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A drone punched a hole into an LA firefighting plane

A drone collided with a ‘Super Scooper’ firefighting plane. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Apple’s market share slides in China as iPhone shipments decline, analyst Kuo says

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a post on Friday that Apple is losing market share in China due to declining iPhone shipments

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Amazon to halt some of its DEI programs: Internal memo

The company is in the process of “winding down outdated programs and materials” as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives.

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Tesla recalling 239,000 vehicles in U.S. over rearview camera failures

Tesla’s voluntary recall is related to issues that may cause rearview cameras to fail, according to filings out Friday.

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7 Simple Steps to Use Windows Fax and Scan

So long as you have a built-in modem, you can use Windows Fax and Scan to send and receive faxes from your computer. Learn how to use this classic program along with alternative faxing methods.

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Bench customers are now being forced to hand over their data or risk losing it, they say

After accounting startup Bench abruptly shut down on December 27 and was bought in a fire-sale by Employer.com, Bench customers are now learning they can’t easily just take their financial data and leave.  And some are very unhappy about it, … Continue reading

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Amazon curbs some DEI programs

Amazon is now the latest company to curb some of its DEI programs, Bloomberg reports, after Meta announced that it, too, is ending its diversity efforts earlier on Friday.  An internal memo that was sent to staffers said that the … Continue reading

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Zuckerberg says Biden administration pushed Meta ‘super hard’ to take down vaccine content

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that the Biden White House sought to censor critical claims about Covid vaccines.

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How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’

OpenAI was sending “tens of thousands” of server requests trying to download Triplegangers’ entire site which hosts hundreds of thousands of photos. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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VCs say AI companies need proprietary data to stand out from the pack

AI companies across the globe raised more than $100 billion in venture capital dollars in 2024, according to Crunchbase data, an increase of more than 80% compared to 2023. It encompasses nearly a third of the total VC dollars invested … Continue reading

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