Computer mouse controlled by your tongue? 11 life-changing gadgets shocking techies at CES 2024
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Computer mouse controlled by your tongue? 11 life-changing gadgets shocking techies at CES 2024

Welcome to the world of tomorrow. World-changing breakthroughs are being debuted and displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as companies harness recent, vast breakthroughs in artificial intelligence to bring the future to today’s market. These on-display innovations at the four-day demo span from big, even life-altering game-changers…

Hertz plans to sell 20,000 EVs, including Teslas
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Hertz plans to sell 20,000 EVs, including Teslas

Rental firm Hertz Global Holdings said Thursday it would sell about 20,000 electric vehicles from its US fleet due to higher expenses related to collision and damage, and will opt for gas-powered vehicles. Shares of the company, which operates vehicles from Elon Musk’s Tesla and Swedish EV maker Polestar among others, fell about 3%…

New York state to invest in $10B chip research complex
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New York state to invest in $10B chip research complex

New York state is joining tech giant IBM and semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology to invest $10 billion in a state-of-the-art chip research facility at the University of Albany, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced. NY Creates, a nonprofit entity that oversees The Albany NanoTech Complex where the 50,000-square-foot facility will be built,…

Short seller Hindenburg accuses Jack Dorsey’s Block of ‘facilitating fraud’
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Short seller Hindenburg accuses Jack Dorsey’s Block of ‘facilitating fraud’

Hindenburg Research, the short-seller whose damning report on Indian billionaire Gautam Adani triggered a $150 billion loss from the mogul’s net worth, is now accusing Jack Dorsey’s mobile payment firm Block of “facilitating fraud against consumers and the government.” Hindenburg on Thursday alleged that Block overstated its user numbers and…

Elon Musk apologizes after mocking Haraldur Thorleifsson
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Elon Musk apologizes after mocking Haraldur Thorleifsson

Elon Musk is sorry. The billionaire mogul apologized for mocking a fired Twitter employee who suffers from muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair. Musk had accused Haraldur Thorleifsson of using his disability as an “excuse” to do “no actual work” after the Iceland-based software engineer complained that he had not…

Residents of Musk’s Texas space city rip billionaire for destroying quiet beach town
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Residents of Musk’s Texas space city rip billionaire for destroying quiet beach town

Residents of Elon Musk’s “space city” in southeastern Texas blasted the SpaceX CEO’s treatment of them as he transformed their quiet beach town into his grand Starbase vision, a report said. Boca Chica was a small, seaside village at the mouth of the Rio Grande on the Mexican border with…

SpaceX launches 9,000-pound satellite into orbit from Florida
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SpaceX launches 9,000-pound satellite into orbit from Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a 9,000-pound satellite into orbit on Monday evening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The reusable rocket’s first stage landed back on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean roughly eight minutes after takeoff, marking SpaceX’s 170th recovery of an…