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PS5 price increases by £40 as Sony cites ‘challenging’ conditions
Sony has raised the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles worldwide, citing "challenging" market conditions.The price of the digital edition of the PS5 console in the UK has increased by £40 to £429.99.Its cost for European customers has risen...
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What happened to Amazon’s inaugural Project Kuiper launch?
Amazon is aiming to take on SpaceX’s Starlink internet service using thousands of its own Project Kuiper satellites in low-Earth orbit.The first Project Kuiper satellites were suppsoed to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from...
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Meta’s antitrust trial could force Zuckerberg to sell Instagram
Lily JamaliReporting fromSan FranciscoReutersA trial in the landmark antitrust case against social media giant Meta kicks off in Washington on Monday.The US competition and consumer watchdog alleges that Meta, which already owned Facebook, bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp...
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Three Million Child Deaths Linked To Drug Resistance, Study Shows – Slashdot
"More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics," reports the BBC, citing a study by two leading experts in child health...
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If You’re Not Using Chatbots, You’re Failing Your Customers | Entrepreneur
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As a growing number of consumers shift to online shopping, businesses are having to invest in customer service technology that...
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What to Know About Trump’s Antitrust Efforts Against Tech Giants
The Trump administration isn’t letting up on the tech giants.On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission will face off with Meta in court over claims that the social media giant snuffed out nascent competitors when it bought Instagram and WhatsApp....
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U.S. Prepares to Challenge Meta’s Social Media Dominance
Soon after Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, the social network skyrocketed in popularity. Roughly a decade later, the company experienced another round of explosive growth after buying its smaller rivals Instagram and WhatsApp,...
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Do Cognitive Abilities Predict Performance in Everyday Computer Tasks? – Slashdot
"Researchers say that a person's intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed," writes SciTechDaily, "so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use."A new study has found...
Technology
Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time
Reindustrializing America will require action from not only businesses but also a new wave of people that...
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Trump exempts smartphones, laptops, and semiconductors from new tariffs | TechCrunch
The Trump administration is carving out big tariff exemptions for the tech industry.While President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would delay many of the market-shaking tariffs that he’d announced the previous week, he kept a universal baseline 10%...
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The first vote of the conclave - the secretive process to choose a new pope - has failed to...