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Entertainment

Samsung Launches AI Capabilities Across Product Lines

Samsung kicked off its CES plans by highlighting its strategy to expand AI across its tech, in a way that is connected and personal, as well as showcasing its latest devices, including the new flagship Neo QLED 8K QN990F TV. Asserting that “AI is here,” Yongsu Kim, Samsung’s executive vice president of visual display and […]

Technology

Sonos plans return-to-office push for its product teams

Sonos will soon encourage employees on its various product teams who live near its US office locations to come in for at least two days per week, The Verge has learned. That’s a notable break from the company’s history, throughout which Sonos has enthusiastically supported fully remote and hybrid work. Job listings at Sonos routinely […]

Politics

What Trump’s proposed tariff hikes mean for California

WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald Trump announced he would impose sweeping tariffs on key trading partners on his first day in office, he signaled a return to a favorite strategy: a reverse carrot-and-stick that applies the stick of dire consequences in order to force countries to give him what he wants. In this case, that means […]

Technology

The FTC orders Sitejabber to stop faking product reviews

The Federal Trade Commission has charged Sitejabberan online review platform, with violating its new fake reviews rules by using point-of-sale reviews to misrepresent what customers think about products. In one of its first enforcement actions under new rules banning companies from making or selling fake reviews, the FTC is ordering the company to stop. The […]

Science

The Long, Strange History of Teflon, the Indestructible Product Nothing Seems to Stick to

Teflon’s unique molecular structure made it useful in myriad applications, from nuclear weapons laboratories to your kitchen. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Longhua Liao via Getty Images / U.S. Department of Defense and/or U.S. Department of Energy, Public Domain / Ben Mills via Wikipedia, Public Domain On April 6, 1938, a group of chemists at […]