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How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade
The new regulation arrives on New Year's Day.
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02
Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi
Google says the lawsuit is its last resort.
03
The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers
Ants with lots of workers tend to put less energy into making them armored.
04
Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options
Inin suggests new low-cost options allowed it to "recalculate production" for full cartridge.
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LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems
LG says it'll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren't going away.
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Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs
BIOS checks will only affect a limited subset of Valorant players for now.
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Not too big, not too expensive: The Chevrolet Equinox EV
You get quite a lot of EV for the Equinox's sub-$35,000 starting price.
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Trump’s energy secretary orders a Washington state coal plant to remain open
Chris Wright declared an energy “emergency” in the Pacific Northwest.
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Instacart agrees to refund subscribers $60 million in FTC settlement
The grocery app will also stop hiding refund options and obscuring delivery costs.
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Strava puts popular “Year in Sport” recap behind an $80 paywall
Strava’s most viral feature is suddenly locked away.