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APPLE CO-FOUNDER STEVE WOZNIAK TO RECEIVE SERBIAN PASSPORT.PRESIDENT SAYS

Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak will be getting a Serbian passport, Serbia’s president announced this week.

GRAND THEFT AUTO VI LEAK FOLLOWED BY AN OFFICIAL TRAILER WITH A TWIST: A RELEASE DATE OF 2025

The highly-anticipated trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI arrived a little early after a copy was leaked online.

SPOTIFY AXES 17% OF WORKFORCE IN THIRD ROUND OF LAYOFFS THIS YEAR

Spotify says it’s axing 17% of its global workforce, the music streaming service’s third round of layoffs this year as it moves to slash costs while focusing on becoming profitable.

TESLA'S DISRUPTIVE BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE PICKUP INDUSTRY

HYPE AND COMMOTION SURROUND THE MARQUE’S POTENTIAL GAMECHANGER

Bitcoin Has Surpassed $41,000 for the First Time Since April 2022. What's Behind the Price Surge?

Bitcoin is once again having a moment. This week, the world’s largest cryptocurrency soared past $41,000 for the first time in over a year and a half — and marking a 150% rise so far this year.

Sony Steps Up

FOR SEVERAL years now OLED has been king of the HDTV hill, offering the best available HDTV performance.

Metallic Spheres of Atmos

Youth on recasting The Orb and David Gilmour's 2010 collaboration Metallic Spheres into an adventurous new Atmos mix now redubbed as Metallic Spheres in Colour.

Forte et Clair

FOCAL HAS long been a high-end French loudspeaker manufacturer with a significant investment in research and development to outpace its competition.

The Yamaha CR-2020: A True '70s Blockbuster

There's something magical about the majestic stereo receivers of yesteryear. Apart from being magnificent examples of industrial design, they're dead simple to operate while offering a full complement of features to ensure a great, though decidedly old-school, music listening experience, complete with analog power meters. And then there's nostalgia... I still own (and recently refurbished) my first receiver - an Onkyo TX-2500 I bought for $200 in the mid-70s. It looks and sounds as good as it did back in the day.

Perfectly Portable

SONOS MOVE 2

Aural Excellence

DYNAUDIO EMIT 50 LOUDSPEAKER

THE SOUND OF SPEED

MotoGP Racing and Audio-Technica Mics

The Six Billion Dollar Earplugs

We are equipped with five senses: Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. The thought of losing any of them is frightening. Setting aside the question of aging, even the thought of only diminishing any of our senses is unsettling. So, the question is, if a faulty product caused you to suffer an impairment of one of your senses, what kind of compensation would be appropriate?

Retro Fidelity Reimagined

KLIPSCH THE NINES HERITAGE INSPIRED SPEAKERS

Practically Perfect

KEF LS60 WIRELESS POWERED LOUDSPEAKERS

Desktop Dynamo

MONOPRICE MONOLITH MTM-100 AND THX CERTIFIED 8-INCH, 150-WATT POWERED SUBWOOFER

THOUSANDS OF FAKE FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS SHUT DOWN BY META WERE PRIMED TO POLARIZE VOTERS AHEAD OF 2024

Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year’s elections, Meta said Thursday.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED IS THE LATEST MEDIA COMPANY DAMAGED BY AN AI EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG

Computer-generated writers ... writing computer-generated stories?

NISSAN WILL INVEST $1.4 BILLION TO MAKE EV VERSIONS OF ITS BEST-SELLING CARS AT ITS UK FACTORY

Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to update its factory in northeast England to make electric versions of its two best-selling cars, a boost for the British government as it tries to revive the country’s ailing economy.

HOW DID HUMANS GET TO THE BRINK OF CRASHING CLIMATE?

Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

CONNECTICUT LAWMAKERS SEEK COMPROMISE ON SWITCH TO ALL-ELECTRIC CARS, AFTER AMBITIOUS PLAN SCRAPPED

A compromise plan to eventually end the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles in Connecticut could be worked out as early as next year’s legislative session, state lawmakers said.

COURT DOCUMENT CLAIMS META KNOWINGLY DESIGNED ITS PLATFORMS TO HOOK KIDS, REPORTS SAY

Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint described in reports from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

AMAZON LAUNCHES Q, A BUSINESS CHATBOT POWERED BY GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT.

GOOGLE WILL START DELETING 'INACTIVE' ACCOUNTS IN DECEMBER. HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Have a Google account you haven’t used in a while? If you want to keep it from disappearing, you should sign in before the end of the week.

THE BEST AUTOMOTIVE HANDS-FREE DRIVING SYSTEMS

While fully automated vehicles are still a ways off, the stepping stone of hands-free driving technology has become prevalent in the past few years.

Christmas Gifts

THE PERFECT PRESENT IDEAS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY & FRIENDS

NEW INCENTIVES COULD BOOST SATISFACTION WITH IN-PERSON WORK, BUT FEW EMPLOYERS ARE MAKING CHANGES

Justin Ryan Horton has two jobs. When he’s not putting in 24-hour shifts as a firefighter, the 22-year-old is working as an administrative assistant for a local community college from his home in Colorado Springs.

NASCAR TO INCLUDE STREAMING IN NEW 7-YEAR MEDIA RIGHTS DEAL THAT WELCOMES AMAZON, TNT, AND MAX

NASCAR has added two new partners and streaming elements to a seven-year media rights deal announced Wednesday that will run from 2025 through the 2031 season.

NEW TECHNOLOGY INSTALLED BENEATH DETROIT STREET CAN CHARGE ELECTRIC VEHICLES AS THEY DRIVE

Crews have installed what’s billed as the nation’s first wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles beneath a street just west of downtown Detroit.

PENTAGON'S AI INITIATIVES ACCELERATE HARD DECISIONS ON LETHAL AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS

Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces’ missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers’ fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space.