The pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

We’ve all been there. A favorite item is suddenly unavailable for purchase. Couldn’t the manufacturer have given you advance warning? Whether owing to low sales, changing habits, production costs, or even because something is a little wrong with your favorite product (shh), discontinued items are part of life. In a weekend piece, the New York […]
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The fallout from HP’s Humane acquisition 

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at the internal chaos surrounding HP’s $116 million acquisition of AI Pin maker Humane; Mira Murati’s new AI venture coming out of stealth; Duolingo killing its iconic owl mascot with a Cybertruck; and more! Let’s get into it. Humane’s AI pin is dead. The hardware […]
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Trump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge. The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to […]
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Explore the online world of Apple TV’s ‘Severance’

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

Apple has been steadily working to expand the world of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” through online materials, e-books, podcasts, and other content – and so have its fans. Taking advantage of its platform power, the Cupertino tech giant has been able to easily distribute supplemental material that adds to the show’s storytelling abilities, offering […]
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Microsoft’s New Majorana 1 Processor Could Transform Quantum Computing

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

The processor uses qubits that can be measured without error and are resistant to outside interference, which the company says marks a “transformative leap toward practical quantum computing.”

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Fintechs like Block and PayPal are battling like never before to be your all-in-one online bank

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

Quarterly results from Block, Affirm and PayPal show that the major U.S. fintechs are converging as they all try to become the go-to digital bank.

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What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Why Federal Retirement Is Still Managed out of a Limestone Mine

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

The massive underground facility, which has been used to store archives since the 1960s, remains a crucial but convoluted hub for US government records.

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Cryptocurrency theft of £1.1bn could be biggest ever

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

Dubai-based Bybit said it could afford to reimburse customers and that it was working to find the hackers.

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Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

Social media giants Meta and X approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech in the run-up to the country’s federal elections, according to new research from Eko, a corporate responsibility nonprofit campaign group. The group’s researchers tested whether the two platforms’ ad review systems would approve or reject submissions […]
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Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training

Posted on February 22, 2025 by Techme101

For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday. The documents were submitted by plaintiffs in the case Kadrey v. Meta, one of many AI copyright disputes slowly winding through the U.S. court system. The defendant, […]
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