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If you have one of Apple's non-iMac desktops or a MacBook you’d like to plug into a monitor, perhaps it’s time for an upgrade (or to buy a dedicated display in the first place). As it happens, Apple’s Studio Display is on sale right now. The price has dropped by $300 to $1,300 for the VESA mount and tilt-adjustable models, marking a record low for both. It's worth noting that the discount applies



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father's day gifts

Dads come in many forms, and Father's Day is a time to celebrate all the father figures who are special and important in your life. If you want to get your dad, stepfather, grandpa, or whoever else something truly special, swing for a personalized Father's Day gift this year.

Because of the nature of customized and personalized gifts, you can't do this thing last minute — some planning is required



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Microsoft and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) have forged a labor neutrality agreement for all ZeniMax workers. The CWA says the deal is similar to the one from 2022 covering Activision Blizzard’s workforce, which went into effect in April of this year.

“Thousands of our ZeniMax co-workers now have a free and fair path to organize together for better working conditions,” Page Branson



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OpenAI and Microsoft

With the AI race heating up between Big Tech companies and fast-growing startups alike, some companies may be violating antitrust laws in order to gain an upper hand on their competition.

At least, that's what both the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are investigating.

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia are now under a regulatory microscope after the DOJ and FTC



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CosMc's drive-thru restaurant in Bolingbrook, Illinois
I visited the first CosMc's in Chicago.
  • McDonald's now has four CosMc's locations open, one near Chicago and three near Dallas.
  • The chain will test 10 locations of the small-format, limited-menu restaurant concept this year.
  • I visited the original Chicago location. My takeaway? Dunkin' Donuts should be on alert.

After a year of buzz, CosMc's is up and running.

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The US has banned companies like Nvidia from selling their most advanced AI chips to China since 2022. But if loopholes exist, profit-hungry corporations will find and exploit them. The Information published a bombshell report on Thursday detailing how Oracle allows TikTok owner ByteDance to rent Nvidia’s most advanced chips to train AI models on US soil.

ByteDance, which many US lawmakers believe



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Warner Bros. Discovery took a $200 million hit after the launch of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the troubled looter shooter released in February — and now we have a sense of what went wrong. A new report from Bloomberg details some of the studio’s struggles behind the scenes, including inexperience with the multiplayer genre and a



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side by side images show starship fin intact and shiny then shredding apart in a cloud of debris
This flap on Starship looked very different at the beginning and end of the plummet back to Earth.
  • SpaceX's Starship flew to space and returned, but suffered visible damage on the fall back to Earth.
  • The rocket's fin started ripping off mid-fall, and the camera lens cracked.
  • Starship's splashdown was a big step toward reusability though, and Elon Musk claimed victory.

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