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The banking industry took its time to transition from paper bills to plastic cards. Now it’s in the midst of a more rapid transformation: going digital.

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An internal Google database containing six years’ worth of potential privacy breaches and security issues was recently obtained, and reveals—among many other things—that a Google employee used their access to watch a private YouTube video uploaded by

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Meta is testing unskippable Instagram ads, first reported by TechCrunch on Monday, alongside the patience of every user who has to put up with the feature.

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What’s the new word of the day, kids? It’s “ceraluminum,” a real nonsense nomenclature combining ceramic and aluminum. That’s the new word to describe the next-gen Asus Zenbook S16 powered with the new AMD Ryzen 300 AI CPUs. But let’s ignore that for a second because some much more interesting ProArt PCs are coming…

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STEVE, a strange ribbon of purple and green haze discovered by citizen scientists in 2016, just got even weirder. While looking through archival data, a team of scientists discovered that the aurora-like phenomenon has a secret twin moving in the opposite direction.

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Spotify released today announced it would raise U.S. prices again next month. The music streaming platform’s last price hike was in July of 2023, so it’s not even been a whole year to that.

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The inexorable march toward the grave continues for all of us, though at the very least, we don’t have a capricious deity named Apple deciding our fate.

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This post was updated 6/3/2024 at 8:21 a.m. ET to include more information about OEMs who will sport the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 series chips.

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When web browsers first began to support apps and interactivity, the functionality was basic and slow—but now online apps can do almost as much as desktop apps can, and, more importantly, these online tools are free.

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