Ford electric vehicle owners can now charge on Tesla’s network, but they’ll need an adapter first

Owners of Ford electric vehicles can now use much of Tesla’s charging network in the U.S. and Canada, but there’s a hitch.

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Biden administration to investigate national security risks posed by Chinese-made ‘smart cars’

The Biden administration will investigate potential national security risks posed by Chinese-made “smart cars” that can gather sensitive information about Americans driving them.

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One Tech Tip: Don’t use rice for your device. Here’s how to dry out your smartphone

Oops, you slipped next to the pool and dropped your phone into the water.

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US looks at regulating connected vehicles to prevent abusers from tracking victims

The agency that regulates U.S. telecommunications is considering a rule that could stop domestic abusers from tracking their partners through vehicles that are connected wirelessly.

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Dubai’s sky-high aspirations find a new outlet as it hosts a jet suit race for ‘Iron Man’ pilots

Pilots lined up on a runway in Dubai and fired up their seven jet engines with an ear-splitting roar.

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Zuckerberg meets LG and Samsung chiefs as he visits South Korea as part of a 3-nation Asian tour

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has discussed cooperation on extended reality devices with LG Electronics executives.

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Biden issues executive order to better shield Americans’ sensitive data from foreign foes

President Joe Biden is signing an executive order aiming to better protect Americans’ personal data on everything from biometrics and health records to finances and geolocation from foreign adversaries like China and Russia.

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Apple kills its electric car project

Apple's electric vehicle, which the company spent billions of dollars researching, was intended as a rival to Tesla’s EVs, which include autonomous driving features.

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Sony to cut about 900 jobs in its PlayStation unit as layoffs in technology, gaming sector continue

Sony will cut about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, or about 8% of its global workforce, becoming the latest company in the technology and gaming sector to announce layoffs.

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Seattle ranks No. 1 for phone avoidance among large U.S. metros

About 26% of Seattle-area adults talk socially on the phone less than once per week. FYI Guy digs into why that might be.

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Microsoft’s new deal with France’s Mistral AI is under scrutiny from the European Union

The European Union is looking into Microsoft’s partnership with French startup Mistral AI.

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Germany plans to enable underground storage of carbon dioxide at offshore sites

Germany's vice chancellor says the country plans to enable underground carbon storage at offshore sites, pushing ahead with a much-discussed technology in an acknowledgement that time is running out to combat climate change.

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China’s homegrown C919 jet in spotlight at Singapore air show, but not quite ready to compete

China’s C919 single-aisle jet made its international debut at the Singapore Airshow, attracting masses of visitors and hundreds of orders, but analysts say it still has a long way to go before it can compete with aircraft from market leaders Boeing and Airbus.

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Two Chinese bloggers in exile warn that police are interrogating their followers

Two prominent Chinese bloggers in exile said that police were investigating their millions of followers on international social media platforms, in an escalation of Beijing’s attempts to clamp down on critical speech even outside of the country’s borders.

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What to stream this week: Adam Sandler is in space, ‘Elsbeth’ sleuths and Japan shines in ‘Shogun’

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” storming Apple TV+, East meets West in feudal Japan with the kick-off of the series “Shogun,” and Disney+'s animated series “Iwájú” offers a coming-of-age story set in the future in Lagos, Nigeria.

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AT&T will give $5 to customers hit by cellphone network outage

AT&T says it will give affected customers $5 each to compensate for last week’s network outage.

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Why health care has become a top target for cybercriminals

Hacking has become a big business. And health care organizations are now one of the top targets for cybercriminals.

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Facial recognition: Coming soon to an airport near you

Biometric technology is expanding at airports across the United States — and the world — and transforming the way we move through them, from checking a bag to boarding the plane.

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Tax-free status of movie, music and games traded online is on table as WTO nations meet in Abu Dhabi

As the World Trade Organization opens its latest biannual meeting of government ministers on Monday, its longtime moratorium on duties on e-commerce products is coming under pressure like never before.

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A decade after a Boeing 777 disappeared, planes still at risk of vanishing

Yet 10 years on, an industrywide push to rule out a similar missing plane has been stymied by bureaucracy, financial pressure and a debate about who should have ultimate control of the cockpit. 

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A marketplace of girl influencers managed by moms and stalked by men

Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post the images on Instagram. Men sexually attracted to children sometimes pay to see more.

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Taiwan giant chipmaker TSMC opens first plant in Japan as part of key global expansion

Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has opened in an official ceremony its first semiconductor plant in Japan as part of its ongoing global expansion.

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Colombia to send deep-water expedition to explore 300-year-old shipwreck thought to hold treasure

Colombia’s government has announced an underwater exploration more than 600 meters deep to investigate and try to raise objects from the mythical galleon San José, sunk in the 18th century in the country’s northern Caribbean and believed to contain cargo valued at billions of dollars.

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This week’s cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

When some people's cellphone service went down for a while because of an AT&T network outage, among the alternatives suggested were using landlines.

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Niklaus Wirth, visionary software architect, dies at 89

Among other feats in computer history, Nicklaus Wirth created Pascal, an influential programming language in the early days of personal computing. He died on Jan. 1. He was 89.

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Google suspends AI chatbot from creating human images after it put people of color in Nazi-era uniforms

Google has suspended the Gemini AI chatbot’s ability to generate images of people and has vowed to fix what it called “inaccuracies in some historical” depictions.

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Google suspends Gemini chatbot’s ability to generate pictures of people

Google said Thursday it’s temporarily stopping its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot from generating images of people a day after apologizing for “inaccuracies” in historical depictions that it was creating.

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Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers

A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers, according to data from Downdetector.

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Pakistan blocks X for the sixth day as activists criticize the social media platform’s shutdown

Pakistan’s media regulators have blocked the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with users across the country enduring the sixth day of sweeping disruptions, partial and complete shutdowns.

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A tiny isle’s 20-year fight to reclaim its valuable domain on the internet

The South Pacific island of Niue says it was cheated out of .nu, a domain that turned out to be very lucrative on the other side of the world.

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With Boeing in hot seat, claims against supplier Spirit AeroSystems take shape

Former employees at Spirit AeroSystems describe a "sick" safety culture as quality control problems at Boeing come under scrutiny after a blowout on a 737.

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A timeline of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems’ major moments

A Seattle Times review of the company’s business and regulatory histories captures the firm’s troubles since it was spun off from Boeing to excite investors.

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Biden to create cybersecurity standards for nation’s ports as concerns grow over vulnerabilities

President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order and create a new federal rule aimed at better securing the nation’s ports from potential cyber attacks.

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White House wades into debate on ‘open’ versus ‘closed’ artificial intelligence systems

The Biden administration is wading into a contentious debate about whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems should be “open-source” or closed.

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Judge to set prison sentences for YouTube mom Ruby Franke and business partner in child abuse case

A judge will set prison sentences for parenting advice blogger Ruby Franke and her business partner after they each admitted to physically and emotionally abusing Franke’s children.

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Oracle women fought 7 years for equity. Their reward? An extra paycheck or 2

The case against Oracle was the first in the industry to win class-action status, a milestone never achieved in similar fights against Microsoft and Twitter.

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Law enforcement agencies disrupt prolific ransomware group LockBit

A website run by Lockbit, a prolific ransomware syndicate behind cyberattacks around the world, has been taken over by law enforcement agencies.

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What happens when TikTok is your marketing department

The Pink Stuff joins a jumble of once obscure products that have been transformed by the internet and TikTok in particular.

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Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont

The Biden administration says that the government would provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.

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What to stream this week: ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender,’ ‘Priscilla’ and Dolly Parton’s puppies

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from MGMT and Allie X, “Avatar: The Last Airbender” gets the live-action treatment from Netflix and the seventh and final season begins of the hospital drama “The Good Doctor.”.

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Ex-YouTube CEO’s son dies at UC Berkeley campus, according to officials, relative

The son of a former YouTube executive died last week at the UC Berkeley campus where he resided, according to officials and a relative.

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How to give your photos and videos a vintage look

Retro-photography apps that mimic the appearance of analog film formats make your digital files seem like they’re from another era.

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States look to protect health-related data as it’s used in abortion battle

State governments across the U.S. are adopting or considering laws that would block the sale of personal health data or information about who visits sensitive sites such as sexual health facilities.

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One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites

A lot people think Google searches are getting worse.

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Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery

Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world.

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The European Union expands digital crackdown on toxic content, dodgy goods to all online platforms

The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook to almost all online platforms in the bloc.

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Americans divided on TikTok ban even as Biden campaign joins the app, AP-NORC poll shows

President Joe Biden’s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections, but U.S. adults have mixed views about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country.

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U.S. disrupts hacking operation led by Russian intelligence

The disruption is part of a broader effort to stymie Russia’s cybercampaigns against the United States and its allies, including Ukraine.

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Musk pushes forward on transfer of legal home for SpaceX from Delaware, to Texas

Elon Musk is looking to move the legal home of SpaceX to Texas from Delaware after a judge in that state voided the billionaire’s $55.8 billion Tesla pay package.

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German chancellor welcomes Microsoft’s $3.5 billion AI investment in Germany

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed an announcement by Microsoft that it would invest almost 3.3 billion euros, or about $3.5 billion, in Germany over the next two years to massively expand its data center capacities for applications in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

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