Month: January 2025
eBay’s new acquisition could make it easy to buy a car from anywhere
Caramel has a site and app that helps private parties and independent dealers sell cars by handling the paperwork, ownership transfer, financing, shipping, insurance, and more. The company has several marketplace and auction partners as well. Although eBay has hosted listings for used car sales and auctions on the site…
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Zuckerberg asks Trump to stop US companies from having to pay EU fines
Mark Zuckerberg has asked President-elect Trump to stop EU imposing fines Meta CEO compared GDPR and antitrust fines to tariffs on US companies Request comes after Facebook and Instagram move to replace fact checking services with community notes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called on President-elect Donald Trump to stop…
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Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’
Technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a campaign designed to “save social media from billionaire capture.” The project aims to raise $30 million over three years to support the development of a social media ecosystem powered by the AT Protocol, or the decentralized network…
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Finally, another Thunderbolt 5 SSD has landed, and boy is it fast! Seagate’s LaCie Rugged SSD Pro5 is a stunner
This is only the second TB5 SSD on the market after the Envoy Ultra Seagate says it can reach speeds of 6700/5300MBps in read/write This rugged SSD will cost up to $600 for the 4TB version LaCie, Seagate’s premium brand, has launched the Rugged SSD Pro5, a high-speed external drive…
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Samsung is adding two new Galaxy Ring sizes
Samsung is making the Galaxy Ring available to more people by adding size 14 and 15 rings to its options starting on January 22nd. With the expansion, which was rumored last month, the company says its ring sizes now run from five to 15, though it caveats that both size…
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Sam Altman predicts artificial superintelligence (AGI) will happen this year
Sam Altman reflects on nine years of OpenAI He predicts we will achieve AGI in 2025 AI Agents will also enter the workforce for the first time In a long and wistful blog post titled ‘Reflections’ Sam Altman, the mercurial CEO of ChatGPT creators OpenAI, has said that he believes…
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