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No matter how well you treat your phone or laptop, eventually you will need a new one. And every gadget has an environmental impact. Most of that impact comes from the raw materials that are extracted from the earth and…

Tesla is not having a good start to the week. In its defense, it didn’t have a very good end to last week, either. Today the news is that recent price cuts have irked Tesla investors, who sent its shares…

Enlarge / Don’t expect to see this on the iOS App Store any time soon. Last week’s release of the Delta emulation suite finally gave iOS users easy, no-sideloading-required access to classic Nintendo game emulation up through the Nintendo 64…

Biden Kicks Off Earth Week with Solar Funding, Expanding Climate Corps The Biden administration is marking Earth Week with announcements of solar power funding for lower-income communities, an expansion of the Climate Corps and Clean Air Act rules By Jean…

In a huge move for the mixed reality industry, Meta announced today that it’s opening the Quest’s operating system to third-party companies, allowing them to build headsets of their own. Think of it like moving the Quest’s ecosystem from an…

“One of the aims of CP14 is to introduce more objective analysis into an inquiry that has increasingly led to subjective decision-making.” Source: On April 19, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) formally began implementation of Common Practice…

I didn’t pay too much attention to the Find X7 Ultra when I got the device in mid-January. It wasn’t launching outside China, so I focused instead on devices that would debut globally. Then I got caught up in the…

Scammers have been observed employing a sophisticated tactic to steal Toncoins (TON) from Telegram users globally. This scheme, uncovered by researchers at Kaspersky and described in a report published today, has been operational since November 2023 and exploits the growing…

Take-Two Interactive has won a lawsuit brought against them by tattoo artist Jimmy Hayden. Hayden claimed that Take-Two infringed on his copyright when they recreated basketball legend LeBron James, who Hayden has tattooed. The jury determined that Take-Two’s license to…

Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that the workforce management software outfit Rippling was on the cusp of closing a new, $200 million round of funding at a hefty $13.4 billion valuation led by Coatue. We also reported that the…