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  Ars Technica : gadgets
16  september     16h40
Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
Jeremy Hsu    War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.
    14h50
macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review
Andrew Cunningham    It’s both a Snow Leopard update and a major leap for Apple Intelligence.
14  september     19h38
Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots
Jeremy Hsu    Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success will his leadership style scale?
    19h06
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
Kyle Orland    Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.
    16h29
Offensively cheap : Solar power is looking up
Rachel Millard, Humza Jilani, Monica Mark, and Krishn Kaushik    Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.
13  september     11h00
I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.
Boone Ashworth, WIRED.com    The manufacturer has a service that lets owners repair their own equipment.
12  september     11h00
I spent 4,000 on a robot dog from China
Timothy B. Lee    Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
11  september     18h22
Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push
Jeremy Hsu    Renewables pledge won’t change the Oracle and OpenAI data center’s use of gas.
10  september     18h41
Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers
Ryan Whitwam    App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming.
    16h53
China’s drone supremacy shows in airlifting bodies and food after Nepal flood disaster
Jeremy Hsu    DJI drones that already supply Mount Everest camps assist Nepal’s flood relief.
09  september     19h42
Apple’s long-rumored foldable becomes reality with the 2,000 iPhone Duo
Ryan Whitwam    Apple’s first foldable can be yours next month.
    18h58
Apple debuts 129 AirPods 5 with better noise cancellation and transparency mode
Jeremy Hsu    AirPods 5 with noise cancellation is cheaper than its predecessor.
    18h47
Apple starts preorders for Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 with new Health Sensing System
Scharon Harding    New Apple Intelligence features, too.
    17h38
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro adds variable camera aperture and a more powerful chip
Samuel Axon    There’s also a new thermal management system, reducing overheating.
    17h11
Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution
Jeremy Hsu    UN-backed Equal Earth map has educational value but won’t alter navigation apps.
08  september     21h52
LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
Scharon Harding    It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.
    19h12
Top chipmakers embrace ASML’s 400M machines, agree to crucial chipmaking change
Jeremy Hsu    Chipmaking changes could boost productivity of new ASML machines by 40 percent.
    16h49
Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink
Ryan Whitwam    The EU continues to go after Google search practices it sees as anticompetitive.
04  september     11h00
Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6
Ryan Whitwam    Fairphone’s CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
02  september     16h30
US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case
Ryan Whitwam    The DOJ proved to the court that Google acted illegally, but it won’t get the big win it wanted.
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