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  1. sprocket999

    Fewer American EVs costs GM $6 billion even as its Chinese sales boom

    Toyota is all over like a rash in Europe, specifically countries in the scandanavian regions. My observations suggest they sell boatloads there.
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    Conservative attacks on NPR and PBS continue with call to take FCC licenses

    God—if I had a dollar for every time I said the very same thing, I'd be filthy-Musk rich by now.
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    Conservative attacks on NPR and PBS continue with call to take FCC licenses

    Absolutely, Moongoddess! Now, I'm not 100% sure of this, but I thought I read somewhere that the PBS world gets a majority of its funding from various donors, while the Gov only contributes a small amount. Maybe someone with an in-depth knowledge of PBS can weigh-in? But YES. This Admin wants...
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    Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages

    "On a national scale, vaccination rates have declined overall amid misinformation spread by anti-vaccine activists, including current Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr." It has to be clarified right now. 'Misinformation' is when information is benignly published. But this is...
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    We put the new pocket-size vinyl format to the test—with mixed results

    Not according to AI, as shown below. :ROFLMAO: I will agree that the Four Seasons is on crack-on piece of work when executed by the right people. One of my faves for the last 35+ years.
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    We put the new pocket-size vinyl format to the test—with mixed results

    There are a LOT more positive attributes with the CD. For that matter, there still are. Tiny Vinyl is just a wacky novelty no different than the Flowbee Haircutting System.
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    How Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion—and what it reveals about AI

    I thought this was an article on the cleverness and tactics of the thieves, and perhaps some insight on the planning and how the Louvre security dropped the ball from a technical perspective. Instead it reads like an article desperately promoting A.I. I don't get it. Disappointed.
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    OpenAI, Jony Ive struggle with technical details on secretive new AI gadget

    The bots have only run out of the stuff they're ALLOWED to slurp. The REAL intelligence is behind walls, and they ain't gettin' in.
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    OpenAI, Jony Ive struggle with technical details on secretive new AI gadget

    HOT FLASH—I already have an iPhone that will do all that jazz if I turn all the functions on. Currently, I am in enigma-mode,, by my own design.
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    How America fell behind China in the lunar space race—and how it can catch back up

    Hmmmm. You make a good point. So perhaps we 'clean up the campground' when we move on from the Moon, yes? So far this hasn't happened. It needs to before we can take up our hubris elsewhere and trash THAT place up. As a race, we're such pigs.
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    Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

    Cruz, and his cohorts, really have a difficult time with dealing with reality, don't they? Mind you, with all the gaffs I find in Wikipoodia relating to history, it seems like there still is a lot of fantasy there too. Anyhow, I find it laffable that Cruz and Republicans are questioning the...
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    The DHS has been quietly harvesting DNA from Americans for years

    Really? It's pretty simple. All your personal info also gets tagged to your DNA when you voluntarily submit to commercial collectors for ancestry purposes (or whoever). That info can be sold to any number of unscrupulous buyers OR any databases it is in can be hacked. Then there is law...
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    How America fell behind China in the lunar space race—and how it can catch back up

    Just leave the Moon alone. It's already crapped up from 'space junk' from the US and various other littering countries, and apparently nobody wants to clean it up. I suggest developing super-robotics and going much farther out.
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    ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team

    Oh wow . . . what a sch!tt-show this will be. I'm soooooo glad I have ZERO affiliation to the USA, and I feel sooooooooo bad for those innocents that do. :cry:
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    A history of the Internet, part 3: The rise of the user

    I worked elbows deep in 'Web 1.0' starting in early 1995, and eventually 'Web 2.0' as a Senior Art Director coming from the Advertising world. I found the whole environment absolutely fascinating! I still remember building the odd prototype site out of Adobe PageMill 1.0 & 2.0 for presentations...
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    The DHS has been quietly harvesting DNA from Americans for years

    Bugger. I thought it would be! Thankfully, I kept far away from that scheme. Thanks for the confirmation, John. :)
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    iOS 26 review: A practical, yet playful, update

    Ah yes . . . Windows Aero. I do remember icon downloads being available for Mac using theme altering software. Not my thing.