Month: April 2021
Hummer’s new electric SUV can drive diagonally, with 300 miles of range and a $110,000 price tag
Hummer has unveiled the SUV version of its electric pickup truck, which comes with up to 300 miles of range and will sell for a suggested retail price of up to $110,595 for its first edition. Reservations for that model are already full, according to GM’s website. GM, which is…
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Steam survey suggests Nvidia’s RTX 3070 is actually trickling into the hands of gamers
Now that the street price of an Nvidia RTX 3070 is over $1,200, it’s temping to think scalpers, bots and cryptocurrency miners got them all — but the latest Steam Hardware Survey suggests at least some of them are making their way into gaming PCs, too. As TechSpot reports, the…
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Trump used dark patterns to trick supporters into donating millions more than intended
When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, he didn’t stop asking his supporters for money. The emails kept coming in. But by the end of his four years in office, according to a new report in The New York Times, they had begun to look an awful lot like…
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Uber will pay a blind woman $1.1 million after drivers stranded her 14 times
Uber was sued in 2014 for discriminating against blind people and their guide dogs, and agreed to change that as part of a $2.6 million settlement two years later. But apparently, that didn’t entirely happen. Uber will now pay an additional $1.1 million to a blind woman who says said…
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You might have just missed the best time to sell your startup
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Happy Saturday, everyone. I do hope that you are in…
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A cable company that prided itself on no data caps says you’re getting data caps because pizza
Internet data caps are not like pizza — where taking a slice could mean fewer slices for everyone else. I don’t think Verge readers have trouble understanding this concept? It’s been well-established that ISPs have no trouble delivering unlimited data, even during — say — a global pandemic when vast…
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