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American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems

The company said it discovered “unauthorized activity” within its networks on October 3 and promptly moved to disconnect affected systems.

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News Image Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t thinking too far ahead

Rabbit’s large action model is here, sort of — but everyone else is coming fast.

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News Image Wanna Read More? This Kindle Paperwhite Essentials Bundle With Fabric Cover and Charger is 34% Off for Prime Day

This bundle saves you 34% and comes with everything you need to bury yourself in some great new reads this fall.

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News Image 28 Best Early Prime Day Deals On Gear We've Tested (October 2024)

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days starts tomorrow, but we’ve already spotted the best Prime Day deals on products we’ve tested and loved.

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Join us for the future of launch on the Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

The future of space is ripe for reinvention, and TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is bringing together two visionaries determined to reshape how we reach and operate in orbit.  Join Kelly Hennig, COO of Stoke Space, and Muhammad “Mo” Shahzad, president and CFO of Relativity Space, on the Space Stage as they explore how emerging technologies, software, […]

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KoBold Metals, which uses AI to help find critical minerals for the energy transition, raises $491M

Kobold Metals has raised $491 million of a targeted $527 million round, which could value the company at over $2 billion.

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News Image Apple Pencil Pro drops under $100 for the first time

Spending another $129 to get the Apple Pencil Pro after upgrading to the latest iPad Pro and iPad Air devices is a hard pill to swallow. That pill is a little bit smaller now, thankfully. It’s currently discounted to $99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Target, the latter available with a free Target Circle membership. That’s a new all-time low price. The USB-C Apple Pencil (regularly as low as $69) is the only other official option for drawing on your iPad Pro M4 or iPad Air M2. Paying an extra $30 to gain the Apple Pencil Pro’s advantages makes total sense, then. In addition to more effective pressure sensitivity than the second-gen Apple Pencil and the same double-tap gesture, you now get additional gestures. You can use a “barrel...

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News Image Bring the Apple iPad Mini into Your Hands at a Lowest Price for Prime Day

Save over $100 on a 6th generation 8.3-inch Apple iPad Mini and stay connected anywhere.

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News Image Human Lifespan May Have a Hard Ceiling, Research Suggests

New research finds that humankind's once-steady rise in life expectancy is slowing down, raising the question of whether we'll be able to expand our lifespan much further.

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News Image Solar Opposites‘ New Halloween Special Is a Surprisingly Sweet Treat

Hulu's animated sci-fi series starring Dan Stevens and Thomas Middleditch celebrates the season with candy-colored chaos.

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AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform

Multiple U.S. broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, have been breached by a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon, the Wall Street Journal reports....

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News Image Sansui’s new 55-inch 4K OLED is just $799

Last week, Sansui debuted a new 4K 120Hz 55-inch OLED TV (S55VOUG) that’s available now for between $799 and $899 “depending on retailer promotions.” The new OLED’s list price is the higher of those two amounts, Elitelux and Sansui Senior VP of Marketing Victor Elmann told The Verge in an email. (You can find it at Micro Center for the lower price right now.) The TV seems to have only launched in the US, as What HiFi? notes. Either is quite a launch price, considering that a “cheap” OLED is normally priced over $1,000 outside of temporary discounts. Sharp released a Roku TV with similar specs at $1,499.99 last year, and LG’s B4 launched at $1,699. Sansui’s TV sits more in the budget range of some Mini-LEDs like the 55-inch Hisense U7. S...

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ProRail fines thousands for ignoring descending boom gates

ProRail is having success with its plan to equip dangerous level crossings with cameras.

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News Image Elon Musk Leaps Into the Meme History Books at Trump Rally

Two photos from the event where Musk stumped for Trump became iconic fodder for the internet.

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News Image Nissan buys into Ford, BMW, and Honda’s home EV charging business

Nissan is coming aboard vehicle-to-grid (V2G) EV integration company ChargeScape as an equal investor, alongside founding automakers BMW, Ford, and Honda. Once the investment transaction is complete, Nissan said it plans to roll out ChargeScape’s services to its electric vehicle customers in the US and Canada. Formed last year (with operations starting in September), ChargeScape built a software platform that wirelessly “talks” to EVs and utility companies, managing home charging and sending energy back to the grid during periods of high energy demand. EV owners who take advantage of ChargeScape’s services can theoretically save money by letting the system pause charging and sell stored EV battery energy back to their local utility...

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News Image The last-gen Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones are now a staggering $220 off (update: sold out)

Update October 7th: Target’s deal on the WH-1000XM4 is no longer available. Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sales event begins tomorrow, but the best tech deal around may have already landed early. The Sony WH-1000XM4 noise-canceling headphones have dropped to a new all-time low of $129.99 ($220 off) at Target (be sure to click “shipping” on the latter for in-stock availability) — and unlike many of the upcoming Prime Day deals, you don’t have to be a Prime subscriber for this one. (The deal was also available at Amazon, but sold out right before publishing. We’ll update this post if it comes back in stock there.) The XM4 headphones may have come out back in 2020 and been surpassed by the newer WH-1000XM5 model with a sleeker design, but...

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