Google Stadia pricing and availability revealed, Uber helicopters ready to fly

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NASA’s nuclear rocket program is making a comeback

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Ai

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Flying

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iOS 13 wants to help fight spam calls with Siri

Apple may have a new way to fight the robocall epidemic: Siri.  Buried toward the bottom of its new iOS 13 features page, Apple lists an update for the Phone app. Called “Silence unknown callers,” the new setting aims to use “Siri intelligence to allow calls to ring your phone from numbers in Contacts, Mail and Messages. All other calls …

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Bose Earbuds 500 are AirPods killers that are worth waiting for

Bose’s recently launched Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, due to hit stores on June 30 for $400, were the main attraction at a media preview event the company hosted at a New York City hotel on Wednesday. But it also trotted out another new product, the Earbuds 500, its next-generation true wireless earphones that it hopes will make people think twice …

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LG G8 ThinQ makes its way to US Cellular

LG just announced an upgraded version of the G8 called the LG G8X, which among other features is compatible with a dual screen attachment, similar to the LG V50.     The LG G8 ThinQ has found its way to US Cellular. LG’s latest flagship phone is available online and in stores from US Cellular starting Thursday. The phone costs $800 if you …

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Huawei gets boost as China issues 5G licenses

China approved 5G licenses for a quartet of state-owned bodies on Thursday, winning investment in vendors like Huawei, a report said. Carriers China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, as well as broadcaster China Broadcasting Network Corporation, got the licenses, according to Reuters. The carriers were given trial licenses at the end of 2018, but Thursday’s announcement lets them begin …

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Facebook cryptocurrency could be announced in June

Facebook might be making its cryptocurrency plans public with the release of a whitepaper on June 18. As early as 2020, the social network could then be launching its own Facebook cryptocurrency, which would potentially provide users with an online payments system without fees or international transactions. The June whitepaper would explain its crypto play, according to TechCrunch citing several investors …

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FCC’s Ajit Pai: ‘I hate robocalls as much as you do’

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai says illegal robocalls are the FCC’s top consumer complaint each year. In an op-ed published in USA Today Thursday, Pai said these unwanted calls should be blocked by default. “If Americans can agree on anything these days, it’s that they’re fed up with robocalls,” Pai said. “The scam calls. The calls from foreign countries at …

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What Apple’s new AR bowling game taught us about the future

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I’m scrambling around a wooden floor, trying to fend off a giant virtual ball with my iPad Pro. It’s a bowling alley, but it feels like a basketball court. A crowd cheers. Eli faces off across from me, pushing his iPad Pro forward, launching …

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This $65 waterproof wireless speaker is on sale for $22.50

Need a speaker you can take with you to the beach? The pool? The quarry? (I don’t know, do people still go swimming at quarries? If Breaking Away taught me anything…) Make sure it has an IPX5 rating or better so it can withstand the inevitable splashes. Like this one: For a limited time, and while supplies last, ZDNet Academy …

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Twitter simplifies its rules to emphasize safety, privacy and authenticity

Twitter is giving its rules a refresh. The social media platform said Thursday that it’s making its rules easier to understand with simple, clear language. Twitter cut its rules from 2,500 total words to under 600, and it also organized the rules into categories for safety, privacy and authenticity.  “Rules should be easy to understand,” the Twitter Safety account tweeted. “We …

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Jeff Bezos’ keynote talk interrupted by animal rights protester

A mostly uneventful keynote interview with Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos veered off the rails when an animal rights protester stormed the stage Thursday. The woman, who was hard to hear from the audience, called out as Bezos was sitting nearby in the middle of a “fireside chat” interview in front of thousands of people at Amazon’s re:MARS conference. …

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Apple’s new iPad tech lets you leave your Lightroom laptop at home

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The mobile version of Lightroom is going to get a big step closer to its PC-based big brother with Apple’s decision to let iPhones and iPads connect to storage systems like flash memory cards and external drives. Lightroom, Adobe’s photo editing and cataloging …

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