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East and Gulf Coast ports strike, with ILA longshoremen walking off job from New England to Texas, stranding billions in trade
Shipping containers sit stacked in the Port of Newark on September 30, 2024 seen from New York City. A massive strike shutting down ports across the East and Gulf coasts began at midnight as members of the International Longshoremen’s Association continue to make salary and other demands to the United States Maritime Alliance, which controls […]
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East Coast port strike: Truckers, rails scramble to move billions in cargo before ILA union midnight shutdown
Shipping containers stacked at a storage yard outside of the APM Terminals yard at the Port of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama, US, on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Micah Green | Bloomberg | Getty Images With a potential strike at ports up and down the East Coast and along the Gulf Coast set to begin after […]
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Hands-on with Meta’s Orion AR glasses prototype and the possible future of computing
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presents Orion AR Glasses, as he makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters The most impressive aspect of Meta’s Orion augmented-reality glasses has more to do with size and comfort than flashy […]
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Meta’s misinformation problem has local election officials struggling to get out the truth
Voters cast their mail-in ballots at a ballot drop box outside Maricopa County Recorder and Elections Department southeast Mesa office during the Arizona state primary election in Mesa, Arizona, U.S. July 30, 2024. Rebecca Noble | Reuters Derek Bowens has never had such an important job. He’s the director of elections in Durham County, North […]
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Meta unveils cheaper $299 Quest 3S VR headset
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Acquired LIVE event at the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta announced the Quest 3S, the latest virtual reality headset to come out of the company’s Reality Labs division […]
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How Elon Musk hopes his new supercomputers will boost his businesses
Elon Musk is on a mission to build new supercomputers. As the CEO of Tesla and his new artificial intelligence startup xAI, the tech titan has big plans for how artificial intelligence can help to supercharge his businesses. In January, he wrote on X that Tesla should be viewed as an AI/robotics company rather than […]
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Intel’s wild week leaves Wall Street more uncertain than ever about chipmaker’s future
Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger speaks at the Intel Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Arizona, on March 20, 2024. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images It was quite a week for Intel. The chipmaker, which has lost over half its value this year and last month had its worst day on the market in 50 years […]
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Apple iPhone 16, Apple Watch Series 10 and AirPods 4 debut around the world
Apple on Friday greeted customers at its stores around the world for the debuts of the iPhone 16, Apple Watch Series 10 and AirPods 4. The new products were announced at an event earlier this month and have been available for pre-order since Sept. 13. The company lit up the glass cube at its Fifth […]
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Elon Musk’s X ‘declined to send an appropriate witness’ to Senate hearing on election threats
As the riots raged in the U.K., Elon Musk began making incendiary comments about the situation, including the statement: “Civil war is inevitable.” Musk is the owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as X. Aytug Can Sencar | Anadolu | Getty Images While top executives from Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft are headed […]
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The iPhone 16 Pro Max has better battery life and great cameras, but Apple Intelligence hasn’t arrived
iPhone 16 Pro Apple Inc. Apple’s iPhone 16 family of phones will hit shelves on Friday. Ahead of their launch, I’ve spent the past five days been testing the high-end iPhone 16 Pro Max. It’s a great phone with cool updates like a dedicated camera button, and it charges faster over MagSafe than earlier Pro […]
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