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Sen. Mitt Romney departs the Senate Chamber following a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, May 4, 2023 in Washington, DC.
  • Sen. Mitt Romney announced his decision to retire at the end of his term in January 2025.
  • Romney, who's currently 76, said that "it's time for a new generation of leaders."
  • Before he was in the Senate, Romney was a governor of

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A screenshot of the USB-C EarPods page on Apple’s store.
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Now that the iPhone has USB-C ports, Apple is selling wired EarPods with a USB-C connector that you can use with the new smartphones — and, thankfully, a bunch of Apple devices.

According to Apple’s page for the USB-C EarPods, they’ll work with iPhones, iPads, and Macs with USB-C ports; however, they’ll have to be on semi-recent



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  • Argentina's dollar scarcity shouldn't stop it from dollarizing, Francisco Zalles told Bloomberg.
  • The economist previously helped Ecuador dollarize in 2000.
  • "For Milei's plan to work, he needs nothing," Zalles said. "He just needs to dollarize."

Argentina's lack of greenbacks shouldn't stop the country from ditching the peso and adopting the dollar, according to an


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A screenshot from the video game Starfield. | Image: Bethesda Softworks

We’ve never seen a killer app for cloud gaming yet — but Starfield might be the next best thing. It has now arrived on Nvidia’s GeForce Now, the first cloud gaming service that might do it justice, and the only one with a completely free trial, no credit card required.

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Today, Google unveiled a range of software updates for Android Auto and vehicles equipped with Google integration. At the forefront, Google says its drivers will now be able to join WebEx or Zoom meetings, a feature it previously announced at I/O 2023. The apps will only work in an audio-only capability, which Google says will make it “easy and safe” for drivers to quickly join scheduled meetings



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A California lawmaker will file a bill seeking to make generative AI models more transparent and start a discussion in the state on how to regulate the technology.

Time reports that California Senator Scott Wiener (D) has drafted a bill requiring “frontier” model systems, usually classified as large language models, to meet