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‘Fork in the road’: CEO of Amazon-backed Rivian on why carmakers need to invest in EVs

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RJ Scaringe says firms focused on selling fossil fuel engines risk being ‘woefully behind’ on technology by end of decadeCarmakers that focus on selling fossil fuel engines are at risk of being “woefully behind” on technology by the end of the decade, according to the boss of Rivian, an Amazon-backed US electric carmaker.RJ Scaringe, Rivian’s

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I sifted through hundreds of mediocre Prime Day deals to find the 50+ actually worth your time

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Amazon’s annual shopping event ends today. We vetted sales on Our Place’s bestselling pan, Hatch’s sunrise alarm clock, a Ninja Creami ice cream maker and more – our no-junk picksThe best anti-Prime Day deals for Amazon skepticsalwaPrime Day is the wild west of online shopping. For every genuinely great deal, there are about seven duds

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As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’

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Ultrarich face backlash as billionaire tax in California makes it to the ballot and Americans organize for higher wagesThe day that Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, Gilberto Rubio, a security officer in the San Francisco area, said he was thinking about how to cut back on meals to save money.Jessica Ordeñana, a bartender

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Meet container: Apple’s Open-Source Swift Tool for Running Linux Containers as Lightweight VMs on Apple Silicon

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Apple research team recently released the container project. It is an open-source command-line tool written in Swift. It creates and runs Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. The project ships under the Apache 2.0 license and targets Apple silicon. Containers are how you ship reproducible environments from a laptop to a datacenter.

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A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

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Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signaturesA scientist who decoded the dictionary that a bird uses to communicate has won a $100,000 prize for making progress towards a world in which humans can talk to the animals – without being met with a

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Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool

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‘It’s all just rendered useless’ Something For Kate’s Paul Dempsey says as AI scrapes millions of songs to learn how to make musicPaul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning are among big-name Australian musicians upset that their original songs have been found in datasets used to train artificial intelligence.A dataset search tool recently created by US publication

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Apple raises iPad and MacBook prices, blaming cost of chips amid AI boom

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Company says it cannot shield customers from memory and storage chip costs – and iPhone hikes could be nextApple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry’s data center buildout.The move does not affect Apple’s cash cow,

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Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her

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Former employee files complaint accusing company of ‘coercive surveillance’ and first amendment violationThe Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is suing the tech company over its efforts to “silence” her.A 57-page complaint filed to a US district court in California on Thursday argues that an interim arbitration ruling sought by Meta preventing Wynn-Williams from publicising her memoir,

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DeepReinforce Releases Ornith-1.0: An Open-Source Coding Model Family That Learns Its Own RL Scaffolds

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DeepReinforce has released Ornith-1.0, an open-source model family built for agentic coding. The lineup spans four sizes, from a 9B dense model to a 397B mixture-of-experts flagship. Every checkpoint ships under the MIT license on Hugging Face. The models are post-trained on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5. Most coding agents pair a

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Tiny yet powerful, the best budget USB charger we tested is now even cheaper

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Anker 511 Nano 3 is the kind of charger you’ll want a few of, and for $12.34, you can afford to stock up during Prime DayThe 40+ best Prime Day deals – and 20+ best deals from Amazon competitorsThis clever router fixed my spotty home wifi – and it’s currently on saleA beefy USB charger

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