Bigger and longer-lasting with a new rugged design, but falls short for adventurers and endurance athletes For the first time in years, there’s a new top Apple smartwatch model available that’s beefier, hardier, lasts longer and is aimed squarely at dethroning Garmin at the top of the adventure watch market. But does the Apple Watch …
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Musk said he was done selling Tesla stock back in August, before Twitter’s legal action sealed the deal for the $44bn takeover Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold 19.5 million of his shares in the electric car company, according to filings published by the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, in a transaction worth …
Company executive says governments, companies, media outlets and public figures will receive label, which is not for sale Twitter will introduce an “official” label for select verified accounts when it launches its new $8 Twitter Blue service, Esther Crawford, the company’s early stage products executive, said on Tuesday. “Accounts that will receive [the label] include …
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Parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram is among others in the tech industry to suffer a severe slowdown Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed to executives that the company will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Zuckerberg addressed hundreds of executives at the company on Tuesday morning, …
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Hundreds of names, addresses, birthdates and Medicare details are being posted under ‘good-list’ and ‘naughty’-list’ headings Follow our Australia liveblog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A ransomware group has begun posting what appears to be client data stolen from Australia’s largest health insurer …
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Public squabble between the two largest offshore exchanges’ bosses led to run on FTX and forced sale The two largest offshore cryptocurrency exchanges are merging, after a week of public squabbling between Binance’s chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, and FTX’s boss, Sam Bankman-Fried, triggered a bank run at the latter’s exchange and an embarrassing forced sale …
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Holmes faces up to 20 years in prison after being convicted on 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy A federal judge denied Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s bid for a retrial on investor fraud charges after finding that an attempt by a remorseful prosecution witness to contact her didn’t introduce material new evidence or establish government …
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Meme artist @Sunday.nobody builds $1,200 sarcophagus for cheesy snack ‘for future civilizations to find’ A small bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos has been sealed in an elaborate, 3,000-pound, concrete sarcophagus with a gold leaf headstone “for future civilizations to find” by a 28-year-old TikTok user who says “there’s nothing else I’d really want to spend …
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Three years’ research and a lot of very expensive materials have gone into Steve and Nick Tidball’s thermal camouflage jacket. Can its wearer really blend into the background? Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak arrived in a parcel for Christmas, with a note from Dumbledore: “Use it well.” Ron Weasley’s reaction was, as you might expect, to …
Elon Musk’s chaotic first week as chief twit has crystallised fears that the site is in a death spiral. Here’s a handy guide to other platforms – from a Slack-style chatroom to the anti-Twitter Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Another Twitter exodus has begun. Since Elon …
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