Author: Zach_Wilson
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.” The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched…
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10 Best Computer Monitors (2024): Budget, OLED, 4K, Ultrawide
The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we reviewed those too (including a few portable screens). Source
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Tesla Cybertruck suffers new recall for a very scary problem
Forget the finger-biting frunk, Tesla’s Cybertruck has a new and potentially more dangerous problem: a stuck accelerator pedal. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Tesla issued a voluntary recall on April 17 of “certain” Tesla Cybertruck models for “Unintended Acceleration from Trapped Pedal“. It’s not clear why…
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‘The party is over for developers looking for AI freebies’ — Google terminates Gemini API free access within months amidst rumors that it could charge for AI search queries
It’s been rumored for a while now that Google is considering charging users for AI powered results, especially concerning the idea of a premium search option which leverages generative AI. Whether that will happen remains to be seen, but Google is ending the era of free access to its Gemini…
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Samsung is making its top executives work six days a week
Samsung has shifted to “emergency mode” and is now asking executives to work six days per week. The news, revealed in a report by The Korea Economic Daily, comes as the company battles ongoing business challenges. The company-wide policy affects executives and top managers across Samsung’s various divisions. Recent disappointing…
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Polestar’s new smartphone looks like a step up from Android Auto and CarPlay
Polestar teased that it was working on its own smartphone at the Guangzhou Auto Show late last year, with Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath telling CNBC “where you have an opportunity to link these two worlds, without any border … then you can really have a seamless transition.” Now, images have…
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