All the tech news you missed in the last two weeks

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In this episode: 

• Google Maps is ditching cloud-based location history for a more private solution

• Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access To Location Data

• Intel’s Core Ultra CPUs are here — and they all come with silicon dedicated to AI

• Apple announces new 'contingent pricing' feature for App Store subscriptions

• First 150 kWh semi solid-state battery range test clocks 653 miles on a charge as it streamed live from NIO ET7

• These hot rocks can glow brighter than the sun. They could also help spell the end of fossil fuels

• New technology can rejuvenate and extend the life of old solar panels

• What Would Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Merger Mean for Cable TV? Some Networks Would Likely Be Sold Off

• Atlanta suburb becomes first to test underground consumer delivery system

• Bird, an Electric Scooter Company, Files for Bankruptcy

• Rite Aid’s ‘reckless’ use of facial recognition got it banned from using the technology in stores for five years

• Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream

• How to stop Dropbox from sharing your personal files with OpenAI

• Apple has halted Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 online sales

• Electro-Cooling Material Makes Solid-State Fridge Viable

• Nasa mission lines up to 'touch the Sun'

• AI Discovers First New Antibiotic in Over 60 Years

• Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability

• YouTuber MrBeast Says NO To Elon Musk’s Invite To Post On X: ‘My Videos Cost millions...'

Weird and Wacky: 

• The McCallisters Are One Percenters; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Determines Wealth of ‘Home Alone’ Family

• Early Mickey Mouse Now Belongs To Everyone—So Of Course There's a Meme Token

• Japan scientists create world's 1st mental images with AI tech

• Scientists say they conversed with a whale. It may be practice for aliens

• 34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen”

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Trakt 

• Adam - Hidrate Spark Water Bottle

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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