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Donald J. Trump's projected victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election marks a historic and improbable comeback for the former president, who left office in 2021 after failing to overturn the 2020 election results. 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-win-presidency-2024/
AI conversational search engine Perplexity wants to help keep you updated about the election this year and has introduced a new Election Information Hub designed to do just that. The hub uses Perplexity's AI tools to bring real-time information to visitors.
A federal judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit accusing Google of illegally profiting from Google Play gift card scams by refusing to refund millions of dollars stolen from victims.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-defeats-lawsuit-over-gift-card-fraud-2024-11-05/
Research team uses the human body to power wearables — addresses major obstacle of conventional batteries
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Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is to spend election night with Donald Trump in Florida, according to the BBC's US partner CBS
A top Republican lawmaker has accused the Biden administration of not doing enough to prevent China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) from strengthening the country's chipmaking industry and military-industrial complex.
Meta is opening up its Llama AI models to government agencies and contractors working on national security, the company said in an update. The group includes more than a dozen private sector companies that partner with the US government, including Amazon Web Services, Oracle and Microsoft, as well as defense contractors like Palantir and Lockheed Martin.
Anthropic has added a new feature to its Claude 3.5 Sonnet artificial intelligence (AI) model: Visual PDFs, or the ability to view and analyze PDF files (a feature OpenAI's ChatGPT already supports). The model can not only interpret text in a PDF but also images, charts, and graphs.
EU antitrust regulators will assess whether Apple's operating system for iPads comply with the bloc's landmark rules aimed at reining in the power of Big Tech, the European Commission said on Monday.
Meta Quest gets free software upgrade pulling it closer to the Apple Vision Pro than ever before. The Meta Quest 3 is its current flagship, while the recently released Meta Quest 3S offers a lot of the performance in a much more wallet-friendly package.
UAE energy giant ADNOC will apply highly autonomous agentic artificial intelligence in the energy industry for the first time, in partnership with G42, Microsoft and AIQ, its CEO Sultan Al Jaber said on Monday at an industry event in Abu Dhabi.
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman estimates that large language model (LLM) training two to three generations from now will require as much power as a large city.
Microsoft is trying out cross-laminated timber (CLT) material for building a new datacenter in Northern Virginia, to help reduce its carbon footprint. Instead of using the usual steel and concrete most commercial buildings are made of, the company decided to incorporate CLT in its latest data centers to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out. A dozen Black canvassers were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were fired after WIRED reported on their plight—some without full pay or a way back home.
[Reported: https://www.wired.com/story/canvassers-elon-musk-america-pac-fired-stranded-michigan-mistreatment/ ]
OPEC+ has agreed to delay a planned December oil output increase by one month, the group said on Sunday, as weak demand notably from China and rising supply outside the group maintain downward pressure on the oil market.
The Russian Ministry of Digital Development has sprung into action with plans to create its own Linux community. Admitting that the decision was precipitated by the recent expelling of 11 Russian developers involved in the development of the Linux kernel.
Berkshire Hathaway reduced its holdings in the iPhone maker to just under $70 billion, according to its third-quarter earnings report, which was published Saturday
The chief of the US Space Force has warned that China is putting military capabilities into space at a “mind-boggling” pace, significantly increasing the risk of warfare in orbit.
A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 meltdown.
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U.S. regulators raise questions about siting data centers at power plants. Costs and reliability concerns related to the burgeoning trend of building energy-intensive data centers next to U.S. power plants were the focus of a technical conference held on Friday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
