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Good news: A legislative push to save AM radio is almost certain to succeed, which means that America’s weirdest auditory wavelength will continue to survive for the foreseeable future.

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Gen Z is doing better than past generations on some measures.
  • Gen Z is feeling disillusioned over the prohibitive cost of having kids or buying a home.
  • Past generations earned less, owned homes at lower rates, and spent more of their money on housing.
  • But Gen Z is living at home for longer and received a financial boost during the pandemic.

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Audible is testing a new category of book recommendations based on what a user watched recently on Prime Video. Which, as the name suggests, will show you audiobooks based on what you watch on the Amazon-owned service, TechCrunch reports.

The new carousel should appear on mobile and web apps for about half of users who have Amazon Prime Video and Audible subscriptions. You might see



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Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
  • Tesla has quietly backed away from plans to build EVs with a revolutionary new "gigacasting" method, per Reuters.
  • This manufacturing innovation was seen as a key part of Tesla's plans to produce cheaper EVs. 
  • It raises further doubts over Elon Musk's plans for an affordable EV. 

Elon Musk's transformation of Tesla continues at pace.

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Microsoft says it’s investigating reports of VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 Windows 11 update. The KB5036893 security update was issued on April 9th for all supported Windows 11 versions, and some users have reported that VPN connections with TPM-backed certificates aren’t working after the patch was installed.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Jakarta.
  • Microsoft plans to invest $1.7 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia.
  • CEO Satya Nadella visited Indonesia this week The investment is the largest in Microsoft's 29-year history in the country.
  • Apple's Tim Cook also appears to be eyeing the country as a potential manufacturing base.

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Google may start asking users that still utilize passwords instead of their passkeys to wait 24 hours before they can access their account. | Illustration: The Verge

Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts to replace the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys. Their passwordless approach relies on device-based



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Your first apartment after graduation is probably not your forever home, but you can make it something you’re proud of with gadgets that do your bidding. You can automate your lights, keep an eye on your pets and clean up your floors more efficiently with relatively affordable devices that won’t eat up too much of your paycheck. We’ve tried out a lot of smart home tech over the years and here’s



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As part of World Password Day (yes, that's a thing), Google is hyping up its security achievements and sharing updates on its latest endeavors. The company revealed passkey adoption metrics for the first time and said they have been used more than one billion times by 400 million Google accounts. "Since launching, passkeys have proven to be faster than passwords, since they only require users to



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I’ve spent a day with the Rabbit R1, and to say that I was underwhelmed would be an understatement. In fact, I was surprised at how little it offers at the moment, and even from what it offers, what a poor job it does at that. According to the CEO Jesse Lyu, the R1 is “the worst this technology will ever be,” which…

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