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Smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Classic are some of the best on the market. Yet, at almost $400, they’re not for everybody, especially since you’ll need to be tapped into a



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Tesla's gigafactory outside Austin, Texas in 2024.
  • Tesla's gigafactory outside Austin won't have to follow the city's environmental regulations. 
  • The EV company was granted an exemption thanks to a new state law.
  • Elon Musk has said the property will be an "ecological paradise," but Tesla has a history of violating the environment. 

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Elon Musk fans believe in his vision for the future, and they're betting he will turn things around for Tesla.
  • Tesla had a tough first quarter, reporting a drop in revenue during a Tuesday earnings call.
  • But Tesla's woes are unlikely to deter its fervent fans from continuing to support the company. 
  • Tesla customers are among the strongest brand loyalists out



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Almost seven years ago, my partner and I took an ill-advised road trip for a wedding with our nearly one-month-old child. In those early days, our kid cried. A lot. Loudly. In the confines of an SUV, this meant a nightmare of constantly pulling over to try, desperately and often in vain, to quell the woes of



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Google keeps promising to phase out third-party cookies on Chrome but not actually doing it. The company vowed to deprecate cookies back in 2020, pushing the date back to 2023 and then 2024. We did get some traction earlier this year, when Google disabled cookies for one percent of Chrome users, but those efforts have stalled. Now, the company says it won’t happen until next year.

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During last night’s earnings call with investors, Elon Musk threw out an all-time late-night dorm room bong sesh of an idea: what if AWS, but for Tesla?

Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business. If they’re just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to



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  • A billionaire cartel boss was arrested for his involvement in drug trafficking, reports say.
  • Karim Bouyakhrichan was released on bail by a Spanish court after paying a $53,000 bond.
  • He then fled, and his whereabouts remain unknown.

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The bill that will force a sale or ban of TikTok in the United States is now law. President Joe Biden signed a package of foreign aid bills that included the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” one day after the legislation was approved by the Senate.

In a statement, TikTok said it would challenge the law in court, which could delay an eventual sale or ban.