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This year’s first Direct will take place Wednesday morning at 9AM ET, and, according to Nintendo, the 25-minute presentation will feature Switch games “coming in the first half of 2024 from our publishing and development partners.”

We didn’t need to consult the video game oracles to know a Nintendo Direct was on the way. Not only have



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The next Nintendo Direct is scheduled for this Wednesday, the company just announced. It's being billed as a "partner showcase," with Nintendo saying it'll show off Switch games coming in the first half of this year from "our publishing and development partners." It'll kick off on February 21, bright and early at 9AM ET. 

While Nintendo holds these showcases on a regular basis, this one is



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President Joe Biden speaking at a GM electric vehicle assembly plant.
  • EPA's aggressive EV requirements are likely to ease up, according to reports.
  • Automakers wouldn't have to reach 60% EV production by 2030 under revised rules.
  • EV demand has softened significantly in the past six months.

President Joe Biden's aggressive electric vehicle requirements are likely to ease up ahead



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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon
  • Wall Street giants like JPMorgan, State Street, and Pimco recently exited Climate Action 100+.
  • Other finance firms have walked back climate-friendly pledges and initiatives.
  • This shift comes amid increasing criticism of "woke capitalism" and scrutiny of ESG investing.

Some Wall Street giants, many of which have spent the last few years pledging to fight climate



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Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen leads workout classes in the company parking lot.
Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen leads workout classes in the company parking lot.
  • Tesla's design chief, Franz von Holzhausen, conducts fitness sessions at the company's parking lot.
  • Von Holzhausen leads a team of around 300 at a converted airplane hangar in Los Angeles.
  • Von Holzhausen, known for designing the Cybertruck, works closely with CEO Elon Musk.

Tesla's design chief Fran



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Getting water on phones happens to the best of us. Lucky for us, there’s one household staple the internet consistently suggests will draw that liquid out and save phones: uncooked rice. But contrary to popular advice, Apple, like most people in tech support, explicitly advises against putting your wet phone in a bag of rice.

“Don’t put your iPhone in a bag of rice. Doing so could



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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
  • Google is developing a new large language model called Gemini 1.5.
  • Gemini 1.5 offers improvements on its predecessor by processing a variety of data types.
  • The new model uses a 'mixture of experts' model for efficiency and has a bigger context window.

Google just upped the ante in the AI war creating fierce competition



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The Biden administration is granting $1.5 billion in funding to GlobalFoundries to bolster semiconductor production under the CHIPS Act. The company, which spun out from AMD in 2009 and also has access to $1.6 billion in loans from the CHIPS Program Office, will split the cash between three projects.

First, GlobalFoundries will build a new fabrication facility in Malta, New York, where it aims to



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Deliveries of the Tesla Cybertruck began last month.
  • Cybertruck engineer Wes Morrill commented on concerns the EV develops rust spots in the rain.
  • Morrill said the orange specks, merely the size of a pinhead, are likely surface contamination.
  • His comments come after some Cybertruck owners claimed the truck can rust in the rain.

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