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Happy Friday! If you're going to the airport for some holiday travel, check out these tips from an expert so you don't hold up the security line.

In today's big story, we're looking at how Google's rocky year left some wondering if the tech giant

• Futuristic transport startup Hyperloop One is shutting down, Bloomberg reported.
• The company was the most high-profile developer of hyperloops championed by Elon Musk.
• Musk previously said a hyperloop could cut travel times from LA to San Francisco to 30 minutes.

Hyperloop One, the startup that sought to build the

2023 has been a fairly uneventful year for laptops. Apple continues to dominate in both performance and battery life, while Microsoft only had incremental upgrades for its Surface line, and Intel has waited until the very end of the year to try to respond to Apple’s dominance. But 2024 looks set to be one of the most

The recent Google Play Store ruling could be bad news for Android phone users. Meanwhile, you only have a couple more days to buy a new Apple Watch before the ban kicks in. Catch up on the biggest product news of the week in our roundup. - Jorge Jimenez

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• One of the biggest online dramas of the year was the feud between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
• Zuck came out on top — but that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago.
• Here's how the two tech moguls

• Elon Musk wants AI chatbot Grok to be the "funniest" AI in comparison to its rivals like ChatGPT.
• The chatbot has a "fun mode" that allows it to respond with vulgar language, humor and sarcasm. 
• The billionaire previously said AI chatbots like ChatGPT were too "woke," calling that "deadly." 

Elon Musk said one goal for his new AI

• A number of tech billionaires have disclosed their eating habits, which are at times outrageous and unhealthy.
• Most recently, Elon Musk said he eats a donut every morning.
• Here are the diets of some of the richest people in the

Whether in cinemas or on streaming, movies have given us a lot to laugh about this year. From a raunchy appendage-related musical to a violently pink and gleefully wild narrative about much more than a children's toy, these are our five favorite comedies from 2023.

In the podcasting world, the year 2019 may seem like it happened in a parallel universe. Vulture’s Nicholas Quah deemed it the beginning of the “big podcasting era,” pointing to the millions of dollars that Spotify invested in building out its podcast operation — and the expected domino effect as other companies follow suit. “There was

• Whole Foods didn't break the law when it banned workers from wearing BLM slogans, a federal judge ruled.
• In some cases, workers were disciplined for wearing face masks and pins with BLM slogans.
• The judge said that wearing these items wasn't a protected activity.

Whole Foods didn't break the law when it banned workers from wearing apparel and

• The time to buy a house is now, "Shark Tank" investor Barbara Corcoran said.
• That's because as mortgage rates drop, housing demand will surge, driving prices up.
• "Find yourself a great broker who knows how to hustle, because there's always a deal to be had."

The housing market is beginning to ease, but "Shark Tank" star Barbara Corcoran maintains that waiting for a better

Generative artificial intelligence is everywhere you look these days, including on the web: advanced predictive text bots such as ChatGPT can now spew out endless reams of text on every topic imaginable and make all this written content natural enough that it could plausibly have been written by a human being.

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