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Analysis: multiple major Russian cities appear to have faced widespread GPS disruption during the past week, as part of efforts to evade Ukraine’s drone attacks (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Matt Burgess / Wired: Analysis: multiple major Russian cities appear to have faced widespread GPS disruption during the past week, as part of efforts to evade Ukraine’s drone attacks  —  Navigation system monitors have seen a recent uptick in interruptions since Ukraine began launching long-range drone attacks.

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Differential Swerve Drive Is Highly Maneuverable

There are a variety of wheel designs out there that can provide for rotation and translation in various directions. The differential swerve drive, though, as demonstrated by [WildWillyRobots], uses regular wheels on a complex mount to achieve impressive directional flexibility. The design uses a regular round wheel mounted on an axle, which has a gear

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Musk says Twitter will lift suspension of accounts that “doxxed my location”, after he ran a poll resulting in 58.7% users voting for immediate unsuspension (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Musk says Twitter will lift suspension of accounts that “doxxed my location”, after he ran a poll resulting in 58.7% users voting for immediate unsuspension  —  (The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.)  Out of the two poll options, “now” won with 58.7 percent of the responses, beating “in

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Sources: TuSimple plans to cut at least half its workforce, or ~700 employees, next week, as it scales back on building and testing self-driving truck systems (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Sources: TuSimple plans to cut at least half its workforce, or ~700 employees, next week, as it scales back on building and testing self-driving truck systems  —  Self-driving truck company also plans to scale back autonomous driving testing  —  Self-driving trucking company TuSimple Holdings Inc. plans …

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Marc Benioff told staff in a Slack message that Salesforce’s new hires weren’t productive enough, asking whether it was “a reflection of our office policy?” (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Marc Benioff told staff in a Slack message that Salesforce’s new hires weren’t productive enough, asking whether it was “a reflection of our office policy?”  —  – Marc Benioff, cofounder and co-CEO of Salesforce, said in a Slack message to employees on Friday that the company’s newest workers weren’t productive enough.

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Dropbox acquires FormSwift, a cloud-based service for creating, editing, and saving business and legal documents, for $95M in cash (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Dropbox acquires FormSwift, a cloud-based service for creating, editing, and saving business and legal documents, for $95M in cash  —  Dropbox today announced that it’s acquired FormSwift, a cloud-based platform designed to help businesses build, edit, approve, share and print custom personalized documents.

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Report: Apple has backed out of the negotiations for the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, leaving Amazon and Google as the frontrunners (Mike Florio/NBCSports.com)

Mike Florio / NBCSports.com: Report: Apple has backed out of the negotiations for the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, leaving Amazon and Google as the frontrunners  —  The company once regarded as the frontrunner for NFL Sunday Ticket has opted to take a Sunday drive, instead.  —  Buried in an item on Puck.news from Dylan

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A first-person narrative on working as a human fallback for Brenda, a real estate conversational AI chatbot, as part of a team of about sixty operators (Laura Preston/n+1)

Laura Preston / n+1: A first-person narrative on working as a human fallback for Brenda, a real estate conversational AI chatbot, as part of a team of about sixty operators  —  THE RECRUITER WAS A CHIPPER WOMAN with a master’s degree in English.  Previously she had worked as an independent bookseller.

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On December 16, Twitter reinstated at least 12 far-right accounts including election misinformation celeb Mike Lindell and popular QAnon fans like Patrick Byrne (Media Matters for America)

Media Matters for America: On December 16, Twitter reinstated at least 12 far-right accounts including election misinformation celeb Mike Lindell and popular QAnon fans like Patrick Byrne  —  Among the reinstated accounts are far-right media and other figures, election and vaccine misinformers, and a white nationalist

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Musk says Twitter will lift suspension of accounts that “doxxed my location”, after he ran a poll resulting in 58.7% users voting for immediate unsuspension (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Musk says Twitter will lift suspension of accounts that “doxxed my location”, after he ran a poll resulting in 58.7% users voting for immediate unsuspension  —  The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now. https://twitter.com/…

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John Carmack is leaving Meta

John Carmack onstage. | GABRIELLE LURIE/AFP via Getty Images John Carmack, a titan of the technology industry known for his work on virtual reality as well as classic games like Doom and Quake, is stepping down from his role as a consulting CTO at Meta, as reported by Business Insider and The New York Times.

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TikTok is helping a new class of music business executives break through and circumvent the notoriously exclusive path that the industry usually requires (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

Kristin Robinson / Billboard: TikTok is helping a new class of music business executives break through and circumvent the notoriously exclusive path that the industry usually requires  —  The pandemic spurred many young music business hopefuls to join TikTok, now they are some of the industry’s most sought-after talents.

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Dutch crypto exchange Bitvavo, which uses DCG for its staking service, says it can’t access ~$297M held at DCG and that DCG is “experiencing liquidity problems” (RT Watson/The Block)

RT Watson / The Block: Dutch crypto exchange Bitvavo, which uses DCG for its staking service, says it can’t access ~$297M held at DCG and that DCG is “experiencing liquidity problems”  —  – Bitvavo said it can’t access 280 million euros ($297 million) held at DCG.  — DCG controls troubled crypto lender Genesis Global Capital.

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