Republicans Delay War on Woke Appliances to Focus on Actual War

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In a turn of events that’s par for the course in American politics in 2024, House Republicans were forced to ditch plans to wage a legislative war on “woke” home appliances this week and pivoted their attention, instead, to shoring up unwavering support for Israel.

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Ask Jerry: How to fight email spam

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Spam in your inbox is a pain and nobody wants to see it. But you do have ways to deal with it.

iOS 18 AI features are rumored to be ‘on device.’ But there's a catch.

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By now, you've likely heard that Apple is making big moves in the AI space in order to compete with competitors like Microsoft and Google. Its upcoming M4 chipset for its Macs and MacBooks is being built for AI. And, when it comes to mobile devices, the soon-to-be-released iOS 18 is going to have a heavy focus on AI, bringing new AI-powered capabilities to your iPhone.

According to Bloomberg's Appl

New York is in, San Francisco is very much out for tech workers relocating

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New York City's midtown district.
New York is slowly gaining on San Francisco as a rival tech hub, according to SignalFire.

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  • New York City gained the most relocating tech workers in 2023, SignalFire reports.
  • San Francisco lost the most.
  • Austin and Los Angeles trailed NYC as the most-moved-to tech cities.

New York is continuing to gain on San Francisco as a rival tech hub.

The greater New York City area drew

Scientists went on a hunt for the elusive colossal squid — and brought cruise ship tourists with them

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A man in a plaid shirt and vest looks at a large container holding a colossal squid
In 2014, a fishing vessel caught a colossal squid, which New Zealand researchers dissected.

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  • Kolossal hopes to film a colossal squid in its natural habitat, the waters around Antarctica.
  • The squid is large but elusive and difficult to study since it lives thousands of feet underwater.
  • Using Antarctic tourist boats made searching for the squid far more cost-effective

Oh look at that! Now Google is using AI to answer search queries.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai, whose company is racing to figure out AI.

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  • Google is testing AI-generated answers in regular search results.
  • The experiments are labeled as "AI overviews" and began about a month ago in the US and the UK.
  • Remember when Google's purpose was to compile lists of sites that had the information you want? That was a long time ago.

Sure, you've heard about AI and

Some Tesla factory workers realized they were laid off when security scanned their badges and sent them back on shuttles, sources say

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Tesla factory in Fremont, California
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent employees a memo about the layoffs late Sunday evening.

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  • Tesla laid off over 10% of its workforce on Sunday night.
  • Some factory employees only realized they were laid off when their badges didn't work, sources told BI.
  • At the Nevada factory, the process of weeding out laid-off staff in line to enter caused around a 2-hour