Americans bought 524,000 midsize pickups last year — about 1,400 a day — but not one of them had removable doors. In a few weeks, that small but noteworthy gap in the market will be filled by the Jeep Gladiator, an all-new rig that represents Fiat Chrysler’s initial bid to buccaneer its way back into […]
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Samsung issues a rare earnings warning for Q1 due to weak demand for chips and LCD screens used in smartphones, as the broader market slows (Ben Dooley/New York Times)
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Charges dropped against Jussie Smollett, attorneys say
CBSN All criminal charges against “Empire” actor” Jussie Smollett have been dropped and “his record has been wiped clean,” his attorney said Tuesday in a statement. The development comes less than two weeks after Smollett pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly lying to police about a hate crime. A judge […]
Read MoreHuawei Watch GT smartwatch now comes in more sizes and colors
Huawei Alongside the new P30 and P30 Pro, Huawei also introduced new colors, styles, and sizes of the Huawei Watch GT. First up, the 46mm Huawei Watch GT is getting a visual refresh with a titanium grey case and a new bezel pattern color. The bezels on the new model are black with orange accents, […]
Read MoreASUS confirms its software update tool has been targeted by Advanced Persistent Threat attacks, releases tool to identify “small number” of affected devices (Caroline Haskins/Motherboard)
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Charges dropped against 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett
CLOSE Actor Jussie Smollett pleads not guilty to charges accusing him of lying to police about being attacked. (March 14) AP CHICAGO— On Tuesday, prosecutors for Cook County, Illinois, dropped all charges against “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, indicted on 16 counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report about a hate-crime attack. “After […]
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Jussie Smollett’s criminal charges have been dropped, his attorneys say
Fox News’ biggest stars are going on the offensive. Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson took to the airwaves on Monday evening, just a day after Attorney General William Barr briefed Congress on the principal conclusions drawn from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s conduct surrounding Russian election interference in 2016. But they […]
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James Harden has normalized the 50-point game
James Harden (Ciaran Breen – Yahoo Sports Canada/Getty) Before a game against the Houston Rockets earlier this month, Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse was asked about game-planning for James Harden. “He messes things up because he can score 50,” Nurse said. Any other season, that might sound like hyperbolic praise for the opposing team’s […]
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Charges against Jussie Smollett dropped
Prosecutors drop charges against actor Jussie Smollett which alleged he staged a homophobic attack – US media This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You […]
Read MoreHuawei announces bluetooth headphones disguised as smart glasses
While Huawei P30 and P30 Pro were at the center of Huawei’s press event today, the company also unveiled a few other goodies. Probably the most unusual of the announcements is the new Smart Eyewear series, built in partnership with Gentle Monster. Huawei and Gentle Monster said they wanted to build smart glasses that actually […]
Read MoreAmazon Fire 7, Fire HD 8, and Fire HD 10 tablets are 30% off right now
Amazon’s Fire tablets are probably the most popular Android tablets ever created — mostly because they’re cheap. The ‘Special Offers’ versions of the Fire 7, Fire HD 8, and Fire HD 10 are now 30-33% off, if you’re an Amazon Prime member. The least expensive of the bunch is the Fire 7, which is now […]
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Get Yourself a Nemesis
No one has more nemeses than the writer Roxane Gay. Since 2011, she has tweeted blind items about various foes in a stream of captivating updates. “All last night, I visualized crushing my nemesis this weekend,” she tweeted in 2013. “My nemesis is having a good year professionally and has clear skin. It’s a lot […]
Read MoreLovecraftian card game Cultist Simulator is coming to Android on April 7th
Weather Factory originally released its Lovecraftian card game Cultist Simulator on PC in May of 2018, and Playdigious has taken the reins for the development of the mobile version that will soon land on Android on April 7th. Weather Factory has recently announced the official release date of the Cultist Simulator mobile port on its […]
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The unending cost of gun violence
ADVERTISEMENT Sign Up for Our free email newsletters We mostly think about gun massacres in terms of the immediate death tolls: the 13 killed at Columbine, 58 dead at Las Vegas, 49 in Orlando, 27 at Sandy Hook, 17 at Stoneman Douglas. The numbers are horrifically large and they demand humility and mourning, but they […]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger just wasted a Terminator pun on gerrymandering
President Trump “may not be indicted,” Stephen Colbert said on Monday’s Late Show, “but one person is facing consequences for his alleged crimes”: Michael Avenatti. “You may remember Avenatti as the man who used to represent Stormy Daniels in her suit against the president, using the cunning legal strategy of spending 24 hours a day […]
Read MoreConor McGregor just retired from MMA. Again.
UFC superstar Conor McGregor, in a very Conor McGregor move, has announced his retirement from MMA via Twitter. The former two-division champion has had a rough few years and has been in hot water as of late after public outbursts landed him in legal trouble. Most recently, McGregor was charged with robbery and criminal mischief […]
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Israeli-based Innoviz, which makes the InnovizPro and InnovizOne solid state Lidar sensors, raises $132M Series C, bringing the total raised to $214M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
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Why the collusion myth might destroy Democrats in 2020
ADVERTISEMENT Sign Up for Our free email newsletters The end of the Robert Mueller investigation has demolished Democrats’ mythology about the 2016 election. That should force them to confront some unpleasant truths about what has happened to their party since President Trump’s election — and, more to the point for 2020, it should force enough […]
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Giants CEO Larry Baer suspended three months by MLB after incident with wife
San Francisco Giants president and CEO Larry Baer has been suspended without pay through July 1 following Major League Baseball’s investigation into a physical incident between Baer and his wife. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announced the suspension in a news release Tuesday, explaining that after reviewing the results of the investigation, he found that Baer’s […]
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US consumer confidence weakens in March
American consumers were feeling less confident this month amid continued volatility in the financial markets. The Conference Board, a business research group, says its consumer confidence index fell to 124.1 in March from 131.4 in February. The index, covering through March 14, measures consumers’ assessment of current economic conditions and their expectations for the next […]
Read MoreEU demands scrutiny of 5G risks but no bloc-wide Huawei ban
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – EU nations will be required to share data on 5G cybersecurity risks and produce measures to tackle them by the end of the year, the European Commission said on Tuesday, shunning U.S. calls to ban China’s Huawei Technologies across the bloc. FILE PHOTO: A surveillance camera is seen in front of the […]
Read MoreInnoviz, Ouster raise millions for self-driving lidar sensors
(Reuters) – Self-driving technology continues to attract robust investment, as two tech startups, one in San Francisco and one near Tel Aviv, said this week they have raised nearly $200 million to support development and production of lidar sensors for automated vehicles. FILE PHOTO: The lidar sensor is seen on a self driving Volvo vehicle, […]
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