California Forever, the tech billionaire-backed effort to create a new city on hundreds of acres in the Bay Area, has faced a number of challenges, including a legal dispute between the project’s backers and a number of families who are longtime residents of the area where developers want to build.

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The Apple Vision Pro’s Spatial Personas, avatars designed to replicate a user’s facial expressions and hand gestures, have been set loose. The avatars can now roam freely in your virtual space, allowing them to look at, point to, and interact with, various apps over SharePlay. It’s part of Apple’s effort to make…

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Three years ago, NASA tossed a massive pallet of old batteries from the International Space Station (ISS), hoping that it would burn up through Earth’s atmosphere. A few weeks ago, the space station’s trash finally did reenter through the atmosphere, but a piece of it may have survived and smashed through a house in…

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In a recent Bloomberg Businessweek cover story, there’s a moment when General Electric CEO Larry Culp is taking a tour through a factory. He and a host of executives on the tour with him are checking out a giant furnace known as a “monument.” As part of a request to build more efficiency into the company’s…

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Nine passengers from a Norwegian Cruise Lines ship found out the hard way just what happens when you miss the departure time for your ship, after they were abandoned by the rest of their cruise. The group of stricken cruisers is now attempting to be reunited with the ship in a trans-African adventure.

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Yahoo, the former king of the internet, said Tuesday that it’s acquiring an AI news aggregation company.

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The first week of April marks the end of the first quarter of the year and the start of the second. That means this week is the time that almost all major automakers — from Tesla to Ford Motor Co. to Stellantis — report their production and sales information for the past three months.

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Costco, the membership warehouse club known for its $1.50 hot dogs and $2,000 gold bars, is now offering its members prescriptions to Ozempic, Wegovy, and other weight loss drugs.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which almost touched the 40,000 mark just a few weeks ago, was firmly in the red on Tuesday. The index had dropped 450 points, or about 1.1%. The S&P 500 also fell 1% on Tuesday, and the Nasdaq was down 1.5%.

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Bitcoin experienced a sharp decline on Tuesday morning following nearly a month of upward movement, causing other cryptocurrencies to suffer sympathetic cold sweats. The stock market opened poorly, with the Dow dropping by 450 points, and the cryptocurrency market is following the same trend. The flagship…

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