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    DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

    many years ago I peaked at over 200 DVD's. I rewatched maybe 10% of them and the rest bought, watched once and never touched again. not interested in doing this again and why most people don't mind paying monthly for streaming
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    Apple tries to close privacy loopholes with new app submission policy

    this started a few years ago whenapp developers were using API's made for corporate MDM to create kid tracking apps when the rules specifically said the MDM API's were only supposed to be used for that purpose
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    Cable TV has fewest subscribers since 1992, YouTube TV is the only riser

    who subscribes to all of them? i keep netflix around, i get a special military deal for disney plus. the rest I watch and cancel.
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    Intel loses $2.8 billion in another not-great quarter, down 36% year-over-year

    Intel's problems is the fabs that it owns. they are expensive and need to make their money back. that's why they are always the last to integrate chipsets and whatever into less chips. the older fabs make the motherboards and the cheaper chips like chipsets and NIC's. when Intel sells stuff...
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    As sea levels rise, the East Coast is also sinking

    supposedly happening in SF too from the weight of all the skyscrapers in the same place
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    Fossil fuel companies must face climate change lawsuits in local courts

    i'll sue new york for not mandating carbon free heating and cooling and for encouraging cars via ride share
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    Californians have bought more than 1.5 million electric vehicles

    it's all good but why not invest in transit to reduce the amount of cars on the road and stop the one more lane highway widening?
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    Used routers often come loaded with corporate secrets

    my wife has a friend who's husband is a C level officer in a luxury clothing brand. one time he gave us a PC as a gift. Turns out it was a corporate PC and had a bunch of corporate financial info on it. boggles the mind that people do this.
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    Google throws open the doors for Android Auto smart home apps

    this or someone new to head the project will come in and he'll decided to dump the current codebase and rewrite from scratch
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    New EPA rules would cut car emissions 56% by 2032

    Most of this can easily be done. early 90's I had a V8 camaro that got around 180 horsepower. these days a 4 cylinder can easily do around 250 horsepower. Most automakers sell similar cars with similar engines and the software gives the "luxury" models more horsepower. Toyota sells hybrid...
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    Google’s $350 NFL Sunday Ticket package is more expensive than DirecTV

    I'd watch it more if it wasn't so obscenely expensive and all the sports leagues break up their games among different channels on purpose. the RSN's have the most games, then ESPN will have some and now amazon/apple are picking up some games in every sport and the post season is always split up...
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    Bathroom-tunneling burglars allegedly lift $500K in iPhones from Apple Store

    where are they going to sell them? it's maybe 30 minutes of work to disable and blacklist those phones
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    Google Assistant might be doomed: Division “reorganizes” to focus on Bard

    it was cool on star trek before these things were in real life but in reality voice is a bad way to control a computer. people can type faster and developers can write code to automate things to make return of info even faster and at least with alexa you have to be very exact in what you ask of it
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    Google Assistant might be doomed: Division “reorganizes” to focus on Bard

    the google ads are so bad cause every time I search for something they hit me with ads assuming i'm going to buy it then and not just searching for other reasons
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    Garmin’s Forerunner 955 review: Still king for runners and cyclists

    I have a garmin epix gen 2 but honestly garmin's product line is so big and confusing this is impossible similar SKU's like the Fenix and Epix have feature differences that's can't be explained and my Epix doesn't support some new feature that cheaper watches are getting. i was hoping to buy a...
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    Google is killing most of Fitbit’s social features today

    garmin has a social feature, apple has one and apple has a challenges app where you can create your own challenges for people you don't know too
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    Google is killing most of Fitbit’s social features today

    apple health is a general health app that collects data from other apps there is apple fitness that has your exercise data
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    Apple rolls out iOS 16.4 and macOS Ventura 13.3 with new emoji and features

    firing Scott Forestal was the best decision ever. ever since they centralized OS development under one department they've been on a tear with regular updates for every platform
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    The fight to expose corporations’ real impact on the climate

    same thing as all the single use food, drinks and cleaning stuff now back in the 80's it was mostly 2 liter bottles of soda, large juice containers, big jugs of cleaning product and raw food you made yourself these days it's all single use wipes or single serving drinks or or premade single...