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Self-checkout tech flop
Shoppers and stores lost out
Self-checkout at stores had failed mainly as a technology, with the stores and customers losing out.
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Apple ditches blood-oxygen feature to dodge US ban
Mysteriously can’t invent it after allat
Apple is scrapping a blood-oxygen feature from its new smartwatches - the Series 9 and Ultra 2 - to avoid a US ban over a patent row with Masimo.
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GTA star rages at AI firm for stealing his voice
GTA 5's Michael De Santa gets out his bat
Ned Luke, the actor who plays GTA 5's Michael De Santa, has blasted an AI firm that made an unlicensed voice chatbot based on the character and got the dodgy bot wiped from the internet.
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Electric bus goes up in flames
London's burning
A fleet of electric buses has been pulled off the roads after a doubledecker burst into flames in south London.
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Atari is back
Retro Games reveals tiny version of first gaming computer
Retro Games is bringing back the Atari 400, the first home computer that rocked as a game system, in a mini version that can play the entire 8-bit Atari range.
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This sort of thing is the reason we don’t want to return
Internet Brands bosses are baffled by why the workers at the firm don't want to return to the office. They have made a toe-curling video to lure them back. But word on the street is that it is backfiring.
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Boffins build a giant brain for a robot
One brain to rule them
Two researchers have revealed how they are creating a single super-brain that can pilot any robot, no matter how different they are.
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Musk sues US labour court's right to exist
Courts should not be allowed to investigate rich people's labour abuses
Self-styled “free speech absolutist” Elon [look at me] Musk has set his legal hounds on a US labour watchdog which objected to him firing staff who said they didn’t like him.
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Apple tells 121 staff to move to Texas
Or be fired
Apple has told 121 workers in its San Diego Siri team that they will have to move to Texas or face the sack.
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Alienware unveils new QD-OLED gaming monitors at CES 2024
32-inch 240Hz 4K AW3225QF and 27-inch 360Hz 1440p AW2725DF
In addition to new and redesigned laptops, Alienware launched two new QD-OLED gaming monitors at the CES 2024 show in Las Vegas, including the 32-inch 240Hz AW3225QF and the 27-inch 360Hz AW2725DF.