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Samsung’s Galaxy A54 phone with a lovely 120Hz display is $100 off - The Galaxy A54 takes some cues from the pricier S23 line, ... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831173/samsung-galaxy-a54-alienware-qdoled-apple-iphone-gift-card-sale

Amazon Loses Key Backer Four Years Into Plan To Eliminate Carbon Emissions - Four years into a plan to eliminate its carbon emissions, Amazon has lost a key en... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/14/1523256/amazon-loses-key-backer-four-years-into-plan-to-eliminate-carbon-emissions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #earth

Construction Management: Full Guide, Statistics - Construction management refers to planning, coordinating, and supervising a constr... - https://readwrite.com/construction-management-full-guide-statistics/ #readwrite

The Pixel Watch 2 may not get UWB support after all - The rumored UWB feature was absent from the FCC filing. | ... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831205/google-pixel-watch-2-uwb-fcc-straps-wearables

German chancellor says push for renewables will revive economy - Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he believes forthcoming green tech investmen... - https://thenextweb.com/news/german-chancellor-says-push-for-renewables-will-revive-economy #governmentandpolicy #sustainability #europe

Injecting a Gene Into Monkeys' Brains Curbed Their Alcohol Use - Chronic drinking depletes the brain’s dopamine levels. A single dose of a gene therapy re... - https://www.wired.com/story/injecting-a-gene-into-monkeys-brains-curbed-their-alcohol-use/ #science/biotech #science #biotech

Boom Lifts: Everything You Need to Know - A boom lift, also known as a cherry picker or man lift, is a type of aerial work p... - https://readwrite.com/boom-lifts-everything-you-need-to-know/ #industrial #structure #operate

Amazon Is Rolling Out a Generative AI Feature That Summarizes Product Reviews - Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI feature that summarizes product reviews ... - https://slashdot.org/story/23/08/14/1428207/amazon-is-rolling-out-a-generative-ai-feature-that-summarizes-product-reviews?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Xiaomi’s latest foldable is durable enough to survive half a million folds - The Mix Fold 3 has four rear cameras, ranging from ultrawi... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831293/xiaomi-mix-fold-3-price-release-date-specs-features-hinge-china

X-rated auction sells last vestiges of pre-Musk Twitter - Oscars 2014 Ellen DeGeneres Selfie in oil, anyone? In case you were heretofore unconvince... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/twitter_x_auction/

An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is 'Trivially' Easy To Bypass - One of the Mac's built-in malware detection tools may not be working quite as well... - https://apple.slashdot.org/story/23/08/14/1359239/an-apple-malware-flagging-tool-is-trivially-easy-to-bypass?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #mac

A Huge Scam Targeting Kids With Roblox and Fortnite 'Offers' Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight - The wide-ranging scams, often disguised as game promotions, can all be linked back to one... - https://www.wired.com/story/poison-pdf-scam-fortnite-roblox/ #security/cyberattacksandhacks #security/securitynews #security/privacy #poisonpdf #security

Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention - Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun? DEF CO... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/def_con_roundup/

The Download: corporate presentations, and carbon removal funding - This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a d... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1077872/the-download-corporate-presentations-carbon-removal/ #thedownload

Einstein, Newton could have been wrong about gravity, Gaia telescope data reveals - A groundbreaking study, based on observations from the European Space Agency’s bil... - https://thenextweb.com/news/einstein-newton-gravity-gaia-telescope-space #startupsandtechnology #deeptech

The Kids Online Safety Act isn’t all right, critics say - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)

Debate continue... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960313 #senatecommercecommittee #kidsonlinesafetyact #contentmoderation #ageverification #firstamendment #childsafety #civilrights #censorship #freespeech #features #congress #policy #lgbtq #kosa

Composition co-written by AI performed by choir and published as sheet music - Ed Newton-Rex, a creative AI pioneer and VP Audio at Stability AI, says that he’s ... - https://thenextweb.com/news/composition-cowritten-ai-performed-choir-published-sheet-music #corporatesandinnovation #artificialintelligence #nextfeatured #creativity #deeptech

Meet the Voice Actors Fighting for Accessibility On and Behind the Screen - Voice actors with disabilities are only now getting a seat at the table in the gaming ind... - https://www.wired.com/story/voice-actors-accessibility-diversity-inclusion/ #culture/videogames #sweetnothings #culture

Cumbrian cops accidentally publish all of its officers' details online - Names, job titles and salaries included in unwitting leak Cumbria Constabulary inadverten... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/cumbrian_police_accidentally_published_officer_details_online/

'The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think' - An anonymous reader shared this report from The New York Times:

More than $1.7 tri... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/14/053216/the-clean-energy-future-is-arriving-faster-than-you-think?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #earth