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Google Maps now shows "Gulf of America" instead of "Gulf of Mexico" for users in the US; users in Mexico see "Gulf of Mexico", and everyone else sees both names (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
Umar Shakir / The Verge: Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names — Google has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico for US users. Source link
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Sources: Thomas Shedd, GSA's new Technology Transformation Services director and a Musk ally, told GSA workers the agency will pursue an "AI-first strategy" (Makena Kelly/Wired)
Makena Kelly / Wired: Sources: Thomas Shedd, GSA’s new Technology Transformation Services director and a Musk ally, told GSA workers the agency will pursue an “AI-first strategy” — Sources say the former Tesla engineer now in charge of the Technology Transformation Services wants an agency that operates like a “startup software company.” Source link
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Trump vows to impose tariffs on foreign semiconductors in the "near future", calls DeepSeek's AI progress "a positive" and "a wake-up call" for US industries (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Trump vows to impose tariffs on foreign semiconductors in the “near future”, calls DeepSeek’s AI progress “a positive” and “a wake-up call” for US industries — President Donald Trump said he would soon impose tariffs on foreign pharmaceuticals … Source link
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Jan. 17 filing: the US NHTSA said it "upgraded" its April 2024 probe into Ford's BlueCruise, a driver assistance system that was active during two fatal crashes (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Jan. 17 filing: the US NHTSA said it “upgraded” its April 2024 probe into Ford’s BlueCruise, a driver assistance system that was active during two fatal crashes — A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford’s hands-free advanced driver assistance system known … Source link
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Texas sues Allstate and its subsidiary Arity, accusing the insurer of illegally collecting and selling data about people's driving behavior through mobile apps (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
Kashmir Hill / New York Times: Texas sues Allstate and its subsidiary Arity, accusing the insurer of illegally collecting and selling data about people’s driving behavior through mobile apps — The lawsuit accuses Arity, an Allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people’s driving behavior through mobile phone apps … Source link
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Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for January 22 at 10AM PT in San Jose, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy S25, and more are expected (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for January 22 at 10AM PT in San Jose, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy S25, and more are expected — After plenty of leaks and rumors, we’re officially entering Samsung’s lead-up to the Galaxy S25 launch date, as the company has confirmed … Source link
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Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8 — The U.S. Treasury told lawmakers in a letter Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack earlier in December, which the department has attributed to Chinese government hackers. Source…
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Experts: Bitcoin has time to adopt newer encryption that's resistant to attacks via potentially upcoming quantum systems, but such an overhaul could take years (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Experts: Bitcoin has time to adopt newer encryption that’s resistant to attacks via potentially upcoming quantum systems, but such an overhaul could take years — Researchers warn a quantum-computing attack on cryptocurrency would cause trillions in losses Source link
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Source: Trump meets with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago, the same day that the company asks the Supreme Court to block the law that could ban the app (NBC News)
NBC News: Source: Trump meets with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago, the same day that the company asks the Supreme Court to block the law that could ban the app — President-elect Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but was blocked by the courts. He has since changed his position on the issue. Source link
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Norwegian payment service Vipps launches the world's first alternative to Apple Pay on iPhone, following Apple's move to open up NFC access to devs in iOS 18.1 (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Norwegian payment service Vipps launches the world’s first alternative to Apple Pay on iPhone, following Apple’s move to open up NFC access to devs in iOS 18.1 — Norwegian payment service Vipps has become the world’s first company to launch a competing tap-to-pay solution to Apple Pay on iPhone … Source link
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