Tensor-powered Pixel devices, bringing two more years of updates to Pixel 6 series, Pixel 7 series, and Pixel Fold. more…
9to5google.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Please 🙏
December 4, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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#ICYMI: Our PPP tracker has details on all 11.5 million approved PPP loans, including how much of each loan has been reported as forgiven.

Search by organization name, type, lender or even ZIP code.
December 4, 2024 at 7:50 PM
December 4, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped via Google's AI summarization tool NotebookLM, and a Your Music Evolution feature (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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December 4, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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Regarding current events.
December 3, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Can we just ban data brokers in general?
December 4, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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Gemini app widely rolling out Utilities Extension on Android
Gemini app widely rolling out Utilities Extension on Android
The “Utilities” Gemini Extension has been rolling out over the past few weeks, and it’s now seeing wider availability in the Android app. more…
9to5google.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:36 PM
I DECLARE MARTIAL LAW
a man in a suit and tie is saying i dedare bankruptcy !
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying i dedare bankruptcy !
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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December 2, 2024 at 9:15 AM