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Unredacted Meta documents reveal ‘historical reluctance’ to protect children Jan 19, 2024

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Internal Meta documents about child safety have been unsealed as part of a lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Department of Justice against both Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

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Land Moto accelerates its electric bike battery play with $3M infusion Jan 19, 2024

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Cleveland-based electric motorcycle startup Land Moto is looking to diversify by powering up the battery design side of its tech.

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NASA’s robotic, self-assembling structures could be the next phase of space construction Jan 18, 2024

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Bad news if you want to move to the Moon or Mars: housing is a little hard to come by.

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Apple tops Samsung in worldwide smartphone shipments for the first time Jan 18, 2024

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Apple’s iPhone has overtaken Samsung for the first time ever as the best-selling smartphone in 2023, according to a new report from IDC.

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FedEx announces its own commerce platform for merchants Jan 17, 2024

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Logistics company FedEx announced its own commerce platform called FDX today.

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Elon’s Tesla robot is sort of ‘ok’ at folding laundry in pre-scripted demo Jan 17, 2024

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Elon Musk’s Optimus humanoid robot from Tesla is doing more stuff — this time folding a t-shirt on a table in a development facility.

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Google will allow more real-money games on the Play Store Jan 16, 2024

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Google announced today that the company plans to support more real-money games (RMG) on the Play Store this year by allowing more types of games in the category following local laws.

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LG opens its first US EV charging factory in Texas Jan 16, 2024

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LG Electronics has opened its first electric vehicle (EV) charger facility outside of South Korea — in Fort Worth, Texas — to capture a share of North America’s competitive EV charging market.

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As Disney pushes towards streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024 Jan 15, 2024

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Disney-owned animation studio Pixar is poised to undergo layoffs this year, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed.

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Google Cloud rolls out new gen AI products for retailers Jan 12, 2024

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Google wants to inject a little generative AI into retail.

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