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The father of cellphone sees the dark side but also hopes in new tech

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The man credited with inventing the cellphone 50 years ago had only one concern then about the brick-sized device with a long antenna: Would it work? These days Martin Cooper frets like everybody else about his invention’s impacts on society — from the loss of privacy to the risk of internet…

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Apple Watch might soon face international import tires

Earlier this week, the Biden administration declined to veto a recent ruling by the International Trade Commission (ITC) which might result in an imported ban on the Apple Watch. In December last year, the ITC had ruled out that Apple had infringed on a California-based startup AliveCor’s heart monitoring technology. For the uninitiated, the tech…

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Meta to roll out paid subscriptions on Facebook, Instagram | TechnologyNews

Meta Verified would let Facebook and Instagram users pay to have a verified account. Meta is testing a new subscription service – Meta Verified – that would let Facebook and Instagram users pay to have a verified account. Testing will begin in New Zealand and Australia this week and will roll out to other countries…

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Yahoo, Dell, and Microsoft: Layoffs continue at big tech companies

The spate of layoffs at big technology companies continue with Yahoo being the latest to join the list. The slump in the economy, higher interest rates, inflation, over hiring in the past are all factors that have forced tech companies to resort to these drastic measures. Yahoo is the latest to join the long list…

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Microsoft takes on Google Search with AI | TechnologyNews

Microsoft Corp. is revamping its Bing search engine and Edge web browser with artificial intelligence, the company said on Tuesday, in one of its biggest efforts yet to lead a new wave of technology and reshape how people gather information. Microsoft is staking its future on AI through billions of dollars of investment as it…

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Microsoft forecast suggests the gloomy tech environment will continue

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella leaves the Elysee Palace after a meeting with the French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on May 23, 2018. Aurelien Morrisard | IP3 | Getty Images Microsoft executives on Tuesday told analysts to expect a continuation of the weak pace of business that emerged in December, which hurt the software maker’s…

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Top tech news for Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Three months ago, electric vehicle company Lightyear said that it had started production of its €250,000 (around $270,000) Lightyear 0, which boasted an expansive array of solar panels capable of adding up to 44 miles of range to the car. Well, the company has now announced that it’s halting production of the 0 in order…

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Microsoft to axe thousands of jobs in the latest cull by tech giant | Business News

Microsoft is preparing to ax thousands of jobs in the latest move by one of the world’s biggest technology companies to reduce its workforce in the face of a slowing global economy. Sky News has learned that the US software giant could announce plans to cull a significant number of posts around the world within…

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Best Auto News From CES 2023: Electric Pickup Trucks, Flying Cars and More

CES is so much more than just a trade show for the latest televisions, phones and wacky tech. It’s also one of the largest and most popular automotive shows in the US. If you want to know where the travel industry is headed, then there’s no better place to be than Las Vegas in January.…

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NODE Unveils Slick Tech News Site

There’s probably some axiom in professional journalism that says you shouldn’t give out free advertisement to your competitors — but since none of us have any formal training in this kind of thing and are just making it up as we go along — we’re more than happy to plug the brand-new MOSFET.net. We like…

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