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Elon Musk slams Biden’s Build Back Better bill and its electric car incentives

Critics suggest the multibillionaire is annoyed that Tesla’s nonunion-made cars wouldn’t qualify for the subsidy Elon Musk criticized new incentives and infrastructure for electric vehicles in a huge spending bill backed by Joe Biden, saying he would “delete” the measures and even ditch the entire legislation if he had the power. Musk, the multibillionaire founder …

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Google’s 2021 search list: Bernie Sanders ‘mittens’ and Squid Game top the trends

Annual list reveals most searched-for terms globally related to sports, investing, Covid and skinny jeans Squid Game, Bernie Sanders’ mittens and how to wear skinny jeans, were among the most searched for subjects on Google around the world this year, and in the UK the Euros dominated web queries. The annual search trends list released …

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Solar Ash review – ambitious sci-fi adventure leads to a boring new world

PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC; Heart Machine/ Annapurna InteractiveThis unquestionably beautiful game about saving a planet from an encroaching black hole boldly goes where few have remained awake Life is about the journey, not the destination, the saying goes, and the speed-obsessed Solar Ash is built on that principle. Kitting the player out with invisible …

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Instagram chief to testify as Congress scrutinizes platform’s impact on kids

Ahead of hearing, platform said it will be stricter about the type of content it recommends to teens The head of Instagram will testify before US lawmakers on Wednesday about protecting kids online, in the latest congressional hearing scrutinizing the social media platform’s impact on young users. Instagram and its parent company, Meta Platforms (formerly …

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TechScape: how China became an AI superpower ready to take on the United States

Up for discussion in this week’s newsletter: a mix of state support and entrepreneurial zeal means China is poised to win the next tech revolution – just as a former Google exec predicted Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here China had its sputnik moment in March 2016. That month an artificial …

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‘So vague, it invites abuse’: how Twitter’s new privacy policy helps the far right

The policy meant to tackle doxxing on the platform has left many anti-fascist activists locked out of their accounts How could a policy intended to protect against doxxing and harassment go so wrong, so quickly? Last week, Twitter announced it would start penalizing users who tweet “private media”, or images of other users shared without …

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Amazon Web Services outage hits sites and apps such as IMDb and Tinder

Users in North America and Europe report patchy service after cloud computing goes down Several Amazon services – including its website, Prime Video and applications that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) – went down for thousands of users on Tuesday. Amazon said the outage was probably due to problems related to application programming interface (API), …

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Kamala Harris is on to something: AirPods are bad, people | Julia Carrie Wong

Cybersecurity experts confirm that Bluetooth signals can in fact be intercepted. And old-school earbuds have a level of retro cool AirPods are bad, people. I’ve said it for years. In 2016, when Apple first debuted the overpriced accessories, I wrote that wireless headphones were like tampons without strings – missing the crucial feature that helps …

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Tim Cook reportedly signs five-year $275bn deal with Chinese officials

The Information reports Apple CEO’s agreement will placate threats that would have hobbled its devices and services in the country Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, signed an agreement with Chinese officials, estimated to be worth about $275bn, to placate threats that would have hobbled its devices and services in the country, The Information …

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Up at 4am, meditating by 4.15: apart from all the money, why would anyone envy Elizabeth Holmes? | Arwa Mahdawi

The Theranos founder’s fraud trial reminds us how obsessed Silicon Valley used to be with productivity. But has the pandemic changed things for the better? Everyone is just winging it. That’s one of the most valuable things I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older, but not particularly wiser: it doesn’t matter how successful or grown-up someone …

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