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• Apple just called it quits on its secretive electric vehicle project.
• A new report claimed the company was dropping the project after 10 years.
• It's little surprise though: Apple has AI and mixed reality to tackle.

The world was quite different when Apple quietly started its electric vehicle project in 2014

When this article was originally written in February 2022, the big Spotify controversy was that artists were abandoning the audio service in protest of the company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan, and some subscribers were deciding to follow the musicians’ example. More recently, the issue that has users irritated is the continued lack of HiFi and

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is not happy about what’s been going on with the company’s Gemini AI chatbot, calling viral and historically inaccurate errors from its image generator “unacceptable” in an internal memo to employees on Tuesday.

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It can happen all too easily, especially if you’ve got an Android phone with less than 128GB of storage: one day, you try to install a cool new game or an intriguing new app, and you can’t. You’ve run out of space.

Don’t panic. If you’re not ready to buy a new phone, and your phone doesn’t have a handy microSD slot for some extra

• Once a laggard, Toyota is now well-positioned to meet a new EV market.
• Toyota's hybrid-heavy approach is actually going well.
• Even the company's competitors are coming around on hybrids.

Toyota, the originator of the hybrid-car craze in the early 2000s, is poised to reclaim its crown as the king of green cars.

As demand for battery-electric vehicles cools and more sho

• Deutsche Bank staff have criticized the company's new return-to-office policies.
• Staff have complained about the lack of office space and bottlenecks at the company, a union official said.
• Some have even resorted to coming into the office at 7 a.m. to find a spot to sit near their team. 

Deutsche Bank is facing a wave of backlash from staff

• The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee announced 2024 investments of nearly $750,000.
• The funding is being used to set up campaign field operations and boost staff hiring.
• Democrats want to protect their majorities in Michigan and Pennsylvania and make gains in Arizona and North Carolina.

As Democrats

• Sweden this week became the newest member of the NATO alliance. 
• Russia's war in Ukraine pushed Sweden away from decades of neutrality.
• Sweden will provide NATO with big advantages in deterring Russian aggression. 

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has long harbored an obsessive grudge against NATO

It's been a bleak year so far for the gaming industry, between mass layoffs, projects getting canceled and studios shutting down. There are some specks of light in the darkness, though, thanks to a few surprise hits like Palworld and Helldivers 2, while there are still some studios opening up. One of those is BulletFarm, a nascent NetEase studio led by a former Call of Duty multiplayer designer.

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• Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company got it wrong as controversy swirls over its Gemini AI.
• Pichai made the comments in a memo sent to staff and obtained by Business Insider. 
• Google faced backlash after users complained Gemini was generating historically inaccurate images.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company got it

• The FTC filed a lawsuit against H&R Block over what the commission called deceptive advertising.
• It alleges that H&R Block tricks users into starting with a higher-cost service, making downgrading difficult.
• This follows a similar FTC action against Intuit for misleading practices with its

LG unveiled its 2024 OLED evo TVs in January at CES 2024 promising extra brightness and other features, and we're now learning the prices for its best models. They'll start at $1,500 for the mid-range C4 models and go up to an impressive $25,000 for the 97-inch G4 flagship. 

First, here's what you're getting. The big theme this year was AI and the company's latest Alpha 11 processor is supposed to