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The Morning After: What to expect from Apple’s new launch this week
Last week, Apple’s Tim Cook teed up a new product for launch on February 19 — that’s tomorrow. Cook’s tweet also included an animated image of a shimmering Apple logo, which made a lot of us assume the reveal could be for a second-generation AirTag. It’s been rumored for a…
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The best Presidents’ Day deals on Apple, Samsung, Dyson, Peacock and more
Apparently President’s Day was created to honor George Washington’s birthday. But now on a Monday in February we celebrate every US president by shopping for deals. Nixon, Taft, Coolidge, Polk, Johnson, Hoover and all those other guys — they’d be quite proud of us. In our searches we found quite…
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OpenAI’s board ‘unanimously’ rejects Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion takeover bid
Elon Musk launched a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI. The Wall Street Journal reported a group of investors led by Musk’s xAI submitted an unsolicited offer to the company’s board of directors on Monday. The group wants to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI’s for-profit arm. When asked…
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Meta is reportedly working on humanoid robots that help with chores
If you look at your Roomba with disgust, thinking about what a far cry it is from the Jetsons’ Rosey the Robot, help is on the way. Bloomberg reported on Friday that Meta plans to leverage its advances in AI and augmented reality to build a platform for futuristic humanoid…
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Meta confirms it’s building its own subsea cable
After being rumored to be in the early stages of the project last year, Meta confirmed today that it’s building “Project Waterworth,” an over 50,00 km subsea cable that will connect five continents. The company has partnered on other cable projects previously, but this would be the first piece of…
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The best President’s Day tech deals on Apple, Samsung, Dyson, Blink and more
Apparently President’s Day was created to honor George Washington’s birthday. But now on a Monday in February we celebrate every US president by shopping for deals. Nixon, Taft, Coolidge, Polk, Johnson, Hoover and all those other guys — they’d be quite proud of us. In our searches we found quite…
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