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• Some observers say there's a striking trend toward secrecy among local governments across the US.
• From schools to county boards, public access to records and meetings in many states is going away.
• One small town north of Pittsburgh raised property

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Just like all gadgets, even tablets solely devoted to fitness will eventually meet their software demise. That time is rapidly approaching for Peloton’s first-gen bike tablets, known as Quartz. Peloton sold these first-gen bikes between 2013 and 2016. The company already cut off software updates for the early touchscreens back in 2019

For years, Waymo has been claiming that its driverless vehicles have the potential to be safer than humans. Now the company says it has the data to back it up.

Waymo analyzed 7.13 million fully driverless miles in three cities — Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Francisco — and compared the data to human driving benchmarks to

• While living in Germany, my daughter went to a kindergarten where her teacher only spoke German.
• My daughter, immersed in the language, became my translator. 
• It made me think about how different education is in the US because my daughter excelled in German.

We would live

• Russia is forcing Ukrainians in occupied towns to join the army, a watchdog organization reports.
• Human Rights Watch found that both civilians and individuals in detention centers have been threatened and pressured.
• Russia has said before that it is sending

• The Senate has confirmed every single military promotion previously held up by Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
• Tuberville conceded earlier in the month that nothing came out of his months-long hold.
• A GOP senator continues to block a handful of officers from promotion for their views on diversity.

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• A Tesla owner walked away with a $14,000 repair bill from a day-one issue with his Model Y.
• The Model Y's suspension broke with only 115 miles on the odometer, according to a report.
• Reuters found that Tesla has faced thousands of complaints over suspension and steering issues.

Former Tesla owner Shreyansh Jain was hit with a $14,000 repair bill from an issue he

If you ever enrolled in the Apple Family Sharing with a family member between 2015 and 2019, you may entitled to a cut from the $25 million legal settlement Apple agreed to pay. MacRumors did some math and claims you could get between $30 to $50 if you qualify.

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How immersive technologies and the enterprise metaverse could positively transform the way we think about agile project execution.   

If you find yourself in the metaverse with PwC, you might be having a meeting on Mars. Imagine: You're at home, having just had breakfast. You grab your VR headset and in an instant, you're no longer in your kitchen, but in a virtual meeting space set