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Oregon signs right to repair into law Mar 29, 2024

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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 1596 into law, joining California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts and Minnesota in a growing list of states embracing a right to repair for citizens.

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NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life in the icy oceans of a Saturn moon Mar 28, 2024

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The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows for the system to keep chugging even after a module is damaged.

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Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal Mar 28, 2024

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In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters"

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Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines Mar 27, 2024

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Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI.

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Spotify tests video courses to teach everything from music production to excel Mar 27, 2024

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In its ongoing efforts to get its 600 million+ users to spend more time and money on its platform, Spotify is spinning up a new line of content: e-learning.

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Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare Mar 26, 2024

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Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature.

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Lordstown Motors’ ousted CEO settles with SEC for misleading investors Mar 26, 2024

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Steve Burns, the ousted founder, chairman and CEO of bankrupt EV startup Lordstown Motors, has settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over misleading investors about demand for the company’s flagship all-electric Endurance pickup truck.

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Boeing CEO to leave company by year-end, after a wave of safety incidents Mar 25, 2024

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Boeing’s chief executive Dave Calhoun will leave the plane-maker by the end of 2024, according to the company.

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AT&T won’t say how its customers’ data spilled online Mar 25, 2024

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Customers say leaked AT&T customer data — names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers — is accurate.

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Why is AI so bad at spelling? Mar 22, 2024

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AIs are easily acing the SAT, defeating chess grandmasters and debugging code like it’s nothing.