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the law was unconstitutional. The judges found that the law does not contravene the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, nor does it violate the Fifth Amendment guarantee of equal protection of the laws. What does this mean? It means the platform is one step closer to facing a ban here in the US. Unlus it can convince its Chinese parent company byteedance to sell and find a
buyer by January nineteenth, twenty twenty five. After that deadline, US app stores and internet services could face hefty fines for hosting TikTok if it is not sold to a non Chinese entity. There is the possibility that there could be a one time extension to the deadline issued by the Biden administration. I would not hold your breath on that, so to be continued. We'll see if that all comes to a head here in less than a month. If you are a job seeker then you use Android platform,
be careful. There is a very sophisticated mobile phishing campaign targeting you intended to install dangerous, malicious soft where on your Android devices.
That's so uncool, targeting people that are trying to get a job at the end goal financial reasons.
Here's the bottom line and what to look out for. You're an Android user, you receive an out of the blue job solicitation slash offer. Be very very wary of opening that up. Okay, all right, that's how they're trying to you know, trojan horse it into your personal information.
I get those those texts anyway, and I just immediately delete. Report is junk.
General Motors has decided to pull the plug on its robotaxi experiment after having spent ten billion dollars on the GM Cruise model, which are these you know robotaxis that you've seen utilized in various parts of the country. They basically, it's too expensive, it had too many regulatory hurdles to
overcome to make it a viable revenue stream. GM said instead they would rather try to focus on developing privately owned driverless cars because in the end they believe that's what people will end up gravitating towards once the technology gets to that point where your option is to go out and buy it an evy traditional gas lean powered car or an automatic car that has the capability to drive itself.
That's what they're banking. I told you don't trust it. Ten billion dollars they wasted. Wow.
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Uh, somebody in a chat room or people that sit around and answer questions on the online for you.
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Well, guess what it could be a guy named Rex sitting down in his mom's basement.
Now, these very popular OnlyFans models are cutting out the middleman with the chatters, and guess what they're utilizing instead.
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Telling you. I don't want to sound like my ster old fuddy duddy with this AI.
But there's a startup called phantom neuro that is building an implant that sits under the skin and promises to give amputees more accurate control of their electronic prosthetics without having to have any kind of brain surgery. It's really cutting stuff here. That's that's whole school, very early stages of this, but found that interesting Electronics News here LG announcing they will cease and assist producing Blu ray players both DVD and four K ultrate DVD players, marking an
end of an era. If you want to buy an LG Blu ray player, you better grab them before they're gone, because once the remaining inventory is sold, that's it. That'll leave pretty much Panasonic and Sony as the major players when it comes to the DVD game. Which is interesting that LG's bailing on at a time when DVDs and especially four K ultra DVDs are experiencing a surge in popularity.
Yeah, look what happened with record players and vinyl. Uh so'dl LG. I mean, you know what you're doing, I'd chill out for.
I'll tell you what they're I don't think they're too worried about missing that revenue stream because they're high end TVs are the shiz right now?
Yeah, I tell you what. The fridge I got from them sucked, right, Yeah, some of this stuff, but I remember that's the one I had to spend. I think goes what seven dollars to fix an ice maker. Dear Lord could have brought a fridge for that.
People in dozens of US cities can now buy the car of their choice on Amazon, as long as it's a Hundai. The online retail giant has launched its Amazon Autos service, just over a year after it was first denounced. It is currently available in forty eight cities. Said Pundai is the only partner for now, but Amazon says it plans to work with more automakers and dealerships next year.
We've said that you can buy anything on Amazon.
How does it work? Amazon says customers can search available vehicles from local participating dealers by model, trim, color, features, and more, all in one place. Once customers select a vehicle, they can secure financing, e sign paperwork, and complete their order with a few clicks. This is basically it said. Just sounds like Amazon taking all the workaway from the folks that the dealerships that have to deal with their their existing online purchasing programs.
It is the Amazon worker in the background, that person chatting, chatting me up.
Do they haggle with you? The customers end up picking up the new car from the dealership. You don't have the Amazon driver bringing it to you. So there you go. Some tech news for this week at lunch and Taco's commercial free work day rock block. Youet ready for that? Yeah, there's a lot there, a lot of rock that's on the way here in a few minutes, Lynchin Taco on demand download the iHeartRadio appum from the Bogan months